Adeptus Ridiculous - CADIA (still) STANDS: IMPERIAL GUARD TODAY | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: December 21, 2022

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous Podcast. My name is D.K. DiMontes. My co-host is Bricky and we'll be learning all about the crazy, wacky world of Warhammer 40K. But before we do, if you enjoy today's episode and want to support your favorite Warhammer 40K podcast, heading over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to lots of wonderful things, bloopers if they happen, access to our Discord, just tons of amazing things. HD poster. Just remember that. Almost forgot. Wow. So yeah, patreon.com slash adeptus, ridiculous. Bricky, tell them about all that other stuff.

Other stuff. Wow, yeah. So we have a new Crimbus poster coming out very soon. It's not out right now. Oh, no, it should be out. It should be done by today or like some point today. No, yeah, book club. Bell, sorry, it's called The Great Work. It's really good. Also, reminder, it is what is it going to be? today, like the 20th or something? No, the 21st. You guys have until the end of the year to get that Black Friday discount and all of those posters.

You got about nine days to do that. Two orders or more, 20% off, and all those posters are gone come the new year. So grab it, grab a wall as hot, because you only got like nine days left. So, originally,

today was going to be an episode on the foggiest fulgrems of them all by Ferris Manus. Oh. No. It was going to be fulgroom and then I took a little

vacation up to Portland, Oregon. And it was very cold compared to where I'm at. So I got a cold and I was woefully unprepared in order to do the episode. So I've really enjoyed

going through the codexes in our prior episodes, originally with the Voltan, and them with the Daimans. And now we are doing it with the Imperial Guard. Hell yeah. Also, the plural of codex is codices. Codos D's nuts. Codees nuts.

It doesn't quite work, but it's pretty close. It doesn't work. I got the newest guard codex. It came with. the Cadius Stans box set and it is a pretty great cover. I don't think I've mentioned this before, but there is a new artist working at GW. I don't know who they are, what their name is, or whatever, but they have been prominent lately in the creation of a lot of Codex covers and among other things in artwork. And it is this hyper, gritty, disgusting artwork. And I love it. It is my favorite new thing.

GW, I doubt you watch our content. If you do, please continue to employ this person and make it your base level of artwork because I absolutely fucking love it. Agreed. Definitely love it. But those guard look like zombies. Like they look like they are the Walking Dead. Holy shit.

Well, I mean, when you think about the guard, anyone's going to be the Walking Dead. Yeah, they kind of are dead man walk. Yes, that's, yeah. It is, it is very, very good. I think the best artwork so far to me is the CSM Codex cover right here. It is just this like, it's just visceral, yeah? Hell, yeah. That should be a death.

metal bands cover. Despite all of this, the Codex cover for the Guard one, at least the limited edition Guard one, is actually not what I expected it to be. It is instead a picture, a much more regal 40s kind of picture

of the newest model in the game for the Guard, or one of the newest models in the game, Lord Solar Leontis. Does he praise the sun? He sure looks like he does, doesn't he? Yeah, he

sure do. He's got his big steed and stuff, he's got a couple other foes to go along with it, but that's the Kudak's cover. Would never take from another fictional world. I mean, come on. Anyway, I wanted to talk about

over here on page 15, there is a little blur about Lord Solar Leontas. I'm actually a little bit surprised how it's like Lord's Solar, as Shy already, shy beating me to the punch here, is very very, very high up in terms of the actual rank.

You have your Lord Commander Militant, who is literally the high lord of Terra. He's sitting on the golden throne. No, he's not on the golden throne. He's near it. Yeah, he's on the council in Tara. He's the big boy. But a Lord Solar are the various types of Lords in various sectors.

The reason why Lord Solar is so impressive is because he is the Segmentum Solar, which is the main leader body general of like the realm of space that includes Terra. Oh. Shai, do you have a map for me? All right. The areas in red for mine or green for Shai's are the warp rifts. Areas of space in which the warp has ripped open and is causing tons of problems.

Yeah, the sick tricks maledictictum. You got it. On the left hand side, you have the Imperium Saint. this, I believe. And then you have the, on the other side, you have the Imperium Nihilus. And on the left, you can see there. Segmentum Solar. Terra and Mars right there.

And he is in charge of the fighting force of that area. Now, good old Leontis, I call him pony boy sometimes because the man is literally fighting off necrons on a fucking horse. That is pretty impressive. Going into the world 40K on horseback is

one of the most backwards yet amazingly awesome things ever? It's the weird thing about it is whether or not you like that or not, you know, it's whether or not you like that concept. I think it's a

little too goofy for me. I think it goes a little bit too far back into old school shenanigans. But I do like the character a bit. His name is Arcadian Leontes, and his full name is like a million titles, privileges, et cetera, et cetera. But he's actually a pretty classic military boy. He comes from a very high class, prestigious family. He rose in the ranks very well in military training and combat.

He is a great commander, logistical, et cetera, et cetera, tons of victories, the whole thing. Oh, is that as many? That shy I just posted? Yep. Oh, his horse is a robot. You're right, shy. It is a robo horse. Yes, it says here that his, he likes to lead a lot of times on the battles,

like the down end the battle, you know? And he likes to lead a lot from his horse known as Constantine, with a K. Constantine, the horse, his steed for decades that is almost entirely cybernetic. Because he himself, which we know a lot more about this now, has undergone rejuvenant serum and, like, you know, surgery. And he's about over 100 years old, give or take, but he looks extremely good and very strong. You know, funny.

He employed the use of a couple of cell drainers and got the rejuvenant serum. Oh, probably not. You probably did it the legal way. Yeah, probably. But still, it harkens back to the book. We just read bloodlines. True, true. He also is interesting.

enough, he's also, this is funny, in game, he has a higher strength than a custodian. Wow, really?

Yeah, I don't know why they did this. He has strength six, which is just really funny to me because it's like, I think it's to represent his really powerful sword, but like,

he just, just make the sword give him more strength. Like, he's, this man is more jacked than the custodian, I guess. I guess.

I mean, he works out. Apparently. His helm is also really fancy-pancy. It's called an artificer or refractor helm. But the interesting thing is, like, people will ask, wow, why in the world can Lord Solar Leontis, like, tank damage better than a Chaos Space Marine Terminator, you know?

And the answer is almost always some fancy relic. Ah. His fancy-pancy helm makes him, like, any damage he takes goes down to half. because he's just you know, Morven Vaugh has the same ability with her Paragon suit which was like the highest quality fashioned by the ad mech

and her spear was made by custodians you know, it's like some fancy fancy relic That's like he makes him strong Yeah, I mean if you want to make a regular Joe Schmo guy's drawing You give him something that's been held in the Vault of Terra for 2,000 years But despite that

He's actually a bit of an interesting kind of guy where he's a bit dower. He doesn't, like, he believes in everything he's doing, but he definitely has this kind of, like, the wars that we're fighting right now will not be over by the time I'm dead. Like, my entire point is to, like, tee up the guy next after me.

Yeah. Which is... I will not... Yeah, like, I'll do the best I can, but we will not be humanity's peace until my death. And you know what? So long as the next guy is better than me,

then maybe we'll do it. And that's quite something because, like, they live a long time. Like, they don't live just, oh, yeah, it's just, you know, he's going to serve in the military for like, you know, 30, 40 years and then retire. Like, with their rejuvenation, whatever thing, they can live to be like 200.

It's like, nope, this war's not going to be over in 200 years. Nope. 2000. I know he has the blade of conquest and his fancy pistol called Soul's Righteous Gaze. But yeah, he doesn't think he'll ever really see the fruits of his effort.

It's a hell of a name for a pistol. Holy shit. Souls righteous gaze. Wow. But interestingly enough, to go along with the rest of the Imperial Garum, there was a little blurb I saw in one of the first pages I thought was funny. It was The enemies of mankind

may employ dark sciences supernatural powers or Zenos weapons beyond humanity's can, but such defiance comes to not in the face of honest human intolerance fed by a wellspring of faith in the God Emperor and backed by

sufficient guns. I mean, that is, that's basically the imperial creed, right? Like, oh yeah, look at that crazy Zenos, whatever. Ah, just throw a tsunami of people at it and hope for the best. And sometimes it does work It does. I mean, the guard get the job done.

I mean... There's also a quote on page 7. Never forget that you are a bringer of death. Recruited to serve the emperor and armed with the finest weapons humanity can forge. You are the instrument of his will and to fail is dishonor

not only your regiment, but your species. Ooh, that propaganda. Now, a couple of things as I was going, going through. There is an interesting thing where the Imperial Army, we may have heard that in the old Horace heresy stuff, but it was originally called the Imperial Army. That was just the overall combination of all types of branches of the Imperium. Now they have segmented it, much like they did with the Codex and the Codex of Staris. Also, if I posted a picture, those are the new Rough Rider horses. I'm not going to lie. They die quickly on the tabletop, but they have

this hilarious thing where they have two different weapons on that lance. One is a frag grenade. They just stick to the fucking tip of that thing. Wow. And the other, the other is a melta mine. Well, that seems very dangerous for the wielder.

Um, if that's just a frag grenade, like if, if you're riding and you stick like a tear, you're gonna be, you're in the blast zone. Yeah, but glory for the emperor,

man. True enough. I mean, I guess if they just chuck it like a javelin, they're okay. No, no, it's melee. Oh, my God, that seems very dangerous for the rider. But okay, sure, it's the grim dark of 40K. Whatever. Damage shot, you beat me to it.

Ah, witness me! That was literally what I was thinking about. Witness me. The whole point is that one is a fragonated to do with infantry, and the other is the melted. tip where you literally just run down an enemy armor and you shove it in there and it just melts the tank apart. It's so dumb, but in a good way.

It's 40K. It's that dumb that makes no sense, but kind of, kind of awesome. So, moving over a little bit, I went to the section that went to the fall of Kadia and immediately started crying. Shocking. Hey. Hey, Bricky. Yeah.

It blew up. It's true, it's true, though. Cry about it, lizard. A couple of things I actually realized, though. So I told you a little bit about this on a stream a bit ago. The Casserkin. Casserkin are a new kit, but a very fancy Cadian soldier. And they're basically like imagine Tempesta Sions that are Cadian-based.

They are the Cadian elite. Okay. The high level. They carry around hot. shot las guns. They're heavily armored. They're just like big, strong Kadian guys. And I didn't notice originally, Kassar, K-A-S-R, is the name of a fortress city or a nearby fortress world in Kadia, the Kedia system.

Oh, it's these guys. They look like Master Chief. That's right. I remember him now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they are Kasser Kinn, kin, kin of the fortress city, the elite of the Kadian. Caster kitten. Yeah, I didn't really do that. I thought it was really neat. It's kind of a cool concept. Yeah, that is a cool concept. And I love a hot shot Lasgun.

I want that in Dark Tide. It makes you like slower or something, but like, well, because you got the backpack and everything, but then you got the really cool. Yeah. Yeah, they're like big heavily armored dudes with great weaponry and they're just, they're the high level guys, you know.

They're really cool looking. There was a, Excerate here on Creed's daughter that I thought was rather interesting. Okay. Caught me off guard this one. So, as we all know, the defense, in the Cadian defense,

Creed had a massive rebellion in their whole area, and he took over as Lord Castellan of Cadia. He was the guy to basically lead the entire defense in Cadia. And for the most part, he basically did it, minus a blackstone fortress. He's a great general, very, very smart.

Yeah. Moving from that, though, of course, he did not make it out. He shepherded the last bit of souls off of Cadia, and as the billions and billions of them died, three million Cadyans survived, and he was not among them. But, of course, KDia's planet is all fucked up. Now, of course, because it's, yeah,

it is a mass of giant floating continents. Did somebody say that Creed was actually in Trazen's gallery? Yes, so Creed is, the planet is heaving apart and dying. Creed has been shot multiple times. And then an imposing metal figure walks up to him and basically says, it is not your time to die, Creed. Eternity awaits. Oh, poor Creed.

After all that glory and nobility and defending, Katie until his last, now he is stuck in the gallery for eternity. Now, his daughter, Ursula, Ursula Cream, is similar rising in the ranks to her father, not as fast because Creed's like flew through the ranks. I was going to say, that's a tough act to follow. But she's a pretty hard in general. She's physically imposing. She's got big broad shoulders. She's tall.

You know, her mini makes her look like Mrs. Trunchbull, but we'll skip that. Ew. But something that I found was rather interesting was this last paragraph in Sam. Over her broad shoulders, the new Lord Castilem wears what assumed to be a recreation of her father's great coat. For surely it perished with him, Ursula, however, knows it to be no fake, appearing in her sealed chambers months after the loss, dried blood and the smell of Cadya's final hours saturating the heavy fabric.

It fired an obsessive hope in her that somehow, somewhere, her father yet lived. Oh, very mysterious. I like it. Well, if we're assuming that Trazen took Creed, then that means the man took Creed's coat and secretly dropped it off in her room. maybe just to fuck with her?

Maybe, but it didn't fuck with her. She was just kind of like, oh, hey, it's dad's jacket. Maybe he's out there somewhere. And like, it kind of ironed her will, right? Because, you know, I'm assuming that really made her be like, oh, yeah, now I got to fight even harder because dad's out there somewhere. And, you know, it, uh, it staled her more than fucking with her. Well, Trayson likes to make history. He likes to mess the person.

people to see what they'll do what they'll become, you know? Yeah. And so I can totally see him using that as a way to like, let's create some more history here. Got, sure. Let's make, you know, let's see what she does. Holy shit, her mini looks dumb with the helmet on. Yeah, she's got, she's got a, her face isn't great in terms of the mini. She looks a bit better in the picture in the book, but, um, yeah, she, the mini is a little bit funky.

I mean, she's a big, strong, you know, broad shoulder, like, general lady, like, probably middle age. It's not meant to be, like, some kind of model, but she does look a little funny sometimes. Her face is fine and everything. Like he says, she does look a little bit like Miss Crunchbowl. But, yeah, with the bucket on her head, that just looks dumb. Please don't build her with the bucket on her head, everyone. I'm building her with the bucket on her head. You son of a bitch.

I'm going to blow my nose. Okay. Shy, don't edit this out. Just leave it. Please, no. So, yeah, I know. that was kind of interesting. Trayson dropping off her dad's coat in her room. What a, what an interesting concept. And in game, she's actually pretty good, too. I should like her, and I do like her model,

memes aside. Yeah, yeah, her model, like I said, her model looks fine aside from the bucket. What's, what's that thing in her hand? It looks like a, maybe a sceptor of some kind. I think that's literally what it is. They often have things called command rods. And I'm going to assume that's command rods. Damn, it looked cool. It looked like it had some greater purpose, but well, what are you going to do? Though I know that Creed was like a double pistol holding hot shot Las

Pistol, son of a bitch. And so she does have four shots with her pistols called duty and vengeance. Ooh, I like that. That's cool. That's cool. I like it. Yeah, so you've got duty and vengeance for two pistols. She even has the

special rule tactical genius which is a constant, a common meme when it comes to Creed. So it's a good addition there. I like it. Yeah. Solid. Solid.

A solid air to Creed's throne. I would say so. Yeah. Anyway, they have a little bit of a blur of on a ton of the different regiments in this book as well. You had your classic ones for Cadians. You had your Mordian Iron Guard that have their whole, in their dress blues that everyone thinks are going to be prissy little bitch boys. But then they actually end up like perfectly warm. walking in like a, well, the old war,

like the Revolutionary War and stuff, and they would walk in this lockstep kind of battle. Yeah, they always walk like that and it's like perfect, uncompromising fire. Yep. You have the catachins, of course. Of course. And you had this one that I thought was fucking hilarious,

and I never actually read before them. The Indiga Prefects. The Indiga Prefects? Indigin Prefects. Or Prefects Prefects. It's the one that looks kind of like it's Katari in that image you see. Oh, that is very cool though. Yeah, they look great.

So this is fucking hilarious to me. So it says here, on the former menagerie world of Indiga, the prefects have been the unenviable task in protecting the planet's natives from the megafauna that prowl their variant realm. The giant predators had once been the pride and joy of the pompous governor, Constantine Prinsipa Argoi, who spent the planets cook. Opious mineral's wealth on the purchase of breeding pairs of every dangerous creature he could acquire from planets across the segmentum. Oh.

Unfortunately, after a catastrophic earthquake shattered the governor's zoos, the giant animals escaped into the wilds to breed and hybridize. Oh, my God. Now a man-made death world, indigans are ever on the move in vast mobile settlements. Yeah, the gigantic mobile city. Trying to stay ahead of the gigantic monstrosities that the entire planet habitats. So the prefects are very often used to deal with like nids and like other giant creatures. Because they're used to it. Yeah.

Love the idea of a man-made death world because he was just so snooty and was always just buying ferocious monsters to breed. And then, whoops, they all got away. Sorry, everybody. It's fucking hilarious to me, dude. I was actually laughing when I read that. It's like they all just broke out and they're so big. You can't have normal like cities. You have to drive your cities around because they're that fucking large.

There's a little excerpt on Katachin, which also has another one of those excellent images that I love so much. That's one of the reasons I was segueing to it. Because I like looking at this Katachin dude and lady there. and just how fucking giant they are. Wow. And they're fighting off goddamn corn demon blood letters with a bolter. Jesus. What happened to that lady?

Like, she's got a tube going into her stump. She's a zombie. She probably got eaten by some part of the wildlife. Who knows? The dude's missing a leg. Look, it's got a robot leg. Oh, shit. He does have a robo leg.

I thought it was just jacked as shit. She's literally doing the Rambo pose with the two lasguns. Yeah, she is, isn't she? And the dude on the top is actually firing a fucking bolter like that. He's giant. Look at his fucking arms. He's massive. He works out.

I was going to say he doesn't skip leg day, but I mean, he kind of has to skip leg day because he doesn't have a leg. So I found that there's a thing that apparently catachins are often referred to as baby ogrens. Really? Because of how buff they are. Because there's gigantic. I didn't know that. I didn't know they were that big, but okay.

Okay. I mean, when you think about it, like, the ogrens became ogrens through thousands of thousands of years of evolution, right, on whatever their planet was. Catechins, I think if we're, I don't know if we're exactly, but I think lore accurate,

they're like, they're like 6-8, and they're just like fucking enormous. Yeah. Like, they're just, like, you know, whenever you see a guy in real life who's incredibly tall, they're normally pretty lanky. Like, you just take a bodybuilder's body and you just spread it out into a dude who's like seven feet tall and just like, all right, time to go fight some demons, I guess. Yoked. In Warzone Katachim, after the separation of the Great Rift, a ton of regiments came to their system looking for aim. The Toulosk, Berentis, Kha, Volpus, the second, Dorlin, Megish,

and a few others. They were all denied entry to Katachin, not because they didn't want to help them, but because they would all be eaten by the fauna. Now, the exception... You refuse your health because you're too weak and you wouldn't do anything. Pretty much. They would all die to the world.

Wow. The only infantry regiment that was allowed was the Tuloskin Gray companions, which were a very high in physical strength, very similar in the kind of tribal might, that kind of thing. so that they allowed them to land, taught them a few things usual,

get them prepared for the Indominious crusade that Gilliman was having. It turns out these Tulash and Gray were actually corn worshippers. Oh, no. And they had a sabotage and turned on the cattachins and attacked them in Fort Trigam.

And there was a long, bloody couple of battle back and forth, back and forth between the two of them, but eventually using the blood of dead catechins, the gray people summoned a bunch of corn demons to the actual planets

and they were, and that fort specifically was overrun by corn demons turning the waterfalls into blood waterfalls and all kinds of corn shit, right? Yummy. Colonel Strachan, Bionicarm Man, decided to send

all of his men over to deal with them as they spread out from the fort into the opposing forest. and all of the actual humans died within a couple of days. Naturally. The demons lasted a bit longer, about a month or so. Unfortunately, the demon's power, while swelling to a high level due to all of the humans' deaths, were not able to handle the guerrilla warfare and exceptionally hostile fauna of Katachim.

and by the time Giliman's crusade arrived, all demon presence on the planet had been eradicated by the local wildlife. Wow. So the demons of corn were able to deal with all of the human presence and all the soldiers, but they couldn't stand living on Cadia and were killed by just the overwhelming monsters of the wild.

Catechin, not Cadia. Oh, Cattachin, sorry. Yeah. Sorry, that must be too soon. But, yeah, that's kind of crazy. They killed off one fort, but a fort keeps you safe from the wildlife and the fawn and the flora. Because if I'm not mistaken, every single plant on catachin is carnivorous. Oh.

Well, I guess that makes sense for catachin. So, yeah, like once they got rid of the fort, they spread out out of the fort into the hostile wildlife. Who would whim? The demon god of murder or one plantie boy. Apparently a plantie boy. Of many a plantie boy. And lizards. Oh yes,

and exploding frogs. Let's not forget about the exploding frogs. Oh, yeah, I forgot about the exploding frogs. And don't they have like a centipede train or something? Yes. The catachin devil. Yes. There are a couple other main groups that were all that were thrown in the

here, like the Armagedon, Steel Legion, their mechanized infantry. there were the Kriegsman, which we've talked about plenty, and read about. There is the Talern Desert Raiders, which are kind of a fun one. That was the one that was next to the bronze steel guy. Oh, the one of the yellow? But the Talern Desert Raiders, they definitely do have more of like a Middle Eastern Arabic kind of vibe to them. Like the shawls they have in a... Anyway, Talon Desert Raiders, they are pretty cool.

they have this idea where their world is totally ripped apart by horrible sandstorms and deserts of sulfurous sand. Wow, that's great. That's no fun. And the vegetation and life all pretty much died originally. And now, like, yeah, it's giant sand. It's very much dune. It's dune mixed with that, like, that Arabic kind of vibe with guys that have great

hidden-and-run tactics in the dunes. Well, I mean, they have to. I mean, I assume on that planet you have to constantly be on the move so the sulfuric sands don't kill you. I wonder what's the name of the Dune people again, the ones that are native to the planet? Oh, I don't. Fremen. Fremon, yeah. Yes, it kind of gives me a little bit of a fremen vibe.

Okay. Because 40K takes from Dune a lot. What? Haven't we been over this? There's even a little section here about the 10th first. and only. Hey. It's kind of cool.

And there's a big little picture of Gaunt. Shocking. Look at that poster boy for her. Yeah. Gant's ghosts

they're here. Forrest World of Tanneth died. Tanneth first and only are apparently very, very very bad at following orders.

This is from Gaunt because they're all pissed off and shit. It's great. Checks out. There's one regiment's kind of fun. They are the

Vresh grenadiers. It is a massive gang war on their planet all the time And their armor is typically metal plates Giant parts of sheet metal and things like that That are pounded across their body to probably mold them And they have these giant slum battles Which makes them very very difficult

To bring into battle with other regiments Because they will immediately start getting problems also that dude is one of the guys. His fucking arm is jacked out of his mind. I was going to say that, that boy works out. I like the sound of the Vresh Grenadier, though. Yeah, I dig them. A lot of the soldiery have their gang titles

and their various gang symbols still on their armor, even when they go into different areas. Often gang wars will help determine whose tithe is taken. to stop any major rivalries because it'll only pull from one gang to stop other gangs coming in the same thing causing problems, you know? Yeah.

There is a, let's see here. Where is my page? I lost my page. This is Shide's Faw! Last little bit of the book lord that I thought was interesting was the entire page dedicated to Commissar Yarek.

Oh, boy. Home Reston Pepperoni's, Mr. Yarek. DeGloria, the Yarek. Being the redacted file of redacted, issued to officers in the redacted, yours with Fielty redacted. Boy, that redacted is very popular. He's a good guy, you know? Yeah, I hear he's the best.

So it's a bit difficult to figure out what exactly occurred with Yarek because the memes have gotten so big they've bled into the determinations. of what actually has happened to Yark and whether or not he's actually dead. Okay. So this is some major Mutiform report here. It's kind of like a cute little excerpt of like, know you all

that the hero of Hades hive the most glorious and righteous commissar Yark S was the savior of Armageddon during its first war. You know, now does the God Emperor charge him at his side enter the greater war for such as he now made

ready, you know, because he's dead. Yeah, because he's dead. That's wise with the emperor now. It's a little bit weird determining what exactly is the case with Yark. So it's assumed, obviously to assume he's dead. There can be a million reasons why he's dead. Old age is absolutely one of them. Rejuvenate theory apparently only goes so far. Yeah.

There is the other idea that he was actually, originally people thought he was going to become the new Lord Solar, because Soul's righteous gaze, gaze, his eye, his eye was a weapon before. You know, a couple of things like that. Wasn't it fully sure about that one? There's also, this has got a pretty big bit of imperial propaganda on it too. Like this looks heavily. Like the way, if he died in battle, he would not look like he does in that picture.

That would be a, you know, that would be like a visual representation of him. Yeah, obviously. It's a great, great picture, though, with the glowing eye. And obviously, there's only one. arm drape there because the other one is, you know, a power claw. Yeah. It's a lot of that. That it's unsure exactly what's determined of what happened to him.

But the prevailing theory is that Armageddon right now, I believe, is being siege by the World Eaters and Angron himself as he has returned. Oh, okay. That's right. Angren has a mini now. I forgot. Yes, and he's quite good. Yeah.

There's the, there, now, like I said before, it is, it's hard to tell where memes start and truth ends, or truth ends and memes start. But one of the theories is that Angron has been the one to kill him. Ah, okay. I mean, you know, if, if you're going to go down and somebody's going to kill you in 40K, the fact that it took a corrupted dean. and Primark like Angron. Damn, that it took that to kill Yarek is kind of nuts. It is pretty nuts. There is an interesting thing.

The meme is that Gasco is pissed because of this. Oh, right, because they were rivals, and if someone was going to kill him, it should have been Gascoll or he lost his rival and now he's not going to be able to have as many good grumpins. One of my favorite lines is Angron turning to Gagrin. Gascon saying, you're really going to die just for some puny human, and Gaskell's like, someone is.

Damn. Gasco's a boss, though. Also, is that a giant, like, chain broadax that Angron is holding? Yes. Holy shit. Because I was like, oh, yeah, that's just a chain axe. And I'm like, wait a minute. That's Angron.

That's, like, demon Angron. He's like 20 feet. Like, what the fuck? That is a massive axe. Anyway, though. Yeah, so it's unsure exactly the deal with Yarek. Some people think that he may have ascended into an imperial saint. Ooh.

As well, which is an interesting, which is a little bit more in the concept of walking with the emperor. Literally. Literally. It might do a little disservice to Celestine, but it's certainly part. possible. Sure. Why not? I mean, if anybody...

Right? Right? It's a bit... Yeah, it's a bit unsure overall with the whole decent thing of YARC. But as far as we're concerned, Yarrick is not playable

in the game. Yarrick is not a model anymore. Well, not a model in the game anymore. Yarek is gone. He is essentially MIA. That is correct. You remember when I read the DM book in the first lines where you've opened

the book, it's too late. This one is eyes up, soldier. Classic guard shit. Yep, eyes up, yep. There are a couple new units that were added along with the book. You had the Rough Riders and the pony boy, Lollard Solar Leontas. You had a new tank known as the Rogel Dorn tank because we had the Lehman Rus already. That's a pretty cool tank actually, the Rogel Dorn.

I think it looks fucking awesome. I mean, it kind of just looks like the other tanks It kind of looks like a Lehman Russ anyway, doesn't it? It's a bit bigger I like all the extra little bits and bobbles Like the dude hanging on the back On the side, stop

It's just how you can paint the fucking thing Yeah, but that's by the picture you saw And you were like, oh yeah, Rogal Dorn tank That's for me, it says Katie on the side, right? Right Katie on my cock and balls, dude Katiea blew up Katie a blew me

Cadia right now is about as useful as your cock and balls. I love the Acadia image and Dark Tower. It's just a bunch of fucking rubble. It's just little asteroids floating through space. Yep. There's also the field ordinance battery, which is one of the newest things. It's the most 40s thing on the planet. It's a giant howitzer that you crank with little wheels.

It's got a bunch of dudes there, just ready to set it up. That's amazing. that in 40K they still use little crank and little these little wheels on like it's with all the technology they have they're still using tank treads they're still using these little tread wheels and they're still cranking them around like man i know it's so dumb but it's so fun yeah um gons ghosts are indeed a playable faction as well hell yeah they are uh they're actually pretty great i mean yeah the guard the guard The guard book is the Mass Effect 3 of Warhammer codexes, which is like the most dark souls of video game statement I could make, but let me hear me out. My God, he just had to say the most dark souls of something to really drive it home, huh?

So this book is obviously rushed. The lore is not bad. The lore, the images, all the drawing stuff, is actually pretty great. The gameplay section of this book is obviously rushed. Some things in particular the Cadian Casserkin are so strong and are way too good But for the most part it's shocked how good this book is despite it obviously being rushed Mass Effect 3 yeah Mass Effect 3 for sure yeah shockingly good despite how fucking rush that game was you know and how bad the ending was

I mean, pick your color, any color. The one thing I do like a lot, though, is that in the Garzman book, you can actually, instead of picking like a trait, like an order or like a Legion or something, you can pick two separate regimental doctrines. And each doctrine is kind of like from a various world that you can kind of pick from. Oh, cool. So like trophy hunters, for example, gives you extra strength against vehicles and monsters. And those are obviously the indignant prefects.

Yeah. You've got air-loom weapons, which is increased range of your guns. That's from the Vostroium. Parade drill is Mordian. Mechanized infantry will be Arm Against and Legion. Brutal strength is Katachin. You know, it's kind of fun. That's cool, yeah.

Cult of Sacrifice. Can you guess which one that's going to be? No, I wouldn't know. I knew it. Which one now it is. Yeah, sorry. Probably some useless regiment. I don't know.

Swift as the wind. It's a fun one. It's cool. Yeah. I said there's a poetic connection between Codex being rushed and the episode. This episode she feels. I was sick. I'm sorry.

I mean, yeah. I mean, it's not like the writers of the Codex were suddenly sick after a vacation and all that stuff. We just want to make sure that we do justice to the thing that everybody paid for. Yeah. You guys, come on. If I rush the fucking full-gram episode, I would never stop. end of it. I would never hear the end of it. Never. I'd never let him hear the end of it, that's for sure. Because I, I, too, have been... Do you care about Fulgrim? Well, so I have been wanting to learn about, like,

the Empress children in Fulgram for, like, a long time, but it became such a meme, um, with, like, the Rylanor stuff that, you know, I, I want to learn about them. I'm excited to learn about, uh, snake boy. That's true. That's fair. But, um, I'm gonna, I'm painting up some, uh, some of my new guard stuff. I'm putting together some of some of some of my new guard stuff. I'm putting together There are some of the new minis. The field ordinance batteries, the big ones are actually, oh, what's the word I'm looking for? A pain in the fucking ass to put together.

They suck. They suck. What's so bad about them? There's so many bits and bubbles, dude. Oh, are there? So many bits. Too many bits. Dude, every single thing is...

God damn it, dude. You see the guy on the bottom left that's pointing with the hat on and stuff? Mm-hmm. Both of his legs are. are a separate piece. Oh, no. Both of his torso are a separate. Both of his arms are separate.

The goggles around his neck is separate. His head's separate. The box underneath his feet is separate. Oh, my God. It's all that separate, really? And that's one man. Holy shit. That's crazy.

It's so spindly. I do not like. Oh, boy. Yeah, aye, aye, aye, aye. I just wouldn't build him. Just don't build him. Just build the little tank thing. Oh, all right.

That's all I got for you. Kia stands, fuck you.