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I’m glad I didn’t ended up renewing now, the Tithes animation is bloody good.

Agreed, today's episode has been damned good, not just top notch animation, but damn, that story as well. 👌🏻

Agreed - utterly awesome episode!

Now, did they say what the third one would be about again?

And I'm glad I've got a set of Statuesque heads set aside a while ago now, kinda tempted to make a Custodes or two now.

Really enjoying the Tithe!

Loved the new episode and its story. I have many thoughts!

Animating faces and eyes is hard, but this animation zoomed in dramatically during conversations, particularly the last one, and their confidence paid off. It looked great and added to the drama.

The first Tithes animation was very video-gamey just because it was all marines and evil robots. they must've saved some budget because this thing was packed with people, foliage, and organic stuff in general.

In general it looked fantastic and everyone/everything was well animated and worked the way it should. Lots of great moments.

Personally I don't like the custodes deciding a biomass firebreak is a good idea just because the lore had kind of left that up for debate. Specifically whether it was a good idea or not and whether it even worked. The custodes should theoretically have access to more info than anyone, and allegedly greater strategic minds, so this is a strong (even definitive) stamp of approval to the idea. It does have some cool positives though for further stories, such as
-was guilliman involved in the decision and what does he think about it?
-is this desperation or caution?
-worlds this close to terra are not just unimportant backwaters, presumably there will be some in the firebreak with a lot of importance or political sway, how is that going to work out?


Overall a really cool story from a lore standpoint and it was all done to a high quality. I'd love to see this level of care put into animations for other factions (the Exodite was a good start), or even just continue to focus on elements of the lore that are only in the background of the rulebooks. I don't think anyone would have predicted an animation about the black ships, custodes, sisters of silence, adeptus arbites, tyranids, and space marines - all in one single episode! And they even were clever enough to work in a custodes logically - normally they wouldn't be with a black ship, but in a case where they need to pull rank on space marines, who else would you send?

When you list it out like that this episode was packed with cool and unusual stuff, and was still terrific from start to end. Send this to Amazon as a 'how to do warhammer right' example!

Well, speaking of Amazon, we are getting a 40k themed episode in their upcoming Secret Level show this December, done by Studio Blur, who have done amazing stuff in the past, so high hopes for that one.

I like that they used British Sign Language for the Thoughtmark, it may not look as elegant, but often things described as incredibly sophisticated and elegant do not always translate well to the screen, but it is a great compromise. I also quite liked how the Custodes decided to translate what her "little sister" was saying hehe.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Custodes decided on this matter on their own, or with backing of the current council on Terra set up by Guilliman, this is Segmentum Solar we are talking about after all and that's making them all a bit nervous, no matter how far away the tendrils still are.

I've watched the SoS episode 3 times- liked it a lot. I liked it enough that I'm ready to go back and watch the Marine episode.

So glad to hear that the short absence of the Exodite was a temporary glitch... but it reminds me about the thing I most hate about the world of streaming entertainment: you don't own it, and it could disappear at anytime with no notice, and there's nothing any of us can do about it when it happens.

I know that it doesn't, but I feel like my three years of membership fees should entitle me to make a personal copy for personal use.

The same can be said of any streaming service.

I wonder if them taking down the Exodite temporarily was so they could finally (finally) fix that it's aspect ratio was broken on Android TV devices.

 BrookM wrote:
Well, speaking of Amazon, we are getting a 40k themed episode in their upcoming Secret Level show this December, done by Studio Blur, who have done amazing stuff in the past, so high hopes for that one.

I like that they used British Sign Language for the Thoughtmark, it may not look as elegant, but often things described as incredibly sophisticated and elegant do not always translate well to the screen, but it is a great compromise. I also quite liked how the Custodes decided to translate what her "little sister" was saying hehe.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Custodes decided on this matter on their own, or with backing of the current council on Terra set up by Guilliman, this is Segmentum Solar we are talking about after all and that's making them all a bit nervous, no matter how far away the tendrils still are.

Also, the Custodes have never been keen on the whole Primarch thing and do have the authority to overrule him (or at least think they do).

Weird, if Kryptman does it, he is a wicked excommunicated heretic. But if Guilliman does it he's a genius?

Also note that there is zero negative backlash that the first Custodes we see is a woman. Seems like those complaining don't hold any stake in the product at all.

Also note that there is zero negative backlash that the first Custodes we see is a woman

The announcement thread of the episode on Twitter is full of negative comments, with tones ranging from "polite disappointment" to "incoherent screeching rant", so I wouldn't say there is zero negative backlash (haven't checked Reddit yet).

CorwinB wrote:

Also note that there is zero negative backlash that the first Custodes we see is a woman

The announcement thread of the episode on Twitter is full of negative comments, with tones ranging from "polite disappointment" to "incoherent screeching rant", so I wouldn't say there is zero negative backlash (haven't checked Reddit yet).

Given that Twitter has devolved into a right-wing cesspit, I'm disinclined to take any of that seriously.

 GiToRaZor wrote:
Weird, if Kryptman does it, he is a wicked excommunicated heretic. But if Guilliman does it he's a genius?

Of course, Kryptman is just a human, Guilliman is a Primarch, that's one step down from literal God to the Imperium. This plan also likely has the backing of the High Lords of Terra and its to protect the central core of the Imperium. You basically cannot get higher sanction without the Emperor waking up to give it his blessing.


That doesn't mean there won't be fallout from it. Indeed there could be insane fallout even down to the point where the fire-wall creates a divided Imperium. Rather like that key world that united the two halves of the Imperium we are potentially once more seeing GW setting the seeds of the Imperium fragmenting being a potential thing that actually happens.

Wait so Guilliman's master plan is to install Norton Antivirus?

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

CorwinB wrote:

Also note that there is zero negative backlash that the first Custodes we see is a woman

The announcement thread of the episode on Twitter is full of negative comments, with tones ranging from "polite disappointment" to "incoherent screeching rant", so I wouldn't say there is zero negative backlash (haven't checked Reddit yet).

Given that Twitter has devolved into a right-wing cesspit, I'm disinclined to take any of that seriously.

Agreed, I wouldn’t trust these kind of comments on twitter not to be bots or reactionary groups deliberately “review bombing” anything that’s even vaguely progressive. Twitter has never been a pleasant place to read comments, but it’s gone so far down hill in the last 18 months that I fully expect that one day it will be distilled into a living oil slick and become the creature Armus from the episode of Star Trek where Tasha Yar gets killed.

The reaction on Facebook has been largely positive. Yes there have been one or two bemoaning the female custodes, but they are very few and far between.

 Overread wrote:

 GiToRaZor wrote:
Weird, if Kryptman does it, he is a wicked excommunicated heretic. But if Guilliman does it he's a genius?

Of course, Kryptman is just a human, Guilliman is a Primarch, that's one step down from literal God to the Imperium. This plan also likely has the backing of the High Lords of Terra and its to protect the central core of the Imperium. You basically cannot get higher sanction without the Emperor waking up to give it his blessing.


That doesn't mean there won't be fallout from it. Indeed there could be insane fallout even down to the point where the fire-wall creates a divided Imperium. Rather like that key world that united the two halves of the Imperium we are potentially once more seeing GW setting the seeds of the Imperium fragmenting being a potential thing that actually happens.

Yep-the issue with what Kryptman did is that his scouring of planets was designed to force the Nids into Orkspace, where fighting between the two just made each stronger.

If Big G's firebreak ends up having the same or similar results, he'll be panned just as hard. If his fire break is positioned between the Hive Fleet's point of entry and the Imperium, and they have nowhere to go but back, he'll be praised. Right now, he's Schrodinger's Primarch: no one can praise or condemn until the observe the result.

I'm pretty sure that Kryptman's firebreak and his gambit (luring 'Nids to Octarius) were separate plans, albeit with both having the aim of buying the Imperium time to respond.

 PenitentJake wrote:

If Big G's firebreak ends up having the same or similar results, he'll be panned just as hard. If his fire break is positioned between the Hive Fleet's point of entry and the Imperium, and they have nowhere to go but back, he'll be praised. Right now, he's Schrodinger's Primarch: no one can praise or condemn until the observe the result.

The result will likely be the same. It slows down the Hive Fleet and buys IoM's time, but it isn't going to solve the problem by itself.

Although I do wonder if such plan means that Sanctum is lost.

The difference with Kryptman's plan is that he didn't clear it with anyone beforehand, and just did it. People are more annoyed with him supposedly 'exceeding his authority' than with the results of his actions.

Well he is an Inquisitor, they literally work on "Trust Me Bro" rules.

 Tyran wrote:
Well he is an Inquisitor, they literally work on "Trust Me Bro" rules.

They still have limits though. They have the authority to condemn a world to death - a single world, one (1), not a whole bunch! At that point, at least a couple of High Lords need to sign off on it. Grimdark bureaucracy demands it.

 Shakalooloo wrote:

They still have limits though.

Those limits aren't written in laws, but rather are the limits of each Inquisitor's political capital. Yes he technically excedded his authority, but the authority of an Inquisitor is a very nebulous thing that is often defined after the fact.

Kryptman had the political capital to condemn trillions of Imperial citizens and their worlds to death, but he didn't had enough political capital to survive the political fallout.

I auto-renewed on the 28th. But when I look at the minis on the website, I get a “No Longer Available to Claim.”

Am I too early or something?

dienekes96 wrote:
I auto-renewed on the 28th. But when I look at the minis on the website, I get a “No Longer Available to Claim.”

Am I too early or something?

Mine tells me I can't order the new minis 'til September 18.

dienekes96 wrote:
I auto-renewed on the 28th. But when I look at the minis on the website, I get a “No Longer Available to Claim.”

Am I too early or something?

Mine got messed up last year - I just contacted Customer Support and they resolved it, and I got my mini eventually.

So hopefully we get more shows of the tithes quality, It’s the first show they done I have felt like I was quite keen for more.

Given that everyone else appearing in The Tithe has been based on an existing model, what are the odds we'll get a miniature for the prodder-wielding Blackship attendant at some point?

 Shakalooloo wrote:
Given that everyone else appearing in The Tithe has been based on an existing model, what are the odds we'll get a miniature for the prodder-wielding Blackship attendant at some point?

I would give it 50/50 since it could be a mini made, sitting on the shelf to be released at some future undetermined. Would have been cool as part of sisters of silence release for 10th but I feel we missed out this round.

I'm glad to see that my assumption regarding female Custodes was correct: the sheer size and bulk of their armor hides any sort of feminine body shape. Makes my choice to just do head swaps work out fine.