If you have five minutes and an interest in seeing Warhammer40K Space Marines the way they should be shown:
And this is the best five minutes of Space Marine.
Needs more Cataphractii
I had no idea that Warhammer 40K fanfic extended to video content! If they upload this stuff to pornhub I might end up watching this stuff on a regular basis.
Seriously though, those Space Marines look very agile in those Astrates videos. I always thought they lumbered along like some kind of tank-person? I guess the pencil-sketched art work I used to pore over as a youth never really showed Marines moving. They were mostly stationary atop mountains of corpses
The video is being really good. The author is very talented, not only in the visuals he is doing, but beyond that, in camera work, flow, composition, even in the custom designs (the psykers with masks of the last part are their own creation)
Au contraire, Marines are FAST.
Transhuman dread. Aximand had heard iterators talk of the condition. He’d heard descriptions of it from regular Army officers too. The sight of an Adeptus Astartes was one thing: taller and broader than a man could ever be, armoured like a demigod. The singularity of purpose was self-evident. An Adeptus Astartes was designed to fight and kill anything that didn’t annihilate it first. If you saw an Adeptus Astartes, you knew you were in trouble. The appearance alone cowed you with fear.
But to see one move. Apparently that was the real thing. Nothing human-shaped should be so fast, so lithe, so powerful, especially not anything in excess of two metres tall and carrying more armour than four normal men could lift. The sight of an Adeptus Astartes was one thing, but the moving fact of one was quite another. The psychologists called it transhuman dread. It froze a man, stuck him to the ground, caused his mind to lock up, made him lose control of bladder and bowel. Something huge and warlike gave pause: something huge and warlike and moving with the speed of a striking snake, that was when you knew that gods moved amongst men, and that there existed a scale of strength and speed beyond anything mortal, and that you were about to die and, if you were really lucky, there might be just enough time to piss yourself first.
From Age of Darkness, one of the HH anthologies.
Combat between Marines is often described as a blur, and Marines are known to cut/deflect shots out of the air.
Terminators are slower. Walking tanks. The Cataphractii I mentioned in the Death of Hope video are good examples. HH era ultra heavy terminators with built in energy shields. A handful of relic suits remain in 40k
I wan’t nerdy enough to ever actually read the fluff ;)
Nice to know I was completely wrong about the Marines though. (It also makes me wonder how fast the Genestealers are)
More Death of Hope
But the project won’t continue due to hardware limitations.
Part 1 of Death of Hope is up and its an absolute cracker. Easily en par with Astartes.
Why can’t GW produce anything like this?
There’s so many nice touches and detail for fans of 30k/40k
The final part of the Astartes five part film came out today.
It’s very well done and I enjoyed it, but I have no idea what the heck is going on.
I think it was a PSA about the danger of magnets.
Yeah, that plus maybe joining the Inquisition isn’t as much fun as I thought.
The guy that created this has been hired to make official videos for Warhammer.
Here’s his next project:
GREAT, now the videos are behind paywalls knowing GW. GW being GW.
On the other hand, some one is getting paid for doing something they love, so let’s celebrate that instead.