Hey man, great reaction as always. I don't know if you've already got this in your list but you should definitely check out the awakening animation. It's necrons vs space Marines and sick af.

someone might've commented on it already, but i've not seen it after a bit of scrolling: SODAZ did get an offer from GW, but he refused it. the reason he took down the animations was because he received bullying from somewhere (no clue if or in which way related to 40k). there is a post on some social media about it. he is back these days with fallout animations and others, from what i heard. also im pretty sure Helsreach and SODAZ animations use the same models as base, taken from the Dawn of War game. obviously upscaled and modified in other programs, especially the non-helmeted heads. chances are, Helsreach is also done in SFM (never checked if the credits mention it), but its one huge project, as opposed to several smaller ones, with a much tighter focus. also obviously individual animators skill also plays into it. there is a recently released mini movie about the Dark Angels, which also struggles, especially with combat animations, because animating combat well is extremely hard. 11:10 those are Cadian Kasrkin. pretty much the elite of the elite. they use modified, supercharged lasguns that pierce armor easily. 15:07 i mean, there is a giant, stylized fist on his shoulder. its there for a reason, lol. at most it would be a successor chapter, but no one is gonna expect you to know all of those (minus black templars at this point) 15:57 Land Raider assault vehicle, one of the heaviest machines in the space marines arsenal. also the chaos version is easy to identify by those neat dragon heads on their las cannons. fun fact: land raiders and land speeders arent names that way because they go over land, but after Arkhan Land, the tech priest who discovered their STC (basically blueprint). he thought its stupid to name the vehicles after him. 17:15 just a Dreadnought, the walking combat coffin. knights are MUCH larger and then titans are larger than knights. pretty sure GW wanted people to (buy more and) put more "titans" on the table w/o having to produce smaller titans than the Warhound, so they came up with knights. but i could be wrong, i just never heard about them ~10 years ago. also if you wanna learn the models a bit more, i suggest you watch a "battle report" sometime, which is what the actual miniature game is usually called. bricky does BRs every now and again. i personally watch MiniWarGaming sometimes, because while they arent quite 100% on the rules, they usually have a lot of fun playing. 26:18 wha... its a dragon head, not a wolves head. dragons spit fire. but to be fair, its an easy mistake to make. also these marines are Dark Angels, you can see their heraldry well on the guys shoulder at 26:04, but i also had to look more closely. btw the chaos marine legions featured through these animations in order: Death Guard; Iron Warriors; Black Legion and a single Khorne Berserker from the World Eaters (i think, its not quite clear). 29:50 the combat shovels are a huge meme with the Death Corps, but its grounded in reality. also the charge is lore accurate, because they continue to bombard their enemies even as their troops have already reached the trenches. and yeah, the tunnel clear scene is great. not only do they slightly crouch in the beginning, so the marine has a clearer line of sight and fire over them, but also space marine armor is basically equivalent to tank armor, so you would let him roll up first (unless there is an actual threat to him, because his life is much more valuable than that of Kriegsmen). and the red CSM (chaos space marine) probably was in a frenzy or bloodlust, thats why he didnt finish the regular SM off. he definitely had khorne markings, so chances are, his mind was numbed and he was little more than a frothing berserker. Rough Riders (the cavalry) are very potent shock and flanking troops in 40k. not all of them ride on horses... or horse-things in the case of the Kriegsmen, some also use motorbikes or other weird animals, whatever is available and durable. for animations i still recommend the 14min version of "fall of cadia battlefleet gothic 2". also the Dawn of War 1 intro is great. 2 & 3 are okay too, but a bit goofy imo.

11:12 those are the Kasrkin, they are the elite special forces of Cadia. Each regiment has these elites called Stormtroopers, and Cadias ones are called Kasrkin. They come with better armour, better training and hot-shot lasguns which are more powerful lasguns charged via those cables under their guns.

You should check out sodaZ Halo animation. He is currently working on a Fallout animation but it is not done yet, but it looks insane

29:50 Using the folding spade as a battle axe has a lot of tradition in the German military. There is a command "Spaten frei!" that basically means to ready your spades for melee.

On the tabletop plague marines are slower but tougher than normal marines

Chaos dreadnought

WUAAAAAAGH! Keep em comin'.

Just remember: PRE Heresy = Legions POST Heresy = Chapters

You need to binge all of Warrior Tier's videos.

Loving your reactions man, i wanted to ask if you would ever react to music for Warhammer 40k? Stringstorm has some badass music which ofc is WH40k and encompasses the lore aswell, i would look into it but if its not your thing i understand, but if you do i would recommend Rylanor's Last Stand and Black Rage.

KRIEEEEGGGG

His stuff is awesome

Notice how the Blueberries hit the plague marines but they still keep coming? As intended in the lore.

So the troopers coming in to save the day are known as Kasarkin shock troopers who are the elite of the elite in terms of combat experience and overall abilities. They are the elite shock troops of the cadians and unlike their regular foot slogging brethren they utilize what’s known as a HELLGUN, which is basically an overcharged and overpowered version of the standard infantry lasguns to the point that they’re so power hungry that each HELLGUN requires its own backpack power generator just to be able to feed the bloody thing😂, as to their combat capability’s it would be akin to handing out a 50 cal sniper rifle with a thousand round magazine with the recoil and weight of a .22 rifle, as to the kasarkins roles, as their name suggests they are essentially stormtroopers or shock troopers who’s main role is to storm an enemy held position or hold onto a position despite whatever horrors that may meet them, in terms of humans they are the navy seals or the British commandos in terms of how elite they are, other such regiments makes use of something similar the krieg grenadier is kinda similar to what the kasarkins can do, however unlike the krieg grenadiers, the kasarkins tend to have a much higher chance of actually surviving whatever it is they’re sent to deal with, not only that but kasarkins also act as security or protection for high ranking officers as well as a scalpel in which a kill team can be sent behind enemy lines as well as to act as elite units on the battlefield, the only real competition or challenge a kasarkin might have would be the TEMPESTUS SCIONS, or the elite stormtroopers who’s main role in live is to act as elite vanguard forces being able to insert themselves into the most formidable of defenses via a grav chute harness as well as being trained to be the best of the best as well as having some minor augmentations to increase their overall combat abilities, unlike the kasarkins and other elite units, the Scions are trained at the scholar progenium which is also the same school where commissars and assassins are sent to be educated and trained in the art of war, loyal and fanatical are the only two words to best describe them, loyal to a T and have no qualms about sacrificing themselves in the name of completing a mission, even if the mission is most likely a suicide mission, and the best way to describe them would be robotic in nature, give them a task and they will complete said task with neither qualms or hesitation and even if death is certain they won’t shy away from it. Apart from the scions the only other faction that could compete against them would be the inquisitorial stormtroopers, now rebranded as the scions, but in actuality the inquisitorial stormtroopers are hand selected to join an inquisititors personal army, who unlike the typical scions who’s duty’s are to the impirium and whoever has the most chins, inquisitorial stormtroopers are solely dedicated to serving as the private army of the inquisition, that was until sisters of battle came along along with grey knights at which point it was just simply easier to find a bunch of religious nuns armed with bolters and power armor that to train regular soldiers with laser pointers. And if the situation is too much then they can simply call the grey knights 😂

Just so you know, Krieg mounts aren't really "horses" per se.

In the Death Corps short, notice the synergy between the guardsmen and the Dark Angel. It's like combined infantry/armor doctrine in miniature. Sodaz knows what's up. He had time in the Korean military. Also, that arty barrage was what one would call "danger close".

Another recommendation would be to watch The tithe where a group of guardsmen are tasked to fight off an ork assault and being that it’s a more recent animation and was made by GW it’s well worth the watch along with ANGLES OF DEATH and the one with the salamanders marine

Dark green armor is dark Angels. The black and gold is black legion for chaos

At least when it comes to a short you can spend the time and effort into making a scene look good, compared to hellsreach which again was fantastic was again limited to the fact that it was trying to visualize an audiobook which again takes much longer to complete along with requiring more time and effort into each episode rather than spending a week on say a half an hour clip rather than two days for the acting, two more days in rendering and one day of finalizing the overall scene. Honestly i highly recommend watching WALACE AND GROMMIT, a grand day out behind the scenes and how much time, energy and effort is put into making a single thirty second clip in claymation.

8:11 me and the lads as soon as we finish work and are heading towards the pub 😂

Eyooo lets gooo. Sodaz is great, sadly the real reason he quit making 40k stuff is because a toxic part of the fandom kept pestering him while he was in talk with Games Workshop, so he didn't pursue the job GW was offering him and went back to making his own stuff. On the plus side it freed him up to make animations set in the Halo and Stalker settings, and a huge Fallout one on the way too.

Yes and no chaos marines are typically stronger than their imperial counterparts in terms of strength and overall durability due to them spending so much time in the warp, but at the same time NO in the sense that chaos marines tend to have outdated or obsolete pieces of equipment which can be good in some situations such as they have access to far more advanced and powerful weapons and vehicles due to them being from the heresy, but on the flip side they tend to have as mentioned before far far far older models or patterns of armor and equipment be it their original armor or weapons or ones that they looted and scavenged from combat, that being said it depends entirely on the individual marine in question since not all chaos marines are from the original old legions and most members of chaos space marines are in fact more modern marines who chose for whatever reason or another to join chaos and follow a particular chaos god which then tends to again fall into a sub faction category such as death guard, noise marines, khornate berserkers and thousand sons, that being said most chaos aligned marines tend to fall into four distinct categories, chaos warbands which comprises of multiple marines hailing from either multiple different chapters or even from multiple different individuals from the original legions, the second are chaos aligned which tends to mostly mean that certain chaos aligned marines would essentially join and create a warband dedicated entirely to their perspective god, as in the case of the death guard. Thirdly are chaos undivided who’s ranks are filled with individuals who don’t necessarily belong to one or more of the chaos gods but align themselves to chaos as a whole as seen in the case of the iron warriors, and lastly there’s chaos rouges, similar to chaos undivided but kinda different, unlike chaos undivided who’s main goals are to push unity for all of chaos, chaos rouges are basically individuals who much like the chaos undivided, believes in chaos but tends to work on their own rather than with other marines. as to your question the death guard marine with the horn on or in his helmet would most likely be an original legionary since he’s wearing the MK2 iron pattern aromor, which was favored by the death guard due to the armors higher levels of frontal protection at the cost of flexibility and mobility. As for the horn, due to the ever changing nature of chaos, nothing is or ever is certain let alone concrete, armor can become flesh the same way flesh can mutate into chitin or even metal armor, all the while the marine literally becomes one with their armor, the best way to describe it would be akin to being burnt alive to the point where your clothes melt into your skin where trying to remove the clothes is akin to removing your skin, graphic I know, but that’s basically what happens to chaos marines, their armor becomes their literal skin and depending on the god or mutation in question can lead to things like a second jaw growing in your stomach, multiple eyes start sprouting from your body giving you a kaleidoscopic field of view, all the while bones start sprouting from your skin as tentacles start to grow from your limbs either with some control over them and for some, the tentacles have a complete mind and sentience of their own

Yes and no chaos marines are typically stronger than their imperial counterparts in terms of strength and overall durability due to them spending so much time in the warp, but at the same time NO in the sense that chaos marines tend to have outdated or obsolete pieces of equipment which can be good in some situations such as they have access to far more advanced and powerful weapons and vehicles due to them being from the heresy, but on the flip side they tend to have as mentioned before far far far older models or patterns of armor and equipment be it their original armor or weapons or ones that they looted and scavenged from combat, that being said it depends entirely on the individual marine in question since not all chaos marines are from the original old legions and most members of chaos space marines are in fact more modern marines who chose for whatever reason or another to join chaos and follow a particular chaos god which then tends to again fall into a sub faction category such as death guard, noise marines, khornate berserkers and thousand sons, that being said most chaos aligned marines tend to fall into four distinct categories, chaos warbands which comprises of multiple marines hailing from either multiple different chapters or even from multiple different individuals from the original legions, the second are chaos aligned which tends to mostly mean that certain chaos aligned marines would essentially join and create a warband dedicated entirely to their perspective god, as in the case of the death guard. Thirdly are chaos undivided who’s ranks are filled with individuals who don’t necessarily belong to one or more of the chaos gods but align themselves to chaos as a whole as seen in the case of the iron warriors, and lastly there’s chaos rouges, similar to chaos undivided but kinda different, unlike chaos undivided who’s main goals are to push unity for all of chaos, chaos rouges are basically individuals who much like the chaos undivided, believes in chaos but tends to work on their own rather than with other marines. as to your question the death guard marine with the horn on or in his helmet would most likely be an original legionary since he’s wearing the MK2 iron pattern aromor, which was favored by the death guard due to the armors higher levels of frontal protection at the cost of flexibility and mobility. As for the horn, due to the ever changing nature of chaos, nothing is or ever is certain let alone concrete, armor can become flesh the same way flesh can mutate into chitin or even metal armor, all the while the marine literally becomes one with their armor, the best way to describe it would be akin to being burnt alive to the point where your clothes melt into your skin where trying to remove the clothes is akin to removing your skin, graphic I know, but that’s basically what happens to chaos marines, their armor becomes their literal skin and depending on the god or mutation in question can lead to things like a second jaw growing in your stomach, multiple eyes start sprouting from your body giving you a kaleidoscopic field of view, all the while bones start sprouting from your skin as tentacles start to grow from your limbs either with some control over them and for some, the tentacles have a complete mind and sentience of their own

Check out the video "Guardsman". A live action fan film short. Reallllly good!

Death guard

I see that you love black flag? If so please look up SKULL AND BONES 😂😂

Or how about the centurion pattern exo power armor which is basically a massive middle finger to anyone or anything that doesn’t require the full combined trauma caused by a dreadnought, but still requires a bit more of a beating than your typical terminator squad😂😂

all i need in life is anything Krieg, a battlefield/Battlefront style game of Kreig vs Chaos worshippers or somthing, a planet Krieg movie JUST GIVE ME ANYTHING GW PLEASEEEEEEEEEE

Vote for miniature video.. so Centurion knows the dif between a dreadnought a Knight and a titan lol

Only loyalists have chapters. Chapters were created by Guilliman in the aftermath of the Horus heresy. He wrote the codex astartes and it was to limit the power of space marines so something like the Horus heresy couldn’t happen again. Since chaos marines obviously turned traitor before this they don’t have chapters. There are chapters from loyalist legions that fall to chaos but none of the original nine chaos legions have chapters. They might diverge into sub factions, Fabius bile cones to mind. But not chapters. The chaos marines in the first video were the death guard, primarch mortarions legion and the legion devoted to nurgle. Chapters are supposed to be only 1000 marines strong. There are exceptions, notably the black Templar. They use loopholes the two main ones being each member of the black Templar “chapter” is the head of another “chapter”, basically. Also you can have more than 1000 if you are on a crusade and the black Templar are on the “eternal crusade” and it’s been going on since they were formed essentially. Fun fact, the black Templar are originally from the imperial fists. They have rogal dorns geneseed. “The fists inherited his(rogal) duty, the black Templar inherited his rage.” The third video has the imperial fists and their bitter rivals, the iron legion. The large mech is a dreadnaught. Dreadnaughts are called walking coffins because they are “piloted” by space marines who are too injured to fight but too good to just let them die. Dreadnaughts are big but even the armigers of the knights are much larger. Knights are several stories tall at their smallest. Armigers are like two stories tall and those are the “squires” to knight pilots. The death korp of krieg make other guardsmen uncomfortable because… well, commissars of other regiments are there to shoot troops who run away into battle. Death korp commissars have to shoot troops who charge the enemy lines prematurely. They are there to make sure they don’t suicide run too early. Death Korp come from a world that betrayed the emperor during the crusade era and to this day they try to atone for it by dying in the emperors name in the field of battle. I believe the marines in the last video are dark angels. I don’t think they are salamanders because the entire area isn’t on fire. That’s an easy way to tell if the green space marines are salamanders or dark angels. If everything is on fire it’s salamanders. The meme about the death korp is the trench shovels. They love trench and chemical warfare because it reminds them of home. There’s a meme of a death korp baby being gifted his first gas mask and shovel in the delivery room lol. This is mostly memes and there isn’t really anything about them using trench shovels as weapons. I think the funniest thing about the death korps that I don’t think is talked about much is how much they must like to fuck for being so suicidal. Every guard regiment comes from planets that fuck a lot but it just seems so funny to think about how much the krieg fuck because of how many they have to have for their tremendous casualty rates to be sustainable, compared to other guard regiments.

Hell yeah, good video! the Waghh scream was almost the sole reason i had to recommended this to ya :) it goes so HARD.

The cavalry charge is still kinda silly but those nothorses move a lot faster than true horses and can jump in, out or over trenches. I've heard everything from 60 to 100 mph but I'm not actually sure. The lances have explosive charges on them making them anti tank/astartes weapons. The death corp also usually shells the locations they are attacking covering the charging troops and forcing the lines to stand and fight instead of hunkering down while shells are dropping.

17:14 so, it is a dreadnought. Sometimes a space marine becomes so badly wounded that he cant recover and can no longer serve, but can be saved if connected to life support systems. Then, if a particular marine is worth saving due to his achievments, experience or wisdom, he is entombed in an armored sarcophagus, that is both the life support chamber and his grave at the same time. What is left of a marine is further reduced to a limbless torso or half-torso, submerged into the amniotic fluid and sealed forever in that sarcophagus. Then it is connected to a 5-6 meters tall, heavily armed and armored bipedal walker, becoming one with its systems and sensors, with cables plugged directly into his brain, and thats it, marine is now a walking coffin and continues his eternal service in that form. It is considered a great honour to be deemed worthy of being saved and entombed into a dreadnought, as only the most of the most gain this opportunity, and dreadnoughts are rare. But it is a miserable existence of great pain and suffering, as marine will never feel anything apart from the cold amniotic fluid and what his new metal skin feels, he is doomed for an eternity of darkness in his sarcophagus. Dreadnoughts are kept asleep in stasis most of the time, awoken only at direst situations or when a tactical guidance of an experienced brother is needed. Many are centuries old, but marines slowly loose their mind over years of constant cycles of stasis and fight in their sarcophagus, though Space Wolfs for instance awake their honorable brothers when they have feasts and tell sagas, so sometimes its not that grimm. Blood Angels have a habit of turning librarians into dreadnoughts. There are many models of dreadnoughts, pre and post heresy, some are quite common, some are a great technological treasure of past eras. Most of the time they have melee weapon on one arm and gun on another, often full melee, and very rarely act as artillery (Deredeo pattern). TL DR: Walking coffins with half dead marines inside, that are capable to kill many scary things. Also, 26:30 are Dark Angels.

@26:20 Salamander's heraldry is a dragon-like lizards head; the Space Wolves have a wolf's head as their symbol. They have similar proportions and layout though so they could get mixed up by a glance ;)

I will recoment the video: Space Marine Chapter Ranks (Warhammer 40k Lore) by BeastAlchemistVA He also has a video on the imperial guard ranks in case you like it.

Fun fact those horses they breed are genetically altered to basically be highly aggressive, fearless, and tougher. Their are a few other things as well, but this little summary should give you a general idea of what their riding.

Thing is with this : SODAZ was most likely military, as he is from Korea. He is BIG into realism, especially military realism in all his animations. Its a breath of fresh air from all the grimderp of 40k, and I am sad that he no longer makes warhammer stuff, but any of his animations, be it STALKER, Fallout or Titan Fall, are all superb.

Last video, Dark angels vs Black Legion and 1 World Eater, if you look at the spears, they put explosives on the tip, the death korp is known for having no problems carrying out suicide missions and an almost unbreakable morale, some people make them memes, but the point is that "we are not afraid of death as long as the mission is accomplished"

17:22 is a "Dreadnought". When Space Marine is wounded they can put his body inside this "metal box" and he can serve to the rest of eternity inside. It's not pleasant thing. You can't feel anything and most of Chaos ones are going insane inside.

You gonna watch secret level warhammer episode any time soon? :D

Third video, Imperial Fist vs Iron Warriors, no that's a dreedgnauth not a knight, 50/50 with the mechanicus, remember the Techmarines

HELL YEAH LOOK AT DEM MODELS AND GET ADDICTED TO PLASTIC CRACK

Second video i like to see the imperial guard being able to put a good fight without the space marines, no Grimaldus is not here, and there is not chaplin because there is no space marine with skull mask, yes, the guard have especial units and elite formations with better gear, may i sugest a research of the 'Tempestus Scions'?

The first Chaos Space Marines (who fought the Ultramarines) are the DEATH GUARD (dedicated to NURGLE - the Chaos god of desease), the green loyal Marines are Dark Angels ( the inheritors of the lion, former first legion). The red Chaos Space Marine who fought against the green loyal marine and the death korps was a Khorne berserker and the Black Chaos Space Marines are the BLACK LEGION - they are the main antagonists in 40k. The new founded Legion, most members coming from the old Lunar Wolves/Sons of Horus - created by ABADDON the despoiler - the main antagonist, the guy who bears the Drach´nyen a deamon weapon created by the first murder in human history, the tales of horus which killed the clone of horus, killed sanguinius, killed Sigismund and wounded the Emperor himself.

It sucks that some of these projects got shut down. Theres a few animations for "Death of Hope" if you are interested (Two trailers and one episode only). Its far grittier and darker side of 40k...well, 30k. You get to see some tidbits of the Horus Heresy at It's beginning. Glad you enjoyed these 😄

3:18 yes, they are Ultramarines, 4:00 Death Guard, they worship Nurgle (God of Disease), and as for the ranks, each warband has its own rules (loyal legions were divided into ordens, and most traitor legions were divided into warbands). 15:16 Imperial Fists are masters of defense and fortifications, 16:02 Iron Warriors are masters of siege (and also hate Imperial Fists), worship all 4 gods equally as one and imprison demons in machines. 17:15 Dreadnought (if a space marine was badly injured, but is considered very valuable, he is operated on by cutting off almost everything and now he is forever sealed in the sarcophagus of this machine, among many legions it is an honor), Imperial Knight is much taller, they are about 9-12 meters high and are controlled by 1 person. 23:24 This is the Dark Angel (you can see a sword with wings on his shoulder). 25:57 former Sons of Horus, now the Black Legion. 32:06 The Worlds Eater

First video, Ultramarines vs death guard, no chaos marines don't use the same rank sistem or any sistem at all in many cases

Deep dive on Kriegers makes you understand even more why they are "uncomfortable" for normal guardsmen - I am 100% certain that the Imperial forces have heard at least rumors about the fact that the empire turns a blind eye to otherwise heretical techniques for "producing" recruits, or why the typical Krieg guardsman usually is physically smaller than his equivalents from other worlds and typically never takes off his mask when surrounded by other regiments 😐

@17:18 this is a dreadknought, the most 40k thing you will know. btw... the imperial fists are the yellow ones (and the primogenitors / blood brothers) of the Black Templar chapter. The Chaos Space marines are the Iron Warriors - this is one (if not THE) greatest rivalry of any faction in 40k - their hate is enourmas.