@@grubb2103 Eh, I mostly just enjoy the lore and have yet to give GW any significant sum of money. I've been enjoying the lore for over a decade, mind you.
Warhammer 40,000 is a game with lore that can take years off one’s life. Be warned how deep you do. For this even barely scratches the surface of the wars that the Imperium of Man fights. Have fun.
Wh40k has been building lore for decades, exponentionally increasing at that. To say it would take years off one's life is not an overstatement, its a cold, hard, fact.
When I was born, the doctor proclaimed: "A healthy baby boy!" and then welcomed me to my mother. When I turned 8 in 1987, I discovered Warhammer. In 96 I joined the army. South Staffs para company. When I went home 7 years later, I went straight back to Warhammer. It's in my DNA at this point.
Also hardest to learn lmao, it's the only canon I know that has lectures and documentaries on a fictional world haha Halo gets pretty deep too, but 40K is on another level.
Not a story. Setting. Wasn't born on paper originally also. Story in it changed many times. ONe of reasons new have hard time to understand it. Even today people still think Emperor is dying on Throne and "eats" human solus to continue struggle. Though is not true for how many years.
@@skywillfindyou What? That's quite literally what he's doing. He's sitting on the Golden Throne, powering the Astronomican while he powers up himself for a possible comeback (though that's a fan theory, but a pretty good one imo). Also to keep that webway gate on Terra closed. I haven't heard anything to the contrary. He's literally doing that when Roboute visits him after he's resurrected.
The women in the black and white armor arnt space marines. They are the adeptus sororitas also known as the Sisters of Battle. Aka Space nuns with guns.
I simply love the fact that within Warhammer you can say "Space Nuns with Guns" and I will 100% agree with you, understand who you mean and proceed to buy another Mini of said Faction....God-Emperor protect my Wallet
@@jon4268 *glances slowly at my 6000 point sister of battle army nervously* Youre not even wrong dude, lol Emperor protect my wallet for the love of everything
@konradlamm9243 Super late but they're official Raven Guard Successors, and they have very large army groups with them consisting of mortals trained by the space marines themselves.
5:14 - That was just the outer armored lens for his Auspex (multiple cameras of different waverlengths creating a composite view, you just now get to see the cameras.)
to me it looked like his eye burst because it looked like blood splattering against the inner side. then in the aftermath he got an augmented lense, or whatever, into his "eye"
It's not that they don't give you enough time to read. It's that they expect the average 40k viewer to develop speed reading after going through 100+ Warhammer books.
I liked the “I feel like there are so many references I’m not getting” don’t worry I’m 70 books into the “prequel” 30k books with 15+ years of playing tabletop and had no idea who anyone or anything was in this other then space marines and I’m guessing some form of rebels lol
The guy who made it actually came up with the stuff we see. The chapter has become canon since then (they are called retributors if I remember correctly). This is because he wanted to avoid extra unvanted copyright issues.
@@h00d3dcrow True but the Orbs are kind of talked about in the lore. They have very many similarities with the Yu'vath. source: ruclips.net/video/vwW9qlqjfo4/видео.html explains from 3:34 to 11:00. Arch is the only person on the entirety of youtube that recognized the lore. He's a madlad
I'm sorry you put yourself through that. I, too, went into the Horus Heresy series. It's made to kill your respect and interest for 40K, they are just so incredibly bad and screw over the lore and the setting. Anything made post.. well, at least 2020, but probably earlier than that, isn't canon.
6:20 "i know what I'm looking at, but i don't know anything about what I'm looking at" Well... Let me introduce you to the Bricky - Warhammer 40k all factions explained :D
Warhammer 40k is a bit like star wars but a totally different animal. It is its own universe with tons of novels, board games and video games centered around it. I highly reccomend Bricky's vid on Warhammer 40k lore if you want to learn more
Yeah made by one huge fan like myself but with talent, games workshop the creators of warhammer struck him down and gave him an ultimatum, basically “work for us or we remove your video” and he chose the better option and this animation is now on games workshop version of Disney plus “warhammer+”. As much as I hate games workshop for what they do to fan animators I support the creators decision to use his gift and love for warhammer to get that baaaaaaaaggg
You can make fan animations but when youre making money off of another companys ip, theyre going to put a stop to it as any company on this planet would do. If you started a company and someone was using your product to make money, would you just sit back and let it happen? The whole "gw is an evil conglomerate" trope is so tired. Theyre a relatively small company (for an international company) that was protecting their flagship property. They even went above and beyond and hired the biggest talents.
for all their faults, Games workshop protects their ip's fiercely. Which is something that we very much need in recent years, way too many franchises have been ruined by greed. Then there's games workshop which will get mad at you if you slightly fuck up some armor design, as they did with very slightly wrong kneepads in spacemarine 2 haha
@@augustusguap228 It also hasn't prevented several objectively terrible 40k based video games being made. :P But that's probably also a reason they're so protective of the IP.
2:14 "I get the feeling that if i get into this rabbit hole I'm never coming out." I jumped in feet first in 1987 and I haven't regretted it for a second. Welcome aboard!
I’m 32 years in and I can’t get out. I thought I’d grow out of it, but the lore is so compelling. I don’t play anymore but I still have a few of my prize painted minis and I watch at least 1-2 lore videos every day. Plus, it’s been amazing seeing all of the new brothers and sisters joining the fight since SM2 came out.
24:02 Space Marines (Adeptus Astartes, yes like Astartes fan film) are generically modified 2.5 meters tall (even more) super soldiers of humanity in 40k (40 thousand A. C.) they live and fight for hundreds of years and considered by the rest of mankind as the Angels of Death (the God-Emperor of Mankind's angels). The lore for 40k are among the most well written and detailed with THOUSANDS of novels and codexes (the main cycle of "prequel" 30k story of Horus Heresy is like 100 novels total). If you want to dive into this rabbit whole - by all mean do it. I've read over 200 novels in 20+ years. "In the darkness a blind man is the best guide. In an age of Madness look to the madman to show the way." (c) one of 40k epic quote. There are dozens of fan and official animations (mostly epic trailers for games and 40k rules editions like you watch in the ending of this video) almost as good as Astartes (mb we get Astartes II in the future someday) and Amazon Prime is about to make 40k mainstream in 2 project, first one is Henry Cavills (yes, Witcher and Superman is a hardcore 40k fan for decades) 40k cinematic universe + in the new anthology "secret level" one of 15 short series would be about space marines (you could watch trailer - it's just like "love, death and robots" but for videogames). P. S. and you watched the low quality version of necrons (green beams Egypt style space terminators) vs sisters of battles (nuns in space in power armor) and space marines - there are a god damn "rusty" filter on the videos to prevent copyright strikes. I could suggest you dozens of such videos in original quality.
Never finansially support Games workshop. Find either thirdparty and pay less, or get your own 3d printer, 3d scanner and make your own. Probably gonna be cheaper in the long run too.
9:24 The reason they did not hesitate a second is that in the Warhammer universe, Psychers like that poor sod, when corrupted by the warp can end up ripping open and "turn" into a warp portal. And the Warp is essentially Hell mixed with pure eldritch chaos that is beyond our comprehension, kinda. Which would be VERY BAD. As in potentially galaxy (if not greater) wide ramifications.
The Astartes that you watched was an edited one, the series of clips following that where they kept switching between MCs was from a series called the Pariah Network (I think) and it was put out by Games WorkShop (who own WH40K) but its from a paid subscription site (or RUclips channel maybe?). Anyways it's meant to be a "sequel" of sorts to the final trailer that you watched and it was made to promote the release of the 9th edition of WH40K's table top game. The big fella's are Space Marines aka the Emperor's Angels of Death, the ladies in the black armor are the Sister's of Battle and their faith in the God Emperor is so strong they're occasionally able to pull of actual miracles. Last the robot dudes are Necrons, aliens that made a bad deal 60 million years ago and all ended up with their minds trapped in robotic shells. They decided to take a 60 million year long nap to outlast some enemies and now their back to conquer the galaxy that they think belongs to them. Anyhow welcome to a rabbit hole that goes back to the late 1980's.
It's not. It never is. It never will be. Never ever get your hopes up because the expectations will never be met. Better to be pessemistic and be plesantly supprised.
The real issue is that Amazon or really any other large media organization can’t help themselves but make what would otherwise be entertainment a form of propaganda That’s why it won’t be
3:15 This is one of my favourite segments because it's such a cool example of the sheer tactical acumen of Space Marines. He exchanges a few shots with the heavy gunner at first, but even Astartes armour can't stand up to that kind of concentrated lasgun fire for long, so he covers his retreat with a flash grenade to blind the gunner's optics. He draws his plasma pistol, steps back out, and fires BLIND through the cloud left behind by his grenade's detonation. He can't see through it either, but through that short exchange of fire, he MEMORISED THE GUNNER'S POSITION. An effective counter-strategy to an enemy ambush, devised on the spot and executed to perfection in SECONDS. That's how good Space Marines are at waging war.
Really, this is one of the closest depictions of lore accurate Marines. Nothing else made so far, including the GW animations, come even close to showing their superhuman abilities that are regularly described in the lore. This one does come kinda close though.
11:15 "looks like hell" Not wrong. Maybe one of the most genius dark bits of the lore is that in 40k hyperspace, the psychic collective unsconscious, and hell are all one and the same. It's called the Warp.
@@SevTT 1: if it was the Yu'vath it would ABSOLUTELY be the warp. A key part of their premise is that their technology started integrating the warp at around the equivalent stage as the one where humans developed the bow and arrow. 2: It's not Yu'Vath. Creator said in interview that he was aiming for something original and didn't realize it would resemble obscure Yu'Vath lore. 3: It sure as hell is the warp. The entity within the orb drags the space marines into the immaterium with him because he's trying to use them as decoys against warp predators, a desperation tactic ("impossible, we'll never survive") that immediately fails. The Space Marines likely arrive in the location within the warp their target was trying to return to. Judging by the glimpses of the future that poor inquisition psyker experienced, it won't end well for them.
I remember hearing somewhere that the eye-lenses on a Space Marine's helmet aren't actually eye-holes. They're a series of cameras behind a colored lens projecting to a screen inside the helmet. That way the entire face can be covered in a layer of armor instead of having little weak points like that. The 'explosion' you saw I think was actually the camera lenses freaking out as they were getting crushed by the psyker's telekinetic powers. If you look close, you can see a bunch of red circles wiggling around in there once the lens breaks. XD
I hadn't noticed before, but the narrator (Emma Gregory) for the last trailer has one of the main voice parts in the amazing Ciaphas Cain audiobooks as Valhallan Imperial Guard officer, Jenit Sulla. In the books, she's later told to be the first female Guard officer to reach the rank of General. She has a great voice. She's also Minthara's VA in Baldur's Gate 3.
That guy who got his head popped like a watermelon was been given mercy, this universe being possessed is basically slow soul death and a demon manifesting in real space, not a massive problem for a squad of marines or even one, but normal humans can be the entire ship being lost. If that happens in the warp, the way they travel, that means the "warp shield" failed and everyone is about to have a really bad day.
A demonic possesion is a huge f-ing problem for every one, even for the marines. That's why they don't f around when you got suspected demonic possesions. You deal with it fast and decisive, and don't leave any room what so ever for it to fester and get a hold.
For the ones after Astartes, the ones without the narrator were clips from a streaming miniseries they made called Pariah Nexus. The one with the narration was a trailer for an edition of the tabletop game, taking place earlier in the same campaign.
The bald woman and her armored sisters are Adepta Sororitas. the owl visor looking helmet is iconic to the Sororitas. The red eyed black space marine is a Salamander, the bestest bros of all Astartes.
I don't normally like reaction videos but this one was great. This is the reaction I expect from people seeing Astartes for the first time, going into it knowing very little about it. Its clear you enjoyed every second of it and all the questions show your genuine curiosity. See you in the rabbit hole.
Funny you said that about getting lost in it after this video, happened to me after I watched it the first time. Didnt know anything about Warhammer, now I think its cool as hell.
The fade in between scenes is where the different parts were released in separate videos. Love seeing you react and find fascination with the 40K lore. Keep digging down the rabbit hole!
I've only just connected that the VA of the sister of battle towards the end is the same as Minthara from Baldur's Gate 3. Such an iconic, gravely voice that is a perfect fit for the Warhammer 40k universe.
9:34 craziest detail here is that he flinched, space marines are trained to be unshakeable, as seen later the one with the cracked eyepiece doesn't even react to losing an arm so for something to make a space marine flinch you know it must be some scary shit.
Small explanation: The big dudes in armor are space marines, also known as the adeptus astartes. Genetically modified super soldiers, stronger, faster, smarter, better in every way than ordinary human. They are the elite force of the human empire but their numbers are quite limited. Since they are quite rare they are known as the emperors angels of death. They are also the posterboys of the franchise, which is why you see them basically everywhere. The ladies in armor are also soldiers but they are in service to the church. Since the church isn't allowed to have "men at arms" they simply armed women. Battlenuns. Super fanatical religious zealots whose prayers actually work sometimes. They live to burn and cleanse the universe of everything that isn't human and/or doesnt believe in the god emperor. The robot dudes are the remnants of an species that once ruled the galaxy, got tricked by some stargods, then they enslaved the same stargods and went to sleep for several million years to let the galaxy heal itself after a war of unimaginable proportions. Really hard to kill, most powerful technology in the game. All of this is part of an constantly evolving table top game from the eighties, where you collect, build and paint miniatures and lead them to battle against other nerds who do the same. Theres dozends of factions and there's one core rule to everything warhammer: Everything is crazy over the top. EVERYTHING. To give you an Idea: The normal soldier, of which there are uncountable billions, is armed with laserrifles that basically never jam, are powerful enough to just tear away limbs, ammunition isnt a problem while also beeing really precise. Those rifles are the WEAKEST weapon in the franchise, commonly referred to as flashlights.
Warhammer’s got an ocean of lore. From funny engineers who only remember how the machines work through religious rituals, to genetically engineered super soldiers, to improbably lucky officers getting into and out of trouble on a regular basis in the funniest ways, to weird demon cults, to space bugs and space elves, and a ten foot tall black guy spitting the funniest one liner before beating the shit out of his crazy brother with a hammer, to mushroom men with the mannerisms and mentality of British soccer hooligans whose machines work on troll logic, there’s a little something for everyone in the grim dark future.
i love how both the marines and chaos cultists they are fighting are both being intelligent about how they fight the cultists set up ambush poitns and chokepoints and make use of machine guns and anti tank weapons and try to funnel the space marines in a couple at a time so they dont have to fight the whole group at once and the marines also are smart about it anticipating they would be ambushed so one of them goes to counter the ambusher with the autocannon and they take turns laying down suppressive fire on the psykers when one of them runs out of ammunition its good to see the enemy being smart about it and the protagonists still win because they are not only smart but also generally more powerful that it doesnt matter how well thought out the cultists defense was
"In the video game they're fightin bugs, in here they're fightin people. I'm curious on that" Friend, let me tell you about a little shindig called the HORUS HERESY
Also, I subbed and liked every video I watched. I need more positive content in my line up. Thanks for taking the time out to make these. FOR THE EMPEROR
What's crazy about 15:00, is whatever is forcing those kreigsmen to attack an astartes has to be super strong, as they're one of the most loyal groups to the empire.
The first story you watched was about 13 minutes long. It was made over several years, and released in 5 parts, with each taking the creator several months to make. Most got longer or more complex than the one before, as he got better at using the tools he was using. It's insane how much work some fans will put into a world they love.
That girl with the great narration voice you mentioned also played Minthara for bg3. Also others but those two popped in my head when I heard minthara thefirst time after playing Inqisitor and using Adeptus Sororitas.
@@theredpillneo2296 There was a teaser that came out a while back but so far there have been no progress updates, utterly radio silent. But given how the first animation also took years to make I wouldn't be surprised if it's taking around the same amount of time to produce. Sure, Syama Pedersen is working with GW now and might have more resources and maybe even a team (speculation) but the scale of the project might have grown in proportion with the capabilities.
This is Warhammer: 1 month ago "I know if I go down this rabbit hole Im going to get lost" I Finally Understand: 2 weeks ago These Factions are HORRIFIC: 9 Days ago This connects ALL the dots: 5 days ago He fell down the rabbit hole. Welcome to Warhammer, Brother!
The First movie was AFAIK from one guy in i cave, The second movie was from a short movie by games workshop for their streaming Portal and the last Clip was just a commercial for the 10th Edition
2:13 "I got a feeling if I ever get into this rabbit hole, I'm never coming out" Too late, brother. You have crossed the Threshold. Welcome..... to the Imperium of Man.
You could make a whole movie like this, with no talking just this stuff and it’ll be able to tell any entire story and people will think it was none stop fire
Welcome to the fandom brother, we're always happy to welcome new members lol. Warhammer 40k is such a hard pitch for someone new because outside of these cutscenes and fan animations we haven't had many good adaptations of WH40K into visual media. The books are fantastic, but good luck trying to get someone new into a fandom with books lmao 😂
The videos you watched after the Astartes Project are from the 9th Edition of Warhammer 40K trailer and a show from Games Workshop’s streaming app (Warhammer+) called “Pariah Nexus”. Those robots with the green ray guns that destroy matter are Necrons, an ancient alien race that was tricked to transfer their minds into machines for immortality. They went into hibernation 60 million years earlier due to all of their wars wiping out nearly all life in the galaxy. Now, their various “tomb” worlds are slowly awakening.
3:08 there are many many factions in Warhammer. The easiest way to think of it the Imperium vs everyone else, but at the same time some of the Xenos (alien) factions fight each other as well. Basically there are no "good guys", it's humans trying to survive under the brutal leadership of the Emperor.
The emperor isn't even leading at the moment, he's stuck on the golden throne trying to keep the astronomicon lit and the warp gate in the palace shut. It's the high kords of terra that have led everything to shit as their bureaucracy has fucked everything.
Red helmet for the blue suit (Ultramarines) is for lieutenants and is an homage to the last use of the red helmet as a mark of censure to an Ultramarine who theorized and ran war games about how to kill other space marines. He was in time-out waiting to get a talking to when the Heresy broke out.
So after the Astartes fan made thing, Everything after that with the guy in green and the sister is from some kind of animated series or miniseries Games Workshop has on their own website I guess. Never seen it but i've seen clips shared around. The green Space Marine is from the Salamanders legion (Space Marines are split into different legions, with a Primarch they're derived from), and the women in power armor are called Sisters of Battle. Not space marines themselves but part of the church basically and very powerful in their own right, just not with the massive 1-2 tonne armor and genetic augments Space Marines/ Astartes have. The angels they speak of are the Astartes/ Space marines, the Angels of Death
This is science fiction's mosh pit, brother. Warhammer is a setting unlike any other, because it took every cool idea from all the other settings, then cranked them up to 11.
The tagline for the franchise is "In the grim darkness of the 41st millenium, there is only war" so if you want to know who is at war with who, the answer is "Yes" and "All the time"
"Are they always at war?"
Yes.
"Who's against who?"
Also yes.
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😂😂😂😂😂
Facts af
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Literally came to the comment section to make this exact post lmao
Another lost soul joins the Warhammer community. We welcome you brother.
Lolz exactly what I was going to say
a soul going to the emperor right ? otherwise ....
@@maximusd26 Of course! I’m no heretic!!!
We welcome a brother and pity their wallet
@@vincentgaspar3327 Just because you're not a Heretic, doesn't mean he'll make the same poor choice! ;)
"I get the feeling that once I get into this rabbit hole I'm never gettin out." - Tzeentch laughs manically in the Warp!
Rebuttal: Why would you want to get out?
@@DarkVeghetta For your wallet's sake.
@@grubb2103 Eh, I mostly just enjoy the lore and have yet to give GW any significant sum of money. I've been enjoying the lore for over a decade, mind you.
It was always going to be this way. And it wasn't. The way has been changed.
@@DarkVeghettasame. I occasionally find old codexs or books from Used book stores, through
Warhammer 40,000 is a game with lore that can take years off one’s life. Be warned how deep you do. For this even barely scratches the surface of the wars that the Imperium of Man fights. Have fun.
This nothing but a casual Monday
Wh40k has been building lore for decades, exponentionally increasing at that. To say it would take years off one's life is not an overstatement, its a cold, hard, fact.
How do you eat an elephant?
Fr.
I'm at 25 years and counting.
Ye be warned.
When I was born, the doctor proclaimed: "A healthy baby boy!" and then welcomed me to my mother.
When I turned 8 in 1987, I discovered Warhammer.
In 96 I joined the army. South Staffs para company.
When I went home 7 years later, I went straight back to Warhammer.
It's in my DNA at this point.
Warhammer 40k is one of the hardest stories ever put to paper
Also hardest to learn lmao, it's the only canon I know that has lectures and documentaries on a fictional world haha Halo gets pretty deep too, but 40K is on another level.
Not a story. Setting.
Wasn't born on paper originally also.
Story in it changed many times. ONe of reasons new have hard time to understand it.
Even today people still think Emperor is dying on Throne and "eats" human solus to continue struggle. Though is not true for how many years.
@@firingallcylinders2949best start real life Schola Progenium haha!
And what is the true? I am curious @@skywillfindyou
@@skywillfindyou What? That's quite literally what he's doing. He's sitting on the Golden Throne, powering the Astronomican while he powers up himself for a possible comeback (though that's a fan theory, but a pretty good one imo). Also to keep that webway gate on Terra closed. I haven't heard anything to the contrary. He's literally doing that when Roboute visits him after he's resurrected.
"they're only fighting bugs" understatement of the year
Like calling a run in with a Carnifex a little “accident.”
But chuckles the carnifex is just so cuddly....... Once you get past it's spiky personality.
The women in the black and white armor arnt space marines. They are the adeptus sororitas also known as the Sisters of Battle. Aka Space nuns with guns.
BOLTER BITCHES!!
I simply love the fact that within Warhammer you can say "Space Nuns with Guns" and I will 100% agree with you, understand who you mean and proceed to buy another Mini of said Faction....God-Emperor protect my Wallet
@@jon4268not even him on terra can protect your wallet in the realm if games workshop
@@jon4268 *glances slowly at my 6000 point sister of battle army nervously* Youre not even wrong dude, lol Emperor protect my wallet for the love of everything
Ya, you're right this was a one man project if my memory serves right
Yup and the retributors are the first and it only fan made chapter to be made cannon
I think
@@benmelton3457nah the Raptors and Tome Keepers were fan submissions to white dwarf magazine and they are both canon.
@@rayvg7709 wait the raptors are fan made? Thats so cool
@konradlamm9243 Super late but they're official Raven Guard Successors, and they have very large army groups with them consisting of mortals trained by the space marines themselves.
5:14 - That was just the outer armored lens for his Auspex (multiple cameras of different waverlengths creating a composite view, you just now get to see the cameras.)
to me it looked like his eye burst because it looked like blood splattering against the inner side. then in the aftermath he got an augmented lense, or whatever, into his "eye"
@@KaySan666 No, the op is right. besides there wouldnt be enough time to install an augmentic.
It's not that they don't give you enough time to read. It's that they expect the average 40k viewer to develop speed reading after going through 100+ Warhammer books.
Me 213 books in 👀
And most of them are trash. :(
@@UnsoberIdiot your name is accurate
@@theredpillneo2296WTF 😂 that’s hardcore. Respect Brother
@@Cyberpunk9000 been reading em for like 6 years now, plus I always have been a fast reader so that def helps with these books 💀
I liked the “I feel like there are so many references I’m not getting” don’t worry I’m 70 books into the “prequel” 30k books with 15+ years of playing tabletop and had no idea who anyone or anything was in this other then space marines and I’m guessing some form of rebels lol
The guy who made it actually came up with the stuff we see. The chapter has become canon since then (they are called retributors if I remember correctly). This is because he wanted to avoid extra unvanted copyright issues.
@@h00d3dcrow True but the Orbs are kind of talked about in the lore. They have very many similarities with the Yu'vath.
source: ruclips.net/video/vwW9qlqjfo4/видео.html explains from 3:34 to 11:00. Arch is the only person on the entirety of youtube that recognized the lore. He's a madlad
@@Ekstrax He has stated that the orbs are not the Yu'vath.
I'm sorry you put yourself through that.
I, too, went into the Horus Heresy series. It's made to kill your respect and interest for 40K, they are just so incredibly bad and screw over the lore and the setting.
Anything made post.. well, at least 2020, but probably earlier than that, isn't canon.
@@UnsoberIdiotoh alrighty then
6:20 "i know what I'm looking at, but i don't know anything about what I'm looking at" Well... Let me introduce you to the Bricky - Warhammer 40k all factions explained :D
"There are different types of Warhammers..." Not gonna lie, that was hilarious
John Warhammer
40,000 different types in fact
Horus Heresy stole 20 of them during battle of Lupercal.
"In here they're fighting people"
Silly man, traitors aren't people! **cackles in Inquisition**
"I got a feeling if I get into this rabbit hole I'm never coming out"...Famous last words
Warhammer 40k is a bit like star wars but a totally different animal. It is its own universe with tons of novels, board games and video games centered around it. I highly reccomend Bricky's vid on Warhammer 40k lore if you want to learn more
Yeah Bricky's videos are a great fun way of learning about 40K
@@spirosgreek1171 remember that ship the Luna wolves destroyed in the first book of the heresy.
It's like Star Wars but 1 million times better...
@@hook86Disney's version at least😂
No, watch Arch's videos.
Also GW is working on killing Warhammer like Disney is killing Star Wars. Enjoy your slop, peasant.
Yeah made by one huge fan like myself but with talent, games workshop the creators of warhammer struck him down and gave him an ultimatum, basically “work for us or we remove your video” and he chose the better option and this animation is now on games workshop version of Disney plus “warhammer+”. As much as I hate games workshop for what they do to fan animators I support the creators decision to use his gift and love for warhammer to get that baaaaaaaaggg
5:10 what “blew up” was the cracking of the helmets lenses, if his bud was like 2 seconds late that marines head would have been paper thin
You can make fan animations but when youre making money off of another companys ip, theyre going to put a stop to it as any company on this planet would do. If you started a company and someone was using your product to make money, would you just sit back and let it happen? The whole "gw is an evil conglomerate" trope is so tired. Theyre a relatively small company (for an international company) that was protecting their flagship property. They even went above and beyond and hired the biggest talents.
@@xxchaos315xx6 boot licking lvl max
for all their faults, Games workshop protects their ip's fiercely. Which is something that we very much need in recent years, way too many franchises have been ruined by greed. Then there's games workshop which will get mad at you if you slightly fuck up some armor design, as they did with very slightly wrong kneepads in spacemarine 2 haha
@@augustusguap228 It also hasn't prevented several objectively terrible 40k based video games being made. :P
But that's probably also a reason they're so protective of the IP.
2:14 "I get the feeling that if i get into this rabbit hole I'm never coming out." I jumped in feet first in 1987 and I haven't regretted it for a second. Welcome aboard!
I’m 32 years in and I can’t get out. I thought I’d grow out of it, but the lore is so compelling. I don’t play anymore but I still have a few of my prize painted minis and I watch at least 1-2 lore videos every day. Plus, it’s been amazing seeing all of the new brothers and sisters joining the fight since SM2 came out.
We welcome you to the fold brother. May the Emperor guide and protect you
You worship a corpse lol
24:02 Space Marines (Adeptus Astartes, yes like Astartes fan film) are generically modified 2.5 meters tall (even more) super soldiers of humanity in 40k (40 thousand A. C.) they live and fight for hundreds of years and considered by the rest of mankind as the Angels of Death (the God-Emperor of Mankind's angels). The lore for 40k are among the most well written and detailed with THOUSANDS of novels and codexes (the main cycle of "prequel" 30k story of Horus Heresy is like 100 novels total). If you want to dive into this rabbit whole - by all mean do it. I've read over 200 novels in 20+ years.
"In the darkness a blind man is the best guide. In an age of Madness look to the madman to show the way." (c) one of 40k epic quote.
There are dozens of fan and official animations (mostly epic trailers for games and 40k rules editions like you watch in the ending of this video) almost as good as Astartes (mb we get Astartes II in the future someday) and Amazon Prime is about to make 40k mainstream in 2 project, first one is Henry Cavills (yes, Witcher and Superman is a hardcore 40k fan for decades) 40k cinematic universe + in the new anthology "secret level" one of 15 short series would be about space marines (you could watch trailer - it's just like "love, death and robots" but for videogames).
P. S. and you watched the low quality version of necrons (green beams Egypt style space terminators) vs sisters of battles (nuns in space in power armor) and space marines - there are a god damn "rusty" filter on the videos to prevent copyright strikes. I could suggest you dozens of such videos in original quality.
Please do bro and thank you 🙏🏾
I see my own enthusiam mirrored in your video
Discovering Warhammer 40k was one hell of a ride
1:30 In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
“If I get into this rabbit hole, I’m never getting out”
Pray to the Emperor you don’t start buying minis.
Never finansially support Games workshop. Find either thirdparty and pay less, or get your own 3d printer, 3d scanner and make your own. Probably gonna be cheaper in the long run too.
let us know when you start listening to lore videos to go to sleep
Every night bro
this is me at the moment loool
One of us …one of us …ONE OF US xD , watch brickys warhammer explained video next
Dude! You forgot to do the "Gooble Gobble" it's not legally binding without it!
9:24 The reason they did not hesitate a second is that in the Warhammer universe, Psychers like that poor sod, when corrupted by the warp can end up ripping open and "turn" into a warp portal. And the Warp is essentially Hell mixed with pure eldritch chaos that is beyond our comprehension, kinda. Which would be VERY BAD. As in potentially galaxy (if not greater) wide ramifications.
@@KhaziirEverflight I don’t think words can address how horrible it is. He will have to see it for himself.
the worst part of astartes is realizing its over
The Astartes that you watched was an edited one, the series of clips following that where they kept switching between MCs was from a series called the Pariah Network (I think) and it was put out by Games WorkShop (who own WH40K) but its from a paid subscription site (or RUclips channel maybe?). Anyways it's meant to be a "sequel" of sorts to the final trailer that you watched and it was made to promote the release of the 9th edition of WH40K's table top game.
The big fella's are Space Marines aka the Emperor's Angels of Death, the ladies in the black armor are the Sister's of Battle and their faith in the God Emperor is so strong they're occasionally able to pull of actual miracles. Last the robot dudes are Necrons, aliens that made a bad deal 60 million years ago and all ended up with their minds trapped in robotic shells. They decided to take a 60 million year long nap to outlast some enemies and now their back to conquer the galaxy that they think belongs to them.
Anyhow welcome to a rabbit hole that goes back to the late 1980's.
87🤟🏼
I still want to get my hands on The Exodite from that streaming service, just to see some fully animated Tau
If the show or movie is held to this standard it will be amazing
I mean, we saw clips from their Necron show
It's not. It never is. It never will be. Never ever get your hopes up because the expectations will never be met. Better to be pessemistic and be plesantly supprised.
The real issue is that Amazon or really any other large media organization can’t help themselves but make what would otherwise be entertainment a form of propaganda
That’s why it won’t be
i Died when he said there is different types of warhammers XD
Where is war there is a hammer-horus heresy
3:15 This is one of my favourite segments because it's such a cool example of the sheer tactical acumen of Space Marines. He exchanges a few shots with the heavy gunner at first, but even Astartes armour can't stand up to that kind of concentrated lasgun fire for long, so he covers his retreat with a flash grenade to blind the gunner's optics. He draws his plasma pistol, steps back out, and fires BLIND through the cloud left behind by his grenade's detonation. He can't see through it either, but through that short exchange of fire, he MEMORISED THE GUNNER'S POSITION. An effective counter-strategy to an enemy ambush, devised on the spot and executed to perfection in SECONDS. That's how good Space Marines are at waging war.
Really, this is one of the closest depictions of lore accurate Marines. Nothing else made so far, including the GW animations, come even close to showing their superhuman abilities that are regularly described in the lore. This one does come kinda close though.
@@Gunnar001have you seen the new animation that came out?
@@Gunnar001it’s called the awakening, search “the awakening 40k” came out 2 days ago
@@theredpillneo2296Which one?
@@Gunnar001 it’s called the awakening
Such a treat to see you enjoy this short for the first time. Looking forward to your other Warhammer videos I see you made!
11:15 "looks like hell" Not wrong. Maybe one of the most genius dark bits of the lore is that in 40k hyperspace, the psychic collective unsconscious, and hell are all one and the same. It's called the Warp.
It's not in the warp, AFAIK. The Astartes video pulls from some -deep- and mostly-forgotten 40K lore.
@@SevTT 1: if it was the Yu'vath it would ABSOLUTELY be the warp. A key part of their premise is that their technology started integrating the warp at around the equivalent stage as the one where humans developed the bow and arrow.
2: It's not Yu'Vath. Creator said in interview that he was aiming for something original and didn't realize it would resemble obscure Yu'Vath lore.
3: It sure as hell is the warp. The entity within the orb drags the space marines into the immaterium with him because he's trying to use them as decoys against warp predators, a desperation tactic ("impossible, we'll never survive") that immediately fails. The Space Marines likely arrive in the location within the warp their target was trying to return to. Judging by the glimpses of the future that poor inquisition psyker experienced, it won't end well for them.
2:12 you're not
LMAO 😂
@@echelonjon When You look down this rabbithole - > the rabbithole looks back into you.
I remember hearing somewhere that the eye-lenses on a Space Marine's helmet aren't actually eye-holes. They're a series of cameras behind a colored lens projecting to a screen inside the helmet. That way the entire face can be covered in a layer of armor instead of having little weak points like that. The 'explosion' you saw I think was actually the camera lenses freaking out as they were getting crushed by the psyker's telekinetic powers. If you look close, you can see a bunch of red circles wiggling around in there once the lens breaks. XD
"Are they always at war?" He says
In the grim darkness of the forty-first millennium, there is only war. My friend.
I hadn't noticed before, but the narrator (Emma Gregory) for the last trailer has one of the main voice parts in the amazing Ciaphas Cain audiobooks as Valhallan Imperial Guard officer, Jenit Sulla. In the books, she's later told to be the first female Guard officer to reach the rank of General. She has a great voice. She's also Minthara's VA in Baldur's Gate 3.
5:10 no explosion, the outer covering for the optical lenses in his helmet cracked from the pressure. He got squeezed hard.
For humans, this is a bloodbath. For the space marines, just a regular Tuesday.
When more people react to the god tier Warhammer 40k mythos. It gives me Ork levels of stupid happy.
A new hand touches the beacon of war
Goddammit, now I can't unhear it! May you be eternally tortured by the Nirnroot you just can't find.
@@timogeerties3487 NO! NOT THE NIRNROOT! THE NINE CURSE YOU!
That guy who got his head popped like a watermelon was been given mercy, this universe being possessed is basically slow soul death and a demon manifesting in real space, not a massive problem for a squad of marines or even one, but normal humans can be the entire ship being lost.
If that happens in the warp, the way they travel, that means the "warp shield" failed and everyone is about to have a really bad day.
A demonic possesion is a huge f-ing problem for every one, even for the marines. That's why they don't f around when you got suspected demonic possesions. You deal with it fast and decisive, and don't leave any room what so ever for it to fester and get a hold.
For the ones after Astartes, the ones without the narrator were clips from a streaming miniseries they made called Pariah Nexus. The one with the narration was a trailer for an edition of the tabletop game, taking place earlier in the same campaign.
“Are they always at war?”
Yes.
“Who is against who?”
Yes.
"If I get into this rabbit hole in never coming out" Correct my friend.
“Once I get into this rabbit hole, I’m never coming out” understatement of the century
@@Clabahoy 🤣 I’m just wondering which faction he’s going back. It’s a foregone conclusion
The bald woman and her armored sisters are Adepta Sororitas. the owl visor looking helmet is iconic to the Sororitas.
The red eyed black space marine is a Salamander, the bestest bros of all Astartes.
I don't normally like reaction videos but this one was great. This is the reaction I expect from people seeing Astartes for the first time, going into it knowing very little about it. Its clear you enjoyed every second of it and all the questions show your genuine curiosity. See you in the rabbit hole.
Funny you said that about getting lost in it after this video, happened to me after I watched it the first time. Didnt know anything about Warhammer, now I think its cool as hell.
"There are different types of marines"
Ohhhhh....my sweet summer child.
welcome to Warhammer. you can never leave
Whe would anyone want to? :)
The fade in between scenes is where the different parts were released in separate videos. Love seeing you react and find fascination with the 40K lore. Keep digging down the rabbit hole!
I've only just connected that the VA of the sister of battle towards the end is the same as Minthara from Baldur's Gate 3. Such an iconic, gravely voice that is a perfect fit for the Warhammer 40k universe.
40K is such a vibe. Full of excellent quotes like "Suffering is *our prayer*." - Battle Nun
9:34 craziest detail here is that he flinched, space marines are trained to be unshakeable, as seen later the one with the cracked eyepiece doesn't even react to losing an arm so for something to make a space marine flinch you know it must be some scary shit.
My fav quote,”How is a Space Marine still alive?” (While he’s watching ASTARTES)
Small explanation: The big dudes in armor are space marines, also known as the adeptus astartes. Genetically modified super soldiers, stronger, faster, smarter, better in every way than ordinary human. They are the elite force of the human empire but their numbers are quite limited. Since they are quite rare they are known as the emperors angels of death. They are also the posterboys of the franchise, which is why you see them basically everywhere.
The ladies in armor are also soldiers but they are in service to the church. Since the church isn't allowed to have "men at arms" they simply armed women. Battlenuns. Super fanatical religious zealots whose prayers actually work sometimes. They live to burn and cleanse the universe of everything that isn't human and/or doesnt believe in the god emperor.
The robot dudes are the remnants of an species that once ruled the galaxy, got tricked by some stargods, then they enslaved the same stargods and went to sleep for several million years to let the galaxy heal itself after a war of unimaginable proportions. Really hard to kill, most powerful technology in the game.
All of this is part of an constantly evolving table top game from the eighties, where you collect, build and paint miniatures and lead them to battle against other nerds who do the same. Theres dozends of factions and there's one core rule to everything warhammer: Everything is crazy over the top. EVERYTHING. To give you an Idea: The normal soldier, of which there are uncountable billions, is armed with laserrifles that basically never jam, are powerful enough to just tear away limbs, ammunition isnt a problem while also beeing really precise. Those rifles are the WEAKEST weapon in the franchise, commonly referred to as flashlights.
watching someone experience warhammer for the first time is an absolute treat. One of us. One of us
Warhammer’s got an ocean of lore. From funny engineers who only remember how the machines work through religious rituals, to genetically engineered super soldiers, to improbably lucky officers getting into and out of trouble on a regular basis in the funniest ways, to weird demon cults, to space bugs and space elves, and a ten foot tall black guy spitting the funniest one liner before beating the shit out of his crazy brother with a hammer, to mushroom men with the mannerisms and mentality of British soccer hooligans whose machines work on troll logic, there’s a little something for everyone in the grim dark future.
He: He lost the Battle.
Space Marine: only in death our duty ends, brother
I feel like I'm watching my past self getting giddy for the first time about Warhammer. I hope you enjoy the franchise!
"Are they always at war?"
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
i love how both the marines and chaos cultists they are fighting are both being intelligent about how they fight the cultists set up ambush poitns and chokepoints and make use of machine guns and anti tank weapons and try to funnel the space marines in a couple at a time so they dont have to fight the whole group at once and the marines also are smart about it anticipating they would be ambushed so one of them goes to counter the ambusher with the autocannon and they take turns laying down suppressive fire on the psykers when one of them runs out of ammunition its good to see the enemy being smart about it and the protagonists still win because they are not only smart but also generally more powerful that it doesnt matter how well thought out the cultists defense was
Welcome Battle Brother. It's about time.
"In the video game they're fightin bugs, in here they're fightin people. I'm curious on that"
Friend, let me tell you about a little shindig called the HORUS HERESY
The [ BAM. Choom choom choom choom ] scene alone created 10,000 new fans.
In the name of the Emperor I CAST YOU DOWN 🗿😎💪
The first feelings of the rabbit whole, I know nothing but everything is so cool lmfaoo
Lmao he said the meme "they are a different type of warhammers"
I love your reaction to this stuff. It’s literally jaw dropping how cool some of this stuff really is.
Also, I subbed and liked every video I watched. I need more positive content in my line up. Thanks for taking the time out to make these. FOR THE EMPEROR
This short made me go Hold Up this is Warhammmer? I havent looked back since
What's crazy about 15:00, is whatever is forcing those kreigsmen to attack an astartes has to be super strong, as they're one of the most loyal groups to the empire.
The show is Pariah Nexus on Warhammer TV. Lets just say they'd been given "special treatment" by the Necrons.
I think ive watched every reaction there is to these animations and i still love watching
"There's different kinds of Warhammers" Yes, and that one is Mr. Warhammer himself.
The first story you watched was about 13 minutes long. It was made over several years, and released in 5 parts, with each taking the creator several months to make. Most got longer or more complex than the one before, as he got better at using the tools he was using. It's insane how much work some fans will put into a world they love.
That girl with the great narration voice you mentioned also played Minthara for bg3. Also others but those two popped in my head when I heard minthara thefirst time after playing Inqisitor and using Adeptus Sororitas.
Actually dude there is an Astartes 2 but what you watched is a compilation of 5 parts that were made over the course of a few years by one guy.
Wym there is an astartes 2?
@@theredpillneo2296 There was a teaser that came out a while back but so far there have been no progress updates, utterly radio silent. But given how the first animation also took years to make I wouldn't be surprised if it's taking around the same amount of time to produce.
Sure, Syama Pedersen is working with GW now and might have more resources and maybe even a team (speculation) but the scale of the project might have grown in proportion with the capabilities.
@@TheBroGamer14082 he quit GW recently I heard
@@theredpillneo2296 oh damn fr? ight then.
@@theredpillneo2296 damn. fr? aight then.
"those wounds would have killed a mortal man.....but not one of the Emperor's Angels."
You've barely scratched the ceramite, but there's no escaping now.
24:59 One handing a gun that fires 100 calibre rockets grenades at 250 rpm is a fucking badass move
14:00 red helmet on an ultramarine indicates that he is a sergeant, there's a pretty interesting story behind why they do it that way too
@10:18 It keeps fading out because it was originally released in five separate parts. This video is all five clips combined into one.
Space marine two just sent me down a rabbit hole and I have not been able to escape it since
This is Warhammer: 1 month ago "I know if I go down this rabbit hole Im going to get lost"
I Finally Understand: 2 weeks ago
These Factions are HORRIFIC: 9 Days ago
This connects ALL the dots: 5 days ago
He fell down the rabbit hole. Welcome to Warhammer, Brother!
The First movie was AFAIK from one guy in i cave,
The second movie was from a short movie by games workshop for their streaming Portal and the last Clip was just a commercial for the 10th Edition
2:13 "I got a feeling if I ever get into this rabbit hole, I'm never coming out"
Too late, brother. You have crossed the Threshold. Welcome..... to the Imperium of Man.
You could make a whole movie like this, with no talking just this stuff and it’ll be able to tell any entire story and people will think it was none stop fire
Im glad so many new people are discovering Warhammer. Welcome to the grim darkness of the far future everyone!
They are at war with ERRRBODY!
Even themselves!
WarHammer gets the blood flowing!
Welcome to the fandom brother, we're always happy to welcome new members lol. Warhammer 40k is such a hard pitch for someone new because outside of these cutscenes and fan animations we haven't had many good adaptations of WH40K into visual media. The books are fantastic, but good luck trying to get someone new into a fandom with books lmao 😂
The videos you watched after the Astartes Project are from the 9th Edition of Warhammer 40K trailer and a show from Games Workshop’s streaming app (Warhammer+) called “Pariah Nexus”.
Those robots with the green ray guns that destroy matter are Necrons, an ancient alien race that was tricked to transfer their minds into machines for immortality. They went into hibernation 60 million years earlier due to all of their wars wiping out nearly all life in the galaxy. Now, their various “tomb” worlds are slowly awakening.
I love it when new people experience pure warhammer for the first time ;) Welcome brother, The Emporer Protects.
3:08 there are many many factions in Warhammer. The easiest way to think of it the Imperium vs everyone else, but at the same time some of the Xenos (alien) factions fight each other as well. Basically there are no "good guys", it's humans trying to survive under the brutal leadership of the Emperor.
The emperor isn't even leading at the moment, he's stuck on the golden throne trying to keep the astronomicon lit and the warp gate in the palace shut. It's the high kords of terra that have led everything to shit as their bureaucracy has fucked everything.
Red helmet for the blue suit (Ultramarines) is for lieutenants and is an homage to the last use of the red helmet as a mark of censure to an Ultramarine who theorized and ran war games about how to kill other space marines. He was in time-out waiting to get a talking to when the Heresy broke out.
Imagine every possible utopia, even the ones you disagree with. Now imagine every last one of them backfired spectacularly. Warhammer.
So after the Astartes fan made thing, Everything after that with the guy in green and the sister is from some kind of animated series or miniseries Games Workshop has on their own website I guess. Never seen it but i've seen clips shared around. The green Space Marine is from the Salamanders legion (Space Marines are split into different legions, with a Primarch they're derived from), and the women in power armor are called Sisters of Battle. Not space marines themselves but part of the church basically and very powerful in their own right, just not with the massive 1-2 tonne armor and genetic augments Space Marines/ Astartes have.
The angels they speak of are the Astartes/ Space marines, the Angels of Death
Give him a couple of years of lore. And imagine coming back to this and going ohhh that is that and.....
You gotta watch death of hope now
This is science fiction's mosh pit, brother. Warhammer is a setting unlike any other, because it took every cool idea from all the other settings, then cranked them up to 11.
The tagline for the franchise is "In the grim darkness of the 41st millenium, there is only war" so if you want to know who is at war with who, the answer is "Yes" and "All the time"