Top 5 BIGGEST Battles in Warhammer 40k
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Warhammer 40k has some truly massive battles, today we look at 5 of the biggest
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😂ya know to be honest, when u put out this poll the other day I thought you were just messing with us. Only for u to put out another video about our Golden Gigachads Banana Boys
how does every faction takes a trip in the toilet
The war in heaven wasn't on the list, I would of thought it would be or atleast a mention of it
Your next piece of merchandise should be BJJ gi
Hello Majorkill,
Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
None of these battles compares to the war GW wages against its own fanbase
Hear hear!
That is a fucking good 1 cuz
Go easy on GW. You could have the horrid luck of having Wizards of the Coast manage your favorite tabletop.
GW is not any better.
Gw seems to atleast be trying.
Orks vs tyranids a truly terrifying scenario
And istvan drop side Massacre being the most tragic battle
The current war of Octarius proves that
I'm hoping with the resurgence of Nids for 10th edition, the Orks will get a massive WAAAAGH power boost. FOR THE WAAAGHH!!!1
@@AdrianMartinez-ho6db hasn't it ended already, I thought Tyranids basically won...
I'd absolutely love an ork v nids story from the point of view of maybe a tau or eldar equivalent of a sociologist.
Another thing about the Siege of Terra is that Terra has a population in the hundreds of billions to quadrillions, so the civilian casualties must've been unfathomable.
Which makes it so weird that they allegedly only had a few million soldiers - I would think that a demon invasion would warrant a full mobilization of the population.
Not so sure. Those people were also fighting and producing.
The overall Horus heresy had over 4 trillion casualties, and the battle on Terra had hundreds of millions of combatants.
@@Kareszkoma and being murdered by the millions.
The Legions also underwent a period of rapid recruitment to replenish and bulk out their numbers, so when the Siege began, millions of Space Marines were fighting, though the vast majority were in the Traitor Legions
The Battle of Iron Cage happened because Rogal Dorn didn't have enough Pain Gloves for his Imperial Fists Legion needed to let them feel the pain he went through and accept the Codex Astartes.
Said codex was 5 out of 10 with 3 stars, and it was ok.
Yes, it was not tenable for me to spank my sons either, it was the only way.
*magic* pain glove
*hand falls off*
"Your services are no longer required"
...this post makes me weep. 😢
#TTSStands
Rogal Cringe
Quick note, none of the Imperium battle ever really accounted for the Imperial Guardsman, because that would be retarded. But in general, multiply Space Marine force and enemy Force by a thousand, and you could get a rough estimation of the number of Imperial Guards present in the battle
So wait is 1 Astartes worth 500 Gaurdsmen?
@@ultramarinescaptain3840 yes
@@ultramarinescaptain3840 Around that much, it's a rough estimate though, some put it at 1000:1 ratio but I prefer 500:1, it took hundreds of millions of Imperial Guards man during war of Armageddon after all, and the space marine that were present there was not even close to thirty thousad
@@Ark--fn8my It also depends on the Chapter you´re talking about, the Imperial Guard units involved, what kind of battle we´re talking in the first place and a lot of other factors.
So the 500:1 seems like a good estimate. And given that there is only about 3-5 Space Marines out of 1000 recruits, it fits as well.
What i would like to know: how many people back up a single soldier in WH40k, and how much a single Astartes. I remember seeing such numbers for real world once, but can´t find it again...
"none of the Imperium battle ever really accounted for the Imperial Guardsman, because that would be retarded"
Wouldnt that be even more retarded?
You missed one
The battle of the sokar gate
Szarekh, the silent king and his dynasty + 5 other dynasties
Attacked
4 compleat c'tan
leading to the destruction of one c'tan and 5 whole necron dynasties
Was it during the War in Heaven
@@toheekang174 yes
Majorkill is the type of Australian to say "he's standing right behind me, isnt he" in a horror scenario, pull out a snake from pants and dominate the antagonist
he dual wields snakes like Kratos does with the chaos blades
@@muda1312 each snake has a cat-sized venomous spider in its mouth
In a previous scene..."you call that a snayke? ... That's a snayke!"
@@SamueL-td7fb yes each with a hat made out of crocodile skin and standard issue katachan jungle knife which they use like the metal gear from mgr
Majorkill the type of guy to be stuck working at a haunted pizza place with anamatronics tryna kill him and put buckshot through feddy
Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans current situation would be pretty cool ngl
Russ would go on a rampage against the inquisitor 😂
Reminder that Prince Yriel, single handedly, used a spear that was supposed to kill it's user over time, and stabbed the swarm lord so hard that the hive mind itself was in agony. Just another addition to the long list of chad eldars.
On the siege of Terra: in the newest Horus Herresy book, the bloodshed is so humongus, that a curse of Khorn engolves the planet. Everything. And I mean EVERYHING fought and battled against one another. Enemys, Friends, Familys.
Imagine Doom, but everybody is the Doom Slayer and all they see is deamons.
So yea.
Seeing The Second Battle of Iyanden on this list made me smile. It's a cool and impactful battle and It'd have been so easy to fill this list with battles from The Horus Heresy or other Imperium centered conflicts,so some Eldar love is appreciated!
Do a video on how each primarch would react to a hug from a child! (Pre and post herecy)
I feel like the very existence of Fulgrim and Conrad might make that a difficult video to monetise
Angron would probably kill the child
I feel bad for the child
We know how Vulkan would react to a hug from an Eldar child.
The child would die trying to touch Mortarion, right after its nose fell off
Pretty sure the siege of terra had 100s of mils combatants, in saturnine it is mentioned there are 4k BATTLES going on at any single moment but thats only when they count battles with at least 30k fighters on each side.
My personal honorable mention, The Devastation of Baal. While it might be small potatoes compared to some others on the list it still represents one of the largest Astartes conflicts of the past 10,000 years. Almost every son of the Angel was present and like 90 percent of them died. A last stand against billions of Nids vs about 30,000 Blood Angels.
Seige of terra saturnine book 4 i believe. A sister of silence meantioned how there were over 4100 battles around terra with each battle consisting of over 30k soilders on each side. Quick math means over 246,000,000 people were throwing down.
Either way we can confirm that the original canon number before the siege of terra books is total bullshit. seriusly before this, the official count was only 2 milllion. That was ridiculously low. Im glad it was retconed to hundreds of millions.
@@ShadrackMeduson well i was listening to more of the book yesterday, and at one point Perturabo says how he peefers to use his numbers of 16,480 battles that consist of 20,000 troops each. If thats the case it jumps up to 659 million soilders.
You need to take account that many of the soldiers fighting would have survived a battle, and then continue to fight in other battles, reducing the numbers involved dramatically
Curious for anyone who may know: Does anyone know the type of Tyranid bioform that big boi is next to the Hierophant in the artwork at 3:18? I don't know a whole lot about Warhammer 40k lore but I've done quite a bit of digging for info on what kind of Tyranid bioform (bio titan) that could be, but the closest thing I could find would be a Tervigon or a Tyrannofex, but from Luetin09's Tyranid videos, that specific bioform looks a lot like the art that Luetin09 uses to represent the Norn-Queen, but Norn-Queens don't take part in Tyranid attacks on planets that I know of.
I think its just a tervigon thats much closer to frame than the hierophant, with what looks like their big egg sac and them being right behind a swarm of gaunts and all
90% it's a big mama the Tervigon
@Majorkill great content as always, although I'm kinda surprised Tallarn wasn't mentioned, largest tank battle in imperial history. This battle is basically the origin story of the Tallarn Dessert Raiders. For those who don't know, Tallarn is initially a pretty lush and verdant place, until the iron warriors show up post angel exterminatus. Perturabo becomes aware of a particular artefact hidden on the world (the black occulus, he doesn't know exactly what it is but it's a kind of warp portal), and decides yup we're gonna virus bomb the world to get it. Exterminatus happens and it's not a good time. BUT THE LOYALISTS SURVIVE since Tallarn is kind of a reserve world for the imperial army, they have a ton of tanks in shelters and although pretty much everyone on the surface died in about 10 minutes, there were significant portions of the local Tallarn population and imperial army tank companies that were underground when the bombs dropped. The surface is a dusty dessert now, but the survivors start using their vehicles to go out on the surface and actively fight hit and run tank battles against the iron warriors. From there it just escalates, as loyalist and traitor forces begin committing more and more resources to the battle. I'm unaware of the exact numbers, but individual deployments at its peak involved thousands upon thousands of tanks, supported by knights and titans, not to mention the fleet elements, with astartes elements from multiple legions doing a great degree of covert work. 3 Recon squads of the imperial fists even brought down one of the primary macro transporters of the iron warriors fleet, crashing it into the middle of a major tank engagement on the southern continent of Tallarn, creating a 300km diameter nuclear explosion that basically wiped out both sides present and irradiated the planet for about a week with high winds and fallout. Even though the loyalist forces eventually won, Tallarn was fucked up and remains fucked up to this day. Casualties on both sides were severe in the extreme. Of the titans that were deployed, literally one survived. Amazing battle that actually gets the scale of planet wide conflict right.
Pretty please do titanicus lore
Big robots go brrrr
Been reading titandeath and honestly the beta-garmon battle might be the biggest in the the setting at least for the humans. The battle literally stretched across an entire subsector and was fought by millions of both traitor and loyalist forces
It really depends on how you define the term 'battle' and is something we even today still have issues with. The Battle of Leyte Gulf is debatably the largest naval battle in IRL history, but defining it as a battle might be a stretch since you could also correctly call it 4 different battles which were all part of the same operation and it only lasted a few days.
It was one of the biggest campain of the Heresy and it kinda a shame GW didn't gave more lore about it.
The other big campains was the Cataclysm of Iron, which was the Dark Mechanicum versus the loyalist in the Belt of Iron, which was a " belt " of multiples solar systems with several Forge World in them, spreading at the border of two differents segmentums. A shit ton of titans and Knights got destroyed during that brutal campain. " Luetin did a video about it "
The other one is the Shadow Crusade in the Eastern Fringe, which lead to the death of 100 worlds and the opening of the infamous Warp Rift which cut the Imperium in two during the majority of the Heresy.
And finally, the Thramas Crusade in the Ultima Segmentum, which was mainly a war between the Lion and Konrad Cruze who have killed billions upon billions in less than 3 years in the Thramas sector.
Only millions in an entire sub sector ?
I would be expecting the numbers to be in the hundred billions. But then again, gw and their numbers.
The battles Beta-Garmon is one of my top favorite battles of the heresy. Taking all combatants into account such as the space marines, imperial army, mechanicum forces, imperialis armada, knights and titans, and what we know transpired makes probably, PROBABLY, the biggest battle of the heresy. I don’t think the deposite massacre of the siege of terra can edge it out, only be on par with it
Siege of Terra is essentially as big as Beta-Garmon, Where you have all imaginable of Supersoldier to infinite Trillions or Quadrillion mortal to war machine to giant mech both loyal and traitor and to Milions of Multi-Km Sized Ship firing,melee and boarding combat each other like yeah imagine 10-15 KM Ship from Cruiser to Battleship numbering Milions exterminatus,blown up planet,firing nova cannon,ram melee, load off transport of Space Fighters in Tens of Thousand, And by my head cannon, Yeah Tens of Trillions dead alone on Beta-Garmon,
Beta-Garmon is sector Sized of multiple star system where thousand planets are destroyed and battle firing in voidspace really fucked,
But imagine the fuckshit all of those on Beta-Garmon, Came to one attack together single planetary only, Yeah that Siege of Terra is
YO MAJORKILL. can we get a biggest crusades/campaigns after this too. Love your work as always
I've read every book on the dropsite massacre and the loyalist planning that went in to it and sometimes when I read that I think, look who you've got on the second wave for support... I know they were seemingly loyalist at that point but you put yourself between the traitors and perty, konrad, lorgar, and alpharius. Even if I didn't think they were traitors yet, I'd still be keeping an eye on those 4 nutjobs and their absolutely insane legions. I know they took who they had on hand and worked with who was available, but the known traitors existing would make these psychopaths behind me seem pretty sus.
Obviously I'm more joking, but only kind of
Hey Majorkill amazing video keep them coming and your getting better and better every video
It’s criminal we haven’t gotten more detail about the War in Heaven to get a battle for this list.
Majorkill can you do a video on the planets of the Sol System and their purpose in 40k?
Now imagine the scale of battle between the Old Ones(Krorks,Eldar) and Ctan led Necrons. Literal God's fighting along with galaxy spanning empires and their armies
The siege of terra also had demons, mutants, and beastmen on the traitors side. By the time of Echoes of Eternity they were described as like a roaming horde in the dust. So I feel like the siege of Terra is kind of one long battle for helms deep or Gondor where the defenders know that eventually they are going to get fucked but they put up one hell of a fight.
Though I am dubious about the teased rules for 10th ed, as a Gribbly Nid player (as well as Black Templar, Death Korps, Death Guard, the list goes on...), I look forward to what monstrous abominations may be spawned.
What? An Avatar of Khaine was defeated in battle? No Way
Ahah lol well to be fair this time it seemed less plot armor driven
If we'd get more solid lore and numbers on the war in heaven, most other large scale battles would be blown out of the water no doubt.
The war in heaven numbers would be so big as to seem meaningless. At some point the human mind loses scale and just starts to think "really big."
Vague lore is sometimes the best lore
@@notsosecretsnacker5218 true, it adds a lot of mystery as it should, since no one is alive from that time aside from necrons not much readily available information would exist.
You should make a sharrowkyn video; man played a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the heresy
The Tyranids winning a war of attrition against the Orks, while also instilling fear in The Bois, is NOT a good sign for The Imperium. People said The Lion pairing up with Robust Guillotine will be OP... Well, I think it's just right.
"Yeah, that went well." That one-liner made me laugh really hard.
May the Ravens have their vengeance for Istvaan Five.
These recent videos are great Major keep it up
The battle on Ullanor comes close to these I would say. Multiple sm legions led by Big E himself against an ork force that was the greatest found during the Great Crusade
I always love me a new Majorkill upload.
Fark yeah!! Solid mate. Nice work
Avatar of Khaine almost guarantees a loss.
I think a craftworld may be even bigger than a 100 million. We have 7 billion on our earth and the Eldar call their ships "worlds" so the idea they can fit a planets worth of Eldar on them doesnt seem impossible to me even with their low numbers.
“A continent sized planet” ? That’s not a very big planet.
Love your content, keep it up!
GW should make a "live" map showing all active conflicts. Because people always ask "who is fighting who RIGHT NOW and where?" ... I know it doesn't work like that, but would be so cool to see what happens in "real time" ... where the next tyranid invasion is happening, where the newest tomb world is waking up ect.
Hey majorkill it me again can we please have some more necron video if you can
As a wise madman once said: Day 347 of asking Majorkill to do a video on Tau Auxiliaries coupled with the release of a "Space Beaked Tribals"/"Space Wasps"/"Nussy Fanboys" team.
*Phrases that Sam O'nella never said.
Don’t think I haven’t noticed how much content you have been putting out over the past few months, i appreciate it my nigga
i had a friend that said he was into 40k super hard. i was like oh cool yea i watch majorkill, he goes "who? oh i watch one mind syndicate" and i was like yea bro i can make a one mind syndicate video too straight off the wiki page and lexicanum. needless to say we got into a fist fight and i won bearing the banner of majorkill.
@SpacePirateBollocks im a follower of khorne. im very big and strong and not to be fucked with. im also really scary and tough. so no not really a nerd fight but that doesnt matter anyway. for he cares not from where the blood flows, only that it does.
Mmm nothing quite like an Annihilation battle in the morning.
Btw request as usual for a Major Mini for Commissar Yarrick please.
Jesus, dude. I saw the poll that this video came from like a day ago.
Great video, though. Let's get a video on our favorite Mary Sues, Calgar and Drago some time soon.
The planet fell before the Guard did!
Quick note, it wasn’t the swarmlord in that battle but a regular hive tyrant
Yup! Funny enough though at about the same time this battle was going on the Swarmlord was fighting Calgar for the second time on Ichar IV
YEAH BUDDY, ALMOST AT 500k, keep it up majorkill
When you fast backwards at the start of the video you can hear majokill attempting to sound like a lazer rifle :].
3 hours! I love your content, keep it up!!
i like how alpha legion almost wanted to help raven gard
The War in Heavens should have larger battles right? I guess the lack of info prevents it from being included
Kryptman after causing two factions who become stronger the more they fight to clash causing the creation of the largest Tyranid fleet the galaxy has ever faced:”Ha whoops.”
“Fuck off” is my new favourite unit of measurement
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MK has perfect timing, just sat down for my morning dump.
i'd imagine some battles in the War in Heaven would dwarf these but numbers hasn't been stated before/ indevidual battles
Also what's everyone thoughts on if gw did a war in heaven model rage?
That would have been awesome
I’d love to see not just c’tan shards but just the c’tan and all the cool stuff the necrons had back then. Krorks would be great aswel but the eldar would kind of just be the same since they got everything from the old ones and still have all their shit from back then
@Donald Exactly and think about that we could get war in heaven models so we could get really overpowered eldar and krork and necron and could bring there model lines up so we get some good eldar books
Could be cool but could be awesome if they had a peak empire range so humanity can also be joined in and maybe peak of other xenos idk
Majorkill, I love your vids and I have 2 I'd love you you to do: a full recap of the Arks of Omen lore now that the Lion's book is released
Majorkill should a do top 5 bromances of 40k video
Abaddon's greatest victory was the equivalent of flipping the game board when you lose
Another banger mate. After having tacos on a Wednesday I'm hoping for a bit of T'au Thursday with the Ethereal Aun Shi and his status as a T'au Ethereal cheek clapping boss 😅
Every Tyranid battle is a planet sized one because they want EVERYTHING
Majorkill! an idea for a video if I may: Hygiene of the Space Marines, I need to know.. what kind of soap? do they use louffa? are there shower servitors who scrub? What kinds of food do they eat?
Rocking that Youngla merch
Holy shit you actually did it....thank you dude
The tyranids tactics are eerily similar to the reaper forces of Mass Effect
Last time i was this early erebus was likeable
The war that never ends is GW’s war against their fans and fan created content
You are the best keep up the good work
Awesome video
Majorkill the man who could drink a space wolf under the table
The 1 million space marines is insane when you think how few held Baal and how easy it would be for a small detachment to take over a planet like ours 😂
G'day majorkill 🤙
I love how Cadia was just like Endgame lmao
“Continent sized planet” - Majorkill
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coop vid majorkill
Good man, Good video, Good job
Lookin forwrd to start the sige of terra books, sound epic😁😁
Great vid majorkill, could you please do a video about gaunts ghosts, thanks majorkill.
Hey Majorkill, I'm trying to live up to challange of changing the stereotype of warhammer fans! I've lost just below 200 pounds in the last two years! Love your content! Thanks for making these!
Hope we can get a how powerful a space marine is video one day
The battles must like a planet wide meat grinder? 😂
You should do a ideo on what happened to the countries on terra
NEW CONTENT YAY!!!!
They’re lucky I wasn’t there to put an end to all this.
I'd love to see a video about Endryd Haar "The Riven Hound"
9:10 this is a great comparison of GW not understanding numbers. Seriously, 850 million people on an entire planet with hive cities? There are at least a billion, if not more living on that planet.
Gotta love a continent sized planet
From most of what I can find Iyanden had billions in population.
Hey Majorkill, next video idea "top ten powerful weapons in Warhammer40k!"
Those numbers are so big it's hard to even understand them. I have seen around 6000 troops formed up on a parade field and even that seemed like such a huge amount FUCK
doing this for magnus the rad: "you know, a video on how each of the pre heresy primarchs would react and what they would do if they were in guillimans place would be pretty cool ngl"
A siege of a continent sized planet? That would be a very small planet.
Man, continent sized planets, just imagine..
But great video as always.