Adeptus Ridiculous - THE SIEGE OF VRAKS: THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousThe Siege of Vraks was a major campaign waged by the Imperium to reclaim the world of Vraks, first from traitorous forces, and later from Chaos. Trouble on Vraks began when the rogue Cardinal Xaphan established a powerful following on the Departmento Munitorum armoury world of Vraks, proclaiming that he was acting against doubters and heretics that threatened the Emperor's divine rule. Xaphan attempted to organize a War of Faith as he established a stranglehold on Vraks, purging any who spoke out against his zealotry. However his sermons focused on the downtrodden workers and lower of Imperial society, and soon Xaphan became a man of the people. This drew the ire of the Ordo Hereticus, which became concerned that the Cardinal was amassing too much personal power and that his preachings of hope to the lower classes may result in open class warfare on Vraks. Thus the Ordo decided to dispatch the Cardinal, deploying a lone Vindicare Assassin for the job. However the assassination attempt failed, and when the attempted murder of their "savior" at the hands of the Imperial government became known, the citizens of Vraks rose up in open revolt.Support the show

Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamanties, his name is still Bricky and ooh, the Siege of Rax. But before we get into that, if you enjoyed today's episode and you maybe want to support the podcast, head over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to our Discord, bloopers if they happen. The $15 tier gets you access to all the HD posters you can shake a stick at. By the way, Shai, when are we expecting the next poster? Huh?

You know what I mean? Right now. Oh, wow. What do you know? Right now, Bricky, would you like to see the next poster? Why is she saying Bricky is not ready? You guys said last time that I was going to love this one. You are, and everybody's going to love it because it's absolutely amazing, and you are probably going to yourself.

Okay. I'm here. Yeah. I'm ready for it. I'm waiting. I don't think you're ready. I don't, I'm not actually. I don't, this is frightening. Any time you're ready, shy. There we go.

Oh, that's the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life. Right? Oh, oh, never mind. Okay. It is like, God damn. It's amazing. It is the night of morning. She's from House Seith. She's got the night in the background. Oh, it's so.

good. Oh, that's the, we're really on the red and black color scheme right now. That is baller as hell. Oh, it's so good. It's so, these last two posters are like, man, whof. This, I could cut myself on this edge, but I'm totally okay with it. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. How Seith, night of morning. Uh, I don't know when it's going to be up. I'm assuming by the time this episode goes live, but I don't handle that stuff. So, you know, Patreon.com slash. Adeptus Ridiculous. Oh, it'll be at the merch site. Orchidate.com link in the description.

If you want this poster, grab it right now. I'll make sure this is up by the time this episode goes live. I'll make sure that's up. This is actually, you're right. This is probably one of the best ones. I'm not going to lie. Yep, it's going on the wall. This is like top five.

Oh, yeah. This is a spicy one. Like I said, these last couple posters we've had have been really, really good. like Hallis, they always kills it, but God damn. Yeah, this is solid. Honestly, the unsung hero of this poster is actually the

night in the background. Oh, it makes such a good look. It's just looming back there. It's great. I Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. So, Bricky, what's... Orkinate.com. Orkinate.com. That's where you get all

Merced. That's where you get the poster. So, Siege of Rack. How about, you know, now that the stink of chaos is all over of racks now, what's, what's up? What's up? A couple things. I do need to make a statement of an oopsie. I vastly under-realized how many Dark Angels died. I misread it.

It was actually a specific battle that they lost 15. They lost, like, I think, like, a couple hundred. They actually took staggeringly substantial losses and then just left. It was actually quite embarrassing for the Dark Angels. That is a lot of Astardis dying. That's a big casualty list. It was very unfortunate and rather awkward, I must admit. Yeah, so they just showed up, got bodied and left, huh?

Pretty, I mean, a little bit. They helped out a little bit, but they helped. with a Starport thing, but then they just just... So they really didn't do anything. No, that's not true. They were just completely worthless. All right, all right. D.K.'s being

D.K. again. What? It's not like they're the Ultramarines. I have no reason to be biased against them. Right? You just... You're just... You're just... You're just Mr. Contrarian.

Yeah, I know. I love it. It's fun. Oh, Shia says, know they also destroyed useful spaceport instead of giving it to the Kriegsman. So they were worse than useless. Wow. Embarrassing, dark angels.

Embarrassing. All right. You know what? Maybe it is okay to shit on the dark angels because they got the lion back so they're honestly riding sky high at the moment. But specifically, I would rather than destroy the spaceport than give it to the Kriegsman. What if the Kriegsman can't hold it? And then they lose it back to the Cardinal and then things are bad again.

That's the Creek. They'll be fine. They'll hold it. It's all good. It's the Krieg. That's what they do. Well, speaking of Krieg and what they do, Siege of Rax. What's up? Let's go. Siege of Rax. Shy is correct. This is going to be a four-parter. I vastly underestimated the importance of some of the next part.

So, my bad. I'm down for more Siege of Rack stuff. I've enjoyed it so far. It's been great. So, cool. Cool. So, there are two things that happen. I'm actually going to switch up the order in which they happen, because I think it's more important to tell it in this method. So, Vrax, it's not going hot. No kidding.

All right, because chaos is here. The Alpha Legion just left. Actually, the Alpha Legion didn't leave, right? Wait, are they still there? Oh, they're very much there. Okay. Dark angels aren't. So, yeah, it's not looking great for the crew.

is it? No, it's not even great, but they're, you know, the dark angels did mess up a lot of the Alpha Legion. They, they wounded their lord. They did some stuff like that. So now we got to figure out, all right, how are we going to break this goddamn deadlock? Now, we're back to the usual back and forth issue of like, oh, goodness, there's this deadlock problem and we can't go this far and they can't go this far and ah, da, da, ba, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, it's all kinds of shenanigans. And so, this is the big obstacle that got going on, is it's not actually getting to the Cardinals Citadel. Right now, their biggest issue is time.

Do you remember how long they had to take Vax? Oh, no, I do not remember. I just remember it took them, like, an entire year to, like, prepare for. or, you know, sieging the Cardinals like main area. I don't remember what the specific timetable is. A part of me is thinking five years, but I'm not sure why. It was 12. Oh, okay.

They were given 12 years to take VRAx. And the question really kind of came down to, oh, it happens that they don't do it in 12. You know? That's a good point. What, like, did they just leave? Like, surely they can't. Like, if they've already set up, it's like, well,

It's taken us 12 years to get this far, but like we're already dug in like, what's another three? Like, the Imperium isn't just going to pull them out at 12, are they? They won't, well, they're basically going to stop committing resources to the war. No more reinforcements, no more weapons, no more nathan. You know, Krieg regiments might be removed and brought somewhere else. Basically, you're dooming VRAX to fail. Okay. At least that's what is assumed.

So they need to start making, it's been nine years so far. Ooh. Um, Q or Q Metal Gear Solid 5 music. And, uh, they need to, um, kind of get, the guy, the guy start making some headway. So the next major assault comes from this place called the assault on mortuary ridge. So they're, they're pushing through. I think it was named by the Kriegman as. mortuary ridge because just the way they are.

Yeah, okay. Them and their gallows humor. But pushing forward time against them, they were trying to break through that second defense line of Vrax. And getting through this ridge will really give them a solid foothold. And once they're up on the ridge, then, you know, the Citadel of Vrax is in full range to be encircled. And then you just roll up your earth shaker can and just,

bombard the hell out of it. And you just reduce it to slag. All right, cool, cool. I imagine if they get to that point where they've encircled it and they're just like, you know, raining fire down on it. At that point, it's like, okay, look, it's been 12 years, but we're encamped. Like, give us another, like, year or two, because we've got them encircled. We've got this essentially one. Like, once you've got that placement, surely, it's, you're good. Yeah, well, I mean, At that point, you're within range of your artillery guns and then you just remove it from existence. Yeah. So this began a long, bloody grab for mortuary Ridge.

Remember the last one? We talked about that one baller Kriegsman that kind of held that bunker for like four days. Oh, yeah, and he was just all torn up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is basically another one of those types of things, except instead of holding the bunker, It's a mad dash up a ridge in no man's land under a creeping bombardment of artillery. Oh, so I'm imagining like a very typical like war movie where they're just storming a, yeah, okay, okay. It's got a little bit of a Normandy vibe where they have to run up the ridge.

Very bad placement, but you got to take it. Otherwise, the war is lost, right, right? Initially started off with a crap load of artillery barrages and then firing smoke to advance up the Lehman Rust. tanks and move through everything. I mean, the assault from Mortuary Ridge goes about as expected as you would expect to hear from this point. They get opened up by a million heavy bolters and Lazan placements. They get bombarded and artilleryed, but they push through and they take heavy, heavy losses.

But in classic Kriegman fashion, they make their way up through and in, start blasting and, you know, looking all cool, shooting some B-ball outside the school. So they do the typical guardsman thing and they just throw numbers. And it's just this overwhelming sea of Krieg. Just take it. How many, is there any record of how many people they lost in taking mortuary ridge? Ah, oh, good question. I think I did, I did read it.

A ton of people taking that. They needed to, but man, they must have lost like tens of thousands of people, if not significantly more. That's probably a good guess. I'm not sure. It's hard to determine because Games Workshop just doesn't quite understand numbers very well.

Yeah, that's true. Sometimes they're way outlandish and sometimes they're in the realm of possibility. Yeah, that's true. Someone did the math, I think. It was maybe, I think it was a comment section of like the first Siege of Rax where they said, like, yeah, this is how GDW isn't understand this.

They had like 100,000 artillery pieces. and then like X amount of artillery ammo and it's like, and then they did the math, it's like if you're a decent crewman operating at a good speed, you would have ran out of ammo for your artillery in about like 20 minutes. You would have fired every shell. Well. So it's like, okay, I mean,

they could have said they lost 10,000 men on this storm. They could have said a million, and I would believe both because it's just the way these things go. Yeah. It's just the way they go. You know, the numbers are always screwed off. But yeah.

They make their way through no man's land, they start taking a very specific fort called the Fort C-585, led by Captain Fordor. No, F-D-O-R. I was going to say, Captain Fort door has a fort. That's a little on the nose. Can you imagine what he did to the door?

He ford-d-do-door. Ho-door. Hold-the-door. Hold the door. Hold the door. Hold the door. So they basically raced their way to attack the Fort C-5-8-5, threw their bayonets down, grabbed their flamers, chucked their grenades. Classic stuff.

The man was out of ammo, pulled out his pistols, running around, throwing grenades, shooting people in the head. Classic badass Fort Taken stuff, you know? Yeah, yeah. You know, Saving Private Ryan reference, look, I watched for supper. You know, I've never actually seen Saving Private Ryan? It is a hard movie. Yeah, I've heard that it is really hard to watch because it is just like realistically gory and horrible.

Like, it really is the horrors of war. You never seen the opening scene with the D-Day Invasion? Nope. That is a very famous scene. It is. Yeah, that's the one I'm talking. Yeah, I've heard that that one is just like, it's hard to watch. Yeah, it's very, it's like, it's like the, it's a lot of,

like Kriegsman. It's this like dour, brutal realism. Or it's just like, there's not going to be a million Michael Bay explosions. Like, no, this looks pretty real. And that's what makes it awful. Yep. But anyway, Bada Bing, Mortuary Ridge, defense is taken, captured, huge break in the defensive line. And from there, you can reinforce it, spread your troops out, move those guns up. Big dub boss, man. Big, in awe.

Yeah, of this big, that dub was so big I brought in the Earth Shaker Canons. I need, I need, like, an image of a Kriegsman's gas mask, and it just says, I'm not going to sugarcoat it, and it's just too basilisk. Also, so they've taken Mortuary Ridge, and they've taken the point that they needed to get to to surround the area in Earth Shaker Canons. So, like, now they're just going to bombard the ever-loving piss out of Zafin. How are we going into another episode after that? It sounds like the creek have pretty much gotten where they need to get to win. You know, D.K., you'd be a really good person when it comes to, like, exposition. Really?

Yeah, you love setting things up. You're just like, so it really seems like our heroes are about to win right here, Bricky. Surely nothing bad can go on now. Surely chaos doesn't do some Chaosy stuff and turn the tides of battle back in their favor, do they? All right, check this shit out, D.K., we pan the camera out from, like, it's like a top-down cam.

And it pulls upwards, and it reveals the planet. And then all the murder and chaos gets silent. And then quietly a ship floats right by it. Oh, no, it's a Star Destroyer. It is. my other I saw a a bumper sticker recently

that was like my other ride destroyed Alderan oh my God that's so awful it's so cringy but it's kind of good

it is kind of good so that's not bad the now remember before in the last episode Lord Arcos I think was this name

the faithless is that related to Arco Flatch No, it's not. For some reason, in my head, yeah. Oh, no. Not the, not the flatulins.

The fight at Mortuary Ridge. Come on, gentlemen. Sergeant pick up that drop bayonet. Oh, God. Sir, yes, sir. Once you started doing the sounds, I was like, maybe he'll forget he has the metal pipes. No, of course not.

Of course not. Anyway. So the ship is looming. This new ship is looming. So, this ship, so, yes. So there appears to be reports of So our Lord Arcos did his summoning, his sorcerers all brought in tons of slaves and things

to begin this blood sacrifice And to call chaos to the planet And I bet you were thinking demons, weren't you? I was thinking maybe demons Or some sort of chaos chicanery or, you know I lied I lied through my teeth It wasn't demons he was summoning.

He was sending out a call for reinforcements for those who wish to plunder and slaughter. And the Inquisition sent out a tiny little escort craft with one pariah into the eye of terror to gain. It's like a suicide mission to gain information and knowledge. And found that many chaos vessels were on their way to racks. Oh. That's no good. And so the first naval battle of Vrax begins as the chaos fleet approaches, and fighting them off is led by a certain Imperial Navy Admiral named Rear Admiral Rosiak on his ship,

the Lord Belerofian. Oh, okay. Belorophon, also known by her crew as the Big Ruffian. All right. Cool. It's Imperial Lunarcrass. Lunar-class cruiser. Excuse me.

Those wars mean nothing to me. It's just a solid-sized ship. Okay. But as the war effort on Krieg let on, there was a contingent of the Navy kind of keeping an escort area ready for Vrax. You know, you got to shepherd in all of your reinforcements. You got to give it a nice little bit of a protection. You know, you got to give it protected. Okay.

But the escort fleet has kind of slowly dwindled in size as they were relocated to more important theaters of war because there was no space war in Vrax. Well, there's about to be a space war in Vrax. Yeah, a big space war. And so they hastily grab these ships back, get the big ruffian, bring them back and prepare themselves for the oncoming chaos. Fleet, specifically led by the despoiler-class battleship Anarchies Heart by Lord Arcos. Oh, wow, what a chaos name. What a chaos name. The Anarchy's Heart?

Yep. There is, like, comparatively speaking, like, how much, like, are the Kriegsmen, like, significantly outgunned here? Are the chaos ships, like, significantly bigger? And, like, what are we looking at here? because I'm not entirely sure the scope of chaos's forces. So the, well, there's those segues again. The Spoiler Class Battleship is pretty goddamn big. Is it named after, you know, Abbey?

Big Abby? Mr. The Spoiler? I doubt it was named after him. Yeah, yeah, probably not. But I actually don't remember. What is the vengeful spirits ship size? vengeful spirit. I don't remember.

I remember it was good-sized. No, it's enormous, but I'm trying to think of its classification. Gloriana. Gloriana class battleship. Gloriana, that does sound like very important and very big. I don't remember exactly how big the spoiler class battleship is. It's not as big as the vengeful spirit, but it is very large. Okay.

It is a chunky, chunky, chunky, shunky. ship. And so that along with about, I think it was 14 total chaos vessels. I think they said 30 were on their way. But it was around, it was a good amount. The Imperium is outgunned. And in the ensuing space war, they were, in fact, outgunned. And they were...

These are just chaos. It's not chaos space marines. It's just like chaos cultists? Oh, no, God. these are absolutely chaos space, and the chaos navy. Oh, oh, oh, so it's looking real bad for, oh, okay. Well, the Anarchy's heart is the ship by the Alpha Legion guy.

Right, right, Arco, you said? Lord Arcos. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's not, it's looking real bad for Krieg. It's looking super bad for them. Chaos Navy. You know, I don't think we've actually seen much about the Chaos Navy before. Yeah, I feel like we haven't really touched on the Navy of Chaos, yeah.

I mean, we've seen them in a couple books, but we haven't really dived in. I mean, for the most part, I know that the most time when we ever we see stuff, we see a Chaos ship ran by Chaos Space Marines, as opposed to just a Chaos Naval vessel. ran by, you know, the corrupted Navy. Yeah. But regardless, the orbital war goes very badly for the Imperials. The big ruffian takes a hell of a lot of damage, but does manage to slink away and try to refit itself later. But a ton of Navy ships die.

One of them attempts a futile ramming maneuver against the Gloria, not the Gloria, the Spoiler-class ship, and just dies in the attempt, doesn't get anything dumb. Basically, in awe at the size of this dub, Dark Gods. Oh, man, can you imagine me like, oh, yeah, ramming speed, and you just doink, and nothing happens? Oh, man, that sucks. You don't doink, you ram, and you just get blown to bits before you arrive. Oh, I thought you meant they tried a ramming maneuver, and, like, the desolate ship.

was just so sturdy that it was like, boi-p-p-p-and it's like, what was that? Was there a mosquito hit the ship? Hmm, that's a shame. So they just got completely annihilated before they could actually make contact. Yeah, they just got, I mean, because when you, you know, it's like, hey,

hey, remember there's a certain boss in, in armored corps six, a certain Baltias, you know, if you try to hit him in the face with a weapon, and you decide to go full engines directly into his missile salvo. How do you think it's going to end? Not super great.

Although my big strad against Baltius was to just like assault armor in and just melee his face off with a plasma blade to get his stupid shield down and then just unload on him. So, you know. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. So the naval battle has been just, it. an absolute chaos dub, and the Imperial Navy has been completely, like, annihilated. They have just been smoked. They have been pretty crushed.

I think they lost... I couldn't tell if Chaos had 14 ships, or if the Navy had 14 ships. One of them had 14 ships. I think the Imperium had, like, four left, three left. Three, like, the main one barely surviving, and then a couple more that are just, just kind of making their way through.

Good news for chaos, bad news for the Imperium. Yeah, yeah. So, with that, we turn back to our good friend, Captain Holdor, down on the, holding the fort on the,

anarchies, mortuary ridge. And then he looks in, and then he looks in the sky, and the lovely weather of racks decides to start rolling through, through. Storm broke over, flashes of lightning, rolling thunder, sulfurous clouds, raining all kinds of dust, making the ground a sticky mud that we've always mentioned that Brax loves to have. And then it's like, damn, that's a really big orange lightning bolt.

Damn, that's a really big orange lightning bolt. Oh, my God, we are being bummed. Oh, boy. Chaos battleships get into low orbit And they just start orbital striking Oh man And the creek we're doing so well The overall bombardment Just starts collapsing everything

Just hammering the ground And pretty much indiscriminately And then after the bombardment Come more orange lightning In the shape of tons of drop pods. Oh, no. It could not have gotten any worse for the Krieg.

I disagree. Oh, God, no, it gets worse for them. How? Guess what's inside the drop pods? Well, yeah, it's Alpha Legion, right? No, it's corn berserkers. Oh, no! The world eaters have arrived.

Oh, no. Oh, God. The only thing worse. It got worse. It's like the only thing worse than having a space marine drop pod in your lines is having a space marine drop pod filled with corn berserkers. Oh, God. Good luck, Creek. Glad I'm not you.

So they land and they start butchering. Yeah, I bet they do. ripping everything up anywhere and everywhere. And then our good friend Captain Fode, Holodor, gets grabbed in the throat by a Chaos Space Marine Zerker and gets his head added to the pile. Oh, boy, skulls for the skull throne. Oh, poor guy.

That poor guy. Yeah, you know, I don't know if they're going to make 12 years. I don't know if they're going to make the deadline. That's going to be a tough, tough deadline to crack. Yeah, well, there are certainly heads being cracked right now, and it certainly has a gas mask in it. Yeah, it sure does. So they are absolutely getting slaughtered by this new edition.

And at this point, the Lords on Terror are like, okay, not working out. We're not doing making any, any headway. Now the chaos space marines are there in full. There are other war bands. The Alpha Legion are there. Black Legion are there. Corn Zerkers are there.

Even the Iron Warriors have arrived because they're like, this is our thing. Siege warfare, let's go. Oh, no. There are that many chaos space Marines there now? Like the Iron Warriors even showed up? Meanwhile, all the Kriegsmen are like... I'm surprised they even have time to scream with the amount of slaughtering that's happening.

Like, oh, my, I'm surprised it's not just a wet gurgle of blood. It's just, oh. It's, well, I mean, the corn zirkers are there, so it's becoming a wet gurgle of blood. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Golly. There's, like, how, how, whoof, who, I mean, unless you start sending in, like, a multitude of Astardis, There should be no way the creak can turn this shit around, right? Like, I don't know how you, how.

Why do you, why do you do this? I don't know. This is just the way that I am. Why do you always make these setups like this? Like, we both know. Yes, of course we know, but like that's not dramatic. You want to hear real trauma? Um,

She is your son of a... All right. I tried to... I tried to... I tried to... I tried to censor your... You son of a bitch, but I miss... You failed.

Good thing I didn't actually say it. Yeah. So what happens next? So chaos is very much so on the up and up right now, and they are big dubbing. So what next? So Mr. Lord Commander as well, you is now, like, you have not done your job in their time frame. Things have gone so much worse. You have been relieved from your position.

He's a Lord Commander, though, so he doesn't get executed by the Commissar like many would. He is instead simply sent to a different theater of war. He has an elevated social rank. He's got a noble family. he's fine. Granted, everyone under him got Sean the face. Oh, okay. Well, yeah.

Much like in America. Everyone, once a business fails horribly or does legal things, the person who did all those things gets a golden parachute, and everyone else goes to jail. Yeah. I love 2008. And I'm sure he was like, oh, I'm getting shipped to a different theater of battle. I get to leave this hellhole.

Great. Like, that's a reward, man. Like, you want to punish him, make him see it through. I mean, I mean, he's too important. He wasn't, I don't think he was even on the ground. I think he was just directing it. Oh, what? Oh, wow.

Oh, man. Dude, you are a high-ranking member of the Astro Militarum. You are a Lord Commander. That's true. You sip on like On like the blood of virgins if you so want to You can do whatever you want You are you are

Rank comes with nobility in 40K Yeah Unless you're a chaos guy Then rank comes with like mutation Yeah Anyway He was dismissed and a new commander was put into play Lord Marshal Arnim Kegori

Which I've heard of I think they're a creggsman. I'm not quite sure. Their name is Lord Marshall, and Krieg Marshalls are, like that's a command. There might just be a quinky dink. But the Lord Marshall is this new guy that has come into play,

and he's like, all right, I'm here to salvage this mess. Good luck. So, but now I'm going to get reinforcements. I am going, I'm going to get new ships. I, I've got other problems. Oh, look at that. It appears that the, that the space, or the, uh, chaos space marines had deployed Titans. Lovely.

Oh. Goody. Um, okay. Let's see, have they attempted to kill the Titans with their like, uh, shadow swords and stuff? Yes, they failed. Lovely. They lost like 11 bane blades. Good God.

Okay. Uh, hey, what's up, Titan legions that I have political friends. in and I have all kinds of connections. I need you. Hey, what's up? Astro, Adidas Mechanicus. Crap. Which ones were the ones that were friends with Krieg? Was it Lucius?

I don't remember. Was it Lucius or was Grya? I think it was Lucius. Lucius is a cooler name, so I'm going to go with that. It was Lucius. Yes, the cool name wins. Excellent. Hey, I need your stuff. I need your stuff to help with the Krieg regiments.

By the way, Kriegsman, I need like four million. and more men, and now we need more naval vessels. Go, go, go, go, go. And so during this time, as they're gathering forces, things only get a bit worse for the Kriegsmen on the ground. How does it get worse? Like, what else could possibly happen outside of literally Corn himself showing up? Well, what about Corn's like ugly, ugly green brother?

Oh, no. So the Lord Cardinal has a whole bunch of bio weapons. Oh, no. And, you know, at this point, the Lord Cardinal is really not able to tell anyone what to do anymore. He's like this funky chaos pond and there's space marines and things taking over. And you really can't talk back to that. No, you really don't want to. So they ended up having a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

chemical warfare that was kept in reserves in case things got really bad. It's a special toxin called trimethylaseousous. It's gas. Yeah, it's gnarly gas that'll make you go outchies. TP3 was what it was called. Great. It was a combination of acidic and corrosive heavy gas, entirely green. as if we really needed

biochemical warfare on top of everything we've already done, right? Because why not? One o no-go. Oh boy. All right. All right.

Well, the Death Garden, in their classic Death Guard way, one to appease Grandfather Nurgel. Of course they do. So they find all this toxic gas and like, ooh, cool. Hmm. the last stand of the 19th Kriegman regiment.

Let's make this place into a war of disease. And vile poisons. And so they launched this at them. And a slow, slow green cloud starts rolling over the regiment. Oh, no. And basically, if it was breathed in, you would die in about 30 seconds. as it would start to melt your lungs and replace it with blood. It will also burn right through your gas masks and your armor in minutes.

Your fancy Kriegsmann gas stuff does not work when your gas stuff is melted. Oh, boy, that's, that's, that's, that's, so this gas literally just melts the gas mask off their face and then just starts going to town on their body. First it's the mask, then it's the skin, then it's the flesh, then it's the bone, and then you are dead. Oh, boy, that's some, oh, that's some gnarly stuff. That's crazy. And after the gas moves in, a whole bunch of Nergal tanks, land raiders, and stuff,

make their way up, disgorging the death guard. these bloated, horrible, horrible-looking monsters surrounded by flies and maggots, and they basically finish the job. No, but seriously, how did the Creague win this? Like, I get it. It's the siege of Rax, and this is why everyone... How in God's name does anybody turn this around?

Like, this isn't hyperbole trying to set it up. There is no way chaos should not just, boom, Vrax is ours. How in God's name Did I not Just tell you how Uh With the With the toxic cloud that melts everything

Reinforcements New Commander guy Well sure but the planet is like completely overrun No it's not Isn't like every chaos space marine faction here Like making things a mess Okay maybe that was this one was on me When I said the last

stand of the 19th Regiment. I don't mean this is the last Kreeksman. I mean, this is the last stand of those that grabbed the second defense line and got all the new territory. They have basically been forced back and lost all the ground they got.

They're not like the last stand. I thought it was like literally like okay, okay, okay. Gotcha. Okay, now, now I'm okay, I'm with you again. Okay. Listen, Marines are crazy good, But you drop pod like five chaos space marines into the back line of, you know, like the middle of the lines of the Kriegsmen.

And then, you know, 10,000 Kriegsmen turn on you and just murder you, you know? Right, right. So, so this is just happening at like the, the Mortuary Ridge defense line. Yes. Oh, okay. See, I thought like the Chaos Space Marines had already made their way well into the Krieg, like, encampments and stuff. and like they had like driven much further. Okay.

Gotcha. It is gone back to the point where we are back into losing all the ground we just got and we are back to stalemate. Okay. Okay. Now, okay. Which, you know, sucks. Yeah, that sucks. That sucks.

But it's not as bad as I thought it was. So, reinforcements start arriving from the, from the new commander. They bring in a bunch of new. ships and begin the second naval battle of Vrax. They actually do a pretty good job. They get ambushed by the Anarchy's heart and take some nasty, nasty hits, including one of their resupply ships being horribly crippled. But they actually end up fending off the Anarchy's heart, breaking it down, making it forced

to flee and recharge, and then shuttling a lot of the supplies from the dying second ship onto the main one and reinforcing the Kriegsman. A couple million more men, Titan legions, pushing back the Chaos Titan legions, more ammo, more everything. You know,

really kind of shorn up the defenses. Okay, okay, cool, cool, cool. But the biggest headway, and I think this is something that is just, maybe there's this new Lord Marshall just knows a bit better, which is why I was kind of curious

if he was Kriegsman or not. They may go into him more in the books, but he seems like he kind of gets the Krieg. Yeah, yeah. He was knowing the Krieg's main love for digging. Doesn't take a genius to figure that one. I don't know how. Well, yeah.

But specifically, they really, really liked to start digging through all kinds of underground, like, tunnels and various, uh, well, he basically said, hey, dig underground underneath the enemy and burst through and kill them all. I mean, that's a good strat. That's not a bad strat. That's a, that's a very iron warriors thing to do.

It is. Well, yeah, I guess so. It's mixed in the book anyway. That is true. Yeah. They, uh, and so, you know, they're digging all these trenches for as long as they were, but why not do a whole bunch? of Krieg's sappers and engineer cores and just send them underground, mine the whole place up,

and either collapse the tunnels underneath the enemy, or just blow out of it and be like, like, surprise. Yeah, I mean, either way works. Like, if you get under the enemy, like, encampment or a camp and you just blow that, that shit out, that works, or if you just, like, surprise ambush them also works really well. So yeah, digging the tunnels underneath, like tons of really good options. Sure, sure. Good strat.

Good strat. I like it. There is a, I'm trying to actually think at what point it would be a solid time. Shy, how deep do we want to get into the tunnel warfare? That's what she said. I deserve that one. That's fair. You deserve that one.

Yeah, I deserve that one. That's fair. I'm not going to fight that one. Because the tunnel warfare is like crushing. Literally? Huh? Yeah, I deserve that one too. I definitely absolutely deserve that one as well.

Go ahead. I'm how deep into the tunnel warfare you say. Okay. Like, there's, oh my God, okay. So basically, once you get into the war underneath VRAX, you have the underground fighting. You have the attack on Army 55-46, the mine of sector 57-44.

You have the air war that's currently going on above the surface between the fighter jets of the chaos fighters as well as the Imperial Strike fighters. You've got the Titan Wars on the surface. You've got the battles in the silent darkness. It is a long,

long trip of murder. Murder. Murder. Why do you say it like that? Do you know, watch the old, the filthy Frank goofy thing where he's like, I'll do it again? Oh, yeah. Murder.

Murder? Anyway, the war beneath Vrax is a huge, huge part of the theater of war. But it's kind of hard to, there's a lot to discuss about it, but at the same time there's not. It basically goes, hey, what's up, guys? We're digging this tunnel. He's like live streaming. the tunnel, right? He's like IRA live stream. It's like, what's up, gang, gang? Up here, for real. We're in

the tunnels of racks. And let me just say bussing, not. Is it bussing or discussing? We hear in the Kriegsmen don't really take appreciation to these chaos cringe lords. So, yeah, like and to subscribe, I'm going to go slaughter this man with a bandette, screaming chaos things.

One like, one pickax swing Let's go Actually, it doesn't really work as well Because Creeksmen are normally pretty silent They don't talk much Yeah, yeah Can you imagine a chaos cultist Live streamer?

Oh What's up guys? Join me in prayer today Before we kill the followers The corpse god Isn't that just most streamers? Join me in prayer? No, no, they're just chaos cultus, you know?

Oh Very cursed and... I wouldn't know anything about that. Oh, no, no, no. But Krieg would probably do pretty well because they would do ASMR streams where they wouldn't talk. They would just make all those little weird sounds as they're like digging a trench. They just do ASMR digging. Well, regardless, they do make a good bit of headway with getting through the area. Despite losing immense amount of people, as they always do. I feel like I'd repeat that a million times. They work with this massive, it's a

Gorgon transport, Gorgon assault. And after, I mean, God, it's like everything at once. They're digging underneath. The Titan wars are happening. The aircraft wars are happening. Chaos space Marines are launching lightning attacks. Kriegs are coming from both sides. Long war of attrition.

Once again, we're in deadlock. And so the administratum is beginning to lose faith in this war effort. They're really not seeing an end in sight. And they are beginning to, withdraw, they are wanting to begin to withdraw their regiments to other war zones, basically dooming the campaign. Yeah. So, with that, the new Marshal Kogori, now a little bit desperate, recruits some very special

adeptus Astardi's people to make some headway in this conflict. Okay. Who does he get? He gets a chapter called the Red Scorpions. Huh. Yeah, you don't know. Yeah, where are they, I'm assuming they're like a sub-branch of someone? I actually, oh, well, shit, try to it.

Ooh, cool armor. Yeah, their armor is actually pretty neat. They're of unknown origin, though. I don't believe we know where their gene seat is from. Oh. Okay. They look like they should belong somehow to, the blood angels.

Maybe. Isn't that like a little red gem in the center of his chest? Wait a minute. I thought Red Scorp- Wait a minute. Oh no, that's a Red Scorpion logo in the middle. Sorry, my bad. The picture was a little small. Okay, never mind. I'm dumb. Wait, that's a good point. I think, aren't Red Scorpions a little problematic? Oh, this is the first time I'm hearing of them. Are they? They're not the... No, the Red Corsairs are

Huron's boys. Fanatical in their pursuit of genetic and spiritual purity, the gene seed sanctity is essential to their red scorpion's core beliefs. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. That's all you had to say. Oh, boy.

I mean, the word fanatical kind of goes without saying, but... Yeah, I can see how they might be considered problematic. Oh, boy. They execute anything subhuman on the spot. Yeah, that sounds like, uh, yeah, that sounds like, uh, that's pretty, that's pretty hilarious considering that, uh, they immediately fight chaos ogrens when they arrive. And they're like, oh, cool, we could curify our bloodline. Yeah. Even more so or something.

Oh, man. Good for them. Uh, so, so they're, they're a puritanical more, a more puritanical space marine. but they basically arrived as a way to try to turn the tide of victory, right? Really push against this counterattack by the enemy, taking the breach to be reinforced by Moore Kriegsman. They don't really actually do a whole lot. I mean, they do do stuff, but they mainly arrive,

fight off a whole bunch of stuff in a really quick strike fashion, and then kind of leave. Man, what is it with the Astardis and just leaving? Stick around, you know, help us out a little more, you know, maybe see the battle through to the end once or twice, you know, maybe. Oh, my goodness, wait, you want to read this, D.K. Oh, the, the Red Scorpion quote that I put up? Yeah, that one. As all Zenos are, by their very nature, impure, they must be cleansed upon contact.

Anyone that is of potential human heritage must be tested for mutation. Oh, no. Those who are found wanting must be eliminated at the earliest possible opportunity. Similarly, an unclean mind tainted by heresy or unbelief must be thoroughly cleansed, preferably by force. I love Warhammer. Say it with your chest. Oof

That is Oh my God You know And you wonder why people Like salamanders Yeah They they are Absolute lunatics

Yeah That's Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Love it

Love it Love it Yeesh Well luckily They came about As quickly as they went They arrived They arrived

And we're like What's up boys Now they're Now they're streaming What's up, guys? Who's ready for an ethnic cleansing? Oh, no, I hate it. I, oh, geez. What's up, DreamStans?

I hope you guys are ready for a new Minecraft episode. Today, we're cleansing this village of Infidels. Oh, boy, yep. Oh, man. They just, they just, the Craig just keep rolling snake eyes with which astardy shows up, with which astardies that they get. They just get the worst. The Dark Angels,

horrible choice for them to show up at that point. The Red Scorpions, absolutely brutal choice. Like, why can't they just get anything? In fairness, the Red Scorpions did their goddamn job. They came, took the breach, stopped the Chaos Forces defenses, and let the Creeksmen get in. If anything, they at least succeeded. I guess. They did more than the Dark Angels, I guess.

The Dark Angels was just there for purely selfish fallen reasons, right? At least the Red Scorpions helped out a little bit. I'm just, then no, no, no, mind. Well, okay, well, we're rounding out this episode right now. Oh, man. But I got to think, who could get involved on the Imperium side? That would be the only thing that would be more frightening than these space marines.

The only thing that would be more frightening than, than Red Scorpions? You mentioned the Kriegsmen are, currently not, like, not having a good time, right? No, no. Well, they're okay now because they've, the Red Scorpions help them take some stuff back, right? So they're better. Sure. Okay, but who of anything arriving would be the most like, oh, God, the Kriegsman cannot be more unlucky.

Four, on the Imperium side. Like Schatz said, the Lamenter showing up would not be a great thing. No, they would have just lost. showed up that would be like, oh, great. Let's pack it up, guys. That's it. We rolled snake eyes again. Let's get out of here.

This is over. Forget it. I'm done. Other than that, I don't know. Who? Uh, the Inquisition.

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Stop. And a certain... Can you see who's behind that Inquisitor? Oh, no, is that a gray night? It's the gray nights.

Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. The only thing more frightening than more chaos are the gray nights. Oh, no. They're here. They're ready. They're going to be a problem.

And that's the end of our episode today. I'm not going to sugarcoat it.