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When I learned you could double up on powerfists when taking the Lord Commissar as your HQ, I started trying to create the ultimate wall of meat shields for "Commander Hollyfield" This video reminded me of that strange experiment.
@@silviachristandl5874 I mean one time i got response of "You responded to nothing" after person who commented removed their comment , so dismissing it is not all times correct decision .
"What most people don't know about Killbots is that each one has a set kill-limit. And so, knowing their one weakness I sent in wave after wave of my own men till they hit their limits and shut down." - Fourteen Star Admiral Zapp Brannigan
I keep thinking of a guy with barely any clothes on and a shiv just running and screaming before jumping onto the back of an ork and repeatedly trying to stab it's neck
12:02 The drug they pump into them is called *_Friendzone_* !? No wonder they charge into battle with reckless abandon and a total disregard for safety, that stuff is hell.
to put it into simple terms: one you at the very least get to shoot back at the asshats trying to put a bullet in you and the other option is where you Get tied to a post watch as 5-10 assholes with rifles make a semi-circle, raise rifles, aim and shoot until you are dead which would you take?
Tavern Burner shoot people and very likely die, or just die. Unless you're very lucky and survive the initial salvo, then prepare to eat another salvo or two
Because their planet is such a horrible place to live that it makes you consider joining a penal legion. Where the chances of dying in the most gruesome ways possible is practically guaranteed
@eviltreemonster i believe its a prison world. Its also a toxic mining world were the guards can be just as violent as the prisoners, the food is probably even worse than standard imperial guard rations, and I think ive read from somewhere that the resource that the prisoners are mining are highly toxic (and they don't wear much protection). So the only way to leave a place like this is to join the chem dogs penal legion. Your chances of survival might not be much higher but its remarkably more comfortable (at least more comfortable than the former option of staying home)
@eviltreemonster basically. Imagine living on a toxic world with your only company being murderers, rapists, heretics, traitors, thieves, and angry guards who only means entertainment is shooting and abusing the prisoners (prisoners being you ofcourse)
Calimero Hœnir Absolutely! I suppose you could make a total of three movies, but most likely it would be the first book or maybe the short story from the omnibus.
Calimero Hœnir like the last chances go off in the last movie to fight a final desperate battle against the tyranids,where they all die in glorious slow motion while a voice over tells of how the invasion was driven back by a last minute appearance of the astartes before cutting to a memoriam plaque on a battle barge with the names of all the soldiers of the last chances carved upon it while appropriately sad music plays...that would be fucking awesome
I remember reading the Last Chancers book where there was one guy that survived and got a pardon. The guy's name was Kage (I think he held the rank of Lieutenant). His back story is that he was sentenced to a penal colony after either punching or outright killing his superior officer in his former guard unit (if memory serves). He attempted to escape by waiting for a resupply ship to arrive in which he would slip onto the ship dressed as a guard. Unfortunately for him his cover was blown and in his mad dash to get off the planet he tried to hijack a ship. Even more unfortunately, the guy coming off said ship was Colonel Schaeffer himself, who immediately subdued Kage and had him inducted into the legion because Kage was "the kind of scum he needed". However, after succeeding in the final mission and being the lone survivor of a group that numbered around 4000(?) to begin with, he made the somewhat fatal mistake of deciding to keep his penal legion tattoo instead of having it removed. He had come to see it as something of a badge of honor. When he tried to sign up for a different guard squad an officer saw the tattoo and began treating him like scum. The situation escalated into a fight in which Kage took the officer's ceremonial sword and gave him one cut for every soldier that died during his time in the penal legion (he had even taken the time to remember their names), all because the officer had said that they should've all just died. After that he passed out in an alley only to wake up with Schaeffer standing over him and ripping the pardon in half and welcoming him back into the legion permanently, the last words of the book being "Oh frag" (I suppose in this case "frag" is their equivalent to "fuck"). I believe he was also referenced in the first entry for the Last Chancers way back in a White Dwarf magazine once. During the pre-battle writeup the Last Chancers squad members, who were about to assault a place held by Chaos Space Marines, complained about how anybody could be expected to survive the mission. The silent Lieutenant (at the time unnamed) spoke up and merely said "I did", before returning to his duties, causing all squad members to just stare at him. The last I read regarding Kage is that he turned out to be a latent psychic (which explained his extraordinarily good luck) and got possessed by a daemon. He proceeded to shrug off its influence long enough to assassinate their target by throwing himself and the guy into a lava pit (I think) as an act of redemption. Sorry, I haven't read the books in a while so my memory of certain things is a bit hazy.
Would be an interesting concept, if some brutal "by-the-book" officer runs to some penal legion comissar and screams at him why all his guns have been stolen and so on... and the comissar just nods, turns around and turns out to be a space marine scout sargeant.
Sebastian Krant No, the Penal Commissar spins around, rips his skin off like a disguise, and Reveals himself to be a fully armored Blood Ravens Seargent. He grabs the Commissar's hat then proceeds to run away giggling.
Ah human mine sweeping, that brings back memories. Back in the '90s when I was in the US Navy, USS Aubrey Fitch guided missile frigate FFG-34, they had us sweep for mines in Port au Prince harbor prior to the "big invasion". Obviously the US has specialist ships to do this but someone fucked up and so there wasn't one available as to reduce maintenance costs all mine sweeps had been pooled together in San Diego and calling for one now would have delayed the invasion by a month. So we swept by going into the harbor to see if we blew up. They moved me from sonar watch to deck watch for the event. It was the first time I'd stood deck watch, but I preferred my chances for surviving a mine hit if I was top side. Anywho it was night and I was scanning the water in front of us with low light binoculars and what was the first thing I saw? All these little lights on the water in front of us. So I ducked inside the bridge and asked generally (because I had no idea who I was supposed to report to) "What the fuck is up with all these little lights on the water?" This was apparently very inappropriate and a junior officer was told to deal with me. JOs are silly people. Anywho he tells me and I quote, "Those were in the mission briefing. They do not constitute a hazard to navigation." Being that I hadn't been invited to the mission briefing, or had any briefing at all beyond stand on the deck and look for mines I pressed for an explanation - enlisted can get away with that in some parts of the Navy. He explained that those little lights were the desperately poor locals trying to catch fish by luring them up to the surface and grabbing them. We ran the fuck over those people. Must have killed at least a few dozen. Probably closer to around a hundred. They were definitely not a hazard to navigation. We didn't blow up and the next day the big amphib assault ships came in and restored El Presidente for Life to power. More importantly Clinton's misery farming operation was saved ensuring they could continue to exploit the impoverished natives of Haiti for decades and billions of dollars to come.
As I read the last couple sentences the image of a bald eagle saluting the american flag shedding a single tear while the USA national anthem was playing in the background popped into my head. God Bless America.
You gotta imagine that some planetary governor _somewhere_ in the galaxy trades convicted pedophiles and serial torture-murderers to the dark pansies for whatever resource they have.
@@John-Stark the problem is, they might not die, they might come back as the pets of the dark pansies in a future invasion, drugged to the gills, and i mean literal gills cuz the Haemunculi decided gills were cool
17:37 "Though again artillery shells can occasionally be considered to be expensive, and penal legionaries...well their free...."-Arch hahahahahahahahahahah the irony.
"They steal like the gypsies..." Hey, just because they disappointed the Emperor, doesn´t mean you have the right to insult the penal legionairies, Arch. :(
Although, you have to question the source. If there was a power in the galaxy stealing your people, you would say anything and everything to discredit it...especially if the grass really _was_ greener on the other side.
ya, well so does almost every other Special Regiment, but Arch hasn't got to those yet. Just wait a couple of months, maybe a few years, and we'll get a Last Chancers video.
Well, wouldn't scrapping a malfunctioning lasgun be disrespectful to the machine spirit? Sure its a waste of resources, but when a techpriest has to choose between inefficient resource usage and pissing off the machine spirit... its pretty easy to guess what he'd do.
One guy did manage to get out of the Last Chancers for a brief period (I don't have the book with me, so I don't have his name handy). After infiltrating an Imperial fortress, detonating the plasma reactors, and singlehandedly confronting a gene stealer, he earned a pardon and posting to an Imperial Guard regiment in a relatively quiet part of the galaxy. Unfortunately he didn't quite take to the quiet life and ended up killing his superior officers in a bar fight. When he awoke from his drunken stupor, Col Schaffer himself was standing over him tearing up the pardon and offered him a spot in the Last Chancers.
And then i think i remember that the one that survived took part in the third war for Armageddon killed von stab and then died falling into some lava or something because of demonic procession as he was an unidentified pysker or something.
Lt. Kage was his name. He completed dozens of missions with Col. Shaffer and won his pardon and was assigned to a guard regiment, but shortly after arriving got drunk and was involved in a fight with a fellow officer which he killed with his bare hands. When he awoke in an alley Col. Shaffer was standing over him telling him he was scum, but was the Col.’s scum and he still had a use for him. Kage continued to serve as Shaffer’s second in command until he died on Armageddon killing himself to resist a warp entity possession.
kampfer91 now I just imagine the emperor flying across the imperium on sanguinala,leaving toys and candy for all the loyal little kiddies in the galaxy,and coal for all the traitors
James.T .Adams *M41 996* *Sanguinala* *Random Hive city, unknown planet, Segmentum Obscurus* *Chaos space marine warband is hiding in the sewers planning to take over the city during the festivals* *Chaos Marine 1* So... how are we gonna take this place? *Chaos Marine 2* Silence you insolence fool! I'm trying to think! *Chaos Marine 3* I think I heard a noise somewhere... *Chaos Marine 2* Shut up! Go tell the Noise Marine what-his-name that he can come out now! *Chaos Marine 3* Sure whatever *Chaos Marine 3 exits small room they dug out of the walls of one of the sewer tunnels* Hey Varkas, you can come out now. But keep your gun turned off! *Varkas the Noise Marine* I hear it! It's coming for us! Here it is! *Chaos Marine 3* What are you ta.... *Chaos Marine 3 turns his head to see mountains upon mountains of coal traveling at 2000 mph going through the tunnels demolishing everything in its wake* *Chaos Marine 3* Shit *Varkas* THE EMPEROR'S WRATH IS UPON US! HAHAHAA *They were all killed by trillions of coal bits smashing into their bodies*
+Astartes Master Remiel and the hive city breaks out in cholera and dysentery because the already ilrepaired sewer system clogs and can't be repaired due to trillions of tons of coal. The city as always starts to fight itself for survival as plague and death erupts throughout.. And nurgle chuckles to himself as another hive city falls.
40K. Passive Aggressive British WW1 (in spaaaaaaace) parody that turned into a gigantic meme machine of sheer, unadulterated ridiculosity. And I love every minute of it.
Solar Macharius having been studying on Stalin and the gulags with political prisoners doing essentially nothing wrong I can see how fucking horrible 40k prison world would be.
Psychic cat exists in WH40k. It is called "Gynix", looks like a bobcat and is often in company of Eldar. Very high ranking Imperials occasionally get one too.
4:20 why would they need to force civilians into penal legions with fabricated crimes when they can just conscript whoever they want into the regular guardsmen regiments ?
Multiple reasons: The Imperium still is a realistic system (as realistic as a fantasy setting can be). This means, if everyday citziens get drafted (more than usual) this will reduce stability on the planet in question. Why stay a peacefull and loyal worker, if this doesnt change anythign? For the same reason, conscriptions are rare as fuck outside of planets close to (or that are) warzones. And it also has the tendency to reduce efficiency, if the workers disappear. Also: Guardsmen do have rights. Some regiments may not give a fuck about said rights, but guardsmen are still usually well respected people. Again, it ensures stability and discipline, that everyone has rights and duties. This means, that even a conscript in many regiments cannot be used as a penal legionaire. He still for example gets a regimental kit and unlike a penal legionaires command, an actual regimental command has to answer for to many unexpeceted casualites. Granted, some regiments use their conscripts as meatshields, but those are rare und usually they only do it if a) they have no better use for untrained personal or b) this statues changes, if the recruit proofs himself. And so, a penal legionaire may be more usefull than a conscript. Especially since the first is definetly, even for smaller crimes, a criminal and criminals are hardy folks in the imperium. And finally, the drafters in question might get moral issues with herding faithfull and good working citiziens to their doom for no reason. They are still people, after all. But if you tell them, that those people betrayed the emperors trust, than not giving them any weaponary turns from hard and unfair to well deserved and still to good for them.
+Sebastian Krant nope, when you start taking civilians and charging them w false crimes en masse they will revolt against the local gov. Even if the individual can't their friends and families and even the security forces will. If a known threat is nearby and you conscript in the name of defending the homeland the population won't like it but they will fight to defend their homes and families.. People don't like being lied to, or outright corruption. See every revolution/ civil war in history..
The problem is they know are false charges because the imperiums comes , see the planet dont giving enought resources and says , you guys arent giving enought resources so all of you are criminals and will be a penal-colony ."the wole planet" and the population dont riot?! wtf that was a plot hole.
@@enrlichhartman not quite what happened, it got turned into a penal colony where criminals WERE SENT; the original populace weren't criminalized en masse, tho they still had to deal with harsh living conditions
It would be cool if there was a story where the Marines Maleviolent operated alongside a Penal Legion and actually on some level related to them and gained some kind of mutual respect.
I like to think the one Last Chancer to make it all the way to redemption while still breathing and actually be rewarded for it was Colonel Shaeffer himself. Who better to lead the Simon Fenix’s of 40k on suicide missions and give them hope at the same time? A minute of genuine inspiration is worth an hour of fear after all.
I just painted half a dozen Penal Leman Russ tanks for my personal 1373rd Penal guard army. They are basically rustbuckets with Latin writing on them about penitence. They are backup for my Maccabian Jannisaries
Guardsmen do have basic rights and duties. Without such a system, discipline would be hard to enforce. Guardsmen have actually a pretty good live, if they are halfway usefull. And if they are not a) the meatshield line infantary variant or b) specialised in hellish fighting like attrition war, tunnel fighting or melee assault. The problem is just, that one miscalculated charge, one unexpeted foe or just one departure to a hellish warzone can destroy all that .However, the great masses of their foes, like Orks, cultists, rebels etc. are not that dangerous, since it will usually be small incursions, they will spend most of the time waiting and training and their colonels will try to not waste them. And so, during that time, the guardsman, while having a hard live, has a stable life. He has downtime. He may be expected to go in somewhere, shoot some people and than get back. He may fight for days, but he also has days where nothing happens. If you want to have him the first kind of days efficient, you need to treat him halfway decent the other days.
@@larkalfen9510 it uses whatever the planets it contains uses; there's no single currency since it's way too big for that to work; why should the affluent planet's currency be tied with the poor planets and thus drag down the value? i think the IG mostly get paid in goods anyway
This is why I like human regiments: an astartes can easily live 10,000 years, but a guardsman is lucky to live 10,000 days. They're in a perpetually hopeless situation but fight anyways. That's BRUTAL.
Last chances is actually a book series in Warhammer 40k and follows their adventures through the eyes of Lt. Kage. It's a good series written you gave thorp.
To each of us falls a task. And all the emperor requires of us guardsmen is that we stand the line and die fighting. It is what we do best. Die standing.
Forest elfranger Fucking Taldeer took one of the manliest of men from us when she could have just told him what was going on and helped him obliterate the enemy.
Mike A You can fall once you make enough space by slaughtering the enemies of the god emperor. Buzzy Bland Petty much that is the eldar in a nut shell. Keep very useful information to their selves and try to fucking kill us. Only to end up screwing over as many people as possible.
Shafer did pardon a lone survivor(Cant remember his name).....but he murdered a guardsman colonel shortly after in a drunken rage. He immediately got a chance to rejoin the last chancers and he took it.
Penal legions are the cushion for the pushin. It's like sticking the mercenaries and low morale units smack in the middle of formation so they can't break and run.
"PENAL legion, I thought the Adeptas Sororitas requested a PENILE legion!" Also downvoting the video for "Irregardless". I got standards that I will maintain REGARDLESS of the actual quality of your video (which is quite high, a shame you were found wanting). If I catch you saying "a whole nother" you can upload me flying out to your place to tan your hide with my belt.
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY HIS FUCKING NA-(vox transmission cut off for a moment before resuming)AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-(transmission ends)
Interesting to note about WW2 The Germans left several thousand minefields throughout the war. Now clearing these minefields was absolutely necessary as they occupied, Farmland, roadways, beaches, cities, railyards....The Jerries' really liked minefields, I digress. Anyway the Allies really needed to clear these fields but didn't have the manpower. What they did have, was German POWs. So they took said POW pointed them at minefields (at gunpoint) gave the prisoners knives, and told them to get digging. Minefields and Penal regiments a match made in hell.
Hey Arch! You are doing an incredible job, have followed you since 2015, and it has been a joy, and it still is. if it is not too much to ask for more wammer fantasy lores.
Yeah, should have used this one vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/4a/Savlar_Chem-Dog_Trooper_2.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20160403224426
Hey Arch I have a question, there is still an entire universe outside the Milkyway right? I ask because if there is the Milkyway is just one of oh so many then that makes its species, no matter how powerful, little more than a tiny speck of a drop in the ocean of what should be out there and of little influence. But obviously this is not the case, what with gods being murder fucked into existence. This makes me think that that one tiny part isn't so tiny anymore because its all that is left. Did the Tyranids eat everything else already?
They say if every single lasshot, bullet, bolt, etc, in the Imperium hit and killed a tyrannid it would not scratch their numbers in the slightest. Though if the tyrannids ate everything else wouldn't that include other sentient life, therefore creating a god of om nom nomming? If we are just a drop in the sea then that means the entirety of the sea has been slaughtered and devoured and if that's the case then no matter how powerful the shadow of the Warp is that would have to make at least one more god. Also tyrannids evolve to resist whatever they fight so if they ate the rest of the universe then through all that war they should be nigh immortal by now.
Arch you have to do a video on the Last Chancer books. + there are a few people that have survived the 13th, one being Lieutenant Kage of the books. And the reason Schaffer is so happy to let them go, is because he knows, give em a month or two and he'll be seeing them once again.
I thought Penal Legions were legions dedicated to Penal justice, to punish penally individuals from the imperium who did not respect the law. After watching the video, all I can say is... All hail Chaos.
As for the mechanicus giving defunct weapons, I would more think they give the substandard stuff, stuff that doesn't quite meet the mark, but still works. Maybe it only has a 90% efficient beam. Maybe it has a lower ammunition capacity, etc. Stuff that's close enough, but not up to par, so making it anew is more of a waste than giving it to the penal legion, where it's not expected to return. But you probably know the mechanicus a little better than me. I'm much of a lite fan of warhammer.
Not sure if anybody else has said this already but the one member of Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers to receive a pardon was Lt Kage, if memory serves.
"My lord we have to many criminals. What would we do?"
"You can never have to many meat shields."
Tavern Burner sarcastically funny
russian military tactics
This is what I dont get why is there like no warhammer movies? And I mean good ones.
And u thought gitmo was bad
When I learned you could double up on powerfists when taking the Lord Commissar as your HQ, I started trying to create the ultimate wall of meat shields for "Commander Hollyfield" This video reminded me of that strange experiment.
The Penal Legions: when the Imperial Guard isn't expendable enough and your planetary defense forces aren't batshit enough.
@@user-hr1iy4nz4s what are you on about?
Silvia Christandl I assume MovingTarget changed his username or icon in the past 2 years. That’s a guess on my part.
@@midshipman8654 your probably right
@@silviachristandl5874 I mean one time i got response of "You responded to nothing" after person who commented removed their comment , so dismissing it is not all times correct decision .
penal legions: meat shields for meat shields.
to be fair, conscripts are meat shields. The emperor expects a LITTLE more from a guardsman.
Don't you mean meat shields for the red shirts?
But who is the meat shields for the meat shields of the meat shields hmm?
TRK Probably servitors. Why waste trained men as meat shields when you have lobotomised cyborgs instead?
+Joseph Mottram
Don't be silly.
Do you know how expensive those cyborg bits are?
"What most people don't know about Killbots is that each one has a set kill-limit. And so, knowing their one weakness I sent in wave after wave of my own men till they hit their limits and shut down." - Fourteen Star Admiral Zapp Brannigan
This is great
"Kiff have the boy lay out my formal shorts"
"The boy sir"
"You kiff, you layout my formal shorts"
"Uuurgh"
Implying that wasn't the greatest plan ever.
EROTIC!!
and thats how u get 14 stars!
"Lord the fortress has a mine field."
"Send in the penal legion."
"with magnets attached "
Thats how u play Mine Sweeper in 40K :^)
I keep thinking of a guy with barely any clothes on and a shiv just running and screaming before jumping onto the back of an ork and repeatedly trying to stab it's neck
@@sethleoric2598 so death korps of Krieg?
@@some_shitposting_idiot3023 both
"So how'd you get sent to this penal legion"
"Jaywalking"
*Horrified Scream* GOD EMPEROR! GET AWAY FROM ME YOU MONSTER!
I ripped the tag off a mattress
Heretic!
I said one of the cogboys vox units looked like a cogitator
“Tax evasion”
12:02 The drug they pump into them is called *_Friendzone_* !? No wonder they charge into battle with reckless abandon and a total disregard for safety, that stuff is hell.
Only the dead can know peace from that hell.
Jack Snow really?
Eli Gutman
Oh, the blissful ignorance is just so horrifyingly funny, isn't it?
Yeah i guess so haha!
NO, THEY FREINDZONED ME!!!!!
"If you will not serve in combat, then you will serve on the firing line!"
Jehova's Abettor what's the difference?
to put it into simple terms: one you at the very least get to shoot back at the asshats trying to put a bullet in you and the other option is where you Get tied to a post watch as 5-10 assholes with rifles make a semi-circle, raise rifles, aim and shoot until you are dead
which would you take?
Tavern Burner shoot people and very likely die, or just die. Unless you're very lucky and survive the initial salvo, then prepare to eat another salvo or two
@@bobyork6248 I know that I am very late but most executions were carried out mid battle by commissars
If you break the rules in the Chem Dogs they don't execute you, they send you home. Because that is a fate worse than death
Because their planet is such a horrible place to live that it makes you consider joining a penal legion. Where the chances of dying in the most gruesome ways possible is practically guaranteed
@eviltreemonster i believe its a prison world. Its also a toxic mining world were the guards can be just as violent as the prisoners, the food is probably even worse than standard imperial guard rations, and I think ive read from somewhere that the resource that the prisoners are mining are highly toxic (and they don't wear much protection). So the only way to leave a place like this is to join the chem dogs penal legion. Your chances of survival might not be much higher but its remarkably more comfortable (at least more comfortable than the former option of staying home)
@eviltreemonster basically. Imagine living on a toxic world with your only company being murderers, rapists, heretics, traitors, thieves, and angry guards who only means entertainment is shooting and abusing the prisoners (prisoners being you ofcourse)
@eviltreemonster Makes Krieg look like a paradise world
@eviltreemonster Did you even watch the video?
The Penal Legion: The Imperial Guard of the Imperial Guard.
the last chances would actually make a better movie than suicide squad
You can make it into a series. The last chances the movie. the last chances flash light wars.
Calimero Hœnir
Absolutely!
I suppose you could make a total of three movies, but most likely it would be the first book or maybe the short story from the omnibus.
So would a 3 hour film of paint drying
Calimero Hœnir like the last chances go off in the last movie to fight a final desperate battle against the tyranids,where they all die in glorious slow motion while a voice over tells of how the invasion was driven back by a last minute appearance of the astartes before cutting to a memoriam plaque on a battle barge with the names of all the soldiers of the last chances carved upon it while appropriately sad music plays...that would be fucking awesome
+Sandro The Great
good point
I remember reading the Last Chancers book where there was one guy that survived and got a pardon. The guy's name was Kage (I think he held the rank of Lieutenant). His back story is that he was sentenced to a penal colony after either punching or outright killing his superior officer in his former guard unit (if memory serves). He attempted to escape by waiting for a resupply ship to arrive in which he would slip onto the ship dressed as a guard. Unfortunately for him his cover was blown and in his mad dash to get off the planet he tried to hijack a ship. Even more unfortunately, the guy coming off said ship was Colonel Schaeffer himself, who immediately subdued Kage and had him inducted into the legion because Kage was "the kind of scum he needed".
However, after succeeding in the final mission and being the lone survivor of a group that numbered around 4000(?) to begin with, he made the somewhat fatal mistake of deciding to keep his penal legion tattoo instead of having it removed. He had come to see it as something of a badge of honor. When he tried to sign up for a different guard squad an officer saw the tattoo and began treating him like scum. The situation escalated into a fight in which Kage took the officer's ceremonial sword and gave him one cut for every soldier that died during his time in the penal legion (he had even taken the time to remember their names), all because the officer had said that they should've all just died. After that he passed out in an alley only to wake up with Schaeffer standing over him and ripping the pardon in half and welcoming him back into the legion permanently, the last words of the book being "Oh frag" (I suppose in this case "frag" is their equivalent to "fuck").
I believe he was also referenced in the first entry for the Last Chancers way back in a White Dwarf magazine once. During the pre-battle writeup the Last Chancers squad members, who were about to assault a place held by Chaos Space Marines, complained about how anybody could be expected to survive the mission. The silent Lieutenant (at the time unnamed) spoke up and merely said "I did", before returning to his duties, causing all squad members to just stare at him.
The last I read regarding Kage is that he turned out to be a latent psychic (which explained his extraordinarily good luck) and got possessed by a daemon. He proceeded to shrug off its influence long enough to assassinate their target by throwing himself and the guy into a lava pit (I think) as an act of redemption. Sorry, I haven't read the books in a while so my memory of certain things is a bit hazy.
Absolute badass
Thats pretty much accurate. Missing a big gap.
according to a wiki, kabe is the one that kills the traitor von strabb in armageddon during the second ork invasion
He coulda been a Grey Knights candidate
@@xxPyroKnighTxx so Kage got another pardon?
I'm surprised the Blood Ravens don't recruit from these guys considering their mutual love of theft
How do you know they don't?
Would be an interesting concept, if some brutal "by-the-book" officer runs to some penal legion comissar and screams at him why all his guns have been stolen and so on... and the comissar just nods, turns around and turns out to be a space marine scout sargeant.
Sebastian Krant No, the Penal Commissar spins around, rips his skin off like a disguise, and Reveals himself to be a fully armored Blood Ravens Seargent. He grabs the Commissar's hat then proceeds to run away giggling.
He turns around and it is a member of the emperor's children. "sorry, i mistook you for your successor chapter. Sorry to interrupt your guitar solo"
they just might steal recruits from there
Ah human mine sweeping, that brings back memories. Back in the '90s when I was in the US Navy, USS Aubrey Fitch guided missile frigate FFG-34, they had us sweep for mines in Port au Prince harbor prior to the "big invasion". Obviously the US has specialist ships to do this but someone fucked up and so there wasn't one available as to reduce maintenance costs all mine sweeps had been pooled together in San Diego and calling for one now would have delayed the invasion by a month. So we swept by going into the harbor to see if we blew up. They moved me from sonar watch to deck watch for the event. It was the first time I'd stood deck watch, but I preferred my chances for surviving a mine hit if I was top side. Anywho it was night and I was scanning the water in front of us with low light binoculars and what was the first thing I saw? All these little lights on the water in front of us. So I ducked inside the bridge and asked generally (because I had no idea who I was supposed to report to) "What the fuck is up with all these little lights on the water?" This was apparently very inappropriate and a junior officer was told to deal with me. JOs are silly people. Anywho he tells me and I quote, "Those were in the mission briefing. They do not constitute a hazard to navigation." Being that I hadn't been invited to the mission briefing, or had any briefing at all beyond stand on the deck and look for mines I pressed for an explanation - enlisted can get away with that in some parts of the Navy. He explained that those little lights were the desperately poor locals trying to catch fish by luring them up to the surface and grabbing them. We ran the fuck over those people. Must have killed at least a few dozen. Probably closer to around a hundred. They were definitely not a hazard to navigation. We didn't blow up and the next day the big amphib assault ships came in and restored El Presidente for Life to power. More importantly Clinton's misery farming operation was saved ensuring they could continue to exploit the impoverished natives of Haiti for decades and billions of dollars to come.
Nice.
Am i reading a fucking 3-tome memoir in youtube comments?
Damn
hiiamapirate You get old, you have stories.
As I read the last couple sentences the image of a bald eagle saluting the american flag shedding a single tear while the USA national anthem was playing in the background popped into my head. God Bless America.
"it will ususally involve backbreaking, hard manual labour"
- send this unarmed penallegion as a decoy to the dark eldar!
You gotta imagine that some planetary governor _somewhere_ in the galaxy trades convicted pedophiles and serial torture-murderers to the dark pansies for whatever resource they have.
@@MisterBones2910 That sounds like a wounderful idea!
@@John-Stark the problem is, they might not die, they might come back as the pets of the dark pansies in a future invasion, drugged to the gills, and i mean literal gills cuz the Haemunculi decided gills were cool
17:37 "Though again artillery shells can occasionally be considered to be expensive, and penal legionaries...well their free...."-Arch hahahahahahahahahahah the irony.
if you had blood ravens and a penal legion in the same camp which group would end up with everything in the camp?
That's a good question actually.
Jefferson DeMott neither the equipment would just go into a perpetual loop of theft.
My money is on the Bloody Magpies, they always win, unless the penal legion is being led by Vance Stubbs.
The emperor's children. The ravens have to go home someday.
The Ravens, even the bodies and life's of the penal legion soldiers.
"They steal like the gypsies..." Hey, just because they disappointed the Emperor, doesn´t mean you have the right to insult the penal legionairies, Arch. :(
I see what you did there... AND I LOVE IT!
The Empyronaut That took me a second. Then I let out a "Pfffft!!" that scared my dogs. 😂
Damn that Shade though xD
#coldblooded lol
awesome :_D AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
@@edenromanov 99
Commisar: "Hah, mass casualties? I call that progress!"
The Last Chances sound like they'd make a great game. The commentary would be hilarious
I also heard that if Penal legionnaires survive multiple battles, they get forgiven and turned over to another proper guard unit.
Only if they achieve some amazing feat of valor.
and the imperium is still surprised people join the tau.
Or Chaos
Well there was that one time on T'ros the Tau used Gue'la as a fire screen to redeem themselves after they betrayed the Tau'va
Ironically, soldiers in the Imperial Guard like to joke that Gue'vesa means 'meat shield' in Tau.
That's funny, because the Gue'vesa have become the second most common thing in the Tau empire other than Tau
Although, you have to question the source. If there was a power in the galaxy stealing your people, you would say anything and everything to discredit it...especially if the grass really _was_ greener on the other side.
the last chancers deserve they're own video.
ya, well so does almost every other Special Regiment, but Arch hasn't got to those yet. Just wait a couple of months, maybe a few years, and we'll get a Last Chancers video.
Colonel Schaeffer approves
They're basically "Suicide Squad" in space.
with demons
Daimon X
But does he? Really?
Well, wouldn't scrapping a malfunctioning lasgun be disrespectful to the machine spirit? Sure its a waste of resources, but when a techpriest has to choose between inefficient resource usage and pissing off the machine spirit... its pretty easy to guess what he'd do.
Kahavave it's religious dogma it's not suppose to makes sense.
Lastchansers are damned anyway.
Ahh the Penal Legions, for when even the Death Korps of Krieg aren't expendable enough you know shit has really hit the fan.
One guy did manage to get out of the Last Chancers for a brief period (I don't have the book with me, so I don't have his name handy). After infiltrating an Imperial fortress, detonating the plasma reactors, and singlehandedly confronting a gene stealer, he earned a pardon and posting to an Imperial Guard regiment in a relatively quiet part of the galaxy. Unfortunately he didn't quite take to the quiet life and ended up killing his superior officers in a bar fight. When he awoke from his drunken stupor, Col Schaffer himself was standing over him tearing up the pardon and offered him a spot in the Last Chancers.
lotuswraith mint
And then i think i remember that the one that survived took part in the third war for Armageddon killed von stab and then died falling into some lava or something because of demonic procession as he was an unidentified pysker or something.
That was a great book and one of my first exposures to the 40K universe.
Lt. Kage was his name. He completed dozens of missions with Col. Shaffer and won his pardon and was assigned to a guard regiment, but shortly after arriving got drunk and was involved in a fight with a fellow officer which he killed with his bare hands. When he awoke in an alley Col. Shaffer was standing over him telling him he was scum, but was the Col.’s scum and he still had a use for him. Kage continued to serve as Shaffer’s second in command until he died on Armageddon killing himself to resist a warp entity possession.
Teddy bear is blessed by the God Emperor himself , serve you right for stealing the joy of the children of Emperor .
kampfer91 now I just imagine the emperor flying across the imperium on sanguinala,leaving toys and candy for all the loyal little kiddies in the galaxy,and coal for all the traitors
James.T .Adams the Emperor gave that job to the great wolf.
James.T .Adams
*M41 996*
*Sanguinala*
*Random Hive city, unknown planet, Segmentum Obscurus*
*Chaos space marine warband is hiding in the sewers planning to take over the city during the festivals*
*Chaos Marine 1*
So... how are we gonna take this place?
*Chaos Marine 2*
Silence you insolence fool! I'm trying to think!
*Chaos Marine 3*
I think I heard a noise somewhere...
*Chaos Marine 2*
Shut up! Go tell the Noise Marine what-his-name that he can come out now!
*Chaos Marine 3*
Sure whatever
*Chaos Marine 3 exits small room they dug out of the walls of one of the sewer tunnels*
Hey Varkas, you can come out now. But keep your gun turned off!
*Varkas the Noise Marine*
I hear it! It's coming for us! Here it is!
*Chaos Marine 3*
What are you ta....
*Chaos Marine 3 turns his head to see mountains upon mountains of coal traveling at 2000 mph going through the tunnels demolishing everything in its wake*
*Chaos Marine 3*
Shit
*Varkas*
THE EMPEROR'S WRATH IS UPON US! HAHAHAA
*They were all killed by trillions of coal bits smashing into their bodies*
Astartes Master Remiel better not shout better not cry kiddes...or else...
+Astartes Master Remiel and the hive city breaks out in cholera and dysentery because the already ilrepaired sewer system clogs and can't be repaired due to trillions of tons of coal. The city as always starts to fight itself for survival as plague and death erupts throughout.. And nurgle chuckles to himself as another hive city falls.
19:11 *DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACE OF MERCY TO YOU!?!?!!?*
MrAwsomenoob Yes
*BLAM!!!*
MrAwsomenoob *PEW* *PEW* *PEW*
40K. Passive Aggressive British WW1 (in spaaaaaaace) parody that turned into a gigantic meme machine of sheer, unadulterated ridiculosity.
And I love every minute of it.
Planet sized gulags, welcome to 40k heretic.
Solar Macharius having been studying on Stalin and the gulags with political prisoners doing essentially nothing wrong I can see how fucking horrible 40k prison world would be.
HOPE??
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment"
road
The last chancers sound like the 40k version of the dirty dozen.
Psychic cat exists in WH40k. It is called "Gynix", looks like a bobcat and is often in company of Eldar. Very high ranking Imperials occasionally get one too.
Last time I was this early I actually thought Trump wasn't going to hire back the *swamp*
niceme.me
Alec B. Isakov nice
Alec B. Isakov make the imperium great again.
Alec B. Isakov he means the political hacks, (he did fire some of them)
Hell, he turned the swamp into a toxic waste dump.
20:32 it's a shame they aren't younger because with that kind of kleptocmania the Blood Ravens would never run out of recruits
4:20 why would they need to force civilians into penal legions with fabricated crimes when they can just conscript whoever they want into the regular guardsmen regiments ?
Multiple reasons: The Imperium still is a realistic system (as realistic as a fantasy setting can be). This means, if everyday citziens get drafted (more than usual) this will reduce stability on the planet in question. Why stay a peacefull and loyal worker, if this doesnt change anythign? For the same reason, conscriptions are rare as fuck outside of planets close to (or that are) warzones. And it also has the tendency to reduce efficiency, if the workers disappear.
Also: Guardsmen do have rights. Some regiments may not give a fuck about said rights, but guardsmen are still usually well respected people. Again, it ensures stability and discipline, that everyone has rights and duties. This means, that even a conscript in many regiments cannot be used as a penal legionaire. He still for example gets a regimental kit and unlike a penal legionaires command, an actual regimental command has to answer for to many unexpeceted casualites. Granted, some regiments use their conscripts as meatshields, but those are rare und usually they only do it if a) they have no better use for untrained personal or b) this statues changes, if the recruit proofs himself. And so, a penal legionaire may be more usefull than a conscript. Especially since the first is definetly, even for smaller crimes, a criminal and criminals are hardy folks in the imperium. And finally, the drafters in question might get moral issues with herding faithfull and good working citiziens to their doom for no reason. They are still people, after all. But if you tell them, that those people betrayed the emperors trust, than not giving them any weaponary turns from hard and unfair to well deserved and still to good for them.
+Sebastian Krant nope, when you start taking civilians and charging them w false crimes en masse they will revolt against the local gov. Even if the individual can't their friends and families and even the security forces will. If a known threat is nearby and you conscript in the name of defending the homeland the population won't like it but they will fight to defend their homes and families.. People don't like being lied to, or outright corruption. See every revolution/ civil war in history..
The problem is they know are false charges because the imperiums comes , see the planet dont giving enought resources and says , you guys arent giving enought resources so all of you are criminals and will be a penal-colony ."the wole planet" and the population dont riot?! wtf that was a plot hole.
@@enrlichhartman not quite what happened, it got turned into a penal colony where criminals WERE SENT; the original populace weren't criminalized en masse, tho they still had to deal with harsh living conditions
@@enrlichhartman no the popular does riot for a few seconds then the median guards kills the civilians in a 1 mile radius
As a major DC fan, one single phrase kept repeating itself in my head throughout this video:
"Welcome to the Suicide Squad,"
Welcome to the Suicide Army
Lord-of-Change hey they may have done some terrible things but you shouldn't insult the Legion like that
Can you imagine pregnateing an impregnable bunker with an *AVERAGE* *PENAL* legion.
an average penile legion you mean
ah yes, friendzone. The most addictive drug of our time. All the boys seem to take it in abundance.
It would be cool if there was a story where the Marines Maleviolent operated alongside a Penal Legion and actually on some level related to them and gained some kind of mutual respect.
they get dosed with 'friendzone"? Man that would make me go into a homicidal rage
I like to think the one Last Chancer to make it all the way to redemption while still breathing and actually be rewarded for it was Colonel Shaeffer himself. Who better to lead the Simon Fenix’s of 40k on suicide missions and give them hope at the same time? A minute of genuine inspiration is worth an hour of fear after all.
Probably given how the Imperium is in general.
"Penal" Legions? So do they get spanked by a ultrasmurf every time they fail to capture an objective or something?
I just painted half a dozen Penal Leman Russ tanks for my personal 1373rd Penal guard army.
They are basically rustbuckets with Latin writing on them about penitence.
They are backup for my Maccabian Jannisaries
18:55
"They do not have the right to refuse any order."
Isn't that like... the entirety of the Imperial Guard anyway?
Guardsmen do have basic rights and duties. Without such a system, discipline would be hard to enforce. Guardsmen have actually a pretty good live, if they are halfway usefull. And if they are not a) the meatshield line infantary variant or b) specialised in hellish fighting like attrition war, tunnel fighting or melee assault. The problem is just, that one miscalculated charge, one unexpeted foe or just one departure to a hellish warzone can destroy all that .However, the great masses of their foes, like Orks, cultists, rebels etc. are not that dangerous, since it will usually be small incursions, they will spend most of the time waiting and training and their colonels will try to not waste them. And so, during that time, the guardsman, while having a hard live, has a stable life. He has downtime. He may be expected to go in somewhere, shoot some people and than get back. He may fight for days, but he also has days where nothing happens. If you want to have him the first kind of days efficient, you need to treat him halfway decent the other days.
I think the imperial guard gets at least paid for his duties
Even so I never knew what kind of currency Imperium uses
@@larkalfen9510 it uses whatever the planets it contains uses; there's no single currency since it's way too big for that to work; why should the affluent planet's currency be tied with the poor planets and thus drag down the value? i think the IG mostly get paid in goods anyway
best thing to listen when in need of night time story before falling asleep
I'm old enough to remember when these guys first came out, with their explosive collars.
I had to smile at the Demolition Man reference near the end
Thanks for the new video. Always a classic. I eagerly await the new primarch videos. Any idea when you will release the next one?
I'm eager for the same. So far the Konrad Kurze video has likely been my favorite video Arch has done.
Speaking Ill of the local lord governor being punished with a sentence to a penal legion isn’t even a desperate move, that’s just normal
On the train to Oslo, and this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!!
so basically it's the Warhammer version of "The Dirty Dozen" huh?...i like it!
I recall reading somewhere about the penal legions having all kinds of archeotech that they "found"
"Frenzon" through the Google subtitles filter turns into "friend zone" 😄
Gotta love some Savlar Chem dogs so glad to see they got the call out. I remember the old Schaeffers last chancers rules, god those were cool.
This is why I like human regiments: an astartes can easily live 10,000 years, but a guardsman is lucky to live 10,000 days. They're in a perpetually hopeless situation but fight anyways. That's BRUTAL.
So... Attach Chem Dogs to a Death Korps engineer squad and watch the fun? XD
Add a mordian iron gaurd regiment to that and let the fireworks roll.
Last chances is actually a book series in Warhammer 40k and follows their adventures through the eyes of Lt. Kage. It's a good series written you gave thorp.
To each of us falls a task. And all the emperor requires of us guardsmen is that we stand the line and die fighting. It is what we do best. Die standing.
mainly because there is no space to fall.
Mike A ha ha ha
Forest elfranger Fucking Taldeer took one of the manliest of men from us when she could have just told him what was going on and helped him obliterate the enemy.
Mike A You can fall once you make enough space by slaughtering the enemies of the god emperor.
Buzzy Bland Petty much that is the eldar in a nut shell. Keep very useful information to their selves and try to fucking kill us. Only to end up screwing over as many people as possible.
The one upside of being a Last Chancer is that it's going to be over with relatively quickly, one way or the other.
7:51 - "Irregardless."
I'LL FUCKING KILL YO-
I mean. That is not a word. I don't care what the dictionaries now say. It is not a word!
LostGryphon he is not a native English speaker cut him some slack man!
LostGryphon it is a word now
why? BECAUSE I FUCKING SAID SO
There can be no excusing such heresy!
The Penal legions are more numerous then the enemy's ammunition supply. Praise the Emperor!
Many tactics used by the imperium of man resemble Soviet tactics used during the Great Patriotic War.
Thievishlogin AKA Mickey749 Perhaps if your sole reference is call of duty
"For the Emperor's redemption... And loot." *I died from laughter*
sooo.... suicide squads ?
Mikhail Bychkov
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Throw more bodies at it and soon they will die from under the weight of the corpses.
Suicide battalions*
Forest elfranger or from drowning in their blood
Mikhail Bychkov that is plan b.
12:05
"Frenzon"
It obviously makes them want to be frenz!
Shafer did pardon a lone survivor(Cant remember his name).....but he murdered a guardsman colonel shortly after in a drunken rage.
He immediately got a chance to rejoin the last chancers and he took it.
Allways feel like a king when i listen how the life in the gloryus imperium is^^
I love your vids, waiting for the next beast arises! your a freaking beast!!
The imperium:we need a drug that makes people go berserk
Techpriests: got it give them the feeling of being told 'I like you as a friend'
Even the Ruinous Powers frown upon stealing teddy bears.
Penal legions are the cushion for the pushin. It's like sticking the mercenaries and low morale units smack in the middle of formation so they can't break and run.
"PENAL legion, I thought the Adeptas Sororitas requested a PENILE legion!"
Also downvoting the video for "Irregardless". I got standards that I will maintain REGARDLESS of the actual quality of your video (which is quite high, a shame you were found wanting). If I catch you saying "a whole nother" you can upload me flying out to your place to tan your hide with my belt.
Gigas0101 the commissar would like a word with you guardsman(BLAM)
as in the theme of the video I say we don't BlAM him and send him to the penal legions.
I wouldn't mind being sent to one of the penile legions assigned to the Sororitas. It's time I do my Duty for emperor and imperium!
Nextdoor Slaaneshi cult would like that as well, I hear they are hiring.
death by snu snu?
Makes you wish for a 40k Shooter where you play as a Last Chancer and fight alongside Colonel Schaeffer to fight for you pardon.
please mighty Arch, can we get some Traitor Guard ? Appreciated !
I just imagine Imperial tank driver going over to Leman Russ tank and turning on the key and then the tank falls apart
Somebody survived the Last Chancers. wouldn't it be amusing if it was Sly Marbo.
Isn't Sly a Catachan?
Shhh don't smother the dream, instead embrace the possibilities that come with imagination. *Queue Imagination song*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SAY HIS FUCKING NA-(vox transmission cut off for a moment before resuming)AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-(transmission ends)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
7:50 irregardless is not a word, Arch.
Godlike new intro
Interesting to note about WW2
The Germans left several thousand minefields throughout the war. Now clearing these minefields was absolutely necessary as they occupied, Farmland, roadways, beaches, cities, railyards....The Jerries' really liked minefields, I digress. Anyway the Allies really needed to clear these fields but didn't have the manpower. What they did have, was German POWs. So they took said POW pointed them at minefields (at gunpoint) gave the prisoners knives, and told them to get digging.
Minefields and Penal regiments a match made in hell.
Sooo... the guy that survived is Sly Marbo, right?
Hey Arch! You are doing an incredible job, have followed you since 2015, and it has been a joy, and it still is. if it is not too much to ask for more wammer fantasy lores.
this is your last chancers to watch this
imagine never knowing about the sun and then seeing it
heres me: *walks outside* AH! fuck is that? *goes back to work*
Nothing goes to waste in the imperium huh?
Cold Flame Nothing not even the bodies of the dead
Which are used for building towns and makeshift cover
Zeno Blues Corpses of meat shields taken to be rendered into corpse-starch. Survivors rendered alive. Such is live on Volg.
Which are turned in corpse-star... "military rations"
andreas sjotun ...What?
S.T.E.A.L Strategic Transfer of Equipment to Alternate Location
Arch, why the FUCK at 5:19 do you show me a Drookian Fen Guard Guardsmen while talking about the Savlar Chem Dogs.
Yeah, should have used this one vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/4/4a/Savlar_Chem-Dog_Trooper_2.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20160403224426
cuz he looks like a bum, and therefore fits the stereotype!
Arch Warhammer *_HERESY!!_*
AND THAT'S COMING FROM A FURRY, A DOG FUCKING OXYGEN THIEF!!!
Furry Detected. Purge?
The Warhammer mod for Dominions 4 is worth playing and I'd love to see you make videos on them!
Hey Arch I have a question, there is still an entire universe outside the Milkyway right?
I ask because if there is the Milkyway is just one of oh so many then that makes its species, no matter how powerful, little more than a tiny speck of a drop in the ocean of what should be out there and of little influence.
But obviously this is not the case, what with gods being murder fucked into existence. This makes me think that that one tiny part isn't so tiny anymore because its all that is left.
Did the Tyranids eat everything else already?
They say if every single lasshot, bullet, bolt, etc, in the Imperium hit and killed a tyrannid it would not scratch their numbers in the slightest.
Though if the tyrannids ate everything else wouldn't that include other sentient life, therefore creating a god of om nom nomming? If we are just a drop in the sea then that means the entirety of the sea has been slaughtered and devoured and if that's the case then no matter how powerful the shadow of the Warp is that would have to make at least one more god.
Also tyrannids evolve to resist whatever they fight so if they ate the rest of the universe then through all that war they should be nigh immortal by now.
Arch you have to do a video on the Last Chancer books.
+ there are a few people that have survived the 13th, one being Lieutenant Kage of the books. And the reason Schaffer is so happy to let them go, is because he knows, give em a month or two and he'll be seeing them once again.
As we get closer and closer to the release of DoW 3, do you think you could try to do a lore video on the Blood Ravens or something?
He's made one, but it was, unfortunately, stolen.
+FusIntel What do you mean, stolen? As in, somebody copied it and uploaded it themselves?
1d4chan.org/wiki/Blood_Ravens
Sultan it seems that the blood ravens stole your joke detector too.
Huh I just bought my first 40k book, it happened to be the last chancers omnibus. Thx for the extra info on the ‘dirty dozen’ of the 40k reality.
I thought Penal Legions were legions dedicated to Penal justice, to punish penally individuals from the imperium who did not respect the law.
After watching the video, all I can say is... All hail Chaos.
Heretic. May the Emperor save you.
*BLAM*
Admit it. You giggled every time he said: "penal".
Bring the old intro back. Please :'(
Really liking the new intro Arch
As for the mechanicus giving defunct weapons, I would more think they give the substandard stuff, stuff that doesn't quite meet the mark, but still works. Maybe it only has a 90% efficient beam. Maybe it has a lower ammunition capacity, etc. Stuff that's close enough, but not up to par, so making it anew is more of a waste than giving it to the penal legion, where it's not expected to return.
But you probably know the mechanicus a little better than me. I'm much of a lite fan of warhammer.
I cannot begin to imagine what kind of fresh hell being a woman in a penal legion must be like.
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Not sure if anybody else has said this already but the one member of Colonel Schaeffer's Last Chancers to receive a pardon was Lt Kage, if memory serves.