"As always guys, what do you think? Are you a fan of Pedro Kantor?" Well I bloody well am now

@chubbyninja89

4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@ramsuryaprasath1381

3 жыл бұрын

Crimson fist 4life......Kantor and Cortez for life......

@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470

Жыл бұрын

How can you not be a fan of his after that

“It is time.. Time someone carried you.” I haven’t gotten choked up from a book before, but that line did it.

@masterstoner666

3 жыл бұрын

Right it's amazing to see the human side of space marines

@jwb590

3 жыл бұрын

Rho, BL needs to hire you for their audiobooks.

@superboy90345

3 жыл бұрын

Rynn’s World is an amazing book if you haven’t read it yet. Has turned me into a massive Crimson Fists fanboy

@xlc-ho5zr

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@ramonmendoza7125

3 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!!

Chapters that honor the bravery and courage of the normal humans of the imperium are the best chapters. Crimson Fists, Salamanders, Space Wolves, Ultramarines.

@badbishop1049

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the blood angel's😀 They made blood angels out of every citizen who fought and survived the devastation of ba'al.. no questions asked.

@Buhlmanzky

4 жыл бұрын

Jo how can you forget the Blood Angels ?

@Bradyfamilyhams

4 жыл бұрын

Come here bruva for a big hug

@battle-brotherthiel1563

4 жыл бұрын

COURAGE AND HONOR

@BM-wf9uf

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Celestial Lions, they stopped the inquisition from slaughtering an entire innocent population of humans.

"In da grim darkness a da far future...someone iz choppin' some seriouz onions"

Vulcans's blessing upon this son of Dorn

@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I can see Vulkan embracing kantor and telling him what a credit he is to the legacy of rogal dorn

I'm not crying! There's just allergies

@adamh.4933

4 жыл бұрын

WHO BROUGHT ONIONS?!?!

@thil2894

4 жыл бұрын

Come here Brothers.

@zmsays

4 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one!

@leifisaacson4624

4 жыл бұрын

I am not crying I am just sweating out of my eye sockets

@beast32678

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my God I'm just crying here

It’s actually spelled “CHADro Kantor”

The best Imperial Fist successor chapter and I will die standing on this hill

@pudgeypigeon

4 жыл бұрын

Second only to black templars

@hilkmeister1382

4 жыл бұрын

Macabre edgy fists suck compare to these guys

@thil2894

4 жыл бұрын

You will not die alone brother. WE WILL REINFORCE THIS HILL TOGETHER, THEY WILL BREAK THEMSELVES ON OUR HILL.

@SmithMason5494

4 жыл бұрын

I will fortify this hill alongside you brother.

@Manithebani

4 жыл бұрын

I stand back to back to ya with my loaded bolter brother.

You ask if he was right to save the family. We, sons of Dorn, do our duty. No matter the cost, no matter the difficulties. There really never was a choice to begin with.

@prisoner6266

4 жыл бұрын

We must never, even for a second, forget that our duty, the duty of the Adeptus Astartes, is to protect the imperium. The imperium is not the world-spanning manufactora or the towering hive spires. It is not the mighty ships that we use to traverse the galaxy, or even the planets we cling to so tightly. Those are artifice; those are the products of the real imperium. Those are the products of the mortal man, be he the architect to plan it, the layman to build it, or the noble to use it. They are the imperium, and they the ones we were created to serve. Let us never forget that.

@Nostroman_Praetor

Жыл бұрын

Well said Fist. I pray I don't have to siege your walls one day

@DylanJo123

Жыл бұрын

Your father would be proud of you, scion of Dorn. Sanguinius himself would be honored to call you family

The Imperium stands for all of humanities survival. That mother, those children, they are for whom we toil, for whom we suffer, for whom we gladly die to spare from any of the horrors we shoulder so they need not bear them. It is the small acts we make in defiance of overwhelming odds that furnish us with true strength. Humanity is strong by its loyalty to its own, to protect its weak that they too may grow strong in service and duty to that very same perennial dedication to each other. The Imperium is strong; not for its armaments, not for its million worlds, but by its indelible spirit. Sacrifice is necessary, and at times may turn a warmhearted man cold to think of what we must do to survive, but no man can long serve humanity if he has no connection to his own.

@happyhammer1

4 жыл бұрын

By your word.

@kentbagaipo3368

4 жыл бұрын

For the Imperium of Mankind!

@Turenkoren

4 жыл бұрын

The Emperor protects

@pieceofmind4535

4 жыл бұрын

Your will be done father

@Tacoguy1000

4 жыл бұрын

Emperor See, that makes sense. But, I can’t tag the Imperium like this because almost everyone in it is too asinine to appreciate the weight of sacrifice.

Kind of a "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you" kind of feel

This is why I love the Crimson Fists, and if I started an army it'd either be them or the Salamanders the most "good guy" of all Astartes. And if Cortez himself wasn't badass enough, there's also the bit where he goes "I haven't lost my arm, brother. It's right over there."

Random imperial man: ragnar blackmane is tha best ork slayer Pedro kantor: hold my paella...

@stewart2517

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my!

@hutchy1k94

4 жыл бұрын

Yarrick: Hold my amasec...

@cidiussifilius2959

4 жыл бұрын

@@hutchy1k94 ahhahahahahahaha

@davidlewis9346

4 жыл бұрын

You win comments today.

@robinderoos1166

4 жыл бұрын

I bet all of the normal marines are called José...

Saving that mother, and the other civilians as they made their trek across the wilds, were the things that saved their souls from dropping to despair, and falling to Chaos. Chaos Marines would have not stopped, would not have saved them, but the protectors of man, the Adeptus Astardies did. The measure of man is not what they have, but what they will attempt to save.

@dcbluenose1873

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah they end up having a bit of an entourage, right? And IIRC some of them end up taking on orks, too

@alexyoblick

4 жыл бұрын

I remember that after they had traveled for a while the mother they saved had collapsed from exhaustion while carrying her two youngest children. What does Kantor do? He commends her for carrying them as far as he can and says ‘It is time, time that someone carried you now’. That one book made Kantor one of my favorite 40k space marines.

Would be a nice epilogue to this story is that the boys eventually become Space Marines of the Crimson Fists

@FallerAdam

4 жыл бұрын

Well I like to think that they eventually did, keeping especially in mind that the chapter numbers are pretty much... low

@chainbound6816

4 жыл бұрын

It would be nice if the young two became space marine (if) they are boys. Then the two elder became father of future space marine. Hahah

Dude I literally cried when you read the line where Pedro picks up the woman and says "It is time for someone to carry you" The song Ave Imperator just crossed my mind and now he's a legend in my books aswell.

This was great, really great. I would like to personally imagine that, if any of the children were boys and they survived the ordeal, this would inspire them to try and become initiates of the Crimson Fists. Then, after years of gruelling training, they would become full battle-brothers of the Chapter and serve under the man who saved them so long ago. That is just my wish anyway, one I really wish to be true. Another great video Wolf Lord.

@wolflordrho

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@urdrakule1755

4 жыл бұрын

Count me in !

@theblueneko677

2 жыл бұрын

To keep it grimdark only 1 or 2 would survive the trials and implants.

@lordofinnistrad8757

6 ай бұрын

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve done exactly this in a 40k tabletop game. We were playing a Deathwatch kill team and my character was the team’s Aggressor from the Crimson Fists. Later revealed that he was one of the boys saved here, now grown and a full Battle Brother.

The sons of Dorn do their gene-father proud. Reflecting his might, fury, duty, and humility- they shine.

Last time I was this early the Emperor still had his right eye

The defense missile was an inside job! Cyclonic torpedoes can't melt void shields!

That last part made me think twice, his humanity is restored.

A large part of me enjoys these moments of humanity in the grim darkness of the future, for how else do they shine their brightest, but when the dark threatens to subsume them? But the other part of me knows that the Astartes, speaking very generally, do not think of baseline humanity as anything more than helpless charges. They are their Emperor-given burden, and so a lighter burden would not effect them overmuch, as long as the burden remains. This is what Horus wanted from the Luna Wolves, before their collective fall to Chaos. He wanted the superhuman to experience humanity, and to understand what they were fighting for.

@DreadPyriteBob

4 жыл бұрын

You know that explains why he was the choice for warmaster way more than otherwise

Can't help but wish it was Kantor and the Crimson Fists facing Ghaz right now.

@jeffaubuchon8405

4 жыл бұрын

Well GW peobably decided the Space Wolves would be better because they wanted Ghaz and the Orks to have a fighting chance ;)

@charleswatson2605

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeffaubuchon8405 I played my Crimson Fists vs. a Space Wolf army a few weeks back. Turn 3 he conceded, I had shot off 40+ of his models, he had killed 4 of mine....Now who should be fighting Orks?

@quangnguyentrung647

3 жыл бұрын

@@charleswatson2605 not anymore in 9th, Fist chapters are weakest Chapter right now and it sucks

@charleswatson2605

3 жыл бұрын

@@quangnguyentrung647 agreed, in the rematch he rolled down my lines after 1 charge and chopped everything up lol

I love these more human parts of 40k.

that woman is amazing. a true mother. Keeping up with space marines in march, while injured, burned and acid weakening her.

Am i the only one proud of Captain Cortez??? May the God-Emperor bless him and his* remaining brothers...

Its easy to be brave and endure when you are a superhuman with the best weapons. But the woman gave everything when she had almost nothing. When the marines abandon their humanity, they no longer become worthy to be its champions. Recognizing and honoring that is Kantor's true strength.

When that one space marine wonders if the children ACTUALLY think they would kill them… the feels. Also that moment of pause when Cantor says it’s time, dude my heart can’t take this kind of stuff anymore I’m old now. Top notch content good sir. 👍

I'm a die hard Ultramarine, but I think my allegiance has just changed to the crimson fists

@jeffaubuchon8405

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the better shade of blue, brother.

@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470

Жыл бұрын

My favorite chapter is the salamanders second favorite blood angels but I'm debating whether or not to bump a blood angels down to third favorite

Pedro Kantor, second on my list of most badass Sons of Dorn Character models (sry but nothing tops Grimaldus)

@madara4447

4 жыл бұрын

Sword Brethren Tycho what about Sigusmund

@Iserior

4 жыл бұрын

@@madara4447 There are some badass Sons of Dorn in the lore and Sigismund is absolutely at the top, but the list i mentioned is all about the lore of character models with rules for the 40k tabletop ( meaning Helbrecht, Lysander, Kantor, Grimaldus, Garadon) seeing as i still have a lot to go regarding reading 30k lore and books

800 subs until 40k. You've come far, my guy. Well deserved success

@wolflordrho

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 time to start thinking about the next week special!

@shekel8245

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolflordrho Can't wait! You have some of the most engaging videos on 40K on YT. It makes me really consider passages and overall themes better than any other 40k channel

@platypusbuk

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolflordrho Blackmane and Ghazzy fight perhaps?

Jesus Rho, right in the feels! I'm tearing up over here. Your voice plus the epic writing 10/10 again man. Guess I'm starting Crimson Fist now.

@wolflordrho

4 жыл бұрын

I know right! 😢

What sold me on the space marines and fully understood what they were all about was Uriel Ventris of the ultrasmurfs. When he saved some kid from fire I think during the novel Nightbringer. That was 15 years ago and this story reeks of that same kind of meaning.

Other people named matt: "Gasp he said my name!"

@theark4568

4 жыл бұрын

Matt Pando Other Matt reporting for duty.

The Emperor was proud of his sons that day, i'm sure of it. That's what the space marines are made for, the Emperor said it so multiple times, to protect and safeguard humanity, Pedro and Cortez were right to do as they did.

I'm not crying. You're crying. God damn someone's cutting onions in my room right now.

Ryan’s world was one of my favorite ( none space wolf!!!!) Astartes novels and that was my favorite part. To see a chapter master be human is a reminder that they’re here to protect those that can’t protect themselves and so often it’s shown that Astartes are above and beyond the average human .. just righteous Pedro !!!!

This entire book was amazing, a truly wonderful read.

I'm not crying, I have something in my eye.

Well well,I was skeptical at first,but now I'm putting this picture of the Crimson Fists as my wallpaper.

Man i LOVE Pedro, he is one of the best chapter masters in my opinion. And Alessio Cortez is another beast of his own, the amount of crazy shit he pulled in that novel is insane.

Now i'm just wondering if that Woman survived, and remembering it's 40k , and grim dark. I think i prefer not know the full story of her. Good story telling, thanks for the vid.

@wolflordrho

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@robskovira5626

4 жыл бұрын

I believe she makes it to New rynn city where her story ends.

@yahaaa1343

4 жыл бұрын

@@robskovira5626 good, thank you .

@meow7983

3 жыл бұрын

She survived.

Out of all Sons of Dorn, Crimson Fists, and especially their Chapter Master, are my absolute favourites.

"now we are on combat protocols" this is how authors with no military experience imagine soldiers speak to each other.

Pedro you beautiful bastard. This made me cry from the bottom of my soul for the first time in a long while. He is a man I will follow unto death and beyond the grave if need be.

Machine Spirit brought me here.

This is the only story I’ve run across that actually elicited an emotional response. I’ve been in a similar situation iRL; it was traumatic. There is only one way we can act with our own and it’s that way that makes us human. It may be strategically unsound and operationally, but it was the right thing to do. I don’t care what anyone says. And now I’ll finish my cigar and go inside and quietly cry.

Damn....., as a Salamander, this one almost brought me to tears. Personally for me my creed is simply this.. "The strong exist to protect the weak and champion the innocent" Good stuff Wolf Lord Rho..., keep up the good work.

He needs to cross the Rubicon. Kantor needs to be given his due. They need more characters in the crunch.

This had me tearing up. I'm man enough to admit it. This was really well written and superbly narrated, you really expressed the tension and sadness of the whole piece, up until he picked the woman up. Then it just welled my heart full of hope and a lot of pride in the Crimson Fists. Dorn's successors might be epic superhuman shit kickers and killers but like all Loyal Astartes they are Human.

Tears.... cant hold back... tears!

YES! I'm old enough to have seen rogue trader on the shelves the first time I walked in to a GW store as an impressionable young lad! The artwork on the cover showed Crimson Fists, the first image of space marines people ever saw, and it had a lasting effect. Love 'em. If I remember rightly there was even a scenario in Rogue Trader about the battle at the farm!

@dcbluenose1873

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I remember it all very well, too. They were GWs signature chapter until the Ultramarines overtook them.

@Real_GalaxyCat

4 жыл бұрын

@@dcbluenose1873 they're still far better than the current poster boys :) Imperial Fists and their successors Get Things Done. Dorn would be proud.

I read this book several times, Kantor has an admirable human side that most other space marines unfortunately lose in their struggles. He even takes his helmet off when talking to humans to put them at ease. It is quite a good book I recommend everyone read it.

Pedro Kantor and the Crimson Fists have always been my favorite loyalist chapter since i started the hobby a decade ago. Absolute badasses the lot of them.

Really surprised this hasn’t been made into a hardcover. Aside from Helsreach it’s one of the best novels in the Space Marine Battle series

@skywatcheradept

4 жыл бұрын

Rynn's World not being an audiobook is a crime against Humanity

@Or_Am_I_Alpharius

4 жыл бұрын

Skywatcher Adept truley! I’d put money in the pot for Wolf Lord Rho to read it!

@Sceptis

4 жыл бұрын

@@skywatcheradept Jonathan Keeble would be my top pick for narrator. He voiced Grimaldus, it would be only suiting that he voiced another son of Dorn.

When a space marine has 2 hearts and uses them differently. Love these parts of 40k lore.

I wept when I read this. There is a reason Rogue Trader featured the Crimson Fists on the cover. Vote for Pedro as best chapter master.

i'm getting some strong salamanders vibes from these crimson fists. gg

@saberz6615

4 жыл бұрын

Not every chapter abandons there humanity. Almost every chapter has the possibility of doing this. Even in the black templars there are some who show more humanity. Than kill kill kill...

@Tacoguy1000

4 жыл бұрын

Pedro Kantor We are talking about a chapter that’s up there with the Minotaurs as some of the most violent and collateral-happy, right?

@saberz6615

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tacoguy1000 still there will be some in that chapter like grimaldus who cares for humanity in its own way. I mean the guy berated a titan princep to life so she could fight just a little bit longer. buying the hive just a bit more time. But then again he did tell his tech priest to use an ordinatus at near point blank range to the hive sooo.....

I bought that book years ago. I'll have to read it again. I remember that scene where the orks hold the man over the fire. Terrible stuff. Very grim and very dark.

God, this one really gets to yeh. Always great to see the Astartes human side. Transhuman they may be, but you can't spell Transhuman without 'human.'

@jadedseer

4 жыл бұрын

@Deathcoldan I second that opinion.

@AbyssWatcher745

4 жыл бұрын

@Deathcoldan lol

It was nice that it was a GrimDark story tho

This gave me goosebumps...this is one of the reasons I fell in love with 40k

“There must be someone strong enough to bear the weight of decisions” - *Zavala*

This was definitely one of my favorite Space Marine Battle Novels, right up there with Helsreach, thank you for reading part of it.

The battle over the farmhouse is in that back of the Warhammer 40,000 Rogue trader book as a battle you can play for yourself. I was given this book and collected the Space marines/orks over time until I was able to recreate the farm on Tabletop and play the battle for myself. :) Having personally fought off the Orcs many times on behalf of Pedro who was then able to make it back to the capital city then organise the planetary defence, I too hold a special place in my heart for this space hero. :)

I’m not ashamed to admit that this hit me in the feels way more than I expected, and I might have cried just a little too. It’s usually pretty hard to subvert my expectations but this story did it. I’m glad it did too because that was the most wholesome thing I’ve ever heard a marine do before.

This was the first 40k novel I ever owned and read. My first 40k army was naturally a Crimson Fists army.

It’s moments like these that made me choose these guys as my first 40k army

i actually expected kantor to be one of the first to get a primaris upgrade. one of the most iconic second founding chapters.

And just like that, I officially love these guys. Now I know how I'm painting my Marines

@charleswatson2605

4 жыл бұрын

This is why I play Crimson Fists!

@minivandad5053

4 жыл бұрын

@@charleswatson2605 heck yeah! I just got my paints ordered!! I'm excited to be an official crimson fist

Giving them the final mercy is the pragmatic thing to do Saving them is the HUMAN thing to do

The first 40k book I purchased and it has the best son of Dorn and arguably THE best chapter master out of them all

I hope they took in those children and made them astartes too. It would make a great storyline

@matthewdeleon382

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps just 2 of them. no reason for the mother to give her family up after fighting so hard to save them

That was kindness near the level of the Salamanders. Only difference is the Salamanders wouldn't have hesitated at all to carry the family with them towards safety.

I didn't know much about the Crimson Fists but this bumps them up to one of my favorite chapters and Pedro Cantore to one of my favorite chapter Masters

Pedro is a hero in every sense. I think he realised that Protecting Mankind supersedes even the preservation of his Chapter. It is what a leader must do in dilemmas. Put things in there proper perspective and priority. Hard choices but, he made the proper call.

Long live Rogal Dorn and his sons, the Praetorian of the emperor!

They need the kids to replace the fallen ones...new neophytes?? They are fists now... Tbh... i cried a little upon that reading at the end... Vulcan 🖖 lives !!!

Fun fact : This whole scene put me up on the work to do a homebrew chapter based of the DA with this kind of thinking.

Arguably the greatest display of humanity in the Black Library, even as a Salamanders fan I'm envious of how noble the Crimson Fists are described in this fantastic book. Kantor has to pass the Rubicon Primaris soon! Such a righteous soul deserving of praise and a rare account of a Chapter with Latinx overtones, they deserve better!

On the topic of motherhood, and what it can enable, I have a story about my wife and oldest daughter. Now, it was no orks or chaos marines, but a snake in the forest. My wife took my daughter (she was 10 at the time) up to where I had buried our first dog a year prior. This was a good half-mile walk up into the forest. While there a snake bit my daughter. My wife is 5’0 and 105 pounds soaking wet. She is a tiny woman. Yet she picked up my daughter and sprinted a half mile with her in her arms back to the house. I kid you not; I was outside with our son and I saw her running with Miri in her arms at a dead sprint. I’m not even sure I could have done that. Naturally, my stomach dropped at the sight, and thankfully, the snake was not venomous and my daughter was fine. But just that motherly instinct, man… pretty powerful stuff.

I have been reading tidbits of lore through the chapters traitor and loyalist alike. Watched multiple videos from liuten to The Steadfast Wolf Lord Rho. It was at the moment for the first time in my experience in 40k Lore when Kantor said. "It's time that someone Carried you now" I shed a tear. I'm man enough to admit it.

Of all the sections to choose, I'm so glad you chose this one out of the book. I'm really feeling you at the end there. Exactly how I felt. In all the grimdark, these guys demonstrate real nobility.

Damn that was good. Pedro Kantor is why I became a Crimson Fists player. He is all heart, you have to respect a guy like that. Duty, honor and heart.

Crimson Fists were my first army when I started 40k and this was my first BL book. Brings a tear to my eye and urges me to pull them out of their storage box and enjoy the beginner level paint job once again.

Amazing buddy as always love your work will you do one on shrike from raven guard he’s spent 3 years behind enemy lines take out key targets and he was amazing aganst the Tau in the domicles golf battle

@wolflordrho

4 жыл бұрын

Sure!

Love this! I am a Dark Angels player but man i can't help respect how much the Crimson Fist Chapter Master respects her duty and sacrifice to her children and that is why he carries her because of this and sometimes you feelthat space marines distant themselves from humans (espically being a DA fan) but this omg makes me want to collect CFs. Great story telling as well! Whilst I love 40k battles when something like this grips me more than a crazy battle you know its been written well.

When angels of death become angels of humanity one's heart cannot help by fly! A legend indeed!

CRIMSON FIIIIIIIIIIIISTS

This is definitely on my list of favorite short stories. The sons of Dorn are the pride of the Golden Throne and true champions of humanity!

ah man that scene with the family keeping up until the mom collapses oof

This is where legends begin with humanity. This is why I love 40k.

Great stuff as usual! Theres a number of great warhammer lore channels but I think you've found a niche that lets you stand out. You do an excellent job of curating the best stories amidst the ocean of 40k lore and you have a way of breathing life into the telling. Almost 40k subscribers and you deserve every one!

@wolflordrho

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you I appreciate that

Just started a Crimson Fists chapter. Love the lore and color scheme. Hope Pedro Kantor gets Primaris upgrade.

Damn this was so emotional. He absolutely did the right thing. She did everything in her power to achieve her goal despite what she just saw showing incredible will. Her body broke but not her will and spirit. Just like Cadia.

I always thought of space marines as pragmatists and that there greater duty outweighed there morals as so often it does, but i guess they wouldn't be human if they always followed the logical path.

NGL, the best part of the book is how the planetary governess repeatedly fangirls over the thought of Pedro Kantor.

The emperor truly does protect

I come back to this story for the family

Oh goodness, right in the feels!