Adeptus Ridiculous - THE FOURTH WAR FOR ARMAGEDDON | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

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Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante's. His name is Bricky. And yes, it's that time. It's Kiryov. But before we get into that, if you enjoy today's episode and maybe you want to support the podcast, head over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to the Discord, bloopers if they happen. $15 tier gets you access to all of our posters in crispy digital form. Also, you should check out the Patreon because Shai is doing little shorts on some or Ork flyers, some ork boats, I think, and just org stuff in general. There was a new one released just today.

You should check it out. Patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous. Bricky, Kiryoth, hello. Hello, hello, hello. How are you, Kieryoth? All right, I'm good. I've got an absolute monster of a script here. It's beefy.

It's got girth. It's absolutely massive. Okay. We're still talking about the episode, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So my hopes of an hour and 15 minute long episode are

well and truly dead. Oh, strap in. We can make it happen. If I talk real quick. Pack of lunch, brother. I got Final Fantasy magic cards to open, man. Come on. Do you really?

Whoa, do you really? Actually, Wizard of the Coast sent me like a lot. of them. And so, yeah, I got the hook up. I'm so excited for you. Oh, my God. Well, hey, man. I don't play magic, but like, the cards look so cool. Well, after we filmed this, man, I'm going to be streaming. So, like, I'll be doing the unboxing. So, like, come on by.

There. Okay, so wait, girthy script. I want to hear it. Let's see it. Okay. Well, this is, this is by far the best title that Possum was ever given to a script. So I'm going to give you the official title of the document that I have in front of me. And the title is simply, I'm again sick of this planet. No, it's another Armageddon episode. 10 out of 10 title. It's pretty good.

It's pretty good. It's pretty good. I'm getting the hell out of here. Oh, yeah. Armageddon this. Armageddon this. Get out there. I'm going to get in some bitches.

If only that's what we were actually talking. about, damn. If only. Now, I've given it away. There's no mystery quote because the mystery quote is, ain't no time for a quote, this one is long. So there you go.

All right, that's pretty great. I like it. Really sort of front-loading, get on expectations. So, you know what? Let's crack on. The Crusade books for the 10th edition 40K all served as a stage setter for the next big thing, whatever the next big thing is likely to be.

Probably a big push at the start. of 11th in what is now a fairly mangled universe. The previous Crusade book brought us back to the Nachman gauntlet and established the oncoming onslaught of Abadon. And the newest book, which is titled, You guessed it, Crusade Armageddon, takes us back to Armageddon. You are surprised, I can tell. Again!

Wow! Armageddon just cannot catch a break. It's just one thing after another. Maybe if they named it like Sex and Nexon. drugs they would have had a better time instead of naming an Armageddon. That's a dope cover though. That's a, that's fresh.

Best looking a gray night has been in about two decades. If only he had the bowl cut. Oh, perfect cover. Just out of a bowl cut on anything. You know, honestly, it was, it was fair. It really goes to show that Games Workshop listens to their fan base and make sure they realize that all Black Templar fans have.

dofy ass haircuts. They wanted them to feel represented. Oh God, it's not a good cover. Okay, it's not directly called the Fourth War for Armageddon this, but the conflict within it, it definitely brings

the hands of the doomsday clock a little bit closer to midnight. So what we're going to do is we're going to talk about the entire narrative of the Crusade Armageddon book, including the major players, the backer, battles, what the conflict means going forward. However, something that we will not be talking about, particularly, is the Orks, because despite famously being on the planet and fighting for control

of said planet, they've got the off-screen treatment in this particular book. So, despite it being a war-torn hellscape, which Orks really like, we're just not really going to have anything to do with them for this, for some reason. Not entirely sure why they went that. route but okay. Yeah, I was going to say, Armageddon famously battled over by orcs and, like, they love Armageddon.

Yep. Yep. I genuinely thought this was going to be a pseudo-Ork episode because it's got to be a war with more orcs, right? And apparently not. I mean, did, like, you said it was a chunky one. Do they just want to, like, maybe cut down on the amount of volume of

stuff happening? Because adding or something like, Crazy tough? I don't know. I don't know. All I know is that they are not really involved. It's a full-on war for the planet where the orcs are effectively sidelined. And as Parsom has suggested, insert smoking duck giff here and I'm 100% on board. How do you not have them heavily involved?

I mean, come on. Yeah, that's weird. I love that smoke. Classic. is still one of my favorite emotes ever. There. Classic. All right.

So, this is post-knockment. So has the Knockman crusade moved over? Or are they still fighting for Knockman? And this is like another thing happening out there. So it's eventually another thing happening. And it's sort of taking resources away from there. So at the moment, Armageddon, the Third War isn't actually that important. We're going to kind of touch on it at some point.

But right now, what we need to talk about is the insane carnage that the planet has gone through since the opening of the Great Rift. So the Rift's opening massively complicated things on the surface. Resupply ships and recon ships that were on route to the planet when the Rift opened were just thrown into oblivion and Armageddon was cut off from the Imperium as a whole for a significant amount of time. The battles on the surface just turned into an absolute mess. you've got orcs, astramilitarum, and the forces of chaos split between Zech and Korn.

There were a little bit of the others, but those are the two major players of the chaos forces. But luckily, everyone on the planet absolutely hates each other. So there was a lot of instances of like, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So orcs and humans would team up to take out some chaos war bands and the forces of chaos were fighting with each other anyway. So it's just a massive mess of horrible fighting when the Great Rift shows up. I'd hate to be this guy, but like that image I posted,

I looked at it and I was like, ah, yes, teramorphic expanse land, sacrifice teromorphic expanse for a basic land card. Wow. You really pulled that out. Wow. Yep. I am, I think I may have a problem.

I thought, I thought me, like being, but people occasionally would ask me, like, a 40K question. Like, Ricky, what do you think about this? And I'm like, well, you see, obliterators have a stat line of this, this, this would make some a fine anti-tank for CSM, but only if you run them that packbound zealots. Like, just start spattling, rattling off the worst things ever. And now I'm just in that with magic modes. Well, I mean, to be fair, I saw that picture. I was like, damn, what a great depiction of, like, the warp. And it's just like, damn.

And can you imagine being in 40K and you go into the warp and you've got a Gellerfield and it's like, that's what you look out on? And it's like, well, it is literally hell and hell with teeth. No, I can't imagine that because I was told not to look outside during the warp transit. Close the shutters. Pretend it's not happening and you might get out. The thing I love about that picture is that it's not just that you can see a bunch of warp nonsense. it's passing directly through a hive city. That has got to be a bad Wednesday, right?

That's going to be a really rough middle of the week. You're kind of looking forward to the weekend. And now there's a band of warp nonsense going through your, I don't know, two meter by two meter, half block or whatever. Bad times. As soon as you said that all I imagined was white texon that said looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays. It's just the warp eating.

into the high city. If they haven't made that as a t-shirt, they should. Again, there's just so many good examples for merch coming out of these. So there's a bunch of massive infighting, chaos versus chaos, orcs and humans versus everyone and each other. But there is an underlying issue with Armageddon,

which is that in the crust of Armageddon, in the firewaste, there is a fault line that begins to splinter. And this splintering, which is charged with warp energy, starts to pull at the fabric of space itself, and it forms a gate to the warp, which is now known as the Red Angel's gate. Red Angel, of course, being the name for the big man himself, which he hated. I love the fact that he absolutely hated that name. That's Engron, not sanguineous. Yep Yeah

And Angron didn't like being called the Red Angel He was not a fan of it And yet However many years after he expressed his Like displeasure There it is the Red Angels gate Who the hell's calling Angron an angel? The Red Angel

Or the red part I get Who the heck looks at Angron Like My assumption Angels of Death Space Oh Or like, he's an angel because funny wings

But they call them that before he was I Chaos Tainted, yeah I figured it was because with his two massive chain axes When he was carving his way through a bunch of Whoever he was angry at at at the time All the blood splatters behind him Just like big arcs of blood

Kind of look like wings That's been my sort of interpretation of it That's your fan theory Yeah I feel like it fits I'm on board with that, actually. Every time he rips into someone, it makes blood angel wings behind him. Okay, I'm on board.

All right, let's move on. Okay, I've got one convert. I'm good. That'll do for now. So, yeah, there's this red angels gate, which is a bit of a beacon for chaos, and corneted demons and cultists, which are already, like, spurred on by the opening of the rift, and various blood crusades combined, and then they found themselves redirected towards Armageddon. And at this point, the focus of the chaos forces became a bit more narrow,

and they focused on hive Theradis. And the demons, which are now bolstered with chaos-based marines and traitor titans, they laid siege to this hive, and despite a fairly valiant effort in repelling them, it didn't work out. Things won't go in their way when it came to the Imperium, so Colonel Burkand of the 473 Armaged Steel Legion decided, in a last ditch effort to sabotage the power cause of the hive, causing Theradis to detonate and collapse.

So stripping the prize from the traitors, causing a huge amount of damage to the forces of chaos, but that is also a massive amount of carnage, which meant that the Red Angel's gate was inflamed and drew the attention of Angron's former flagship, the Conqueror, which just jumped. into the warp without any warning at all to the people on board. I mean, you're on a world eater's ship.

I mean, like, I don't know what you expected. Yeah, you're on the conqueror's abs. You kind of, yeah. Also, the conquer is still, still chugging around. I mean, I knew it did, and I'm sure it's more like, it's very weird now. I'm positive, but it's always kind of fun to open up a book and be like, the conquer. Like, oh, and always because she's like nostalgic. Conqueror still has Latara infused in it, I believe, right?

I think so. I think so, yeah. I think she's still sort of locked in there. Yeah, I think it's like in the end of the death a little bit where it's discussed, but I'm not like, you know, citation needed. Okay. I was just wondering if this was the Conquer's abs or not. A chaos demon called the, it was that the,

The mistress? Or the mistress? I think that's supposed to be the mistress. Yeah, I'm going to go with that. Let's go, Latara transition when she came on the ship. She's the mistress. Let's go. Minor spelling mistake.

Laugh at this easy. Anyway. No, I mean, that is kind of hilarious for Engron's like, we got to get over there now, jump the ship. And the dude just hits the button. It's just, let's go. The right button. Yeah. All right, hell yeah.

Also, once again, Peeric Imperial victory. Random Imperial sets off the reactor to blow an entire hive city out. Let's go. Once again. That must have been a huge explosion. To take out of the entire hive, it's got to be big. I almost forget how big hive cities are,

and it's just like, God damn. You could have seen that from eight planets away. And the complete lack of, like, oh, well, there's lots of innocence here. just, nope, they can't have it. Neither will we now, but we're just going to press the button, let's go. He would have made a great inquisitor. Oh, 100%. So, this is literally the introduction to the prelude, which means we do need to talk about why Armageddon is important. So the Armageddon sector is essential when it comes to transit. It's a resupply and shipment hub for the Imperium as a whole, despite the surface being absolutely torn to shreds and production

being dramatically reduced due to the Third War, it's still hugely important to the Imperium. And the loss of Armageddon itself, it's just a non-option, especially now that Cadia has been somewhat blown into tiny chunks. So Armageddon, massively important. I don't think that's a somewhat, buddy. I think that's a definitively, it's tough. Well, yeah.

It still feels weird to say it. It's lasted so long, and now it's gone, and it's like, oh, they did it. So this massive war on Armageddon begins with visions, because it's 40K, and you need some good visions in 40K. Specifically, visions that two individuals received, the first being Nial Stormcaller, or because of the spelling of NJAL, Nigel, as I like to, call him. So Niel Stormcaller is a high rune priest of the space walls, and he got this vision, which, I mean, either one of you can read out. I'll leave it up to you. Quick reminder, D.K., this is not a psycher. He's definitely not a cyca. He's a run priest. It's different.

He's a run priest. Okay? Just because he does all the stuff that psychers do. Of course. It seems very different. Seems so very different. It's very. It's very. It's a very, Super different, all right? Oh, absolutely. The space wolves do not appreciate your sarcasm. Yeah, I was going to say, I would never imagine a spaceful fusing psych or magic. That's for losers, then space wolves are winners. Anyway, a Lupine specter had stalked into his waking dreams, imparting in his mind a vision of a world on fire.

Its continent's drowning in blood. As the spirit fixed him with a red-eyed gaze, it growled an urgent form. phrase that continued to echo through the recesses of Niel's mind hours after leaving his seclusion. Doom comes for Armageddon. See, we always used to, John P. used to run him when we played dice check, and he was, whenever he brought him on, we always were like, hey, it's Nial, Nial. So I can't ever refer to him past that, though his new mini does bang. Oh, damn, it does.

with that big old raven, crow? Yeah, cyber crow. Cyber raven? Could be either. Ah, the Imperium's brand new weapon, the cyber crow. It would definitely be a raven because, you know, Vikings and stuff. Yeah, that's true. That's so funny.

He's got metal bits. He's cyber. That's how that works, I'm pretty sure. Absolutely. So, Nigel, he gets this message. He gets the vision, and the space walls are not very far away at this point. They're on the verge of clearing out the last of the orcs in the Armageddon's sector. So Stormcaller tells Logan Griminar of these visions in a very urgent and panicked way, understandably,

and it left Logan with a difficult decision. Either he ignore Njarl and hope that others intervene if these visions are legitimate or trust him, since Stormcaller is not happy about what's going on. Logan absolutely trusts Nya Stormcaller and he summons his banners together from the conflicts on the edge of the sector and he redirects them to Armageddon. Upon arrival, they realise things are not good as they get like Vox notifications from every authority on the planet

basically going, everything's on fire, help. And they can't be ever everywhere. at once, so he dispatched the majority of his forces onto Armageddon Prime. I do love the idea of going, okay, we'll go and take a look. This seems serious, arriving in system, and literally everyone on the planet going, ah, help, help, please, help, it's bad. Why are you saying this in like lowercase? Ah, ah.

Oh no, please help us. The world is literally on fire. They're scared and very tired I think he's probably what's going on Also can I ask real quick In that second picture Shai posted from the War Without End What's that big thing that they're fighting against

Because it doesn't look like a titan Or a chaos night What is that? Are you referring to the thing You mean the city, the building? No, no, no In the one below that There's that's Angron

That's Angron my man Wow There was like part of me. Wow. In my brain, it didn't register that that part in the middle was his head. For some reason, I thought that, like, the Iron Hela was, like, some robotic head and it was, like, some mech that I'd never see. Your dad's Angron!

He's a very big boy. He's so big. There's a photo of him and that in the World Eaters Codex, and I was like, damn, that's a lad. He's a unit. God damn. Yeah, he's got some size to him. He's definitely up there. Okay, cool.

Imagine being told, we need you on the front lines, but don't worry, we've got a plan, and then that comes around the corner. What are you going to do? It was a good 14 years, I guess this is it. Like, that's it. You're gone. Sheesh.

Yeah, exactly that. So the second index, individual to get visions was High Marshal Helbrick of the Black Templars, who was in a conflict against the Tyrannids and Orcs in the Octaria sector, and he got visited by a towering figure that manifested before him, and the figure placed a hand on his shoulder. I believe it's your turn Bricky. There you go. Ah, images of profane desecration flashed through his mind. He saw Gore-slicked pyramids rising over asher and wastes he saw cities crumble and burn him he saw brothers die in droves and blood rain from the heavens as horrors unfolded before him he realized that he had to clear his throat he

he realized that he knew the setting of this nightmare seemed armageddon the vision faded hellbrack took a deep gasping breath and opened his eyes the figure had gone leaving nothing more than the warmth of its touch upon the paldron of his armor So we've got an apocalyptic event. We've got visions reaching out to two slightly different space marine chapters, slightly being a understatement. It's all set. We're all ready to go.

But despite the power of the vision, Helbrick didn't want to just follow it blindly. So he got his most trusted sword brothers on the Eternal Crusader, and they had a big debate. And after a few hours, decided that, yes, this was probably quite a big deal. Some of them thought it was a vision from the emperor. Others thought it might be a trick, but the majority ruled and Helbrick kind of trusted in his ability to sniff out things like witchcraft or chaos taint.

And he didn't get any of that from the vision. So he decided that it was important, it was true, they needed to go to Armageddon. And as soon as they got there, they saw the All-Fathers' honour above Armageddon Prime, so Helbrick decided to send his forces to Armageddon Secundus. Now, it's kind of a coincidence that the Black Templars and the Space Wolves both got very specific visions. That's because it's obviously not a coincidence, and we have to go back a little bit to before these visions were received to see where they actually came from. Because, spoiler alert, it wasn't divine interference from the emperor. It was someone else being a little bit cheeky with things.

Ooh, I like cheekiness. though, I mean, they are going to the spot that actually is having problems, so at least there's some understanding of it? Yep. I mean, it's for once not outright chaos trickery that's going on. Instead, it's a bit of friendly fire trickery, because the grey knights now show up. The size of the Great Rift, that really messed up the Grey Nights.

They've been cut off from one another, spread super thin, like thin, with the sudden convergence of demons everywhere, and on the chapter's Fortress Monastery on Titan, the prognosticar diviners absolutely working overtime, trying to feel and sense disturbances that hail the arrival of demonic incursions and the signs of a demon prince. They begin to feel a massive disturbance in the area of Armageddon, and they immediately realize that it is not a normal incursion.

Instead, they can feel, the presence tearing its way through the sea of souls, like an apex predator, and they know right away that Angron's back and he's making his way to Armageddon again. That must be a fun thing to find out. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't know, this seems, this seems right. I don't know, Grey Knights like to do crap like this, so it's not that surprising to me, I guess. Yeah, it was going to be someone being like, oh, yeah, it was the Grey Knights.

It's like, yeah, I guess that tracks. Great nights giving out visions Though I will say The choice of the space wolves And the Black Templars are a bit of a A bit of a strange option I don't think you could have chosen Two chapters that would hate each other more

Also one of them Doesn't even like the Grey Knights Space Wolves and Grey Knights Yes, that's true, they hate each other I'm assuming it's a proximity thing where it was just like, yeah, they've got, they've got a decent number nearby, we should, we should send them over. And someone went, ah, I mean, if we show up, they can be really unhappy about it. Well, well, yeah, but we sort of need to get someone over there right now. So

it's them or no one. I like, it's, it's an interesting choice. But because of everything that was happening, time is of the essence. So the prognosticars proceeded to do arcane and slightly diabolic rituals to project the spirit of one of their number into the only slightly only a little bit. Slightly diabolic rituals. Slightly. They're allowed to.

They're the grey knights. They can get away with it. It's only slight if they do it. If anyone else did it, whole chapter wiped out, no questions asked, but it's grey nights. So it's only slightly diabolic. So they essentially project the spirit of one of them into the warp

to make direct contact with Grand master Rothweer Morvins of the Fifth Brotherhood, and they tell him to get away from the Knaumgornlet and guide the Fifth Brotherhood to Armageddon. They also realized very quickly, the Fifth Brotherhood can't do it alone, so they dispatch warnings to others. That's where the visions to Nigel Stormcaller and Helbrecht came in. The amount of work that it took to contact all three of these individuals resulted in the death of three of these prognostikars. So essentially for every warning they sent out, they lost a very, very powerful, skilled psycher. Oh, that is a sacrifice and a half.

Nice. The Grey Knights are having a bad time and things are bad, and they're just going to burn out their dudes like batteries. I love the Imperia. It's all worth it in the end. Now sit there wither into oblivion. Yeah, and it's not like it's some like peon psycher that they can like stand to lose. It's like the big boys.

These are the Grey Knights, man. This is like one of the hardest entire factions to be a part of. It's ridiculous. Yeah. I mean, it works, you know, if it works, sort of, kind of. If you ignore the horrible cost, it's all fine. So prior to the wolves and the Templars arriving, the chaos on the surface, it just gets worse and worse. there is a tide of heresy sweeping across the hive cities.

Corruption is just pouring out of the Red Angels gate. Full regiments of the Steel Legion of Tur and Tracer. There are cultist mobs that are pouring out of the ruins of Hive Theradis. Some of them have been captured, and they speak of a prophet of the blood god who calls herself Ascara the Insanguined. Amazing name. Love that. Great.

Yeah, I like that one. And so the stage is set. for the horrible, horrific, devastating war to come. Now, though, we can get into the combatants and their leads on each side. So the defenders of Armageddon are predominantly made up of space walls and black Templars. The space walls are led by Logan Griminar himself and include a few great companies, including the champions of Fenris, the Black Mains and the Death Wolves. So in total, you've got like 136 Battlebrothers.

The Black Templars make up Helbrex Crusade, which is 566. sword brothers and 123 battle brothers. There's also grey knights, but all the details on them are redacted. So no idea how many there are. That's tough. You just have to make a guess. Given it's grey knights, it's probably going to be something like 30, but no one would ever know because they're really that strong or that influential that numbers mean nothing. Then we've got a bunch of strike forces. So we've got the raptors, sons of the phoenix, Hammers of Dawn, the mortar factors, the salamanders and the silver skulls. I don't know why, but it really throws me seeing the salamanders in there because it feels

like here are all of, it's like a bunch of descendant chapters and the salamanders. And I don't know why that feels weird, but it does a little bit. Because they're like the, like they're the salamanders. They're like the dudes. Yeah, I don't know why. It just feels odd. But also, yeah, Sons of the Phoenix are our native. specifically, which is nice because they're cool.

They've got a badass color scheme. Love it. Also, very funny because I'm sure the Templars and the Grey Knights are not a fan of the Sons of the Phoenix. It's a real hodgepodge. It's a real mix that they've got going on there. It's just the fact that, like, you know, clearly Emperor's Children's descendants, and I've seen the Grey Knights are, like, not stoked about that. We've also got Astramilitarum, of course.

We've got 241 regiments. So there's the Armageddon Steel Legion, Vostroian Firstborn, Ignos Lances, Asani Void sharks, Talon Desert Raiders, Katachan jungle fighters, Armageddon Orch Hunters, which is one of the best regiments, like, sort of Astromilitarum names ever. And the Myasman Red Cowls, who I'd not heard the name. of before, but it sounds badass, and if they're not from a death world, I don't know what games workshop are playing at, because with a name like miasm and red cowls, surely, they've got

to be from horrible, noxious swamps, right? It can't be anything else. I have to be. Yep. Maybe pools of blood. Red cowls, you know? Ooh, oh, I like that. Hmm, saw that. There's also 45 line core of the death core of Creek, and that doesn't include auxiliary units, penal lesions, ad mech, and a bunch of... ships in orbit. So there's a lot of stuff there to defend Armageddon. There are three major warlords that are of importance. There's the Grey Knight Grandmaster Rothwey Morvins. There's also

Steyerborn Flinti, who is Grimnars chosen. He is a veteran of Grimmaner's Wolfgard and has been a battle leader in dozens of conflicts, particularly in the Armageddon sector. Oh, what? The Marsman Redcals hailed from the Orbital Space Station now. networks. Garbage. Oh, maybe red cowls because ad neck related orbital space station.

Yeah, and they just wear red cows. It's the miasma bit. A miasma is like all sort of like... Yeah, yeah, it's like pestilence and that. Yeah, it gives a vibe and they're just ignoring it. They love flame. Well, I mean, they get a bonus point for liking flame weapons.

That makes me sound like some sort of arsonist, and I don't know why. I've gone from huge miasman red cowl fan too. Yeah, very quickly. Oh, there we go. The fire skunks are issued with rebreather masks and heavy robes to escape the sulfurous stench of myasma 16 gases. Their fellow regiments are usually not so lucky because of this more than one regiment has objected violently to being stationed alongside the red cowls. All right, they're going back up in my estimation. That's fine. Okay, that's pretty cool, actually. Yeah, I like that. Whenever a regiment does not want to be next to another

regiment. It makes me like the regiment that they don't like more. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. So, Stiborne Flinty, Grimilar loves him. He's been a battle leader in a bunch of conflicts, particularly in the Armageddon sector. And when they got to prime, Flinty took command of the forces on the ground to allow for Grimman to just clean house. Finally, we've got Kestellin Holzer, who is Helbrick's left fist, and he was ordered to rally

defenses in Armageddon Secundus and lead the offensives there. Then we've got the traitors. Funnily enough, the full might of the world eaters is about to arrive, but their ground force is not known at that point. There's a lot of them, though. They've shown up with about 12 capital vessels and 20 escort vessels, and it's known that they're accompanied by other splinter war bands, including the bloodstalkers, the forsworn, the brazen butchers, and this is one of the Sivious names, but I love it. The Crimson Desecrators. Hell, yeah.

Very world eaters. Yeah, no. I mean, that bangs, 100%. Also, can... I love how Halzer is Helbrecht's left fist. Yeah. Typical. So we've also got

like 20 drop ships of more general renegade of starities, not named, I'm assuming. and then there's a bunch of cultists and there's a bunch of forces on the planet that have turned traitors with numbers hovering around one million so there's a lot going on

as for leadership we've got Angron but there's also Lord Jerox Skreel who was on the conqueror when it flew into the warp so as mentioned before the conqueror going into the warp was a surprise but it was a surprise for the world eaters the ship just sprung to life and started legging it to Armageddon, and Jarrett managed to keep order on the bridge as numerous members

of the World Eaters attempted to rush it to stop the ship from going any further, because he could feel the call of the gate on Armageddon. Then we've got Ascarra the Insanguant, still a badass name, who was once a bloodthirsty and brutal member of the Armageddon Orc Hunters, but she accidentally stumbled upon one of Angron's monoliths on the surface of the planet, and the monoliths, and the monolith serves as a reminder of his first invasion. When she found it, it ignited a fire in her, and she has worked to organize forces in the ruins of Hyph Theradis for when the Red Angel returns.

So she started out a badass, being an Armageddon orc hunter, and then became a maniac, which is incredible character progression, and I love it. I mean, I would argue as an orc raider, to begin with, she's probably already kind of crazy, right? Are they the ones that can kind of sort of use orch tech because they think and act like orcs? And so like the orcs shit actually kind of works for them? Doesn't that not happen?

Isn't that just like Yareks shenanigans with his arm and that's about it? I could have sworn there was some weird regiment that fights orcs all the time. They're experts at it. And sometimes they can get orc tech to work for them. Oh, I'm familiar, but I don't want to make a cold. I feel like that may have been the case, but orc, like, shenanigans. like that are so often misconstrued and done incorrectly that I don't know.

No, no, you're being, you're being confirmed. Shai says you're all correct. Ork hunters wear orc amulets and use orc guns. Oh, all right. Sometimes just build different, you know, just...

All right, all right, calm. rushing the dirt off my shoulders. I got to really enjoy these moments when I'm right. They don't happen often, man. Oh, that minnie's old. Good Lord. He's even pretty green. It's, it's, it's,

Cool, but I love that. Okay, so our combat zones for Armageddon, we've got two major fields of battle. We've got Armageddon Prime and Armageddon Secundus. Armageddon Prime is home of Hive Volcanus, which overlooks the plains of Athrand, and the controlling and defence of Varcanus is a essential piece of the puzzle when it comes to holding the planet. It's a very top-down location. It essentially assures control of the entirety of the ashwastes and prevents any flanking. from occurring. Control of the hive is in the hands of Grimna, who has sent Flinty up to the second

key location in the planet, and Secundus is the most densely populated part of the planet. But funnily enough, it's not doing great due to the whole Third War thing and the complete destruction of Hive Theradis. So it's not ideal. It's still populated, but they're not having a great time. And the key for Secundus is to not only hold the line, but also do whatever they can to stop the rallying forces emerging from the remains of Hive Theradis. You're going to be surprised by this, but the Grey Knights have a different plan and focus completely to everyone else. Having issued the warnings and got reinforcements there from two chapters that are extremely different, one of which you absolutely hate them, their focus is specifically

on the Red Angels gate. And the other areas on the planet, they're more pro-copy fighting. So their hope is that they can potentially pull a fast one and just work covertly whilst everyone else is busy murdering each other in a massive frenzy of warfare. Yeah, that checks out for the Green Knights.

I have no, I have no, you know, confirmed, typical feds. Oh my God. Oh, that's great. That took me out. I will say, when you start understanding the Inquisition as, like, federal police, things get a lot funnier. All right. Do continue, because this is turning into one of the classic books supplements where everyone just, like, fucking dies.

Oh, you have no idea. Well, it's the Grey Knights. Even if they win, everybody's going to die because nobody can know what we were doing here, right? They're also not very good of surviving battles themselves. Typical fence. It never gets old. Okay, so prior to the arrival of the world eaters,

things were bad on Armageddon, shockingly. So, Hyde Volcanis is taking quite a bit of time to get back in due to a massive influx of demonic entities and mutants, hive infernice is struggling on the other side of the planet. At this stage, the primary objective for the Black Templars is to make a push to capture and eradicate the forces of chaos, pouring out from hive hades and especially Hive Theradis, which is a very slow process,

and it's just turning into an entrenchment campaign with hardly any forward movement. The Fifth Brotherhood of Grey Knights arrive in orbit, and they're like, what the hell is going on? They knew it was going to be bad. It's worse. Morvins decides that he needs to predominantly stick to a separate mission, and he deploys interceptor squads to the firewaste,

and he's kind of weighing as to whether or not to interfere and assist with other conflicts on the surface, as this was even worse than he thought it would be, which I love the sort of mental image of the grey knights of all chapters showing up and immediately going, oh, this is bad. This is actually really bad. Like, yeah, you're having to deal with this. Of course it's bad.

You're the Grey Knights. Yeah. Although for even the Grey Knights to be saying that, that's really trucked. Because if even they're like, whoa. It's got to be a sobering moment, right? It's like, okay, this is going to be a bit more difficult than we thought. Let's get to it, shall we? That picture of the assault on the fire wastes is that for me that image of that cartoon

with the really short guy who's like, I don't care how hard they try. I'm not going to like the Grey Knight baby carriers because he's there in the background looking kind of cool and I'm like, you're not going to do it. You're not going to get me. Yeah. It's a dope dope artwork though. Yeah, every time they do like the monocolored type thing, where it's all one color with various shades,

like the flat white, it looks great. Yeah. Very elegant, this, this book just seems to have some, some really nice art work in it. Yeah, and that give is entirely correct. So everything is thrown into even more disarray

when the world eaters unexpectedly arrive in orbit. So despite their numbers, the combined fleet of the space wars and the Blacktown Plars are more than capable of holding their own in naval combat, and they're doing enough, damage to the chaos fleet that it's pretty much a non-issue. But that's because the world eaters aren't there to have a bit of ship-to-ship combat. Instead, they are dumping drop pods worth of world eaters and berserkers down onto the planet's surface. They're there for a ground invasion

and they don't care about what's happening in space. So the ship, the fleet shows up, Space And Black Templars are like, all right, we've got this. Except then there's just a literal reign of just blood-engorged, psyched-up berserkers who want to kill everything on the planet. Okay. I have two things I need to point out here. Maybe three things. I got some things. So first things first, it's a little strange to me.

Have you noticed that that gray knight's glowing sword is like, like broken? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It is broken, isn't it? Yeah, it's all chipped up. It was kind of strange to me. I know I saw it for a second. It was like, ha, that they threw, it looked weird for a moment.

It's like, oh, yeah, that's like a broken sword. And secondarily, I really like the image of the corn berserker on the right, dual wielding a chain axe and a chainsome, because he's flying in the air, Ray to slam me to that gray night with a thunderhammer. But it's like the visual of it is hilarious because there's the big red, orange explosion behind him that looks like a jetpack fuel or combustion. But he doesn't have a jetpack on. So I just have this like this vision of him like exploding or like rocket jumping or something

into the air as he's just flying towards the gray night at five times the speed of light. Drop a grenade. Jump as it goes off. You're right? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. Because, you know, the power packs look like jet packs, but they're not. And I was like, wait a minute.

They're not. He's just up there. He's just going. He's using the force of that explosion to just hurl himself with the Thunderhammer guy. And that Thunderhammer guy's about to get wrecked. There's not enough time for him to swing that. That big old hammer. You've played the assault class.

You know he doesn't have the time for it. That's because I keep holding down the button. He's holding down the button too Look at that thing charged Yeah it's really charged The only thing though It would make that image better Is the world eater doing like the people's elbow

Like flying from the sky I love this Oh, Dwayne This is great It has everything I could ever want Hilarity Like over the top ridiculousness And of course a gigantic corn logo

In the picture of a mouth Of a face in the background Hell yeah Perfect. Corn's branding is always on point. It doesn't matter what the unit is, you know it's corn. And not because it's thematically similar to all the corn stuff. No, it's because it's got a massive corn symbol on it.

That's how you know. And it's everywhere. And it's red and bleeding. Yeah. You ever try to shave off all of the corn symbols from the Lord of Skull's tracks? I have. I've got to be honest, man. It's not fun.

You started that sentence. And you were like, you ever tried to shave off? I thought you were taking it in a super different direction. I thought you were like, if you also want to be scarred up and bloody, ever shave for the first time? Have you ever tried manscaping? Manscaping. Sponsored. No, no, I'm kidding.

Sponsored by corn. Jesus. Sponsored by corn. Sponsored by corn. But smooths for the smooth god, trim for the trim throne. Shave your balls. Wait, okay, hold on. Manscape, manscape, if this comes out, we want royalties.

Your hedge clipper thing, but instead, it's entirely red and covered in chaos symbols. And you're doing a, yeah, shave your balls with a chain axe. Canonically, I'm sure there's got to be some world either that's at least tried it. Oh, God. on accident and it's just like, well, that didn't go the way I thought it would. All right, who's going to message Luton and ask that question? It needs to be one of you. I don't have the guts of that.

Are itching now, I'm going to scratch them and he starts revving the chains. Sort of like, zz, z. Oh, dear. What a tangent. Okay, so we talked about Ascaro the insanguant earlier. she's currently deeply entrenched in hive theradis and is sort of watching this chaos unfurl above her and goes absolutely she goes wild in the aisles just tearing away through guardsmen with her chainsawd and as she's doing it she notices something of an anomaly in the sky

when it tears open like a wound and blood and organs just pour out of it so thick and fast that it drowns the guardsman in front of her. And it's so gross. And along with this like tidal wave of viscera, there's a lad. A lad arrives on Armageddon, unsurprisingly. There you go. Oh boy, here we go.

The demonic figure flexed its his wings and gazed down upon the cowering combatants below. Cable implants split from his skull, writhing like a nest of metallic snakes. He raised its colossal blade and let out a roar of pain and fury that set Ascara's soul ablaze. Then he thundered forwards on iron hooves, trampling cultists and loyalist soldiers before soaring into the burning sky. Tracers illuminated his diabolical form and flak fires splashed harmlessly from his brass armor. The red monster roared, a primal bellow of apoplectic rage that sent waves of fear through trembling bodies. Ascara felt her muscles flex and swell.

A red mist fell across her vision as she hacked through stunned opponents. The red angel had heard the call. The season of blood had dawned. Yikes! Yikes! What, an entrance. arriving at a tidal wave of blood and organs so severe that it just drowned a bunch of people. Can you imagine that's how you go by drowning in awful?

Like, oh. I like, and then immediately super setting that with this image, the season of blood. Even the sky is mad. Yeah, everything's angry during the season of blood. funnily enough, this was not helpful. So the loyalist... That's the best follow-up ever. Explain to me why it was so funny.

Fonily enough. Yeah, funnily enough. Yeah. I don't know that I've got a good follow-up for that. That was the best you could have done ever. So yeah, not helpful for the loyalists. they were pretty firmly entrenched on multiple fronts and the surprise attack from the World Eaters and Angron himself

resulted in the need to really shift gears particularly for the ones that were very close to Hive Theradis because his arrival resulted in a tidal wave of blood and gore that just wiped out the Kriegsmen who were prepared for artillery bombardment they were ready for shells and mortars they weren't really ready for being drowned in viscera. And in an incredibly short amount of time,

Angron and the various bloodletters and berserkers just tore through four imperial lines, which resulted in a full retreat, shockingly, and a direct order to just bomb them whether they were fully vacated or not, just as a stalling tactic. So, effectively, they're all ready, they're all hunkered down,

a bunch of them drown, Angron and his mates, tear the rest of them apart, and then the Imperials bomb their own lines in a vague hope of just stalling the massive assault that just happened. I like the idea of being prepared for anything but that. It's like, oh no, we're ready. We've got this. Oh, maybe we don't. It's beast.

That's all I've got to say. Good job. No one's ready for the sky raining blood and awful and then Angron showing up. That's a hard one to get ready for. It's true. I don't know what steps you take to prepare for that. Flood defenses? I don't know.

You don't. So in Armageddon Prime, there's a different problem that was being faced. The littering of drop pods from the world eaters in the mountains meant that the orcs started to rush towards fortified positions around the mountain rage. This was an issue because the orcs very much a big distraction from the plot of events in the book, so the guard lines were spread thin to deal with them off screen so they could focus on the bigger problem at hand. but for some reason

a major issue they had was that the guardsmen around Volcanus hadn't faced an orc incursion of that magnitude for a while somehow on Armageddon so they were unprepared woefully unprepared

for orcs to attack on Armageddon Wait, so there are orcs Yeah, they're orcs They just don't get a proper bit in the story They're just in the mound, And then the berserkerous land and the orcs go, we don't want to be here anymore. So they rush the Imperials.

And the Imperials are not equipped to deal with an orc invasion on Armageddon, apparently. Okay, this is, that this is stupid, agreed. They should be prepared for an orc invasion. However, on Armageddon. The idea that Angron is there, the sky has turned angry, and then there are still some more orcs running around to cause prox. It's just really funny to me. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Like, oil at all, it's time. And then they'll just, like, jump out. Also, why are they running from drop pods full of berserkers? They're, orcs, generally speaking, they quite like a fight. Bers, I would suggest, known for liking an up-close fight. Why would they run away from them to attack a fortified position? They were just, they would just attack the berserkers. Is there, like, any phrase of statements saying that, like,

Yeah, the gigantic, angry face in the sky is screwing with the warping things and making people weird, because that would, like, make some sense. I don't have anything like that here. It could be, but I don't know. I just feel like orcs, they fight, they fight things. There's things that fight. No, no, they do. They do.

I give some things crack. Like, there was the Arks of Omen book where Angron. and corn stood up from his chair and helped Angron like slam that beacon of psychic power and then it caused such like a horrifying rage-fueled shockwave that all the Imperials got blood-blooded and murdered each other and a bunch of sisters got affected by it too and normally I'm like, you know, before I was like

how dare you make the sisters do chaos stuff but like if it's like it makes sense at some point if there's enough craziness and so if like oh yeah the sky is screaming at you so the orcs, it's so much that the orcs got spooked. Like, and that, like, that phrase sounds fine as a concept once in a while, but that is really weird if they never mentioned anything like that. It's, it kind of feels like a sort of, okay, the orcs are there, we need to mention them,

but they need to do something that's convenient for building up the tension as opposed to acting how they would act. Do you know what I mean? Like, that them rushing the Imperials makes things more difficult for the Imperium as a whole on Armageddon. So they need to do that and not go and fight the guys that have just shown up in their territory,

which you'd think would be the primary thing they would go for? I don't know. It seems weird. It seems like an odd choice, I guess. It's weird. Yeah, it's strange. I don't get it.

God, I hope Shai puts her Discord message in the video so everyone can see just how mad she is at this. It's not a half- Happy woman. I think I can see what the next Patreon exclusive video is going to be. Okay, so, what's that meme of like Charlie? And it's like him looking like an orc and he's like, why I hate elves and the video runtime is like six hours.

Same, same vibe. Yep. Yeah. So the disorganization, it was capitalized on pretty quickly. various defences got rushed. The heavy firepower that was turned to deal with the orcs wasn't able to then face the forces of chaos properly. Though a few tanks and transports were taken out, the forward momentum of the Cornate forces was barely touched and they just rolled past various traps with relative ease. But before we get into that layer of hell, let's check in with the Grey Knights. Because the Imperium is getting absolutely spanked here.

The Grey Knights focus is on the gate. but what are they actually going to do when they find it? Their plans, not exactly straightforward and reasonable because it's the great night. No shit. From the grey nights, eh? No way. I'm, my sarcastic.

I'm shocked. Shocked and appalled. Fuddled even. So, Morvins has got a very specific idea as to how to rid Armageddon of the gate. And it goes back to the first war. So here you go, Bricky. Ah, from the ruins of Theratus, the cratered wreckage of Hades, the soils of the equatorial locations and other locations, the Fifth Brotherhood sought a cursed relics from the First War of Armageddon. Such precious artifacts, Morvans hoped, will contain slivers of Angron's essence, which the Fifth Brotherhood could utilize

as folk eye for a grand ritual of exorcism. This arcane undertaking would draw out the lingering traces of corruption left by Angron's first invasion from the planet's crust and weaken the bonds that held the Red Angels gate open. Eight such shards would be required, or so the Fifth Brotherhood's librarians claimed. So they're finding Angron's whore cruxes, basically. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, yeah.

They've got to find the MacGuffins and use the, for an arcane ritual. And the McGoffin in this case is shards of the shattered black blade of Angron. The... Is that the crowbar that he just hit someone so hard with that became a sword? Or is that the demon that he, like, I'm going to beat the shit out of you, and then,

oops, I made you into a sword? That's the demon he beat with a metal pipe and turned them into a sword, I believe. Okay. The descriptions absolutely sent me, but it's his old weapon, his old, old one from the first one. Oh, okay. I don't give me wrong. You're not wrong, shy yet.

Their original plan barely works. And Grung killed 98% of the Grey Knights, and they sealed him for about 15 minutes. Why are we doing this again? Look, this is how the wars on Armageddon go. You have to find the MacGuffin and do the thing and stop the big man. And then, you know, give it 20 years, and it'll happen all over again. This is what this planet does, apparently. Why?

I got to be honest. Why are the Grey Knights so incompetent lately? Like, they're, like, it's almost, it's a little farcical. I'm actually shocked at how bad they've been lately. It's because they haven't been given the primaries treatment, so they're not allowed to have any good plot points yet. Because then otherwise people would buy them, and they don't want them to do that. That's not.

You know, that's not sarcasm. That's just GW. That's just what they do. I mean, they are getting a new codex and their new mini is literally an upgrade spruce for the Dread Knight. Like, it's, it writes itself. Yeah. I love that of all the things they could have done,

they updated the Dread Knight by putting an extra spruce brew in as if that whole model doesn't need to be redesigned from the ground up. I mean, God, damn. They did Crow last time, and he looks sick. Yeah, he's the only thing that does now. Yeah Dreadnight? I want to say what this looks...

The baby carrier. Oh, oh, it's literally... Okay, got you. The baby carrier is called the dread night. I know, not very fitting. It's such an indictment on that model that you can use the name of it and someone

will not remember what it is, but as soon as you say the words, baby carrier, it's, oh yeah, that. Oh, yeah, that thing. That's not what you want. That's not what you want from a hit. If you just sealed off the legs and didn't have the legs and arms showing, it would probably be fine. Just make it a Dreadnought style thing, for the love of God. Also, sticking the missile

packs off of a redemptor on either side of his chest hasn't helped. I'm just saying it hasn't. Anyway, wait, wait, wait, stop. Those are missiles on his chest. Yeah, it's, I don't know whether it is exactly the same part, but to my eye at least, those look very, very small. similar to the ones you get from the redemptor. And I only say that because I put together a lot of redemptors, and that part looks very, very familiar. The nipple missiles is just so funny to me. It's going to fire out of his chest,

and the combustion of the missiles can, like, burn his face in. Yeah, well, you say that. It's okay. He's got the magic shield. That means that him being stuck out of the front like that doesn't actually... I know, but, like, it's just so funny, though. That is really funny.

It's a terrible reason as to why he's able to just be out there. It's like, oh, well, he's got an invulnerability shield, but only for the very front of the thing. Or just don't design it like that. Make it cool instead. What are you doing? I also love that his exoskeleton arms need exoskeleton arms to, like, to, I don't know, balance them or whatever. Bless them. They, they, it's getting on a bit.

they did was an upgrade to brew and that's that's that's that's all they that's all they gave them harsh real harsh on the grey knight that's that's a shame gray knight fans that's a real shame yeah anyway so we're going to go back to arm again prime the combat the imperial forces we're facing is like non-stop cultists are absolutely hopped up on stims sending wave upon wave of troops without any pause or relief however this has caught the attention of some other forces in our Armageddon Prime. Seeing the non-stop battle and presumably seeing that this was going to be a very short law entry of both fronts were lost immediately, the orcs show up for a very quick scrap. So the Cornate forces get sideswiped by speed freaks and this buys the Imperium

just enough time to fall back to the volcano wall and regroup. So you've got your two, you've got your two orc mentions, you've got the ones running away from Corn Berserker's and the ones just doing a drive-by and there you go. At least one of those is at least one of those is accurate. And it's speed freaks doing a drive-by is always fun,

no matter of context. So at least they got something. Thanks for throwing a bone into my face, says shy. In Hive Volcanus, Logan Grimnar is preoccupied with fighting in the hive

itself and he spares what many can to help push the lines forward from the wall. Those reinforcements combined with the surprise ambush of the orcs allow for the re-securing of the Mannheim Gap, which came at a good time, because from the north of Volcanus, a splinter group of cornate forces,

led by a bloodthurster called Zul Kor, began a surprise rush towards the hive. Logan Grimnard, though, absolute legend, responded with a cavalry assault with his wolfguard, and Logan 1v1, the bloodth Thurster and killed him because, of course. It's Logan Grimnar, of course. Like, I was going to say that's probably, if someone's going to deal with the

bloodthurster, the named bloodthirster, it's got to be Grimnar, right? And he looks like that now, so. Yeah, no, I mean, he does. Whoa. I'm, I'll let the, yeah, I'll let him one slide. He does look pretty cool. Yeah, that's badass. And also, Bloodthurster's getting one view one by a namespace Marine is like kind of

a going theme at this point. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Get warfed. They have a bad time, bloodthirsters. As soon as they get a name, that's it. It's game over for you.

So at the same, like, Volcanus is effectively secured, but the same can't be said for the hives in Armageddon Secunders. There's a tidal wave of hell that is spawned because of Angron, and it's not ceased. Templars are having a very difficult time holding the line, and it does prove to be somewhat helpful. In a way, the chaos defences around Hive Hades begin to thin as their focus is drawn towards Angron and the carnage in his wake, which means that High Marshal Helbrecht and his sword

brothers, they decided that this was the time, the perfect moment to make a head-on assault with a pair of warlord titans across the Humanities Bridge. and I'm going to have to say what's in brackets, humanity's nuts. There you go. Things were, I think, I'll be honest, as I was reading through this for the first time, I was like,

possum's starting to lose, lose their mind a bit here. They're starting to lose it. What little they had is gone. They're reading a quick campaign book about another combination of Imperials versus a big bad. and it's like, I'm going crazy.

Yeah, the vibes were, the vibes were like, I've been in this room for far too long. Like, it was starting to sort of ramp up as it went on. You can see the cabin fever setting as. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. So things were looking good in terms of this, you know, double warlord assault, which obviously means it's a great time

for a second gigantic tear in reality. This one, though, bit different, the volume of things pouring from the rift caused massive damage to the already raised hive city, and despite the same blood and guts and demon show as the last rift, there wasn't a demon primark this time. Instead, there was World Eater Bulk Landers, which opened up to reveal a trio of chaos titans that started firing on the loyalist warlords. Because of course, I don't know, I kind of thought when you said that, they started firing on,

I just thought you're going to say everything. Yeah, admittedly. Just unloading on everybody, sure. So the Titan battle really, really bad. Titans, not great at avoiding collateral damage, so huge swathes of death, and everything was looking really, really rough. One of the warlords,

all of the void shields went out. Things were looking bad. Stiborne-Flynti, however, arrives with his battle brothers and assists Helbrecht, they're able to get into one of the Chaos Titans and overload its core to cause a catastrophic blast that banished most of the demons back to the warp. But it was too little too late. The forces were too thin, an attackical retreat to hive in furnace was needed to regroup, and any hope of reclaiming the fallen hives on Secundus was lost. Big deal, two boys and a squig,

destroy the Titanots. Get good. Get good, Helbrecht and the space wars. At this point, yeah. At this point, the Grey Knights are still just doing their thing. They have yet to reveal themselves to the Imperial Forces. They're still working covertly to reclaim the artefact, and they are slowly accomplishing their goal, but they need another, like another fail-safe. The presence of Angron is a problem on this planet, and in order to close the gate, they need him banished. However, they've got a plan. Plans within plans the Grey Knights for this one. There is a brother captain called Taurus Hendron, and he knows of a derelict Diabolus forge complex in the Diablo Mountains,

which houses a massive stockpile of Dark Age of Technology weapons. They do a bit of digging, and they find out that this was entirely true. There is a massive stockpile of black-capped vortex warheads. They managed to remove them, and they will be a surprise tool to help out later, but the rest of the Grey Knights is having a problem. Morvins is quickly realizing that the forces of chaos aren't all on the front lines, and attempts to reclaim artifacts behind enemy lines in Hive Theradas and Hades are being severely hampered due to cultists and demons still running wild.

And if he's to accomplish the goals that they've set out, he needs them to be more distracted. The fact that the grey knights haven't announced themselves at this point is wild. I get they've got a job to do, but you'd think at some point, someone would go, do you think we ought to let everyone know that we've got possibly a way to stop all of this? Or should we just, you know, slowly, quietly, wander around on our lonesome and get all this stuff done ourselves.

Like, the decision making is, it's out there for me. That sounds pretty on brand for the Grey Nights, actually. That kind of, again, this is just like, oh yeah, the Grey Nights are doing shady stuff all in their lonesome while letting everybody else die. Yeah, that tracks. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, we do already know that they are the Feds. Typical Fed move.

Typical Fed. So this is going to be more of an issue considering what the bloodshed is actively doing on Armageddon at this point. Corn is fully focused on the planet and just the amount of death and bloodshed is causing the sky itself to turn red and pulse with hatred. The manifestation of this in real space causes psychosis and hive inferners

and when Helbrecht finally arrives after his retreat, he sees a city plunged into madness and chaos. He's not happy about this. So he does what any, sane and normal person would do. To Helbrecht, whose ire had already been raised by defeat, such blasphemy against the God Emperor was unforgivable. In his eyes, the embattled districts' populations were beyond salvation. Rallying his crusaders, he began a brutal purge of infernice outer districts.

No distinction was made between friend and foe. Those districts that had fallen to the heretics and rebels were skis'est. Goward of life. I was worried. I knew that's where we were going and I was like, damn. That's, yep, that's the most 40K thing I think we've heard. Yep. Oh, it sucks.

I lost that fight. Well, time to commit a massacre. Let's go. Yeah, time to genocide the Hybe City. Like, oh. Okay. This is why Helbrecht and Hellbrecht had the voice of, I'm a hemercial Helbrecht

because he does shit like this. Yep, that's fair. These civilians have fallen to corn, kill every man, one and child, as goals for the emperor, blood for the golden throne. Classic.

So, as we know, the Grey Knights, right, famously good at reading the room. So naturally, famously. They've got it down. They've got it down to a tea. They know how to read the room.

So Morvins has waited until morale is at an all-time low to do something that always brings the mood back up. He sends out an all-hands meeting on teams and requests the presence of all the military leaders and Armageddon to attend. And most of the individuals who attend the meeting are terrified. But Grimnaar, kind of stoic, and the fact that no one here really likes each other,

causes issues, funnily enough. It's almost like getting those three chapters together to have a conversation. It's not a good idea or something. And yet, here we are. The remnants of the planetary governance and inquisition were fed up of the actions of the Black Templars because, you know, he purged infernus and killed a significant number of innocent civilians. So the meeting was kind of marred with quite a bit of shouting, a lot of disagreement, and eventually Morven's just got sick of it and told everyone to shut up and listen because if they didn't, Armageddon was going to fall. So, you know, having waited for things to get real bad, it's like, no, no, no, you need to listen to me. I have a plan after all. Excellent timing. Great work. Morven's has outlined

a very specific plan. What is that noise? Brickie's downboard for the Teams meeting. That's Microsoft Teams message sound effects. You said Microsoft Teams, and so I decided I wanted to hyper-activate the PTSD of any and all of our fans who are currently listening to us on some type of IT job. There's going to be people sitting there suddenly looking very surprised and worried. I'm expecting a comment section or someone in the comments to be like,

like, Bricky, I'm going to kill you. Yeah. Oh, no. So, Marvin outlines a very specific plan

to the collective of traumatized war, tired veterans here. Contrary to what the wolves and Templars thought, Angron's presence, isn't actually the real. problem. The real problem is the gate in the firewaste. They need to seal the gate as soon as possible. They've got the stuff they need. They've collected their eight mcuffins. But they can't do it properly

because the forces of chaos are all over the place on Armageddon currently. At the moment, Ascarra the ensanguined, trying a best to rally the traitor forces. And Jarok Scrial, who was basically forced to show up just by being on the conqueror when it decided, yeah, we're going there. He's done everything that he can to try and command the world leader of forces, but the arrival of Angron just turned any semblance of an organised front into just scattered violence without any particular aim. That's not going to notice by Morvans, and he made it clear that to finish the job, the forces of chaos need to be rooted to a location further away, and the best way to do that was to bait Angron himself into either a full distraction at worst and a banishment at best.

The way to do this, a couple of options. Stracting Ron, very funny to me. How do you distract that? I'd guess put like a bunch of people in front of him and hope that killing them takes them a while? I don't know, it's a plan. So the way that they were going to do this was twofold. So they need a major contingent to head towards the forge complex and created an offensive line. And the imperial line was to undertake a stage withdrawal towards that.

complex. That would draw Angron and the bulk of his forces to the west. Meanwhile, a smaller force would go north so they could rush across the boiling sea and begin an offensive towards the Red Angels Gate. They decided that Logan Grimnar and High Marshal Helbrecht would lead up the defences, while Morvans would lead the second assault to the north, along with Flint High and Colonel course of the Death Corps. So they did it. They split up. They began to set up defences in the western mountains and the Grey Knights moved to join the Northern Front. Once there was a defensive line established, the other line worked on a planned staggered retreat over the course of several days to the mountains, which made some of the Cornate forces follow suit, but the Imperial

forces very much underestimated Angron's ability to analyse a situation. Angron might be an absolute lunatic, but he can still recognise a trap. So he just ordered some troops to flank the mountains on the opposite side and managed to strike the rear of the defensive forces. Combined with like winged demon princes and airborne demon engines, that resulted in the suppression of most of the artillery in those mountains. Yeah, John O'Hardt, Angron, go over there. Go on, just, just go down that, go down that valley. It's fine. I mean, I feel like, knowing. Angrod kind of giving Bain vibes, though.

Knowing the Imperium, I get the feeling that they would be like, all right, we got to hurt Bangoran, put like 32 million slaves in this valley and then give them all like Lasguns. And then he'll definitely go down there. Yeah. Oh, sir, that's a whole 2% of the world's population. Like, do it. We'll ship in more when this is done anyway. It's fine.

Just get him in there. So Grimnon and help. Sorry, go on. Oh, no, no. Over the head. You're good. You're good. Well, Griminar and Helbrecht, they've kept the vast majority of the worries in reserve

so that then the forces of chaos would have to move further and further in. And the inclines on the mountain did the loyalists a huge favour. They were able to drop boulders and use other machinery to cause damage to the cornet lines. And it made traversal nearly impossible due to the sheer volume of corpses blocking the path, which is absolutely hardcore. The slowing of the advance is actually what made Angron get more angry. It should have been easy, but the movement as if forces were stalled, so he just went to the front of the lines and decided to do it himself and just piled through,

ripping through dreadnoughts, killing loads of Black Templars. He got into such a frenzy that it blinded him with bloodlust, and he became more focused on the spilling of blood as opposed to actual military tact. They, like Helbrecht and Grimnard, they got their feet. forces through the forge complex and Angron followed them in. Eventually, he finds himself in the remains of a furnace where there's two guys. There's Briller captain Torres Hendren, the guy who had sort of talked about using these vortex warheads and his bodyguard. And Hendron is standing there with his hand on a button. On the floor below Angron is a unicursal hexagram and at each point

was one of these vortex warpheads. And as Hendron began to recite the words of banishment, Angron tried to rush him, but faced resistance from a hidden contingent of grey knights who opened fire on him. Didn't really affect him that much. He just kind of carried on. His skin was burning,

but that didn't actually affect his movement particularly, which is a horrible sentence. But that's Engron, I mean. I mean, it's true. I just like that while my skin's on fire, but I can still run. it's fine. The reason he was able to make headway is because the binding circle wasn't there to hold

Angron in place. It was there to contain the explosion from the warheads. So before Angron could actually get out of there, Hendren finished the incantation, hit the button, and Angron was just torn asunder along with the vast majority of the mountain. And at the cost of a terrible loss of life and the complete inability to support the northern front, the demon primark was banished and the respawn timer has officially started Oh yes

Once again See Angren always dies all the time But to me I actually don't much mind it Because like who cares He's gonna be back in eight days And then they'll have to blow up another mountain And half the populace of another planet To banish him for eight days of freedom, you know?

Yeah Yeah, he nuked them. Properly, properly nuked this time round. It's not of this carving words into his heart or anything like that. No, no. Just got absolutely obliterated. So at this point, we've got rid of Angron. Great, the rest of the plan couldn't move forwards.

The fire wastes were a major part of the previous conflicts in Armageddon. Loads of soldiers still stationed there. But because of the Red Angels Gate, those forces are no longer friendly during this whole. whole thing, because the madness only gets worse the closer you get to the gate. In order to get to the gate, the traders need, traitors needed to be cleared out along the way so that they didn't face a unified attack from the rear. So the landings on the firewaste were strategic to draw attention from the north more to the coast, and the best equipped group to do that are the Kriegsman. It was their

duty to wear down the defences that once served as orc-proof armaments so that they could advance more effectively, which took days as all of the fortifications were under the command of Escaro the ensanguant, as well as a corrupted bane lord titan and two corrupted reva titans. So there's a lot of very heavy hitting stuff just right in the way of where they need to go. The stalemate caused a problem. More concentrated bloodshed draws more demons to the area, so they needed to push as hard and fast as possible, and fortunately they were eventually joined by very freshly repaired warlord titans that were able to strive through the water and engage with their corrupted counterparts. And finally, the advancement properly goes underway.

Just the sheer scale of this conflict again, every time it's an Armageddon, it's just insane. Everything is just scaled up to the nth degree. In order to fully access the Red Angels gate, the Grey Knights determined that two monoliths need to be destroyed. So these are anchors that gave the gate permanent. If they fell down, Morvins would be able to conduct the banishing ritual and seal the gate completely, for good, hopefully. The first monoliths to the south-east on the crimson matter, and the second is in the southwest, amid the black-lung tar pit, which is not my favorite holiday destination, but you know. When you're on arm again, you take what you can get.

Was it the black lung tarpip? Yep. Ah, much worse than the black heroin tarpid. That was a bigger favorite of mine. The black tar does wonder for your skin, though. You know, it really exfoliates. What's left of it. It really.

Yeah. Somewhere, Ganskull, who sets all this shit. in motion looks upon fucking World War 666 unfold and knowingly smiled. I would love him to have been there. It would have been so much more, I don't know.

He just brings a sense of fun to proceedings whilst he's murdering lots and lots of people. You need a little bit of goof, you know? Also, and like, this is one of those things that goes into fan theory a lot. Like, a lot of people are waiting for the, why isn't there the gas-school

anger on fight because of the whole, Yarek thing, like completely mandaling themselves into thinking that's like a real thing at all, which is unfortunate. However, it doesn't mean we can't have gas going anger on still fight each other. Oh, yeah.

That's still fun as a concept. Yeah, it would undeniably be really cool. And I don't know why they haven't done it. Well, that's GW for you. We don't know why they do a lot of stuff. That's true. there is bizarre stuff I mean like you don't you don't got a

It's a little bit funny because there's a good chance that gascoe gets walloped because of tanga Oh absolutely he gets walled He's like the guy but I mean I can still imagine like gas You know what I would prefer Let's have gas on the top of like a stompa And then two of them do like a Pacific Rim kaiju battle Like that's what I want to see Yeah I'd go for that

That'd be great But yeah I mean like even so I just that kind of stuff would be sick. Oh well. So the biggest issue faced by the loyalists when it comes to these monoliths is the atmosphere. The sky is a deep crimson. The heat and smell of blood in the air drives guardsmen insane. They literally die as they walk, just leaving a line of corpses behind them to rot.

The southeastern monolith, known as the Brazen Citadel, super heavily in foot reinforced, but they weren't expecting a full forced frontal attack from the Black Templars. The defenders were drawn from the Brazen Citadel to deal with the attached from the exterior, and this served as a really good distraction for members of the Grey Knights to teleport in, perform a ritual and obliterate the Brazen Citadel from the planet. The second beacon, known as the Gore Beacon, ridiculous name, was not so simple. The area that was situated in just made traversal really difficult, and that was taken advantage of by berserkerers that just came out of the way,

and attacked Imperium forces. Worst of all, Karok Skreel was there himself and was absolutely yoked up due to the energy emanating from the beacon. Grey Knight gunships tried to pick off the forces around the beacon, and that caught Skreel's attention. He recognised the Grey Knight ship, immediately understood what was happening,

and reinforced the interior. The Grey Knight strike squads landed to face off directly with Screel and his contingent of eight-bound. which sounds really bad, but given that Grey Knights are specifically anti-demon, I feel like the 8thbound would suddenly feel considerably weaker than they had done a moment ago. Actually, it's a very good point. Also, don't forget about the slaughterbound. That's, yeah, that's, yeah.

It's very important to remember the slaughterbound. Because it's got a, it's got a, it's got. a bloodthirster in it as opposed to a uh as opposed to eight other demons also yeah you're kind of right shy he doesn't remind me of the marker the um the dead space marker a little bit oh yeah which also has one of the best since i played that space i mean it also has a uh one of the best lines ever the dead space too the fuck you and fuck your marker also i have i have a very important get we can't move on until we until we see this GIF.

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Years of dedication. Okay. Flint I. The gray wolves, the space wolves. Christ. I'm starting to lose it now. He's pushing his way forward with the space wars,

decides to take advantage of the situation as best as possible. So they rush into the Gore beacon to provide support and surround the forces inside the structure. However, by the time Flint Eye arrives, the Grey Knights are having a very bad time. Flinti carves his way through the eight-bound and challenges Carrack's screel to a duel. They beat the absolute shit out of each other,

but Carrack has the upper hand, thanks to the power of the Gore-beacon and him being all like yoked up. He lands multiple killing blows on Flinti, but, of course, before Flinti succumbs, he lands a killing blow on Karok, just splitting his skull open,

casting him back in the war, because, of course, heroic last stand. Because of course, classic N-bit thing. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone clapped, et cetera, et cetera. Flinti's sacrifice gives the remaining chaos nights, enough time to complete the ritual,

and they teleport away. before the Gore beacon is decimated by an orbital strike. The seal is now broken. It's time to close the gate. I love the detail of the Grey Knights teleporting away, given that Flintai took the space wolves into that structure, so they presumably dead. He gets in there, he helps out.

They can't teleport away. Flinti gets wasted and, admittedly, takes out one of the enemy leaders in the process, but his troops, they're just in there now. By themselves, good luck. So, again, very, very, very, very gray night, very appropriate. So the final thing they need to do is sort out the final seal. Grandmaster Morvans has to put on some dreadnight armor. He gets into his baby carrier armor,

and he needs to cross the Crimson Mesa on foot because there's so much warped disruption in the area. There's only a single scalable route to the peak that leads to the gate. So it's an absolute nightmare getting up there. For each yard gained, hundreds of soldiers are lost. But with the remaining Black Templar and Space Wars forces, clearing away, the momentum that Morvans had is unstoppable. They just slice through hordes of demons before they eventually make it to the Red Angels gate.

And the gate at the peak of the mesa was several miles across, which is a crazy visual and somehow beating like a wretched heart I need to see an interpretation of that because I can't quite ass it because it's like a big portal thing right it's like a big gate

so if it's pulsing is the whole thing like I don't know it's it's a visual icon around my head around it's just a gate that's thumping brother like come on you can't see that It's like the middle of a subwifor when you play something. It's just like pulsing backwards and forwards. You know, that's probably the perfect way to describe what that gate actually look like.

Just think of a subwifur that's just the base is too high. In this situation, it's actually more like a subwulfur. Get out. A subwulfur? Get out. Sorry, DK, you clearly did not hear me because if you heard me, you would be laughing right now. No, I heard you. Wulfur?

Oh! Oh, you mean... Oh, the connection issue. Clearly a connection problem, and that he heard it now. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Play the tightest laughing gip up, please. They get to the gate. The sub-Wolf a gate. They begin to set up the shards of the Black Blade.

They start the ritual. and because it's the Grey Knights, the ritual is working. The fracture fragments of the blade rise before the gate itself, and the might of the Grey Knight's psychic power begins to reverse the flow of the laylines, always lover laylines mention. The fury of the demon primark being drawn out from the crust of the planet. The mountains begin to shake. The gate convulses as though in pain,

and as a means to protect the knights conducted the ritual, Morvans and his other dread knights are just obliterating demons as they poured through. But as the gate convulses more and more, Morvans could feel something that was distinctly not good because someone was attempting to come through, said gate. No, no way, no way, he's in the same book. He's back. He's back already?

He rolled triple sixes the next battle round. Holy shit. Anger respawns. Wow. Has it been eight days? Now, I don't know. precisely how many days it's been. I'll be honest.

It takes a few days to get close to the monoliths and stuff. So my assumption is that eight days has passed because it's just going on forever this war. It's not really. Like eight days or whatever is not a long time.

But yeah, he's back. He's back potentially a little bit quicker than usual, but like, yeah, Shai, it makes sense, but like I feel like in the same story, him already respawning after the major

sacrifice of how many Vortex Warheads feels kind of, it feels cheap and it feels kind of, it doesn't feel good. It feels like bad storytelling a little bit. I don't like it. I've given, so I think as the main bad,

I agree because like him being the main villain just keeps coming back is like it's less fun because there's no stakes at all ever. Yeah. But I don't know, there's a little part of me that the humor is just like, ha, there he is again. He-he, te-he. And you know that it'll happen again anyway.

So at some point probably because he can just do that. Yeah, I think I would care. I think I would like be more interested in it if I didn't know that he was going to be banished after a ton of imperial losses again at the end of this book. What an assumption to make? Why would you possibly think that? It's not like there's a pattern to these things. Okay, we're on the home stretch here. So, Angron has respawned, which obviously is a problem, causes a dramatic shift in the battle.

On the Crimson Mesa, the Cornate forces are suddenly stronger, they're angrier, even angrier than they already were. And pretty much all of the chaos forces around the planet, they're just drawn to the gate. Madness starts to sweep through the guardsmen. they keep falling to chaos and turning their guns on their comrades. Order is completely destroyed. Colonel Korse is torn to shreds by jackals and some of his own men. The final Imperium lines are broken and the gate needs to be sealed. Hopefully, literally right now.

Angron does not want that to happen, funnily enough. So he pushes forward through the gate, loads of demons behind him, sees what's going on. Eight paladins are completely entran. in their ritual and getting close to finishing it, and Angron knows that he needs to stop it. So without a single word, he just starts to crash his way through the lines in an attempt to stop the ritual from taking place. He's killing knights left, right and center. The remaining forces kind of reinforce themselves around the paladins to make sure that the ritual would be complete and empowered with their own divine might. Morvans and the other dread knights

push back against them as hard as possible. He demands that all four. focus beyond Angron himself. As the ritual continues, Angron begins to weaken. But he's still Angron. So he's still stronger than most knights on a good day. Angron needs to act fast. So it begins a final charge and eventually he gets face to face with the dread knights. He absolutely obliterates several of them. Before he can land, it's unsurprising, given who it is. But given how powerful dread knights are, it's horrifying that he can just rip through their force wheels and destroy them. Yeah. Before he lands the final blow on one of them, Morvins crashes into his flank and knocks him down,

which now I want a diorama of a dread knight shoulder barging, demon, primark, Angron, because it sounds hilarious. I mean, Bjorn did it to Magnus, didn't he? Oh, that's true. Yeah, but to me he's less of a shoulder barge and more of like a chest bump because Bjorn's a walking brick. So that's pretty good. A box just runs into him from the side.

So Morvins is able to serve as a strong enough distraction for the time being, but his force field is starting to give out. He knows that if he falls, Angron would interrupt the ritual and there is a moment of distraction. A blow from Morven's mace gets deflected. and Angron is able to slam Samniarius into Morven's chest. But, despite landing the killing blow, Angron is too late and the ritual is completed,

which you're incredibly surprised by, of course. And essentially, the gate collapses. Loyalist heretic soldiers, no matter who you are, you get ripped to pieces as your soul is torn out of your body, and in his final dying moments, Morvans draws the last reserves of his strength to trap Angron into the collapsing core of the gate and I've got one last thing for you to read, D.K.

Locked in a violent embrace, the two were dragged into the abyss, the last of Morvins' lifeblood pouring from his body. Fleeting visions of Armageddon flashed through his mind. Aquila banners raised high, battles yet to be fought, champions risen and heroes slain, as death rushed to meet him,

he felt the empiric shockwave of the Red Angel's gate collapsing into nothingness behind him. His duty was at an end. Armageddon's suffering would continue. And that's it. That's your lot. It's very, it's like, this in a way is its core 40K. An unimaginable amount of pain, suffering, horrific warfare,

the sacrifice of multiple individuals who have given their absolute all to defend a planet and the one who is given himself at the very last instant gets to realize as he's dying that it's going to be an absolute nightmare forever.

It's like, we did it. We stopped Angron. And this planet is still a war-torn shithole and will be for eternity. The end. Yay! Now we never have to go back to Armageddon because we know what happens.

You know, this episode has gone on so long. I have actually forgotten what makes Armageddon so important and why they had to fight so hard for it. It's all like supply line stuff. Supply line stuff. Oh, just supply line stuff. All that sort of thing. Okay.

I'm like, wait a minute. Are we fighting with a shit hole again? What the fuck? Yeah, okay. Possum did warn me that this was quite a long one. And I was like, I don't know. Possum's correct.

Yeah, no, yeah, Possum was right. Yep, yep, yep, yep. It's one of those things where it feels like there's a huge amount of buildup, which I feel like there's a few books like that where there's a huge amount of, there's a huge amount of buildup, there's a lot of stuff that goes into it. and then the end is like two it says like a page it's just like and everyone died

and the day was saved technically but it's still awful and come back next time to see how awful it's going to be for the next one it's very sort of like I don't know build up heavy and conclusion light if that makes sense

yeah yeah there once was the ugly barnacle he was so ugly that everyone died the end that that That's just what I'm feeling like here. I'm still not entirely sure Angron's respawn needed to happen. No, it totally didn't.

And also the Grey Knights didn't, well, I said the Grey Knights didn't need to be so dumb. Yeah. Because the gate collapses anyway and it's going to kill more of it anyway. And it's going to rip everybody so loud anyway. So like, Angron didn't need to respawn. He didn't need to be there at the end, really, except for, I guess, a more dramatic fight and more like, oh my God, you might lose, I guess. It's definitely a drama decision, which I get.

Like, if it's going to be a big, like, a big crescendo to a huge war, then you kind of want to make it as spectacular as possible. But then, yeah, it does, it does feel a bit weird when you just have an enemy that's just like, and he's back. It's like, oh, okay, cool. We already dealt with this. I feel like either you don't have him at the end or you don't have him get banished with the vortex

warheads. One or the other. Are we learning that maybe is such a thing as too much anger on? I think the Games Workshop has written a villain that they can put in any story that will never actually die. So it's just an extremely safe bet.

Yeah. Yeah. That's the only part I didn't really love. I didn't love that second respawn. The rest of it, I was in on it, but that second respawn was like... The Grey Night being really awful to me is just the best part. Oh, yeah.

That's classic Grey Knight behavior. You love to see it. Just just the entire time, like, all this is terrible, and then the feds make it worse. I'm like, ha. Oh, and if Tusker Demon Killer did show up with his gang infinitely respawning,

I'd be happy with that. That'd be fine. That can stay. Yeah, so, so you know what? You know what this thing needed? They needed more orcs. Oh, did. Like, it needed like teeth crusha, bone cruncher,

the war boss of some orc dude fighting the world eaters. Orcs always make things better. So I will always agree. If you want to add orcs, go for it. Hell yeah. The universal rule. Orcs belong in every story. Normally, orcs are in every story.

Because you can't get rid of them. Yeah. The Grey Knights lose and then the Oaks destroy the gate for fun. Now that, that would be a twist ending. That would be badass. No, that's a great one. Yeah, the Grey Knights and the Imperials get walloped. The ritual fails.

And then the orcs are like, oi, that really big thing over there. Oh, look for let's throw rocks. Yeah. Honestly, that's a great idea for a book. We should do this. We should. Larks is all pro-rographing.

Oh, God. Just chucking a spacehawk at something because they think it might work and that it actually does. Hell yes. I'm going to just drive a jumper through it. Because why not? That would be really funny. It would be super funny. Okay.

Well, we've come up with a better. ending than the campaign book had. So that's not. Perfect. What a better ending to the book. Fantastic. Mike Brooks, if you're listening currently, make the orcs win the campaign books. This is all we ask of you. Every single

one regardless of context. Yes, I want every single... And we have no power to, but please do it. Every single book I would like to end with like, and the Imperials win. And during their victory parade, they see a moon getting really, really close to them with like a Dr. Strange love orc on it.

Perfect. All right. 10 out of 10. We made a better ending. Thank you, Kyrioth, for sticking by. Now let's, uh, I'm going to go, I'm going to go into my bathroom and respawn my own anger on. Oh, Jesus Christ.