Hello, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
It is us. It is Law Crimes. Oh, what's that,
Eli? What's in your hand? You're muted. You're
muted, bubby. A doom sight for the better. Very
nice. How are you all? All good? All good? I'm
doing. Doing well. I have moved out of my house,
chat. That's why there's like nothing behind
me, really. So that's cool. Hopefully in the
next two -ish months, I will be joining. You're
going to move in with Eli? Yeah, like we said.
The marriage arc is happening. I say all respect
to your wife, but I need that insulin, so she's
going to need to make room. Also, no Hal this
week. Sorry. He's dead. Or are you going to make
fun of him? Me, I guess, because I'm the other
Commonwealth fella. Today, We are talking about
a Space Marine chapter because we haven't covered
a Space Marine chapter in a while. And today,
you lucky viewers, we are talking about everyone's
favorite custard Marines. We're talking about
the Imperial Fists. Yay. I'm afraid we didn't
contact Valorak to be on this episode because
of his atrocious accent. The Imperial Fists are
absolutely my favorite. That would be insufferable.
So I'm going to tell you this one. This is the
craziest place to start drama. Wow. Northern
slander. So we're going to go through basically
everything from Great Crusade to modern era.
But fair warning, everyone. Imperial Fists are
a bit of a weird chapter. They have a lot of
cool stuff as a legion. That makes it boring.
well this is the big hurdle with imperial fists
everyone sees them as kind of like the most milk
toast of all the chapters because while they
have a specialty of we are good at building and
fortifying that's a static position of like fighting
so they're not usually well applied in the law
in terms of like oh well we've done siege of
terror that's a big defensive campaign anything
else And that's why they have the problem of
their successor chapters get more limelight because
they're off crusading rather than standing still.
And also Imperial Saint, it is true that in the
old retconned lore, they ate poop. That is not
a joke. There was a fermentation thing. when
they were very brand new as a faction. And I
think even Adeptus Ridiculous had like a thing
where there was like Roguel Dorn's head in the
skibbity toilet as a reference to that bit of
lore. Poo eater chapter. Poo eater chapter. The
plop eaters. I saw someone else, it's like, it
was like, I know what they mean. It's like, that's
old lore. It's like, people don't forget. No
one's shown a Hill movie or something. I don't
care how many bones you scrimmage, I'm not forgetting
the poop. Fortify the entire Siege of Terra.
Nobody bats an eye. Eat one piece of poop. All
of a sudden, we're the poop eater chapter. All
of a sudden, they are the fiber marines. Fortifying
their stools. You build 10 ,000 bridges. No one
calls you a bridge builder. You diddle one code.
Before we kick off, actually, I assume you guys
are just kind of like, they're okay. You're not
massively into Imperial Fists. Again, the only
one I can think of who's mega into them is Quipster
Nerd and Balrak. And also, I know Peachy likes
them, but that's just because they're northern.
Look, I don't love them. I don't feel that passion,
but I like them. Yeah. I occasionally see the
classic picture of the imperial fish shooting
and there's like imperial guard oh guys in the
background and i think that guy looks kind of
cool and then i stopped thinking about them there's
that one iron cage piece where it's the guy on
side profile with the flag behind him like that's
one of the best art pieces for warhammer ever
but iron cage was a long time ago uh but even
longer hard to get over that iron cage but not
gonna lie i can't well i can't hate them because
they're yellow and my paint my eldar and i end
in who are also mostly yellow so nothing else
respect to the lemon bros i think we never made
the horrible decision to put myself through painting
a yellow army so it's not even that bad no it's
not all right no white is hell White is the real
pain. Andy, you're going to be in agony if you
ever think of a White Scars army. Or my mentors,
because there's a lot of white there, too. I
do have an IRL friend who likes me. It's his
army. There's someone out there. There's two
of them. Let's begin at the start. As all Space
Marine Legions start, we're going to go all the
way back to the Unification Wars. Now, during
the Unification Wars, typically Space Marine
Legion would be drafted from a specific place.
But interestingly, there's only a couple. one
of them being the imperial fists that they actually
recruited from a wide variety of populations
for them it was more about variety it was more
about if you can if you can pass the test of
building a certain height of sandcastle you're
in we don't discriminate we don't care like what's
what's going on we're just like yeah if you're
if you're a proper brother you're a proper brother
you can come into the legion something which
would carry over to when they were a chapter
as well They were very well regarded. They were
one of the most active legions during unification.
They won battles such as the Cities of the Crystal
Sea and the Fortress of the Fifth Circle, which
that's all we know about those battles. They
were a battle that happened. Splendid. Let's
be honest. A lot of these battles from unification,
it's just like there was the battle of the cool
naming sound words. What happened? The Emperor
won. What is it? Mount Ararat or whatever is
just kind of that. And even that is still just...
And then they killed all the Thunder Warriors.
Yeah. But either way, they were very well regarded.
And they were also fortunate that their Primarch,
Rogaldorn, was one of the... He wasn't among
the very first, but he was like the eighth to
be found. You take away the censored Primarch
that was like the second or whatever. Or third,
I should say. He's like first half, first third
of all Primarchs to be found, and uniquely he's
the only one to be found who is in charge of
their own interstellar empire. Now, it's kind
of a bit of a shame that he was just before Gilliman
was found, and then he just kind of dropped his
empire on the table and went, look at that, mine's
bigger than yours. Which, you know, who's got
a bigger empire than Gilliman? The Emperor, that's
about it. But... To be fair to Rogal, he also
had the advantage of not just having an interstellar
empire in his own system, but he also conveniently
found this gigantic spaceship in orbit of his
home planet called the Phalanx. And the Phalanx
is enormous. You know that map of all the spaceships
in sci -fi? where it's like everything from halo
mass effect star wars star trek blah blah there's
some big ones like the gloriana class ship from
from 40k is on that massive thing and it's one
of the biggest phalanx isn't on that scale which
is a shame because it would probably dwarf half
the bloody page it's enormous it's a dark age
of technology mobile like continent essentially
The only thing that rivals it in modern 40k is
the rock. And that's because it's made of bits
of a broken planet. It was a planet. It was a
continent. Yeah. And it's like held together
with like Jawas and yeah, yeah. Duct tape and
Jawas. And the Emperor. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry.
Is there any lore where it's like every now and
again, like just a bit just falls off and like,
well, I guess we didn't need that chamber anymore.
To be fair, in modern 40K, it was getting a bit
weary. There was points where the chapter's like,
we've been through a lot of war. There's lots
of broken bits. Loads of weapons don't have enough
ammunition to fire anymore. Then the custodians
opened one of their secret vaults, and they let
something out, and they spruced up the phalanx
real good, and everyone's like, how did you do
that? And the custodians are like, don't ask
questions. You don't need to know. They released
Bob the Builder on the rock. But like the meat
canyon Bob the Builder who's just like, put him
back in the cage. So that was a big win for the
Imperial Fist because when the Emperor got to
Inuit, he's like, this is impressive that he's
already sorted out his shit. Unlike some Primarchs
who are like, I'm still fighting in a gladiatorial
arena. Loser. What are you on about? Look at
Rogal. He's flown the nest. He's got a respectable
job. He hasn't got any debt. He's got a good
credit rating. What's wrong with you, Angron
and Kurz and others? Angron is simultaneously
the most underrated and overrated Primarch. It's
almost impressive. That's pretty real. World
War I is one of the least schizos, I guess. He
still has schizo, though. All of them are. They
all have anger issues. You want to put on my
glove? Yeah, well, we'll get into that. you win
a thousand planets no one bats an eye you put
the pain glove on once you put the pain and you
eat a handful of poop in the pain glove and all
of a sudden that's the guy you're that guy crazy
um but yeah so the emperor got to inward and
he's like he's already got an interstellar empire
it's only a few worlds but it's like that's better
than most and he's found this gigantic dark age
of technology fortress in the sky He's moved
in without the help of the Mechanicus and just
somehow got it working. How did you do that,
Rogal? And he's just like, oh, no, I just kind
of played around with it. He's like, that's,
you're the best boy. Like, of all the Primarchs,
Rogaldorn was definitely, like, top five, top
three, maybe. Like, the Emperor, it's Gilliman,
it's Dorn, and it's probably Sanguinius, I would
say. Yes, Vulcan had the ability to create really
cool stuff. Yes, Korax had a weird connection
to, like, He was the only one entrusted with
the knowledge of chaos before the Horus House.
Some of them had little bits here, but he was
like, if I'm going on a compliance during the
Great Crusade, I'm bringing Dorne and the Imperial
Fists, or I'm bringing Gilliman, because Gilliman's
got this gigantic army and an empire, and he's
also really good at maths. But Dorne, he's not
going to ask questions. He's going to do what
I want him to do. He's extremely... efficient,
and he doesn't mince words. The whole thing about
Imperial Fists is they're stoic and they're quiet,
to the point where during the Great Crusade,
Nathaniel Garrow of the Death Guard remarked
to Eacton Cruz of the Lunar Wolves that he fought
alongside a particular veteran of the Imperial
Fists for an entire year of combat, never saw
him smile once. And so his men nicknamed the
Imperial Fists the Stone Men. because they were
that dull dour nod very few words never smile
take everything seriously never have a day off
insufferable to a lot of people um but they were
also extremely extremely good at combat uh very
efficient again uh before we chatted uh on stream
uh eli made an interesting point about how they're
kind of anathema to what a space marine is in
theory because space marines are these elite
shock troopers who are supposed to get in do
some damage and get out at least in the current
setting and they're much better suited to the
great crusade horus heresy era than they are
the the 41st millennium because you've got a
thousand men by that point not fortifying very
much with a thousand freaking dudes where a hundred
thousand you'll get a lot more done a thousand
and and that doesn't work And it's pre -chaos
where everything's falling to ruin. They have
chapter auxiliaries and serfs. They have, but
who doesn't? Everyone's got indentured labor
for the Imperials. That's just how you get around
the answer. How do they man them? With all the
other goobers wandering around the chapter. There's
just a lot of men with cranes and one Imperials
going, that over there, that there, you quicker,
stop that, put that there. It's called delegation,
sir. Delegation. Rogal Delegation is his name.
And yeah, so to be fair, they're also one of
the largest legions during the Great Crusade.
Before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, they
had approximately, I think it was 93 ,000 men.
So we're not talking ultramarines over 100K,
but we're not talking Raven Guard in like the
low, I think it's the low 70s, maybe even 60s.
Like they're quite a substantial legion. Or the
Thousand Sons at one point. Or the Emperor's
children. Too soon. A lot of legions seem to
have been some of the biggest legions in the
Great Crusade. Yeah, some of. There's always
the top five and the bottom five. And to be fair
to the Fists, they were basically the only fleet
-based legion. Not even chapter. Fleet -based
legion. Because... They had this gigantic fortress,
and at the peak of their strength, they had 150
,000 ships. They had the biggest fleet. Like,
even Ultramar, the Ultramarines didn't have a
fleet as big as the Imperial Fists, at least
with, like, Astartes vessels and stuff. So they
were the undisputed masters of naval warfare.
They were just like... Okay, they're cool now.
They're cool. They got boats, ships. They got
space boats. I love the Navy. I like planes and
boats. Give me a fun hat. I want a big pointy
hat. Not one of those big pointy hats, you know,
a naval hat. Calm down, chat. And yeah, so as
a somewhat fleet -based Legion, they roamed all
over the stars and they brought compliance. Their
whole modus operandi was, we're not going to
just... destroy all the people who don't want
to be a part of the imperium because we kind
of want them to be useful after we're done with
them so they they were they weren't like dragging
their heels like the word bearers but they weren't
uh uber efficient like for example the sons of
horus or even the ultramarines it was like we
want to make sure that we are here long enough
to stabilize the civilization but we're also
no slouches when it comes to taking over planets.
And when you have the largest fleet in the Legiones
Astartes, that's quite achievable. So before
the Horus Heresy even begins, they've got about
94 ,000, 93 ,000 men, 150 ,000 ships. Every one
of their armies had siege masters, fleet masters,
and field marshals to kind of break down their
forces into manageable chunks. For a long time,
they also had an elite bunch of bodyguards for
Rogaldorn known as the Huskarls. They were very
much into traditions of passing down honor names.
For example, Archimus is basically, for a long
time, the most trusted champion of Rogaldorn.
He's part of the first, I think it's 70, Inuit
aspirants of the Legion. He was born on Inuit.
and then he was part of a gang, and then he was
made into one of the most robust commanders of
the Legion. And for a while, the Huskars have
been gone since the heresy, but then I think
Geliman brought them back recently, because he's
like, they were cool. Remember that blast from
the past? I'm bringing it back, baby! And then
they're going, you're not my Primarch. Yeah,
but is it a bad idea? And they're like, no. So
they do that. However, with the beginning of
the Horus heresy, things take a bit of a turn
for the worse, not just for everyone, but especially
for the Imperial Fists. One thing I think a lot
of people don't realize is Istvan V, it wasn't
just seven legions that were sent. It wasn't
just the Ironhands, Ravenguards, Salamanders,
and then it was the Alpha Legion, Iron Warriors,
Wordbearers, and Nightlords. The Imperial Fists
were also supposed to join the Ironhands and
stuff to do the counterattack. However, Dawn
sent about a third of his legion. About 561 ships.
Warpstorms are a thing. They got stranded near
a place called the Fal System. And of those 560
ships, they lost about 360. So they're not doing
good. They got unyielding Hierophanted. It's
like, I remember playing Rogue Trader and there's
that option was like, go to the Imperium, but
I didn't know what that meant. And I was like,
okay. And there's this like, you have lost 80
% of your crew. Whoops. Oh, well. So that was
my playthrough. Those are lower deck crew. Who
cares? Named characters. I think it'd be named
characters and I still don't care. I blew Adira's
head off last game I played. Shouldn't have been
an unsafe psycher, Bozo. One head pop, too many.
Yeah. But yeah, so the Battle of Fall, they did
survive. Alexis Pollux took up command. He was
the captain. I think he was the 405th captain.
He's got a fist. He's got a fist. He's the Imperial
Fist. And to be fair, this is practically the
only battle the Imperial Fists are part of outside
of the final battles of the Horus Heresy. This
is the one battle they're in. And to be fair,
Pollux bests, at least tactically, Perturabo
in battle. Feels bad. Perturabo's got the initiative.
He's got the bigger forces. Pollux trounces him
for what he has. And Dorn not winning against
the allegations that he's a crybaby. He's like,
I'm better than Dorn. I'm better than Dorn. He's
like, I'm just a space marine. They also steal
on the Alpha Legion. Maybe the Imperial fits
have just a lot of plot armor. I don't know.
The Legion all about deception lost in a straight
up fight. Who could have seen this one coming?
Not a single deception thing actually worked
and every Imperial Fist just magically saw through
every single trick. They're very inconsistent.
They're too stupid to trick. They're too simple.
One does not trick the brick wall. I cast brick.
And now at the end of the fall campaign, they
have 300 less companies. They lost 300 companies
in that one battle. That's a lot. So they get
back to Holy Terror, and Dawn's like, what the
fuck? Sorry, we basically just decimated a third
of your entire strength in one campaign. Whoops.
So they're doing better than the Salamander's
Iron Hands. and and the uh and the raven guard
but not by much um and again all the oh i would
say with like oh i'm looking at the wrong stream
that's why i heard words and yet your mouth was
not moving i was like i'm confused did he stop
am i still going sorry sorry that's okay like
i mean it's like the The fists are easy to keep
them going and kind of keep them safe because
them being alive doesn't remove plot. Whereas
the Alpha Legion in this instance, what happens
if the Alpha Legion character, he gets the dub
here? Well, we blew up Terra. We kind of can't
have them do that. Mission accomplished. We kind
of need a 40k to still happen. So I'm afraid
you're destined to fail, sir. Yeah. They could
write it better. I'm not going to argue that.
And I guess it's a rock and a hard place for
the Imperial Fists because they're generally
always stationed around Terra -ish. But at least
with this particular loss, then they kind of
go for the rest of the Horus Heresy. Yes, they
do occasionally go out to like, for example,
they attempt to get the Heratex out of Mars.
Doesn't go well. Even Sigismund and Fafnir ran
to them like, oh, it's not working. Oh, no. There's
so many heretics on Mars. Invading the whole
world of the Mechanicum is not a recipe for success.
So their solution is we're just going to cordon
it off for about seven years because we cannot
get these guys out of there. So we're just going
to stop anything from getting in or out. Whatever
they're doing, if they're contained on Mars.
it's better than being out there doing whatever
weird stuff they're going to be doing. Probably,
too, it'd look like a two -way Terminator, but,
like, the robot. It's like, they land on the
planet, and it's especially early, like, Dark
Mechanicum, so they haven't gone all chaos, gribbly
blitz yet. It's like, I don't even know who's
on my side, man. They're all wearing red. And,
to be fair, what's the... I can't remember his
name, but the guy who's, like, the... He's rescued
from Mars and he's like their equivalent of Arch
Magos. I need to reread Mechanicum. That's a
good book. It's a good book. But it's like he
has a bit of a go at Roguel Dorn. He's just like,
hey, you prick. We need to like go. There are
good people dying on Mars. Why are you giving
up so easily? And Dorn's like, this is just a
battle. We have to win the war. Like there are
more important things than Mars and terror is
more important than Mars. So I will let as many
people die. If it means that we don't lose the
throne, well, it's like, ooh, okay. Definitely
correct, but also harsh. Also, fucking look at
the place. I'm not stepping foot down there.
I just saw someone weaponize melanoma. No, thank
you. I just sent Sigismund down there, and he
wasn't able to do shit. So I'm not wasting any
more time on this. That's Sigismund. He's like
the most powerful space marine ever. And he couldn't
crack it. Although, before we keep going, we
have got a bunch of donations. Shall we crack
on with those? Let me take over some of these
bad boys. Hey, there's me. I will sadly miss
this sturdy stream. I must go get a doggy. Oh,
shit. I hope it's a cute doggy. XOXO Collins,
colon is dry AF. Seriously, give me an NMR or
I may die of thirst up here. Man, that was a
nice message. Going to get a dog and then the
second half of it, Mr. President, the second
half of the comment has struck. Thank you for
the $5. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Can't stream
late due to how gooning with Dorne's severed
head. That's why. He's been off trying to find
where it is. Card shark. Thank you for the 10
CA. Will Pega Neko fuck return? Or is this mysterious
next VTuber a new lore criminal entry? And we
promised a new VTuber and I didn't know of this.
I don't think so. I don't think we did. I think
you may just be tripping, Doc. I'm sure Vega
will come back one of these days. Yeah, I think
probably. We're always happy for people to return
if they want to come back. We need to do some
painting stuff. Happy news, everyone. The video
I'm rendering did not crash out of the same frame.
I don't need to end my life on stream. Praise
the Omnissiah. Set with a 499. Can't believe
Rogald Dorn said it was fisting time and fisted
all over the Imperial Palace. You give that man
his credit. He fisted all over Terra. He fisted
everyone. The entire solar system. Marathi's
designated toilet stream late due to hell sucking
Dorn's toe cheese clean. Before we move on, some
of you, I want you all to do me a favor. Before
you send that donation message, or any comment
really, I want you to text a family member that
message. That's a very normal thing for you to
say. I'm sure they'd love to hear you say it.
Yep. Anyways, Colin wore a somewhat green hat
last week. Thank you. Amazing. Sorry, Miss Lestream
was drunk at a party. So while the number of
shopping carts eat it on top of my front yard
trees wasn't zero, I would love to be at your
parties. Yeah. That was indeed a green hat last
week. You're a freak out. Green hat out. I picture
you saying that like Carter at the end of Reach.
And just think, we'll not hear anything for a
few weeks, then it'll be Colin will wear a pink
hat in five weeks. Oh no! I've actually got one
that's much closer to hand. I mean, it's not
all pink, but... You need to get Hal to wear
something funny. That's my vote. Donkey Man.
He did dress up as Jack Sparrow. He did do that.
Commitment to the bed. Thank you to my Halloween
costume for just not arriving, period. Very cool,
Etsy. Donkey... Pardon me. Donkey Man USA with
the Fiverr again. I have also finally moved out.
Hell yeah. I now have time to paint my rat OmniSaya
and work on the house. I have to be honest. Also,
when I first saw Donkey Man's profile picture,
I thought it was just Sarah Palmer. Because it
was zoomed out, I thought it was just an edited
vert picture of default. That's Halo for Sarah
Palmer. The donkey did not click for like a year.
Zach Spamalama. That's a fun name. With the Fiverr.
Long time listener. First time joining the live.
Imperial Fist, my favorite legion. Please tell
Dornia. Hell yeah, man. Thank you very much.
Pancreas is silly as clown with a 20. Colin,
can you please explain why you've betrayed your
ideals as Bretonnia hater by tweeting, and I
quote, slurping the butter juice off of King
Haralouse's mighty Swadian lance. I'm aware it's
from Mountain Blade. You see, that's because
the proud kingdom of Swadia is simply better
than Bretonnia. Another five million Swadian
knights charging down poor Roeduck peasants.
Thank you. $9 .99. I'm back from the dead, so
once that SAO tier list, I hate you. I've been
dead for months. I need it. I also want a five
-page essay from the Pancreas List 1 on why Kirito
can kill Karn. I mean, is Karn in the video game?
Then sure, there you go. If not, Kirito's a...
And an even twink because he was locked in a
video game for like years. What is a Kirito?
It's the main goober from Sword Art Online. Colin's
favorite enemy. Die. James with the five mounds.
How did you guys meet? Enjoying your content
and happy birthday Colin. Andy's networking skills
are boundless. and i i did a nick fury and i
just go i'm assembling a team that's that's kind
of what we did any message to us on discord one
way to put it less flashy than nick fury with
the trench coat i like the fury it was the start
of his ascension to becoming the chaos god of
networking Tom Warren with a 5. Imperial fists
don't get the respect they deserve because not
enough people respect the noble art of turtling.
So real. I will play Age of Empires and you will
have to break through 5 million walls. I do love
turrets. I love turret maxing. I love turrets.
I love defensive fort towers. I love 50 layer
deep walls and gates. Glass laughter with a 5.
I guess the Black Templars kind of made the Imperial
Fists irrelevant or overshadowed them so much.
I don't like to think about it. They probably
have more books than the Imperial Fists, I'm
pretty sure. Not all Black Templars fans, but
it's always a Black Templars fan. It is always
a Black Templars fan. Chaotic New. New Zealand
5. Thank you. And not going to lie, I do enjoy
the Fisters. Rogal activates my old man enjoyer
senses, and his sons do too. Also, everyone looks
so handsome this morning. Well, thank you. I
am afraid that you are in the wrong time zone,
and it's 3 .36 in the afternoon right now. But
that's okay. It's appreciated. It's morning for
Colin. Thank you. Conrad's number one stand with
the five. I mean, this is an easy one, I think.
Who do you think is the better aura farming model,
Loken Grimnair or the new Raven Guard guy? Also,
I am so sorry for your new Combat Patrol Iron
Hands. Yeah, those Combat Patrols really came
out in a stream that could have been like a 9
out of 10 hit us with that at the end. VW really
like, we can't shift these turret models for
anything. Just put two in the box. Why not? Logan
Grimnar wins the aura off for me. Nah, I'm giving
it to the... I don't even remember his name.
Logan Grimnar's new model is like... A whole
new style of model that they made. It's sick,
but I like the Spider -Man pose off the rock.
It is really cool. I just think it would be amusing
if you were being attacked by him and you felt
the tassel on your head and then that's when
he hits you. If you have that guy in a match
and you don't play the theme at least once, you
are wasting the purchase. Cabanda's mighty schlong
of Cygnus, $2. No choice wasting a stream on
Imperial Fitz. You know what you should all ask?
You should not... You should not ask, why does
this army exist? You should be grateful that
there is so much lore that there is lore you
can find boring. Someone has to be the normal
dude. So shut up. Colin wore a somewhat green
hat last week. Lament your best yellow dudes.
Unlucky, but not a brick. Thank you for the two
heroes. Pretty real. Marines malevolent are actually
the best yellow dudes. Oh, there we go. Interesting.
We need to do an episode on them one of these
days. It'll be like 30 minutes and it's just
them being assholes. Skarsnik is almost achieved
full Skarsnik in the PFP. Thanos, a .k .a. Skarsnik's
top guy with a 20 at OK, is darn circumcised,
though. I will leave that to your discretion,
viewer. I don't know, is it fortified? Ooh. Yeah,
I would think that would be an aphema to Dorne.
Structural integrity is damaged. This is not
optimal. Oh, poor fella. No, I think it's the
opposite. It's like the metal gear, you know.
I'll admit that your foreskin is nice, but it
serves no tactical advantage whatsoever. The
engravings are not tactical advantage at all.
I'm like 90 % sure that the Primarchs don't even
have PNRs. Oh, wow. I don't think they're by
their perfect biology. I don't think they need
to get rid of one. Fulgrim had lots of wives.
Doesn't mean that he did it, though. We'll ask
them. We'll ask them if we can find him. If anyone
had one, I'd give it to Logan Grimnar. Sorry,
Lehman Russ. Logan Grimnar is basically the freaking
Primark. We know that also Luke is the trickster.
is a filthy, cheeky chap who has had many children,
apparently. Part of the Space Wolf gene seed
is they get to keep their penis. They keep their
nuts. Oh, dear. Oh, Benadryl. Every time that
comes up, it makes me laugh. Benadryl with a
five. Shout out to Fafnir Ron, Rogledorn's second
most violent son. GW, bring back the Breachers.
GW, bring back a lot of things. $10 from NickNack3587.
Thank you. Love or hate, you respect the fists.
Not flashy or even interesting, but they're consistent,
reliable, and aware they're just tools to be
used. Glad to hear you boys talk about the Yelbrick
Horde. Thank you. Thank you. The Yellow Brick
Horde. Ian Hines with the Fiver. To be fair to
Eli, the near death of the Emperor and the ransacking
of Terra absolutely taints every win they have.
Even if the Ultramarines are the best. Wow. Just
saying, if they were blueberries instead of yellow
boys on the walls, Horus won't break it through.
Still closed. Angry homunculus with five pounds.
You guys think the Imperial Fists were given
northern accents because of Valrak or is Valrak
northern because he likes Imperial Fists? Fun
fact, Valrak's from Kent. He doesn't sound like
that at all. He just puts it on. He's just cosplaying
an orphan. He's not even... I hope that joke
means something to some of you because I'm afraid
it does not help me with anything. Woosh, said
Colin. Yeah. Colin wore a green hat last week.
Boy, your messages are the highs and the lows
this week. Two euros. Thank you. Got 23rd rejection.
At least you guys are still there. Wow. Wow.
Hey, there's always another fish. There's always
a bigger fish, too, said Qui -Gon Jinn. The bank
apostle with the 35 czar. Pity Hal's not here.
Hey, Andy. Four Rugby World Trophy wins. Do -da
-do -da. And we'll make it five in 2027. I don't
care about rugby. I don't mind rugby. I always
support the team that's currently winning, and
then when they start losing, I'm like, I support
New Zealand, actually. That's what I do when
I watch rugby. This is a great name. I received
a ping. Drakenschlank. I like that. I mean, that's,
you know, we're getting the fucking Avengers
of schlong names. Five bucks. Colin, you started
this off on the wrong foot forward. I have one
L on my name. Colin, I'm still waiting to see
if you want to trade pancreases to get cured
of diabetes, and I don't have tumors anymore.
Wow. Trade one villain for another. Colin wore
a somewhat green hat last week. Thank you. I'm
personally going to end how for saying level
in our best yellow dudes. That was Eli. That's
fine. Say it with your chest from afar. Of course,
of course you turned me to a pulp. Happy birthday,
Colin. Well, you got the name, right? Happy birthday.
Dank apostle 14 czar. This is still my favorite
podcast. Well, thank you. Thank you very much.
That was a large amount. That was a hefty. Thank
you. Yeah. Thank you guys. You're a, you're,
you are personally making more crimes survive.
So we appreciate it. Well, let's get back into
the Imperial fist then. So they also have a bit
of a. every one of the legions so the blood angels
white scars and imperial fists have like bragging
rights forever because they were on terror when
it was falling to to ruin so those three chapters
in particular or legion slash chapters have bragging
rights because they're just like oh where were
you ultramarines where were you dark angels when
we needed you and then the dark angels friends
would be like we had courseway in there it's
like that doesn't count where was like the bulkier
forces and so But of the three, the Imperial
Fists are the proudest of the fact that they
were here when they were first founded. And in
its moment of direst need, they were here when
they needed to be. Pretty much most of all of
the battles that were going on in the Sol system
were at the discretion of the Imperial Fists
because they'd been there for seven years preparing.
The Sol system, they broke up into five concentric
rings of defenses. And they knew they weren't
going to stop the invasion of the traitors. They
were just like, we need to buy as much time until
the Ultramarines get here. And the Dark Angels,
but no one cares that the Dark Angels, they were
like, we want the boys in blue to rescue us.
They said, help me, Robute Gilliman. You're my
only hope, said the Imperial Fists and everyone
else on Terra. So much so that to this day, they
also have monuments that were created. in honor
of all the uh imperial fists that died on terror
and they lost a lot like they had of the free
legions like the white scars had been just they
were caught in the heresy tried to uncover what
was going on they made all haste to get back
to terror and they lost a lot of men on the way
blood angels did the whole uh with the Ultramarines
and Dark Angels, and they just managed to get
through the Ruin Storm to get to Holy Terra in
time. Space Wolves could have helped, but they
thought, we're going to try and assassinate Horus.
That didn't go so well. Raven Guard, Raven Guard
got with them, and they're like, oh, you guys
are pretty knackered, and they're like, you're
the Raven Guard. You're telling us we look knackered?
You guys are Istvan. So realistically... Probably
the most losses on the Siege of Terror were incurred
by the Imperial Fists because, yes, they had
the biggest army to start with before the battle
had been joined, but they were there on every
single planet in the Sol System. They were on
every wall of every part of the palace. They
were bleeding heavily to protect the Throne World,
and they managed to pull it off, those crazy
bastards. But to be fair, they had the white
scars on their side, so of course they were going
to win. Yeah, there it is. That's the best decision.
Had to put that in somewhere. You will fall before
the might of the Ultramarines one day. Also,
fun fact, in the footage you're seeing as we're
playing an Imperial Fist, he's carrying a White
Scars patterned bolter because I had to slip
it in. Yeah, yeah, you know. But yeah, so Thronewell's
defended. Imperial Fist survived. What happens
from there on? Well, bear in mind, Horus Heresy
starts at the very beginning of the 31st millennium.
About 1 ,500 years later, during 544 .M32, a
bit of a problem happens. It's called the War
of the Beast. Now, the War of the Beast is basically,
in simple terms, Colin has said in the past,
for example, when we've covered the Eldar, when
they were in charge, they treated orcs like they
were pruning a hedge. You had to make sure you
got rid of the branches when they got too long.
Every now and then you got to be like, hey, this
is getting a little bit excessive. Well, the
Imperium at the beginning of the 31st millennium
is really busy doing the scouring, getting rid
of the traitors. And so during this time, we
have things like, for example, Everyone's chasing
the enemies to the Eye of Terror. In that time,
we do have the Iron Cage, where the greatest
grudge match in the universe happens between
the Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists, where Dawn,
in a rage, goes, I know it's a trap. We're just
going to run in. I'm angry. I'm angry. And my
dad is on a big chair, and he won't talk to me
anymore, said Dawn. And then Perderaba said,
you're cringe. And then Dawn said, I don't...
talking internet jargon and then they headbutted
each other um and during that time the imperial
fist had heavy losses until again the boys in
blue pulled them out of the fire but because
of that and also because of um so many other
factors of you know all the primarchs are going
missing at this point you know leman russ is
off to find the tree of life uh jagatai khan
is just charging through the webway to kill the
drukari and pretty much like Gilliman's wounded.
He's now on Ultramar feeling a bit ill because
he's been stabbed by a poisonous blade. All the
Primarchs are gone. And because they haven't
been keeping an eye on the Orcs, they've managed
to make the biggest army that the Imperium has
seen since the Ulanor triumph. And funnily enough,
the Orcs are particularly interested in Ulanor
because that's where their species originates
from. And they are not happy. that it's been
in imperial hands for so long so out of the chaos
the imperial fists are stationed around terra
and somehow the orcs fight their way all the
way to the throne room their friend world and
it's like oh gosh they've got these moon -sized
like planet telling they've retrofitted a moon
into a bat like a death star they have several
death stars and they are green and this is not
good fun to the point where they send an emissary
to the throne room and be like hey um it's over
like we're gonna destroy you not not even like
giving terms of surrender because like you can't
have a good fight if the enemy's not fighting
back but just like hey by the way send your best
men we're gonna kill you all haha i thought he
did offer surrender i thought he was like i swear
i may if i'm imagining this or this was something
i completely like read wrong do let me know.
But wasn't it like the beast has you by the guts,
surrender you get to keep them, struggle to rip
them out? Yeah, I think it was more like surrender,
but we're going to kill you anyway. It's like,
I always find that it's a bit of a strange thing
because orcs are all about fighting. So the idea
that the Imperium would surrender and they'd
be like, well, they're going to take prisoners.
They're just going to kill them anyway. I think
it's more of a... I think it's more like a saving
face, like, hey, it's like a taunt, like, hey,
you could surrender. I guess, yeah, that's true.
You probably also don't bring in an attack moon
if you don't plan on doing it. Yeah, and you
are correct that they do say surrender, but I
always read that more of like, it's an option,
but they know they're not going to surrender.
We know you're not going to surrender. We're
just trolling a little bit, said the orc. During
this time, fortunately, Vulcan turns up out of
nowhere. Like, where have you been? I was dead,
but I got better, said Vulcan. So he's about
the Imperial Fists because they are always, always
the last line of defense for Holy Terror. That's
their thing. And this is kind of why in the lore
of the current setting, they're kind of stagnant
because where are the Fists? Somewhere around
Terror, usually. Because that's their whole deal.
They protect the throne work. They are the Praetorians
of Terror. where are they at home eating crisps
um and and so they are there they are active
ultramarines i think are cut off by warp storm
so like they struggle to get to the throne throne
world a lot of chapters are in disarray there's
campaigns going on all over the place and during
the time when the legions became chapters rogal
dawn looked at the codex astartes and went that's
cringe and so he hated the idea of breaking the
legions up because why would you make the army
smaller they're better when they're bigger bigger
bigger closed fist makes more damage um that
was until his own men he is spitting but he also
had a change of heart when his own men almost
started another horrorous heresy firing upon
suspicious human vessels and then he kind of
saw like oh well if i was in command of every
small skirmish i wouldn't make a mistake but
i can't trust my own men to oh i see what i will
relent rabute i will relent and then as soon
as rabute left the room he gathered all of his
chapter masters went guys i've got an idea just
in case just in case we ever want to be a legion
again kind of like what the space wolves do but
less drunk we'll have this thing called the last
wall protocol where it's like a it's like a rallying
call where all the sons of Rogaldorn, every chapter
who is based off the Imperial Fist will convene
and fight as a bespoke legion. So we'll put all
of our forces together and only in the most dire
circumstances do we press this emergency, do
we break this emergency glass and pull out the
last war protocol. These chapters are the Black
Templars, Excoriators, Crimson Fists, Iron Knights,
Fists Exemplar, and Soul Drinkers. Shout out.
shout out to the soul drinkers um so from rooms
from throne world is under threat emperor could
literally be killed by an orc that would be embarrassing
so the imperial fist say how about we do the
last wall protocol thing and it kind of works
um there are other forces present during the
war of the beast like i'm sure there is like
a contingent of ultra marines like a company
and there's here and there but like every one
of these chapters turns up in force that are
are descended from the imperial fists and they
body some orcs however the current lord commander
is an imperial fist captain known as slaughter
by his his friends but he's called cooland cooland's
a pretty good strategist he goes wow this this
beast in charge of the uh the orcs is pretty
pretty dangerous we should go kill him and so
they say he stages a mission we're gonna go kill
the beast And he does. He finds the throne room.
He kills the beast. But he notices that there's
like, there isn't just like one big chair that
the beast sits on. There's several chairs. And
to his horror, he realizes, oh no, we killed
a beast, but there'd be more beasts. Then the
beasts body him and he dies as the last remaining
Imperial fist ever. Chapter is extinct. No more
fists. They fisted their last orifices. It's
over. And then the Black Templars became the
best chapter and everyone loved them instead.
It was a case of, okay, everyone's dead. Now,
at this point, another once imperial fist known
as Maximus Fane steps into the ring. Now, this
guy... is a beast he was a veteran during the
siege of terror he was i believe i have in my
notes here he was the i don't have my he was
a captain oh here we go 22nd captain of the imperial
fist legion he fought alongside rauderon during
the siege of terror man's been around for over
a thousand years like people's like dante's old
this guy's like a thousand five hundred years
old after the siege this is an old astartes He
old, he knows what's going on. And at this point,
he's the chapter master of the Fists Exemplar.
Fun fact, Fists Exemplar are the only second
founding chapter successor that has no artwork
or even a logo. Because of course they don't.
Why would they? Not like they're an important
chapter or anything. Maximus goes, right, we
can't just let like, we'll never hear the end
of it. If it's like, wait. The Raven Guard outlasted
us, and they were at Isfahan, and there was barely
any of them to begin with, and everything's about
birds. That would be embarrassing. Right, we
need to, like, remake the Imperial Fists. And
so they do. He basically goes, okay, we'll win
this War of the Beasts first. Gets rid of the
beasts. Beasts are gone. Yay. We win. And then
he's now Lord Commander of the Imperium, and
he says, right, we've all bled together, we've
all fought together. I'm now going to become
the chapter master of the imperial fists. I'm
going to tie a portion of my fists exemplar to
rebuild. You guys should also tie some men as
well. And at first they're all like, Hey, we've
just been like for a massive war. We've barely
got anyone left, but then they go, well, what's
the point of being a successor of a dead chapter?
That doesn't make sense. Okay. So imperial fists
are reconstituted with black Templars, soul drinkers
with. executioners the boys of fafnir ran and
because of this they go a little bit through
a renaissance where some of the guys are incorporated
are great jewelists because they are black templars
some are really good at boarding actions because
they are executioners some of them are very heroic
like the crimson fist guys and they they start
to realize like oh this is actually a good thing
because we're all sons of dawn but now we've
obviously are previous chapter was not up to
snuff because it was too predictable. It was
too rigid. Now we've got some new ideas that
we can put together. And these successor chapters
wouldn't have survived if they weren't capable.
We will use these to make the Imperial Fists
bigger and better than ever before. And that's
kind of the last major thing the chapter does,
if I'm honest. They are around in the... era
indomitus they're in the battle fleet gothic
game they do stuff but they are very like and
we mentioned this a little bit before the black
templars and crimson fists specifically are way
more popular because they are crusading chapters
they go out and proactively do some damage imperial
fists don't have that luxury and unfortunately
they are written extremely inconsistently I was
speaking to Sandman of Terror, Alex Quipsternerd.
He loathes the Fist of the Imperium book because
it's basically, if it's the audiobook version,
like seven hours of the Imperial Fists running
into a trap, running into a trap, running into
a trap and going, whoa, we can't come up with
new ideas. Oh, I know it's a trap. I know it's
a trap, but we've got to do something. And it's
like, oh. And a lot of people don't like that
book because it's... It's making the Imperial
Fists look like chumps. And these are supposed
to be quite clever spacemen. Legendary. I feel
like if they did something... Have them be more
defense in depth or have them running around
desperately trying to protect all the different
sectors. Supposedly, the Imperium's on defense.
At all angles, it's like you'd think someone
would, you know, surely the defending chapter
would be great for moving around, setting into
high -value locations. If the custodians get
to run around and do stuff, which makes no sense
at all whatsoever, you'd think the Imperial Fists
would get to go walk around a little bit. And
to be fair, I haven't really gone in -depth with
the Captain Lysander stuff, because he's a weird
character. He is the first captain of the Imperial
Fists, but he got lost in the war. So he's just
like a really... None of the currently serving
Imperial Fists served with Lysander when he was
first part of the Legion because he was gone
for hundreds of years. And then he came up and
he just turned up and they're like, hey, you're
that guy that we know about from the past times.
And he's like, hello. I'm back. And some of their
weird... Hey, all you people. And they're also
like... the death watch have some cool imperial
fist characters but they're stuck in the death
watch like they have a dreadnought i've just
done a video on it's out next week he was alive
during the 34th millennium he's still kicking
as a dreadnought but he's basically his whole
thing is he's like a boomer he's like space marines
were better in my day and he he can't really
remember what's going on in the current battles
he's fighting he just kind of thinks he's stuck
in the 34th millennium and he's a bit senile
uh there's there's even a death watch comic book
series and the main character is an imperial
fist guy but he's again he's stuck in the death
watch so uh doesn't really do much for the uh
imperial fists you you hit a you hit a like a
level of cool and then you're like shunted out
of the imperial fists go somewhere else And even
like probably the most popular, I would say probably
the most well -known character is Tor Garadon,
who's third captain. He's got the red pauldron
trim. He's got like enormous Gravis armor. And
he's got like, he looks like Chip Hazard from
Toy Soldiers. He's got like the buzz cut. He's
pretty cool. He's in the Watchers of the Throne
books. He turns up and he's like, hey, what?
Oh, we're going to defend the Imperium, get rid
of these Chaos Demons. Fantastic. I feel like
I'm remembering something. Also, unlike Hal,
sick dodge on that Trigon. This footage, I'm
trying my best. You dodged it out of the ground
and you couldn't even see it. Hal consecutively
four times backwards dodge rolled into a charging
Thousand Suns Terminator. Wow. That man must
never play a Dark Souls game in his life. Anyways,
that aside. uh yeah do they when they i i that
was a complete sidetrack of the actual point
i wanted to bring up when when gilman came back
right you know he goes on his merry crusade all
the way back to tara like before the indominus
crusade property still going back to talk to
dad he gets to you know he gets to the moon uh
magnus is there did the fist even show up because
all i remember is the custodians and the sisters
of silence um well they're there during the watch
in the frame which is like Afterwards, I think
they were off duty somewhere. So a demon primarch
showed up, and they couldn't do the one thing
they're supposedly doing. Here is the fundamental
issue of the Imperial Fists. They're a fleet
-based chapter, but they're not on a crusade
footing. They have to always be revolving around
the phalanx, because if they lose the phalanx,
that's the coolest thing about their army gone.
And they know that they can't lose the phalanx.
The phalanx has been through hell. It's been
retrofit. It's been repaired thanks to the vaults
of the custodians bringing some eldritch thing
out of there to get it restocked and supplied
and repaired somehow. But wherever the phalanx
is, that's where the fists are. And with like,
for example, Fist of the Imperium, again, it's
a librarian who's taken out the 36th millennium,
put into deep freeze by call, made into a primaris.
he sent to like a planet infested with gene stealers
but it's just some planet it's not it's it's
it's not super compelling as like something you'd
want a primogenitor chapter to do because it's
just some world and it's like the fifth company
and it's not even the full fifth company just
like a bunch of the fifth company um the only
character who's got like art is the main character
who's on the cover and so it's like okay there's
like why aren't we putting more stuff in for
like lysander's been in a lot of those space
marine battles books where it's like the hell's
reach era um tor garadon he's in stuff but always
as a support character and here's a problem chapter
masters right right salamanders have a chapter
master called tushan he's cool he has one piece
of art and he doesn't have a mini but at least
he's got a picture cave on strike got demoted
this this last week from chapter master back
to a captain because they've got a new model
of avon shan okay okay fair enough but at least
he's got a mini and cave on has been in books
before he was in apocalypse and some other stuff
he was in the uriel ventress books too imperial
fists there was a voice crack there imperial
fists have lost three chapter masters in recent
years three of them to the point where i for
a long time thought vladimir pew was still active
but he's now dead He got killed by Tyranids during
the Battle of Drashan. He was crazy. He carved
the names of his dead kindred into his skin.
And also he cut out his taste buds because he
was like, I lost 170 men during one battle and
the Emperor can't apparently smell or touch or
taste anything. So I'm going to, as an act of
penance, not enjoy food anymore because taste
buds. Okay. Weirdo. Then you had Born Hagen.
I thought Born Hagen was still alive. No, he
died during the second invasion of Terra just
after Watch of the Friends. So he's dead too.
The guy in charge is now called Gregor Desian.
His Wikipedia is like this big because he's not
been in anything. There's a problem with a lot
of these chapters. Some of these primogenitors
have chapter masters. Some of them have like
Cardan Stronus isn't technically a chapter master,
but at least he's got some books. He's got two
books and he's got... Some short stories. He
doesn't have a mini, but he's got smart. Jabal
Khan II was badly injured by the Red Corsairs,
but he's still nominally in charge. You've got
Dante. You've got Marnius Calgar. You've got
Azrael, etc. Why don't we have a chapter master
of the Imperial Fists that isn't dead or hasn't
been dead for a long time? Maximus Vane died
in lore 7 ,000 years ago, or 6 ,000 years ago.
He's been gone a while, and he's cool, and he
has a really cool... He's got that pose where
he's there going with his fist in the air, because
of course he does. But the fact that we have
Pedro Cantor and we have High Marshal Helbrecht,
we need an Imperial Fist Chapmaster. We got one
for the... This is why I was a bit disappointed
with... We've got a new Lysander mini. Lysander's
cool, but we already had a mini for him. Can
we not have something for the... And we talk
about missing parts of the lore. I wish they'd
have a book of the Imperial Fists that gives
you, like, here is the chapter master. And you
could even have a plotline where it's like, we've
lost a lot of chapter masters in recent years.
I don't know if I'm up to the task. We had guys
like Maximus Fane in charge, and, you know...
we've had all these great like heroes of the
chapter am i up to snuff that could be like a
really compelling and interesting book but they're
not and it's not like an obscure chapter they
could do it and that would be fun but they're
like no imperial fist fans nah screw you no book
for you which is a shame um it's very sad yeah
also it doesn't help that their war cry is primarch
primogenitor to your glory and the glory of him
on earth yeah that's too long they got one of
those way too like half of all quote -unquote
battle cries in 40k are just straight -up sentences.
That one's an entire thesis statement. You gotta
tone that back a bit. Yeah. There's a reason
for the Emperor catches on so well. It's point,
snappy, it's punchy. Makes sense. And to be fair,
there are some interesting little tidbits about
their lore. They recruit from... not just the
throne world but also harnish and necromunda
their whole thing is like you could be a bit
of hive scum or you could be the son of a king
we don't care if you're good at what you do we're
all equals and that's quite a nice thing for
them to have um they are of course experts of
siege warfare uh the difference between them
and the iron warriors because they're kind of
like mirror images of each other iron warriors
are more like heavily armored They're more, like,
drudging forward. They're more like, we'll make
the armor so dense the bullets ping off us. Whereas
the Imperial Fists... Yeah. And they're like,
I made this panoply with a bunch of scraps in
a cave. That's the Iron Warriors. But then, like,
Imperial Fists are Tony Stark when he's not in
a cave and he's got all the best toys and...
His dad is one of the favorite sons of the Emperor.
They get so much good stuff from Earth. They
get so much good stuff. Also, I'm just going
to say it. The Fists do their duty because it's
their duty. They're not looking for more. They're
perfectly content. Someone was like, I don't
remember if I read it, but someone was like,
look, if the Emperor walked up to them and said,
you are for the rest of the Great Crusade, you
are only washing windows. They would calmly nod
and then go to it. Because they're like, this
is what Big E needs, so it's what I'm going to
do. Which, that level of humility, I think a
whole lot of legions, not just Iron Warriors,
could certainly use a little bit of that. Although,
to be fair, and this is the only time I'll be
fair to the Iron Warriors, to be fair to the
Iron Warriors, they were like, why is it though
that every campaign we do, all the auxiliaries
are getting trench foot and it smells and it's
horrible. And I hate it. Like, can't we just
get like a nice mission once every 10? It's like,
no, no, you just get dreadful mission after dreadful
mission. I see. Now that would in a vacuum be
a valid complaint. If they once ever requested
a different war zone. You don't get what you
don't ask for. Look, it's like, I'm not saying
they weren't dealt a shit hand. You know, I do
like the iron warriors Legion. That their dad
can go pound sand for the rest of time. I like
the Legion. The problem is, look, again, look.
Ask. Just ask. That's not committing a lost Legion
level offense. The worst he can say is no. And
to be fair. With that, all of your bitterness
would be justified. But you never once said,
hey, can I try something different, please? And
to be fair, they did have some pretty badass...
Again, retroactively, they've been given some
cool moments. They were sent to destroy Cephonia.
That was kind of cool in recent lore. But again,
it's an addition to the Horus Heresy era. They
went to destroy the homeworld of Horus Lupercal.
They sent the 9th and 14th Battalions and they
fought alongside the Space Wolves 13th Great
Company. Nothing can go wrong with those guys.
And they were just like, hey, we need a symbolic
victory against the traitors. If we kill the
planet where the ringleader of the traitors is
from, that should stop them from doing any more
uprisings for a while. That's a good gesture
of like... They just went and nuked every planet
that the traitor Primarchs came from for good
measure. But with help from the Dark Angels fleet
of Marduk Sedras, they then vortex bombed the
hell out of the planet and vortex bombs. It's
not like, oh, we're just going to burn it, set
it on fire. It's like, we are going to rend this
planet into itty bitty bits. So there's nothing
left apart from debris. That's what Cofonia is
like now. It's kind of like when I got Darktide
recently and I was making the character and you
go to Cadia, the background is just like rubble.
Too soon. Too soon. And yeah, they also practice
scrimshoring where they basically take the bones
of the dead and they kind of etch... names and
patterns and stuff. They're kind of weirdos.
They're very into hurting themselves. They love
a bit of self -flagellation. They're like the
pain glove. In case you don't know and you're
listening to this, it's not a glove. It's a bodysuit.
This thing is designed and Robledorn used it
a lot. It's like, I'm going to meditate. Oh,
with like chakras and like crystals. No, I'm
going to put this thing on that just... sets
every part of my nerve endings into just numbing
pain so I can focus. All right, mate. I don't
want to yuck your yum, but it's a bit weird to
me. Who am I to correct a Primark, but have you
tried yoga? I'm not here to kink shame a Primark,
but geez, what's going on, Rogel? What if anyone
else, but you? Interesting. And so like, yeah,
they're all about like, Even in Fist of the Imperium,
it's just like every time they get sent into
another ambush by the Genestealers, it's like,
I'm going to have such a long session in the
pain glove when I get back to the ship. Yes,
you are. And yeah, they're very stoic. They're
very determined. Stone face, like the stone men
that Garrow called them. Other than that, there's
not all that much more other than I could briefly
talk about some cool characters. But again...
A lot of these are from the Horus Heresy setting.
So you've got Sigismund, the Sigismund, the greatest
space marine of them all. Like that's Sigismund.
He's just like the best fighter that the space
marines ever had. And he's a fan favorite. He's
really good at fighting. He's not great at naval
warfare, even though that's like a thing that
the Imperial Fists are known for. Alexis Pollux,
chapter master of the Crimson Fists, though.
savant at naval warfare beat perterabo because
it wasn't like i don't care how big your hammer
is this is space warfare like smash that hammer
of olympia and perterabo still did not learn
this lesson when he landed on nope um fafnir
ran is cool he's uh he's the seneschal seneschal
of dawn he's uh from inwit He runs around with
two axes and chops up anything in his way. He's
great. He's got a big cheeky grin on all of his
artworks while he's fighting. He's like, I love
fighting with axes. And he went on to become
the first chapter master of the Executioners,
which are a fun chapter. Never forgive what they
did to the Astral Claws. Never forgive me. Traitors.
To be fair, it was a good judgment for the Executioners
to be like, I don't know, like the comic Knuckles
meme when they're like, as more and more chapters
turn up to the Badab War, and then they have
a moment of clarity and go, are we the baddies,
but for real this time? Yeah, you are the baddiest
baddies. Gosh darn traitors. What did the Astro
Claws do wrong? They didn't want to pay taxes
to the worst government in history. That's right.
How dare they? It was a completely peaceful and
justified uprising. I'm just going to say it
again. You know, they had it right in 1776. No
taxation without representation. All I'm saying
is I'm not a space marine. I'm not a general.
I don't know how to fight a war. Trying to destroy
the Maelstrom with, like, the biggest crusade
ever? That's mental. Now that one was a little
bit goofy. I don't know, Huron. That's not a
good idea, not to pay taxes. I'm just going to
destroy everything in the Maelstrom. maelstrom's
a big place dude and there's like demons in there
i don't know the representation part though he
was a real one for that the crusading into help
it was you know maybe someone should have pulled
him back on that one sorry if you've had explosions
there is the oasis are playing tonight so i'm
sorry if you can hear that um are we frequently
arguing on street Did you see that? Yeah, I saw
the W of a Discord message that we just got.
Are we doing that frequently? I don't think so.
Also, I would just like to say you have a Vegeta
profile picture, so I'm winning in the end. Join
the Discord. Oh, I see. Eli always wins, does
he not? Why is there a Hal sticker on there?
Because I like the Hal sticker. I do like that
Hal sticker. But otherwise, and we mentioned
Corland, we mentioned Maximus Fane, don't read
Fist of the Imperium unless you like Genestealer's
winning. That's why I've told Eli to read it.
Completely accurate. Also, that book has a...
This is very in character with the Imperial Fist.
They have a company veteran. Guy gets buried
in an explosion, survives. Then they're... base
of operations gets invaded murks every single
gene stealer that tries to kill him grievously
wounded end of the book put in a dreadnought
that's the kind of guys the imperial fist are
they're like i don't care how many limbs i look
he's the he's the black knight from monty python
it's just like it's just a flesh wound like that's
imperial fist down to a t they're never giving
up they're always like bitterly pushing and struggling
on never relenting a single like like the last
wall um in Siege of Terror, you know, not one
backward step, which their commander, what was
his name? Captain Captain something. Just call
him Rogelthorn, who cares? The naming structure,
he's got like a, he's got a, I think a Latino
inspired name, but Imperial Fists are weird.
They've got like a lot of Russian names. Like,
what's ahead? You've got Gregor. You've got,
what's his name? the other you got gregor you've
got i did a cat this dreadnought character i
did a while ago it was something socks check
it's like that's very sound russian sounding
i think um also i've just realized the gameplay
is almost over so i'm going to give you some
more gameplay but this time as the chapter that
people like to see which is uh the black templars
sorry folks we're getting we're getting some
black templars footage oh no we're not Oh, technical
issues. Oh, no. Oh, no. Don't look at me. Don't
look at me. While I sort this out, we could do
some donations. Because I think, to be honest,
other than that, there's not much else to cover.
It's Imperial Fists, isn't it? I have a call
-out to make. Oh. Eli is secretly the biggest
Imperial Fists fan. And as my evidence... four
out of five times we play survival and dawn of
war modded it crashes one out of five times it
doesn't crash i blink the game starts i blink
a second time eli has five million turrets like
the game's been going for two minutes how did
you get the resources and let's never forget
that dawn of war game that i was witness to where
You just had that one turret. Just there. How
do I break the invisibility? The siege of the
listening post will be avenged by the single
Tau Pathfinder team or whatever it was. We need
another inevitable victory. Seeing as I've been
yapping a while and Colin did the last bout of
donations, do you want to read these ones out,
Eli? Carson C., thank you for the $10. Glad to
catch you guys live again. Best Warhammer podcast
there is. Thank you. Thank you. By the way, who
do you guys think could build a better society
on their own? Ultramarines or Imperial Fists?
Still Ultramarines. Because you don't want the
guy being in charge of your society also being
the pain glove guy. I think it's a... I think,
you know, my housing would probably never collapse
in a thousand years if Dorne was building it.
That's it. But occasionally, if there was a bit
wearing away, you'd see one of the bones of the
guy. Because they literally put themselves in
the foundations of unification war fortresses.
Literally. And to be fair, the Ultramarines were
also one of the only legions saying, after the
war's over, what are we going to do? I'm going
to be a politician. Good for you, mate. Good
for you. Imperial Fists, they're on standby mode.
They're waiting for a mission. Tell me what to
do. tell me what to do daddy said to give them
credit home invasions would drop to like negative
20 percent if they were in charge yeah uh anger
among us i think you're the five andy do you
know why the minotaurs helped the crimson fists
on rin's world i'm trying to figure out why they
would do that for another chapter uh they were
part of relief efforts so there were a few chapters
that rinswell rinswell was really unfortunate
because uh They accidentally blew up their own
fortress monastery because of a tech issue. They
weren't rubbing enough ungence on their machine
spirits components. So they blew themselves up
and lost pretty much all their men and knew they
couldn't win on their own. They had to wait.
And the Imperial Fist turned up as well and were
like, oh, brothers. Oh, this is a bit of a shit
show. Sorry about your chapter. Was it like the
most unfortunate series of like horrid tech issues
all cascading at the worst possible time? Missile
fired wrong. Shields weren't up at the worst
possible time. Perfectly hit like the ammo depot
or something like that. It inverts, burrows into
the depths. and then ignites all their ammunition
stores. Here's a fun tidbit about the Crimson
Fists. Did you know the Black Templars have the
Emperor's Champion with their own panoplies?
Crimson Fists had that. Don't have it anymore.
Guess what was in the armory? I'm picturing the
guy who's launching that missile. Have you watched
Chernobyl? Oh, yes. Yeah. Great show. Do you
know that scene where, like, the rods are bouncing
up and down and it's the one guy, like, staring?
Yeah. And then he, like, takes off running. I'm
imagining that, like, he's watching the missile
go deeper and deeper until he, like, runs, like,
oh, shit. Just Akimov saying, like, there's nothing.
You didn't see graphite on the ground on Rincewell.
Just, like, because it didn't happen. Then he
looks up and there's just, like, a big hole in
the fortress monastery. Show us the root gins,
Pedro. Yeah, so that was just all it was. Again,
it was like, Valiant chapter, they are good.
High Lords of Terror go, ooh, should send some
chapters to help. Okay. Minotaurs, go and help.
Yes, sir. DonkeyManUSA, thank you for the five.
I will never forgive GW for killing off Parthusa
Narek. I am so mad. I wanted him to rock up and
kick the shiz out of Lorgar in 40k. Yeah. Era
of Ruin came out a while back. Barfuza Narek
was in Siege of Terror for like one paragraph
where he's sniping. He's having a good time.
And then just Erebus kills him. Oh, great. Classic.
That it? Yeah. Erebus getting two for one at
the Siege of Terror. First Loken, now Barfuza.
Not there. Not there. That's why he's the goat.
Thank you, Apostle. Thank you for the 14. Czar.
In 40k, who is similar to... Black Adder and
Baldrick. Yeah. Baldrick is literally Jürgen.
Although it would be amusing hearing someone
read out the audiobooks in Black Adder, Rowan
Atkinson's voice like, Come Jürgen, we're off
to kill some town. Okay, sir. Him and I'm gonna...
I don't remember his name. Dr. House. Hugh Laurie.
Hugh Laurie, thank you. Ah, is it Lupus? Colin
wore a somewhat green hat last week. Thank you
for the two. According to YouTube, I'm your top
fan. Hooray, I guess. Thank you. Nice. Thank
you. Thank you very much. On the scoreboard.
Hardik, thank you for the five. Imperial fists
suffer the rare genetic defect of Primarchus.
More interesting -us where, surprisingly, it's
far more interesting to learn about their dad.
Yeah. Well, that's the curse of old. legions
isn't it legions turn chapters it's like you
got a primark i want to learn about him okay
do you want to learn about cave on strike no
okay demote him probably also why their successor
chapters are allowed to have more flavor because
they have they have the easiest way to get because
like you know the the parent chapter that was
the legion supposed to be like the the epitome
right so the successor chapters are allowed to
get away from that And it's the easiest to do
with the fists because it's like, how do we make
them get away from their parent chapter? They
don't defend. It's a very simple narrative foil.
The opposite. Glass Laughter, thank you for the
five. Andy, please give me a good 40k books to
read. No Horace Heresy. I beg you. Call and please
read for dramatic effect. I'm sorry. Sorry. You
should have put that one at the end. Andy! Give
me good 40k books to read, please. I beg you.
No horror series. I would say Watchers of the
Throne is good. It's got some Imperial Fists
in it. That's good. It's a two -parter, so it's
not a trilogy. You'll get a good hefty amount
from that. I really enjoyed Sons of the Hydra.
That one snuck up on me. I read it as just like,
oh, it's another book to research. I read that
and I actually really enjoyed it because it was
Alpha Legion being very sneaky. There were some
great plot twists here and there. and it had
it had a mentor chaos tech marine in it so i
was like brilliant and um yeah so i enjoyed that
one also there's a mentor death watch member
in fist of the imperium and he's in one sentence
i was like oh he's gone that's a shame the dank
fossil thank you for the 14 czar best iron warrior
book the siege of castelix also um the uh honsu
omnibus is quite good i recently did a video
on honsu And I listened to Storm of Iron, and
then I got the omnibus to get the short stories
read, because you can't get the audiobooks. And
there was also, I found something weird from
my buddy Zenon. Did you know that Honsu actually
met Perturabo? And they had a game of, what's
it called? Regicide. But here's the fun part.
It's a short story that you can only get with
the special edition re -release of Storm of Iron.
And that's extremely expensive. And there's no
other way to get a digital or audio copy. So
have fun with that. Brilliant. Thanos. He's pretty
much only Skarsnik, aka Skarsnik's top guy. Thank
you for the 15. Writing lore for a TTRPG setting
right now, but everything just turns into Warhammer
Fantasy. Am I cooked? No, because Warhammer Fantasy
is goaded. That's good. Yeah, no, that's good.
Also turn it into Lord of the Rings. That's another
good way. I need Eli. I was looking at Lord of
the Rings minis last night. Mordor must rise.
I must buy Sauron and the Ringwraiths. Very good!
Perfect even. Also, speaking of Warhammer Fantasy,
Colin, are you going to be buying the 180 -pound
foam Galmoraz from Warhammer Armory? You know,
I'm looking at it. Or $180. So it's cheaper.
It's cheaper. It's $180. That's cheaper than
pounds. Big hammer. Big hammer. But I'd love
to get one. And I'd like to put, you know, like...
get those hammers they make a squeaky noise and
i'd like get that fitted so every time you get
that'd be good fun um yeah i hope you got do
you got any more closing thoughts on the imperial
fists fellas or No, my closing thought was now
that you brought up the Warhammer armory, but
that's not related. That's why the clicking I'm
just hearing in the background is open tab. It
was, but then they saved it because their Reikland
outfit is coming this summer, supposedly. So
I would say they got fucking null piss on arrogant
gunnery snobs. You can pre -order an extremely
long flamberge and be like, hello, fellas. The
funny. And there's armor on the way, apparently.
Everyone's just holding out for the armor. Dude,
they make the big man's armor himself, and moving's
just gotta get put off for another few months,
I mean. It's easy. We got two more donuts before
we move to the end. Did you want to say what
you thought about the Imperial Fist before we
read the donuts? I think about them right now,
I guess. Jesus. You know what? I like them. I
like that they're just... Sure, they're not the
most interesting, but they're steadfast, they're
reliable. You send them in, they will get the
job done. No complaints, no nothing. No nonsense.
Not every... Fuck it, I'll quote Incredibles.
When everyone's super, no one will be. When every
Legion is... Look at our deep, tragic, gene -seed
flaw in our past. It's like, alright, so you're
not interesting. It's you and then everyone around
you. Someone needs to be the default to actually
make everything else interesting. Space Marines
in general, after you read enough books, they're
not. It gets harder and harder to read Space
Marine books, especially in 40K. Horace Heresy,
I can give a pass, I guess. They're so similar.
They're such flat characters generally. They're
just space marines doing space marine things.
The entire cool thing about a space marine chapter
is their paint scheme and their tactics. And
it really rarely goes much deeper than that,
unfortunately. I like reading space marine books.
I know you do, Andy. You know. A couple more
donors before question of the week. Colin wore
a somewhat green hat last week. If you're all
stuck in an arena and told inside one of you
there's a new book of your favorite author hidden,
who would gut who first? Wow. I don't think I'd
kill people for a book. Yeah. I mean, to be fair,
though, the trouble with that question is our
favorite authors are... written books we enjoy
so it's like uh i'm okay with the ones we got
if it was like your favorite author gets to correct
a certain faction like it might be killing call
good towel i was gonna say now if one of you
has like a a reach level halo game locked away
inside of you i'm i'm the red mist is descending
i'm sorry remember remember wow that'd be an
interesting one You read it, Andy. I've got to
do a question of the week after this. If you
all had to serve a Chaos God, who would you pick?
Who would you hate to serve the most? I wouldn't
want to be a Nurgle demon. Smedley. Slaanesh.
My order goes Slaanesh, then Khorne, then Nurgle
and Zeach, depending on my mood, are fighting
for last place. Nurgle, look, call me Fane. I
don't want to look and smell like that. That
displeases me. And Zinj, there's way too much
going on, man. I know I'm not cut out for that.
Yeah. I'd probably pick Khorne, then... Slaanesh,
then Siege, then Nurgle. Because it's like, at
least we call it, and I know I'll be content
when I'm butchering people. And that's at least
a reprieve. I don't have to smell bad. I don't
have to do any stuff I don't want to do, if you
know what I mean, with Slaanesh. And I don't
also have to be, like, working for Siege. It's
like having that boss who can never make his
mind up on a project. He's always messing with
his employees. Like, go away. You're just annoying
me. I don't like that. Also, like, all of the,
like, you know, all chaos gods, even Nurgle,
the quote -unquote bitch. happy family. They're
all incredibly treacherous and backstabby. Corn's
the best one, I think. Apart from Corn. Corn
will just tell you at the end, I'm going to kill
you on this day. They're still going to be infighting,
but it's at least going to be like, hey, I'm
going to kill you now. unless you're Karn the
Betrayer and then he just kind of swings at random
but you know you're getting even with him you
know what you're getting into when someone called
Karn the Betrayer is standing next to you in
the panel but Karn gets the buff where it's like
ranged weapons don't work on you he's like you're
my best boy here's a special power like wow thanks
dad amazing with Zeech like it's the only chaos
god where the treachery like isn't even serving
anything. It just happens. Like, at least even
with, like, Slaanesh, it at least hits the bare
minimum bar of, I felt like it. Zinj doesn't
even have that. There's 50 different layers of
plans. None of them work together. All of them
pile up at the end. And then a Thousand Sun Sorcerer
goes, just as planned. And I'm like, you should
die. Or a specific Thousand Suns source in a
recent book goes, don't worry about the last
book. I've retconned it in my own series. Oh,
thanks. You did a Mario 2 on me. How dare you?
It was all a dream. Yeah. Seems bad. Colin, who
would be the 40k version of Fanquill from the
dark? That's a... I don't know if there's anyone
quite like Fanquill in 40k. That's a... It's
not enough goofy characters in 40k. Armand's
probably the closest, right? That is... I don't
know who that compares that is more offensive
towards. I mean, it's not a perfect match. What
about Critman? I've got an idea. Why don't we
just put the Orcs and the Tyranids in one system
and we'll see who wins. Oh, that was a bad idea.
Whoops. I want to say Critman, but it's like...
He's not tripping up higher in the hierarchy,
right? He achieves things. He achieves things,
but he's technically not an Inquisitor. Not at
all. They kicked him out. It doesn't mean anything
because 40K is 40K. Anyone who is delivering
the news has to wait 10 bajillion years for the
paperwork to be sorted and the choir to stop
screaming. So functionally, he's still an Inquisitor.
It doesn't matter. Thankful, meanwhile, he doesn't
win. But he keeps tripping upwards. He befalikim
malikim foros from the Lamentis chapter. He drowns
Skavenblight, and I don't think it did anything
to him. And our last one here. Colin from Benadryl.
For every day you delay the fan call video is
a day that I will break into your house and sneak
in two rats inside your closet. Well, I have
bad news for you. Rats are social little animals,
and they are much friendlier than the Skaven
are. So you know what? I will have little rat
buddies. You can make them laugh with a toothbrush.
Yeah. You should also sneak in at least one hamster.
because I want to see how mine would kick the
bucket, because it's never in a normal way. Alright.
Also, Eli, we've got question of the week. What
was the last question of the week? I believe
it was something along the lines of Oh my god,
sleepy. Who would be your ever chosen? If you
could insert any character. So I've got a few
here. First one from Imperial Saint Von Carstein.
Hashtag ever chosen. By the most honored role
of every chosen, I have picked Plankton and make
Mr. Krabs as the emperor. And all potential quests
to destroy the world would inevitably fail with
Plankton ranting about the secret formula of
war pricks. That's a good answer. Nice. Breris
Pepe, 3815. Caliborn. Caliborn. I don't know
how to say it. I'm sorry. This is slash Lord
English and in brackets, another reference for
Colin to explain. Can you explain? Give me a
minute. I'm going to look up Lord English and
see if... I don't know anything about Homestuck.
Sorry, Raris Pepe. I'm sorry. You admit to liking
Undertale, and everyone assumes... You like every
whatever slop internet Tumblr fandom there is.
I like the funny game with the skeleton. I don't
like all the internet crap that came out before
it. That's pretty real. Alright, sorry. Mike
loves Magnus Must Glaze Andy. A schizo comment
probably. Thank you, Mike. I think the perfect
ever chosen would be Hal. And no, this does not
break the rules because... Is real life not a
setting? I suppose. And Hal would be the perfect
ever chosen. He has the slam poetry in Smith
Riz to inspire loyalty in his men. He has a strength
to say something so out of pocket he could stun
any and all enemies and then stab them with a
poop knife or hit them with his slam poetry scroll.
And I've seen Hal skip across towns in the blink
of an eye like an adult toddler. just so he can
get his package of classist books meth and a
bottle of hand lotion with all that i reckon
he'd be a great ever chosen uh mandatory bretonia
reference thank you mike all in will wear a green
hat Now he has. Thank you. I would choose Colin
and see how long he makes in a fantasy setting
without an insulin pump. All right. Now, again,
like this is joked with friends before. It's
like. You ever get bored and like just make like
a zombie survival plan? Because I'm going to
be honest, I would when I was at my working at
the church as a janitor. You can only clean the
pews so many times. It's not helping. I had to
do something to keep myself not insane. My zombie
survival plan is find a nice little house, gather
all the insulin I can, and when it runs out,
blow my head smooth off. Because I can tell you
exactly how long it'll take me to start feeling
adverse effects from insulin. About eight hours.
And probably die a very unpleasant death. Yeah,
it would be about three days to a week of a slow,
agonizing death of constant vomit and sickness.
And zombies. Not making a hell of a thing. Also,
if they're runners, like, look, if it's the Walking
Dead, I get the whole plan. If I see a dying,
like, volatile run past my window, I'm out. I'm
tapping out. The minute you see that bit where
they learn how to climb and hold rocks ten seasons
in, then you go, oh, no. And that's fine because
they're still slow, but if it's like 28 days,
no thank you. He was left for dead. Fellas jumping
off rooftops. Oh, no. Is that a witch? I'm out.
I'm out. Oh, no. All right. We got Witch Lich.
Speaking of which, imagine if Emperor Palpatine
was ever chosen. He's already one of the most
powerful force users in the galaxy. I can only
imagine where he'd go with the blessings of all
four Chaos Gods. If he was ever chosen, Chaos
wouldn't even have to invade the Empire because
he'd just weasel his way into the highest position
of power and start a Cold War fantasy edition.
Yeah, I like it. Do it. And lastly, justice for
Grievous pro waffle. I choose Megatron, but the
G1 Megatron to be the 40 K mustache or maybe
team rocket. You're going in for those answers.
Thank you. I have, sorry. Every chaos Lord would
only be improved by having a star screen right
below them. It's so weird. I don't just mean
a treacherous underling. I mean, it is clearly
just Starscream. I have a mandatory, very unfunny
and puerile new question of the week. The new
question of the week is hashtag fisted. Who in
the setting, fancy or 40k, deserves a fisting?
I will leave it up to your interpretation as
to what that means. This will not get past Hal.
Hal would have vetoed this, by the way. Free
reign, brothers. Bonus points if you don't just
say Manfrig or Erebus. Yeah, very real. Because
everyone's going to say Erebus. Those are not
incorrect answers. No one's going to disagree.
But, you know, sometimes you got to bring new
life into it. You got to pick new targets for
new memes to blossom. um but yeah that was the
imperialist it was your vote sorry my vote is
uh i think uh i think fabius bile could just
like just use a good like deck in the jaw he
deserves it like he both deserves it and i think
you know it'll knock some sense to him not intelligence
i'm not saying he's he's quite smart obviously
but like you ever meet someone who's like book
smart They're a genius, but if you left them
on the corner of a street, they would probably
just die. I feel like he's the version of that.
Only thing is, he has multiple clones of himself.
Fabius, the kind of guy who would go, well, that
sucks for that clone of me, but I'm still alive,
and I'm the real clone. And then all the other
clones are like, no, I'm the real clone. He's
that guy. He'll get away with murder. He's gotten
away with murder. He's gotten away with worse.
He's dreadful. God damn it. This is why he needs
to be punched in the face. He needs to fist them
simultaneously. He's not going to learn unless
every single one of these clones just get Karn.
Bro, in the Rathun book, he gets chucked off
of a massive tower and gets eaten by Tyranids.
He's been torturing the... the uh the the one
with the big brain in his like tower and then
the the rafa and his mates who he frees they
just like oh oh no it's it's in pain and it's
playing end me so they end it and then his harebrained
scheme to be like if i keep it imprisoned in
my tower the tyrannists will protect me from
invaders because they won't attack the tower
they'll just eat everything outside and each
other and then it's like an off switch and then
they start going up the tower and then ralph
and chucks him over the edge and he gets eaten
and then it like at the end of the book it's
like and then fabius was somewhere else and didn't
give a shit wow This is going to be an angry...
Big E could probably have also used one or two
smacks upside the head for some of his ideas.
The problem is there was no one in the galaxy
strong enough to do it. Yeah. Oh, and one last
donation from Bean. Archeon has fallen! That
makes me the new Everchosen! Glorious. Amazing.
Yeah, that was the Imperial Fist. Hope you...
Hope you all enjoyed it. Not sure what we're
going to talk about next, but we will be away
next week because me and Colin are away, but
we have got something lined up, so don't fret.
There is an episode next week, and I think you
guys will enjoy it. Maybe a gaming stream if
you want. Up to you. We can't stop you. I can't.
No, I'll be away. But either way, thank you all
for joining us tonight. Thank you very much.
And have a good one. Bye, everybody. Bye. Love
you.