Yeah that roll was crazy fast. Like I read how fast they are but to actually see it and not done stylistically where it would be as if a human was looking was sweet
@@ironduke5058 which is crazy when you think that regular humans have to fight them. Let alone xenos who move just as fast or faster or can calculate movement, but like regular humans have to fight them.
@@Pyreif i remember it correctly, that's the promethian cult. Through war and sacrifice, you make yourself better to fight and save those you love. It's basically the core of the Salamander and successors ideology.
I absolutely love how the destroyer is depicted. He isn't going down easy. Centuries of twisted modification have made a brutal killing machine that a space marine would definitely have trouble taking down alone. Love it.
@@Thalarantheysept he's supposed to just be a regular space marine they want their cake and eat it to by having super strong villains but also have the crumble at the the sight of a propper noun
@@theironqueen2386 Named characters man, an unaugmented human can hold his own against a khronate berserker (Ciaphas cain), a named space marine can *barely* survive a destroyer who seems to be of the not thinking so much variety with help.
@@agentc7020 yeah the classic the terrifying final boss is defeated when their brain is turned off and they stare at the mc while they monologue at them
@GameLover45408 that's why I like them they are noble but also ruthless machines. They paint art and such but on the field they are crazy. I love it. I like how they are kinda mean also they used to be the bloody 9th before sanguinius but now look at em and Dante is cool
@@jackreacher969 there is no game that specifically lets you play as Salamanders, however you can use their colour scheme in the Dawn of War games' skirmish modes.
If you understand the lore behind Necron Destroyers, the symbolism here is very apparent. The enbodiment of protection, hope, selflessness and stoicism verses the embodiment of murder, hate, selfishness and nihilism. One is alive and protects life, the other is dead and coverts death.
I guess there is not much else besides hate for the destroyers. As far as i understood the lore they are not much different from the non sentient soldiers of the lowest rank, their single minded pursuit of destruction has not left much else.
@@ABW941depends on the individual Destroyer, and what they were before they become a destroyer. When higher ranking Necrons become destroyers they tend to keep a little bit of their old personality. Many Destroyers can talk and hold an argument, but the only things they'll even bother talking to are other Necrons, and those conversations are almost always about killing things.
It's also interesting considering the implications of them and their upbringing. Both could technically be considered beings that were crafted for the specific purpose of war, not born but the Salamander more than any other chapter still has their links to the past. Destroyers have no kinship with other Necrons beyond their ability to combine efforts to eradicate all life faster and view even other Destroyers who fall with relish as they were failures, unworthy to complete their task. But yes, their lords often can converse if they want to but probably wouldn't converse with Space Marines anymore than you or I would make conversation with a snake.
In The Infinite and the Divine, Trazyn talks to a Destroyer Lord and asks him to stop his troops destruction of planet Cepharil/Serenade. Trazyn comes to talk with the head of one of the Lord's troop of Destroyer to which the Lord just says: "He did is part in the extinction of life on this world. And it also applies to us. When every living being in the galaxy will be dead, we shall too." The Infinite and the Divine is really a gold mine of Necron lore.
I really love how the moment Sister Danica heard the explosion, visor on, and off to battle she goes. No shock, no delay. Just the instant trained reaction of a trained soldier.
Hyperphase swords are not made of energy. The blade is made of solid metal that rapidly phase shifts and thus amplifies the cutting power by rematerialising inside the target. That arguably makes them worse at parrying projectiles as a lucky bullet could fly straight through while the blade is shifted.
@@failedexperiment9073They can freely controll when and which dimension the blade is shifting. They can also input extra energy from their core to the blade, making them basically a pure Energy Blade :v
It's a cool reference to the stratagem they had on tabletop where they could block incoming ranged attacks with their blades to give opponents -1 to wound against them.
What I appreciate most about this series (other than Salamanders finally getting respect) is that the Necrons aren’t just mooks to get bodied, they’re a genuine threat 1v1 even for a space marine. The Deathmark dang near got Sa’kan the first time around, and the Skorpekhs are shown to have done most of the legwork (pun not intended, but claimed regardless) in actually killing most of the last defenders. Nice to see the bad guy being more than just bodies for the heroes to work through.
@JoKeRakaAlessandro To be fair that city is straight-up gone, and Szeras seems fairly sure he got what he wanted out of the arrangement, albeit with a few irritants.
I really hope sa’kan can survives at the end of this show. However maybe a death with honour is what a space marine wants most. There’s nothing but endless war waiting for him if he survived from this.
@@John_LU they usually keep serving until they die or get put into a dreadnaught. But for the Salamanders they get to see their families at the very least, to remind them that what they're doing is not only for the Emperor but for its people as well
@@John_LUthey don't get discharged, it's more like shore leave. Ships from planet based chapters will head back home every once in a while to repair, rearm and replenish the ranks if possible. Most space marines spend that time on isolation inside their fortresses, some are much more open and are allowed to interact with regular humans, Salamanders among them.
This little movie is by far the best show Warhammer TV ever made. It’s at the same time faithful to the lore enough and hell entertaining to watch. Huge “Astartes” vibes as well. 10/10.
@@smolpp585tbf, I read ultramarines was a passion project on a shoestring budget. It’s equivalent to those early 3d render demos of your favourite things when cgi was more accessible, problem was it came out 2010. Best thing about it was the Voice acting
People think space marines aren’t all that dangerous because they’re slow juggernauts Boi that juggernaut has the speed of anime characters, it’s absurd how fast they are
As long as it's fast, and not "sprinting faster than a bullet train" or "so fast the human eye can't follow" fanfic I've seen.. That crosses over from cool to stupid.
40k Lore: "Due to the high gravity of their homeworld of Nocturne, Salamanders have slower reaction times than other warriors of the Adeptus Astartes." Sa'kan: "...and I took that personally."
If anything a high gravity world should make Salamanders SUPER FAST. It'd be like living your life with a lead suit on, running, exercising, doing your day, like its totes normal. Then you take the suit off. You're not used to such effortless movement. You're a blur. Its the Goku training move.
Sa'Kan like all Salamanders are still Space Marines, they have inhuman reaction speed. And thus baseline humans would still experience transhuman dread from all their physical capabilities.
...annddd this shows GW knows jackshit when it comes to science. If they come from a higher gravity planet they would be IMMENSELY strong and fast in lower gravity enviorments 😂😂
I love how they portrayed the Necrons as terrifying as they are in the lore. Having normal humans in this episode was great too, as it serves as a comparison to how powerful Space Marines and the Necrons actually are. I hope there'll be more animations like this. Because this sh1t is the coolest.
Aye, the Necrons' technology is impossibly advanced compared to every other faction in Warhammer, even the Eldar and the Tau. They are a good contender for "most OP faction" in a setting where every faction is OP. Their tech level is that of a Type 2 civilization on the Kardashev scale. Even Space Marines would struggle to defeat them, it wouldn't be an easy win.
@@ennui9745 Yeah, they are kinda too OP though. Especially the Celestial Orrey. "oh look at this planet, oops it's gone now." It's like a remote exterminatus only more powerful.
@@InnerAtmos Wow, that's basically the galaxy-wide ability to affect reality (or at the least to observe reality). The closest thing to that I can think of is the "Manus Dei" (Hand of God) used by the most powerful AI Gods in the Orion's Arm setting. It's basically reality warping, and would appear as magic to any lesser minds. (It's probably done by affecting the universe's structure on the subatomic level.)
Baseline necron infantry is slow and dumb, and needs to be commanded. Also most of them are sleeping, and can never muster full strength. I supposed that is how they are balanced. Even basic necrons have gauss rifles, which are deadly.
"This galaxy is ours, your Empire had it's chance" As badass as that line is, the Necrons don't care for platitudes. It'd probably just ramble about how that doesn't make logical sense.
Our green boi ain't wrong though, they chose to sleep after they pretty much bodied the Gods. They should have set an alarm clock before humanity even reached space.
@@MrLense that would be stupid lol, apart from the fact that they woke up thanks to the mechanicus, is easier to defeat the current human Empire that the former eldar Empire.
@@MrLense He is most certainly wrong. The Necrons fought enemies 1,000X stronger than IoM. They’re struggling this much against the Necrons when over 90% of their tomb worlds are still inactive.
@@halfknight2310 on the contrary their effectiveness is what keeps destroyers from being shunned too hard from necron society... they are kept away from proper necron society more because they are insane, of fear said insanity could be contagious, and because they tend to throw their orders in a trash can the second they see something to kill.
So for anyone keeping count, that's 1 of 2 hearts stopped, 1 of 3 lungs collapsed, 1 arm chopped off, a massive concussion, blood loss, *and a partridge in a pear tree*.
0:34 I like that Sa'kan for a split second was like a concerned older brother who lost his kid sister. "Damn it, I took my eyes off her for one second, and she's gone!!"
@@y.kazayaki3681Was gonna say, getting the illustration of how resorting to psychological conditioning phrases helps you keep going was a great touch.
It's a small detail, but I do like that the Destroyer despite being able to reliably block the shots still made it's approach in a zig-zag to make a harder target. Even if it was a target the size of a van.
@@sosomadman You mean the setting that spans 40,000 years, across a million worlds, with thousands of important characters? Sure, let’s just progress that, you just have to write a page of story each for potentially a hundred thousand events and places. Better start writing now.
@@PerditioTempus2591 There is a way, but you have to do the same thing that some people off the coast of Somalia do. Although i haven't found this episode anywhere yet.
The way that Sa'kan kills the destroyer, specifically the way we see it die from its perspective with the green overlay, is I think a reference to the opening cutscene of Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. In the opening cutscene, we see from a Blood Raven's perspective as a necron lord impales them on his spear and kills them, complete with targeting HUD and all. Both things, the HUD, and the actual method of killing, are extremely similar in these two clips. Really cool if it is an intentional callback.
If he was facing that Skorpekh alone, there's a high chance he would be killed instantly. Those things are really dangerous on tabletop from what I heard from a friend, as much as they are in this show.
Skorpekhs, especially the ones similar to one shown (one large blade as opposed to two smaller ones) are brutal. Enough damage to tear through terminators with relative ease.
I think they were deadlier in the previous edition, where one in each group of 3 was armed with a Hyperphase Reapblade(pretty much the exact blade the one in the vid was using) and it had heavy enough stats to seriously threaten a tank. And you usually run them in groups of 6, so you had two of these in each unit. They will still shred most units they come in contact with, but some tougher ones like Terminators will probably be able to fend them off.
This shows how resilient and hard a space marine is too kill. Even with one of his hearts stopped and a collapsed lung he still keeps going. Losing a hand doesn't even make him flinch or hesitate for a second. It's not just how deadly they are that makes them such amazing warriors it's only half of what does along with their extreme will to live and continue fighting even in a situation where death is the only outcome they still keep going.
I just came to the part in 'The Infinite and the Divine' where a few dozen Destroyers are unleashed on an Exodite world by Orikan, and later met by Trazyn after spending millennia systematically exterminating life on the world, island by island, down to the microbial level--even other Necron fear these things, treating them like rabid, tainted abominations.
These animations are amazingly lore accurate, but they lack the detail of damaged Necrons just teleporting away or self destructing if they're beyond repair.
@@randomdude8202 Maybe my lore knowledge is outdated, but as far as I know it's a built in feature. Even if the Lord doesn't want them teleporting back for repairs, they should still self destruct. I'm pretty sure part of the necron lore is that no one ever got to examine an intact necron because they always self destruct. Necrons are very careful about not sharing their technology with lesser species
This is just incredible. I am a Necrons player and this is done with such good taste. Horrifying, intense, desperate - the list of words can go on. The Salamander and his warcry, omg the shivers! This legion has quickly grown on me now thanks to this single marine. Masterpiece all round 10/10
2:02 I love the detail here. Didn't think anyone could beat "Astartes" Laruman Organ but I think they nailed it here. See how the blood almost looks like wax? Barely touching the ground and already solidified, if you look closer you can even see it going from glossy to matte quality in just a second.
Whoever they have working on these are the goat. GW need to stop getting in their own way in order to really expand the fandom. Stop going after the fans for making fan stuff and we could get more like this.
Not shown here, but they also have a nasty habit of automatically teleporting their destroyed bodies back to their base of operations where they can be repaired and sent out to fight once more. It is NOTORIOUSLY difficult to properly “kill” a Necron once and for all.
Back in like idk 2001 or some time around then , me and some friends got into Warhammer 40k table top for a bit. To see this I'm absolutely stunned at the level of detail and effort put into the story. I hope the true fans are as impressed as I am.
Not all tears should be born of sorrow & lamentation. The light that shone in the darkness all those long millenium ago still shines on, it shines on in you sister, and in the souls of each and every man & woman who struggle in a thousand different ways both great and small to make this dark galaxy a brighter more prosperous place for mankind
"Your Empire had its chance." Incredibly epic, but also not what I expected to hear. Most Imperials would not even conceive of xenos having any kind of claim to the galaxy, so there has to be some amount of respect there. It's a shame this battle wis with the Illuminor's forces, I would have loved to see Sa'kan interact with Zahndrekh.
Didn't the Necrons rule the universe and they took a dirt nap because there was nothing left to do? They defeated their foes and their gods, then went into powersave mode right? If so, its pretty much valid that the galaxy is theirs. Unless he meant chance, as in, they had a chance to rule, but chose to sleep and thus negate their chance and claim? I'm gonna need a necron paralegal to look at some fine print on the Title for the galaxy, lol
@@stormtempterf8058 No. They did take out the Old Ones and the C'Tan, but in doing so were too weakened and depleted to challenge the Eldars and the Krorks, so they went into stasis, to wait until both had fallen. The Infinite Empire of the necron was vast, but far from all encompassing, even at it's Zenith (as highlighted by the fact that they had to hijack the webway with Dolmen Gates to beat the Old Ones).
Gotcha, a wait them out and arise when they're dust strategy. If I remember the bits of lore correctly, they never learned warp travel and had to travel mostly by long time stasis as well, which would hamper a galactic empire. And another bit I seem to remember was that their stasis tech wasn't always up to code, which would explain the poor state of them whenever they're discovered - before they've repaired and polished those carapaces, lol. They are memory fragments though, so I am quite possibly wrong in my reckoning.
@@stormtempterf8058 That's...not exactly the case. They did start off with STL travel, like humanity did, but never reached for Warp Travel because there's a genuine possibility that wasn't possible when it was the Sea of Souls. What they did make was the Reactionless Drive, a realspace propulsion system that (somehow) breaks the lightspeed barrier. It's not amazingly quick, it can take decades to cross the galaxy, but then...so does the Warp Drive. As for their stasis, it's actually REALLY good. It just wasn't made to work for tens of millions of years. The dynasty that actually went and made contingencies for that (mainly because they had a lot of crypteks in their leadership) suffered much less from the Great Sleep.
I honestly hope to see other guard regiments get some love, Cadian, Catachan and Krieg have become the guard equivalent to Ultramarines, Space Wolves and Imperial fists in my eyes. Just want to let the Vitrian Dragoons or other, more esoteric regiments have some love shown, compared to the generic three.
“Your empire had its chance.”
The most polite xeno hating space marine I’ve ever seen.
Coolest possible line.
I mean he IS a Salamander
How the fuck does he know about all that shit. Inquisitor this one.
That's Salamanders for ya. 💚
@@asianbandit4054 inuniverse every one knows or atleast space marinea and IG that necrons are old race, the eldar been telling everyone about it
Love how they nailed down the Astartes' speed. That grenade+roll combo was fantastic.
Yeah that roll was crazy fast. Like I read how fast they are but to actually see it and not done stylistically where it would be as if a human was looking was sweet
Yeah it was so unexpected. He moved as the blade fell, but was gone before it hit the ground. It caught me so off guard I literally went "yooo!!" lol
@@ironduke5058 which is crazy when you think that regular humans have to fight them. Let alone xenos who move just as fast or faster or can calculate movement, but like regular humans have to fight them.
That's where transhuman dread comes in. The fear doesn't come from fighting something so big, it's the of something so big that shouldn't be@@jkee9760
not quick enouth thow
I almost expected that Skorpekh to reply with "No, this galaxy...is theirs..." and point to the sky revealing a whole tyranid hive fleet. lmao
ngl that would had been a fucken great reference to DOW2
Some Dawn of War 2 Vibes right there XD
LOL
You lose this war before it started,, fool
hell even how the destroyer dies reminds me of Dark Crusade's intro
"Into the fires of battle, onto the anvil of WAR."
That sudden shift from kindly giant to engine of battle, complete with vocal change.
@@Pyreif i remember it correctly, that's the promethian cult. Through war and sacrifice, you make yourself better to fight and save those you love. It's basically the core of the Salamander and successors ideology.
holy FUCK!!! chills!!
When he said the first part of the war cry I immediately yelled "he's gonna say the thing, he's gonna say thing!!!" The chills bro...
"Iron of will, steel of ?, forged in the furnace of war"
I absolutely love how the destroyer is depicted. He isn't going down easy. Centuries of twisted modification have made a brutal killing machine that a space marine would definitely have trouble taking down alone. Love it.
@@theironqueen2386its not that extreme... Also Heroes can beat destroyers 1v1 :p
@@Thalarantheysept he's supposed to just be a regular space marine they want their cake and eat it to by having super strong villains but also have the crumble at the the sight of a propper noun
@@theironqueen2386 Named characters man, an unaugmented human can hold his own against a khronate berserker (Ciaphas cain), a named space marine can *barely* survive a destroyer who seems to be of the not thinking so much variety with help.
@@agentc7020 yeah the classic the terrifying final boss is defeated when their brain is turned off and they stare at the mc while they monologue at them
any sm who takes of helmet and has a name is not average marine, peroid xD thats just not how it works in workshop ;p@@theironqueen2386
Damn im a die hard for the blood angels but after watching this i can see why people love the salamanders
They're more kinder than the Blood Angels and have no urge to brutally kill folks or feed on them.
@GameLover45408 that's why I like them they are noble but also ruthless machines. They paint art and such but on the field they are crazy. I love it. I like how they are kinda mean also they used to be the bloody 9th before sanguinius but now look at em and Dante is cool
You can have two armies, I run Salamanders and Spacewolves
@@maducrutz9384 can I ask what rts Warhammer 40k game I can play with the salamanders as a faction thanks
@@jackreacher969 there is no game that specifically lets you play as Salamanders, however you can use their colour scheme in the Dawn of War games' skirmish modes.
If you understand the lore behind Necron Destroyers, the symbolism here is very apparent. The enbodiment of protection, hope, selflessness and stoicism verses the embodiment of murder, hate, selfishness and nihilism. One is alive and protects life, the other is dead and coverts death.
I guess there is not much else besides hate for the destroyers. As far as i understood the lore they are not much different from the non sentient soldiers of the lowest rank, their single minded pursuit of destruction has not left much else.
@@ABW941depends on the individual Destroyer, and what they were before they become a destroyer. When higher ranking Necrons become destroyers they tend to keep a little bit of their old personality.
Many Destroyers can talk and hold an argument, but the only things they'll even bother talking to are other Necrons, and those conversations are almost always about killing things.
It's also interesting considering the implications of them and their upbringing. Both could technically be considered beings that were crafted for the specific purpose of war, not born but the Salamander more than any other chapter still has their links to the past. Destroyers have no kinship with other Necrons beyond their ability to combine efforts to eradicate all life faster and view even other Destroyers who fall with relish as they were failures, unworthy to complete their task. But yes, their lords often can converse if they want to but probably wouldn't converse with Space Marines anymore than you or I would make conversation with a snake.
In The Infinite and the Divine, Trazyn talks to a Destroyer Lord and asks him to stop his troops destruction of planet Cepharil/Serenade. Trazyn comes to talk with the head of one of the Lord's troop of Destroyer to which the Lord just says: "He did is part in the extinction of life on this world. And it also applies to us. When every living being in the galaxy will be dead, we shall too."
The Infinite and the Divine is really a gold mine of Necron lore.
*covets
I really love how the moment Sister Danica heard the explosion, visor on, and off to battle she goes.
No shock, no delay. Just the instant trained reaction of a trained soldier.
It was cool yeah
Sister Danica was a fucking liability. Typical of women during war.
Never though about it, but using the Necron energy blade as a shield makes a lot of sense. Also, that destroyer is horrifying.
I love the fact that the destroyer actually predict the bolter shot and move his blade to block them
Hyperphase swords are not made of energy. The blade is made of solid metal that rapidly phase shifts and thus amplifies the cutting power by rematerialising inside the target. That arguably makes them worse at parrying projectiles as a lucky bullet could fly straight through while the blade is shifted.
@@failedexperiment9073They can freely controll when and which dimension the blade is shifting. They can also input extra energy from their core to the blade, making them basically a pure Energy Blade :v
It's a cool reference to the stratagem they had on tabletop where they could block incoming ranged attacks with their blades to give opponents -1 to wound against them.
God I love those Skorpekh Destroyers
Games Workshop really shooting themselves in the foot by only making this a 3 episode series
Wait what??? Its going to be only 3 episodes??
@@wouju9600 Sadly so. Just saw it on Warhammer+ and it says "Pariah Nexus reaches its climactic conclusion".
Nah, they shoot them self multipel time.
And not only on the foot
@@vagabondd97 ...that is incredibly frustrating.
@@gianaryantapl3797 you're really not wrong there
What I appreciate most about this series (other than Salamanders finally getting respect) is that the Necrons aren’t just mooks to get bodied, they’re a genuine threat 1v1 even for a space marine. The Deathmark dang near got Sa’kan the first time around, and the Skorpekhs are shown to have done most of the legwork (pun not intended, but claimed regardless) in actually killing most of the last defenders. Nice to see the bad guy being more than just bodies for the heroes to work through.
too bad they don't like to see xenos win fully for once maybe i'm just salty cause i play necrons XD
@@JoKeRakaAlessandro They did win though
@@silvrfruit did they kill the sister and space marine in the end ?
@JoKeRakaAlessandro To be fair that city is straight-up gone, and Szeras seems fairly sure he got what he wanted out of the arrangement, albeit with a few irritants.
@@TheDakkaman hmmm yeah ok but the salamander should have died too no human standing :p long live the necrons
I really hope sa’kan can survives at the end of this show. However maybe a death with honour is what a space marine wants most. There’s nothing but endless war waiting for him if he survived from this.
Salamanders have time to meet their family, home town etc. The live to defend humanity not to wage eternal war
@@jakubzalesinski667hope so
@@jakubzalesinski667 I've never heard of Space Marines getting discharged. 🌝
@@John_LU they usually keep serving until they die or get put into a dreadnaught. But for the Salamanders they get to see their families at the very least, to remind them that what they're doing is not only for the Emperor but for its people as well
@@John_LUthey don't get discharged, it's more like shore leave. Ships from planet based chapters will head back home every once in a while to repair, rearm and replenish the ranks if possible.
Most space marines spend that time on isolation inside their fortresses, some are much more open and are allowed to interact with regular humans, Salamanders among them.
"Iron of will, steel of muscle, forged in the furnace of war" 🔥🔥
What a cold ass line, “Your empire had its chance.”
Love it.
I like when the Skorp gets a chainsword shoved up its spine its just like: "Who the- what the- you cheeky little rat. Im busy right now."
Somewhere I heard that for space marines “Nothing that big should be that fast” and DAMN do they nail that
It’s not only the speed, but the fact he does it basically wearing a tank that’s really scary
“Into the fires of battle onto the anvil of war.” I am ready to shed tears, that’s such a good line.
This little movie is by far the best show Warhammer TV ever made. It’s at the same time faithful to the lore enough and hell entertaining to watch. Huge “Astartes” vibes as well. 10/10.
Isn't he working for them now? Wouldn't be shocked if he had a hand in it.
I mean I’m pretty sure the Astartes dude worked on this along with a bunch of other animators.
Where are the full episodes?
For real, compare this to the Ultramarine movie we got years ago 💀
@@smolpp585tbf, I read ultramarines was a passion project on a shoestring budget. It’s equivalent to those early 3d render demos of your favourite things when cgi was more accessible, problem was it came out 2010. Best thing about it was the Voice acting
I am never getting tired of how fast Marines are being portrayed! 2:08
Please normalize this for every other animation with them!
People think space marines aren’t all that dangerous because they’re slow juggernauts
Boi that juggernaut has the speed of anime characters, it’s absurd how fast they are
@@techypriest7523i've seen some informations that ppl dropped randonly and they say that a spacemarine can run at 80km per hour, this shit is fast af
The old ffg rulebooks said a Marine can lift upto 5 tons and sprint to 60+kmph in only a blink. So they are OP AF
As long as it's fast, and not "sprinting faster than a bullet train" or "so fast the human eye can't follow" fanfic I've seen.. That crosses over from cool to stupid.
And the salamanders are considered to have the slowest reaction time out of them all.
2:55 That scream with the chainblade revving gives me chills every time.
40k Lore: "Due to the high gravity of their homeworld of Nocturne, Salamanders have slower reaction times than other warriors of the Adeptus Astartes."
Sa'kan: "...and I took that personally."
If anything a high gravity world should make Salamanders SUPER FAST. It'd be like living your life with a lead suit on, running, exercising, doing your day, like its totes normal. Then you take the suit off. You're not used to such effortless movement. You're a blur. Its the Goku training move.
Sa'Kan like all Salamanders are still Space Marines, they have inhuman reaction speed. And thus baseline humans would still experience transhuman dread from all their physical capabilities.
...annddd this shows GW knows jackshit when it comes to science. If they come from a higher gravity planet they would be IMMENSELY strong and fast in lower gravity enviorments 😂😂
Down a heart, a lung, and now a hand... Our man is dying on the installment plan.
Hey who knows, maybe brother Sa'Kan will get a kickass robot flamer-hand or something.
@@jahrusalem3658 or to be put into a dreadnought, permanently.
Or given a new hand? It’s not like he’s beyond Space Marine healing lol
@@willlliorca7024 Just a member of the X Chapter emerges out of nowhere, "I've got a spare I can give you."
@@FuyatoB Ye. Venerable Sa'Kan.
The original Dawn of War cinematic, and DoW2 cinematic references are perfect. "This planet is ours, Witch."
I love how they portrayed the Necrons as terrifying as they are in the lore.
Having normal humans in this episode was great too, as it serves as a comparison to how powerful Space Marines and the Necrons actually are.
I hope there'll be more animations like this. Because this sh1t is the coolest.
Aye, the Necrons' technology is impossibly advanced compared to every other faction in Warhammer, even the Eldar and the Tau. They are a good contender for "most OP faction" in a setting where every faction is OP. Their tech level is that of a Type 2 civilization on the Kardashev scale. Even Space Marines would struggle to defeat them, it wouldn't be an easy win.
@@ennui9745 Yeah, they are kinda too OP though. Especially the Celestial Orrey. "oh look at this planet, oops it's gone now."
It's like a remote exterminatus only more powerful.
@@InnerAtmos Wow, that's basically the galaxy-wide ability to affect reality (or at the least to observe reality). The closest thing to that I can think of is the "Manus Dei" (Hand of God) used by the most powerful AI Gods in the Orion's Arm setting. It's basically reality warping, and would appear as magic to any lesser minds. (It's probably done by affecting the universe's structure on the subatomic level.)
Baseline necron infantry is slow and dumb, and needs to be commanded. Also most of them are sleeping, and can never muster full strength. I supposed that is how they are balanced. Even basic necrons have gauss rifles, which are deadly.
This series is spot-on with the lore accuracy. 2:03, his blood coagulates almost instantly. Laramman's Organ babbbyyy!
That shot of the destroyer moving at 00:48 followed by his delivery of the Salamander's warcry was brilliant - chef's kiss perfect.
"This galaxy is ours, your Empire had it's chance"
As badass as that line is, the Necrons don't care for platitudes. It'd probably just ramble about how that doesn't make logical sense.
This is a destroyer, it is far from a rational thinker.
Our green boi ain't wrong though, they chose to sleep after they pretty much bodied the Gods. They should have set an alarm clock before humanity even reached space.
"you took that galaxy only because we were busy having a power nap"
@@MrLense that would be stupid lol, apart from the fact that they woke up thanks to the mechanicus, is easier to defeat the current human Empire that the former eldar Empire.
@@MrLense
He is most certainly wrong. The Necrons fought enemies 1,000X stronger than IoM. They’re struggling this much against the Necrons when over 90% of their tomb worlds are still inactive.
“Into the fires of battle, unto the Anvil of War!”
Shivering goosebumps!
"This galaxy is ours! Your empire had its chance"- fucking bars
He actually put on his helmet BEFORE fighting
Against enemy that dont care about his armor xD
Jesus! Those destroyers are fucking powerful!
and that was ONE. imagine an army.
kinda why lots of necron lords actually don't like them very much. destroyers aren't exactly very popular.
It does rely on the sword as a shield and you saw how fast it moves.
@@dragonrider1736 Yeah, its speed is uncannily fast, almost as fast as the Space Marine it fought against. That's really scary.
I mean, 40 points of the destroyer vs 16+10 of the Space Marin and the SoB.
I think they rolled pretty well!
@@halfknight2310 on the contrary their effectiveness is what keeps destroyers from being shunned too hard from necron society... they are kept away from proper necron society more because they are insane, of fear said insanity could be contagious, and because they tend to throw their orders in a trash can the second they see something to kill.
GW for the love of the Emperor, give Sa'kan his own model for the table top. Cause the dude fucking deserves one.
So for anyone keeping count, that's 1 of 2 hearts stopped, 1 of 3 lungs collapsed, 1 arm chopped off, a massive concussion, blood loss, *and a partridge in a pear tree*.
Man, 40k is a MIRACLE… cant wait to play space marine 2 ( Sa’Khan is a leggit badass)
He's probably gonna be a model now no helmet and named is a VERY big deal
@@christophertidwell2422Well Salamanders are in desperate need of special characters after all...
Hearing the Salamander pray during battle made me happy.
My man lost a hand, but gained a sick ass chain sword! STOMP STOMP!
0:34 I like that Sa'kan for a split second was like a concerned older brother who lost his kid sister. "Damn it, I took my eyes off her for one second, and she's gone!!"
I wonder what part of Astartes basic training do they teach them to say all those bad ass one lines before fighting
Everyday they pray and chant for morale and psychological conditioning
@@y.kazayaki3681Was gonna say, getting the illustration of how resorting to psychological conditioning phrases helps you keep going was a great touch.
There was probably a class. Defiant things to say to make you seem more badass.
Promethean Creed I'd say. What he chanted was what First Captain Artellus Numeon and fellow initiates who converted into the Promethean Creed chant.
You are a goat for bringing these
Pariah Nexus really nails how effective and terrifying the Necrons can be
You know what... Sa'kan deserves his own miniature
If Titus can get his own mini.
Sa'kan deserves it too.
@@gamechanger8908agreed
3:15 Takes me back to the Dawn of War - The Dark Crusade intro scene all those years ago.
It's a small detail, but I do like that the Destroyer despite being able to reliably block the shots still made it's approach in a zig-zag to make a harder target.
Even if it was a target the size of a van.
This series is such a major victory for the 40k fanbase
Sister Danica giving a perfect demonstration of suppressing fire to fix the enemy while Sa'kan flanks and assaults. Textbook.
I still don't know why Sa'kan decided to ditch his height advantage and jump down to confront the Skorpekh.
@@leoguinid11To get in between it and the civilians, the goal was to buy them as much time as possible, to get as far away as possible.
Salamander's Warcry always sends chills done my spine, love it!
As someone who's read the Tome of Fire series, hearing "Into the fires of battle, unto the anvil of war!" voiced is beyond awesome.
This is the best content 40k and Games Workshop have put out in years.
Apart from like... you know... progressing the actual story of 40k
@@sosomadman You mean the setting that spans 40,000 years, across a million worlds, with thousands of important characters?
Sure, let’s just progress that, you just have to write a page of story each for potentially a hundred thousand events and places. Better start writing now.
@@bbluva20 the return of the primarchs
Gave me chills, 40k is amazing.
I'm not willing to dash it out for warhammer + so i'm literally on your profile waiting for the next upload
and thank the emperor for these clips
Warhammer + is not available in my country, so this is the only way I can watch it
@@PerditioTempus2591 There is a way, but you have to do the same thing that some people off the coast of Somalia do. Although i haven't found this episode anywhere yet.
@@Hjellow Piracy ;)
@@HjellowYou got the site a fellow Somali can go to for the past episodes? I've been looking but, no luck
I hope we see rest of the former legion/now chapters in the future. Would love to see White Scars and Ravenguard get some love from the GW guys
How is this not a full blown movie I would watch this any day!
It's a Warhammer TV series.
GW loves to kneecap themselves at any given opportunity.
@@RobertSmith-ch9jjyeah but wouldn't you watch this in cinema?
"This galaxy is ours. Your empire had its chance" epic dialog.
Your average named Space Marine: Takes off his helmet in the middle of battle just because
Sa'kan: Takes it off after its literally half melted
I love the character growth of the sister because she immediately took action the moment she heard something.
This galaxy is ours... Your empire had its chance... Hell yeah boi!
I'm not even a Salamanders guys but when he said their Chapter creed, I almost lost all my geneseed at how hype that was.
The way that Sa'kan kills the destroyer, specifically the way we see it die from its perspective with the green overlay, is I think a reference to the opening cutscene of Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. In the opening cutscene, we see from a Blood Raven's perspective as a necron lord impales them on his spear and kills them, complete with targeting HUD and all. Both things, the HUD, and the actual method of killing, are extremely similar in these two clips. Really cool if it is an intentional callback.
If he was facing that Skorpekh alone, there's a high chance he would be killed instantly.
Those things are really dangerous on tabletop from what I heard from a friend, as much as they are in this show.
Skorpekhs, especially the ones similar to one shown (one large blade as opposed to two smaller ones) are brutal. Enough damage to tear through terminators with relative ease.
Wouldnt take tabletop as lore as much as the weirdest shit happens in tabletop haha. But yes in lore as well theyre kinda insane
Oh yeah, a single swipe can kill a regular marine on the tabletop. But Sa'Kaan is a named space marine, meaning he's basically invulnerable lol
I think they were deadlier in the previous edition, where one in each group of 3 was armed with a Hyperphase Reapblade(pretty much the exact blade the one in the vid was using) and it had heavy enough stats to seriously threaten a tank. And you usually run them in groups of 6, so you had two of these in each unit. They will still shred most units they come in contact with, but some tougher ones like Terminators will probably be able to fend them off.
@@MetaL556 All melee was deadlier in 9th edition, 10th edition nerfed it pretty hard. Anything stronger than AP-2, damage 2 is rare now.
This shows how resilient and hard a space marine is too kill. Even with one of his hearts stopped and a collapsed lung he still keeps going. Losing a hand doesn't even make him flinch or hesitate for a second. It's not just how deadly they are that makes them such amazing warriors it's only half of what does along with their extreme will to live and continue fighting even in a situation where death is the only outcome they still keep going.
I just came to the part in 'The Infinite and the Divine' where a few dozen Destroyers are unleashed on an Exodite world by Orikan, and later met by Trazyn after spending millennia systematically exterminating life on the world, island by island, down to the microbial level--even other Necron fear these things, treating them like rabid, tainted abominations.
INTO THE FIRE OF BATTLE! UNTO THE ANVIL OF WAR!
I love how he cut off his arm and the Astartes doesn't even grunt about it. I love this show
Actually just sit and wait to be notified of these uploads, much love from Fiji!
These animations are amazingly lore accurate, but they lack the detail of damaged Necrons just teleporting away or self destructing if they're beyond repair.
Not all of them and not all times can do this
It turns out Necron lord in charge is petty, and he doesnt teleport back units that failed their mission
@@randomdude8202 Maybe my lore knowledge is outdated, but as far as I know it's a built in feature. Even if the Lord doesn't want them teleporting back for repairs, they should still self destruct. I'm pretty sure part of the necron lore is that no one ever got to examine an intact necron because they always self destruct. Necrons are very careful about not sharing their technology with lesser species
@@kolosmenus well, these ones are not getting away with it anyway
@@kolosmenusI do believe that’s solely for the infantry
Love they putting respect on the Salamanders name
Thank you for uploading all these clips Onahole 🙏
3:20 Almost the exact same scene from the Dawn of War: Dark Crusade intro. Just reversed. Loved that nod to the game.
I like the hovering Destroyers with their big guns more. A combo with one skorpekh one would be devastating
Skorpeth using a hoverdestroyer as a mount!
HOVER ME CLOSER! I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY SWORD! XD
0:57
The Salamander Chapter's warcry. Thank the Emperor it's not NNN yet because I would have lost.
This is just incredible. I am a Necrons player and this is done with such good taste. Horrifying, intense, desperate - the list of words can go on. The Salamander and his warcry, omg the shivers! This legion has quickly grown on me now thanks to this single marine. Masterpiece all round 10/10
2:09 I know they were fast but damn this is the first time I ever saw them to be fast
I really hope we get to see a flayed one. God thatd just be the perfect halloween episode
I really liked the Skorpekh Destroyer, it was big, quick and dangerous needing the two to take it out.
2:34 Forged in the FURNACE OF WAR!!!
I love these so much i want an entire warhammer movie!! I love the sisters of battle the most but the astartes jesus christ i love this!!
Ya
Fighting a destroyer necron is like a guardsmen fight a terminator marine
2:02 I love the detail here. Didn't think anyone could beat "Astartes" Laruman Organ but I think they nailed it here. See how the blood almost looks like wax? Barely touching the ground and already solidified, if you look closer you can even see it going from glossy to matte quality in just a second.
i remember some people going "why are the destroyers SO SLOOOOOW" in a previous episode (vs the small, outnumbered and pinned Sisters squad)
3:15 nice little nod to the dark crusade dawn of war game intro!
Whoever they have working on these are the goat. GW need to stop getting in their own way in order to really expand the fandom. Stop going after the fans for making fan stuff and we could get more like this.
I always had a weak spot for Salamanders. They are very cool chapter.
INTO THE FIRES OF BATTLE WE GO!
UNTO THE ANVIL OF WAR WE STRIKE!
The hit and wound roles are something else.
Now I know why necrons dont reproduce they are strong af.
Not shown here, but they also have a nasty habit of automatically teleporting their destroyed bodies back to their base of operations where they can be repaired and sent out to fight once more. It is NOTORIOUSLY difficult to properly “kill” a Necron once and for all.
Sa’Kan “we did it, we defeated the destroyer”
*reanimation protocol* “are you sure about that”
Raven Guard, and Salamanders are my favorite Chapters, and fun to paint also!
Stand proud, son of Vulkan! The DRAGON IS WITH YOU!
Back in like idk 2001 or some time around then , me and some friends got into Warhammer 40k table top for a bit. To see this I'm absolutely stunned at the level of detail and effort put into the story. I hope the true fans are as impressed as I am.
Seeing these videos and other stuff with salamanders, I'm team salamander! They're so awesome
This Galaxy is OURS!!!
Not all tears should be born of sorrow & lamentation. The light that shone in the darkness all those long millenium ago still shines on, it shines on in you sister, and in the souls of each and every man & woman who struggle in a thousand different ways both great and small to make this dark galaxy a brighter more prosperous place for mankind
"Your Empire had its chance."
Incredibly epic, but also not what I expected to hear. Most Imperials would not even conceive of xenos having any kind of claim to the galaxy, so there has to be some amount of respect there. It's a shame this battle wis with the Illuminor's forces, I would have loved to see Sa'kan interact with Zahndrekh.
I mean "their chance" was millions of years before humans as they are now were even a thing, so I guess it'd be fair for an imperial to say that.
Didn't the Necrons rule the universe and they took a dirt nap because there was nothing left to do? They defeated their foes and their gods, then went into powersave mode right? If so, its pretty much valid that the galaxy is theirs. Unless he meant chance, as in, they had a chance to rule, but chose to sleep and thus negate their chance and claim?
I'm gonna need a necron paralegal to look at some fine print on the Title for the galaxy, lol
@@stormtempterf8058 No. They did take out the Old Ones and the C'Tan, but in doing so were too weakened and depleted to challenge the Eldars and the Krorks, so they went into stasis, to wait until both had fallen. The Infinite Empire of the necron was vast, but far from all encompassing, even at it's Zenith (as highlighted by the fact that they had to hijack the webway with Dolmen Gates to beat the Old Ones).
Gotcha, a wait them out and arise when they're dust strategy. If I remember the bits of lore correctly, they never learned warp travel and had to travel mostly by long time stasis as well, which would hamper a galactic empire. And another bit I seem to remember was that their stasis tech wasn't always up to code, which would explain the poor state of them whenever they're discovered - before they've repaired and polished those carapaces, lol.
They are memory fragments though, so I am quite possibly wrong in my reckoning.
@@stormtempterf8058 That's...not exactly the case. They did start off with STL travel, like humanity did, but never reached for Warp Travel because there's a genuine possibility that wasn't possible when it was the Sea of Souls. What they did make was the Reactionless Drive, a realspace propulsion system that (somehow) breaks the lightspeed barrier. It's not amazingly quick, it can take decades to cross the galaxy, but then...so does the Warp Drive.
As for their stasis, it's actually REALLY good. It just wasn't made to work for tens of millions of years. The dynasty that actually went and made contingencies for that (mainly because they had a lot of crypteks in their leadership) suffered much less from the Great Sleep.
A true Salamander
This was the most hype fight sequence I've seen in my life
You know an Astartes is good when the ordinary people are worried for them 😊
My boy needs a new hand after this.
Really hoping to see Kriegsmen in their fullest potential.
The exodite
You won’t. Guard are low on GWs list of ‘hereos’
@@MiketheMadness Tempestus Scions might get a shot, but I doubt GW remembers they exist
@@Dragonspirit223 Scions, Catachan and Cadian. are GWs focus . Kreig is popular... but often used as "Named" Fodder.
I honestly hope to see other guard regiments get some love, Cadian, Catachan and Krieg have become the guard equivalent to Ultramarines, Space Wolves and Imperial fists in my eyes.
Just want to let the Vitrian Dragoons or other, more esoteric regiments have some love shown, compared to the generic three.
This is the content I love, my Salamanders deserve all the love they can get!
The way these fights are going really show a lot of respect to the necrons as well. Like that destroyer was not fucking around