This is a rather impressive fan made trailer which is rendered real time using an Nvidia 780Ti and a specialised version of Cryengine developed for animation.  While the 780Ti is a powerful graphics card (the most powerful consumer card Nvidia produce not counting the Titan), it's not that ridiculous as I was expecting some absurd quad SLI Titan array or something:

 

 

John

Pretty mad for a homer.

 

I'm not into Warhammer at all and I'm intrigued.

 

I can remember an amateur CGI film progect called LoR (lots of robots) that was being done maybe 10yr ago but I never found out if it was finished. the guy was doing everything himself. The first few clips looked very promising.

 

[Edit] Doesn't appear to ever have been finished

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCE88DF9814416BE5

Excellent, sadly not factually correct. There is no such thing a Tactical Dreadnaught Armour . Drednaughts are big robots with Space Marine's brain encapsulated in a sarcophagus and inserted into the machine. What is shown n the vid is a Terminator Armour, no tactical there either. Tactical Devastator Squads are however present - regular Space Marines but equipped with heavy bolters/heave flamers. 

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Great animation, loved it!

Excellent, sadly not factually correct. There is no such thing a Tactical Dreadnaught Armour . Drednaughts are big robots with Space Marine's brain encapsulated in a sarcophagus and inserted into the machine. What is shown n the vid is a Terminator Armour, no tactical there either. Tactical Devastator Squads are however present - regular Space Marines but equipped with heavy bolters/heave flamers. 

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Great animation, loved it!

 

I'm surprised you don't know that Terminator armour is also known as tactical dreadnought armour, it's been that way since at least the second edition:

 

 

 

Terminators are amongst the greatest heroes of Mankind, bold warriors in whom the indefatigable heroism of a Space Marine is combined with the terrible weaponry and indomitable mass of Tactical Dreadnought armour. No foe is safe from a Terminator assault -they are unstoppable and they never yield.

 

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Space-Marine-Terminator-Squad

 

John

If I remember correctly, the true dreadnought is more of a walking tank/sarcophagus? In the trailer that looks more like a grey Knight Terminator  

You live and learn, not as much of an Anorak as I thought I was .

I am more of a Horus Heresy person really and few books around that. Never read about Tactical Dradnaught Armour!

All I know about Drednaughts is as I wrote, huge, undestructible venerable machines animated by brains of otherwise too damaged in battle veteran Space Marines. It is not uncommon for them them to be almsot completely crazy and animeted only by the usatiable desire to kill the enemies of the Emperor.

You live and learn, not as much of an Anorak as I thought I was .

I am more of a Horus Heresy person really and few books around that. Never read about Tactical Dradnaught Armour!

All I know about Drednaughts is as I wrote, huge, undestructible venerable machines animated by brains of otherwise too damaged in battle veteran Space Marines. It is not uncommon for them them to be almsot completely crazy and animeted only by the usatiable desire to kill the enemies of the Emperor.

 

The tactical dreadnought armour originated just before the Heresy although it's also commonly referred to as Cataphractii in the Heresy novels are that was the original pattern of the armour.

 

One interesting point in the video about the armour is that the two statues the Terminator walks past have Ultramarine markings, an Ultramarine was one of the original founders of the Grey Knights (matching the statue on the left) but that doesn't explain the right hand side one.

 

John

If I remember correctly, the true dreadnought is more of a walking tank/sarcophagus? In the trailer that looks more like a grey Knight Terminator  

 

The term dreadnought is used to mean heavy support - as the Terminator/Tactical Dreadnought armour is much heavier than the standard power armour as well as allowing bigger weapons, it includes the dreadnought name whereas the term dreadnought on its own is the walking tank/sarcophagus you mention.  Mortally wounded marines are placed within the chassis to preserve them as the highest honour the chapter can give them although loyalist (and some chaos) dreadnoughts are not allowed to go crazy, while the technology can gradually drive them insane they're placed in stasis for increasingly long periods to prevent that from happening.  The traitor forces on the other hand frequently use a dreadnought chassis to imprison and punish marines and those ones are allowed to go insane which means on the battlefield they're as much a threat to their own forces as they are to their enemies.

 

John

Ah ritey I see, it is a cool video and quite impressive for a home made one,

It's certainly incomparably better than the appalling effort Games Workshop commissioned:

 

 

There are dreadnoughts in both the Dawn of War intros but the original one is more prominent:

 

 

John

40k has certainly come on a bit since I last played it at around 22 years old. (17 years ago)

Peculiar thing is for me that I never was into board games bar chess but was devouring books and loved all Warhammer Universe computer games . It surprises me no end none of it was ever translated onto the big screen. So much potential with so many facets of the universum. Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks, Humans, Space Marines, Chaos and my favourite Mechanicum of course .

Edited 16 July, 201411 yr by Jabozuma

I have a craving to play dawn of war now...If I remember correctly the Blood Ravens were actually made for the game as well?

 

Don't say that about the big screen Micheal Bay might hear you...

Peculiar thing is for me that I never was into board games bar chess but was devouring books and loved all Warhammer Universe computer games . It surprises me no end none of it was ever translated onto the big screen. So much potential with so many facets of the universum. Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks, Humans, Space Marines, Chaos and my favourite Mechanicum of course .

 

I never got into all that, just did the tabletop version.

I was always a fan of the painting side of things (never any good at it) always liked painting the 3 Imperial Assasins the most,

Yeah, I painted a lot as a kid, but never played it properly. We had some shortened rules for small team combat, XCOM style, before they brought Necromunda out.

 

I had a huge Chaos Marine army that was just built up from adapting models. Never once saw combat and ended up sold on ebay

It is bit sad not many people nowadays have time to play those games any more... PC versions being much more instantaneous replaced it almost completely...

The closest I ever came to this type of entertainment was Magic The Gathering card game - still have my decks and folders full of pristine cards Always loved the artwork on those cards!

 

 

I have a craving to play dawn of war now...If I remember correctly the Blood Ravens were actually made for the game as well?

 

Don't say that about the big screen Micheal Bay might hear you...

 

Perhaps you are right, I much prefer reading books conjuring Warhammer worlds in my head to anything else. PC 40K games annoy me a little bit as being too shallow after a while, to repetitive and in the end boring. One will never suffer this with books  :sun: .

I have a craving to play dawn of war now...If I remember correctly the Blood Ravens were actually made for the game as well?

 

Don't say that about the big screen Micheal Bay might hear you...

 

That's correct, the surviving loyalist legions after the heresy were broken down into much smaller chapters at around 1,000 marines each (down from hundreds of thousands of marines for the biggest legions) to stop entire legions turning again as they had in the heresy but out of the game to allow people to create their own chapters from scratch that they'd be able to produce their own colour schemes, back story etc.  Oddly the Blood Ravens are not in any way related to the Blood Angels despite the similar name and colour scheme, it's never officially confirmed but it's strongly suggested they're descended from the 1000 sons.

 

If you do fancy firing up Dawn of War, I'd take a look at the Ultimate Apocalypse mod - I've been wanting to give it a go after seeing a video on it, the idea is to offer a similar range of units to the tabletop Warhammer 40K apocalypse variant.  This means instead of the Imperial Guard getting the superheavy Baneblade as their relic unit, they also get all the superheavy variants and the two smaller titans (Warhound and Reaver).  It looks a bit of a fiddle to install but the in game stuff looks really good, you wouldn't think it was a fan made mod at all.

 

As for films, I'm surprised they haven't made more effort either as the one film they did commission was surprisingly poor in every way.  There's a considerable amount of depth to Warhammer 40K but at the same time it's easy enough to make it interesting without expecting the audience to have any background knowledge.

 

John

40k has certainly come on a bit since I last played it at around 22 years old. (17 years ago)

 

Probably around the same time I played the game (second edition), I gave up at the time as people were getting in to Necromunda which suited the evening club times whereas Warhammer 40K games either had to be cut down or took too long.  One of the big changes is that Epic (the smaller scale 40K) is finished and instead they've brought the Epic units (titans, superheavies etc.) into the Warhammer 40K scale where of course they're absolutely colossal units dwarfing the standard 40K units.  I'm not into the tabletop side of it but I love looking at the Forgeworld site (which offers more specialised units):

 

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Titans

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/The_Horus_Heresy/Legiones_Astartes/Legion_Vehicles?filter_reset=1

 

I do particularly enjoy the books even though I know they're basic stuff but I particularly like having a vast shared galaxy that you can dip into many different aspects of.  Some of the books are a bit too generic with the heroic Space Marines saving the day against incredible odds but there's plenty that are a bit different and make for a good read.

 

John