The Siege of Vraks EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

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  • The most unbelievably destructive, wasteful and incredibly awesome war that 40k has ever seen. If the Death Korps of Krieg aren't your favs already then they will be by the end of this video
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  • @majorkill
    @majorkill  Před 2 lety +1314

    When I first thought about covering this obscenely over the top event in the lore, I was told I was biting off more than I could chew....
    Good thing I have a big ass mouth.
    To see the death whores of Kreg go here : www.patreon.com/majorkill

    • @dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd
      @dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd Před 2 lety +19

      lore on psykers, mutants, exodites, corsairs, eldar paths, dark mechanicum, the lost and the damned, ork oddboyz, and squigs please

    • @dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd
      @dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd Před 2 lety +8

      oh and ecclesiarchy lore, and list of planets that attempted to succeede from the imperium please

    • @Dadecorban
      @Dadecorban Před 2 lety +4

      when can count the artillery shells but not the tanks.....Australians lol

    • @kharnthebetrayer9710
      @kharnthebetrayer9710 Před 2 lety +4

      Khorne, I wish you made this video sooner I would’ve save me quite a few hours.

    • @theinquisitionsparrot6749
      @theinquisitionsparrot6749 Před 2 lety +3

      How come timmy never raises his hand?

  • @KaiserAfini
    @KaiserAfini Před 2 lety +2437

    *In summary:* Everything went wrong, all the time. Then it just kept escalating until nothing was left but a quarantined nightmare sector of space.

    • @jackcanox4015
      @jackcanox4015 Před 2 lety +64

      Yup. Ahhahah that's it ahahha the only ones to have fun were the alpha legionnaires and zhufor the impaler who stayed until the siege devolved into a major clusterfuck summoned anggrath and then said fuck it and left in the warp with his boys ahhaha

    • @bobesponja3702
      @bobesponja3702 Před 2 lety +55

      WW1 in a nutshell

    • @christiedt9818
      @christiedt9818 Před 2 lety +69

      Inquisition has a simple yet effective method for dealing with planets that suffered chaos incursion:
      Khorne: get the mops
      Tzeentch: therapists
      Slaneesh: Scotchgard and new furniture.
      Nurgle: exterminatus

    • @ghazghkullthraka9714
      @ghazghkullthraka9714 Před 2 lety +16

      And the Krieg fucking loved it!

    • @nicholasogburn7746
      @nicholasogburn7746 Před 2 lety +5

      Just as planned.

  • @imperialfist2304
    @imperialfist2304 Před 2 lety +2126

    Dark Angels: We have succeeded in our objectives and now we shall leave.
    The 88th IG siege army: But…you didn’t do anything but sabotage our own operations.
    Dark Angels: What sorry can’t hear you!

    • @rexlumontad5644
      @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +112

      Cypher: Finally they are gone.

    • @mattmark94
      @mattmark94 Před 2 lety +86

      Dark Angels being useless as usual

    • @thelion2751
      @thelion2751 Před 2 lety +108

      Why are my goddamn legion so useless when it's not something in relation with the fallen? Why didn't the iron hands responded first they were make a better fuckin job

    • @jerrysmith5931
      @jerrysmith5931 Před 2 lety +11

      They're just the best. Outside of their own internal inquisition they couldn't give a fuck about the wider imperium.

    • @rexlumontad5644
      @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +13

      @@jerrysmith5931 Totally not traitors Dark Angels are.

  • @diabolictracer614
    @diabolictracer614 Před 2 lety +443

    When the Khornate Berzerkers retreated to fight another day.
    When the Alpha Legion performs a last stand.
    When the Inquisition doesn't completely exterminate a planet after fighting an entire army of demons and chaos marines on it.
    When the Death Korps of Krieg gain self-preservation instinct.
    What the fuck?

    • @aczeartk7032
      @aczeartk7032 Před 2 lety +97

      "There is a great disturbance in the force."

    • @NoNameTaken117
      @NoNameTaken117 Před rokem +37

      Everything went wrong at vraks except the glorious victory for the Imperium

    • @haoo549
      @haoo549 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Khorne and Nurgle: even though we enjoy deaths but this shit is too much to handle

  • @boredgrizz6037
    @boredgrizz6037 Před 2 lety +2404

    If the Death Korps of Krieg just so happened to have space marines, would they be called a Kriegsmarine?

  • @RogueFox7050
    @RogueFox7050 Před 2 lety +3118

    The Alpha Legion and Tzeench definitely had a field day with this war.

    • @mikewaterfield3599
      @mikewaterfield3599 Před 2 lety +167

      I dont know, did the Alphas? Were they thwarting the Master O’ Plans or helping the nerd? Hard to tell. Did Arkos even know? Did the Dark Angels? Definitely, maybe, shouldnt, do it for sure!

    • @vladimirmihnev9702
      @vladimirmihnev9702 Před 2 lety +39

      Sad gasmask noises!

    • @tzeentch8228
      @tzeentch8228 Před 2 lety +42

      Can confirm.

    • @reclusiarchgrimaldus1269
      @reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 Před 2 lety +21

      I can confirm, it was fun

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 Před 2 lety +65

      The Alpha Legion definitely had, Tzeentch is angery-wondering wether they're fooling him or not

  • @v_artra5399
    @v_artra5399 Před 2 lety +257

    Every Kriegsman when hearing the word seige:
    *happy gas mask noises and lazer-packs arming*

    • @evanlight2550
      @evanlight2550 Před 2 lety +17

      Siege only lasts one week:
      *depressed gas mask noises*

    • @TheTrueFeleas
      @TheTrueFeleas Před 2 lety +11

      Whistle blowing:
      *Happy gasmask noises as they fix bayonets.*

    • @hotpolishtakes9063
      @hotpolishtakes9063 Před 2 lety +1

      every kriegsman and kriegswoman apperantly according to MK

    • @88thdeathkoregrenadier68
      @88thdeathkoregrenadier68 Před 2 lety +1

      can confirm exept u forgot *eathshaker rounds being packed*

  • @riograndedosulball248
    @riograndedosulball248 Před 2 lety +352

    The little indication that Alpharius may have sent the Alpha Legionnaires there to make the Imperium take Vraks more seriously was totaly unexpected but makes a lot of sense

    • @nate742
      @nate742 Před 2 lety +29

      It may have made sense, until the Alpha decided to stay instead of sneaking away

    • @brandonvallier4214
      @brandonvallier4214 Před 2 lety +17

      @@nate742 naw the death angels have some shady side dealings with them for sure. Just think about it. The fact that they stayed even after the berserkers left shows they did it on purpose. More then likely they were passing on information through "capture" while also keeping up the image of being traitors by continuing to fight to the death. Why else would the DA just pop up and specifically ask to be the ones to deal with alpha?

    • @mapleflag6518
      @mapleflag6518 Před 2 lety +31

      @@nate742 Or maybe the Alpha Legion somehow convinced the World Eaters to swap armour to both confuse the Imperium and make the Dark Angels stick around.

    • @vencislavgynev8282
      @vencislavgynev8282 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@mapleflag6518
      Oh my God if true, this will be 1000 IQ level genius.
      But how someone said here already, this theory is stupid and actually makes no sense.

    • @brendanolearybradford9162
      @brendanolearybradford9162 Před 2 měsíci +1

      It was omegon. Alpharius got cut short by Rogal Dorn

  • @lionheart6176
    @lionheart6176 Před rokem +62

    imagine being a Krieger that was in that battle from the first deployment all the way to the end of the siege.

    • @IsmaelSantos-iy4xi
      @IsmaelSantos-iy4xi Před 5 měsíci +6

      Tybork, the captain, later promoted to Commander, who was the one to cause the breach in the 1st defensive line. He was last seen in the siege proper when he assaulted the citadel. He was later assigned to another theater in a different subsector.

    • @sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046
      @sombodythatyouusedtoknow9046 Před 4 měsíci

      I think that the chances of that happening are tinier than a Tau fan's dick

    • @vencislavgynev8282
      @vencislavgynev8282 Před 3 měsíci

      The men and women, who survived the entire siege from tur start to its very end were real chads.

  • @juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370

    _"The bodies of us and our foes,_
    _A sea of death it overflows,_
    _In No Man's Land, God only knows,_
    _Into the jaws of death, we go!"_

  • @codyevett2098
    @codyevett2098 Před 2 lety +635

    “The only one doing it is Arch.” Oculus Imperia is doing a Vraks series right now. It’s really good.

    • @Richard-cx9bb
      @Richard-cx9bb Před 2 lety +22

      Literally made this comment 2 hours ago. 1 like. Wtf

    • @danielbob2628
      @danielbob2628 Před 2 lety +31

      Yes, but Oculus Imperia is... hang on a sec.
      Yeah, in retrospect, I wanted to have some sort of zinger here that insulted Oculus, just because you set me up for a zinger so well, but I don't really dislike him. At all. So now this great setup is wasted. Can you set me up for a zinger against someone else instead? Like Tabletop Titans or something?

    • @Copenboro
      @Copenboro Před 2 lety +8

      Timmy! Who let you out of your cage?!

    • @sheevpalpatine2128
      @sheevpalpatine2128 Před 2 lety +13

      Arch is annoying as hell

    • @danielbob2628
      @danielbob2628 Před 2 lety +32

      @@sheevpalpatine2128 We weren't really talking about him, but I'm glad you've gotten that out of your system.

  • @paulverse4587
    @paulverse4587 Před 2 lety +694

    One of the most ferocious wars in an entire sector of the galaxy, with an entire high-tech futuristic planet defending, aided by legions of the Warp, and yet still signifcantly less casaulties than World War 2. While I get that just massively inflating numbers to match the scenario (so probably more like a few billion defenders) just makes everything sounds way ridicolously over-the-top and less personal, these very low numbers also just ... don't match.

    • @kakyoin9688
      @kakyoin9688 Před 2 lety +81

      Well WW2 casualties for a good part of civilian casualties. I see it’s fairly reasonable since 14 million casualties in a single battle match up with WW1 casualties. Plus it doesn’t account for chaos losses

    • @An_Inconvenience
      @An_Inconvenience Před 2 lety +151

      Everything is off about the numbers.
      Like Krieg had 70,000 artillery pieces shelling Vracks over a 96 hour period. They apparently ordered 100 million shells for this single barrage.
      Here's some fun math for you.
      Today your average artillery piece can loose about 6 rounds per minute. So 6 rounds per minute from 70,000 artillery pieces for 96 hours adds up to about 2,419,200,000 shells. If you factor in barrel changes then that's about 80 hours of drum fire, so just over 2,016,000,000 shells.
      Their 100 million orderd shells wouldn't even cover a 20th of that.

    • @verySharkey
      @verySharkey Před 2 lety +132

      When it comes to GW dont look at numbers. I am convinced nobody at that company knows how to do math.

    • @lordhamster9452
      @lordhamster9452 Před 2 lety +42

      sometimes, the real world ends up being way more terrible than whatever we can cook up in our fictions.
      no matter how har you try and what the fabois tell you.
      it's sadly just a fact of life. and we can all hope that the opposite remains the norm.

    • @kakyoin9688
      @kakyoin9688 Před 2 lety +73

      @@lordhamster9452 that doesn’t make sense though the imperium is scaled to a million worlds. The Horus heresy costed trillions of life’s and your telling me one of the most defining sieges costed only millions of lives.

  • @stuntmankelp3198
    @stuntmankelp3198 Před 2 lety +604

    Hey what if, at the end of the siege, the alpha legion swapped their armor with the world eaters? Purposely confusing the imperial leaders and also giving the dark angles a reason to stick around.

    • @HughJanusDaHorseshoeCrab
      @HughJanusDaHorseshoeCrab Před 2 lety +101

      That might just be stupid enough to be canon

    • @axelgalloway4294
      @axelgalloway4294 Před 2 lety +88

      Certified Alpha legion moment

    • @PuddingXXL
      @PuddingXXL Před 2 lety +59

      Imagine wearing a world eater armor. You'd get hepatitis B faster then you can say typhus. ^^

    • @Batchall_Accepted
      @Batchall_Accepted Před rokem +32

      That is absolutely some shit they'd pull

    • @synergy8879
      @synergy8879 Před rokem +9

      it’s so stupid it would actually be canon

  • @thebbqbandito2868
    @thebbqbandito2868 Před 2 lety +187

    Zuphor: “Alright lads I guess my work here is done.”
    Everyone defending the last line: “Bruh”

  • @kanseiyamazaru435
    @kanseiyamazaru435 Před 2 lety +1309

    While I did enjoy Arch's more in depth approach, I'll always appreciate the short and simple ways to a good battle video.

    • @majorkill
      @majorkill  Před 2 lety +395

      Not everyone has the time for a 43 part series ya know

    • @vontheunknown7982
      @vontheunknown7982 Před 2 lety +18

      @@majorkill hey majorkill did you talk to game Workshop and if not yet you mind telling them about dawn of War to see if I'm making a new one or remake that can redo mistakes made on dawn of War 3

    • @oskukataikko9320
      @oskukataikko9320 Před 2 lety +60

      Its nice to listen to Arch's longer lore videos while painting. But Majorkill has videos you can watch even if you dont have much time. A good balance in my opinion.

    • @vontheunknown7982
      @vontheunknown7982 Před 2 lety +1

      @@deadlyydude5522 oh didn't know about that

    • @xxklesx1
      @xxklesx1 Před 2 lety +7

      @@vontheunknown7982 A big Part of his content is making porn out of gw charakters. I guess they dont like that ;)

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot420 Před 2 lety +50

    "...and died like the sons of (w)horus they were."
    This is how I imagine the script would have been written if there was one in the first place.

  • @jerubaal101
    @jerubaal101 Před 2 lety +118

    I love the image of the Korpsman on the horse. It's an homage to a painting of Napoleon.

    • @ncis501
      @ncis501 Před 2 lety +7

      Bro facts it’s so sick

  • @juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370

    What you get when you throw Verdun, Caporetto, Passchendaele, the Brusilov Offensive, the Somme, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, Okinawa, Brno, Khe Sahn and Long Tan in a blender?
    You get Vraks.

  • @Rundownman
    @Rundownman Před 2 lety +226

    The way he screamed at timmy shows he's getting better, thats good and bad because drugged up majorkill was awesome

    • @JamesTAdams
      @JamesTAdams Před 2 lety +5

      He’s hopped up on speed and inhalents

    • @primafacie5029
      @primafacie5029 Před 2 lety +6

      If only he'd mix alcohol with his meds... he could go full Timmy.
      And you never go full Timmy...

    • @ValiumCupcakes
      @ValiumCupcakes Před 2 lety

      What drugs does MK even like anyway?

    • @SportyMabamba
      @SportyMabamba Před 2 lety +1

      @@ValiumCupcakes all of them

    • @mugenokami2201
      @mugenokami2201 Před 2 lety

      @@ValiumCupcakes yes

  • @justsomedude7583
    @justsomedude7583 Před 2 lety +122

    For something with so much official material and lore about it, I prefer the the super detailed and long winded approach. But still, I always enjoy MajorKill's take on things.

  • @SerusKellen
    @SerusKellen Před 2 lety +53

    Arch's series was actually really good. gotta give credit where credit is due, it used to be my weekly treat, was like listening to an audiobook presented with enthusiasm

  • @silvertemplar8061
    @silvertemplar8061 Před 2 lety +895

    Nice, you are explaining battles now? Could you do the Badab War next as well?

    • @majorkill
      @majorkill  Před 2 lety +394

      If this does well then yes, I really enjoyed pushing the editing a bit on this one

    • @bloodangel19
      @bloodangel19 Před 2 lety +24

      That shit show finna take a while to make

    • @ElvisPrieti
      @ElvisPrieti Před 2 lety +13

      Badad war next pls

    • @vladimirpootis3200
      @vladimirpootis3200 Před 2 lety +8

      @@majorkill Commissar Yarrick next please.

    • @pauldestroyerofworlds9119
      @pauldestroyerofworlds9119 Před 2 lety +6

      Arch also did bodab its shorter than vraks i love the detail arch puts into here but i love major for his top 10 or 5 lists i love you guys equally

  • @mylex817
    @mylex817 Před 2 lety +705

    20-30 million dead in a 17 year siege? That's not actually that bad, like 150 dead people an hour, kind of on the scale of the Battle of Verdun. GW messing up the scale again....

    • @adamredmayne1326
      @adamredmayne1326 Před 2 lety +74

      Oh nah mate that's probably just the Krieg casualties lmao.

    • @jackcanox4015
      @jackcanox4015 Před 2 lety +3

      Yeah that's just the dead krieg ahhah to that you have to add 8 million vraksian militia plus all the marines (traitors and not) that got yoinked there too

    • @mylex817
      @mylex817 Před 2 lety +102

      @@jackcanox4015 so at most 30 million. From a battle this famous, with all the space marine chapters involved, anything less than a few billion dead soldiers is just way off

    • @MrTuerte
      @MrTuerte Před 2 lety +52

      20-30million dead vraks soldiers. + maybe 1-million other regiments died in space or in the siege. 8 million vraks defenders + aaall the civilians died (turned into kinda zombies of chaos. Kids, women, elders everyone), countless ammount of demons and + who knows how many troops came from space to vraks, space marines, titans + defenders of titans and all the traitors. Death count could be over 100 million in 1 siege. The area was not that large even... but yeah it feels empty that large battle only had that ammount of deaths...

    • @mylex817
      @mylex817 Před 2 lety +37

      @@MrTuerte both Wikis say basically the same: "14 million Imperial Guardsmen had been lost and Vraks Prime's entire original population of 8 million souls had been consumed in the violence or exterminated after they fell to Chaos corruption".
      So apparently there really are only supposed to be 30 million dead for the entire planetary siege.

  • @do3807
    @do3807 Před 2 lety +71

    Dude this was horrifying, and arduous, a whole ordeal that would cause so much trauma.
    Just Tuesday for a Kriegsman

    • @NoNameTaken117
      @NoNameTaken117 Před rokem +6

      Somehow less casualties than ww2

    • @do3807
      @do3807 Před rokem +4

      Lmao, you're not wrong. Scaling in this universe can be a doozy. But, I usually manage to suspend disbelief ha

    • @vencislavgynev8282
      @vencislavgynev8282 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@NoNameTaken117
      Here we go again!😂
      Look WW2 was a planetary scale war at its finest. Around many countries and continents on hundreds of different territories. In which casualties them putt and civilians deahts around the whole world. And that was just battle in and about one single city, yes big city, but not entire planetary war, but for one city. So i think, that the numbers are good.

    • @NoNameTaken117
      @NoNameTaken117 Před 3 měsíci

      @@vencislavgynev8282 World War 2 was over 1 planet and to be specific 2 areas, the pacific theater and Eastern Front, including the western front too. This was on 1 planet where the level of technology was very low comapred to standard imperium tech. This was the era where a million men lost was abysmal and destructive to any country.
      WW2 had around 53 million died in 6 years
      Vraks had around 22 million died excluding space marines and titan legions, and this was over 17 years
      A better comparison to vraks would be the battle of stalingrad

  • @TherealSBlair
    @TherealSBlair Před 2 lety +29

    In truth, Arch's series on Vraks was one of the best takes on the conflict available. Long as sht it's true but a great listen.

  • @Foehammer335
    @Foehammer335 Před 2 lety +943

    I really enjoyed Archs entire series. He went deep into the tactics, artillery bombardments and politics behind it. No one can attempt to beat the series depth. But you captured it in 20 minutes. You did really well with this one.
    Like you said, not everyone has 2 days though.

    • @isaacburrows8405
      @isaacburrows8405 Před 2 lety +43

      They have individual artillery bombardments written into lore? Whenever I think I'm a giant nerd...

    • @Foehammer335
      @Foehammer335 Před 2 lety +71

      @@isaacburrows8405 In this case yes. In fact they went into detail about a bombardment that consumed so much ammo that the logistics vehicles started falling apart from how much hauling they were doing.
      Or stuff like preliminary bombardments, drum fire bombardments and box barrages and the like. Pulled right out of WW1 and WW2 artillery handbooks

    • @boom-wj1gt
      @boom-wj1gt Před 2 lety +21

      Mate if i remember there was a mad lad krige officer that rush in and get cartoonishly flung out the trenches by a chaos marine or some demon

    • @coreystockdale6287
      @coreystockdale6287 Před 2 lety +15

      @@boom-wj1gt a commisar also was yeeted off a breach in the wall by a ogryn

    • @isaacburrows8405
      @isaacburrows8405 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Foehammer335 this is why 40k is the best. You really can't ever run out of lore

  • @Szminsky
    @Szminsky Před 2 lety +526

    This love-hate relationship with Arch, is the best kind of relationship.

  • @kelvin__klein
    @kelvin__klein Před 2 lety +51

    What I wanna know is do they still kill guardsmen after they’ve witnessed chaos? Cause I remember there being a bit of lore that stated that even if a battle against chaos was won, all the guardsman and civilians who caught a glimpse/encountered chaos were culled to keep the existence of chaos a secret. I’m guessing they don’t do that in the lore anymore?

    • @SportyMabamba
      @SportyMabamba Před 2 lety +38

      I think they retconned that to “any corrupted guardsmen are killed”; otherwise you’d never have any veteran IG forces.
      Witnessing the Grey Knights, that’ll get your unit exterminated

    • @cyantile5490
      @cyantile5490 Před 2 lety +1

      @@SportyMabamba why is that again

    • @SportyMabamba
      @SportyMabamba Před 2 lety +20

      @@cyantile5490 Grey Knights are treated as super secret by the Inquisition

    • @superspies32
      @superspies32 Před 2 lety +9

      Some may have exception like Cadian units since they have withness Chaos and trained for fight against Chaos.

    • @TheNapster153
      @TheNapster153 Před 2 lety +9

      It may not be as frequent or as blunt as it used. I'd reckon older guard regiments are still thoroughly screen especially those with frequent fights with Chaos. The veterans may even be given an option to be euthanised if they don't think they can handle the strain anymore.
      It's not really a bad way to go anyhow. With how bad chaos is, only the strong-willed get to live to see the sun set on their own terms.

  • @JohnDiabol
    @JohnDiabol Před 2 lety +24

    Arch did a great CZcams series on this topic for those that wants to know more.

    • @SolvietSoundtrack115
      @SolvietSoundtrack115 Před 2 lety +1

      majorkill is kinda cliffnotes of arch and i think thats a good thing he gives you the big picture and arch gives you the tiny details both fit the nich well

  • @lordkroak8457
    @lordkroak8457 Před 2 lety +147

    Major kills explanations on these battles are amazing

  • @benz505
    @benz505 Před 2 lety +111

    Gotta love war if after fighting almost every kind of daemonic foe there is, seeing space marines and Titans fall and almost dying, you just get on another transport and say "yeah, let's go to the next warzone. I'm down."
    Then again, they are Kriegsmen.

    • @alexejvecera6317
      @alexejvecera6317 Před 2 lety +5

      Sad shovel noise

    • @88thdeathkoregrenadier68
      @88thdeathkoregrenadier68 Před 2 lety +1

      @@alexejvecera6317 HERESEY HE IS OFFERIGN US TO DIE FOR THE EMPEROR OUR ONLY WAY FOR SALVATION I WAS ON VRAKS AND SURVIVED SO U BE QUITE AND LET US SERVE THE EPREROR YOU H E R E T I C

    • @88thdeathkoregrenadier68
      @88thdeathkoregrenadier68 Před 2 lety +4

      you can even see me at 11:21 im at the far left and this was before i got promoted to grenadier i survived cus of that astaries taking all the bolts instead of me :(

    • @88thdeathkoregrenadier68
      @88thdeathkoregrenadier68 Před 2 lety +2

      and at 1249 as they needed someone who had lasted longer than 30 mins to lead the demo team

    • @alexejvecera6317
      @alexejvecera6317 Před 2 lety +2

      @@88thdeathkoregrenadier68 sad that they have to wait to die

  • @NapGod
    @NapGod Před 2 lety +9

    I consume so many audiobooks and lore videos and there's still random conflicts I've never heard of. Fuckin love 40k.

  • @elijahnajera5425
    @elijahnajera5425 Před 2 lety +17

    *Nearing the end of the war*
    Imperial 1: "Citadel in sight!"
    Imperial 2: "Chaos is mobilizing everything they've got!"
    *Epice yet dark pianos start playing*

  • @THExRISER
    @THExRISER Před 2 lety +77

    You didn't mention those poor Sisters Of Battle that were being tortured in the basement of Vraks all this time, they all became mute from the trauma.

    • @firmak2
      @firmak2 Před 2 lety +10

      They survived? I remember them being shot in theyr room when they were starting to suspect something

    • @nate742
      @nate742 Před 2 lety +4

      @@firmak2 that didn’t happen . They were kept alive

    • @MrTuerte
      @MrTuerte Před 2 lety +7

      + what happened to all the civilians :D

    • @THExRISER
      @THExRISER Před 2 lety +19

      @@MrTuerte They were mostly converted into the very cultists that were defining Vraks, I'm sure anyone who resisted met the same fate as the local Arbites...

    • @brotherhoodofsteelsoldier1356
      @brotherhoodofsteelsoldier1356 Před 2 lety +3

      @@MrTuerte this is warhammer, they probably died

  • @stephanusswanepoel6015
    @stephanusswanepoel6015 Před 2 lety +32

    Let's not also forget that there was fighting in space of the Imp Navy against Chaos, which was also most of the time a complete charlie-foxtrot for both sides.

    • @firmak2
      @firmak2 Před 2 lety

      As majorkill said, he skipped a lot. Arches 43 videos arent there for the lols

  • @ihaiaoconnor1209
    @ihaiaoconnor1209 Před 2 lety +5

    Damn I loved the whole map and breakdown on what happened. You made it so easy to picture it happening

  • @roster491
    @roster491 Před 2 lety +5

    Love the slightly longer video and battle map edits. Good stuff!

  • @skeletonwar2408
    @skeletonwar2408 Před 2 lety +299

    Arch: “The Emperor’s Most Holy Inquisition kept their expectations low.”
    MajorKill: “The inquisition said ‘Fuck this guy!”

  • @stoat7
    @stoat7 Před 2 lety +16

    That was less "shit hit the fan" and more "constant stream of diarreha in a leaf blower"

  • @mikestafford6900
    @mikestafford6900 Před 2 lety +3

    Best video you've done in a long time, dude! I think 20 minutes is your sweet spot. Short enough to enjoy, long enough to do the lore justice.

  • @jaymz18
    @jaymz18 Před 2 lety +3

    this was awesome, great video man. i think you captured the whole siege in a good timeframe, and really enjoyed the map actually showing the forces, i think that added a lot. saw you were thinking of doing the badab war, that would be sweet. keep up the good content legend hope the lockdown in melbourne is treating you alright

  • @mdandrews
    @mdandrews Před 2 lety +87

    Arch’s series on Vraks is pretty fun for the most part, and his badab series too

    • @shanewebb3341
      @shanewebb3341 Před 2 lety +9

      @@netman446 For the most part he did other than a few innuendo and jokes.

    • @claudiu-mihaipuiu1221
      @claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 Před 2 lety +12

      @@netman446 Watched both series and he kept his personal opinions out of it. When you have the time, do watch his series on both Vraks and Badab.

    • @danielbob2628
      @danielbob2628 Před 2 lety +3

      @@netman446 I remember counting about 3-4 times in the entire series that he mentioned modern sociopolitics.

    • @JamesTAdams
      @JamesTAdams Před 2 lety +5

      @@netman446 what is his political opinion exactly? I’ve only ever seen people calling him a nazi and that just doesn’t seem right; I’ve been watching him for a while and seen nothing that seemed to suggest that outlook

    • @theplaylistcollector2910
      @theplaylistcollector2910 Před 2 lety +1

      @@JamesTAdams pretty sure some discord screenshots came out showing that, you could probably look them up

  • @spider-spectre
    @spider-spectre Před 2 lety +109

    I always found it funny how, while still epic, the control of a planet/system always involves smaller numbers than some world war battles and somehow the fate of the entire system is dependent on one spot on one planet.

    • @tybaltmarr2158
      @tybaltmarr2158 Před 2 lety +48

      GWs grasp of numbers have always been shit. “4million gaurdsmen!!” sounds impressive until you realise the battle of the Somme had over 1million fatalities.

    • @alexmacdonald1998
      @alexmacdonald1998 Před 2 lety +33

      In GWs defence, im pretty sure that Vraks only had one point of interest, which was the departmento munitorum facility. The rest of the planet was an inhospitable wasteland, this being the major reason the death korps were selected, as they require no special training nor extra equipment to maintain ongoing operations on such a shithole. They administratum does not care about guardsmans feelings (for more info, see 15 hours or any other early guard novel), so imo this is the reason (beyond convenience) that the krieg were chosen. As for other warzones, yeah, you got a point, I mean, Ive always wondered how a company of space marines could conquer a planet with 5 billion people, millions of professional soldiers with armour and artillery support and even tactical cruise missles, nukes and orbital lasers n shit.
      Assuming one astartes carries a bolter with 3 magazines with 50 rounds each, we have 200 rounds x 100 astartes = 20000 rounds. Assuming each round equates to a kill, we have 20000 kills prior to re supply. which means that it would require 50 resupplies to wipe out a million enemy soldiers. This gives a chaos corrupted pdf force 50 chances to use conventional artillery or orbital weaponry to take out a substantial part of the astartes force, or at least neutralize their combat effectiveness. And thats just the start. How exactly can 1000 soldiers operate across an entire planet? An army of a million would be broken down into between 500 and 1000 battalions, presumably with support assets. Plot armour aside, one or two soldiers cannot take out a battalion with only 200 rounds each. Thats why I like fluff like this, where the astartes are used as surgical strike forces and large armies of cannon fodder get to experience the constant boredom, interupted by sometimes terminal excitement, that is a warzone.

    • @justanotherguyful
      @justanotherguyful Před 2 lety +3

      Very true, Majorkill even mentions this and says that what he does to make the numbers make more sense is add another zero to every military number like a chapter of space marines does not have just a 1000 space marines (ridiculously low number to fight galactic wars) but instead has 10 000. the legions did not have 200 000 (how can you wipe out entire interstellar civilizations with just 200 thousand soldiers no matter how good they are?) space marines each but 2 million. But honestly GWs numbers are so low I think adding 2 zeros would make more sense, a chapter of a 100 000 space marines could actually be considered a real army. And a legion of 20 million space marines I could start believing could theoretically take over interstellar civilizations.
      This planet though was just an armory world and mostly a dead world with only a few millions people living on it so the engagement actually made sense.
      But any other engagement where a civilized star system revolts along with its capital planet which would have billions of humans living on it would of course have way more soldiers than just 8 million. For example Germany a single country with a population of 70 milion during world war 2 was able to have far more than that ( nazi germany had around 14 million soldiers).
      If we go by that example a planet of 7 billion humans that are as motivated as Nazi Germany would literally have over a billion well armed and well trained and capable soldiers even 10 000 space marines could not put a dent in that lmao.
      So yeah I agree the numbers are all fucked and make no sense someone with a brain has to fix that in warhammer 40k eventually. Its so bad that retconning past retarded numbers would make sense and just replace it all with sensible numbers.

    • @winstonlewis5630
      @winstonlewis5630 Před 2 lety +10

      Yea idk how sci fi gets this wrong they are trillions maybe even more people in the imperium but the battles are below ten million and are considered big while our planet with 7 billion have battles that have ranged into 50+ million combatants Star Wars is the same 2 million clones for an entire galaxy makes zero sense.

    • @justanotherguyful
      @justanotherguyful Před 2 lety +4

      @@winstonlewis5630 oh dang didnt notice star wars had the same idiotic numbers too, lmao.

  • @johndoyle8694
    @johndoyle8694 Před 2 lety +1

    Map graphics were a great touch would love to see more of that in your vids. As always commentary top notch!

  • @hydraman246
    @hydraman246 Před 2 lety +9

    If there was ever a war for Sodaz to animate, it would be this war!

  • @chaptermasterd9362
    @chaptermasterd9362 Před 2 lety +43

    Arch's siege of Vraks series is what got me into 40k, im glad it lead me to your channel eventually. Thanks for the new uplaod Majorkill

  • @jediastartes6595
    @jediastartes6595 Před 2 lety +23

    Came expecting the usual Majorkill lore video, received a visual battle breakdown on par with Eckhartsladder.

  • @Iceflkn
    @Iceflkn Před 2 lety +49

    I wonder, does a surviving Kriegsman feel jealousy at the sight of his dead brothers?

    • @brandonberry1764
      @brandonberry1764 Před 2 lety +19

      Cannot even begin to imagine being a Kriegsman and surviving the entire siege from start to finish

    • @christopherreichle6670
      @christopherreichle6670 Před 2 lety +18

      @@brandonberry1764 our wo/man's out here trying to die for the emperor and just consistently avoids death over a 14 year, deadliest assault on a fort to rival forts. At the end they just grumble and hope they die in the next warzone

    • @dash4800
      @dash4800 Před rokem

      A 95% chance if dying and you fuck it up. How embarrassing.

  • @Deathpenalty66
    @Deathpenalty66 Před 2 lety

    Major props to you for the frequency of content

  • @ariole6276
    @ariole6276 Před 2 lety +37

    Another lore video on The Seige of Vraks. Finally!

  • @fredthecosmicchicken6737
    @fredthecosmicchicken6737 Před 2 lety +12

    the charm of arch's siege of vraks series is well beyond you little man

    • @Callsign_Bear
      @Callsign_Bear Před 2 lety +2

      It's okay Fred. I'll be taking you to KFC soon.

    • @fredthecosmicchicken6737
      @fredthecosmicchicken6737 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Callsign_Bear no mortal can survive eating cosmic poultry, your mind will shatter

    • @Callsign_Bear
      @Callsign_Bear Před 2 lety +3

      @@fredthecosmicchicken6737 But I will try. And if my mind goes, so what? It's already far gone. This will just be a little farther. I mean, does my face look like a sane man's?

  • @DarkApostleNoek
    @DarkApostleNoek Před 2 lety +3

    I am always a fan of the showing the battle with maps and icons, I hope you do more battles with them.

  • @gabrielortiz3811
    @gabrielortiz3811 Před 2 lety +16

    I'm pretty sure the Alpha Legion swapped their gear with the Khornite warlords and fled or maybe only some did or maybe not? Idk it's the Alpha Legion

  • @chinua2584
    @chinua2584 Před 2 lety +15

    Arch's approach was really good to listen to through my headphones in one ear while I'm at work. Coincidentally also where I'm listening to this video. Just a little bit of background dialogue in my ear goes a long way to break up monotony.

  • @tylercampbell2147
    @tylercampbell2147 Před 2 lety

    Always enjoy your videos bro!

  • @bplup6419
    @bplup6419 Před 2 lety +9

    When the Alpha Legion get entangled with the Dark Angels, the only thing you can assume is that everyone involved is remarkably confused.

    • @vencislavgynev8282
      @vencislavgynev8282 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah, two very sneaky and secretive groups fighting each other. Also at the end DA won, killed or captured remaining AL chaos marines, but damn..they did only that, like:" there is a big and very bloody battle, but we are here only about and for AL, you can keep our millions heretics and mutants, thousands of Chaos SP and demons, you fight them, we deal only with AL!"😂😂😂 This is so DA.
      Or the case in the first stages of the battle, when DA were like:"Well...we sabotaged enemy supplies and communications, their logistics is damaged, so our job here is done. Goodbye and good look with the battle, we hope you win somehow!"😂😂😂
      As DA fan i must admit, DA are really annoying and unpredictable and not very reliable, but on same time very good in their job and amazingly effective, but unreliable! Effective, but can't rely on them, but at least can done your job effective...and after that will probably leave you.😂

  • @maxbeboid6374
    @maxbeboid6374 Před 2 lety +11

    We were so close to getting this animated now it will never happen.
    THANK GW.

  • @tomyorke3412
    @tomyorke3412 Před 2 lety +8

    "Hanzs get the shovel the heavy shovel"

  • @KingofAwesomness14
    @KingofAwesomness14 Před 2 lety

    good work, i watched arch vraks and this is a nice mini bit about it, well done on this one!

  • @JonAtomic
    @JonAtomic Před 2 lety

    Love this style of video! . Id love to see more!

  • @michasalamon8315
    @michasalamon8315 Před 2 lety +21

    Not gonna lie. I would love read a Helsreach like novel, but with both Heretic and Loyalist sides of the story, without the evil mustache twirling on either side.

    • @SerusKellen
      @SerusKellen Před 2 lety

      idk if you've read the Horus Heresy but that's pretty much it. Especially through the short stories you get the big picture. You see alot of the traitor Astartes for what they are, some are demented and twisted but others were just confused but by design were to follow their Primarch

    • @michasalamon8315
      @michasalamon8315 Před 2 lety

      @@SerusKellen I have read Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra books. Not all admitedly, but many, and each time when reading them I always couldn’t shake off a feeling that the loyalists were winning.
      It just felt like in every book the chaos was bleeding for every step they took. In Solar War for example, the book starts with Sigismund standing in his command bridge, literally camping off traitor ships after Dorn killed Alpharius or Omegon and learned from Alpha legion intel in the previous books where Horus was going to Enter the system.
      I guess I never really felt while reading the 40k novels that chaos was winning in anyway. They never really got a big win, even Istvaan 3 and 4 were said to be very bloody for both loyalists and traitors.
      The Lords of Silence were a forst book that change that, as I finally felt that chaos did score a win. If you know more novels like that Please do tell me.

    • @hush9639
      @hush9639 Před 2 lety

      @@michasalamon8315 it doesn’t help that some traitors went crazy stupid and became useless in the ways of tactics for some reason looking at Angron here.

    • @purpleanon276
      @purpleanon276 Před 2 lety

      I mean that’s what this story is the traitors were not even worshipping chaos until serval years into the war and the cardinal did not order the uprising it happened because people thought we was dead when he was only knocked out from the sniper by the time he woke up the world had overthrown the government and declared him in change then he tried to make peace with the imperium but they didn’t want to

  • @chaselabonne3173
    @chaselabonne3173 Před 2 lety +34

    Love listening to your lore videos Majorkill . Don’t really subscribe or watch people consistently but your voice, humor, and ability to explain Warhammer in-depth is totally incredible. Thanks for all the vids (:

  • @primafacie5029
    @primafacie5029 Před 2 lety +15

    I did like Arch's epic review of it but speed running key events is a really good idea.
    Keep em coming.

  • @reefalefunk1244
    @reefalefunk1244 Před 2 lety +1

    Love the video style. The animation was dope

  • @Ghostwolf82
    @Ghostwolf82 Před 2 lety +11

    “until it fucking wasn’t...” - Majorkill, multiple times, 14th August, 2021.

  • @adrianl415
    @adrianl415 Před 2 lety +15

    Holy shit this would make a good trilogy movie!

    • @firmak2
      @firmak2 Před 2 lety

      That being said the hardest decision would be how to tell the story since there is no main character

    • @PoorManatee6197
      @PoorManatee6197 Před 2 lety +1

      @@firmak2 there could be 1 character on each side, 1 is a kriegsman that somehow survives from day 1 to the end of the war and the other a civilian from vraks that starts as a emperor zealot but eventually becomes a spawn of chaos.

  • @ryankyle2467
    @ryankyle2467 Před rokem

    14:17- OMG I’m dying!!! The funniest part about that was I was actually thinking about that video when you started talking like that and then out of nowhere you put that video up!!! You may have just became one of my favorite CZcamsrs!!! Lol

  • @silmarienprince3137
    @silmarienprince3137 Před 2 lety

    One huge Clusterfk as usual. Awesome job mate

  • @darthfenrir4892
    @darthfenrir4892 Před 2 lety +43

    Don't think Krieg is copyrighted, unless GW wants to make money off by suing the German and Austrian military....
    Nevermind, this is GW

    • @noxflo897
      @noxflo897 Před 2 lety +4

      They cant copyright Astartes either.

    • @timothywillox8564
      @timothywillox8564 Před 2 lety +9

      Just wait until the US Space Force incorporates Marines in some capacity

  • @BIGPOPPAPUMP1775
    @BIGPOPPAPUMP1775 Před 2 lety +3

    Hilariously done. Great job, buddy. Keep it up.

  • @morgs456
    @morgs456 Před 2 lety +13

    The old general was fired and a new one with more experience was brought in
    Who demanded more men firepower and stuff
    Well, he sounds like a tactical genius lmao
    GW need to start hiring ex military for their lore

  • @wazzupsters
    @wazzupsters Před 2 lety +15

    I just finished that the other day, it was such a Epic. It showed how the Kreig stayed and fought the hard fight even when Space Marine chapters came and gone because it was exceptionally brutal and twisted. Too bad the ending was bittersweet and is kinda bullshit.

  • @diegomorales3735
    @diegomorales3735 Před 2 lety +40

    Thank god I don’t need to watch arch explain everyone’s breakfast in a 50 hour series

    • @MrTuerte
      @MrTuerte Před 2 lety +3

      But that series was really good. In 1-2 months i listened all the episodes.

  • @ahmedabdolghani8879
    @ahmedabdolghani8879 Před 2 lety +7

    Been waiting for this after arch’s videos

  • @johnsoulou9720
    @johnsoulou9720 Před 2 lety +17

    Love him or hate him, Arch did an amazing job in the vraks series

  • @swaggest_of_eggs7676
    @swaggest_of_eggs7676 Před 2 lety +4

    The best way I've heard someone describe the dkok is "heresy detected, shovel mode engaged"

  • @littlejohn8435
    @littlejohn8435 Před 2 lety +13

    The Siege of Vraks would be a cool PVE RTS.

    • @IsmaelSantos-iy4xi
      @IsmaelSantos-iy4xi Před 5 měsíci

      Play Dawn of War Soulstorm with the Unification mod. Then play a large map (theres even one called Vraks Space Port!) as either the DKoK, Daemonhunters, Daemons, Chaos Space Marines (they have access to mortal cultists or renegade guard squads) World Eaters (you ca deploy Zufor) or Imperial Guard with Chaos paint.
      Though soon the mod version 7.0 will introduce Renegade Guard as a full faction.

  • @onesalamanderspacemarine707

    Never clicked faster, this should be fun.

    • @memyselfandi1300
      @memyselfandi1300 Před 2 lety +3

      Same. Not dissapointed also. Especially with how much energy he put into telling Timmy to shut up.

  • @antthefool7637
    @antthefool7637 Před rokem

    I love the way you breakdown events LOL

  • @leadingauctions8440
    @leadingauctions8440 Před 2 lety +8

    One big mistake Majorkill made:
    The Gray Knights were there, so those remaining kriegsmen were not allowed to leave the planet alive.

  • @jefferycrouch4396
    @jefferycrouch4396 Před 2 lety +3

    Aborderprince reading the imperial armor books is awesome. Listened to it while painting and it's pretty badass.

  • @theinquisitionsparrot6749
    @theinquisitionsparrot6749 Před 2 lety +19

    I have actually been making a Renegades and Heretics army, along with a fanmade expansion. Should I make a Covent of Australia?
    Edit: imma do it!

    • @seanreynolds7369
      @seanreynolds7369 Před 2 lety +3

      On behalf of Australia, yes

    • @commissarkruber7205
      @commissarkruber7205 Před 2 lety +1

      Also on behalf of Australia yes

    • @madmanvarietyshow9605
      @madmanvarietyshow9605 Před 2 lety

      Fuck yeah dude R&H is my personal white whale. I want to do one so bad.
      I have 10 renegade guard bodies, the know how to recast them, I just need the money and all the extra chaos bits.
      I wish GW would rerelease the chaos vehicle upgrade sprue so I could recast that too. They're bloody impossible to get ahold of intact nowadays.

  • @deamnis
    @deamnis Před rokem +2

    my favorite campaign in 40k so far ^^ love to see the hydra in action!

  • @chandraobrien324
    @chandraobrien324 Před 2 lety

    Hey majorkill I’ve been watching you since the fantasy lore days and holy fuck man that battle map shit is really neat to watch. It would be really cool if you did more of that

  • @snaplordmeep6748
    @snaplordmeep6748 Před 2 lety +20

    WE WILL TAKE ARCH’S SKULL FOR THE SKULL THRONE

    • @JamesTAdams
      @JamesTAdams Před 2 lety +3

      Arch will be his biggest challenge yet. The blood god and the Bridge god are both _very_ powerful, almost equal to one another

  • @SKC-uc7rw
    @SKC-uc7rw Před 2 lety +3

    Arch did a good job. It was nice to listen to whilst drawing bones :D

    • @robdeskrd
      @robdeskrd Před 5 měsíci

      Why were you drawing bones?

  • @drunkencowboi7934
    @drunkencowboi7934 Před 2 lety

    As a person that watched the whole series while driving to a cabin in New Mexico. You summed it up alright, and gave it your usual bits to it. Good video bud, can’t wait for the next one

  • @jamesbarton1757
    @jamesbarton1757 Před 2 lety

    Keep it up king bro, the bro-est of channels👍

  • @Grazias
    @Grazias Před 2 lety +3

    7:02 "some kriegsmen got into the enemy bunkers and desperately fought to hold their GAINZ" Majorkill:"I feel ya bruhs"

  • @dohj4959
    @dohj4959 Před 2 lety +9

    That was a one shot espresso to arch's latte. I appreciate what you did. Truly to make it engaging while condensing it to less than 30 minutes combines the mind of a custodes with the enthusiasm of an orc.

  • @ianlevaillant3839
    @ianlevaillant3839 Před 2 lety

    Great video mate.

  • @liamcolliermusic
    @liamcolliermusic Před rokem

    I've come back and watched this video about 12 times at this point and I can't explain why

  • @1098234567
    @1098234567 Před 2 lety +4

    Man the arch cover of this was super good though, it was like listening to an audio book, legit forgot it wasn't a book.

  • @taxllax2104
    @taxllax2104 Před 2 lety +3

    Funny thing about the death of the Cardinal was that since he was mutated beyond recognition the Inquisition still believes that he is still alive

  • @PatchyConvert
    @PatchyConvert Před rokem +2

    It really is amazing how much lore is in this. I always find myself listening to the Siege of Vraks lore series by Arch, from time to time. Good stuff! :D

  • @aceofspadesguy4913
    @aceofspadesguy4913 Před 2 lety

    Hey just a video suggestion, when doing epic battle stuff like this or describing bombardments and charges, could be kinda cool to include some battle noises in the background. I know that’s extra editing work but it’s definitely a vibe.

  • @Billy82605
    @Billy82605 Před 2 lety +10

    I’m so early that Majorkill hasn’t advertised his 40k Hentai yet on his Patreon

  • @Brad-yq3zm
    @Brad-yq3zm Před 2 lety +4

    NOT A FAN OF ARCH BUT To his credit he did a great job of this and I would recommend it to any Kreig fan out there. I know Luton has/is covering It too, but Arch goes in to great detail on the back story of the death Korp then the build up to the fall of Vraks. This is the one time I would point anyone to his channel, so that’ll give you some idea of how good it is

    • @argeltal9090
      @argeltal9090 Před 2 lety +4

      I've watched many arch videos, and most of them are really good. Arch is a natural storyteller. I don't care about the controversies surrounding him, he is good entertainment.

    • @krimzonstriker7534
      @krimzonstriker7534 Před 2 lety

      I prefer Oculus' take who is also currently doing Vraks as he goes over the overall logistics of the campaign as well while being considerably less condescending or controversial 😛

  • @spacesurgeon253
    @spacesurgeon253 Před 2 lety +1

    I just spend 2 months reading the 40k wiki page for this battle and the day after I'm done majorkill comes out with a video on it.....
    AHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @EpicBurnoff
    @EpicBurnoff Před 2 lety

    Godspeed Majorkill. Glad to see you're gaining a fuckload of subs.