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Part Five of Astartes, a Warhammer 40,000 fan film project.
This marks the end of this chapter of the Astartes project. What comes next? Well I'd love to continue! I have many 40k stories I'd like to tell and I already know where I want to take things next if the support is there. Also with the experience gained, raise the quality, enlist key help and bring episodes to you quicker!

I got to part 3 I think, and forgot to look any further.
Will have to start again

Looking forward to this greatly. The best cinematic depiction of Warhammer 40k for me, bar none.

Yep.
Simply THE best animation we have seen anywhere on 40K.
What if that could be made into a proper movie/full lenght animation. Dream on Astartes fans ;-)

 Scrub wrote:
Looking forward to this greatly. The best cinematic depiction of Warhammer 40k for me, bar none.

Agreed, I've not be a marine fan for over twenty years but I sure do like seeing them portrayed exactly as I imagine them to be. Totally focused war machines conditioned and trained to lay down death in the most efficient way possible.

Production value was so good I happily decided to back the Patreon a few months ago.

For those who have missed out or want to catch up..

Exalted... but mostly for the .gif... love that .gif

Have to agree, these are the best 40k animations by a mile and really set the bar.

Going live in twenty minutes and 15,500 people are already waiting!

My body is ready

Here we go...

A-MA-ZING.

And to think the first few episodes were so short....Jeez that was pretty

Lordy lordy.. amazing what can be done with zip dialogue

That was great. Seeing it live was quite an experience, I felt I had to watch everything very intently lest I miss a thing. Not entirely sure what happened, but I still feel that this guy captures what Astartes are better than any other third party (or indeed most of the GW IP Liscencees up to this point). That part where they executed the compromised =][= operative pretty much sums up what SMs are imo. Clinical, uncompromising, pitiless.

Oh yes, that head punch was amazing. So economical in motion and swiftness.

All in all, again, AMAZING. So utterly alien and weird, I love it.

 BrookM wrote:
Oh yes, that head punch was amazing. So economical in motion and swiftness.

All in all, again, AMAZING. So utterly alien and weird, I love it.

Plus half a clip point blank into the headless cadaver, not taking any chances.

Yup none of that movie hesitation where someones all "wuh? as the baddy starts taking them out. Just straight to business, no hesitation.

Cleaves very close to what Dan Abnett once said about writing Space Marines: They deal in absolutes, no hesitation, zero tolerance, nothing. I LOVE IT and I don't even like or play Astartes.

Almost 113K views, well done!

So—Was it Tzeentch?

 Apple Peel wrote:
So—Was it Tzeentch?

I actually think it was a bloody C'tan shard of all things.

This was incredible. Thats all I can say.

I thought it was great. I like that the creator of this series is creating his own slice of the 40k universe but staying true to the source material.

Sotahullu wrote:

 Apple Peel wrote:
So—Was it Tzeentch?

I actually think it was a bloody C'tan shard of all things.

I thought it was a new xenos thing which to be honest I like far more.

Sotahullu wrote:

 Apple Peel wrote:
So—Was it Tzeentch?

I actually think it was a bloody C'tan shard of all things.

Doesn't necessarily have to be either. Plenty of dark corners in the 40k universe for ancient and unseen things to fester.

I know I'm certainly way off but - the Cultists aboard the Ship in the previous episodes - they were guarding this big, spherical brain thing? The brain belonged to the large golden body? Some sort of powerful entity? And the guys go in to decomission it, but they're sucked in? IDK. Hard to follow, and no captions either. Maybe the author has a synopsis? I'd love to see it if so.

Ohh is that Eldar in the little post-story clip? That looked like taking damage from potentially a shurikan cannon

I love Space Marines - always have - nice to see them 'done right'.

But dayum - that cliffhanger ending!

Amazing work here - bravo to the creator!

I believe it's a Enslaver, and it pulled the squad into the warp. It looks like a Man of gold was disassembled.

That defenetly was some DAT remnants. MAN OF GOLD to be excact.