 Hello everyone and welcome to the first in what I hope will become a series of Q&A videos I've been very excited to do this for a while now, and I'm thrilled to get the chance to do it But right out of the gate. I do want to say that I have been absolutely blown away By the amount of support that you have all shown me for my patreon I'm still kind of reeling from just how much love has been sent there and Words don't really do justice, but I am incredibly grateful for both the support and the faith that you show in What I do here and in the channel By supporting it. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, and Thank you to everyone who wrote in with questions for this video either in the comments or to on Twitter They were all excellent. I had a ton of fun coming up with these answers. So without further ado, let's jump into them What army do you play and why? Currently my only functioning army is a horse heresy alpha legion force Why is because they are my favorite legion and goddamn do I love me some mutable tactics? After the heresy campaign day, I'll be playing later this month. I've got plans to start an eighth edition Adeptus Mechanicus force because sweet damn. I do love the adeptus Mechanicus so much They really embody that grim insanity of the 41st millennium and their miniatures are just off the chain Awesome with a ton of conversion potential and it's letting me work up my fluff as well work some fluff into the army in a very fulfilling way To expand on this question a little bit further. I started way back in the day with a third edition dark Eldar army Purely because they look really cool to 13 year old me not because of how they played Which in third was terrible So I immediately went over to space marines as any one starting out in the hobby will do with a small salamanders army and from their Necrons when they got their third edition codecs It was the latter actually that got me back into the hobby after a very long fallow period throughout most of my teens When their fifth edition codecs dropped But unfortunately, I had to sell that army when I emigrated so the alpha legion and my Planned eighth edition Mechanicus are my third big return to the active hobby as opposed to just keeping up with the lore And I have been absolutely loving it so far Who do you think is the most interesting Primark and why I? Kind of love this question because it's changed for me so much over the years If you'd have asked me the same before I'd read the Horus heresy series I'd have given you a completely different answer and even now it's hard for me to actually nail down my immediate answer would be Jew entirely to my 20th legion bias and that's alpharius and omega on The revelation of the twins is existence in Legion by Dan Abnad blew my goddamn mind when I read it And I love the idea of how they're completely mere curial nature and just overall kind of pragmatic Characterization kind of sets them aside from the brothers I'm also a fan of any kind of fictional character who mainly deals in the importance of information as both a tool and a weapon So that works for them and as a runner-up Magnus the red because as a history grad I love his whole thing with knowledge and education learning and preservation of all that and I also appreciate the Greek tragedy of his total hubris On a final note I will say that the heresy series has made me appreciate the con far more than I ever thought possible And that is entirely down to the incredible work Chris rate has done with his white scars books Do you work in radio or other broadcast media? Nope neither, but I am in publishing my media experience such as it is comes from a string of podcast passion projects That never really took off, but were a ton of fun to do regardless So that was all just practice for something that eventually does which is kind of this channel Occasionally there are we audio hiccups in your videos as if there was meant to be a cut Do you leave these in on purpose or is it a case of not noticing them? Any hiccups are fully just mistakes because I am terrible at this Favorite traitor and loyalist legions A favorite trader legion would be the alpha legion Favorite loyalist legion also the alpha legion. I'm just kidding favorite loyalist legion is the salamanders What music do you use for the background of your videos? Because I needed cheap I Used a collection of public domain choral music by a group called the tutor consort If I can find the link I will post it in the description if you generally want some good choral music I'll link a couple of my favorite Spotify playlists below too Which of the Dloriana class flagships of the Primarchs do you personally like most? Since in capability terms are broadly the same differences do exist and will be covered in a later video I'm going to make this call-on style alone It's hard not to love the sheer blunt perfection of the name iron blood. So I got to give this one to the fourth legion Any advice for someone that's been thinking of starting a heresy army? If you want to do it from a purely collecting painting and modeling point of view just pull that trigger regardless Like there's nothing stopping you if you want to do it for gaming I'd kind of check in with your local scene to find at least a few active heresy players I know the game's taken a bit of a hit since 8th edition came out and everyone's been going in on that But I think the overall Compelling nature of the heresy and the kind of almost historical war gaming quality it has to it not to mention the balance My you know keep an active community going for a while longer In terms of actually picking which force just do what you do with 40k and pick the one you love the most All the legions are viable in their own kind of way So just go with what you love start with a bunch of plastics the calth and Prospero box sets are your just your best friends in that regard The 40k rhinos and predators are Mars pattern and we're active during the heresy So using the plastic kits for them is fine You don't necessarily need to worry about getting the deimos pattern ones Figure out how you want to play your army from there and then make your first forge wall pricks based on your play style Contemptor or Leviathan dreadnoughts are always a solid choice and the kits are just fantastic But if you're feeling lavish you can't really go wrong with one of the flyers for the legions That's an incredibly broad overview if you want more detail check out the excellent 1d 4chan legion army list page link in the description What was your motivation to start this channel? I've kind of touched on this before but I get to go into more depth here It really comes down to two broad factors firstly I started this channel during an extended period of unemployment when I was waiting for my Canadian permanent residency to get Approved because I was just in a period where I had nothing to do I didn't want to just sit around so I resolved to teach myself the adobe creative suite to buff up the old resume during this Downtime but just aimlessly faffing around on this is not the best way to learn new skills I'd seen myself improve a whole lot within design by simply giving myself an actual task in that case Making a series of fictional magazine layouts from different design eras So I needed a coherent creative project for both audio and video I done podcasts in the past and wanted to take a crack at YouTube Which I was spending a lot of time on looking up tutorial videos and the like 40k lore videos were always sneaking into my recommended tabs purely based on my search history And while I respected the hell out of the creators who had built their channels on them I couldn't help but feel that they were lacking a bit given the richness of the subject matter I was at the time marveling at the amazing work people like Captain Christian or the nerd writer do with their very Coherent tightly edited video essays So I wanted to see if I could make something akin to their stuff But for Warhammer taking the lore and making video lectures that weren't just static images With audio that doesn't sound like it's coming from a laptop microphone Adding in the atmospheric flares like the choral music and the remembrance of character were kind of natural progressions And I've really been thrilled with how well people have taken to them What got you into Warhammer and how were you introduced to it? I Was 13 years old and a friend of mine at school gave me an issue of white dwarf that had the index as starty's Nightlords written by Phil Kelly While the images of the miniatures were incredibly cool and the battle report was tantalizing That one index of starty's bit was absolutely dripping with sheer gothic nightmare, and I was immediately hooked I've always been one to adore and devour well-built worlds And here was one that was dark and violent and badass and all of those things that a 13 year old finds stupid cool Warhammer represented something of a nexus of all of these interests that I had combined as a kid I'd love building models and Lego and when I was older I discovered science fiction and relentlessly tracked down every universe and franchise and devoured every scrap of lore I could about them by the time I found Warhammer my treasured copy of the Star Trek encyclopedia Was about five or six years old and beaten up beyond all recognition from reading and rereading and the Star Wars essential guide to Droids was even more so and here right here was something that combined the hobby of building classic soldiers and tanks with an Insanely grim and rich narrative universe behind it. So just immediately hooked Which Primark deserves the most headpats? As far as my personal opinion goes the Khan is one of the only ones from that particular family Who wasn't a total ass and didn't let the heresy makes him go pants on head insane. So he's my pick for that What other 40k community videos and content creators do you enjoy? the list is a bit long, but I'll start off by saying Hats off to the games workshop Warhammer community team for Entirely turning the company's social media and customer outreach methodology around even aside from the wonderful videos They started doing responding to leaks stuff like the painting tutorials are consistently excellent and engaging It gets said a lot these days But if you'd have told me five years ago that I'd eagerly be watching and indeed praising games workshop web content I'd have called you crazy, but man have those tutorials ever just to help me improve my own hobby work Beyond that it also goes without saying that alphabusa and his crew creates hands down the best 40k Fan content out there by a college mile the Texas speech series has a wonderful mystery science theater 3000 vibe of yes making fun of the sheer absurdity of the 40k universe But doing so from a place of deep love for and understanding of the source material And one that only gets better the longer you've been in the hobby Yes, of course Vulcan wants to boop the snoot of a cat a champ barking toad because that makes perfect in universe sense And he's goddamn hilarious besides it also be remiss of me not to give one hell of a shadow to Richard Boylan for his Hell's Reach adaptation Finally watch the first part of that full movie and man. It gave me literal chills just amazing work What Warhammer book is your favorite? If we're talking black library, it's a hard choice since I've worn the spines of some of those books down to dust Bolter to my head Titanic has by Dan Abnett Not only does it give a crazy amount of depth to the depth is Mechanicus through an amazing array of really distant characters But it's also pure blockbuster action in a way that you could never likely captured in another medium It's a wonderful example of how damn good writing also just can make you feel as excited or in some cases more So than just seeing a movie and just keep you turning page after page Very close runners up would be Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy and Aaron Dempsey Bowden's Night Lord's trilogy Yes I am counting three books as one in both of those cases But I'm a big fan of tight character-driven plots and both of these have well written Well-developed characters and spades and really flesh out parts of the 40k universe that we don't tend to see that often Are you ever interested in doing Age of Sigmar lore if it really starts taking off? While I've not yet dipped my toe into Age of Sigmar from either a hobby or a lore point of view From my perspective it has taken off already The start may have been a little bit rocky, but the sales figures have been good And I've been loving the minis that they've been putting out for it I mean embracing that cartoon high fantasy element was a bold choice But it was also something of a natural step and it's really paying off both narratively and artistically I've not yet read much of the lore, but it's there waiting for me when I feel up to it And those character-on overlords are insanely tempting right now as to where or if it will be covered on the channel I'm sure I could ultimately work it in if there's demand. So let me know What is the greatest inspiration for your choice of music? I've always mentally pictured Tara and the various holy worlds of the Imperium as having a constant kind of devotional choir Singing hymns of praise to the emperor 40k bars a lot of its aesthetics from the gothic medieval and takes them to cartoon levels of grim and Gregorian chant and the devotional choral music that would develop from it really embodies that for me To my mind, there's really no debate is choosing what kind of music to set a lore lecture to It's so much more evocative to the setting Personally speaking than the aggressive and deep pounding bass horns that usually play over Warhammer videos Warhammer is routinely the antithesis to subtle so it's kind of nice to subvert that by adding in some subtlety How's your miniature painting and do you have picks of your work? Amateur at best with a lot of lapsed ears I still need to learn how to layer properly, but I'm happy with the progress I'm making there and also with my edge highlighting skills that my current alpha legion project has allowed me to get lots of practice with The Warhammer TV painting tutorials, which I mentioned earlier and the just amazing quality of Citadel paints have helped me improve my work in Leaps and bounds as has discovering Tamiya metallic spray paints for the specific alpha legion project I'm shooting for tabletop quality with them, but I'll throw some picks up on my Twitter feed at butstuffkaiju link in the description Besides the conflicts in the Istvan system, what were the craziest battles of the heresy? I'm going to go with Kalth as my favorite The idea that the wordbearers would use a superluminal ship to annihilate most of the orbitals in Kalth nearspace is Admiral Haldoh level cool and reading about it in no no fear still gives me chills Zana 2 is also pretty damn amazing and I can't wait to cover that one in a later video I still need to properly explore the Talarn books But they're very high on my to read list at the moment and I imagine they will also be suitably crazy Finally, I adore the battle of the a laxies nebula simply because it's really satisfying to see the Space Wolves desperately try again and again To bring a superior force down to their level of combat and said superior force a hem alpha legion best legion Denying it to them at every possible opportunity Simply because why would you ever get into close quarters combat with the Space Wolves? It's a great example of the 20th legion knowing full well where their strength lies and not giving the wolves the satisfaction of getting to fight The battle how they want to do it Do you have a particular favorite guard regiment either from a lore or aesthetic point of view? Hands down the death core of Kreeg because they combine both of those aspects The history grad in me adores the whole World War one trenches aesthetic and the Warhammer lore devotee in me can't get enough of their Grimm suicidal devotion to what is literally the worst regime in human history They truly embody the absolute hell that the 41st millennium is for the average human Which is exactly what the guard is supposed to do no genetic enhancements no high-tech equipment Just a las-gun unshakable zalatry and seamless indoctrination. They're like weaponized grim dark What more would you want in a guard regiment in your second raven guard video? You seem to be implying as heavily as possible that the karkaradons are the descendants of the marines which corax exiled with Arka's foul without actually mentioning the karkaradons in your academic opinion. Do you believe this is true? Yes The karkaradons were a great lore mystery for a while now But as far as I or really anyone can see the latest implication from the forge well fluff Is that they are a pretty direct descendant of the 19th legion predation fleets even aside from the belated connection that Arka's foul as a high-up historical mem of the karkaradons and a Noted legion master of the 19th legion before Korax showed up represents. I did not mention the karkaradon Specifically because they did not emerge into imperial records until the scouring at the earliest or the pentarchy of blood at the latest Which is a bit more current than my period remembrance or character currently inhabits Sorry world leaders fans. They are no 12th legion loyalists. Just a bunch of spurn 19th legion terrens with a severe lack of vitamin D Have you thought about reaching out to the wider warhammer community like alphabusa or arch warhammer If alphabusa wants me on text to speech He need only ask because that would be a literal dream come true for me And you should all annoy him on Twitter and his comments until he does so as for arch I doubt he even knows I exist I respect the hell out of the channel and community He's built even if he goes about it in a much different way than I do both stylistically and regarding our content schedules But I never say never to this stuff Especially when it comes to building bridges and ensuring that the community can be broader and more inclusive of all types of content creators I'm very new at this so any ideas you all have for what kind of collaboration you'd like to see I'd love to hear about them and obviously any shout outs You want to give me to any favorite community creators go a long way to helping make that happen What do you think of the Ultramarines? You will find out real soon But on a personal note, I was never anything more than meh on them until no no fear was released and entirely changed that Bro update the legio custodies video with the solar watch and shadow keepers If I push into the modern or present timeline of war hammer lore believe me the custodies will be a priority Codex adapters custodies was a delicious tome to pour over and it got me hankering to work on a small custodies attachment for my eighth edition Mechanicus army Where are you from the accent sounds a bit Irish born and raised in Dublin now living in Toronto The accent is the result of an Irish origin coupled with a few years living in North America Will you be changing your Twitter handle? Absolutely not What do you listen to while you paint? Black library audiobooks do in a pinch But I genuinely like nonfiction stuff so that I can kind of learn while I work on my minis I'm also a big fan of podcasts and as they go I'm a huge fan of the comedy button Which is always fun to work with and I find that welcome to nightfail and seer by Adam bash Vives really well tonally with the kind of work So those are my wrecks Who do you mean? Diva all the way, but I'm a flex tank and since I'm Irish I got a stand for Moira also in desperate need of overwatch friends in general hint hint Where do you want the channel to go from here? Obviously the next milestone is 10,000 subscribers and at the rate they're rolling in we just might do that as far as the future goes one of the things I'm very wary of is turning the channel into some kind of Content factory that I've seen you know plenty of examples of being on YouTube While yes catchy thumbnails and SEO friendly titles are part of any YouTube creators bread and butter And I am as guilty of this as the next man I don't want to be pumping out daily videos with eight minutes of waffle patting out two minutes of actual lore With the title card including you know three question marks or what have you? This is in no way trying to bash people who do we all got to eat and if you're good at it I have a ton of respect for you for making something out of what you got and your skill at doing it But this channel for me is a passion project done out of love for the hobby and love for the universe Not out of wanting to make as much as possible from the algorithms Inherent in the platform with videos and titles that clash with the channel's overall feel and kind of stated intent This isn't to say I won't expand out into different forms of content beyond the remembrance of records But those will always be my focus and where the vast majority of the channels work will go In terms of what I will actually be covering in the future The heresy will remain my focus for a while, but Xenobiology videos are on the way as our videos covering the night houses and the early Mechanic them there will also be more narrative stuff to Chronicling the heresy itself as it unfolds further field I fully intend on moving into the present warhammer 40k timeline eventually and there's some really exciting stuff happening there That I'd love to cover always as always Sound off in the comments if there's something you're just itching to see covered and I promise I will take it under consideration So this video has been a ton of fun to do and thank you to everyone who hit me up with these excellent questions I'll hold off on making another one of these for a while So for now it will be back to your regularly scheduled records Next up the bloody 12th Legion and all of their sweet sweet chain axes. So until then You can find the neglected but soon to be revitalized Oculus Imperial page on Facebook You can hit me up in the comments here or on Twitter where I am at but stuff kaiju not changing the name and You can also subscribe to my patreon if you feel like throwing me a buck or two for the work that I do as always Share any of my videos with the people that you think would like them that always helps But until next time Ave Imperator Gloria in Excelsis Terra