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It was ok, I felt it was a little long for what it was.
If invested in the hobby it may be a fun watch, but I know most of the story and didn’t really care for more.
Dunno otherwise, animation was ok.
You can get better, and much worse, but the writing didn’t make up for the animation itself I think.
They may be better showing off high quality lore videos, and batreps that have some good production value with this more as a side.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Flipsiders wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

The Newman wrote:
The fact that If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device got cancelled while something this cringy gets GW's official seal of approval ... well, I just have to shake my head is disapproval.

It didn't get cancelled, Alfabusa decided to stop producing it.

So yes, it got cancelled.

I think he's trying to say GW didn't go out and shut him down, Alfabusa canceled it himself

Because GW started threatening legal action, don't fool yourself into thinking their intimidating fan projects played no part.

It was really good, loved it! Earned a sub for at least a month here.

Jarms48 wrote:
I really hated the portrayal of the Orks, the ones being told the story. They seemed to act more like children than any other Ork portrayals I've seen.

That was part of the conceit. They were yoofs or wildboys being taught about orky kultur, caught skeeving off trying to catch what they thought was an easy dinner.
They needed inspiration from the old runtherd, because they made such a poor show of their misadventure.

This reminded me of the old Heavy Metal movie in terms of style.

Not bad- didn't feel like I wasted my time watching it.

I think Angels of Death will be more my style as an ongoing story.

PenitentJake wrote:
This reminded me of the old Heavy Metal movie in terms of style.

Not bad- didn't feel like I wasted my time watching it.

I think Angels of Death will be more my style as an ongoing story.

If angels of death is animated in the same way could you stand watching 10 20 min episodes? The style doesn’t really lend its self for action.

I was expecting some more along the lines of the trailer they released for indomitus, I think, that had SOB, SM and Necrons fighting. That was really good animation

GW went after every content creator on Youtube who was using their IP. Yep got it, its their Ip they can do what they want. But they then put all of it behind a paywall forgetting that the internet is the internet which means I can still watch "Astartes" without their subscription.

But then GW did the most GW thing ever, they released a Sneak preview "LOOK HOW COOL THIS WARHAMMER+ IS GOING TO BE!" only to let loose a sub par animation that some of the content creators they hit with Cease and desists would have been embarrassed to put out.

When your Million dollar company can't even match some guy in his basement's level of content...you failed.

SemperMortis wrote:
GW went after every content creator on Youtube who was using their IP. Yep got it, its their Ip they can do what they want. But they then put all of it behind a paywall forgetting that the internet is the internet which means I can still watch "Astartes" without their subscription.

But then GW did the most GW thing ever, they released a Sneak preview "LOOK HOW COOL THIS WARHAMMER+ IS GOING TO BE!" only to let loose a sub par animation that some of the content creators they hit with Cease and desists would have been embarrassed to put out.

When your Million dollar company can't even match some guy in his basement's level of content...you failed.

And if their content was superior they wouldn’t need to stop the fan content

Deadnight wrote:Only thing that surprised me is Yarrick has a Russian accent. I always picture the more belligerent characters, (especially space wolves) as having Scottish accent.

He sounded Scottish to me, which I thought sounded out of place as I’m so used to those generic British-ish sci-fi accents imperial types have in various GW animations.

Lord Blackscale wrote:Couldn't get the video to load on the website. Not sure what crappy site they hosted it from, but it does not bode well for their subscription service.

Same here. I ended up watching a naughty re-upload on YouTube.

Yarrick didn’t have enough lines for me to figure out his accent

mrFickle wrote:

SemperMortis wrote:
GW went after every content creator on Youtube who was using their IP. Yep got it, its their Ip they can do what they want. But they then put all of it behind a paywall forgetting that the internet is the internet which means I can still watch "Astartes" without their subscription.

But then GW did the most GW thing ever, they released a Sneak preview "LOOK HOW COOL THIS WARHAMMER+ IS GOING TO BE!" only to let loose a sub par animation that some of the content creators they hit with Cease and desists would have been embarrassed to put out.

When your Million dollar company can't even match some guy in his basement's level of content...you failed.

And if their content was superior they wouldn’t need to stop the fan content

Its really embarrasing how GW is completelly unable to do a decent animation of their IP after so many years.

Vatsetis wrote:


Its really embarrasing how GW is completelly unable to do a decent animation of their IP after so many years.

I mean, they're not an animation studio. I'm not sure what we should have expected really.

Producing animation that's very high quality isn't trivial - much of what's out there in terms of serious commercial examples is in reality quite low effort.

That said, I'm not excusing them. They have money to hire serious talent, are expecting us to pay - regularly - for what looks to be pretty limited content, and have hurt a number of talented community members in setting all this up.

I'm honestly not sure what the thought process is behind WH+ at this point. Maybe I'm missing something? I can't help currently but hope it either fails - spectacularly and swiftly - so they, and we, can move on from it, or becomes something that grows and encourages the community, rather than leaving an unpleasant taste in the mouths of its members.

I don't think anyone is claiming GW is an animation studio, but they are multi-billion pound company with the capability to sub-contract to one.

I personally like the idea of embracing the fan community and hiring them making their passion projects official, but I think the execution (and GW's history with legal battles) leaves myself and others very wary of what the future will bring.

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
I don't think anyone is claiming GW is an animation studio, but they are multi-billion pound company with the capability to sub-contract to one.

I personally like the idea of embracing the fan community and hiring them making their passion projects official, but I think the execution (and GW's history with legal battles) leaves myself and others very wary of what the future will bring.

Exactly GW should be hiring a production company to make these in the same way the model makers didn’t have a crack at authoring books, they pay authors to write the BL books.

I don’t think fans should be doing it though, it needs to be a corporate endeavour to keep the setting accurate (as much as GW can).

GW should stick to making miniatures and books...

Dont get mew wrong; it was enjoyable to watch and I had no idea about this particular bit of the lore. Like the voice acting and the art style wasnt too bad. It was amazing either.. Just middle of the road.

But I ain't going to pay for essentially flash animation..

First couple of minutes had me worried, but the rest was fun. I enjoyed a return to the comical nature of Orks, while still having moments of brutality.

The animation style doesn't bother me too much, it reminds me of the Saturday morning cartoons of my own yoof. Just with more blood.

Between the exclusive mini, app access, WD library, and Loremaster shows, I've already decided that W+ provides plenty of good value for me. Having fun, 20min shows like this is just icing.

 StrayIight wrote:

Vatsetis wrote:


Its really embarrasing how GW is completelly unable to do a decent animation of their IP after so many years.

I mean, they're not an animation studio. I'm not sure what we should have expected really.

Producing animation that's very high quality isn't trivial - much of what's out there in terms of serious commercial examples is in reality quite low effort.

That said, I'm not excusing them. They have money to hire serious talent, are expecting us to pay - regularly - for what looks to be pretty limited content, and have hurt a number of talented community members in setting all this up.

I'm honestly not sure what the thought process is behind WH+ at this point. Maybe I'm missing something? I can't help currently but hope it either fails - spectacularly and swiftly - so they, and we, can move on from it, or becomes something that grows and encourages the community, rather than leaving an unpleasant taste in the mouths of its members.

Apparently, they hired a professional UK animation studio. I don't know what went wrong, was it the budget or what, but yea...

I just went to watch it but saw a message saying that it was only available for 24hrs and had already been taken down.

What.

This is effectively a teaser, right? Something that's supposed to entice me to pay for the full thing? Unless Warhammer+ has itself just been cancelled (fingers crossed), it baffles me as to why GW would effectively remove an advertisement for it from their website.

(And, shockingly enough, I don't intend to subscribe to Warhammer+ for the privilege of watching a trailer for Warhammer+. )

I wasn't a fan. I liked the artstyle but didn't like the animation.

Also, why did Yarrick look like he was wearing a Fallout vault jumpsuit? Not his characteristic carapace armour?

 vipoid wrote:


Unless Warhammer+ has itself just been cancelled (fingers crossed)

This is the thing right here though; why hope for its demise and failure rather than simply choose not to buy it, or subscribe to it?

This attitude of "I don't like it, therefore it should not exist" is just so common on Dakka.

I'll just never understand it.

It was decent enough I like everything surrounding Armageddon. That and Ghazkull did a real number on one of my Dark Angels recruiting worlds Pescina so I like following his lore also. But the animation was nothing to be amazed at compared to some other things I’ve seen but it wasn’t the worst way to kill 20min

PenitentJake wrote:

 vipoid wrote:


Unless Warhammer+ has itself just been cancelled (fingers crossed)

This is the thing right here though; why hope for its demise and failure rather than simply choose not to buy it, or subscribe to it?

This attitude of "I don't like it, therefore it should not exist" is just so common on Dakka.

I'll just never understand it.

It's not that, at least not for me. I don't want to 'watch the world burn'. Nor do I wish any harm to GW - I genuinely love this hobby and appreciate much of what they do.

GW are not Netflix. Nor are they going to be. I hope that in WH+ failing, we might see more focus on what GW do excel at, and further, a rethink of attitudes on their part toward the incredibly talented members of their community, who could be a real asset to them.

A half-hearted attempt at a subscription streaming service, doesn't seem to help them, or us. It certainly (insofar as I can see) doesn't grow the hobby in the way that great, freely available content from community creators that have been encouraged, and nurtured, could (and probably have).

PenitentJake wrote:

 vipoid wrote:


Unless Warhammer+ has itself just been cancelled (fingers crossed)

This is the thing right here though; why hope for its demise and failure rather than simply choose not to buy it, or subscribe to it?

This attitude of "I don't like it, therefore it should not exist" is just so common on Dakka.

I'll just never understand it.

there's this mentality that "if what I dislike exists, what I like isn't existing!"

As someone who watched Astartes… I’m not really impressed with it. That’s just me. The story itself was okay I suppose. But the animation in Astartes done by one dude vs a conglomerate like GW…. Watch it for yourself and make your own conclusions on the animations.

hobojebus wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 Flipsiders wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

The Newman wrote:
The fact that If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device got cancelled while something this cringy gets GW's official seal of approval ... well, I just have to shake my head is disapproval.

It didn't get cancelled, Alfabusa decided to stop producing it.

So yes, it got cancelled.

I think he's trying to say GW didn't go out and shut him down, Alfabusa canceled it himself

Because GW started threatening legal action, don't fool yourself into thinking their intimidating fan projects played no part.

Alfabusa was very explicit about not having had any contact with GW because he doesn't want people drawing GW's attention and he doesn't have the resources or inclination to take the fair-use case to court even if he is in the right.

For all my complaints I will still give Warhammer + a go in the hope that there is much better content on the way and that as usual what we have seen is a bit of a rush to release

It’s only 5.99 to try it. Someone mentioned the WD backlog. That not for the current 12 months though, is that correct? So we won’t get 2021 until 2022?

 StrayIight wrote:

A half-hearted attempt at a subscription streaming service, doesn't seem to help them, or us. It certainly (insofar as I can see) doesn't grow the hobby in the way that great, freely available content from community creators that have been encouraged, and nurtured, could (and probably have).

Yes I am reminded of the honest trailer for 'every streaming service'. I think at this stage of their readiness they would be better off with that free content promoting them. Currently HMS Queen Elizabeth has a better media channel (onboard at least).

The Newman wrote:

hobojebus wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 Flipsiders wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

The Newman wrote:
The fact that If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device got cancelled while something this cringy gets GW's official seal of approval ... well, I just have to shake my head is disapproval.

It didn't get cancelled, Alfabusa decided to stop producing it.

So yes, it got cancelled.

I think he's trying to say GW didn't go out and shut him down, Alfabusa canceled it himself

Because GW started threatening legal action, don't fool yourself into thinking their intimidating fan projects played no part.

Alfabusa was very explicit about not having had any contact with GW because he doesn't want people drawing GW's attention and he doesn't have the resources or inclination to take the fair-use case to court even if he is in the right.

sure but the point is GW themselves didn't go out and shut down TTS. so far, as best I can tell all the animations they actually went after where ones they wanted to bring under their umbrella. the TTS animation style isn't that great and the type of parody it induldges in I doubt GW would ever wanna indulge it. it may have been safe.

Anyway I hear rumor that Alfabusa is going to do some battletech stuff, hopefully he doesn't accidently use an unseen mech and have Harmony gold try to sue him.

PenitentJake wrote:

 vipoid wrote:


Unless Warhammer+ has itself just been cancelled (fingers crossed)

This is the thing right here though; why hope for its demise and failure rather than simply choose not to buy it, or subscribe to it?

This attitude of "I don't like it, therefore it should not exist" is just so common on Dakka.

I'll just never understand it.

It's because they bullied fan creators, it's no wonder people are angry at GW and want warhammer+ to fail.

The one positive note out of this is that it might be an indicator for a new Yarrick miniature.