The Influences Behind ASTRA MILITARUM Regiments!
Added 2023-01-23 10:47:56 +0000 UTCPeople liked the Primarchs one, so let's get all the rivet-counters out with an influences video about the Imperial Guard!!
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I really liked this video. Great stuff. I would possibly debate what you say about Tallarns. Definitely when the original metals were released they were Peter O'Toole Lawrence of Arabia, but I would say that their presentation in some of the fluff and definitely in Ciaphas Cain book 3 is coded Arab-influence... which makes Cain's comments about them being 'Emperor botherers' a bit unpleasant as the whole thing now reeks of a euphemism for Muslims... am I taking things too personally (as a British Muslim)? Or does that make sense?
Dalga Faik
2024-04-22 20:50:20 +0000 UTCSnipe and Wib have a really good video on Laserburn which is exactly that - the ruleset Bryan Ansell made that influenced 40k.
ArbitorIan
2023-01-26 18:25:40 +0000 UTCThat could be really broad but it got me thinking that I'd be really interested in the pre-history of 40k as a game. The earliest reference I have access to is Rogue Trader and it suggests to me there was some sort of existing content that got pulled into RT, likely from White Dwarf but possibly from other things Games Workshop had at the time. Like there is a plastic Land Raider already on offer and a pretty wide range of recognizable 40k minis. I'm guessing Games Workshop wasn't a huge company in '87 so rolling all that out concurrently with the publication of RT would be a big lift. I also have no information on Warhammer Fantasy of the era so I'm not sure how much of 40k is a reskin of WFB. I really liked the 'history of editions' video from a while back but that started with RT as published. Was there a proto-40k? Other than WFB, were there other games that directly led into RT (other than RPGs in general)?
Kurtz
2023-01-26 18:23:42 +0000 UTCGreat and yes please more influences videos. One on 40k itself?
Tomas Rawlings
2023-01-24 21:01:52 +0000 UTCI listened to a podcast about the Anglo-Zulu war and there was this amazing detail about quartermasters refusing to hand out ammunition in the battle of Isandlwana unless the unit asking had finished their previous box. This in the middle of a battle they were very clearly losing. It was the most dedicated British commitment to the concept of cues I’ve ever heard of.
Nick Weston
2023-01-24 01:34:52 +0000 UTCGreat video Ian. I actually still have my metal schaffers last chancers in a carry case somewhere, always funny when something you havent thought of in years comes up. I remember the Praterion 24th troops and a battle report from white dwarf based on the final stand at Rorks Drift. I remember them surviving (with less than a dozen men) but this was 22 years ago and my memory isnt what it was.
laurence m
2023-01-23 18:21:38 +0000 UTCOnce again, Ian is why I got into Warhammer 40K. Excellent video.
Matthew Burke
2023-01-23 17:55:30 +0000 UTCI've not seen what's being carried forward in the new codex, but this video was a good reminder that it's really easy to create Imp Guard content that does not age well. They don't really have the high fantasy/space opera elements that most other factions can use to moderate some of their real world inspirations. My personal comfort zone would be to skip anything between say Waterloo and Aliens.
Kurtz
2023-01-23 15:15:24 +0000 UTCThe idea that Cadians are a natural evolution of the Rogue Trader-era Imperial Army design makes perfect sense
Nathan Dowdell
2023-01-23 14:54:25 +0000 UTCGreat video, now I wait for the "influences behind Eldar Craftwords" next ;-)
Makariel
2023-01-23 12:46:08 +0000 UTC:o
Synthomite
2023-01-23 10:50:58 +0000 UTC
