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Currently watching the Ultramarine movie and was curious if accents for all races/chapters/whatever have been figured out yet.does all the universe carry a British accent?
Based on audiobooks
WE/Kharn- kind of East European/Russian
SW - nordic ofc Orks - plain English :-)
ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."
Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan
ImpGuard are accented based on their planet. Cadians are usually English, given that Robin Atkin Downes, Gideon Emery and Graham McTavish (Scottish) have done voice work for them.
Catachans would be American given their Vietnam aesthetic, while Kriegers and Steel Legionnaires would be germans. Vostroyans and Valhallans are Russians. Elysians are French, and so on.
They are all Louisianan...why do you think it takes a vox caster to receive an order to your own squad? Cause nobody can understand ya. All British accents are your mind reeling from the experience and substituting something you are comfortable with.
Arcsquad12 wrote: ImpGuard are accented based on their planet. Cadians are usually English, given that Robin Atkin Downes, Gideon Emery and Graham McTavish (Scottish) have done voice work for them.
Catachans would be American given their Vietnam aesthetic, while Kriegers and Steel Legionnaires would be germans. Vostroyans and Valhallans are Russians. Elysians are French, and so on.
Elysians are French? Where does that idea come from, might I ask? Because when I think of militaries equipped with 'superior' gear because of great national wealth, France isn't the first thing that springs to mind.
"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad.
Arcsquad12 wrote: ImpGuard are accented based on their planet. Cadians are usually English, given that Robin Atkin Downes, Gideon Emery and Graham McTavish (Scottish) have done voice work for them.
Catachans would be American given their Vietnam aesthetic, while Kriegers and Steel Legionnaires would be germans. Vostroyans and Valhallans are Russians. Elysians are French, and so on.
Elysians are French? Where does that idea come from, might I ask? Because when I think of militaries equipped with 'superior' gear because of great national wealth, France isn't the first thing that springs to mind.
Not something I've really heard much about. American paratroopers, yes, but.. well, maybe it's part of living in England, but the only thing the French are famous for in the UK is Napoleon, cheese and surrendering.
"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad.
A lot of them tend to talk as if they are British, as that is where the company is based. In the space marine video game, for example, both the Ultramarines, and the guard, talk that way. But, in reguards to other chapters/races, it could be absolutely anything. I think nordic fit's the space wolves as said, ork's have actually developed their own accent over the years, and there are plenty of chapters who have a look so heavilly based on a real world culture, that you could probably justify them having a similar accent. Thousand suns could well have an etherial ejyptian accent.
But yeah, for me, Standard guardsmen would have a british accent, Catachan jungle fighter types would have an american-ish accent, and the ones with the hat's would have a russian-ish accent
Furyou Miko wrote: Not something I've really heard much about. American paratroopers, yes, but.. well, maybe it's part of living in England, but the only thing the French are famous for in the UK is Napoleon, cheese and surrendering.
They're an amalgamation of all airborne forces. I just go with french because of their lasgun stocks reminding me of a FAMAS.
They're an amalgamation of all airborne forces. I just go with french because of their lasgun stocks reminding me of a FAMAS.
Now that is an explanation I can understand. ^^
"That time I only loaded the cannon with powder. Next time, I will fill it with jewels and diamonds and they will cut you to shrebbons!" - Nogbad the Bad.
Arcsquad12 wrote: Catachans would be American given their Vietnam aesthetic, while Kriegers and Steel Legionnaires would be germans. Vostroyans and Valhallans are Russians. Elysians are French, and so on.
I listened to some audio book about Colonel Straken and I was kinda disappointed with his having a British accent. Within the spectrum of British accents it fit the character but I really would have preferred someone who sounded a bit more like Jesse Ventura or even R. Lee Ermey.
Furyou Miko wrote: Not something I've really heard much about. American paratroopers, yes, but.. well, maybe it's part of living in England, but the only thing the French are famous for in the UK is Napoleon, cheese and surrendering.
That and us kicking the gak out of them in the Peninsular
Automatically Appended Next Post: Orks are cockney, Space Wolfs will have a nordic accent, Salamanders accenst could be interesting... maybe they talk like paarthunax from skyrim?
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In Metal Gear Solid 3, all the Russians speak English with American accents. One of them even comments on how good the main character's Russian is, despite the fact the audience never heard him speak it. Likewise, in Doctor Who, every alien species speaks English, usually in a British accent. Why? Because on both accounts, the dialogue is being translated from the language it's really in for the benefit of the audience. No, the entire universe will not have a British accent. The universe will have developed trillions of new languages and even more accents to speak those languages in, completely alien and incomprehensible to us 3rd millenniumers.
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The Kasrkin were just men. It made their actions all the more astonishing. Six white blurs, they fell upon the cultists, lasguns barking at close range. They wasted no shots. One shot, one kill. - Eisenhorn: Malleus
I thought Mark Strong's voice work suited a Space Marine (in the game of that name), and regarding the Ultramarines film, I certainly can agree with John Hurt and Sean Pertwee having perfect voices for them.
Regarding the earlier mention of Skyrim, the voice of Paarthunax is what I'd imagine for Terminators, and the male voice actor for the Nords is exactly how I imagine Space Wolves sounding.
I would say all male Catachans sound like either R Lee Ermey or Ving Rhames, while the women all sound like Vasquez from Aliens. I think from that I'd consider it fair to say humans can have accents assigned on whatever culture their planet is based on.
Here's one that just occurred to me...I like to think that all dreadnoughts sound like Sovereign from Mass Effect.
Driven away from WH40K by rules bloat and the expense of keeping up, now interested in smaller model count games and anything with nifty mechanics.
Dawn of War does have an amazing set of voice actors, but that's a Relic hallmark. Company of Heroes had amazing voice work as well, it's just what they do (did).
As for the universe, it's important to remember that everything's supposed to be an allegory. High Gothic is Latin, Low Gothic is English because High Gothic is the ancient language of culture and law, low gothic is its bastardized form with all sorts of external influences. Therefore, extend that logic to spoken accents in Dawn of War and elsewhere; to the anglophone world, English is the accent most attributed to aristocracy, higher education and, often, conservatism, in-universe, it represents the accents of Imperials, of the culture and tradition established by the Great Crusade and later developements.
English accents are always attributed to things like Cadians and Ultramarines, and their descendents, and these are kind of the Imperial "archtype," and their culture and existence is an Imperial construct; they don't have much of a pre-existing culture. Space Wolves, Vostroyans, Kriegsmen and so on are all based on pre-Imperial cultures. Their culture was integrated into the Imperium, conquered during the Great Crusade, and thus retain linguistic patterns that differ from the Imperial norm. This, I imagine, would extend to much of the rest of the Imperium. Consider it, perhaps, a "Terran Standard" accent, one likely held by inhabitants of Terra, Ultramar and the key early planets of the Imperium, and many later settled worlds.
there would, of course, be enormous variation in speech patterns across the Imperium; most of it was settled, in some capacity, before the rise of the Imperium, and would retain a unique accent and/or culture, but you'd see homogenization amongst the higher ranks of the Imperium, due to the affect standardized eduction and immersion often has on accents and speech patterns.
Therefore, I conclude, Valve should announce Half Life 2: Episode 3.
MajorStoffer wrote: Dawn of War does have an amazing set of voice actors, but that's a Relic hallmark. Company of Heroes had amazing voice work as well, it's just what they do (did).
Gothic is explained as being a conglomeration of Chinese, Pacific Islander and the various European languages. It appears to us as pseudo-Latin because that's the closest thing it translates as.
High Gothic is tech-babble, like stereo instructions, because it is the language that survived the DAoT in the various technical manuals.
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