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I thought Cadia Stands was fun. Mindless bolter (lasgun) porn, sure, but as a short episode an entertaining watch to me.

But this is possibly the episode that reflects poorly on GW and makes you wonder what kind of fool runs this company. Like, come on. You were all thinking it. How is it GW doesn't sell plush Rippers already?

Seriously...

PenitentJake wrote:
How do you put an animation into print?

Oddly enough the animation style for Hammer and Bolter should lend itself to a print adaptation without noticeable loss. It is, after all, little more than an animated comic.

PenitentJake wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:
Here is the thing, all the stuff that is in Warhammer+ is stuff that should be in the white dwarf and in the past was.
They are just doing this to get you to subscribe to white dwarf AND to subscribe to Warhammer +

How do you put an animation into print?

Print into paper, sell it?

There's books of animated movies with specific frames from movie forming up in essence cartoon version of the animated movie. That works for movies. I seriously doubt warhammer+ videos would be harder...

 Geifer wrote:
How is it GW doesn't sell plush Rippers already?

Getting there I guess; we have Nurgling and Squig (though Squig was recalled after problems with the pompoms) so I guess Rippers are comming.

Obviously not fast enough.

Black legion vs necron and dark Eldar was pretty good on hammer and bolter called artifacts

PenitentJake wrote:


If you buy a WD, you have the unaltered content for as long as you choose to store the book, and no one but you can make it go away.

Well, you + Mother Nature, moving companies, (occasionally) children/pets, & dumb asses accidentally starting community destroying fires.....

shadowsfm wrote:
Black legion vs necron and dark Eldar was pretty good on hammer and bolter called artifacts

indeed, i quite enjoyed several aspects of it:

Chaos space marines NOT being totally insane murder-hobos and engaging in somewhat cogent debate, understanding that "something was wrong" even if they continued regardless, discussion of the known tricks/treachery of the dark eldar, etc. 'twas nice to see them actually have a basic human intelligence rather than pure "SANITY! IS FOR THE WEAK!" they normally get.

always nice to see a conflict where none of the factions are imperial, too much of 40k lore is form a imperial standpoint which can often give a distorted idea of the setting (Ie, characters quoting imperial propaganda as opposed to the reality).

the necron angle and reveal at the end was fun, and certainly a intresting way to close the story. i had fun counting the references in that final shot......

 Geifer wrote:
You were all thinking it. How is it GW doesn't sell plush Rippers already?

Seriously...

Nope. Terminator plushies are where the money is at. with 2 power fists for all the hugs.

I'd buy the hell out of those.

Deadnight wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
You were all thinking it. How is it GW doesn't sell plush Rippers already?

Seriously...

Nope. Terminator plushies are where the money is at. with 2 power fists for all the hugs.

I'd buy the hell out of those.

The plushies they have made look like cheaply made garbage, so careful what you wish for. I mean the nurglings could have been something really cool but they just slapped a patch on it and called it a day.

Yeah, quality is the deciding factor for me. I may wish for a plush Ripper or, even better, a Scarab, but if the quality is poor I'm still not going to buy it.

xerxeskingofking wrote:

shadowsfm wrote:
Black legion vs necron and dark Eldar was pretty good on hammer and bolter called artifacts

indeed, i quite enjoyed several aspects of it:

Chaos space marines NOT being totally insane murder-hobos and engaging in somewhat cogent debate, understanding that "something was wrong" even if they continued regardless, discussion of the known tricks/treachery of the dark eldar, etc. 'twas nice to see them actually have a basic human intelligence rather than pure "SANITY! IS FOR THE WEAK!" they normally get.

always nice to see a conflict where none of the factions are imperial, too much of 40k lore is form a imperial standpoint which can often give a distorted idea of the setting (Ie, characters quoting imperial propaganda as opposed to the reality).

the necron angle and reveal at the end was fun, and certainly a intresting way to close the story. i had fun counting the references in that final shot......

Agreed on the depiction of the Chaos guys. Hammer and Bolter seems to be fairly good at avoiding an overarching Imperium vs NPCs depiction so far.

I liked this one. Hurray for Chaos Terminators.

The Exodite episode 1, Flame must have been done by the astartis guy, because its fantastic. sadly its only 10 minutes, because i want to see more. still no credits, but there is a interview on warhammer community. with no new animation for last 2 months, i want a free extension on my subscription though

shadowsfm wrote:
The Exodite episode 1, Flame must have been done by the astartis guy, because its fantastic. sadly its only 10 minutes, because i want to see more. with no new animation for last 2 months, i want a free extension on my subscription

Exodite is certainly really really awesome so far! I doubt its by the Astartes guy because he wasn't brought on board until after Warhammer+ launched and that is likely way too little time to have produced that series considering it was already marketed earlier. That said it really shines and its exactly what I hope becomes the standard GW aims for. Similar solid story telling as Hammer and Bolter with clearly one of the lions shares of budget allowing for smoother high detail animation. A few of the scenes feel a little "empty" by some modern CGI standards in terms of surrounding detail and moving side characters in such, but nothing that honestly distracts really. A bit of lip sync might be a touch on the rough side too here and there.


Also Warhammer + isn't just for video media. There's the app access, the back access to White Dwarf issues; painting masterclass; lore videos. All of which have continued to release even when animations have paused. GW were always up front that Warhammer+ was going to be about more than the animations.

Exodite looks like the first step towards betterment and the level of quality we should expect from GW animation. The setup was good, the animation is leagues above what we have seen so far, and some of the wide shots had me impressed. Walking animations seemed a bit wooden here and there, but this is getting closer to astartes-level polish.

The Exodite was a fan project in progress before Warhammer+ and is definitely not done by the Astartes guy.

That said, pleased with how the first episode turned out and looking forward to see how it progresses.

At last, we have an explanation for the title and don't have to put up with people going 'lol Exodites aren't Tau' any more.

It looks pretty for the most part. Shame it's so short and the first episode has little substance to the story. Still, the space battle looks better than what the Blood Angels animation has to offer*, so I guess there's that.

Nice to see the focus is on my favorite kind of Tau suit, too.


*Edit: Oh, and Tau have invented color other than red. Take that, Imperium of Man, you and your backwards ways!

 Captain Joystick wrote:
At last, we have an explanation for the title and don't have to put up with people going 'lol Exodites aren't Tau' any more.

I like to think that's just people being silly for the lulz. I'm hardly one to cut GW any slack, but even with that outlook you wouldn't honestly expect them to make such an elementary mistake, or let someone they handed a license make that mistake.

I've just watched it. I do believe it is leagues above Astartes, but maybe because I've watched Astartes several times already while this one is new ?
Can't wait for the next episodes. Reminded me of the game Fire Warrior, this game has sick space battles cutscenes

One core difference is that Astartes is more silent story telling. So the video isn't actually telling you the story, its showing you and you kind of have to work out what's going on.
It works because there's a good many parts where we can work out what is going on based on lore and what we understand about the setting; and the bits we don't know act as hooks for conversation and debate.


Exodites is just getting going but its giving you story as you go, its telling you what you're seeing, creating names for characters, showing you what's going on etc....


They are both different styles of storytelling within the animation medium.

Just curious if anyone is having issues with playing Exodite on the Warhammer+ app on Roku?

 Captain Joystick wrote:

At last, we have an explanation for the title and don't have to put up with people going 'lol Exodites aren't Tau' any more.

So what's the explanation? The articles GW are writing about it are still 100% about the Tau and nothing else, so what is the show actually about?

Voss wrote:

 Captain Joystick wrote:

At last, we have an explanation for the title and don't have to put up with people going 'lol Exodites aren't Tau' any more.

So what's the explanation? The articles GW are writing about it are still 100% about the Tau and nothing else, so what is the show actually about?

the main character is being sent to a imperium/tau world with a war going on, which the titular eldar exodite is stirring up the war/sabotaging peace efforts, with orders to find and stop her so the tau can avoid a costly war with the imperium over a relatively unimportant world.

The world is specifically called the husk of a maiden world and the Exodite a survivor, who appears to be stirring up trouble between the Imperium and the Tau to get the neighbors off his lawn.

This is as disappointing to me as when I found out Alien wasn't from the POV of the Alien. Or when Predator turned out to be about some guy the Predator was hunting. Or when the Walking Dead wasn't from the perspective of the walking dead.

Darn it, GW, you're making me miserable.

However the Exodite seems to be the narrator.

I think my fav so far is the Ad Mech one - good story, and enjoyed the pay off

Rihgu wrote:
This is as disappointing to me as when I found out Alien wasn't from the POV of the Alien. Or when Predator turned out to be about some guy the Predator was hunting. Or when the Walking Dead wasn't from the perspective of the walking dead.

Darn it, GW, you're making me miserable.

The worst offender being metroid

shadowsfm wrote:

Rihgu wrote:
This is as disappointing to me as when I found out Alien wasn't from the POV of the Alien. Or when Predator turned out to be about some guy the Predator was hunting. Or when the Walking Dead wasn't from the perspective of the walking dead.

Darn it, GW, you're making me miserable.

The worst offender being metroid

Zelda?

The Exodite part 2 was great, even if it took longer than I'd like for it to arrive.

But the Eldar V Grey Knight Batrep was really cool. The showdown between Castellan Crowe and Maugan Ra was awesome. I know the consensus is that strats suck, but man- Crowe puts Maugan Ra down, but he uses the Phoenix Lord Resurrection strat to get back up- then he attacks Crowe and puts him down, but Crowe uses his strat to attack before he dies... And takes Maugan Ra with him! In a thread months ago debating about the merrits of strats, someone asked us to talk about actual cinematic moments that happened as a result of strats... This was that moment.

The pace of the batrep really helped highlight the cinematics- you don't see all of the slow moments between the action. Still a pretty legendary fight.

I just don't see a lot of use for the service. I can that that 50$ a year and just put it into a kit that I want, which will bring me much, much more joy than what W+ offers.

Yeah, this year that's basically what I did- I put my money into a Vindicare model because I liked it enough to pay for it, and I regard the service as a bonus.

The hints we've seen about the next set of models don't grab me the way that Vindicare did though, so GW is going to have to do something to keep me, cuz if they don't I'm gone as soon as the Vindicare shows up on my doorstep.

PenitentJake wrote:
The Exodite part 2 was great, even if it took longer than I'd like for it to arrive.

Finally got around to it today....damn it's cool to see those things "in the flesh".

Really enjoying the Exodite and all of the stories on the site.

Just finished the Blood Angels story and really good.

The money is really negligible tbh