The 40k Lorecast

On today’s episode we continue our coverage of the white scars. We start with Jaghati joining the imperium and getting a crash course in both technology but more importantly the Imperial Truth. From there we follow him and his legion as the Horus Heresy unfolds. With their encounter with the Alpha Legion and then their journey to Prospero. We then cover Jaghati meeting with the shard of Magnus to...

On today’s episode we begin our coverage of the white scars. With a dive into their creation during the Unification Wars, and their rather un-glorified purpose for the emperor. Then into their new role as the star hunters as they became the Emperor’s galaxy scouts. We then jump over the Jaghati Khan. His arrival on Chogoris and how he was able to unify the world, just in time for the Emperor to sh...

On today’s cast we conclude our coverage of Dante. We spend most of the Episode talking about the events of the Devastation of Baal. From the opening Salvo as Dante tries to delay the incoming hive fleet, through Dante and the remaining survivors furious charge out into the Tyranid lines. We also spend some time jumping over to the moons of Baal as the Flesh Tearers and Knights of Blood make their...

On today’s cast we continue our coverage of Dante. With his arrival as newly anointed Chapter Master of the Blood Angels and his rebuilding of the chapter. From there we dive deep into the legends of Dante, from killing Skarbrand, to fighting orks on a mountain of dead orks, to being the killing blow on numerous Chaos forces (everything from lords, to sorcerers, all the way to more daemon princes)...

On today’s cast we begin our coverage of the Luis Dante, the oldest and most storied of all the Space Marine Chapter Masters. We open obviously with his origins on Baal Secundus and his experiences in the trials of the Blood Angels. From there we follow his path from Neophyte to sergeant, to captain, and eventually to Chapter Master of the Blood Angels. But more importantly we focus on the many le...

On today’s cast we conclude our coverage of the 2 nd war of Armageddon. With the events of Hades Hive driving Ghaz crazy, including some fun response to an attempted air assault. So much so what he fails to notice the imperial forces bearing down on him. From there we cover the turning of the war in the favor of the defenders. After that we follow Ghaz and Yarrick in the actions after the war and...

On today’s cast we continue our coverage of the second war of Armageddon with the Orks arrival on the planet and Von Strab’s immediate decision to make all the worst decisions possible about said arrival. From, just sending troops to their doom, to deciding that the orks would run away in fear from his greatness, and of course to his attempts at using thousand or so year old rockets. But, we then...

On today’s cast we begin our coverage of the 2 nd war of Armageddon (seriously this place sucks!). With an opening on the planet itself, how it got there, how it is structured, and why it is so important. Then we jump (obviously) into the Steel Legion and their value to the imperium, as well as their unique way of “adhering” to the codex. From there we jump over to the origin story of the great an...

On Today’s cast we conclude our coverage of the Tanith first and only with a heavy dive into the events of the siege of Verghast. From the opening attack of Verunhive that exposed kind of all the failings of the leadership there. Through the constant meddling and politicking of the numerous lords and local commissars. Through the great victory brought about by Gaunt, his Tanith. And of course the...

On Today’s cast we continue our coverage of the Tanith first and only with their continued luck on Sapencia which is both a weird and hilarious story at the same time. And then again on Monthax when they get the new company of an Inquisitor. But then we move onto the world of Verghast and set up what might me the most pivotal of all the conflicts the Tanith take part if during the Sabbat world Cru...

On Today’s cast we continue our coverage of the Tanith first and only and their leader Ibram Gaunt. We open with them entering Voltemand and their first interaction with Commander Stern, and Gaunt promptly not making friends there. We then do a little dive into the characters that make up the core of the Ghosts in the stories. After that we move onto the events of Bucephalon and another of the man...

On Today’s cast we begin talking about the Tanith first and only and their leader Ibram Gaunt. We open with the history of the Sabbat region, its origins and why it is called that. And then how the crusade into the region came to be. From there we jump over to Ibram Gaunt and his origin story, from the death of his father to his revenge of death of said father. Then of course we jump to Tanith to...

On Today’s cast we conclude our coverage of the Titan Legions. With a short dive into the machine spirit itself. From there we go into how the Titan legions go to war both with their Maniples as well as their support forces. Then we talk a bit more about the organization of the Legio Titanica before going over the history of them in the Heresy. Patreon Merchandise Discord Link: Our Website Retro R...

On Today’s cast we open our coverage of the Titan Legions. With a short dive into the origins of Mars and a hilarious GW story of a dragon. From there we talk about the Titans them selves, what they are, their grand size, their machine spirit that is totally not an AI, and more. We also jump into the different sizes and types of titans and then close out with the original forming of the Legions Pa...

On Today’s cast we close out our coverage of the Word Bearers. Opening with the tail end of the Hersey with Layak’s arrival on the scene. Then jump over to Erebus’ terrible plan of converting Sanguinius (why would that have ever worked). And then of course over to Lorgar trying to use Fulgrim to usurp Horus. We then get into the Word Bearers post Heresy quite a bit as their actions there are both...

On Today’s cast we dive even further into the Word Bearer lore, starting with the outbreak of the Heresy. And how both Lorgar and Erebus begin to set themselves up for different paths in the Heresy. We then travel to Calth as the Word Bearers both succeed and fail at the mission given them (Kor Phaeron off the top rope for the failure!). And then over to Nuceria where both Lorgar and Erebus make m...

On today’s cast we continue our coverage of the Word Bearers with Lorgar taking over his legion and promptly decided to tell the galaxy how awesome his dad is. And then we cover the Emperor’s response to such worship (spoiler alter it was not positive). Luckily the story gets awesome then as Lorgar goes on his journey to the eye of terror to Cadia, and to learn the truth of the galaxy. We then clo...

On today’s cast we start our coverage of the Word Bearers. With their original founding as the Imperial Heralds and their role as the Emperor’s enforcers on the imperial truth. From there we jump over to Colchis for some fun Lorgar and Covenant action as Lorgar unites a planet into the belief in the gods. And then of course those two groups meet. We then close out with one of the most consequentia...

On today’s cast we take a trip into the Legion of the Damned. A super fun and exciting space marine faction that got their own codex in 6 th edition, and then promptly were removed from the game due to being horribly OP. We go over what they are, how they function in the galaxy and what is kind of known about them. We then review the three main theories on their origin with a little bit of us theo...

Brad and John Discuss the Launch of 11th Edition with their excitement and reservations about some rule changes and updates to the game. Big thank you to other people for having GW give them advanced copies of the rules and then publishing them, because we sure as hell were not on that list of advanced copies... But we did get to review your stuff first before making this. Patreon Merchandise Disc...

On today’s cast we jump into the massive nightmares that are Space Hulks in the 41 st Millenia. What they are, where they kind of come from (technically we don’t know). We also talk about how the different parts of the imperium interact with them (from lowly scrappers trying to make a fortune, through 1 st company Space Marines). And they we jump into a bit on some of the more famous Space hulks t...

On today’s cast we conclude our coverage of the Raven Guard. Opening up with the events of Isstvan 5 and the almost destruction of the Legion. From there we follow Corax as he goes back to terra to get the original gene seed of his legion (unknowingly brining a bunch of Alpha Legion along). And then the events over the course of the rest of the Horus Heresy. Next we talk about Corax in the warp an...

On today’s cast we continue our coverage of the Raven Guard. With Corax arriving at his legion and having a solid WTF moment at how they behave. Then his fixing of the legion and their divorce from the Night Lords. From there we jump into their actions in the later part of the Great Crusade. And how those moments taught Corax a lot more about the galaxy and the imperium. We also jump into the spec...

On today’s cast we open up our coverage of the Raven Guard. Opening with the formation of the 19 th legion and their actions during the Unification Wars. We then focus a bit on how the emperor used them to handle enemies that were utilizing warp powers he did not want exposed to other legions. From there we jump over to their actions with the Luna Wolves during the early days of the Great Crusade....

On Today’s cast we conclude our coverage of the night lords. We open with maybe the most consequential event of the entire Horus Heresy, Sotha. And then jump back to the adventures of Konrad as he plays hide and seek with the Lion, and then the Lion and Guilliman. Only to later both breakup the Triumvirate as well as save the imperium (by accident?). We then follow him to his final death (or was i...