Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it
is Lore Crimes. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello,
hello. We're in the mortal realms this week,
aren't we guys? I do sound echoey people, apologies.
I'm in a new spot, officially a new spot. But
today, well, I mean, we're just going to go straight
into it, honestly, because people have been...
begging for this particular topic uh there's
one particular person i think i don't remember
his name um but has been actually gagging pretty
much every video of recent months has been aos
when aos when aos when it's like we know we'll
get around to it so we did we thought we'd venture
into the mortal realms again unfortunately uh
there'll be no end time discussion i don't think
on this one though because it's straight up into
the good old age of sigma which you know it's
been the the model team cooks chef's kiss they
cook uh so let's give their law a bit of love
i think uh i mean does anyone have any how much
are you familiar eli with uh sig either sig marines
as people have often named them not very they're
there I don't really touch AOS. Wack. Yeah, well,
hopefully we'll change a few people's minds.
Do check out Spearhead if anyone hasn't given
that a go on Tabletop. Gotrix in it. Nothing
Gotrix in it can be completely bad. Sigvald's
in it. That's the only reason I've paid attention
to it. He's in it too. I have some Hedonites,
to be fair. The only reference I have is I watched
all of Black Talon on Warhammer TV and I was
like, this is very mid. Cool. Nice. Of course
it was mid. It was an official Games Workshop
animation. Hey, hey. They sometimes can... I
enjoyed Angels of Death. It was fine. It's a
crazy message we just got from Tygros. by the
way, but we'll get to that. Yes, but today we're
going to go, again, venturing into the mortal
realms. The end times is over. We don't have
to talk about end times anymore, but Colin's
going to help guide us through what is the actual,
I guess, technically, well, we'll end up there,
the Age of Sigmar and Stormcast Eternals. Colin,
you want to take it away? Sure thing. So, for
the Stormcast... Before we start, ignore... I
don't know what gameplay we got, but if it's
Vermintide, ignore my terrible gameplay. It's...
Well, if it's Vermintide, it's probably from
my point of view, in which case, blame everyone
else for my skill issue. It's never my fault.
It is always them. I think I did it earlier today.
Oh, man, I felt rusty. The game system feels
so old now. Does it? Like, really old. Like,
I just... Because... When you're used to playing
Darktide, you have like armor or other things.
Yeah. There's no sprinting, no nothing. It just
feels bad. I don't want to get too sidetracked,
but Darktide Sprinting feels like Halo Infinite
Sprinting, where it's there to nullify the people
who want sprinting, but it's like barely any
faster. I don't know. I'm not playing Vermintide
again. I'm not doing it. I'll do it. We'll get
to that when we get... That's a different conversation.
Sigmar. So, to start with the Stormcast, we gotta
start with... You know, even before AOS was properly
around. So, we cut to Sigmar floating in infinite
nothingness after his fantasy got blown up. Hell
yeah, coffee. But basically thinking, man, that
whole end times thing kind of blew, didn't it?
And eventually the mortal realms start coalescing.
There's that Dracothian big dragon that helps
form them. The winds of magic form them as well.
And Sigmar, he's back on form a bit. He's still
a god, still powerful, even though he lost. He's
ready to try again. Fresh start and all that.
So, he starts gathering his pantheon, which is
all the old, well, a lot of the old figures from
fantasy uplifted to godhood. Except for Gork
and Mork, who just fused into one being, and
now they've got Gorka Morka. And for the longest
time, he's, doesn't change too much, right? It's
like, same shit, different day. We've got, you
know, fair enough, in fantasy. normal people
held the line for like 10 000 years before the
world blew up so that's pretty respectable it's
be figureable same thing give it a chance let's
work with it again there were no stormcast for
most of what is age of sigmar's history technically
given you know how unknown but how long the setting
was before you know the part everyone cares about
right does this say specifically in age of sigmar
when the first humans are like I don't know if
they are discovered or they take them from the
souls of the end of the world, essentially, and
they kind of just let them do their own thing.
They can do that, but it's also been mentioned,
for example, it's with the elves where it's like
Teclis and all the other new elf gods were wandering
around. Why are there very few elves? And then
they found out a lot of them were still around
just in Slaanesh. So there were some people kicking
about. They did eventually kind of coalesce back
into humanity, but there are also some old souls
they can bring back. A little bit of both is
the answer, basically. And for a while, again,
just like in fantasy or, you know, 40k guard,
normal people are holding the line pretty good.
The Beastmen show up because there's Beastmen
and they beat those well enough. Although, I'm
going to be honest, saying you beat the Beastmen
doesn't really mean anything. You beat the Beastmen,
you aren't despised by GW, is what that means.
You know, some Skaven invade, and even before,
again, there's no Stormcast, but Sigmar, normal
people, and the rest of the Pantheon destroy
an entire great clan of them. Again, it's like
old fantasy. There's some threats, but they're
doing quite well, all the various... Non -chaotic
threat of the mortal realms. Things are going
fine. Then chaos starts creeping in. And again.
Victories start mounting for chaos. And again.
Sigmar is still at this point. Leading the charge
himself. And below him are just mortal men. Just
normal men and women. Spear in hand. Some gunpowder.
Hold the line. Should we say. Is this at the
point in which it's the age of myth. Which is
like. supposedly thousands and thousands and
thousands of years. No one really knows how long
it is. It's not defined at all. It's not defined.
It's kind of, it's like, it's like how we, we
know the dark age of technology exists in 40
K. Yeah, that's, that's about it. Sometimes we
find cool toys from it. That's kind of what the
age of myth is an age of Sigmar as an equivalent.
Great time. Sometimes we find cool stuff from
it. You're not going to get much info. And then
Age of Myth ends when Chaos basically knocks
on the door. Chaos starts barging in, and of
course that is the Age of Chaos, which I believe
officially begins. It's called the Battle of
the Burning Skies. Give it a good name, if nothing
else. This is the last big hurrah of Sigmar's
pantheon, which at this point is just him in
the gash, basically. As, you know, Sigmar takes
to the field, leading his normal men and women,
doing the best they can. Nagash backstabs him
because, yes, such is the power of Nagash. Sigmar
goes to beat up Nagash, realizes, oh, hey, there's
still a fight going on, and goes back to the
Battle of Burning Skies, loses Galmaraz, and
is just like, well, I'm out. Have fun, everyone
else. So he goes back to his realm of Azir, you
know, the wind of the heavens magic, and just
shuts the gates. You can't get in or out. No
one is allowed. No one's leaving. No one's going
in. And he basically just says, good luck, everyone
else. I'm going to go work on something. Which
incidentally, for those of you not too aware,
Age of Sigmar is technically a post -apocalyptic
setting. Because for however long the Age of
Chaos went, they just kind of ran rampant across
reality. If you weren't Malekith, you lost. He's
the only one who got a 1v1 win against Archeon.
I guess kind of the orcs were having fun. You
know, it's the same as with the orcs in the other
settings. All the orcs just like, it's not about
the winning, it's the taking part. Yeah, it's
like, you lost 90 % of your territory. I had
fun doing it. It's the journey, not the destination,
said the orcs. Yeah, so there's, you know, there's
various holdouts because, you know, AOS has more
armies than just the Stormcast. But it is...
they were running rampant but in the meantime
what sigmar was working on aside from telling
everyone to get the hell off of his lawn and
then enforcing that with lightning bolts was
making you know men and women who are just go
above and beyond what normal people can do you
know they're the best of the best they're going
to be his warriors who know no fear uh sickness
shall harm them whatever the rest of that quote
is from biggie it's uh he's making The best of
the best and making them even better. So he's
his way of being active for the next like few
hundred years is he looks out across, you know,
said this seven of the eight realms because his
own is just shut off. And he looks for someone
suitably heroic, basically. So let's say you
and your buddies chaos is overrunning you. It's.
It's last stand time. You are Noble Six. Right
before you die, because you are otherwise going
to die, Sigmar is going to reach down and just
kind of grab you. And this is like before Nagash
is basically already... Because I think, isn't
it even despite Nagash who... He's only within
one realm. He technically... Everyone who dies
does go to Shaiish, is it? No, that has already
been happening. Which is why, which we'll get
into, Nagash off -rip hates the Stormcast. Nagash
had, by this point, there used to be in, like,
the background Age of Myth lore, there was a
bunch of gods of the dead, and then Nagash ate
them. Because that's just what he does when he
has to share his toys. He's done it before. Yeah,
he did that in the End Times, too. That was the
first thing he did. My favorite weird explanation
for it is, like, in, is it the Realm of Shaiish,
right? Isn't it? They basically explain, like,
Shaiish, because realms are, like, infinite.
They have almost, like, anthill. You know if
you have, like, what's that thing, and you can
see, like, a little anthill creation? Ant farm,
yeah. You basically have, like, different underworlds,
like, in Shaiish, and Nagash is, like, he starts,
the reason Nagash is able to eat the other gods
is because they burrow into other, like, art
supplies. Shaiish is, like, a collection of a
bunch of different afterlives and Nagash just
starts home invading these different afterlives
and taking them over. He just goes, oh, that's
a lovely buffet you got there. Well, at a certain
point, that just turns into like a snowball going
down a hill, right? You eat one death god, now
you've got the power of two death gods, so you
eat this next one easier. And yeah, that's what
Nagash is doing for reference. It doesn't matter
much at this point. And he's a skeleton. He's
got no tendons or flesh, so he can just stand
his jaw all the way and just be like... He's
got an innate advantage. He's already a skeleton.
He has no gag reflex. He's absolutely hammering
it down. Thank you for specifying that. Before
people thought the quality of lore crimes had
improved, I wanted to bring the level down a
little bit. The serious podcast. The entire hog.
Slayer Barden on screen also. I need to mention
that. Hell yeah, brother. Grimnir's strongest
thrower. This guy was terrible at playing that
game. He sabotaged it and just was running forward
just like a maniac. You know what that is? More
accurate. That's role -playing, Hal. He's not
as killed, but like twice, I think. I'm sorry
that you don't have a death oath. Sigmar, during
this time, he's looking around, peeking out,
looking for people doing heroic deaths. And given
that, again, chaos is overrunning seven -eighths
of all of reality, There's a whole lot of people
dying what could qualify as a heroic death, right?
It'd be like, you know, I'm sure, you know, for
comparison, I'm sure it'd be like, you know,
the Emperor scrying across the galaxy during
the Horus heresy, looking at the five million
different, like, Imperial Army units that are
all dying horribly as Horus overruns them on
his way to Terra. I'm sure there's a whole lot
of last stands going on during that point. And
during the Age of Chaos, a whole lot of that
going on. so like i said you're about to get
you know whacked by a chaos lord he'll be like
it nope i think you're pretty tough i think you're
cool so he will grab you and in a bolt of lightning
you go to azir and he will reforge you anew uh
this can also happen as you're dying usually
as you just die though because if you wait too
long nagash is going to send you to one of those
underworlds But if it's just happening, which
was shown in one of those, I think the animation
trailer for fourth edition, you see Sigmar can
take you from the gash if you're just quick enough
with it as you die. We should briefly mention
for this part, if you're thinking, what the hell
has Sigmar been doing for probably a few hundred
years? He was not alone. No. Do you want to talk
about that, Colin? technically it's not his own
work it's like his idea but yeah it's his idea
uh he had some help as well from the dwarf god
grungni who also made it to age of sigmar and
was probably doing if if not the brunt of the
work then i've no doubt grungni had like a majority
stake in like designing the process because grungni
makes the because the whole point like grungni
was not with the basically the Dwardin, sorry.
He kind of left them on their own in the Age
of Chaos to be like, the strong will come out
strong. And then later on he's like, I fucked
up. It was too strong. Maybe that was a bit mean.
Are you suggesting that Sigmar was the Steve
Jobs of the operation? He was just like, I don't
know how to build an iPhone. I'm just going to
go on stage and tell you how great they are.
I was like, thanks, Steve. Why are you here?
Not quite that level of stealing the work. Sigmar,
he does personally reforge people. He does get
in the shops themselves and go to work. He's
got that secret sauce. He's like, eh. But he
was heavily held by Grumney. Because Grimley
makes the actual thing that makes it happen,
though, which is the anvil of apotheosis, I think.
Yeah. The actual device. Yeah, but Sigmar is
in there hammering away at it. What the hell
was that? Someone scared the crap out of me there.
Did my audio jump or something? That's why someone
yelled. That was crazy. Eli? Andy? I didn't hear
anything. I'm talking about Dora 2 in chat right
now. I'm hearing demons in the stream, apparently.
I'm like, what's going on? It's the voice of
Sigmar, Hal. Listen to it. I love that Grundy
was like, yeah, I'm not with my Dwarden. I'm
going to be in Azir with the humans. Grimnir
is the only member of the pantheon who stuck
with Sigmar, and he did not stick with the dwarves.
Grimnir, for his part, exploded, if you're wondering
what happened to the other dwarf god. He committed
Majin Vegeta. But so that's what Sigmar does
this for basically hundreds and hundreds of years.
Again, there's no solid, like the age of chaos
lasted exactly this long. I have in my head 500
years, but it's never, I don't believe like explicitly
like it's this long. Everyone was too busy to
write down, like, this year this happened and
this date. It's like, I'm fighting for my life!
There's a demon eating my mum! Like, oh no, this
is bad. It's like, no one's keeping calendars
in The Walking Dead because there are infinitely
more pressing concerns to worry about than, what
day is it? The cool part, though, is that Grungni,
even though he helps Sigmar do this, he makes,
like, demigods, doesn't he? He makes like six
demigods that can, I forgot what they are called
specifically, but they're the ones who are like
the operators of the forge and they can never
leave. They're only allowed in the Ample of Apotheosis
and I think they're all called like the One or
something in their own language. They're quite
strange and they basically, like whatever the
equivalent of like other versions of demigods
they have for different gods. Grungni made six
of these and they all basically always help Sigmar.
And they kind of just, they're the ones who are
like the actual, I guess, smiths that do the
process, but they require Sigmar's power to make
it work. Yeah, Sigmar's given him some divine
juice to, you know, make his soldiers. And this
just basically goes on. Sigmar is in a bit of
a holding pattern because he's like, I... We
kind of lost horribly. We need some more juice.
I can see the second end times on the horizon,
and I think I need something. Mortal people are
just not cutting it on their own. I clearly need
more. So hundreds and hundreds of years, he's
just, again, grab someone, grab someone, grab
someone, reforge their soul, and turn them into
his Stormcast Eternals. And he probably would
have kept doing this, but at a certain point,
He gazed out across the worlds and was like,
reality's kind of starting to buckle. I can see
it breaking at the seams. And he basically was
like, if I don't do it now, there might not be
a world left to save. I think he does even in
his own works. I read a book recently. Sigmar
actually speaks and he says in his own words,
he would have perfected the process. Yeah. Except
the world, the realms were going to fall, so
you had to... He was edging the apocalypse, that's
all it was. The process isn't totally perfect,
but there is no time left. Although there was
also a little bit of, again, just some nice opportunism,
because in the meantime, chaos does as chaos
does, and when it wins, it just fights itself.
So Khorne declared war on everyone else, and
just kind of over, just started beating the snot
out of everyone. So Sigmar saw that, saw that
reality couldn't really handle chaos anymore.
He was like, well, now's the time. So he threw
open the gates of Azir and the Stormcast marched
forth. And for the first time, and again, I have
500 years in my head. There is no, I don't believe,
like exact timeline between the Age of Chaos
and the Age of Sigmar beginning. But Sigmar threw
open the gates and in lightning storms, the Stormcast
struck out. Before we get any further, though,
should we do the first round of donations? That's
a really good point. We've got DonkeyManUSA for
$5 .00. Stream late because Hal is Balthazar
-ing on that gelt. Supremes! Thank you, brothers.
Thank you, DonkeyMan. i love that animation where
it's just like i am supreme and then he's just
like more of metal and he shoots a guy with a
machine gun it's my favorite thing imperial science
is the finest in the world dude ty bros the colorblind
wake thing for the two dollars y 'all proto -human
enough to listen to nightcore for real i know
what unbelievable statement man unbelievable
It's not Chipmunks. It's Nightcore, and they
put an anime girl in the thumbnail. This is for
you, Colin, especially if I can see. Hey, guys.
Nomius Chomsky. Thank you for the 10 euros. I
love that name. That is a great name, man. Hey,
guys. I hope everyone is doing well. Can't stay
for much longer. Currently enjoying my well -deserved
holidays in Greece. Enjoy your holidays, man.
Enjoy. I wish you all a great rest of the day.
Happy birthday, Colin. i mean we are it's been
going on for so long we're getting now closer
to my birthday than farther away from this colin
is now colin is now according to the chat 275
years old i've i looked at my notifications like
on youtube like five in a row on five different
videos people all just said the bone man comet
what Here's the thing. Arthur Bones just did
a video on Archeon slash Abaddon, and so he was
like, I'm going to pick a fight with Colin, comment
the bone man come up in his chat because of reasons.
I can't remember why. I didn't have time to watch
his video. Oh, well. The beef died here. Colin's
husband, boiled up and bouncing, freaky style.
Oh, that's attack of speed. Never mind, carry
on. AOS the goat, raw. Rah! Rah! Man, these names
are getting more creative. Donkey Man again out
of the five. I convinced my sister to do art
of the Great Horned Omnissiah. Drunk Donk can
do anything, apparently. Share when she's done.
Yeah, share when she's done. Shiloh Young with
the fiver. First time watching live Loveless
in the Owl Owl painting. That's my Sigmar male
grind set. Thank you very much. Hey, me. How
you doing? If people are listening along, let
us know what you're painting in the comments.
We'd love to know. Nylock for two Canadian. Colin's
beautiful beard. Bet it got snacks in there.
No, I make sure to clean those. Look, it's a
beard. Sometimes food gets stuck, but I'm not
an animal. Got bean for $2. Start digging in
your progenoids, twin. Thank you, Wayne. Thank
you for that. Pancreas' silliest clown for five.
The Amber King be doing deadlifts for the dark
gods on my remembrancer till my pancreas no work.
That kind of goes hard, but I'll be honest. He's
back. Collins has been oiled up and bouncing
freaky style at the Fiverr again. Ah yes, the
faction I want to buy every time I listen to
Glory. Have a huge... Huge glory to have him
mentioned. Also, first edition and the modern
Stormcast have the biggest glow -up in history.
I like the fat cast. I'm sorry. I miss them being
all the size of Terminators. I think their new
color scheme suits them better, though. No, they
look... The quality's definitely improved. I
just miss them being chunky. It's like Pikachu.
Chonky Pikachu is better than modern Pikachu.
I like him when he's got a little bit of heft.
Delta Crafter for 100 ARS? Sorry, they're not
familiar. 100 ARS? Wow. 100 ARS. Me when she
rages on my Sigma until I stormcast eternal brackets
such as the power of Nagash. P .S. Love the podcast
and thank you so much for the good lore videos.
Cheers, man. Thank you. Thank you very much.
That's the cheese. Cheese PFP. 499 pounds. Thank
you. I love cheese. Hey, Big E, show your homework
and made it better, Sigmar. You're not saying
Big Mo. Look, sometimes the two words at the
end of the sentence turn into one words, all
right? Crazy, hilarious. JP, thank you. Thank
you for the 10 Australian dollars. you knew yunari
lore when there's only so much lore on rule 34
that's probably all the lower you're gonna get
yeah i'm afraid your brain rule 34 is the end
of the inari's lore yeah you know he's dead man
the dream is dead you know that reminds me of
i was watching a retrospective on uh barrier
let's see the dlc for bioshock infinite and it's
like dlc is trash but it spawned a whole new
like genre of elizabeth art and it's like oh
no Although I heard that Prince Uriel might be
in the end of edition plotline. I think that
was just some random comment that I read. But
you never know. We don't know. Could be true.
Prince Uriel is really cool. What the hell is
going on in Fermatide? Overload? What the? You
know what? I'm getting lost. How gameplay? Don't
ask questions you'll never understand. I thought
I was glad Colin got me to read Godric and Felix.
I read Kinslayer recently. May you forever have
the pancreas you deserve. Look, again, I've said
it many times, that book hurt. JP with the five
Australian dollars. This is for you, Eli. I'm
going to let you read that. For you, when the
Inari defeat Femboy, Demon, Fulgrim, and get
the last Crone Sword, will you be happy or sad?
They'll find a way to make both of them lose.
That's what I think. Demon, Fulgrim does not
get to win, and the Inari also don't get to win.
So there will be no inevitable victory. There
will be no good Fulgrim -Demon moments. Dude,
I can give you the two paths this takes. One
is that that just never happens. That fight never
happens. And two is that Korn gets it. True.
Starbrand's gonna show up. Or, or, or... you
get Azdrabail Vect involved and he's the one
who gets the crown sword and he's like, hey,
you could save our entire species. He's like,
no, I'm just a dick. But it looks quite nice
over my fireplace. Exactly. If that did happen,
I'd be happy because there's nothing to expect
but pure defeat from Demon Primarchs anyways.
I don't think I can even read that. Oh, I got
it. Borborgimus Rumblesnort. Nice. But Colin,
who was mowing all the lawns in Walking Dead?
The same people who are leaving Starbucks cups
and Game of Thrones sets. Also, public service
announcement. Do not watch all 13 seasons of
Walking Dead. It is not worth it. Also, Daryl
Dixon's series is now on season three? When did
that happen? I have no idea. Daryl Dixon's spin
-off show. He has his own show. It's called Walking
Dead Daryl Dixon. They're in France and they're
introducing new zombie types. Stephen Merchant
is the last living Brit, apparently, and he's
on the show. I'm like, this is so silly. The
last? The last, apparently. That's crazy. Main
event, Virgil for five euros. Don't know why
I'm asking people with all the autistic talent
toadstool, but this... This, but what colour
should I paint my Croxigor to go with my blue
Soros? I hate Soros. Out of the three things
I have to say, first of all, learn how to write
if you're going to start throwing shade. It may
not be his first language, to be fair. That's
fair. To be fair, with blues, just maybe do either
go turquoise or purples. I like the white Crocs.
I know Crocodile. White's good, but then you
do have to paint white, so good luck. Blue -green,
a nice turquoise, that ain't a bad move. And
third of all, as much as I hate to inflate Hal's
ego on this more, he does paint well. One of
us knows how to paint. He does. I paint okay.
I think my Gatric is good. You have no idea how
hard it was to not reach for a model just then.
I'm sure. My will to draw me is laid out. Eli,
I believe this one is another one for you. JP,
thank you again. $5. Wanted to do a special shout
out to Eli. Inspired me to get back to peak physical
fitness. Got back to my 225 -kilogram deadlift.
Pretty happy about that. That's freaking awesome.
That's like 500 pounds. I need to go back to
the gym, but there's nothing more demoralizing
than going to the gym and being there for three
hours and getting maybe 30 minutes of workout
in. Because the person you're lifting with just
leaves and starts talking to other people. Where's
my spotter? We got one from the Dank Apostle.
I haven't seen you in a while. The 14 Tsar. Hi,
guys. Will we get a video on Malice Darkblade?
I still need to read this book. Yeah, when I
read that Omnibus, I will totally do it. Omnibus.
Colin's husband oiled up and bouncing freaky
style is back for the two bucks. Thank you. Happy
birthday, by the way, Colin. Happy birthday.
The Dank Apostle. The 14 Tsar. Opinions on the
new Nightbringer. I got the OG one right here.
He's not built. But I think he's very cool. No,
I'll give them credit. They didn't sanguinary
guard the model. Once again, Necrons just keep
winning. Necrons just get good models. Look,
I was just saying, Necrons and the war in heaven
in the modeling side of things, at least, is
still going strong. Necrons never lose. We get
good books, good models. Don't look at the lore,
though. Silent King will return to do basically
nothing. One question I have. What about Lady
Malice? New Drakkari model. Lady Malice finally
got a model. She looks a bit too young. She does
look young, but I don't know. She did shove a
god's heart in place of her own. I'm sure that's
helpful. I saw the two new models and I felt
nothing. Not gonna lie. I'm waiting for them
to bring back half of their model range that
they obliterated. So we'll see. Look, it's a
step in the right direction. It's a Dark Eldar
named character. We'll see if they do anything
else. That's the only thing I'm worried about.
It also does look like Shadowheart from Baldur's
Gate. Awuga, awuga, bark, bark. Cassidy Cheese
for $9 ,000. Thank you, man. It's me, Big Mar.
Big Mar. And then Sigmar saw the Stormcast and
he said, Think Bigly. And then he unleashed all
of his army. Bean with the Fiverr just destroyed
and worshipper of chaos, ATF agent. Sigmar's
divine lightning. The MG42. When he attempted
to destroy a Sigmarite temple. Meth lab. You're
real for that, Bane. You're real for that. You
are Bane's strongest B -Day heister. That was
very generous, and I thank you guys for coming
back. Thank you. We missed you. Incoming backup
with a 30 shekels. How are you guys? I hope for
your sake you talk about the best Stormcast.
Hamilcar, Bear Eater, Champion of the Gods, including
Boingob. Otherwise, you'll be sleeping with rotisserie
chicken. sleeping i've watched i've watched and
read nothing of stormcast i thoroughly enjoyed
his animation on hammer and bolter so he's my
favorite age of sigmar character i'm actually
gonna talk about him later that's the oh jesus
christ it's a bad omen well first of all i hope
you do better because i read ahead oh lord breaking
schlong pancreas has tumor I started reading
The Horus Heresy and they found more tumors on
my pancreas. Also, Mr. Pancreas Man, what are
we trading pancreases? I wish you the best, dog.
Jesus Christ. Danger Tickle. No squat about AOS.
Any recommended reading? Yeah, I will recommend
the book I read for this episode, which is the
Hamilcar Bear Eater. No, it's quite fun. It's
a good book. And I would also reading a Warhammer
fantasy book. All right. That's me. I would also
recommend the gods and mortal short story collection.
There's some nice fun reading. It's a bunch of
different, like shorter stories. So it's good.
And also the lore of metal man himself shows
up in it. So if nothing else, you're reading
both a fantasy and an age of Sigmar books. So,
Hey, nice. Main event Virgil. I speak perfect
English. I just don't proofread. So in that case,
fuck you. In that case, we'll send Skarsnik's
top guy for 50. Can we get a five -hour stream
of Hal showing all his models? Just him. Everyone
else just watches. Also something something circumcision.
I would rather get a circumcision than do that.
Why is circumcision hyphenated? Yeah. That's
one word. At least it was cut in the middle,
huh? Very funny. Very funny. Oh, man. Thank you,
guys. Which one is it? The last one. The last
one? Okay. I'm terrible at it, I literally cannot
read this stuff. So where we left off about 15
minutes ago... The gates of Azir are open and
it's time to... Stormcast all over the place.
It is officially the Age of Sigmar. So these,
they become known as the Realmgate Wars. So for
a bit of context, all of the different mortal
realms are connected by what is known as Realmgates.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving people shit for speaking
properly. But yeah, that's how you get from one
realm to another. There are, like, if you're
a sufficiently powerful mage or a god, you can
just kind of teleport with magic. But if you
aren't, and you're like most people and you just
kind of got to hoof it, you can go through a
Realm Gate. There are a couple. In any given
area, you can probably find at least one, but
there are also a few that connect to multiple
realms and various other places. So Sigmar opens
all the Realm Gates in Azir and just sends out
the Stormcast. She's like, you need to make an
entrance now because we are out of time. And
to their credit, they do. As Khorne is busy,
you know, Chaos is infighting, Khorne's fighting
a 3v1 and winning because GW knows who their
favorite god is. Although I guess Nurgle has
been kind of taking that spot with all the games
and stuff lately. But irrelevant. All of these
warriors, they start flowing out and begin pardon
me, just putting in the work across all of the
different mortal realms they begin reclaiming
land from chaos uh the first one i believe was
actually the realm of fire where they which is
where a lot of the early stormcast art of uh
stormcast versus coronate warriors comes from
they just go head to head with corn corns obviously
i mean of course he's loving it because what
is this if not a whole lot of blood being spilled
uh stormcast are giving them hell corn's fighting
but they're they're pushing they're pushing chaos
back on all fronts uh they go to in come on i
don't i also don't does anyone know as an as
an aside at least eli or hal i know andy fantasy's
not as much your wheelhouse the wind of metal
come on has anyone ever figured out how to say
that How's it spelled? I don't know. C -H -A
-M -O -N. Like MJ did it. C -H would be like
chimera, so come on. I say come on, but that's
only because it sounds like hamon from Jojo,
which is probably not a valid... I will use my
hamon! It's really useful in the second season,
and third, it's freaking useless, because we
have stans now. Cool. Thanks, old man. But in
come on, they pull out a real W, and they discover
and return... Galmaraz to Sigmar after it had
been tricked away from him by Archeon and Zeech.
Shout out to the guy, Nylok, in the comment section.
He literally just wrote, you know, F I love goats.
Like, fuck I love goats. Crazy comment. That's
crazy, man. Thank you. Thank you, Boris. comment
highlights. I'd like to share this one from Rox.
I finished streaming at work on Monday. Just
want to let you boys know that you're amazing
Warhammer channels. Each of your channels offers
a unique take on the lore of these things. That
was really nice. Thanks, Rox. Hammond was the
best age of Jojo, by the way. Those are my favorite
seasons. I like it, but I also there's some wackiness
that stands bring that I can't hate in heaven.
Fair. Very fair. Yeah, the Stormcast are back
with, well, they're here with a vengeance, and
they're going throughout all the different mortal
realms. With Galmoraz reclaimed, Sigmar can,
again, not quite perfect the process of the Stormcast,
but he can awaken the Celestin Prime, his ace
in the hole, who has never been confirmed, but
it's absolutely Karl Franz, and I'm not going
to hear anything against that. His super is Stormcast,
the primark of the Stormcast Eternals. He sends
him out, and Stormcast, it's nothing but Stormcast
wins. Stormcast stocks are at an all -time high.
I hope you sell now, because in future editions,
they are at an all -time low. But for now, this
is their debut. As both in -universe and as an
army you can buy, they're here swinging. Uh,
they go out, they, uh, in, uh, what is it? In
Gairan, the, uh, the realm of life. They ally
with a L 'Oreal, you know, they bring her back
to life because she kind of died, but she's,
you know, a nature goddess. So, you know, rebirth,
death, all that crap. L 'Oreal's back and ready
to throw hands, uh, in Shaiish. Well, they do
start fighting chaos and then Nagash goes, well,
actually I was going to do that better. And also
he starts killing Stormhost too, because of course
he does. But it is overall, this is the Stormcast
grand appearance, and they begin reclaiming lands
in the Age of Sigmar across the mortal realms.
Where they go, Sigmar's still got, he's still
got, you know, the armies of mortal men, you
know, mere men and women going forward. And they
start fortifying kind of the Stormcast. It's
kind of like the, it is in a lot of ways like
the Space Marine Legions of old as well, where
Big E sends in the legions, they go break everything
on a planet. And, you know, then the army comes
up, you know, mops up any remaining resistance,
fortifies, brings it into compliance, all that.
It's like that. The cities of Sigmar, as they
are, march behind the storm hosts, giving them
some help. fortifying it so the Stormcast can
move on to the next big battle. What are you
shaking your head at, am I? Eli says in the chat,
I hate short people. I was trying to team kill
the freaking dwarf in Vermintide. He wasn't moving,
he wasn't accepting the shock. Shotgun blast
to the face, unbelievable. No, I gotta be honest,
the way you phrased that, Colin, with like the
support standing... behind this gold clad bunch
of giants like oh yeah we're gonna help like
they can't kill whatever we're fighting i don't
know oh yeah i'll help i mean look they still
got guns right i mean it's warhammer if you have
a gun you can still help at least a little bit
it's the same as lasguns right one you know awful
flintlock musket ain't gonna do anything 20 of
them pointed at a bloodthirster hey it'll probably
hurt at least a bit I've seen their stat lines.
I mean, if a hundred guardsmen can't take down
a blood letter, a blood first with their last
guns, at least you have a fun light show, I guess.
Yeah. I would also like, I would also like to
point out that in a, in 40 K, uh, space Marines
were strength four and a average Imperial army
captain is also strength four. So maybe they
can do it because they're just built different
over in a different. sigmar's weakest imperial
captain fighting the emperor's strongest strongest
ultramarine and then the custodian arrives and
goes and then that oh no oh no oh goofy um yeah
the stormcast they're they're getting you know
they're all out and about now this early on again
uh this was the army's introduction so obviously
the storm cast moving out across seven of the
eight realms and wrecking shop it's like every
time gw introduces a new army or character right
they are the best of the best ever that's if
you haven't noticed that that's how warhammer
works see again you know the tomb king showing
up and they burned their way to norsca because
cetra lost his hat or the tau showing up and
being better than everyone else or the leagues
of otan a new army shows up and gw gives them
you know Fluffs them off a bit. It is what it
is. Fluffs them off is crazy. But, you know,
the cracks are still showing a little bit. Not
much. Not much. The Celestin Prime does one shot
at even the size of a continent. So, you know,
the cracks aren't showing that much. But it's...
There are some problems. One is that... Sigmar
never quite perfected the reforging process.
So usually the first time Sigmar brings you back,
you're mostly the same. You are mostly the same,
but you'll probably get, you'll probably take
on a new name, but that's, I mean, you know,
even space Marines do that, right? You know,
they're not the same person they were before
they came out of Marine, right? And you know,
you're born anew. Some memories are forgotten
even during the first time you're reforged. But
you're by and large the same person, just, you
know, a little bit more heroic, noble, you know,
Sigmar -y, a lot more lightning coming out of
you, all that good stuff. Second time, you kind
of start losing some memories. It's not great.
Again, when the Stormcast, I guess, oh, yeah,
I kind of breezed over that, though, didn't I?
Dude, that is another. When the Stormcast die.
They bolt back to Azir to be re -reforged. Brought
back again. Get back in the fight, buddy. Once
you get to that second time, though, it's like
you're losing a little bit of yourself. Again,
it's not too bad, but it does start adding up.
Interesting. They even say, as we mentioned earlier,
there's six demigod dwarves that, well, Dwarden,
sorry, that the spirits of Grungni that they
even say like with the forge like sometimes you
can die and then you're like ready to come back
out and be reforged in a few months some of them
it could be centuries like depending on how much
your spirit is like wounded or like it's the
same way in which like if you're smelting not
a hundred percent of the thing is turned into
ore each time yeah and i guess that's the way
it is with like their spirit or their souls yeah
it's like that but with your physical your your
very essence yeah like no like sometimes it's
better and it's like oh we got like we got 99
of him or we got 98 or you know 90 and other
times like he is 60 him so i was like yeah it's
you know it'll depend on who killed you right
like if you know you're the unlucky stormcast
who's you know player rolled the one on the save
and he got shanked by a goblin you're probably
coming back you know 99 of you's fine the other
stormcast are gonna make fun of you for the rest
of your life because you got shanked by a little
goblin you're gonna be fine archaeon gives you
the one two slamorama and it's like oh you're
gonna be scraping bits of soul off the wall I
got two things. One, it just reminds me of something.
I can't remember the references, but I think
it's Red Dwarf, but I'm not sure. But it's just
like, I feel bits of my brain falling away like
a wet cake. But it just makes me think like there's
a dreadnought in 40K called Sobchak, and he's
like a thousand plus years old. and he's all
like back in my day space marines were better
and he's at a state where he when he's deployed
he doesn't realize where he is he thinks he's
still fighting when he was still like an imperial
fist so i'm like i wonder if you put like a storm
cast next to a dreadnought what the comparative
amnesia is of like how many times you put them
out there like you only lose memory if you die
or you lose memory every time you get put out
there i wonder the storm cards that have died
quite a lot they don't have confusion necessarily
they just you just lose if you lose memory you
lose parts of you lose parts of who you are though
so like it's the memory yeah it's almost like
a side effect of them just losing part of their
soul like it's not off in the mic colin oh sorry
you know i i set it down i was holding it when
i was speaking my bad When I move, I need to
invest in a mic stand because it sounds nice
and good. Hey, Colin, nice wind tunnel you're
in. Again, memories are what make you, so therefore
if you have less of them, you kind of become
more like automatons almost. You're just killing
machines. Once you start getting up there in
the reforgings... Sigmar fills in the missing
bits of soul with, like, Azerite magic and his
own divine power, which gets him back in the
fight. They're less of themselves, which will,
as we get on, that will eventually become a bit
more relevant. We're still early on, though.
The Stormcast are, again, they're very powerful.
They throw down quite well. not really any of
them have been reforged enough for this to become
too prevalent of a problem at this point. That's
like, you know, one real unlucky guy keeps getting
ganked by goblins sucks to be that guy, but you
know, maybe the most of them are, you know, kicking
ass, taking names. Uh, they, again, they don't
clear all the mortal realms because a lot, it's
something. A lot of people don't know, but even
at this point, like most of the mortal realms
are held by chaos. Sigmar and them, they're pushing
back. They're finally reclaiming lands. And as
the rest of the gods kind of wake up, they're
claiming land back. But most of the realms are
held by chaos. But the Stormcast, alongside,
you know, any allies they make, the cities of
Sigmar, the mortals, they're taking back land.
They're doing very good. This is the Realm Gate
Wars. As they pour out of Realm Gates. re -fortify
them and these realm gates will usually become
like cities of sigmar different cities uh and
become bastions of order uh they uh they do the
uh what i say you know it's kind of like the
end of their hail mary where it's like just mad
rush blitzkrieg across the realms becomes when
they uh siege the eight points it's called or
the all points uh depending on if you are a chaos
show or not That's a spot where, from there,
you can get anywhere in the Mortal Realms. The
Stormcast decide, let's go for gold. We've made
it this far. Let's push for it. And they storm
the Eight Points, which is Archeon's personal
fortress. Upside of the Stormcast, they do manage
to seal off some of the Realm Gates, particularly
the ones to, what is it? What do you call them?
Akshi and Gyren, the Realms of Fire and Life.
So, hey. We blocked off Chaos from those realms.
Not completely, obviously. There are a lot of
other realm gates, but the easiest access points,
we're good. We cleared those out. Chaos has to
try a bit harder now. On the downside, it's Archeon's
personal fortress. He's not going to let you
just come into his shop and just start smashing
the place about. So those Stormcasts, they get
obliterated. Again, they can respawn. This is,
I think, probably the first time in Warhammer
where, you know, the good guy faction gets their
own infinite, like, little trick hack. So they,
from some point of view, it could be a worthy
sacrifice. Some of those Stormcastles don't quite
make it back because, again, Archeon is there
personally. But, again, this is overall, it's
been victory after victory. They've been pushing
forward. They made their presence known, and
for the first time in hundreds of years, there's
hope again. Sigmar's back, and we're ready to
fight. And then, I'm trying to, you know, I'm
wondering if it's part of a real -world reaction,
right? Because the Stormcast came right after
the End Times, and Age of Sigmar's big introduction
from a modeling range. was goodbye fantasy hello
space marines so after this these stormcasts
kind of begin their three editions long losing
streak not completely losing they don't completely
obliterate the faction but this is where we get
to the the soul wars where nagash is a on on
brand so part of the reforging process's problem
aside from it sigmar was never able to perfect
it is that every time a stormcast dies in the
field of battle part of their soul being lost
is because nagash creeps on and is like give
me that give me that you are you're you should
have been dead like three deaths ago i'm taking
i'm taking your soul you can't quite perfect
it Unless Nagash is there in person, because
if Nagash is there in person fighting Stormcast,
he absolutely can just go, joink. But otherwise,
he gets a little bit of it. Not all of it. Not
all the soul, but a little bit of it. He grabs
the soul and just kind of goes, oh, that's gross.
I licked it. It's mine. The old soul twist. Yeah,
so that happens. Incidentally, that is where
Nagash comes in, where he's angry and he's Nagash,
so he does not know how to look inwards and seek
for flaws or ways to fix things. What he does
know how to do is cast magical spells that ruin
everything for everyone. So Nagash really would
like those Stormcast Souls back. So in addition
to that, and just wanting to be all -powerful,
it is time for him to... try and drag all of
reality into a black hole. Which... Eh? Eh? It's
about right. It's his kind of ambition level,
isn't it? I mean, look, again, you can't accuse
Nagash of doing anything but going for the gold.
By God, is he trying. This... It doesn't work,
because the Skaven still exist, and the purpose
of the Skaven is to make sure Nagash can never
win. But it does do work. The pyramid was upside
down this time. Yeah, it was upside down and
floating. The Skaven still found a way. They
still buried into it somehow. Also, there was
like ten pyramids, but it doesn't matter now.
And Sigmar, the Stormcast start getting visions
of what Nagash is doing. But again, it's not
them that stop it. It's the Skaven, because of
course it is. But what this does is, you know,
from, you know, modeling in real world, the Nighthaunt
are established, the ghosts, and we get the Osiarch
Bone Reapers, which are the Nagash's version
of the Stormcast. But more pressing for the Stormcast,
it reveals a whole lot of ancient weapons and
magic and stuff. that Sigmar locked away from
the realm of the Age of Myth that he deemed too
dangerous. These things were held in storm vaults,
they're called, because, as we'll discuss, the
Stormcasts have the same naming theme as the
Space Wolves. Storm, storm, storm. But in these
storm vaults were just things that Sigmar was
like, this is a little bit too dangerous for
anyone. We're going to lock this away. It's kind
of like a... A more widespread version of a...
What is it? Like the Custodian's Guard on Terra?
Something Vault. The Vault Wardens? Vault Keepers?
Black Cells, I think. It's like a more widespread
version of the Black Cells. We're going to put
all these different things in boxes and have
them locked away. like ash's little goof on uh
unlocked all of those and sigmar was like well
i gotta deal with that so uh it's time to it's
time to open a new chamber so this is a this
is incidentally every time there's a new model
release for the stormcast is sigmar going throw
more of the things we had in reserve at them
just throw them out there It's essentially Sigmar
opening a loot box and he's like, what did I
get this time? Ah, goddammit, just skins. And
then occasionally he's like, whoa. It is, I summon
Pot of Greed. Pot of Greed. Two additional Stormcasts
for my deck. This is known as, this is also how
they explain in -universe whenever the Stormcasts
get a model revamp to explain. no we're not just
changing how the models look so you need to buy
more of them it's happening in universe sigmar's
updating his armory which uh this in this case
just imagining sigmar being like forced to walk
to the vaults at gunpoint by a games workshop
executive just like open the vault he's like
i don't want to open the vault can i open them
all at once no our profit margins no no we need
them in reserve slash gw needs to make more money
This is the sacrosanct chamber, it's called.
These are, you know, the warrior mages of the
Stormcast. They were guarding the Anvil Apotheosis.
That's, you know, it's kind of how you make more
Stormcast. So that's a good thing to guard. But
Sigmar's like, well, thank you, Nagash. Now I
can't have them guarding my house anymore. So
he throws these guys out, which does kind of
solidify some of the uneasy wins as a, you know.
It's Nagash, so he is never allowed to win. So
the Stormcast, they start pushing them back.
The Nighthaunt get pushed back. A lot of deaths.
Those reforging flaws are becoming a little bit
more prominent now. A little bit more problematic.
But things are able to be steadied a bit. And
because they were the ones guarding the Anvil
of Patheosis, they do have a few tricks to kind
of mitigate the deaths in battle and help get
the souls a little bit more easy. You know, they
were the ones who were in charge of guarding
it, so they picked up a few things, basically.
The Teclis and Elorial curb -stomp Nagash and,
you know, blow up his body, send him back home
to Shaiish. Things are a little bit, you know,
calmed down. Then Broken Realms happens, where
a lot of things go wrong. So, Marathi. This lady
is the worst. I just feel that needs to be said
every time she's discussed. She's just awful.
But still would. Even Slaanesh would vomit her
up. This woman is awful, said Colin. I could
fix her. A red flag is only a problem if your
favorite color isn't red. She's a god now, and
she decides to celebrate the occasion by... There
is a laying siege to one of the cities of Sigmar
cities known as Anvil Guard. So there was some
Stormcast station there because once I kind of
go through like the basics of what their lore
has been up to, I'll kind of go over what they're
kind of about. The Stormcast station there were
defending it. They were like, oh, hey, that's
a full -blown god now we have to deal with. So
they were giving it their all, trying to fight
the Daughters of Cain. Eventually, the Celestin
Prime shows up himself. Carl Franz is here. But
he's he goes to negotiate with Marathi instead
of just beating her over the head. Which during
this, it's still Marathi. No one is happy about
this because, you know, the defenders are like,
well, I don't want to have to follow Marathi.
I don't want to have to do that. She's awful.
And Marathi was like, oh, so I'm not good enough
for Sigmar to come personally, huh? So no one
is happy all around, but, you know, the Stormcast
Eternals and the Celestin Prime will follow what
their god wants. And eventually, everyone is,
all of the Stormcast leave Anvil Guard. Anyone
else there is allowed to leave as well. And everyone
who stays is now Marathi's little puppet. So
there's another bit of a setback for the Stormcast.
Not as bad as, you know. Things to come because
there was negotiating going on. Still not a resounding
victory. Guess worse. Bellacor does a real funny.
He gets out there and it's time to make waves.
Bellacor in fantasy is where he's a character
and not just something they mention so you buy
his model uh bellicore and the slawn start going
head to head and the slawn beat one of his schemes
but it was one of those we beat you but not actually
doesn't matter uh because in that the slawn destroy
a realm gate which has a cascading effect on
destroying more realm gates and letting chaos
pour through so now when the stormcast die They
don't resurrect because how it normally works
is in a bolt of lightning, they flash off and
Sigmar gets back to hammering. Now they just
get sucked into the realm of chaos. So, uh, that's
a problem. And, uh, yeah. Uh, and I believe the
Celestin prime himself even gets, uh, finally
gets slain at this point by a lady Islander,
uh, one of the gashes more tarts. So the losing
streak has begun. Properly. To make up for the
fact that people didn't like the Stormcast at
first. They've started kicking them in the ribs.
Jesus Christ. It is the Carriage and Overlords
and Grugni himself that kind of arrive, push
back Melichor's forces and start working out
ways to undo this problematic feature. Because
an entire Stormhost was given to Lady Olynder.
Another one was just wiped out completely. And
the last kind of book was there was some Stormcast
in the free city of Excelsis. Saying that name
makes me struggle. I don't know why. The Stormcast
part of this was basically the Celestin Prime
put Marathi on trial for being awful and herself.
It didn't really work because out of all people,
Grungni told the Celestin Prime to just... Now's
not the time. We got bigger problems. Now's not
the time for a trial. So the Stormcast were losing
their fights. Their respawn ability has been
hindered, and now a dwarf god is telling them
to let go of a grudge. Boy, is it a bad time
to be collecting the poster boys. That's crazy.
Before we get any further, should we go through
the... donors that we have, so we don't go too
fast. Cassidy Cheese, $1 .99. They need Stormcast
Zangors. That's right, they do. You tell them.
Unhinged behavior. I still think we need the
Ogres to be the Stormgut Eternals. I think that'd
be better. Donkeyman USA. Polnareff got done
dirty. Yes, he did. We don't mention that episode.
Look, Polnareff got done dirty, but Polnareff
was also the main character of part three. Panda
Wizard. Thank you for the 79 ,000 IDR. I wonder
what currency that is. God Eater's Son is one
of the best Warhammer books in general I've ever
read. I highly recommend it. Might be the best
Chaos POV book. Well, thank you. It is Indonesian
Rupiah. Cool, man. From Indonesia. That's crazy.
Nylock, there's been a second me for the profile
picture. On the five Canadian dollars. Excuse
me, do y 'all not love our small hooven benefactors?
They are so dope. I adore Ungulate so much. These
beasts do no wrong. Expect the fuckskin taper.
Wow. Yeah, man. I don't know the lore very well.
Bean. Two bucks. Gamers never die. They respawn.
Sigmar, probably. And my hope will never die.
We're all Sigmarines now. This is an original
idea. I'm thinking about making a Call of Duty
montage with like... dubstep music. You need
to have only the Snoop Dogg announcement lines
in it as well. Guys, you know what's really cooking
right now? We should do some Overwatch funny
moments. Oh, man. You can't play Overwatch. Overwatch
2 is the only game you can play now. Instead,
I sockstart a shotgun. What the heck? Overwatch
funny moments. That's a crazy thing to say. Welcome
back 2017, dude. I was in the trenches of Overwatch
Season 1. Yeah, me too. Yeah, Reinhardt made
it. Thank you, Cassie Cheese, for the $1 .99.
I'm going to drink your souls like a sippy cup
in a gash. Yeah, baby. Teclis' Bad Brass Bowl
1 -to -1 Scale Parox Trademark Dildo. Thank you.
I'm stuck with this name for a few more days.
Oh my god. Until I can make it Eli's Most Excessively
Hung Ponian Stable Bowl. Crazy, man. Because
I feel Big Colin has a monopoly. Big Colin. Excessively
hung is a term I heard very often. big that's
good do you reckon that peasant would have to
carry one of the relics oh the peanut carrier
oh my gosh third leg flopping in the wind mr
tripod oh man that's an image Where were we,
Colin? I'm too busy thinking about it. I'm sorry.
I think we did better cause. Yeah, that's happened.
So now it comes on to the Age of Beasts, which
is when, you know, that new Kragnos mini right
before when he came out and Beastmen players
thought they were about to be eating before GW
removed them from Age of Sigmar. Even after all
these losses, no one is worse off than Beastman
players. Nope. They've kind of had to pull back
a little bit. Things are not being great because,
for one, Stormcast can be reforged. It takes
a lot of effort to do that. That's not like a
little, like, let's just throw another 50 out
there. It takes some time and work. So Sigmar's
kind of realizing that if I don't figure out
how to fix this, I'm going to lose them all to
just losses over time. So Grugni at this point,
because when Grugni came back, I briefly mentioned
him earlier, he had just kind of pissed off from
even the reforging chambers. Like, he just left.
Now that he's back, though, Sigmar's like, hey,
can you help me out a bit, man? I'm having some
trouble. So... It's time for a new chamber, which
means new models. And him and Grugni, they get
back to the forges for a bit. And they start
working on a new way. What the hell? Excuse me?
I don't know what that word was. It wasn't English.
A new way, a new kind of armor to help try and,
you know, punch through the chaos clouds that
are darkening the skies. And this becomes the
Thunderstrike chamber, which is basically what
happens. Well, you see, when they die, they blow
up really hard. And it clears the chaos clouds
enough for the Stormcast to go back to a zero.
That's crazy. What the heck? What are you talking
about? A second Stormcast has been slain. You're
losing me. You're losing me. What do you mean?
I don't care. You're telling me. but it's fun
you tell me these these stormcast they fought
on their roommates i think that is what was that
video again just for fun it's just a bit like
did you see that little light move It's been
two years now! It's still funny. It's still funny.
I'm not grown up. I watch it every day when he
wakes up. Seriously, man. I'm just imagining
these bloody stormcasts, like, they just, like,
you know, the, um, people had, like, the Vine
sound effect or something. The Vine boom, and
every time they go, the chaos corruption. What,
the rock? Oh my gosh. I like to think it's just
like a pure bass boost sound effect. Fuck you.
I think that's funny. I like that. No, it's fun.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry someone let fun into my
Warhammer. So the Stormcasts are puffing it in
a really aggressive Thunder style. Everyone's
like, oh, it's fucking... stupid iron warrior
loyalist when he blows up the pharaoh so that's
really cool but someone does it on purpose and
oh it's a problem i'm bitter and angry uh -huh
he baby mad i am baby mad uh once uh once the
you know they've kind of they're they never they
didn't really fix the problem they just kind
of slapped a band -aid on it but you know that's
a problem for it's a problem for later uh they
also and this you know if if you don't accept
this next bit is cool i think i just hate all
of you uh they now uh the next range of minis
was uh they now have little like demi dragon
mounts the the dracolith or what are they called
draconis pardon me uh those are those like dragon
mounts they were eggs from the big dragon that
had uh hatched the mortal realms basically uh
The Stormhook has... They now ride dragons into
battle, which, you know, that's cool. Yeah, that's
cool. And with that, they've kind of... It was
a little bit more of a... They started playing
it more safe, right? There's no... They pulled
back on the assaulting Arkhan's house strategy.
And with the Dawnbringer Crusades, where it was
a lot more lower -key kind of stuff, a bit more
supportive and defending. And no longer is a...
Instead of them marching forth and then the cities
of Sigmar mortals walk behind them to support,
they're kind of working in tandem now. The Stormcast
are helping defend cities as they get set up.
They move forward once they're fully confident.
They've got a nice garrison and they can come
back to help at a moment's notice if needed.
It's a slow and steady wins the race was kind
of the theme of the Dawngringer Crusades. It's
a much slower assault. It's a little bit more
calm. uh there's other things uh some other things
going on uh for example stormcast they've been
reforged a lot of times now we're three editions
of the game in that's that's a lot of that's
like eight years of warhammer of stormcast dying
in lore pretty constantly so one thing they can
do is uh the souls of willing stormcast who they've
just they're done they still want to help out
but they've been reforged like four times at
this point they're out they want to quit They
can sacrifice their souls to form a magical bridge
to help anchor stormcast souls. So that way,
even if they don't have the lightning magical
armor that blows up and clears away chaos, they
can still kind of go to one of these bridges
if they die relatively close. So it's a much
more, like I said, slow and steady. Storm Keeps,
because of course that's what their fortresses
are called. They're building more of those. They're
trying to work more on the fighting side, you
know, the mortals and various other armies of
the mortal realms. They're much less now Sigmar
sucker -punching you in the face with a super
soldier and more of a, let's march out. Let's
work in tandem with everyone else. The age of
us, you know, breaching out of the realm gates
is over. Let's take it easy now. Let's go slow
and steady. And, you know, it was doing good
work. Obviously, nothing is perfect in Warhammer.
The Cruel Boys, this is about the time that army
came out. Depending on where they're at, they
might march into a swampy area of a mortal realm
and get jumped by 50 Uruk -hai. That's a weird
direction. They look cool. I don't know. It's
weird for Warhammer standards, but they do look
more like Tolkien orcs. I find I can't have it
in me to dislike that. Even just a small... army
you can take. I just think that's neat, right?
So, looking up a little bit, and then GW realized
it'd been two editions since the Skaven did something
funny. So if you remember that trailer where
Skaven Blight itself erupted out of the ground
across every reality, they did that. So you're
a Stormcast, right? You're chilling out. You're
guarding this, you know, the Dongbringer Crusades.
They've done well. You're hanging out defending
the realm. What if six trillion rats upon your
house? The glorious Vermintide returns. They're
back. So they, I mean, that's just what that
is. This is the problem they have to now deal
with. And this is kind of the current where it's
at. So there's not as much on it because, you
know, this is like the latest thing with a...
AOS. Sigmar, once again, open another chamber.
I need more. I need more Marines. Pot of Greed.
This one is called the Ruination Chamber, which
is for the Stormcast who you've died just too
many times. There is almost nothing left of your
soul, which up to now had just been kind of like
a... You just kind of turn into a lightning geist.
That's just kind of a problem. Sorry for you,
man. You can join the Starbridge if you want.
Otherwise, you're just like a lightning spirit
in armor at this point. The Ruination Chamber
is those... It's kind of like the death companies
of the Stormcast. A little bit less murderous.
They don't see Archeon and go insane. But it's
those warriors whose souls are basically whittled
away to their own special chamber. Because they're
pure lightning, they're kind of a little bit
tougher, immune to all of the random crap the
Skaven bring out when they fight. Because fighting
a Skaven in Skaven -infested territory is...
Imagine fighting a Fallout super mutant in the
middle of Chernobyl, and that's kind of about
what they do to the surrounding landscape when
they show up. Are these the silver ones? Yeah,
the silver ones were kind of the... I remember
they released a whole new model range and they're
like, but these ones aren't gold, they're silver.
I wonder why. It's gold. So this also came with,
once again... I'm torn between giving them credit
and viewing it as the most cynical thing ever.
I just take it whichever way you want, depending
on how nice you are to AOS. The first squatting,
you know, the Stormcast getting a bunch of their
models taken away and stolen was in lore. Sigmar
pulling back that Sancrasink chamber because
their absence, the reforging issues kind of got
worse because they were helping out as well.
And with them gone on the battlefield. The problems
were a lot worse. So he pulled back most of that
chamber, which in real life terms, most of those
models got taken away from you being able to
buy and play outside of Legends. But where we're
at. Many such cases. Sigmar is now hurting lightning
monsters at his enemies because Stormcast are
in a bit of a rough spot. I'd say with that though,
there is some cool sort of small bits to add
on, which is Stormcast are not like, so probably
many of us are familiar obviously with Space
Marines, but in the way like a Space Marine is
like a super soldier that's kind of, I guess,
indoctrinated into the Imperial ways and it's,
you know, they cannot fathom other things. The
Stormcast, I guess in some sense, I don't know
if there's ever been a... Stormcast has fallen
to chaos, Colin. Not yet. Yet. There is some
stuff where a fella who was a redeemed Stormcast
is making his own Stormhost out of a similarly
redeemed Stormcast. The other Stormcast are a
little bit suspicious of that guy. and his you
know his his storm host because you know you
couldn't have filled chaos you had a lot of nergalick
in you what are you doing over there but to my
knowledge as of yet no Stormcast has fallen to
Chaos. Oh, I got better. I had Nurgle, but I
got better. Which, you know, Sigmar's power flows
through their veins. I imagine that's quite the
vaccine against Chaos. I would say the way that
Space Marines and Stormcast are kind of polar
opposites, because Stormcast are handpicked from
the greatest heroes who fought in the Mortal
Realms. Even though Space Marines are like one
in a thousand success rate, never forget they
are mass produced. These guys have it's like
oh just because a thousand people died to create
one space marine that's only because we don't
care about killing civilians or or having massive
loss of life it doesn't matter it's just put
them in the meat grinder uh for all the for all
the uh talk of these these center shells of human
prowess it's like yeah they're also just put
into the meat grinder like everyone else like
they just dress it up really nicely storm cars
as far as i'm aware of their law is just like
no this is like a particular like chad fella
we're like we're not we're not letting him die
oh he'd be well good in gold let's put him in
some cool armor i like that uh time pirate says
they are like legit uh dnd paladin which is quite
apt and the way it explains it is like sigma
will usually like i guess there's no corrupt
ones yet because obviously sigma can analyze
like who they are and then who they are in their
soul so he kind of picks people who he knows
are not gonna yeah get corrupted uh fun thing
though sometimes just straight up doesn't work
they can pick someone from death but like they
just can't be made into a um stormcast so just
not everyone will make it through uh they are
does they are i think it was some of them could
be up to nine feet tall which is like an average
height an average height of like seven foot six
some of them bigger ones are like eight foot
something but it could be i think obviously the
thousand prime is probably nine foot tall so
they are ginormous oh dude he's a he's a big
lad yeah and the way they explain like the stormcast
are not like they are super humans but they're
kind of i guess it's like it's like a copy of
their original person like who they are it's
and they can still like they're not immune like
how a space means immune to fear through psychoconditioning
a stormcast is not immune to fear it's very difficult
to make a stormcast be afraid but it's not impossible
which is interesting so they're a bit more human
than you think a space marine is in some sense
yeah it's um i think it was josh reynolds before
he uh Was told by GW to go away or whatever happened
there. I think he said like, he said like, I
think out of universe, he said like the difference
between like a space Marine and a storm cast
is like, it's different between, you know, Batman
and Superman or like Batman and captain America.
Like, you know, yeah, they both, they both fight
the big bad guys. They both fight chaos, but
you wouldn't call Batman and captain America.
But also, Space Marines are made of completely
mortal materials and methods. Stormcasts get
to have a bit of their god involved in creating
them. We profess to serve the Emperor, but reasonably,
most Space Marine chapters are atheistic. They're
like, I don't think he's a god. I think he's
just a very powerful psyker, apart from the Black
Templars and a few others. But it's like, we
are all made by science and technology. Stormcasts
are like, I'm going to put some lightning in
your body. Where's that coming from? That's some
secret sauce I've never heard of. From God. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I met him once, yeah. No big deal.
They're, um, they're also, it's, um, the, like,
and the thing, like, Space Marine Aspirants,
right? There's all, there's all some, like, trial
they have to go through, right? Like, to make
sure, like, even, like, if you make it through,
even before, like, you know, the GNC and everything's
implanted. even if they didn't do that you'd
probably like a kick -ass warrior would probably
still come out of that right even if they just
were like yeah we're not actually going to put
all the organs and stuff in you but you know
you're really cool we'll you know something like
that being like a warrior is not a criteria to
be a stormcast sick because the thing is right
you can make someone kick ass he's taking your
soul and turning you into you know an eight foot
tall demigod You can work on the kick -ass after
that. Sigmar's looking for, like, you died heroically,
like, usually against chaos, but, you know, if
you're fighting off, like, an orc horde or something,
that's probably, that counts. One of them, for
example, Gardas Steel Soul, which, that's a cool
name. He was just a doctor. And when he, like,
all he did, like, his heroic act was, he was
just like, like two hours of sleep back to healing
the defenders back when chaos was a assaulting
where he was at he's like get back in the fight
like his heroic thing was just healing the people
fighting against all odds no matter what was
going on and uh hell he did have to fight at
one point only but you know he was a doctor it's
not trained he just picked up some like candlesticks
and tried to chaos warriors over the head with
it which didn't work but sigmar was like you
I can make you kick ass, but you've already got
the spirit. That's what I want. And the thing
is, they're also barring entry to only righteous
people, morally righteous people, whereas like
you said about failed aspirants, there's a failed
aspirant in Maneus Calgar's origin story who
tried to be an ultramarine. He went through some
of the trials, but he failed midway. And so then
he becomes a trainer for the like... the children
who will become ultramarine aspirants and in
his story he falls to chaos he becomes a corn
eight worshiper and he's sacrificing the aspirants
on an altar of course yeah like that's that's
not good like if and if you fail oh there's always
but you'd also get people like kayla baron from
the death guard who became a house carl and was
morally good but it's not a guarantee just because
you became a space marine or attempted to become
a space marine doesn't mean you're a good person
whereas yeah like it's a you are not allowed
to be a stormcast unless you are like the equivalent
of a martyr or a saint i suppose my slight favorite
detail kind of with like again i will he'll probably
be his own episode one day with uh mr hamilcar
bear eater he basically is like the reincarnation
of sigma and sunset they sort of meant basically
yeah yeah but hamilcar is star lord for uh for
warhammer he's like i'm hamilcar who yeah he
like mentions how some of the because with stormcast
they are a lot of them are from civilization
slash human you know cities empires whatever
that have fallen so lots of them are essentially
people who are out of time in a sense like some
of them they speak languages that they're probably
the last person who will ever speak it you know
they come from places and they have weird traditions
of thing. Again, the people who are... You guys
are good? No, you go ahead. Especially the ones
from the Age of Myth and the Chaos that you just
kind of slurp from a last stand. It's like, that
tribe had 50 people in it and Sigmar grabbed
one. It's kind of just them from it now. Yeah,
so they are quite unique in terms of some of
them have traditions that are just like, they
are totally lost because the people they came
from are gone. uh so they are weird you know
they feel like they are strange out of time people
in some sense but you know it depends on the
stormcast because it is like it has a space marine
problem with a lot of them that some of them
can be very much because they are super soldier
they've lost their connection to what normal
people think like but then other ones do understand
it like again we'll talk about mr hamilcar bear
eater who is like a roaring barbarian king just
like you know sigmar was in his real life and
he understands how to inspire mortal people um
but other ones just don't get it because they're
like what do you mean we're we're the ones who
do the fighting not the weak people and like
no it's not like that yeah so there has some
variation like again like a lot the none of the
same at all really they're all basically we grabbed
super soldiers um guys okay hamilcar might be
one of the only people in warhammer having fun
yeah although in his book he gets tortured quite
a lot and he doesn't go through it just like
you know that like his animation right he seems
to be just kind of walking up like there's the
great bit where he's he's doing the stuff in
that animation though the other stormcasts are
watching from like a hill And one of them goes,
is he dead? And everyone goes, not yet. And there's
like, you can tell from the way he says it, he's
really intrigued about what's going on, but he's
also like, I'm not counting him out, but he should
be dead. But he's not dead yet. Okay, where's
this going? You're like, oh, you guys. Despite
the tone in Age of Sigmar, it's much more like,
I don't know if it's like, I guess, grimdark,
but it is very like... it's more you know we're
losing it is like the world was once amazing
and we're losing um but it's not as it's not
as miserable as 40k but the backdrop of aos is
chaos kind of beat the out of everyone for a
hundred years straight yeah so everyone's a little
bit like again not all the storm car you know
they're in the midst of like a long long war
so it is very difficult and obviously very dour
you know many many of the outposts of different
civilizations and different realms is basically
falling apart and they're constantly undermanned
but you know again they're not all depressing
like you know and then we just we just serve
sigma raw you know because sigma's not himself
depressing at all he is like i'll 100 fist fight
someone chug a beer and then make a tactical
map and play with my little toy soldiers you
know so so they reflect their God King. They're
all very... Sigma was literally like, oh, I'm
just going to tell people that I haven't perfected
the process. Meanwhile, in reality, he had a
pile of shame he hadn't finished. I get around
to it. I think it's implied as well that Stormcast,
unlike in 40k with Space Marines, who were never
most of the, you know, 99 .9 % in fact, basically
all of them have never seen the Emperor. Most
of them have seen Sigma. not necessarily spoken
to him but they've probably been in the same
room as him or like been in a feasting hall with
him or seen him something has spoken to him or
a minimum they remember that time they shat themselves
when the gash was holding them like in that trailer
yeah and then he yoinked them away like thanks
thanks thanks thanks thank you i didn't want
to be a bone reaper Yes, like, they've generally,
like, seen their... And even they acknowledge,
like, they even say, like, they know Sigma's
not perfect, which is an interesting dynamic.
They don't think Sigma's perfect, but he is,
you know, he's that guy. He's the guy. So, you
know, they are... Again, part of him, they are
loyal to him. A part of him is always with them,
and they rely on that power. But, you know, again,
it's a bit of a loose sum because they are slowly
losing who they are, but... Basically, they already
died in the war, so I guess it's another chance
just to do something again. Life after death
sort of thing. But they're very cool. Some of
their equipment as well, which is... I have to
double check because it still makes me laugh.
I think it's called Sigmarite, isn't it? It is
called Sigmarite, and what it is is bits of the
core of the Warhammer fantasy world. Because
incidentally, at least in Azir, if you look up...
The core of the world is just kind of there.
They mine it to make the Stormcast armor, which
does technically make it a finite resource, but
it's also the core of the planet. I think they've
got plenty to go around still. There'll probably
be at least a couple more additions before we're
going to be running out of Sigma, right? All
of them don't necessarily because of who they
are in life, so not everyone wants to use the
same weapon because of They're not like a Space
Marine. They're assigned stuff like that. They
can actually have things. There's even in Hamilcar's
own book, Sigmar reforges equipment for him in
the Starlight. And then, interestingly enough,
unlike chapters in Space Marines, which is there's
always going to be an Ultramarines chapter or
Ironhands or, you know, God forbid, what's the
backup for Ultramarines? Genesis chapter or anything
like that. I love it. There'll always be those
ones. But the storm hosts are often based around
a particular storm cast who's essentially either
through great effort or great deed, they have
become a Lord Celestine. And then they essentially
build around them. So they basically need their
own and they get to name their own hosts. And,
you know, like Hammercar's bear eaters were.
the bear eaters because he was a bear eater,
but then other points that different hosts become
different things based off of who the storm cast,
um, Castellan is essentially leading them. So
they are very much like elite squadrons that
are based around a particular leader, essentially.
Very, very cool. Yeah. They, like there's a,
and there is like those, and those different
storm hosts, like they do have, uh, I mean, it's
like the Space Marines. Like, it's the out -of
-universe reason is to give you all the colors
and lore you want to paint your little dudes.
But, I mean, that's not a bad thing. That's why
we have, you know, all the Space Marines we do.
Because we like more cool lore for our little
dudes. I hope that's not a shocking statement
to anyone here. Andy, you're muted. Sorry, I
was going to say all 400 -something of them,
which I've... Some of them are kind of like...
Some of the stuff is out there. I like the Celestial
Vindicators Stormhost because they worship a
being that is like the 12 rune faying swords
of the Empire of Fantasy all combined into one.
Which is like, what? How did... I don't know.
It's just like... I like those little things
like there where it's like just something little
neat, like where it's like, you can do what you
want for the lore. It's out there, make your
own stuff for it. Here's this cool little beat
and, you know, figure out how you want to, you
know, handle it. Uh, there's stuff like that.
And again, uh, the hammers of Sigma are the GW
couldn't hold themselves back at the blue and
gold poster boys of the setting and the super
armor. I wonder, I wonder where that came from.
Although I guess in this case, the, you know,
Gold is the most prominent and blue is the least
prominent, but I still know what you are, Hammers
of Sigmar. You can't hide from me, Matt Ward.
Yeah, there's a lot of different Stormhouse to
go from. I think back, Josh Reynolds, thank you
for giving me the superhero comparison. A lot
of them view the people under them like Spider
-Man. With great power comes great responsibility,
right? Space Marines, they tend to view themselves
as... their own thing right like they are above
the common man not you know not all of them but
i feel it's a pretty correct general statement
to say that most space marines view themselves
very apart from common humanity whereas like
i said like spider -man the stormcast like we
certainly have friendly neighborhoods stormcast
like oh okay we certainly have more power we're
certainly like going on tougher things than you
but you know we have the responsibility to use
that well there and you know you can find plenty
of storm casts just as rulers as dignitaries
and cities like officials just doing things which
again you know there's been a lot of space marine
lore you can find some of that every now and
again but like with the storm cast that's more
of the standard And to be fair, a Stormcast could
live an entire lifetime as a regular human, then
become a Stormcast. There's nothing normal about
growing up as a Space Ring. It's like, oh, you're
five? Right, let's put you in the Globulo machine
and make you into a naughty super soldier. Like,
oh, okay. Yeah, you know, it's the rest of my
life. Yeah, or some 90 -year -old guy who's been
like the mayor of a town for his whole life.
And he gets sucked into being a Stormcast because
as he was, you know, right before he would have
died, he charges a Chaos Lord just like, I'm
90 and I'm going to give you what for. You know,
Sigurd's going to be like, that guy's pretty
cool. But, you know, when he reforges, he's going
to be like, well, yeah, I need you to fight Chaos.
But, you know, when you're not doing that, go
be a mayor. You clearly know how to do it. You
charged a Chaos Lord with a butter knife? Fair
play. You're a Stormcast. I want you. There are,
you know, also, there's still some of the angry
ones. There was one storm host who... I believe
this actually broke one of the chains binding
Slaanesh, what they did. Because they did the
classic, I don't know who in here is a chaos
worshiper. Kill them all! So, that... That did
a bit of an oopsie and broke one of Slaanesh's
chains. But that does also mean, again, if you
do want the grimdark, brutal warriors who just
slaughter everything in their way because there
is no such thing as innocence, you can still
find that in the Stormcast, and they're still
there. But overall, they're a little bit more
lighter, high fantasy in tone. Still, again,
it's still Warhammer. All of the Warhammers are...
a rough place to be, but it's less brutal overall.
There's more room for hope. Slightly. You know,
still slightly. It's still, like you said, even
in, you know, the funny, in Hamilcar, the funny
man's book, he spends a lot of time getting tortured.
Oh my God, that poor guy. I think, yeah, so is
there anything more, I think, because he's so
far. I don't know. It's, What are some other
things? Anyone can be a Stormcast. I think they've
never confirmed it, but it's one of those things
I don't know how much I want to say, but it wouldn't
be completely lore -breaking if you were bored
and were like, you know what? I'm giving all
my Stormcast dwarf heads. I mean, hey, Grungi
was helping Sigma reforge them. Could be a few
where Grungi was like, hey, I like dwarves. i
think it's they they think that they're all humans
but then in the hammer car book he says that's
what you think but you don't know that no one's
ever told you that it's only been human souls
it just must be like because of where they are
slash human souls obviously easier for sigma
i think to assess and yeah or it could could
even be where it's like sigmar like something
the reforging process turns them into a human
could even be that Although I would very much
love to see in the bottom of my heart an orc
storm cat. Sigmog is pretty good. I think with
that, though, we might have a few last more...
Was there a last few Dino Dandy before? Oh, wait.
I didn't talk about that. There are also just
one last thing. There are a lot of different
storm cast eternal characters. Balthus Oram,
my beloved. The man, the myth, the legend, he
swears he's from the world that was because he's
a stormcast wizard with a really strong connection
to the wind of gold who rides a mount named Quicksilver
in Age of Sigmar and found a library with a bunch
of knowledge on the old world and remembered
himself before anything else scamming a taxi
driver. Welcome back, Alpha Sargelt. Nice. He
is still a piece of shit. Brother and Sigma are
still going. There's room for that, too. Was
there any more don'ts, Andy, before the end?
There was a couple. The end is on me. Starting
off with the first of six or so. Limper, 106
for five. If the plan involves you dying, it's
time to rethink the plan. True. This man would
not make it in the Imperial Guard. Not. Christopher
Steve's thing is $5. If you like a Stormcast
novels that makes you feel bad and connect to
the Stormcast condition, I suggest the Skaven
Tide novel and the ancients. Cool. It was even,
and again, even in like that, that short story,
like it's. As much as everyone's going to like
it because it's Balthasar Gelton, you know, the
jangly keys are dangling in front of you. Like,
look at the funny man. He's back. It does show
that even like some of the Stormcast, like especially
the ones who were reforged from Souls from Fantasy,
that like they don't feel whole because they
know they were someone else. But it's been an
entire infinite reality and setting change away.
so it's getting like a little bit more hopeful
like which does leave you know room for more
stuff but it's also like they're super soldiers
in eternal war and as much as some people saying
them dying just take away the stakes which i
do to some extent understand it does also mean
that at least when a space marine dies the dude
can be done a storm cast dies and it's like i
need you to go fight rk on again Unless you're
a dreadnought, then it's like, in the coffin,
okay. I look over to the chat one time, and I
see Nilok again saying, I respect an insane lesbian.
I don't know what they're talking about in chat,
bro. Is it a Warhammer thing? Chat's just been
talking about random stuff. i'm looking at what
is happening here nick mac uh three five eight
seven for five bucks thank you so much man uh
hey guys what's one thing each of you like about
your least favorite faction no backhanded comments
or insults how genuine things i mean i can take
the charge if everyone else needs time to think
go for it if you know Knights are cool. I'll
give Bretonnia credit. There's a reason people
can stomach them, even though that's the only
thing. Knights are cool. Look, a Bretonian army,
if painted well, should look like a Skittles
-like package, but knightly. It's like you've
got 50 different heraldy streams going on. No
one has a uniform because it's 50 different knights
from their vassals showing up. You know what?
A cavalry charge looks cool. I'll give them credit.
There's a reason they've got drip. I'm not a
fan of Tau, but I can say that the Riptide is
kind of fun, and I respect that they tried to
do a Halo killer, even though nothing can kill
Halo other than itself. I don't know. The concept
of custodians are really cool. Custodians themselves
are generally pretty neat, and I mean, can't
hate that much on a... extremely powerful super
soldier guy thing uh i don't know their one trillion
names is kind of neat yeah there's cool stuff
about custodians their main characters generally
do pretty cool stuff and i like i was i was going
through the armada lady book and it's like longinus
being like i spend more like most of my time
thinking about how i can kill the emperor That's
like an interesting quote. Yeah, I spend most
of my time thinking about, how can I kill the
guy in charge? Because that's how I protect him.
The Blood Games are cool, too. I saw someone,
it was like some goofy comic, but it made me
laugh really hard because it was like a comic
of the Blood Games. And, you know, it was like
a funny comic, like not serious. It was like,
the Emperor was like, I bet you waited like 40
years. How long did you wait for the perfect
moment? And he was like, oh no, I didn't hear
to kill you. Malkador sent me to say a message,
and the message was just, you lost the game.
Awesome. You know, that made me giggle. I'll
give that one. God, I'm trying so hard not to
think of a backhanded way of... Oh my god, this
guy. This guy. It's really difficult. What's
your least favorite faction, first of all? He's
stuttered, yeah. He couldn't even get the name
out. Unsurprising. I was thinking... I like the
idea that there's some faction that AI, you know,
the, you know, men of iron or like these supercomputer
AI things is still present than the 40 K verse.
I hope they delve more into that side of it and
less into the Norse door thing, because that's
already done. And I think that's the most interesting
part of it. I like the idea because it's very
reminiscent of like. It's the book Neuromancer,
if anyone has read that. Classic 80s cyberpunk
inspiration. Give me a bit more cyberpunk -inspired
AI themes and I'll be pretty gassed. I think
that's a cool starting place they've got for
it. That was really tough. I know they've got
the carriage in, but I kind of like the hyper...
materialist like stolaris super materialist empire
vibe they got going on i'm still like i know
truck big truck is cut big truck is fun look
i know above all else i still think unholster
the means of negotiation is the hardest line
in 40k so i gotta give the leagues of otan credit
for that one that yeah and then jackets all those
jackets are good christopher steves and you're
the five dollar Thank you. In the ancients, they
do have a handful of Stormcasts that just straight
up defy Sigmar's will, or at least Stormcast
High Command's will. Yeah, because, you know,
they're their own people. There's not really...
I mean, you know, Sigmar does, you know, he does
tamper with them a little bit, but, you know,
not enough to... It's not, you know, space marine
level hypo -indoctrination. It's like, you know,
it's like a... I see you died. charging 1v100
bloodthirsters. We're going to pull back on the
bravery just a tad. It's like that. You've got
to go back to the stats screen and respec, because
you're a bit too crazy. We're going to bring
the bravery down to 10 from the 100 it was at.
He doesn't bring across all of their memories,
so clearly the parts he doesn't like, he leaves
behind. There is some stuff, but yeah. He's like,
you're doing too much. I'm going to put 100 points
into adaptability. You can dodge roll better.
Dark Souls 2, the greatest game of the Souls
series. Synthwagons. Good name. $4 .99. Wow,
very cool. Sigmarine. Anyway, I'm going to paint
Synthwave Soulblight as God intended. Sounds
pretty cool. The mortal realms belong to the
cash. That's simply how it is. DocuMan USA, maybe
the $5. I have an extreme amount of rum in my
system. I'm going to meander about my city. Godspeed.
Do it safely, but also very few things are as
spiritually fulfilling as a two -hour walk home
from a drunken bar that takes three hours. Especially
if you're shouting sea chantees. Get the filthiest
kebab or wherever you are, whatever it is. I'm
talking, you know when a meal is so good, you
have to eat it in your underwear. What? We have
a sequel from the rum man. The man who's rum.
You don't want me. You're pissed drunk and then
you're just getting ready for bed, but you're
hungry. So you've got the McDonald's. You've
got everything set up. You're eating your underwear.
You're just munching away. Usually if I'm drunk,
I just fall asleep in my clothes. i've never
been piss drunk and i've also never been ready
for bed and then eat mcdonald's after that oh
no right i won't it's like having a beer in the
shower i'm on to something okay i've also not
done that oh no that one i can't fault sometimes
look if you're there for a party weekend you
gotta start 11 a .m you know clean yourself take
a sip clean yourself take another sip I have
an idea about doing law crimes, drunk history
law. I think only me and Colin will be willing.
Give it a month when I'm at my own house and
I don't need to worry about shaming my family.
SimCon, what's some nice words? Thank you for
the $2. Love you guys. Love the vids. You are
supreme. Thank you. You are supreme. We love
you. You are supreme. More of metal. Love it.
I think there's one more. Oh, no. There is a
couple. Incoming backup for 15 squigglies. As
a soldier, the Stormcast honestly are a pretty
great metaphor for how fighting and war erode
you. Genuinely a pretty simple but clever analogy.
True. War never changes unless you're an eight
-foot lightning man. It changes slightly. And
the last one. Jesus, that name needs a change.
I'm a crazy person. Crazy man. Damn, man. Two
bucks. Someone quick fetch Donkey Man's car keys.
Driving in my car right after a beer. Two bourbons,
one scotch, and one beer. Can everyone in chat
give us a line or an encouragement for Donkey
Man USA who's going out tonight? Safe travels.
Be safe. I'm not condoning it, but hearing another
human being sing the words DUI, how about you
die? Don't drink and drive. Don't do it. Thank
you all for the donations. You guys are so generous.
Thank you. I think with that being said, though,
I think that's it. What? The message document
just said. Alcoholics don't run in my family.
They drive. Thank you. Thank you, Darkie Man.
And Drubk. Oh, crazy stuff, man. But we will
all, again, I don't know what we're doing next
week. We might have a guest on soon. Not saying
who, though. And we'll see you guys all very,
very soon. Again, thank you guys for listening,
for watching. Again, join the Discord if you
want to. I think people are doing a list. Something
about listening in the long. They usually hang
out. Wow, we're streaming. Some people hang out,
yeah. Or I just see my face in that picture.
All right, see you guys very soon. Love you all.
Bye, everybody. Love you. Oh, God.