The Tithes - Bullets [Part 3]

[Emperor Ming]

 

Did you watch it? The whole mission is about the tithe.

Not yet hence the question:D

 

Ill get around to it today

[Magos Takatus]

The end of ep3 was so nonsensical that I has to rewind to make sure I understood it correctly, then it dawned on me that was the whole point.

 

I was really impressed by these three episodes. In my opinion they really did a good job of portraying what a state the Imperium is in now. The Tithe as a series seems to be about just how hard the sacrifices the Imperium is forced to make are getting now.

[Cenobite Terminator]

I enjoyed the 1st episode the best, watching the Custode fight was kind of epic.

 

"The end of ep3 was so nonsensical that I has to rewind to make sure I understood it correctly, then it dawned on me that was the whole point." I took it the admech basically said nope.

Edited September 19 by Cenobite Terminator

[Blindhamster]

 

I enjoyed the 1st episode the best, watching the Custode fight was kind of epic.

 

"The end of ep3 was so nonsensical that I has to rewind to make sure I understood it correctly, then it dawned on me that was the whole point." I took it the admech basically said nope.

No, the point was that the administratum were still collecting tithes on that world, however they arent going anywhere, and now there are so many tithes on the world that they just straight up destroy them... making every sacrifice to provide tithes to that world a total waste. Very grimdark, typical imperium.

 

based on the warhammer community article apparently they destroy them because there is literally so much weight in tithes its having an effect on the planet. Didnt catch that bit in the show though.

[DemonGSides]

 

based on the warhammer community article apparently they destroy them because there is literally so much weight in tithes its having an effect on the planet. Didnt catch that bit in the show though.

 

When the Magos/Tech Adept turns away and starts talking to the other one, they mention that the struts can't handle the increased weight.  I don't think it's the planet, it's literally JUST that landing platform that can't take the weight, and instead of just, y'know, returning the ammo or moving it somewhere else, they just destroy it as it's a pittance in the grand scheme.

Super grim-dark.

[MagicHat]

 

 

When the Magos/Tech Adept turns away and starts talking to the other one, they mention that the struts can't handle the increased weight.  I don't think it's the planet, it's literally JUST that landing platform that can't take the weight, and instead of just, y'know, returning the ammo or moving it somewhere else, they just destroy it as it's a pittance in the grand scheme.

Super grim-dark.

 

Warcom article mentions that the tectonic landmass is cracking under the weight.

[Allart01]

I was genuinely surprised and confused at seeing somebody (anybody!) from the Imperial Guard treating a Commissar the way that lady sarge did in the first minutes of the episode...

Edited September 19 by Allart01

[Subtleknife]

I wish they would stop referring to female officers as "sir".

[Marshall Bretton]

 

I wish they would stop referring to female officers as "sir".

I am so glad someone else thinks this! It's so annoying

[Emperor Ming]

I don't mind actually, the Departmento Muintorum doesn't care what your gender is

 

and the tactica Imperium wont make provision for it

 

It will say something like: officers will be addressed as x. 

[WAR]

=]Stay on topic[=

[DemonGSides]

 

I am so glad someone else thinks this! It's so annoying

 

It's a pretty routine trope in Sci-Fi.  Star Trek has been doing it since Voyager.

[Domhnall]

 

I wish they would stop referring to female officers as "sir".

 

It's more a military sign of respect for rank rather than gender, especially here in the UK as far as I'm aware. Someone with more experience (as in, being in the actual armed forces) can clarify this if it's still the same, but when I were in the Air Cadets (many moons ago) we had a female Squadron Leader, and she was addressed as either Sir or Ma'am. Both were acceptable. So you'll probably find that any show or such based in the UK with the some kind of armed forces will have female ranking officers addressed as Sir. 

[ThePenitentOne]

Still haven't watched 1 or 3 yet. Looking forward to binging. Might inspire me to build my SoS Inquisition Auxiliaries from Ashes of Faith.

 

I'll be building them as Inquisition support, so its going to be an illegal 40k build (that I will use on my roster despite its illegality); I'm thinking two bolters, two flamers and a sword. But after watching the video, I'm less adverse to contaminating my SoS with Custodi-boys, and it occurs to me that I might like to build one as a character if I can fem-it up. The project might require a special Tithes-based scenario.

 

Could be fun.

 

I also recently read about the Eyes of the Emperor- Custodes who exile themselves at the first sign of physical imperfections to live the rest of their lives as Imperial Agents. I don't know if this is referred to elsewhere in the Lore, but I found it while I was reviewing Tyrannic War. 

 

In the animation, I thought the existence of the characters (both Custodian and Silent Sister) as individual Agents to be very interesting. We don't know much about why these characters are out there acting independently... But an Eye of the Emperor, out on her own with a unit of 5 mixed load out SoS? Pretty cool if I could figure out the conversion.

[Marshall Bretton]

 

 

It's more a military sign of respect for rank rather than gender, especially here in the UK as far as I'm aware. Someone with more experience (as in, being in the actual armed forces) can clarify this if it's still the same, but when I were in the Air Cadets (many moons ago) we had a female Squadron Leader, and she was addressed as either Sir or Ma'am. Both were acceptable. So you'll probably find that any show or such based in the UK with the some kind of armed forces will have female ranking officers addressed as Sir. 

 

Incorrect, all female officers are referred to as Ma'am, this is why it bugs me so much on shows etc because it's factually incorrect to call them sir. Same is true for the us military as well. I'm sure other countries do it differently.

 

Edit as I realise this was somewhat off topic so to add some on topic.

 

Does anyone know if these can be watched legally without wh+?

 

I object to paying more than I do for any other streaming site for about 1% of the content I get on the others

Edited September 20 by Marshall Bretton

[Gillyfish]

To my knowledge the WH+ shows are not available on other platforms at present. Who knows if they will be on Amazon in future?

 

Just to note that it is against site rules to request or offer pirated material, so whilst I am sure that someone, somewhere has done this, it's not something that can be discussed here and who knows what else you might end up with on your computer if you went looking for it? ;)

[Marshall Bretton]

 

To my knowledge the WH+ shows are not available on other platforms at present. Who knows if they will be on Amazon in future?

 

Just to note that it is against site rules to request or offer pirated material, so whilst I am sure that someone, somewhere has done this, it's not something that can be discussed here and who knows what else you might end up with on your computer if you went looking for it? ;)

 

Thanks and apologies if it came across in a way that might be against the rules. Definitely not asking for pirated stuff, it just would be nice if there were other options to access them. I will amend my post to make it clearer.

[DemonGSides]

 

Incorrect, all female officers are referred to as Ma'am, this is why it bugs me so much on shows etc because it's factually incorrect to call them sir. Same is true for the us military as well. I'm sure other countries do it differently.

 

I forgot that Cadia existed within the British Empire :P
 

[Marshall Bretton]

 

 

I forgot that Cadia existed within the British Empire :P
 

 

I mean fair XD. I was commenting on how it bugs me when it is a portrayal of the British military specifically though. I am that indoctrinated though that it does make me twitch even in completely unrelated settings like this!

 

If we are being factually correct though the appropriate gothic term of address would be some variation on dominus anyway!

 

Anyway I will stop taking us off topic again.

[Emperor Ming]

Did the thunderbolt pilots forget they had lascannons

 

Unless I missed it, the Departmento Exacta doesn't get mentioned once, in a series about the tithe

[Lord_Ikka]

 

Did the thunderbolt pilots forget they had lascannons

Thunderbolt lascannons are fed via batteries- they have a limited number of shots per battery. The lieutenant on the ground did mention that they had few heavy weapons and batteries left. Perhaps the aircraft were out of batteries and only had their autocannon ammunition left. 

 

I enjoyed all three episodes, but the third was my favorite in terms of looking at the cost of the Imperiums' massive bureaucracy.

Requesting munitions from a besieged planet to fufill a tithe that was ordered who knows how long ago is just heartbreaking and frustrating all in one, especially when the munitions are then destroyed...

Edited September 21 by Lord_Ikka

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

 

Unless I missed it, the Departmento Exacta doesn't get mentioned once, in a series about the tithe

 

Don't be too harsh. The writers think that an ammunition tithe is collected from.... the line troops... by Kasrkin. What? I guess, if it was a food tithe, they would be going through people's fridges. I also don't get the supposed despair over two containers being tithed from a whole planet.

 

Mindly infuriating: since they are so fixated on showing women in the Guard, it would be good to introduce body difference between both sexes and not simply paste female faces on male bodies. In general some more difference in seizes of normal humans would be nice instead of ctrl+C/ctrl+V.

[Felix Antipodes]

While I liked the episode for the most part, I still felt it was a great idea wasted.  Tithing two containers from an entire planet?  Up the scale to W40K proportions and have hive world manufacturum levels of ordnance taken because the planet is liable for the tithe - but is also unimportant in the grand scheme of the High Lords and/or Sector command.

That might justify sending elite troops as tithe bodyguards.

On a rewatch, I also began to question why they crammed in the repentive Commissar in there as well; a story that seemed out of sync with the overall storyline.  Maybe it was to indicate that guarding the tithe shipment was a punishment detail, which might explain why the Kasrkin were there?

[Lord_Ikka]

With how WarhammerTV does things, I doubt we'll ever know. 

[Emperor Ming]

 

On a rewatch, I also began to question why they crammed in the repentive Commissar in there as well; a story that seemed out of sync with the overall storyline.  Maybe it was to indicate that guarding the tithe shipment was a punishment detail, which might explain why the Kasrkin were there?

 

Also the dictator class cruiser could have handled the entire mission, it only has 100k ish crew