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    The advance of the Imperial Guard is not heralded by the charge of men and fire of guns alone. On whatever world the Imperium of Man has decarded a battlefield, roar Leman Russ battle tanks into the heart of the enemy.
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  • @TemplinInstitute
    @TemplinInstitute  Před 2 lety +54

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    • @darklordmalthric3633
      @darklordmalthric3633 Před 2 lety +1

      Please cover the Exosquad

    • @youtubewanks
      @youtubewanks Před 2 lety +3

      Saying it's ftp while on screen is a $100 aircraft is a little disingenuous :)

    • @feralprocessor9853
      @feralprocessor9853 Před 2 lety

      I'matankI'matankI'matankI'matankI'matank x10 ):D

    • @Eddieo9999
      @Eddieo9999 Před 2 lety

      Might want to open with why its called the Leman Russ not 10 mins in!

    • @Thoralmir
      @Thoralmir Před 2 lety

      Do Animorphs, EverQuest, or City of Heroes!

  • @Aikurisu
    @Aikurisu Před 2 lety +1053

    Ah, yes, the infamous Commissar deployment vehicle, capable of bringing one close enough to their enemy so he can strike them down with his blade!

    • @arcturus960
      @arcturus960 Před 2 lety +71

      GUARDSMAN BRING ME CLOSER!

    • @jenswurm
      @jenswurm Před 2 lety +56

      Time to mount a bayonet...on its main gun.

    • @rocketman544
      @rocketman544 Před 2 lety +63

      "It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out."

    • @fistimusmaximus6576
      @fistimusmaximus6576 Před 2 lety +23

      "Get them in range of my sword"!!!

    • @matteoaievola8643
      @matteoaievola8643 Před 2 lety +8

      @@jenswurm you brought me to a idea, what if instead of Canon it has Blade which can be moved like a human arm

  • @n.a.4292
    @n.a.4292 Před 2 lety +744

    "All guns! Keep firing until they glow!"
    -Tank commander about to discover why Plasma Cannons are such a rarity

    • @nordicberserk
      @nordicberserk Před 2 lety +59

      well, actually....
      Plasma guns already glow. That's the blue bit.
      Still a funny joke.

    • @Zadrias6386
      @Zadrias6386 Před rokem +13

      He’s about to be thanking the god emperor for his emergency plasma vents.

    • @moritztabor1678
      @moritztabor1678 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I dont understand this joke. Would be someone kind enough to explain, please?

    • @antonycharalampous5454
      @antonycharalampous5454 Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@moritztabor1678 plasma weapons are a bit volatile in the forty first millennium. Firing something like a plasma cannon too frequently without letting it cool off can have "explosive" consequences

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +627

    "What I cannot crush with words, I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard!" - Lord Solar Macharius about the Leman Russ Tank

  • @andreykuzmin4355
    @andreykuzmin4355 Před 2 lety +1026

    Leman Russ MBT is a perfect symbol of the Imperium. It is of antiquated design, but can house archaic and ill-understood weapons, like plasma cannon. It is not as cheap as Ork contraptions, or as fast as Eldar antigrav tanks, or as replaceable as Tyranid bioform. But it carries a big gun, crewed by religious fanatics and there in never shortage of them.

    • @Yingyanglord1
      @Yingyanglord1 Před 2 lety +29

      iw ouldnt call it an MBT its a medium tank.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro Před 2 lety +39

      It's also cheap as dirt, so it's never alone.

    • @andreykuzmin4355
      @andreykuzmin4355 Před 2 lety +16

      @@Yingyanglord1 I'd argue it's infantry tank, even, like Churchill)

    • @Sturmensky
      @Sturmensky Před 2 lety +33

      @@Yingyanglord1 I'd say it fits. It's mobile, has enough armor to withstand incoming fire, and has a gun capable of engaging enemy armor at long range. It's basically the definition of an MBT. Admittedly, its modularity means not all variants fill this role, however. The Vanquisher and Executioner variants arguably being the truest Leman Russ MBTs - having high-powered cannons, while variants like the Eradicator and Punisher are arguably infantry support tanks.

    • @TricksterPoi
      @TricksterPoi Před 2 lety +8

      Rumored to be originated as an agriculture-based vehicle too.

  • @NewGuy2534
    @NewGuy2534 Před 2 lety +247

    Leman Russ: So you named a boxy, multi-gunned, versatile tank after me? ME?!….. I LOVE IT!!!

    • @twenty-fifth420
      @twenty-fifth420 Před rokem +24

      Leman Russ is one of the few primarchs who I can see (in my headcanon) would willingly try to regularly use tanks even if he is a mini-giant. And not just because he is named after it.
      He and the Wolves just think the guard is chad and just wants an excuse, ANY EXCUSE to ride inside.

    • @Zadrias6386
      @Zadrias6386 Před rokem +18

      @@twenty-fifth420 *leman russ, with one foot on the turret of a leman russ and the other on the body, riding it into battle like a primarch sized fenrisian wolf… “DRIVE ME CLOSER I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY AXE”

    • @caedenirizarry951
      @caedenirizarry951 Před rokem +1

      @@Zadrias6386 Yes

    • @commandertoastcz6256
      @commandertoastcz6256 Před rokem +8

      I want to see Leman Russ in a Leman Russ

  • @UnreasonableOpinions
    @UnreasonableOpinions Před 2 lety +214

    A tank that can run anywhere on any fuel in any condition is never going to be obsolete while you can stick a gun on it. The first and last rule of tank design is context; if one side has a bad tank and the other side has no tanks, the first side has a very good tank indeed.

    • @akula4366
      @akula4366 Před rokem +5

      Fun fact, the M1 Abrams has a turbine engine which can run on basically anything!

    • @evanblack20
      @evanblack20 Před rokem +1

      That’s what makes the t34 a great tank

    • @victordonavon292
      @victordonavon292 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@evanblack20 Not really considering the T-34 only runs on diesel fuel. And even with that fuel it falls apart too easily and has an aluminium engine which is not an efficient design along with a host of other issues.

    • @SnakeChkn
      @SnakeChkn Před 9 měsíci

      I always thought the strength of the t34 was it was good enough and wasn’t the cheapest but was cheap enough

    • @victordonavon292
      @victordonavon292 Před 9 měsíci

      @@SnakeChkn The cheap is at best misleading consider the Soviet Union was a command economy dictating the price of everything down to even the nugget of metal, virtually disregarding supply and demand and actual value.

  • @emptank
    @emptank Před 2 lety +199

    They ain't the best tanks, but there's a shit ton of them and there's one that's been custom designed to deal specifically with you. It's like if someone crossed a Sherman with a British landship and shot it into space.

    • @thebighurt2495
      @thebighurt2495 Před 2 lety +23

      It is *very* cost-effective and that's exactly what the GUard needs.

    • @MedTech37572
      @MedTech37572 Před 2 lety +15

      Along with with ease of production and expendability of the T-34

  • @Shinzon23
    @Shinzon23 Před 2 lety +173

    Ah yes, when you can field so many of a single model of tank that the destroyed wrecks contribute to environmental conditions across most of the planet they died on, you know the design is solid.

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte Před 2 lety +85

    "Have you ever tried finding a standard at first glance to you bolt and nut for engine mounting five centuries after the factory that produced it was destroyed, the world that produced a vehicle was blown up, on another side of the galaxy, blockaded by ork forces from any incoming supply and with only medieval smithy at your disposal? First try that, then talk about how crude she is..."

  • @catcadev
    @catcadev Před 2 lety +469

    I love this tank as it's not subtle at all. Even in the lore it's basically a brick. I love it.

    • @richardmyhan3369
      @richardmyhan3369 Před 2 lety +43

      An armed battle-brick??

    • @kakashiloshotmail
      @kakashiloshotmail Před 2 lety +55

      Murder Brick

    • @theholyemu3716
      @theholyemu3716 Před 2 lety +22

      2+ save armor of contempt the super brick is unkillable

    • @kakashiloshotmail
      @kakashiloshotmail Před 2 lety +15

      @@theholyemu3716 when they gave the Russ AoC I needed to change my pants not gonna lie

    • @Phenixtri
      @Phenixtri Před 2 lety +5

      makes ya wonder how modern day MBTs, APCs, and IFVs would fair in 40k .....

  • @JordonVirtue
    @JordonVirtue Před 2 lety +116

    9:30 - "Supplementary improvised armor" In the grim darkness of the far future... there are only cope cages.

    • @Lightscribe225
      @Lightscribe225 Před 2 lety +15

      Cages? Son, that's the guts of the tank sent in before yours!

    • @AbyssWatcher745
      @AbyssWatcher745 Před 2 lety +6

      Hey most cultists and rebels don't have high tech missile launchers.

    • @imatreebelieveme6094
      @imatreebelieveme6094 Před 2 lety +5

      The empire's enemies dont usually drop small mortar or grenade munitions using drones, so it'll probably be more spaced armor or simply extra plating instead of the russian "cope cages"

    • @Dany94256
      @Dany94256 Před 2 lety +10

      Cope cages?
      Are we sending a Special Military Operation™ to denazify and demilitarise the T'au? 🤣

  • @tba113
    @tba113 Před 2 lety +83

    Love the little nod to the old wives' tale about the Russ being an up-gunned STC design for a farm tractor, and to the ongoing internet arguments about whether the tank's design is unstoppably powerful or laughably obsolete. Those were nice touches.

    • @thebighurt2495
      @thebighurt2495 Před 2 lety +29

      I feel like it's a bit of both. It's incredible Advanced technology applied to the challenge of making the most cost-efficient tank ever. It's engine in particular is a miracle of science. That sucker can run on literally anything flammable. Coal, wood, diesel, crude, gasoline, booze. If it burns and you can get it in the tank, the LR will run on it.

    • @gracefulcubix4730
      @gracefulcubix4730 Před 2 lety +8

      Could see that tale partly true considering the nature of space marine Armour.

  • @MartianTechAdept
    @MartianTechAdept Před 2 lety +245

    The leman Russ the most stealthy of tanks.
    After all if there’s no one alive there’s no one to report your presence.

    • @admiralgalactica
      @admiralgalactica Před 2 lety +14

      Like an Steiner Scout Lance

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin Před 2 lety +12

      @@admiralgalactica *(Distant Polka Sounds)*

    • @Hippy576
      @Hippy576 Před 2 lety +5

      Beware of bees!!

    • @admiralgalactica
      @admiralgalactica Před 2 lety +10

      @@weldonwin "In the Lyran Commonwealth The Atlas Scouts you Not you the Atlas"

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin Před 2 lety +10

      @@admiralgalactica "Guten Tag. All Steiner forces, show these Godless Kuritans what real wars crimes look like! *SCOUT THEM INTO A NEW GRAVE!!!"*

  • @bubbasbigblast8563
    @bubbasbigblast8563 Před 2 lety +87

    One of the more fun things I remember from 40K is a Tech Priest explaining why the old Earth MBTs were inferior, like their inability to climb over a literal wall of corpses.

    • @Karhall
      @Karhall Před 2 lety +5

      Do you remember where it's from?

    • @karebear4485
      @karebear4485 Před 2 lety +9

      I think its from a regimental standard article, so im not sure if it’s canon.

    • @bubbasbigblast8563
      @bubbasbigblast8563 Před 2 lety +12

      @@karebear4485 That one is pretty neat, but this one was some old sepia thing from a photobucket link that probably hasn't worked for years. I tried to find it again, but I just haven't had any luck.
      Pretty sure it was, like, from the 2nd edition days, so finding it isn't really easy.

    • @c0ya1
      @c0ya1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@bubbasbigblast8563 But if the Leman-Russ went up against any modern-day MBT: it will get curb-stomped. Violently. It would be akin to Mike Tyson beating a disabled 5 year old without their arms.

  • @thomashsiai6250
    @thomashsiai6250 Před 2 lety +201

    Half a dozen of Leman Russ Vanquisher Varients can effectively challenge a basic Questorious Knight, due to the vanquisher cannon being able to overwhelm a Knight’s ion shielding and afterwards shred its body.
    You can debate whether this is true or not, but never underestimate a Leman Russ.

    • @sciarpecyril
      @sciarpecyril Před 2 lety +14

      Vanquisher cannons are also dangerous against light titans.

    • @silverfischdotnet
      @silverfischdotnet Před 2 lety +8

      Only in the lore. Vanquishers got nerfed HARD on the tabletop.

    • @JT-hg7mj
      @JT-hg7mj Před 2 lety +7

      @@silverfischdotnet tabletop is irrelevant. new editions always change stuff.

    • @Zadrias6386
      @Zadrias6386 Před rokem +2

      @@silverfischdotnet yeah… I put one on my tank because it looks cool… but man it sucks…

    • @fluffly3606
      @fluffly3606 Před rokem +1

      @@silverfischdotnet,
      Guard just got new rules and the Vanquisher looks like a scary but niche pick. 72" Heavy 1 S14 AP-5 Dd3+6 w/+1 to hit, ignores invulns and d3 mortals on wound. I rolled dice to see how 15 of them would do against a Warlord Titan and they deleted it in one round once they got into range. Given the 40k rules for Titans are bad for obvious reasons but still

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +220

    1:35 TTS Magnus: "Oh wow, Ullanor! It seems that the Ork spores weren't properly disposed of! It really proves that the Ork genome can survive through anything, even toxic emissions from atrocious family reunions! Not even Vulkan can regenerate from those!"

    • @santymartin7383
      @santymartin7383 Před 2 lety +26

      Why nobody remember i tear one of his hearts?

    • @Jamesgates355
      @Jamesgates355 Před 2 lety +21

      @@santymartin7383 "I PUNCHED OUT ONE OF HIS HEARTS WHY DOES NO ONE REMEMBER THIS?!" -Magnus in the midsts of the Hugging by Vulcan circa M41

    • @Ddnmddnn
      @Ddnmddnn Před 2 lety

      The Big Red Cyclops??? Corax Curze to Vulkan

    • @hippymad1
      @hippymad1 Před 2 lety

      ​@@Jamesgates355 YOU LUMBERING ASHTRAY. I'M PHYSICALLY ILL!

    • @gorzonthechampion6784
      @gorzonthechampion6784 Před 2 lety +8

      I miss tts.

  • @TheColdsuit
    @TheColdsuit Před 2 lety +89

    The Leman Russ tank is proof that looks can kill.

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +78

    I can imagine a Chad Guardsman play the saxophone on top of the Leman Russ in the front lines and boosting morale with his comrades who charge to battle and/or play the saxophones on top of the Leman Russes too as well.

    • @26th_Primarch
      @26th_Primarch Před 2 lety +24

      Saxophone solos are an Ultramarines thing.
      Now Guardsmen blasting *Panzer Battalion* by Sabaton is way more accurate.

    • @JoshuaC923
      @JoshuaC923 Před 2 lety +10

      What about bagpipes

    • @DetectiveLance
      @DetectiveLance Před 2 lety +12

      @@JoshuaC923 The Tanith 1st don't get tanks

    • @26th_Primarch
      @26th_Primarch Před 2 lety +5

      @@JoshuaC923 also wrong sci-fi tabletop game franchise from the 80's.

    • @Tiramizur
      @Tiramizur Před 2 lety +1

      @@DetectiveLance After Urdesh, we can't be sure anything.

  • @SephirothRyu
    @SephirothRyu Před 2 lety +14

    Baneblade: "Aw., who's a cute widdle tank? YOU are! Such a cute widdle tank!"
    Leman Russ: **Angry tank noises**

  • @CantusTropus
    @CantusTropus Před rokem +6

    The best thing about this is that it was intended to be the equivalent of a DIY 3d-printed tank for colonies with limited tools, resources, and technical expertise. STC machines of the Golden Age were able to advise colonists on how to build anything with only local resources, and this is what they came up with. That means that it's incredibly easy to build and maintain, which is why it's so darn ubiquitous.

  • @DanGod07
    @DanGod07 Před 2 lety +7

    Broke: Getting your tanks dragged away by tractors
    Woke: Dragging away tanks with your tractors
    Bespoke: Making tractors into tanks

  • @kinocorner976
    @kinocorner976 Před 2 lety +9

    So, the Sherman tank of 40k

  • @macbrodernbror3271
    @macbrodernbror3271 Před 2 lety +50

    have had one of these waiting to be painted to like 6 years, think this just gave me enough motivation to get to painting :)

  • @gratuitouslurking8610
    @gratuitouslurking8610 Před 2 lety +45

    6:00 For such a small detail, I love how it's actually kinda found representation ingame, due to the rule Grinding Advance. You can move the Russ at it's main movement characteristic of 10 inches, sure, but if you halve it, you can double-tap the cannon onto the designated target. Shows some level of added stability in theory, intended or otherwise.

    • @troutwarrior6735
      @troutwarrior6735 Před rokem

      Yeah, it’s almost like the short staballizer on the sherman tank

  • @randomcast3183
    @randomcast3183 Před 2 lety +32

    Remember to angle your Leman Russ MBT for greater armor values....

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +26

    Chad Commissar on a Leman Russ Tank: "Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"

  • @RockSplitter
    @RockSplitter Před 2 lety +42

    “Any problem caused by a tank can be solved by a tank.”
    - Peter Griffin

  • @RAD1111able
    @RAD1111able Před 2 lety +75

    40k is a fascinating setting,tanks without suspension.

    • @hang_kentang6709
      @hang_kentang6709 Před 2 lety +17

      Leman Russ is basically the British MK 1 tank with a turret.

    • @ThraceVega
      @ThraceVega Před 2 lety +20

      In the grimdark future of 40k, nobody cares about your spine injuries.

    • @AbyssWatcher745
      @AbyssWatcher745 Před 2 lety +2

      Huh, would inertial Dampeners help with that?

    • @wepntech
      @wepntech Před 2 lety +1

      @@ThraceVega or might be cheaper to have spinal implants, lol.

  • @comradeweismann6947
    @comradeweismann6947 Před 2 lety +19

    The enemy might have Gods on their side. We have Tanks on ours.

  • @UGNAvalon
    @UGNAvalon Před 2 lety +20

    Primarch Russ: “Who else can claim trillions of kills to their name!”
    Other Primarchs: “The tank doesn’t count!”
    Emperor-class Titan: _Raises hand, thinks better of it, stomps away with sad bwaas._

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +7

    "Cheers luv! Cavalry is here!" - Leman Russ Tank operator chap probably.

  • @nc1297
    @nc1297 Před 2 lety +9

    ALL GUARDSMEN, FOLLOW ME TO GLORY!

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +90

    3:06 Leman Russ got stuck inside the Warp for 10, 000 years where he carved out his own Fenris-like realm, made Choas Mjod out of Daemon remains to be completely drunk, hanged out with Kaldor Draigo to harass Realms of Chaos, and met Fyodor Karamazov and his Inquisition forces who were banished to the Warp by Magnus.

    • @mikemullen8174
      @mikemullen8174 Před 2 lety +18

      And I know what you've been watching I miss that series.

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro Před 2 lety +16

      In the grim dark present of the 3rd millenium, there is only Games Workshop...

  • @comradeweismann6947
    @comradeweismann6947 Před 2 lety +4

    Oh Leman Russ of the lake, what is your wisdom?

    • @rexlumontad5644
      @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +3

      Primarch Leman Russ: "That the Lion can shit talk my sons' behavior all he wants! But it still won't change the fact that at least half of my Legion didn't turn traitor at the first chance it got!"

  • @visitingforgefather5997
    @visitingforgefather5997 Před 2 lety +35

    The best description of the tanks overall design was in The Siege of Terra, Warhawk novel
    "No, whoever had designed the Leman Russ - Kaska has always assumed it wasn't actually the Primarch of the VI - was a moron. Or a sadist. Or both"

  • @SenorGato237
    @SenorGato237 Před 2 lety +8

    I used to be a Guard player. The Leman Russ holds a special place in my wargaming heart.

  • @legionofyuri
    @legionofyuri Před 2 lety +64

    Gonna pre-empt the wrong info that comes up in the comments:
    The Russ wasn't a tractor design, that's the Chimera. The Russ was always a dedicated battle tank.

    • @tumage8592
      @tumage8592 Před 2 lety +1

      for backwater planets

    • @NerfplsGoyim
      @NerfplsGoyim Před 2 lety +3

      The Chimera was never a tractor. The one Guard vehicle that was is the Siegfried.

    • @Phenixtri
      @Phenixtri Před 2 lety +4

      @@NerfplsGoyim no in the dark age the chimera stc was an industrial multi purpose vehicle which later had guns and armor slapped all over it .... dun know about the russ tho cant recall at the top of my head atm but I do know the baneblade stc during the dark age was referred to as a "light tank" so that makes me wonder what the leman russ was made for originally 0_o

    • @calebbarnhouse496
      @calebbarnhouse496 Před 2 lety +6

      @@Phenixtri it was for driving through there equivalent of Chicago

    • @NerfplsGoyim
      @NerfplsGoyim Před 2 lety +10

      @@Phenixtri That's all memes. The Baneblade being a light tank is a well known meme. Nobody can find a source for the claim; it's just more baseless 'common knowledge' within the fandom. And the Russ was a dedicated battle tank STC claimed from Nova Borilia during the Great Crusade.

  • @tumage8592
    @tumage8592 Před 2 lety +6

    yes, my favourite death-trap

  • @generalsmite7167
    @generalsmite7167 Před 2 lety +8

    They are rumors that they are doing a Rogal Dorn tank

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin Před 2 lety +1

      Its basically a massive brick wall on treads

  • @midgetydeath
    @midgetydeath Před 2 lety +5

    The Leman Russ is basically a mobile strongpoint rather than what a modern military would think of the word “tank”. And originally it was essentially a cavalry tank specializing in anti-infantry.

  • @theenigma7290
    @theenigma7290 Před 2 lety +28

    Wow, you guys are pumping out videos like there's no tomorrow. Nice work!

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Před 2 lety +72

    Did you know that the STC of the Leman Russ Battle Tank was discovered on Nova Borilia, which had been part of the Noman civilization, during the Great Crusade?
    And that the Noman xenos had enslaved a portion of humanity for millennia before they were all crushed by the might and fury of the Space Wolves Legion.
    After that, the Sons of Russ recovered the STC and named the tank, currently used by Imperial Army/Imperial Guard in the honor of their Primarch and the son of their All-Father, the Man-Emperor of Mankind.

    • @LtCWest
      @LtCWest Před 2 lety +2

      I see you are a follower of Bruva Alfabusa as well ^^

  • @martinstallard2742
    @martinstallard2742 Před 2 lety +6

    1:24 start of content

  • @randomlyentertaining8287
    @randomlyentertaining8287 Před 2 lety +11

    I know it was made as a joke but I've wanted to buy one of those old T-72s many former Eastern Bloc countries sell and just drive it around town. The funny thing is the gas tank is 320 gallons, meaning to stop at a gas station and refuel with any kind of speed would require one to park in such a way that you could get two pumps working at a single time. It takes about a minute or so for my 14 gallon tank to fill so it would take a little over 22 minutes for the tank to be filled on a single pump. And yes, I know the T-72 uses diesel. I imagine the diesel pump run as fast as the gasoline pumps.

    • @danielseelye6005
      @danielseelye6005 Před 2 lety +2

      That's what Truck Stops are for: They have diesel fuel islands and they are designed with fuel nozzles on both sides so the trucker could pay on one pump and have both tanks filling at the same time with a nozzle each.

    • @kdegraa
      @kdegraa Před 2 lety +1

      There are many bigger vehicles powered by Diesel engines. These vehicles can have big fuel tanks. There are high flow diesel bowsers that fill up bigger tanks in shorter times.

  • @JoshuaAdim
    @JoshuaAdim Před 2 lety +4

    Leman Russ Aka Eddard Stark

  • @rikuurufu5534
    @rikuurufu5534 Před 2 lety +3

    (Calmly, in an Irish accent) Oh, bugger: The tank is on fire.

  • @midgetydeath
    @midgetydeath Před 2 lety +3

    The Leman Russ is not a tank STC. It’s a tractor. The only tank STCs used by the Imperium are the Baneblade, Rhino, and Land Raider (we can infer this means the Spartan, too). Everything else is an agricultural or utility vehicle with STC modifications for combat in case of emergency, though the same could be said of the Rhino which is actually an exploration vehicle. Much like the Imperial Knights’ original purpose.

  • @McSkumm
    @McSkumm Před 2 lety +7

    I can't be the only one bothered by the Battle Cannon being described as ONLY 120mm, which is a touch less than 5 inches wide. But every time we see it, the barrel's wide enough you can fit a Ratling through it.

    • @jasonscarborough94
      @jasonscarborough94 Před 2 lety +1

      That's a common problem with "military" sci-fi art, the artists will either make vehicle weapons look "too short and too wide" or "too long and too narrow" you never get used to it but, you eventually learn to pretend you can let it go.

    • @amirhaikal6672
      @amirhaikal6672 Před rokem +2

      i just assume all captured art was of the vanquisher variant. the Vanquisher is a 160mm cannon

  • @blazecraftworks8944
    @blazecraftworks8944 Před 2 lety +7

    Music “The Greater Good”
    Imperium: **Cringe**

  • @LARGO125
    @LARGO125 Před 2 lety +4

    DCoK general: Do you make one that throws shovels?
    Mechanicus Magus: ummm... no. But this one with the sponsons makes it all but impossible to evacuate. Basically a death trap for the crew.
    General:..... *perrrrrfect*

    • @randomelite4562
      @randomelite4562 Před 2 lety +1

      Wait until you hear that DKoK Generals commanded their forces to retreat when a situation appeared untenable

    • @LARGO125
      @LARGO125 Před 2 lety

      @@randomelite4562 I'm aware. That's why they call it "humor".

    • @LARGO125
      @LARGO125 Před 2 lety

      @@randomelite4562 they also don't only use shovels as weapons. That's a tongue in cheek reference.

    • @randomelite4562
      @randomelite4562 Před 2 lety

      @@LARGO125 I know, it’s a shit joke that’s been a dead horse that’s not only been beaten, but fucking butchered with how shitty it is.
      Find a new joke

  • @Clicint
    @Clicint Před 2 lety +2

    The Emperor Protects!

  • @runningcommentary2125
    @runningcommentary2125 Před 2 lety +10

    If anyone unfamiliar with Warhammer 40,000 lore starts pointing out the design flaws of the Leman Russ, don't forget to let them know that some elements of the Astra Militarum still use horses.

    • @randomelite4562
      @randomelite4562 Před 2 lety +4

      That doesn’t at all change the fact that that’s a bad idea and a symptom of the fact that the Imperium is dying

  • @TheDaltonius
    @TheDaltonius Před 2 lety +3

    Rumors of the reliable Leman Russ being a heavily modified tractor is a, nice touch since the first tanks came from tractors and the Leman Russ takes after those WW1 tanks in its rhomboid shape

  • @bopaintsminis
    @bopaintsminis Před 2 lety +5

    Best thing about the new data slate: the ability to build an imperial guard army with just eleven leman russ tanks.

  • @hughmungus4744
    @hughmungus4744 Před 2 lety +12

    now do the baneblade.

  • @jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847

    BOLO MK. 33 from the Boloverse: *"Are you my little brother or something?"*

  • @mikeblatzheim2797
    @mikeblatzheim2797 Před 2 lety +13

    I've got to say, in terms of stats this is basically a current (meaning 1980s and onwards) MBT with extra weaponry but a bigger profile.

    • @101Mant
      @101Mant Před 2 lety +7

      One of the things about STCs is they are supposed to let you build something whatever your tech levels or available materials. That meant that the result wasn't exactly the pinnacle of technology but was easy to make and could be made in large numbers from pretty much whatever you had available and on lower tech worlds. There is much higher tech vehicles but they are largely reserved for more elite forces and exist in much smaller numbers.

    • @cgi2002
      @cgi2002 Před 2 lety +1

      @@101Mant also consider it still is far superior to a modern tank due to the materials used. Its armour is something like 500 times stronger than anything we have today, and its gun uses a shell design that has more explosive energy in it than several tons of high explosives.
      Imperial guard lasguns are apparently on par with the 120mm cannon on an M1 Abrams (in the amount of energy delivered, it just applies it all to 1 spot, no explosion, no penetration, just pure heat).

    • @tarektechmarine8209
      @tarektechmarine8209 Před 2 lety +4

      @@cgi2002 nope a bit too far, lasguns are like 308 for 200m and like a 9mm after. The 120mm gun is just that, with maybe improved explosives and material and the armour is not more than 3 or 4 times more effective then what we currently have. Here is a case of over blowing a universe and in my opinion takes away from it. A bolter is not an auto rpg but it is a smaller calibre 1000m/s mk19 with exploding AFTER penetrating a heavy target. We could kill an astartes with anything higher than a 12.5mm weapon with consecutive hits, problem is they are astartes. They won't let themselves get hit. This is a buttermilkbob moment right here and I put 40k as better than any other sci-fi so yeah, bit too far.

    • @cgi2002
      @cgi2002 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tarektechmarine8209 it honestly depends on the source you use. I admittedly used the most extreme source i've seen, but there are lower end ones have it as you say, which frankly are if we are honest, way underpowered when you consider some of the events that are confirmed to occur (even just using tabletop rule books).
      40k as a universe is all about extreme overkill, but the lower end sources you use put them at well below the firepower levels of Star trek which is generally a bit of a joke in how bad its weapons are (in reality, the phasers ability to completely destory things at a subatomic level makes it actually one of the most overpowered guns in scifi, the energy requirements are basically small nuclear warhead levels to do that).

    • @tau-5794
      @tau-5794 Před 2 lety +3

      @@tarektechmarine8209 In actual performance lasguns are closer to .50 bmg than rifle rounds, and bolters are roughly comparable to 20mm autocannons in penetration, with enough explosive force to kill both their target and anyone within a few meters. Power armor is functionally immune to lasgun fire and similarly powerful guns like heavy stubbers, only having surface-level craters or scratches made. Standard bolt shells often make much larger craters and can break through power armor in a few hits to the same spot of armor, but aren't one-hit-wonder weapons. To more consistently pierce power armor you need heavy bolters or autocannons closer to 40mm, and to consistently kill the marine inside you would need lascannons or plasma weapons.
      Essentially, if you're fighting an astartes think of him less like a human in strong armor and more like an IFV that can fit through doorways, dodge bullets, move faster than you can react, and has nearly perfect aim while firing full-auto.

  • @Klarud
    @Klarud Před 2 lety +3

    For the Imperium of Man and the God-Emperor of Mankind!

  • @joerider2508
    @joerider2508 Před 2 lety +14

    Love the Leman Russ, i mean im bais as someone who has played Guard for 10 years but its such an awesome tank!!

    • @LARGO125
      @LARGO125 Před 2 lety +2

      Like Tariq Torgadden said about the Ultrmarines. They may not be the best, but there are so damned many of them!

  • @masongalioth4110
    @masongalioth4110 Před 2 lety +5

    I used to abuse the absolute HECK outta this tank in Dawn Of War.

  • @richardmyhan3369
    @richardmyhan3369 Před 2 lety +6

    What about the Leman Russ angrinator variant?? I know it's homebrewery, but it's fantastic. 😂😂

  • @andonis2102
    @andonis2102 Před 2 lety +5

    The Dark Age of Technology folks, where standard-issue battle tanks are 🚜

    • @feosty5526
      @feosty5526 Před 2 lety +3

      For new backwater colonies
      Actual DAOT tech is way more powerful

  • @Alexthemeh4214
    @Alexthemeh4214 Před 2 lety +2

    I had tank fever for the past few days. This is what I needed...
    This and girls und panzer.

  • @slypask9185
    @slypask9185 Před rokem +2

    Loved this tank in tabletop (some editions ago)
    Opponent : "I already threw 3 AT missiles and two lascanon shots at this thing, WHY. WON'T. IT. FCKING. DIE ???"
    Me : **Laugh in 14 front armor**

  • @lieutenantdan9337
    @lieutenantdan9337 Před 2 lety +5

    Niiiiiice. Some more 40k content.

  • @bastienbabineaux7362
    @bastienbabineaux7362 Před 2 lety +2

    The Imperium needs a Rheinmetall Weapon Factory.

  • @ak4390
    @ak4390 Před 2 lety +2

    The emperor protects but he also let's us build beautiful tanks to protect ourselves.

  • @arandomguardsmen
    @arandomguardsmen Před 2 lety +9

    Blessed be this holy machine for the god machine has blessed us

  • @alexfrost2799
    @alexfrost2799 Před 2 lety +2

    "Tank beats everything!"
    - Unknown, M3

  • @mingchoi8369
    @mingchoi8369 Před 2 lety +5

    Drive me closer, I wanna strike down those traitors with my sword!!!!
    Anyway, I want to see more Arsenal videos on the Imperium’s war machines soon.

  • @tanks608
    @tanks608 Před 2 lety +3

    "Smaller Designs" - describing a ludirously tall and wide tank.

  • @johanalitalo8331
    @johanalitalo8331 Před 2 lety +4

    Ah the leman Russ, the tank that continues the wolf lord holy work.👍 Great to see a video of imperial machinery. Hope to see other machines like the macharius or baneblade heavy tanks. Or the chimera apc and its hulled variants.
    Keep up the good work.
    The Emperor protects!!

  • @nickholt752
    @nickholt752 Před 2 lety

    Well done, Brethren! Well done and thank you.
    I found this post particularly enjoyable.
    👏 👏

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um Před 2 lety +4

    An Emperor's Fist Tank Company is an armoured formation consisting of three squadrons of Leman Russ main battle tanks of any type, and a single Formation Leader. The three squadrons must consist of three Leman Russ tanks, of any type. This powerful phalanx of armour makes the perfect hammer for the Imperium's forge war.

  • @Real_Iron_Smith
    @Real_Iron_Smith Před 2 lety

    You read my mind, Templin Institute! I just started painting up Leman Russ Tanks, and this video comes out!

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas Před rokem +1

    A little known fact is that as you crank the engine to start it up, it will play Vengaboys, but only for the Death Korps.

  • @ParanoiD84
    @ParanoiD84 Před 2 lety

    Absolutely love your warhammer content, amazing videos as always.

  • @kevingluys3063
    @kevingluys3063 Před 2 lety +2

    Would be fun to see a video comparing comic relief aliens.
    Orks, Gungans, Ewoks, Packleds, Ferengi, Unggoy.

  • @Skhmt
    @Skhmt Před 2 lety +2

    At 4:18 ish it's mentioned that the Space Wolves operating Leman Russ tanks was a violation of the Codex. That's true, but the Spaces Wolves ignore the Codex as a whole anyway, so they wouldn't care another about one more violation of it.

  • @ultrajd
    @ultrajd Před 2 lety +10

    Wait…the LR-MBT is only 13 feet high?
    The art makes it look like it’s MUCH bigger.
    Don’t get me wrong 13 feet is big. That’s roughly the size of your average single-story house. But still. So much of the artwork makes it look significantly larger.
    Also I’ve always wondered why they went with the rhomboid design when it came to the main hull.

    • @kuradamax
      @kuradamax Před 2 lety +3

      The shape of the hull is directly taken from one of the earliest functional tanks used in ww1
      I forgot the name though

    • @randomelite4562
      @randomelite4562 Před 2 lety +2

      @@kuradamax The British MK tanks

  • @BaronVonMott
    @BaronVonMott Před 2 lety +1

    "Tell the men the cavalry's arrived!"
    "Ready to win the war, sir!"

  • @slayerofmidgets3201
    @slayerofmidgets3201 Před 2 lety +30

    there is simply no way that gun is 120mm, perhaps the punisher gatling cannon is but that main gun is more like 500mm.. i'd love to be loading those shells

    • @tarektechmarine8209
      @tarektechmarine8209 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Gloria-victrix99857 difference is that the mg was tangible, can't really except fantasy writers to search absolutely everything.

    • @Golem-mo5wc
      @Golem-mo5wc Před 2 lety +3

      Er, get ur mm right...
      The largest battleship guns ever built never reached 500mm
      We are talking gun calibur

    • @slayerofmidgets3201
      @slayerofmidgets3201 Před 2 lety

      @@Golem-mo5wc if the tank is 4m wide give or take and the main gun's bore is about 1/5 the width of the tank then how is that gun 120mm? I'd like to point out too that with ww2 technology we'd fitted 800mm canons to tanks, OK not on a turret but regardless, if you're going to type caliber at least spell it correctly.. Unless you mean the sword but somehow I doubt it

    • @Golem-mo5wc
      @Golem-mo5wc Před 2 lety

      @@slayerofmidgets3201 when people talk gun mm, they talk about calibur. The diameter of the barrel bruv. So don't tell me again that tank cannons are 500 or 800mm.

    • @slayerofmidgets3201
      @slayerofmidgets3201 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Golem-mo5wc *caliber
      Seeing as I've got a model of the leman russ with its standard cannon I'll measure it for you and calculate the cannons caliber, but first I'm going to correct you, a tank cannon has its caliber (the size of the barrel after the firing chamber) measured in mm or sometimes inches, but typically mm what you're describing is half right and the problem with statistics is when you're 50% right you're 100% wrong
      The leman russ is according to my micrometer 79.89mm wide I'm gonna round that to 80mm for ease of calculation, the battle cannons internal dimensions are 6.92mm and 7.12mm so I'm going to round that to 7mm which means the cannon if you line them up bore to bore with the length of the tank you would need 11.4 cannons to make the tanks width, according to the lore leman russ is 4.86m wide without sponsons (4860mm) and when we divide that by the number of cannons it will take to make the width of the tank (11.4) we get the cannons bore diameter or caliber of 426.3mm which is a lot closer to 500mm than 120 as is claimed, I also have a model of the punisher which I said was probably closer to 120mm so I measured that too, it's barrels are 1.6mm, so 50 punisher barrels across which makes the punisher cannon 97mm which is a lot closer to 120mm than the 420mm battle cannon at that this measurement fits far better with the other known scales in the game like the height of a space marine or size of a human head
      the guns caliber doesn't matter when the lore just gets its scale wrong which was what my first comment was about which you erroneously read, or rather didn't read and then just assumed I was talking about something which I simply wasn't

  • @devonrider3406
    @devonrider3406 Před 2 lety

    Love the video!

  • @thebaccathatchews
    @thebaccathatchews Před 2 lety +3

    About the level of a Mark III or Mark IV Bolo.

  • @drakoslayd
    @drakoslayd Před 2 lety +5

    Petition War Thunder and GamesWorkshop to add the Leman Russ as a tank in War Thunder

    • @blackwidowrsa
      @blackwidowrsa Před 2 lety +2

      Go play World of tanks instead, its in there. Rubbish game though.

    • @PaiSAMSEN
      @PaiSAMSEN Před 2 lety +2

      Perhaps the next AFD event.

  • @IAmTheStig32
    @IAmTheStig32 Před 2 lety +26

    "Leman Russ was a rolling deathtrap. Its tall profile was so notoriously awful that no commander ever wanted to be squadron leader - the only thing big enough to shield a Leman Russ during operations was another Leman Russ, so better to keep the command unit ahead of you for as long as you could. Its fragile tracks were exposed and its armour was a mess of easy-to-hit vertical planes. The standard pattern sponson-bulges just presented another flat edge to destroy, another reason to be glad not to have them. The interior was noisy and prone to bursting into flames whenever a loader coughed too loudly. And, if you were truly unlucky enough to have those sponsons, there was only one escape hatch, right at the top of the main turret, and so the chances of getting out alive in case of all-too-likely disaster were practically zero. No, whoever had designed the Leman Russ - Kaska had always assumed it wasn't actually the primarch of the VI - was a moron. Or a sadist. Or both. The only things it had going for it were cheapness, mechanical reliability and a certain rugged survivability in numbers. The design was so brutally simple that the Imperium was able to churn them out by the million. It mattered less that each individual unit was a study in self-harm when you could overwhelm a battlefield with hundreds of them. Still, all in all, the crews had few illusions about the tanks they rode into war. Deathboxes, they were called, and homewreckers, and other, earthier, names too."

    • @dashiellgillingham4579
      @dashiellgillingham4579 Před 2 lety +7

      Whenever people say that quantity trumps quality, remind them that the Sherman was cheaper than the T-34 and was also the better tank in every single respect, due to the obsession with quality along its entire production and delivery process.

    • @davidmccormick7419
      @davidmccormick7419 Před 2 lety +8

      @@dashiellgillingham4579 we were not worried about performance we where worried about reliability. The us had the luxury to perfect the Sherman before deployment. The USSR was forced to deploy what was in most respects a prototype and was already planed to be upgraded to the T-34M when the invasion kicked off in 41. The USA had the M3 as our main tank in 41, and the T-34 was vastly superior.

    • @danksouls6034
      @danksouls6034 Před 2 lety +9

      people often forget that these are the thoughts of a Leman Russ commander during the *Siege of Terra*, where every single fighting man on the damn planet was affected by low morale due to some nurglite shenanigans.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 Před 2 lety +2

      @@davidmccormick7419 The T-34 wasn't reliable, either, although you can account for _some_ of its mishaps because of manufacturing 'defects' like not bothering to assemble all the parts, some amusing (lack of seats was something you could deal with by making field-expedient substitutes,) some less so (who needs sights for the main gun, anyway?)

    • @dashiellgillingham4579
      @dashiellgillingham4579 Před 2 lety

      @@davidmccormick7419 Correct, but A) we never meant to keep that trash, it was literally the garbage from the early Sherman program, and B) at least every M3 had chairs and sights. Many T-34s did not, because you can cut corners like the ability to see the enemy if you just want moar tank naow.

  • @richardsousa2625
    @richardsousa2625 Před 2 lety +3

    If God didn’t want me to drive an M1 Abrams main battle tank 36 miles and back to work every day on the freeway then he wouldn’t have made it so much fun to say “M1 Abrams main battle tank”

  • @mot2296
    @mot2296 Před 2 lety +2

    What I can not shatter with words, I will grind to dust with the Tanks of the Imperial Guards!

  • @54032Zepol
    @54032Zepol Před 2 lety +6

    Yyyaassss Queen 👑!!! Slayyy!!!

  • @GunRunner106
    @GunRunner106 Před 2 lety +4

    exactly what I'll be doing 1 hour after this video goes live over on our Twitch channel.

  • @jeshuasamuel6537
    @jeshuasamuel6537 Před 2 lety +3

    Whats Next, Leman Russ the Primarch?

  • @Nickname-hier-einfuegen
    @Nickname-hier-einfuegen Před 2 lety +1

    So let me get this straight: This tank has 4 crewmen of which only one is a gunner and one is a loader. And they operate the main cannon, the hull mounted cannon, 2 separate side mounted guns, and a top-mounted gun at the same time? Even if the guy operating the top-mounted gun in most of these pictures is a suicidal tank commander who enjoys shooting more than... you know... commanding, the tank would need 3-4 additional crewmen.

  • @kairosprods
    @kairosprods Před rokem +1

    The Leman Russ. The only thing in the 41st millenium that everyone agrees on. Orks. Chaos. Imperium. Tau, etc...
    I mean, the thing can be powered by the rubber of your boots. That's pretty impressive.

  • @theoffensivelemon2515
    @theoffensivelemon2515 Před 2 lety +1

    3:06 Dude's seriously trying to destroy a tank with a pistol.

  • @DABViktor
    @DABViktor Před 2 lety

    Thank you the Video and the English subtitle.

  • @hermxeno
    @hermxeno Před 2 lety +2

    even 38,000 years in the future, tanks still use the 120mm smoothbore cannon. Truely this alone is one of mankind's greatest more enduring inventions.

    • @tau-5794
      @tau-5794 Před 2 lety +1

      That along with the browning machine gun (heavy stubber)

  • @lordicarus8807
    @lordicarus8807 Před 2 lety

    11:49 I loved the Cadia reference...

  • @Exarian
    @Exarian Před 2 lety +1

    "... WarThunder is an Online classified intelligence leak repository wearing a combat-simulation trenchcoat."

  • @Fortebx497
    @Fortebx497 Před 2 lety +1

    “Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword.”