The best boarding scene I've ever seen was in Astartes, when the Retributors kill team boards the heretic ship. I've also enjoyed the Donnager battle in Expanse, but this is a nice compilation, though. Keep up the good work! :)
Every other warhammer fan and I are gonna tell you to watch astartes. It kicks so much ass. It has the best boarding strategy: bore your way into the enemy ship and turn the passengers to human paste
Claes Welinder as well as teleportation, Drop pods reconfigured to be boarding rams, thunder hawks or just straight up jumper on to the ship and cut through the hull on Occasion
You’re gonna tell me a Breaching pod that gently latches on and then cuts it’s way into the surface is cooler than Giant Cruise missile that slams into the side of its target, boroughs deep inside the enemy ship with a huge laser and then disgorges 8ft tall Demi gods of war.... if you haven’t watched Astartes you need to
@@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536 There was also the time during the Heresy where Night Lords captain Sevatar boarded the Dark Angel's flagship by clinging to the wing of a void interceptor.
According to pretty much every star trek reference I can find, including memory alpha, memory beta, Eaglemoss, and DITL, The Reman Warbird was named Scimitar, not Schimitar. Brent Spiner's name is Day-ta, not Dah-Tah. He even made a point of correcting this when Dr. Polaski said his name wrong asking "What's the difference?" to which he replied, "One is my name, the other is not." Macross had a much more epic boarding sequences. They used their capital ship, which transformed into a mile tall giant robot, to board the enemy command ship/station and destroy the structure from the inside out. They also used, on occasion, that same transformed giant robot to ram an "arm" (which was really a submersible amphibious landing craft for 30' tall walking tanks) inside an enemy ship, open the boarding ramp, and assault the enemy inside their own ship!
@@MadMalkavian maybe us true fans will call it canon, buy as long as Disney holds the rights, they can call it what they want... even if people like you and I would call it part of the timeline
Unfortunately unlike every property shown here, it's unofficial. It's sad it's unofficial because that is one of the best boarding actions involving super soldiers shown and some of the most competent enemies I've ever seen.
I saw it and other than the LUDICROUS concept of cities rolling about the landscape like off-roading 4x4s without losing all of their buildings... I liked it.
@@richardstone5552 It's not perfect (and dropped some rather important scenes from the book it was adapting, but that's the nature of adaptations). The overall premise is ludicrous, but that's an artefact of the original books, can't blame the film for it; there's some off and iffy characterisation, and a lot of the pacing was rushed, with the story being way too condensed. Overall though, I actually enjoyed it. Not enough to watch it at the cinema, nor enough to buy it on DVD/bluray (maybe secondhand I might), but it's certainly worth the time for an entertaining movie night on a package streaming service, or as a rental.
Fan films usually never get included in these things. Shame. If it was endorsed by games work shop and was part of a proper movie/show, it probably would have this list.
You forgot the one from Babylon 5 where the breaching Pod comes in during the battle with the Earth Alliance ships (Severed Dreams I think is the Episode, which is actually one of my favourites!) - yes it is stupid that the armed Narns don't just let the borders walk into a crossfire and instead go for hand to hand combat, but it is still an epic scene!
I got the impression that the Narns had been spoiling for a fight after losing their homeworld. As it turned out, their hasty attack was accidentally providential... it kept the GROPOS bottled up, delaying their deployment before more security forces arrived and turned it into a melee.
@@johngardner4096 That fight was gutwrenching, there's no other way to put it. To see the wounded and dead from both sides lying on the deck was both disturbing and moving.
@Klausbärbel Fömm heh starwars is just shit and just like you and seems to have forgotten that there are heavier forms of blasters available to them "dozen" isnt even close to the amount of capable people on that ship 10 seconds is just so pathetic
Lots to choose from in Halo. I would’ve gone with Blue Team’s attack on Bloodied Spirit. Let the Covenant unknowingly deliver them and a bunch nukes onboard their ships. Clear the hangar bay, vent the ship from the hangar, remote detonate the nukes on the sister ship and jump away before anyone knows what happened. Bonus points for using the Covenant’s own arrogance and dogma against them. The Ferrets’ infiltration of the Keeper’s secret base was pretty slick, too.
So you missed Babylon 5, that uses breaching pods to cut their way into a vessel. Legends of Galactic Heroes, that uses gas to make firearms useless on the ship being boarded, meaning that fighting is done in melee in space suits with axes and swords. And the big boy 40K that have more ships, vessels and devices used for boarding than most universes have different ship types in total. Some are even just torpedoes filled with men, others are huge landing crafts made for docking directly to a ship, not to mention the somewhat unreliable teleportation and the most famous drop pods that are basically made to drop from orbit, but as reentry speed is too slow they add rocket engines to make it go even faster, only to break the speed a few meters over the target. Or we could point to the Orcs way of doing it, which is really just dropping asteroids with people on and hope they survive, or a small moon in some cases, usually also filled with a uncountable amount of engines that may or may not be controlled by the same factions.
The highly unfortunate fact that it wasn't endorsed by games workshop may have been the reason it's not mentioned. These guys know about Warhammer 40000 so it's highly likely they know about it but since these guys do official films, shows, and games it probably wasn't included.
Star Trek Voyager s3 e24 Displaced - just get beamed off through shields from over 40 light years away. A casual way to hijack a ship. Star Trek - Insurrection - just beam the entire bridge crew onto a holographic simulation of their own bridge while they have to reset shields. They won't even realise. Now that's sneaky.
#1 The Tantine 4. Important part of the boarding procedure, tractor in any escape pods that get jettisoned as they may have the contraband you are looking for, along with droids that don't show up on life scanners.
that whole movie was a "meh" in my opinion (they didn't even keep "Thun, Prince of the Lion-Men" like from the original (1930's) and from the cartoon).👎🏻🤦♂️🤦🏾♂️🙄
I saw the title and immediately thought “oh cool, someone has seen Astartes” but no, the video let me down there. However this comments section is gold.
Best boarding action: Have your friendly (but grumpy) Asgard beam a Mk 82 nuke into the enemy hive ship's engineering section, watch the pretty fireworks.
Adeptus Astartes make Stormtroopers look like friggin' amateurs! They load up onto a boarding TORPEDO, and, just blast their way onto an enemy ship, kill everything, and, leave.
The Galactica ramming the Colony just goes to show how tough of a ship she is. She's supposed to be on her *last leg* at the point, but she still manages to bring the crew back alive So say we all
In Firefly was a nice boarding. When crew attempts to rescue Captain from Nishka space station. It was simpe but very elegant and more science, then fiction ;)
Was thinking that too, the way they pump gas in to make lasers useless is a brilliant way of explaining why they need axes, swords and lances instead. Also would have like Babylon 5 and 40K, as in 40K it's kinda a main thing to do as they also have more vessels dedicate to bording than most universes have different ships in total.
It's also a part of a castle. A good castle design has the entrance have two gates you must pass through in order to pass that entry. In between the two gates is an empty room, above which is a hole in the ceiling that allows defenders in the room above to attack the invaders below from an elevated position. This opening is often referred to as a Murder Hole.
@@bradleyrutledge I think he is which is not what was portrayed - in the novel they fly banshees through the gravity lift and drop the bomb up into the ship. Kind of disappointed as the lack of research here, especially given the number of options for boarding actions in Halo
The Manned Insertion Pods in Wing Commander IV were a really unique way of getting troops onto an enemy ship as they were launched from a torpedo bomber and latched onto the hull. Very sneaky, stealthy, and effective, but with a tremendous amount of risk involved. They were affectionately referred to as "Spam cans" by Col. Decker, commander of the TCM Marines that did the landing ops.
For me, the best ship boarding was from Babylon 5 episode Severed Dream and SeaQuest DSV season 2 final episode where the crew board enemy ship. Both using boarding ship that attach to ship's hull and cut hole in it for the crew to board.
I like the Borg way from Star Trek!! Tractor beam a vessel, take down its shields, start beaming drones on board and pull it in side the cube at the same time! There’s a “Voyager” Ep called “Collective” where this basically happens
Nice shout-out to the Expanse, but imo the last sequence in Season 4 where Ashford and crew fight their way through Marco's ship takes the cake for me. Ashford and Marco are both ruthless in their own way, and the slow, careful cat-and-mouse games during a zero-G gunfight are some of the tensest action scenes I've ever watched.
Macross/Robotech Daedalus manoeuver; a giant robot-ship punches an alien battleship to deliver a cadre of giant robots inside its armor and vlow it up from the inside; SDF-1 even does an improved full-bodied version inside the Mothership of the enemy fleet near the end of the series! A giant robot covered in robots firing all their weapons inside the enemy ship before engaging their reflector-field and staying inside the enemy when it explode! How could you left THAT one out and have Gravity on your list? How about 2001 Space Odyssey between Dave and Hal?
I liked the boarding of the Enterprise in Star Trek Beyond. The atmosphere was sheer chaos as the Enterprise was fighting for her dear life. Being shredded and boarded at the same time while also capturing fleeing Enterprise crew members was phenomenal to watch while also painful to watch as the Enterprise fight quickly becomes futile.
The Expanse novels describe a boarding action as a race. The way the authors describe it, it is practically a game of chicken. To the boarding parties, the Bridge isn't the main target, it's engineering. See, doesn't really matter who holds the bridge, because if you lose engineering, you don't really own your ship anymore. The game of chicken is between the boarders, the boarded ship's defenders, and the nerve of the captain with their hand over the self-destruct button.
Actually the 2008 Clone Wars series had a lot of awesome ship boarding sequences, while the OG Tantive scene is iconic it has since been out done. Also I would like to shoutout the Collectors boarding the Normandy in Mass Effect 2.
Just finished reading Alien Secrets by Ian Douglas. It has a neat boarding scene of the USSS Hillenkoeter by the Saurians. While the human carrier has its shields up, the Saurian dimension portal tech ignores them. The only requirement is that both points must be at relative rest to one another. While it is technically possible to open a portal to a ship that’s moving at a radically different vector, it’s very difficult. So after the initial boarders appear all over the ship (and with the resident space marines off-ship), the Captain has the pilot start moving randomly, so that the enemy ship can’t match vectors and send in more boarders
No Astarts episode 2? Attention all citizens of Imperium! The RUclips channel Generation Films is E X C O M U N I C A T E D by the orders of His most holly Imperial Inquisition!
Hate me for this if ya want but Call of Duty Infinite Warfare has an awesome boarding and taking control sequence, and you get to play the guy that sets the detonator on the bridge window!
Part 1 of astartes should have made the list, amazing breaching scene of space marines
Part 2 is the actual boarding part
DrMessed
All of Astarte was one massive boarding action and it was awesome
Badass 👍
Yeah!!!!!!!
DrMessed 😂
No astartes?
90% of the comment section is outrage about the surprising and dare I say heretical lack of Astartes in this video
Thank god he didn't include them.
@@me67galaxylife Yes Inquistor, this comment over here.
@@AbyssWatcher745 your inquisitor is not real
@@me67galaxylife Neither is anything else in the video.
@@AbyssWatcher745 i mean we'r talking irl
See the Asartes fan film. Stop talking and go see it GenTech!
I second 3rd and 4th this. The boarding on asartes beats every other on this list.
I was thinking of that boarding scene during this entire vid
40K boarding torpedoes are no joke.
I came here to post this very thing. Seems I was delayed by the warp and arrived late.
Don't forget about World Engine "boarding"
The best boarding scene I've ever seen was in Astartes, when the Retributors kill team boards the heretic ship. I've also enjoyed the Donnager battle in Expanse, but this is a nice compilation, though. Keep up the good work! :)
Official canon only, no fan films
Don't care, still best boarding action in SciFi.
@@whee38 Why it would matter if fan film or not. Secondly, the "boarding procedure" as seen in Astartes is canon.
whee38 Boy... That's how the Astartes were banging their opponents' door even before the Horus Heresy.
Amen!
9 Best Ship Boarding Sequences in Science Fiction.
Space Marines: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.”
C.J. Fedderson
Hooorah
Boarding torpedoes, the single greatest way of getting several heavily armed, heavily armoured Very angry killing machines into an enemy ship
Correction :
WH40K fanboy : "Allow us to introduce ourselves."
@@me67galaxylife Easy now, simp. Astartes has one of the best boarding scenes in sci fi. Praised by even star wars fans..
@@Tarorc79 oh no you called me simp i am defeated eeeeehhh
I think you forgot the boarding sequence from Astartes. Hell the whole thing is a boarding mission!
Every other warhammer fan and I are gonna tell you to watch astartes. It kicks so much ass. It has the best boarding strategy: bore your way into the enemy ship and turn the passengers to human paste
Astartes: “hold my bolter..”
Yeah, why did Astartes not make this list?
@@user-dp7xd5lq8l Don't the Black Templar actually chain their bolter to their arms, so in that case not even from his cold dead hands.
@@-JustHuman- yup
I was actually just thinking that they forgot about the boarding of the Macragge's Honour in "know no fear", and guilliman boards his own ship.
My Lord I can't hold your bolter it's my weak mortal body is lacking capable arms in this gravity.
This was misleading, wasn’t much real boarding at all.
40k have ”BOARDING TORPEDOS”! Just the name alone takes 1st place!
+1 Astartes
Meh, the Breaching pods in The Expanse are pretty bad ass too.
Claes Welinder as well as teleportation, Drop pods reconfigured to be boarding rams, thunder hawks or just straight up jumper on to the ship and cut through the hull on Occasion
You’re gonna tell me a Breaching pod that gently latches on and then cuts it’s way into the surface is cooler than Giant Cruise missile that slams into the side of its target, boroughs deep inside the enemy ship with a huge laser and then disgorges 8ft tall Demi gods of war.... if you haven’t watched Astartes you need to
@@jaywulf They remind me of the droid boarding pods from clone wars. Agreeably badass.
@@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536 There was also the time during the Heresy where Night Lords captain Sevatar boarded the Dark Angel's flagship by clinging to the wing of a void interceptor.
Where is my Blessed Astartes?
How did you not include Space Marine?? They fire a torpedo full of godlike beings at the ship!!!
Wayne Furlong Indeed! Just taste it, ”Boarding TORPEDO”! It says it all!
Lol have you watched the Astartes fan video yet?
According to pretty much every star trek reference I can find, including memory alpha, memory beta, Eaglemoss, and DITL, The Reman Warbird was named Scimitar, not Schimitar.
Brent Spiner's name is Day-ta, not Dah-Tah. He even made a point of correcting this when Dr. Polaski said his name wrong asking "What's the difference?" to which he replied, "One is my name, the other is not."
Macross had a much more epic boarding sequences. They used their capital ship, which transformed into a mile tall giant robot, to board the enemy command ship/station and destroy the structure from the inside out. They also used, on occasion, that same transformed giant robot to ram an "arm" (which was really a submersible amphibious landing craft for 30' tall walking tanks) inside an enemy ship, open the boarding ramp, and assault the enemy inside their own ship!
Why this guy doesn't give _Star Trek_ the respect it deserves. Reman, REMAN, not Romulan🙄🤦♂️👎🏻🤦🏾♂️
I would wake up at 6 am every saturday morning to watch Macross. I loved it. Rick Hunter is the man.
“General the ship is lost”
“Time to get a new one”
“Yes sir” -clone wars 2003
The best line of the universe, even if it isn't canon!
@@kevinwise1997 I guess you could say it's a *legend*
@@kevinwise1997 It IS canon!
@@MadMalkavian maybe us true fans will call it canon, buy as long as Disney holds the rights, they can call it what they want... even if people like you and I would call it part of the timeline
@@kevinwise1997 the hold the rights but they are not getting our money with what they do to Star Wars...
Can't believe you made this list and did not include Astartes.
They skipped The Astartes on the best Space Marine list also.
Astartes?
Unfortunately unlike every property shown here, it's unofficial.
It's sad it's unofficial because that is one of the best boarding actions involving super soldiers shown and some of the most competent enemies I've ever seen.
gen tech: we are harcore scifi fans
gen tech viewers: hold our beer.
If astartes isn't on this list, someone's gonna get exterminatused
Same brother
Fam I came here to post this
Same
Ordo hereticus need to look into this
I've already contacted the Inquisition
Astartes should’ve been in this
Astartes definitely needs to be on the list.
What is astartes?
The Donnager battle from the Expanse is definitely my favorite, the Colony raid in Battlesar Galactica is a close second
The biggest surprise was that anyone has seen Mortal Engines
It was actually alright
cant be helped bro it was trying really hard to get into the chinese market
Is it as bad as it looked I mean it looked pretty gosh darn bad
I saw it and other than the LUDICROUS concept of cities rolling about the landscape like off-roading 4x4s without losing all of their buildings... I liked it.
@@richardstone5552 It's not perfect (and dropped some rather important scenes from the book it was adapting, but that's the nature of adaptations). The overall premise is ludicrous, but that's an artefact of the original books, can't blame the film for it; there's some off and iffy characterisation, and a lot of the pacing was rushed, with the story being way too condensed. Overall though, I actually enjoyed it. Not enough to watch it at the cinema, nor enough to buy it on DVD/bluray (maybe secondhand I might), but it's certainly worth the time for an entertaining movie night on a package streaming service, or as a rental.
Snubbing Astartes?! There can only be EXTERMINATUS!
Fan films usually never get included in these things. Shame. If it was endorsed by games work shop and was part of a proper movie/show, it probably would have this list.
Matt Damon, when trying to board the Endurance: "There is a moment.." *gets blown to Mars
*[Hans Zimmer playing the church organ really loud.mp3]*
I hope Babylon 5 Severed Dreams’s boarding scene is here!
Should have been but was not.
klingons board ds9 wasn't eigther.
ok dont say it they lost against sisko dax, kira, worf, and smiles o byron
@@nagash303 but that was plot armor
one of the best sci-fi ever, not just epic boarding attempt.
You forgot the one from Babylon 5 where the breaching Pod comes in during the battle with the Earth Alliance ships (Severed Dreams I think is the Episode, which is actually one of my favourites!) - yes it is stupid that the armed Narns don't just let the borders walk into a crossfire and instead go for hand to hand combat, but it is still an epic scene!
I got the impression that the Narns had been spoiling for a fight after losing their homeworld. As it turned out, their hasty attack was accidentally providential... it kept the GROPOS bottled up, delaying their deployment before more security forces arrived and turned it into a melee.
@@johngardner4096 That fight was gutwrenching, there's no other way to put it. To see the wounded and dead from both sides lying on the deck was both disturbing and moving.
Astartes Boarding scene and Babylon 5 Severed Dreams episode
It also doesn't hurt that the legion boarding the Tantive IV is the 501st.
@Klausbärbel Fömm ever heard of suppressing fire?
The men of krieg during the tunnel fighting on vraks would like to have a word with you
@Klausbärbel Fömm heh starwars is just shit and just like you and seems to have forgotten that there are heavier forms of blasters available to them
"dozen" isnt even close to the amount of capable people on that ship 10 seconds is just so pathetic
COD: IW
Special Combat Air Recon (S.C.A.R.)
Motto: "No ship can't be breached, no target can't be reached."
People be hating on that game but that game was solid
Agito Wanijima Solid at best
Lolz
That game was shit.
That game was underrated, I keep asking Allen to do "legitimatecy test" for it but he never responds!
@@kevinwise1997
The Mars faction was the perfect example of a badly written military force, and the story overall was garbage.
Lots to choose from in Halo. I would’ve gone with Blue Team’s attack on Bloodied Spirit. Let the Covenant unknowingly deliver them and a bunch nukes onboard their ships. Clear the hangar bay, vent the ship from the hangar, remote detonate the nukes on the sister ship and jump away before anyone knows what happened. Bonus points for using the Covenant’s own arrogance and dogma against them.
The Ferrets’ infiltration of the Keeper’s secret base was pretty slick, too.
War rocket Ajax, Flash Gorden --best boarding party music ever!
Flying jetski piloted by a football player FTW! (So long as he has an immortal soundtrack playing on his ipod)
"Matt Damon in space is a danger to us all" I can't even
So you missed Babylon 5, that uses breaching pods to cut their way into a vessel.
Legends of Galactic Heroes, that uses gas to make firearms useless on the ship being boarded, meaning that fighting is done in melee in space suits with axes and swords.
And the big boy 40K that have more ships, vessels and devices used for boarding than most universes have different ship types in total. Some are even just torpedoes filled with men, others are huge landing crafts made for docking directly to a ship, not to mention the somewhat unreliable teleportation and the most famous drop pods that are basically made to drop from orbit, but as reentry speed is too slow they add rocket engines to make it go even faster, only to break the speed a few meters over the target. Or we could point to the Orcs way of doing it, which is really just dropping asteroids with people on and hope they survive, or a small moon in some cases, usually also filled with a uncountable amount of engines that may or may not be controlled by the same factions.
This
No Astartes? But Mortal Engines and Gravity? No thumbs up for you.
The highly unfortunate fact that it wasn't endorsed by games workshop may have been the reason it's not mentioned. These guys know about Warhammer 40000 so it's highly likely they know about it but since these guys do official films, shows, and games it probably wasn't included.
if no astartes, why not Space Hulk: deathwing, where a terminator squad enter in a spacehulk via Boarding Torpedo
@@stefano-b-3125
I didn't make this video so I'm unsure myself.
Astartes and Gropos forgotten, and the long in the tooth Daedalus maneuver.
Once HAL took over Discovery, wouldn't Dave Bowman's breach fall into this category? I mean really, how could you have left this out?
Babylon 5 and Stargate would like to have a word with you out back...
"Matt Damon in space is a danger to us all."
I can't think of anything that has been said that is more true
Star Trek Voyager s3 e24 Displaced - just get beamed off through shields from over 40 light years away. A casual way to hijack a ship.
Star Trek - Insurrection - just beam the entire bridge crew onto a holographic simulation of their own bridge while they have to reset shields. They won't even realise.
Now that's sneaky.
#1 The Tantine 4.
Important part of the boarding procedure, tractor in any escape pods that get jettisoned as they may have the contraband you are looking for, along with droids that don't show up on life scanners.
You missed the boarding of War Rocket Ajax from Flash Gordon.
that whole movie was a "meh" in my opinion (they didn't even keep "Thun, Prince of the Lion-Men" like from the original (1930's) and from the cartoon).👎🏻🤦♂️🤦🏾♂️🙄
Astartes: laughs in boarding torpedo.
Man I can't wait till Astartes comes more mainstream and we get a movie, and more Games. They make the rest of these look like amateurs
I saw the title and immediately thought “oh cool, someone has seen Astartes” but no, the video let me down there. However this comments section is gold.
No boarding torpedos ?
Best boarding action: Have your friendly (but grumpy) Asgard beam a Mk 82 nuke into the enemy hive ship's engineering section, watch the pretty fireworks.
We are the Borg.
Have an assimilated day.
Adeptus Astartes make Stormtroopers look like friggin' amateurs! They load up onto a boarding TORPEDO, and, just blast their way onto an enemy ship, kill everything, and, leave.
I was gonna mention Astartes but most comments are already about it.
The Galactica ramming the Colony just goes to show how tough of a ship she is. She's supposed to be on her *last leg* at the point, but she still manages to bring the crew back alive
So say we all
In Firefly was a nice boarding. When crew attempts to rescue Captain from Nishka space station. It was simpe but very elegant and more science, then fiction ;)
Watch Astartes and remake this video with it as number 1.
how about the Severed Dreams from Babylon 5 is a fantastic episode
Legends of the Galactic Heroes should be part of Generation Film.
Was thinking that too, the way they pump gas in to make lasers useless is a brilliant way of explaining why they need axes, swords and lances instead. Also would have like Babylon 5 and 40K, as in 40K it's kinda a main thing to do as they also have more vessels dedicate to bording than most universes have different ships in total.
Astartes should have been included, they literally used a boarding torpedo to get on the enemy ship and just blasted their way through the whole ship.
Errr, Rogue One, one man boarding party?
“Murder Hole” would make a great band name.
It's also a part of a castle. A good castle design has the entrance have two gates you must pass through in order to pass that entry. In between the two gates is an empty room, above which is a hole in the ceiling that allows defenders in the room above to attack the invaders below from an elevated position. This opening is often referred to as a Murder Hole.
What about the SDF-1's Daedalus Maneuver from Robotech? While initially used as a ship killer, it is an excellent breaching maneuver.
Astartes 1-5 fan films on youtube - the best boading scene ever.
Nice. :)
Also: Scimitar without the "h".
Like the oriental sabre.
Prince Vultan's winged Hawkmen boarding Ming the Merciless' imperial space cruiser in the movie "Flash Gordon" was pretty good for it's time.
HERESY! Astartes is the best, with boarding of the donnanger of "the expanse" as a good second
Shoulda seen my first couple manual docking in Elite Dangerous, not the smoothest operations.
*talks about boarding*
Has the Arcadia in the background.
Well played
The Arcadia would be a nice unarmed transport in 40k.
I don't think that Cruiser was at Reach, the UNSC wasn't aware of the Covenant on the planet till the game which is after Joshua's sacrifice.
I think he's talking about a cruiser that was destroyed in the Fall of Reach Novel
@@bradleyrutledge Perhaps, doesn't really matter either way I suppose.
Annoyingly the scence used was not on reach and was noble team as part of the hype for the game.
@@bradleyrutledge I think he is which is not what was portrayed - in the novel they fly banshees through the gravity lift and drop the bomb up into the ship.
Kind of disappointed as the lack of research here, especially given the number of options for boarding actions in Halo
@@tomasdawe4423 Thanks for the correction
Love the Arcadia behind you. Yamato is my all time favorite ship.
You missed the best Halo boarding..
"Sir, permission to leave the station."
"For what purpose, Master Chief."
"To give the Covenant back their bomb."
The breech pods were used before the Expanse in the series Babylon 5 episode Severed Dreams.
The Manned Insertion Pods in Wing Commander IV were a really unique way of getting troops onto an enemy ship as they were launched from a torpedo bomber and latched onto the hull. Very sneaky, stealthy, and effective, but with a tremendous amount of risk involved. They were affectionately referred to as "Spam cans" by Col. Decker, commander of the TCM Marines that did the landing ops.
the one where the belter's bored the other ship that had the older man belter leanding it was awesome too,the best i think
The scene where the corrupted Earth Alliance sends breaching pods to Babylon 5 and Garabaldi leads the defense of the Station
For me, the best ship boarding was from Babylon 5 episode Severed Dream and SeaQuest DSV season 2 final episode where the crew board enemy ship.
Both using boarding ship that attach to ship's hull and cut hole in it for the crew to board.
I always liked how the crew of Serenity boarded the space station to rescue the Capt and Wash.
Love the way you have the arcadia as a wallpaper
I like the Borg way from Star Trek!! Tractor beam a vessel, take down its shields, start beaming drones on board and pull it in side the cube at the same time! There’s a “Voyager” Ep called “Collective” where this basically happens
Nice shout-out to the Expanse, but imo the last sequence in Season 4 where Ashford and crew fight their way through Marco's ship takes the cake for me. Ashford and Marco are both ruthless in their own way, and the slow, careful cat-and-mouse games during a zero-G gunfight are some of the tensest action scenes I've ever watched.
The Scimitar is a Reman warship, not Romulan.
Nice that you have the Arcadia in the back ground.
Macross/Robotech Daedalus manoeuver; a giant robot-ship punches an alien battleship to deliver a cadre of giant robots inside its armor and vlow it up from the inside; SDF-1 even does an improved full-bodied version inside the Mothership of the enemy fleet near the end of the series! A giant robot covered in robots firing all their weapons inside the enemy ship before engaging their reflector-field and staying inside the enemy when it explode! How could you left THAT one out and have Gravity on your list? How about 2001 Space Odyssey between Dave and Hal?
I liked the boarding of the Enterprise in Star Trek Beyond. The atmosphere was sheer chaos as the Enterprise was fighting for her dear life. Being shredded and boarded at the same time while also capturing fleeing Enterprise crew members was phenomenal to watch while also painful to watch as the Enterprise fight quickly becomes futile.
I love how Capt. Harlock is mentioned. Albator '78 is my favorite animated series.
The Expanse novels describe a boarding action as a race.
The way the authors describe it, it is practically a game of chicken. To the boarding parties, the Bridge isn't the main target, it's engineering. See, doesn't really matter who holds the bridge, because if you lose engineering, you don't really own your ship anymore. The game of chicken is between the boarders, the boarded ship's defenders, and the nerve of the captain with their hand over the self-destruct button.
Actually the 2008 Clone Wars series had a lot of awesome ship boarding sequences, while the OG Tantive scene is iconic it has since been out done.
Also I would like to shoutout the Collectors boarding the Normandy in Mass Effect 2.
the last battle at the cylon colony ship is my favorite!
I'm surprised you didn't add Saesee Tiins boarding of a Separatist warship from the 2003 Clone Wars show
The mortal engines scene wasn’t them boarding it was them *CONSUMING*
Ramming speed and boarding are on of the best combinations
Earth Alliance boarding Babylon 5 during Severed Dreams deserves a place
Just finished reading Alien Secrets by Ian Douglas. It has a neat boarding scene of the USSS Hillenkoeter by the Saurians. While the human carrier has its shields up, the Saurian dimension portal tech ignores them. The only requirement is that both points must be at relative rest to one another. While it is technically possible to open a portal to a ship that’s moving at a radically different vector, it’s very difficult. So after the initial boarders appear all over the ship (and with the resident space marines off-ship), the Captain has the pilot start moving randomly, so that the enemy ship can’t match vectors and send in more boarders
Allen should do the 9 best Jay Baruchel quotes coz he sounds exactly like him.
I haven't heard of most of these!
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No Astarts episode 2?
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Missing the EA boarding pods of the B5 station
Hate me for this if ya want but Call of Duty Infinite Warfare has an awesome boarding and taking control sequence, and you get to play the guy that sets the detonator on the bridge window!
It's hard to do. Any galaxy any ship. 97-2006 Marine infantryman. Love the insights and show. Thanks
Kira and Dukat’s crew taking the Klingon K’vort is the best
Surprised way of the warrior from DS9 didn’t get a mention.
Why not pick the Donnager battle from the Expanse? Or proper up close scenes of breaching pods. They're not used in any of your other examples
Uhhh...I think you forgot the movie INTERSTELLAR. That docking scene was AMAZING. Come on Tars!
Docking isn't a boarding action.
@@jfangm - If Sandra Bullock (in the movie Gravity) is on the list, then I'm sure Interstellar qualifies.
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It's still not a boarding.
@@jfangm Yes it is docking. What you MEANT to say was BOARDING.🙄🤦🏾♂️🤦♂️👎🏻
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Lolz
ADHD, so stfu.