#warhammer+

[ladymirdan]

So I just watched The Tithes: Sacrifice, and I got feelings.

Brutus is best boy. I love him. Good Apothechary.

And I absolutely love how this series is aimed at a die-hard fan crowd. They reference real niche stuff wich is great. People who subscribe to Warhammer+ arent casual fans, its nerds who love stuff like this. And I hope this will be the way forward they will take.

Also, it is so incredibly refreshing to see proper Ultramarines outside of Black Library books. Both Brutus's awful bedside manner and the end quote by Agemman are great. Being an Ultramarine isn't about being a hero; it is about getting the job done. They are Angels of Death, not mercy or salvation.

I'm so tired of Fanon saying they are Boy Scouts and Goodie Two Shoes. So this was a breath of fresh air. God I want more.

[titanomancy]

"Your" faith? Trooper Audra, we are soldiers of the Imperium and servants of the God-Emperor of Mankind. It is our faith which you are so flippantly denigrating, and if your commissar were around he'd have you flogged for it.

[skunts-own-truth]

Thoughts on the Secret Level Space Marine episode:

It is very pretty looking, and it’s always good to see more of Mr. Titus, beloved by all. However, I do think it is was lacking a bit in substance. This felt like a teaser, a little taste showing off what could be done with Amazon/Warhammer, rather than anything that could stand on its own merit as a truly good work. I did like it, but I wanted a bit more. Frankly, I couldn’t possibly agree with the “this is the best TV Warhammer has had yet” statements I’ve been seeing everywhere, when all the episodes of the Tithes on Warhammer TV are just better. Maybe not better looking, but they do have more to say, and more of what I personally want to see from the setting.

I suppose this is mostly a matter of me expecting more than I should have, but I did kinda go in blind. Only thing I knew was it had Titus in it. Wasn’t sure what would come of it. Still, nice to see him hop around. Them Chaos boys wanna see him dead because of his hops, but Titus, the man can jump.

I hope next DLC for SM 2 they add a big big big jump feature, not associated with the jump pack. Titus gets UP there in the Secret Level episode. My man flies with the best of them, just try and match him on the court when he got the rock. Titus will dunk. Mark my words.

Now I want 40K Basketball, the way Fantasy has Blood Bowl. That’d be swell.

Anyways, it was pretty. I wanted a touch more, but I suppose that will come when the other Warhammer shows hit Prime eventually.

[cam2d]

arlina von Carstein, the Warhammer+ vampire model. She was a load of fun, rediscovering my old Cursed City scheme and painting up something spooky.

[casualevan]

So... Pariah Nexus

I found it to be a swinging pendulum of quality. Back and fourth between badass and just kinda bad.

The action and animation are astounding and there are some fantastic bits of dialogue discussing faith and fanatasism. All great stuff.. buuuuut my biggest issues are with the tone and the plot.

It's the issue a LOT of Games Workshop stories suffer from. They want to be Dune meets All Quiet On The Western Front but also G.I. JOE meets Masters Of The Universe. A Grim Dark brutal depressing war story.... but a toy commercial at the same time. SPOILERS

The plot is set well after the end of a war for this one planet the Sisters of Battle, (Nuns with Guns in SPACE) Space Marines, (Marines IN SPACE) and the Imperial Guard (Starship Trooper normal humans with laser rifles.... IN SPACE) were defending against the Necron. (Alien mummy robots FROM SPACE!) The humans lost and now it is all over but the crying. A Sister, a Space Marine and a Guard are stuck behind enemy lines with a handful of civilian survivors and must fight their way past the remaining Necron and their nanomachine human zombies to get to safety.

The SIster and the Guard have some GREAT moments of debate on the nature of faith and duty showing the Sister's fanaticism and the cracks in her faith when contrasted with the Guard's more grounded and practical view of their shared religion. This all reminds the audience that Warhammer 40K is a nightmare distopia hellscape and the Imperium of Man is BAD. At least until the Space Marine shows up and "OH WOW HE IS SO COOL AND SO NICE AND HE LOVES DEFENDING CIVILIANS! PLEASE DO NOT READ MORE LORE AND LEARN THAT THE SPACE MARINES ARE ALSO BAD AND COMMIT WAR CRIMES! BUY OUR TOYS BUY OUR TOYS!!"

The closest thing to a character arc in the story is the Sister of Battle going from having disdain for the civilians, believing their lack of faith lost the war for the planet, to finally being convinced to not be such a starch ass and defend the literal women and children from killer robots...

...

...

and then she is imediatly shot by a robot sniper. YEAH. "I will now decide to NOT be a total jerk and help these people!" *BLAM* "...ouch... nevermind I guess?" She doesn't get a last desperate second wind action surge to kill the sniper and save the civilians, she just dies. As for that Guard she was debating with the entire time? She wasn't real. She was just a ghost in her head cuz battlefield trauma is a hell of a drug. The big heroic Space Marine (who's just such a great guy) agrees to stay behind and fight the evil killer space robot and tells the civilians to keep running. He survives and tells the Big Bad Super Robot that he and his fellow humans of the Imperium will keep fighting FOR THE IMPERIUM AND THE EMPEROR BLA BLA BLA BUY OUR TOYS!!!!! Then there is an epilogue of the last surviving civilian making it to a troop of other Guard... ... ... and then getting shot because they thought the literal child was infected with the Necron Zombie Nanomachine plague. So yeah.... everyone (except the cool Space Marine) died for nothing. We don't even get to see the Space Marine's reaction to the news. The story just ENDS. He lost an arm trying to keep these people safe and the story won't even tell us if he is sad or mad or just mildly annoyed. "EVERYONE DIES CUZ WAR IS BAD AND WRONG!!!! Please buy our toys and play our games." I'm NOT saying the story should have been sunshine and rainbows but at least have all that buildup and character death MEAN something besides pizza cutter all edge no point grimdark. Have the Sister die FIGHTING and saving someone. Show the Space Marine REACTING to the news that none of the civilians survived. OR if you still want to be grim and dark, have that lone survivor kid get DRAFTED BUY THE GUARD and sent back to fight. Show his face go from "oh boy I'm saved" to "oh no I'm going BACK?!"

all in all I can't recomend Paraiah Nexus. Three episodes behind a Warhammer+ subscription paywall all for story/tone whiplash. Go watch the Hellsreach fan animation instead.

[ask-mortarion-the-death-lord]

it's funny when things in life intersect, such as hearing that allegedly games workshop is no longer offering subscriptions in canada to warhammer+ because of a quebec language bill that mandates businesses offer a french language option for services.

[sara-paints]

YOU GUYS LOOKIT!!!!11

HNNNNG my BOYS look SOO GOOD and SOUND SO GREAT I LOVE their VOICES and that's a DEATHMARK and OMG is that ORIKAN I don't WANT to sub to WARHAMMER+ but I'M also HYPERVENTILATING OVER HERE

[vines-are-plant-tentacles]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[cav-core]

Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they're just both very true.

[kabewski]

Noise Marine Miku THIS SILENCE DISPLEASES SLAANESH!

[ladymirdan]

Loremasters > any lore YouTuber.

I had no idea that would be such a hot take, liking Loremasters (on Warhammer+), that shit is sooo gooood.

Can it be a bit dry sometimes? Yes, but I legit learn something new every time I watch an episode. And I have never once said, “Wait a minute, that doesn't sound right” (like I always do with Lore Tubers).

Do people honestly not like that show? Or did I just trample into a small nest of people who hate WH+ just because?

[titanomancy]

So in the end, the truth outs after all. They stripped Inquisitor Coteaz of his rightful drip and hid it all behind the Warhammer+ paywall with this year's subscriber model.

[skunts-own-truth]

Why ain’t they putting Ultramarines the Movie on Warhammer+, I ask you? Huh? Slap that sucker on there!

[blumineck]

In battle, that is!

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