First Time Reaction To Warhammer 40k - Astartes

[@maporte4]

The vehicle they used was a boarding torpedo that vaporizes the ship's hull as it penetrates into it. The armor they wear is a fictional material called ceramite, a bonded ceramic that is stronger, and lighter than steel. The only known exact speed of an astartes at a full sprint is between 84-87kph, so a little more than 50 miles per hour. The beak-shaped helmet is called Corvus pattern armor, and has more sensors in the beak portion for infiltration, and stealth. Even an Inquisitor will be immediately killed if possession is imminent, plus he was already dead as the warp was frying his brain out. Hope the answers help.

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

the ship that the Astartes used is actually a Cestus Boarding Ram more of a shuttle craft than a torpedo there would also be 3 Astartes left behind the Cestus pilot & two on overwatch

[@maporte4]

I will happily cede to those more informed than I. I really wish we could get a 40k Space Sim dogfighter ala the Wing Commander games. Terribly underutilized portion of the the Imperial forces in lore.

[@lordmortarius538]

Yeah that's a Caestus Assault Ram, which can hold two squads of Astartes and is equipped with twin-linked Magna Meltas: essentially a gigantic microwave gun that literally melts a hole in the outer hull of a ship enough so that the craft can punch through to the inner decks to disgorge its deadly payload. It's named after the Roman armored glove that gladiators would wear in the arena.

[@mikeasaua5411]

Now you are trapped forever, welcome brother

[@akiby9126]

It is time to learn the factions with bricky.

[@Connor-ONeill]

It's time for him to upload the rest of his faction part one video. Guy cut the last video just after the Adeptus Mechanicus. That was over a week ago. Edit: Over THREE weeks ago.

[@DekkarJr]

@@Connor-ONeill yaaaaaaa

[@Goomberdups]

@@Connor-ONeill hes trying to save it for his members videos except he doesnt realize that aint nobody gonna buy that shit

[@cyclone8974]

anyone but bricky...

[@Connor-ONeill]

@@cyclone8974 you got a problem with bricky?

[@ObsidiaBlack1]

12:50 What you saw, was more likely than not the orb possessing the psyker. Psykers are living conduits to the Warp, able to alter the very fabric of reality if their will is strong enough. Downsides are your soul shines like a beacon in the Warp, and there are... Things, there that would love to make your soul a snack and wear your body like a meatsuit. That's the best case scenario. Worst case? The energies channelled rip your body apart and you turn into an open doorway to the Warp for said soul-snacking Thing and it's buddies to pour out into the Material Plane and rip reality a new asshole. Honestly, the Astartes punching his head off and then another emptying a bolter into his corpse would be considerted _underkill_ . When you're dealing with the Warp, there is _no such thing_ as going overboard.

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

trust me you don't want an out of control Psycher going Pop on board your ship or planet side

[@JoyoSnooze]

My favourite detail in this is how the Captain's cloak buffets in the shockwave caused by the boltgun shells exploding when the psyker is killed. It's something that could be so easily overlooked but it's just sublime, like the rest of the animation.

[@ThaignWL]

This is a video you will come back to multiple times when you learn more about 40k.

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

Woah, this is fan made? For real? I know almost next to nothing about 40K, but I do know what TF I like. So, LETS GO!!!! FOR THE EMPEROR!!!! And this level of production, holy shit, this is really really really good. Edit: I'm guessing he was already possessed and they failed to sever the link. But I know shit all. BRAVO MAN!!!! So Dope on every level.

[@TNTGamingonline]

Ikr this was dope as hell

[@fateweaver9844]

It was made by ONE person

[@KitsyX]

It took them a while, in short parts, but yeah, I think it was put together by one fan, who Games Workshop later hired.

[@CptGummy]

At the end you will notice little flashes on the other pillars. Those are the other astartes that got sucked into the ball with him. They did get sent into the warp. Not all things in the warp are friendly with each other so that thing that brought them in was killed by another entity that lives in the warp as well I'm thinking.

[@chillnspace777]

Hell yes!!! Astartes reaction is here. This is THE pinnacle of fan made projects across all Fandom. Really , a show price of talent here. Damn I love this mini series.

[@karl-erikmumler9820]

There's no specific place he ended up to my knowledge. Somewhere Chaos related most likely but there's tons of that. 40k is a great canvas to homebrew disturbing dystopia onto.

[@TheBroGamer14082]

There was an AMA that the creator hosted a while back where he stated that where they ended up was the homeworld of the Orbs, and that the big humanoid looking mech was a form said orbs would be more comfortable inhabiting.

[@karl-erikmumler9820]

@@TheBroGamer14082 40k; there's *always* more lore.

[@ydoanything112]

If you want to deep dive the space marine legions I would highly recommend, "Baldermort's guide to warhammer 40k" , "The Remembrancer" , and "The Amber King". They are all great storytellers and do a great job explaining the lore. I suggest Baldermorts vid on the nightlords first :). been enjoying the 40k reactions, thank you.

[@warangelthelight2077]

Is his channel back? Last I heard it was hack

[@ottomatix3397]

​@warangelthelight2077 soon to return in talks with YT and they're getting it back

[@samhunter1205]

Baldermort's Nightlords video? That is an hilarious recommendation for someone new to the lore. A very good video, but a little disturbing - not too far off of recommending someone new look up daemonculabra.

[@poasttoasties6655]

the sound design really accentuates the strength of the visuals

[@roguefenixC55]

I love the little details in this, especially on the way the Space Marines fight, ruthless efficiency, against small arms they stand in the open and return fire unfazed, heavier weapons they take cover, psychic powers respond with speed and overwhelming force. So good, and one man did this, where's our full length movie?

[@terrencemedders1867]

This fan-film is the greatest technological achievement known to Man.

[@clarkecorvo2692]

astartes is such a masterclass. the animation, cinematography.. its just flawless. Syama Pedersen was just styling on fellow animators.

[@6vandode6de]

40k Warhammer is a rabbit hole. The best kind of rabbit hole. KHORNE FOREVER

[@kingleech16]

At least he’s better than Nurgle and Tzeentch!

[@DekkarJr]

I'll use this post to answer some of your lore question and provide some fun facts. 1. What is their armor made of? Space Marine Power armor comes in multiple grades and densities and designs, but in general are composed of shaped adamantium(strongest metal known to the imperium) and plasteel plates(combo of plastic and steel), encased in a ceramite ablative layer. Ceramite I assume is derived from Military Grade Ceramic Plates which is what we plate tanks with in modern day. 12:37 i THINK those are the Primarchs/sons of the Emperor but i could be wrong. That flashes thru that tech priests mind because the entitty is SCANNING his mind trying to figure out what organisms it is even encountering. And it derived that the Space Marines are all created at least partially by the augmented gene seeds of the primarchs passed down for over 10k years now. It was trying to understand it's enemy and why it was so strong I think. And it found it's answer in that little image of those ENORMOUS Primarchs. What happened in that scene was the Orb entity on the ship the Astartes boarded was being psychically communicated with by that Techpriest - it realized I THINK that the Orb entity that was on the ship the Astartes came from where the Tech priest was and that commanding officer was with the Cape draped over one side, was betraying it by being psychically connected to that Tech Priest ( likely how the Space Marines tracked that ship of heretics in the first place ). And it sent a psychic pulse that burst the organism inside out the bottom of it's Orb body or w/e. I THINK. I don't think the entities are ever actually named or have a history of lore in the 40k universe, although they resemble Umbra which are spherical creatures that can control shadows and have to be overwhelmed with bright lights positioned so that they have no shadows to turn into appendages that can rip and slice you open, they can use the shadows your own body casts on itself to tear you to pieces - BUT they didn't behave like Umbra. But the guts of an Umbra are basically just a goop much like what fell out of the one that burst open - i dont think they are that tho. We aren't sure EXACTLY where that Marine was warped to, but likely it's IN the warp given that it's got tons of giant humanoid skeletons, either that or it's some distant graveyard planet full of a dead species of giants. My bet would be that those things came from the warp as they had humans under their mind control fighting against Space Marines that any normal human wouldn't even try to engage like that because they know they'd just be destroyed. You only really see heretics under the influence of some form of Chaos entity do that. Although not always. Fun fact real quick: The smallest caliber round the Bolter Rifle's use the space marines carry is a .75 explosive tipped round. All bolters btw fire similar rounds you got a look at them as the psykers stopped them in mid air - notice the mini rockets on the back, that is to increase the speed and thus the damage of the round - they activate immediately after the rounds are discharged from the bolters. Those men were being sent to their deaths by psykers working for or being controlled by that entity most likely - or imprisoning it in that vault likely for some purpose of using it to help the construct more of their semi cybernetic kind, as they were weaving a giant one that was incomplete that we saw. A synthetic organism, sentient, but mostly synthetic it seems at first glance. hope that helps!

[@xxchaos315xx6]

That's an inquisitorial agent who is a psyker thats connected to the orb. He was killed because he became possessed by a daemon.

[@Nightwalk444]

Techpriest? That's Inquisitor logo tho.

[@reduande]

Good answer. Only the "techpriest" has an Inquisition logo and listens to the warp entities... they used a tech to seal the orb. But the "techpriest" should be a psyker from Inquisition.

[@Bondrewd_The_Based]

Kneeling guy is Inquisition, not Mechanicus

[@DekkarJr]

@@Bondrewd_The_Based oops my bad!

[@Putrefax]

If you listen very carefully when the Inquisitor (the priest in red) is eavesdropping on the big ball, you can hear the conversation. The big ball in the foreground, and the tiny one flashing in the distance like a star, shows that it's a conversation between the ball captive on the Space Marine ship and the ball on the ship getting raided by our bois. It's telling the unchained ball to get ready and that "YOU MUST TAKE THEM". Then the Inquisitor gets overtaken and possessed by the ball, and every Imperial soldier knows that the quickest way to stop a daemon bursting out of that poor dude's brain and killing them all is to fill his head with bullets first.

[@ijwolverine4934]

Historically games workshop is super protective over their property. They likely won't work with a studio unless they're given creative control. We don't want to get Star Wars-ed

[@jgkitarel]

This was independently made, by one person, and Games Workshop later gave the Astartes series its seal of approval from what I've heard. As well as providing the resources to get it done at a higher image quality that works well at high levels of HD resolutions, like 4k.

[@Gr33nOfGrundleburg]

​@@jgkitarelthey gave it their "seal of approval" by hiring the creator and ordering him to take down the video on his channel and upload it with some slight model and audio changes to their paid streaming service. The version you see most people react to and can find on KZbin is a re-upload by a fan who opposed GW's greedy corporate practices.

[@silentgrind34]

Did the original vary differently? Has he made any more movies like this?

[@srkares]

@@silentgrind34 one change i remember that was made (possibly even before GW took the project) is the shot of the plasma bolt hitting the multilaser. 5:11 in the original the scene was mirrored, which confused people,

[@kato1kalin]

"That's it! That's all we get?" Yup, you can thank gw for that. Well, there is the teaser that was thankfully leaked but that was years ago. 😢

[@SuperSteelyGlint]

Yes, thank GW for giving the guy a job and having him make official 40k films - Something that the fanbase all shouted for GW should do when Astartes first came out...

[@emil87th]

People rave about Syama's skill in doing this animation but I don't think people know just HOW fricken amazing it actually is. He didn't only create some of the best CGI shown in the last few years, his sound editing skills are on a master-class level as well. But where he reaaally shines is his cinematographical skills, I mean they are literally out of this world. Cinematographers in Hollywood aren't as good as he is. Every shot in this 13 minute long short-film is carefully selected to convey a story in and of itself. For example: when you want to show something to be powerful, you shoot the scene from down low, having the character tower over everything, making it larger than life itself. When the Space Marine is getting pummeled by the laser in the corridor is one example of this technique. It's also shot in a so called "Dutch Angle", the camera being skewed sideways, which conveys confusion or feelings of unreality. So the shot chosen for that scene is literally: "The Astartes is so incredibly powerful that you can't believe your eyes". If he made a full length movie he could easily win an Oscar for his cinematography.

[@Aiveq]

subtlety is amazing in this. SM walking in corridor with tiny humans squeezing through to showcase comparison in size. during ambush corridor bolter sounded almost same as cannon to showcase how powerful smaller gun is. during sprint camera not catching up to showcase speed of SM. i miss this in hollywood...

[@Enochulator]

objectively, this is not "some of the best cgi shown in the last few years". but for a solo project, it's fantastic. but yeah, i agree, his camera work, cinematography, they're great. the remastered version of astartes, which sadly, includes edits to the action, timing, and cameras, is kinda lame in comparsion. very conservative use of lens selections, etc. hope to see some quality dp work from him in the future

[@emil87th]

@@Enochulator Cool, can you give examples of better CGI? I'd love to watch something that's better than this. Thx.

[@Enochulator]

@ literally any movie. You’re confusing “I like this” with “objective quality”

[@emil87th]

@@Enochulator Wow, what an arrogant answer. Thanks for showing me who you are and to not pay any heed to your opinion.

[@robg1151]

What is so great about this is that you don’t have to know anything about 40k or even understand what you are watching. But you know you are watching something that is cool AF!

[@arthurwdavis]

I love to point this out when people react to this. At the end with the thrones and the drums start. If you watch the pillars there are flashes as the rest of the team is teleported to their own pillar. Given the size of a marine and how far away they are the valley floor is like 5 miles wide, the thrones are 500+ feet tall.

[@unclefungus2011]

0:09 - Have you taken Shaq's Acting Class. That face reminded me so much of when he did "Hot Ones" 🤣🥵

[@srkares]

people already went in the specifics of space marine armor, but to put it more simply: standard space marine armor is equivalent to that of a light tank. so yeah, fairly unaffected by small arms fire. there are even stronger variants of it, which are the equivalent of an MBT... or more, they make the person inside basically invincible... if it werent for the fact that so many weapons in the 40k universe are absurdly powerful. 5:48 also if you didnt know by now, the bolt guns in 40k shoot miniature rocket-propelled grenades, that are meant to explode inside a target, highly effective against flesh and light armor. 8:45 in some space marine chapters, the higher ranking marines have different helmet colors and other markings, to be more easily identifiable (helps on the tabletop too). the beaky helmet of the guy in the back also implies hes an old veteran, as that armor pattern isnt standard anymore and hasnt been for a long time (though the Rave Guard still often use a similar design). "where is this guy" as others already said, no one knows. see, one of the "neat" things about 40k is that it also dips its toes into cosmic horror and body horror at times. my personal thinking is that those orbs were remnants of some unknown alien race and he dragged the marines to its home planet... somewhere. because, as bricky said, "this rifle killed 99% of the alien populations", the implications of that being that there are alien populations out there who too tough and strong, it being too costly to defeat them, or simply live in relative hiding. one example is a race that could shoot some form of bio-lasers that went through marine armor like a hot knife through butter. also amazon is creating 2 warhammer 40k shows currently, one animated one and a liveaction one (pretty sure) directed by Henry Cavill, who is a huge 40k fan. there are rumors that things arent going well because of creative differences, but they are just utterly unsubstantiated rumors. also, hey, not all shows on streaming services are crap. Invincible is pretty good (though season 2 took a while to get interesting), as is Arcane.

[@bhseigel]

"Ceramite" is a type of Ceramic that is both heat and shock resistant, essentially take the hardest multi-layered Ceramic-metallic synthetic armor from an Abrams and add in the Heat resistance of the Space Shuttle's lower hull. Thats what Power Armor is made out of.

[@TheRedBrethren]

dont forget the adamantium and plasteel

[@GKinslayer]

Also, SM armor can tank man-portable lasers like rain.

[@Calaban619]

While most of what happens is his own internal lore... Thats the fun of it, we get to interpret it all. I Like the part when they were in the Void, something, some warp entity, grabbed them all, and in the moment it was revealed, something BLASTED it. I keep hearing in my head "The Emperor Protects" when watching it.

[@AllramYT]

There is a subtitled version of the conversation between the 2 orbs :) Great reaction video !

[@Capng123]

Different Marine chapters use different methods but, generally speaking, robes, capes and other such embellishments indicate higher ranks. Often combined with (as shown here) different colours on certain parts of the power armour, usually the helmet. In this case the I think we're looking at a commander (in the cape) and a veteran captain (in the beak-y helmet). The place the marines are transported to at the end is most likely a daemon world. These are planets that have been drawn from the real universe into the warp and become corrupted and mutated as a result (like living things) resulting in the nightmarish landscape we see. Sadly, there is no follow up media, although the creator was hired by GW to do official stuff. It's one hell of a resume!

[@ytdeygin]

Awesome you're down with this, dont forget the dudes with 50 cal lookin drum mags hiding in the wall shooting the Marines feet, and all the other dudes that ran at them before and after... those are basic chaos turned soldiers, the setting is wild.

[@Goomberdups]

guy just gooned his jimmys

[@TheRealSoldatmesteren]

16:25 we don't don't know where it is, but I'm pretty sure it's called Zdzislaw Beksinski land :)

[@RenanARodrigues]

There is a teaser of what is supposed to be Astartes 2 before the creator was hired (Gold Handcuffs) by GW, and it is still possible to find it on KZbin, it is 17 seconds long

[@Dem0n1c_S0ld1er]

He is in the realm of chaos

[@MeelogMalterion]

Space Marine Armour is Made of similar stuff to the imperiums armoured vehicles a material called "Ceramite" its super durable and non conductive so its extremely resistant to heat, oh and supposedly pretty lightweight aswell, If I remember correctly anyway.

[@quecksilber457]

It is not really sure where he is. My guess is, that is some kind of pocket dimension, maybe connected to the warp. Like the City of Dust or the pocket dimension from Eisenhorn: The Magos. The Eisenhorn series (novels and audio books) is really awesome.

[@senestrandentremonde2113]

The four other members of the squad had been warped to the same place. If you look carefully after the Astartes stands up, you can see four flashes at the top of some of the pillars far in front of him.

[@Jesus_Christ_For_Real]

Fun fact: after this series became famous for being of such high quality made by 1 person, Games Workshop (the owners of warhammer 40k) offered him the chance to make more content for them officially, before taking ownership of astartes and wiping it off of every platform and forbidding the creator from even being able to claim ownership of it and if that doesn't show you what kind of a company GW is idk what will

[@lordmortarius538]

They've always been like this, just like Nintendo: rabidly overprotective of their IP to the point where they will (and have) sued fans and ruined their lives for daring to enjoy their product and being creative.

[@SuperSteelyGlint]

Apart from giving him a job, that's not true. We get it, you have a hate-boner for GW but there's no need to lie.

[@Jesus_Christ_For_Real]

@SuperSteelyGlint sorry, I forgot to mention that the only place you can find it officially is on warhammer+, the streaming service GW runs. And I know that the creator cant claim ownership, because his LinkedIn profile links to a copy posted by another unrelated person while the youtube channel dedicated to Astartes remains empty.

[@Jesus_Christ_For_Real]

@SuperSteelyGlint you're right, I didn't mention the fact that the only places you can find it now are warhammer+, GW's streaming service, or an unofficial release on youtube, the latter of which syama pederson links to on his LinkedIn profile. But considering the upcoming release of Secret Level, and the fact that Pederson is currently working at blur (the animation studio behind it), we might actually see more work from him in the near future. Guess I'm just pessimistic when my favourite creators seem to get locked in a room to work on nothing when they make something cool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Higgs666]

You have to watch the cinematic trailer for The Horus Heresy. It's very short, and it takes place 10,000 years before 40k's current timeline, but it's absolutely sick. The Horus Heresy was mankind's civil war where half of the primarchs (the emperor's sons) turned on him and joined chaos. The resulting war almost wiped out mankind, and 10,000 years later, the consequences are still being suffered.

Retributors have official Lore in W40K Games Workshop just adopted them and guy who made this animation now work with them.

[@flu1dz]

Please do Factions #2! And I know you did Bricky's 40k timeline, however Weshammer has, what I personally believe, to be a slightly better 40k timeline than the Bricky one. Bricky mentions a few things that are more memes than actual truth, and Bricky skips a few fairly key parts of the 40k timeline whereas Weshammer hits a few more areas folks should know. Again, I love Bricky's videos! They're amazing! I just always recommend hitting Weshammers timeline video because it is pretty good (not perfect. Perfect would be Luetin09, but I recommend watching the other 2 videos I mentioned first before getting into the Luetin09 rabbit hole, which is deep. He has an entire playlist on his channel dedicated to the lore of Warhammer in order, and is some of the most lore accurate 40k content you can find.) I recommend the Weshammer timeline video though, even if you only plan to watch it yourself and not record it.. it'll definitely help answer a few more questions you may not even know you have yet

[@psyclonis5150]

Welcome to a kick ass universe

[@ryanhampson673]

After watching Astartes a bunch of times I have a theory. When they are taken inside the sphere something destroys the demon holding them. I’m wondering if this was the emperor in the warp and then maybe he’s transported to the emperors “realm” inside the immaterium hence the huge skeletons on thrones.

[@DekkarJr]

I also love that bit of foreshadowing in the beginning where the Space Marine is blessing and consecrating his weapon with holy beads and incense. Indicating that this detachment of Astartes is likely going up against an enemy with supernatural possibly Warp/Chaos born abilities. Most people don't catch that but YOU did MY MAN. One of the best reactors in the biz

[@cerisambrook7692]

The Omnissiah requires you to consecrate all your equipment wherever and whenever you plan to use it.

[@DekkarJr]

@@cerisambrook7692 "Cool beans." - Titus, probly

[@AllramYT]

Warrior Tier - Iron Within, Iron Without :D is some of the best fan made content for 40k xD

[@luketinsley4289]

Its difficult but simple to explain. Spacemarines born live die are if lucky reborn if they die in the emperors will. They get better armour for doing good deeds. The ones you need respect or the ones in the older mark armours. They have served far longer and havent been been rewarded.

[@Enochulator]

it's refreshing to see the original version. the redo is definitely waaaaay higher res and quality, but to see the aesthetic excellence of the original solo project is quite inspiring.

[@Drakon345]

They are supposed to do a Horus Heresy Animated Series. It was announced Years back, Trailer Dropped but nothing since.

[@BigTgeekandgaming1997]

Please do more reactions to every warhammer 40k faction from bricky and every warhammer 40k space marine legion by bricky hell help you under it more

[@kazkorianor]

I would suggest Reaktion to the* dawn of war* 1-3 game trailers

[@refurbishedtechpriest9076]

12:52 Ya know, when you first remarked that the dude's possessed when he shot straight up the way he did... Well, you weren't wrong. That hooded figure was a psyker (Basically space-wizards) in the service of the Inquisition, and when he broke his concentration to issue that recall-order the orb in that room possessed him. I know you'll learn more of this as you delve down the WH40K rabbit-hole, so I'll brief; basically a psyker being possessed is a VERY bad thing. At the very least, the psyker becomes a puppet for the entity possessing them; at worst, the psyker can become either a daemon-host or be torn apart to create a warp-rift that daemons and other malicious entities can use to enter reality. And honestly, as far as worst-case scenarios go, I'm not entirely sure which one is worse... Yeah, that's how bad daemon-hosts can be Honestly, those two space marines made the right call and that's pretty much standard-procedure if your psyker looks like they're being possessed: Kill with extreme prejudice and leave nothing for the entity to possess.

[@Hastur805]

Check out Luetin. He is the great black library. Also check out Hammer and Bolter.

[@JPruinc]

Space marine armor is usually made of Ceramite.

[@luketinsley4289]

Like him hes in a older mark 7 and has served 300 yeares old as a marine.

[@martinhenry7362]

May I recommend "Death of Hope" by Mark Louis Spark, another OMG one guy made this animation, set at the time of The Horus Heresy, it's jaw dropping and please stay for the end credits 🙂

[@KingNicotine]

At 12:41...what you witnessed was an exorcism.

[@Enochulator]

literally every camera decision is better in this version, too. would have been nice to upres all the assets, plus the animation, redo all the effects, but keep the cameras

[@biffglotzt2327]

❤

[@rohanroos1495]

“They’re not flinching or anything” …would you flinch from a mosquito bite? Astartes are huge superhumans….no, they don’t flinch from small fries

[@TheBroGamer14082]

Dude I highly recommend Isyander and Koda as well as Laying Down The Lore: 40K

[@strangeanimal89]

40k please :D

[@thesarcasticcatfish5215]

Their armour is Ceramite, a ceramic-titanium alloy that is impossible with our current scientific knowledge. Closest thing would be the ceramic armour on tanks.

[@innocuousalias6632]

This is very expressionist with almost no dialogue. There are enough pieces to put together but since it doesn't give it to you interpretations could be off. With that disclaimer out of the way: The orbs were some kind of time capsules containing an ancient, almost extinct, alien race. These ancient aliens were mind controlling humans to build them new bodies so they can get out of those orbs. Those rows of golden skulls and spines seemed to be a way of granting psyker abilities to their human minions. Basically they could make a lot more than the two that were guarding the vault. Then there was that incomplete golden statue would have been a vessel for an alien to transfer into from the orb. While the astartes were sent in to put down the cult and destroy the orb there was another orb already captured. The two orbs talked to each other but you really have to listen since their words are broken up and distorted. They agreed they couldn't mind control the astartes so they decided to attack even though they knew it would mean their destruction. When the astartes was pulled into the warp he ended up on the ancient aliens home world which was pretty much dead. The guy who made this mini series would have made more but I don't know if he was going to continue this story or tell a different one.

[@brykuss5191]

If people on the internet are to be trusted, the guy who made this short series was hired by Games Workshop to work on official 40k content. Its possible that Astartes 2 will be offcial lore.

[@mattdrahos2662]

He was "hired", but the whole enchilada is tainted by threats and IP infringement... He was coerced and GW hasn't produced anything even close to this level.

[@sergioleigue4033]

When you're ready for deeper lore, check out Luetin

[@Musabre]

Funny thing about that laser is it could easily have killed him if they got some VERY lucky hits, like through the eye lense or such, it's more than powerful enough, but they just had the 'spray an area' variant which as you saw, just sorta peppered his armour all over and wasn't remotely on target 😆. if these heretics had at least one plasma gun of any kind, or a heavy laser (like a lascannon) this would be a totally different story!

astartes armor can only withstand short-term laser cannon fire and the terminator armor would withstand the fire easily

[@Musabre]

I know that, which is exactly what happens in Astartes. He takes at most a second or so of direct hits, barely enough to beat the odds and score a lucky hit or compromised his armour through repeated impacts. A lascannon hit however would more than likely have knocked him out. And terminators can only hope to withstand a few such hits , if that..., before being in danger. Those heretics were hopelessly ill-equipped for this lol.

[@srkares]

whats used in this short is a multilaser, the gun usually found on chimeras. they are decently strong, but have no armor penetration, so yeah, only a lucky hit would've gone through. lascannons are anti-vehicle and as such can even kill termis.

[@godlynico69]

Hey you gotta play dawn of war. Thr first one. And the expansions. You'll love it. Promise. 💪🏼 especially if you like the old school warcraft games. Not wow.

[@Phantomgreen29]

This looks like the GW version with different music than the original, which I consider to be even more hype than this. There are many good 40k videos to watch that show different parts and speeds of the world: Death of Hope trailers and Death of Hope, Death Korps of Krieg, The Lord Inquisitor, Guardsman, The Fortress Monastery, Sins of a Death World, Siege of VRAKS, VRAKS Chapter 1, The Horus Heresy trailer, The Armouring of a Space Marine, Scorch Part 1. Long videos that are movies/mini-movies is The Last Church, Helsreach, The Awakening. I'd watch the shorter movies above and some lore videos before diving into the 1-2 hours you'd need for each of those but they're very worth it. Great reaction, seeing people lose their shit over 40k is always great.

[@sotbs2641]

These are the original shorts, cut together. The music is different in the GW version because Oedersen used some copyrighted tracks in the original score. I heard a bit of Dredd at the start for example

[@firecat4529]

I think there's another fan made Warhammer 40K video out there, with good animation. Sadly I forgot the title.

[@mitch7235]

There’s a number of great videos 😂! There’s the Awakening, Scorch, and the reposted Sodaz videos!

[@CptGummy]

Hellsreach

[@BigRed677]

Henry Cavill is attempting to get a 40k (and a AoS I think) show off the ground but Amazon is trying to infringe on the source material, and that’s what is keeping the project grounded. It makes no sense regardless because they are mad about female representation and then when shown the Sisters of Battle & Sisters of Silence (who are BAD@$$) they just don’t like them. I just don’t get why they don’t just homebrew a new faction; happens all the time in Warhammer. Like this, everyone loves it so GW canonized the Retributers chapter in this video.

[@srkares]

that is a completely unsubstantiated rumor. dont believe everything the internet tells you.

[@ShinobiGrim]

This is what happens when decide to just look at 40k. You think "let's see why they like it so much" and now you will likely never return to ignorance.

[@DrClef_1]

50K? 💀

[@alittlecreepywhenyou]

Yo, you do realise that Henry Cavill was set to lead/and also act in this project but some game breaking DEI shit happened. Right?

[@srkares]

completely unconfirmed and unsubstantiated.

[@DarthPaddius]

If you really want a decent lore experience with 40K then I would recommend you stay away from Bricky, he only creates more questions than answers. You are better off with Luetin09 and Baldemort. There is also another good fan made you might like to check out, it's about 50mins long called Awakening. Sodaz vids aren't bad if you can find them as well.

[@russzolti6825]

Or Arbitor Ian

[@srkares]

i cant talk about baldemort*, but luetin is awful for complete newcomers. while hes usually accurate, he also waffles on to the point he keeps repeating points with different wordings, which results in all his videos being so long. also his recent 40k primer for people coming from SM2 was frankly not good. luetin is great once you are actually committed to the universe. *unless baldemort is the guy who mixes lore with fan theories and fan fiction, in which case hes also not a good choice for newcomers. much easier to listen to than luetin tho.

[@BillWD]

Whilst their armour is great, Astartes could walk into that scenario butt naked and not be scared. Through their training, body alterations, faith and hate they are fearless. It's a shame that on the table top they suck and are really easy to kill.

[@MrJameslupien]

GAMESworkshop will whore out the franchise for shitty video games all day everyday. . its one of their favorite things to do. But they are super stingy when it comes to the IP being portrayed in movies and such. Been into 40k for 20 soemthing years. For every good video game there are 10 dog shit ones.

[@robg1151]

I don’t collect figures or play table top but I have spent hundreds of hours playing Dawn of War Dark Crusade, easy in my top 5 fav games of all time. In fact I think I might just go play it again soon, it’s been a few years 🙂

[@lordmortarius538]

They aren't called His Angels (of Death) for nothing :P