Honestly, researching feudal worlds made me think they’re one of the most stable planets to be born on. You might be a serf, but you’re way less likely to get rando Murdered as long as you don’t have a huge Nurgle incursion.
I wished this animation showed just how nimble knights can be. Even the largest varieties can leap, do combat rolls and pirouette gracefully. I also wish they'd have shown the ion shields deflecting shots.
Leap? Yes, Combat rolls? Fuck no, they can spring and jump which automatically makes them the third-best walker in the galaxy behind Tau suits and Eldar wraith constructs
That's been my issue with these animations. They always seem to forget about shields. In the Blood Angels show the damn ships fly apart like they're made of Legos after one shot. The Exodite is the only one so far that mostly got the wargear right.
If the story had been different and if it had just been knight suit on knight suit I'd agree with their movement. But if you look at the story then their movement becomes somewhat symbolic. The stoic solemn match of the honorable towards destiny vs the implacable advance of sin and degradation. All while the rest of the world swirls about swiftly beneath them both. Faster but uktimarkey still beneath what truly matters. Or something like that.
I’m glad our giant stompy robots are getting their own animation, but my god these knights move SO SLOW. Look at the freeblade game for an example on how fast they can move.
@@jasoninthehood9726 Well I assume they would use promethium not gas. Since it's a fictional substance, there is no telling exactly how efficient is compared to our current stuff. Could be worse, could be better. There might be some lore nugget somewhere that might have a clue, whose to say.
@@joeydahl9594 I wonder if it’s nuclear powered. I guess that would make more sense since the Astartes have that backpack on the back of the armor. Do any 40K books even talk about battlefield logistics? I never see pictures with fuel trucks or lodging.
Hearing that the knights were for working kinda gives me titanfall vibes with how the titans were weapons of war but also members of families with the pilots were connected to them
@SordidusFellatio Bonding with your machine is like one of the base tropes of Mecha genre, so are most of the other things you're gonna say they stole. You're just being a duckling here claiming the place you first saw something must have invented it and so is the originator of everything
@@alalalus7692 *Uhm AKSHUYALLY* bonding with machine comes from bonding with ones steed, which predates the concepts of Mechas in GENAERAL *Hnyuk*. But for real, the trope is ancient because it draws from actual history. In this case, nobody copied anybody without first having copied history to begin with. It's all silly fanboyism for sure.
@@Dallows65 Yeah thanks, that is achcually 🤓 interesting. The knighthood concepts and Mecha are unsurprisingly very close. Which in some other aspects can also be seen in fighter jet fiction as well
It's a recurring theme in warhammer, a arrogant youth think he's thougher than his elders and will do better but in the end, is just perpetuating the cycle of lies and torment.
Not really... But arrogant marysur female POCs for sure. Just like the shitty usurping captain in the blood angel series and the bulldykes Celestials in Sigmar lore.
god the knights are moving like there reaver or emperor titions, they should be so much faster like there squires in animation should be knight speed and the squires should be more agile, like leaping and stuff (IDK the squires i dont know too much about there lore but i do know knights and how they are describe by titions prenseptes.)
The _throne which houses the machine spirit_ otherwise known as the biointerface with ten centuries of cache that has never been cleared and a system that has never been defragmented.
I was kind of hoping that the castle would rise up as a titan when the queen was talking about fighting for 10 years. It would have been cool if she was fighting the ghosts of the original blood oath takers within the machine spirit of a full fledged titan while hooked up to the throne.
Nah a titan abandoned on some backwards knight planet with no care takers firstly i doubt it would still function after the first oath takers and secondly the mechanicus would have a fit 😂
@@battlebrotherwh40k34 all true, but a secret titan could be a good explanation for why nurgle was so interested in that family line and planet. What the mechanicus doesn't know hurts them far less what what they do know haha.
@emwZEEK while i get what ur trying to say i feel like a lot of writers have ur mind set where they put a plot point in because its "cool" and not because it makes sense its like the knights in this video being slow brawlers moving like titans to show that their big and heavy when in reality they should be quick and nimble and have ion shields to block projectiles , like yes a titan would be cool but why would a titan be on the world its a literal titan meaning there would be a titanicus house out there in the void missing a reaver or even warlord class titan that just wouldnt happen
@@battlebrotherwh40k34 arnt titans relics of the dark age of humanity that cannot be manufactured anymore? Doesn't the imperium find lost artifacts all the time? Surely they don't have a list of every titan ever made and where they are, the imperium record keeping is awful.
@emwZEEK i mean firstly only warmonger and imperator classes cant be made anymore but warhound to warlords can but anyways i get what u was trying to say and yes while the imperium it self is trash at logistics...the adeptus mechanicus isnt they have far less bureaucracy to do ESPECIALLY when it comes to retrieving a whole titan like what would be the backstory of a titan being on the planet if it was from previous colonisation then the world would atleast be pre forge if not full fledged forge world a titan is a physical representation of their god its like a prophet, maybe even their primarch (heresy i know) so the world would have a whole legion based there so where are they now if they had a war with chaos then reports would have been sent out blah blah ive thought about it and its reaaaallly long to explain so long story short i dont like that plot point
I feel like they did the armigers dirty in this one because they are helverins, they are equipped with 2 autocannons which can punch quite hard above their weight. These are like rapid fire 50mm cannon but here they might as well be firing stubbers
@@johnanon658 The only thing raw here is how the local Target employees rail your single mother in the employee rest area after she tried to steal adult diapers for your uncontrollable bowels.
Kinda reminds me of the OG Transformers. There was one scene where Megatron is looking around and Optimus comes out of nowhere from where he was just looking at and punches him. Hello Megatron! 🤜 💥😵 It's like Bro where the F did you come from? 😅😅
Thx for this breakdown. I like how at the end the imperial Knights under Geneveve ready themselves and march out to face their nemesis. The sound of the knights’ cannons could be a bit more powerful but nevertheless a great depiction of this army. I wished Geneveve would have broken the curse, but then again… it‘s grim 40k.
Love seeing some Battletech clips during the lore explanations. Big stompy robots in knightly service to feudal like future societies is just good fun no matter what IP it's under. Keep up the good work man always enjoy your breakdowns.
There is a class forgotten here and mainly because its wxistence is only documented in extreme rarity in 40k, but more in horus heresy. There is also a class above Dominus called Acastus. The knights themselves push the limits of being able to he piloted by a single man, and nearl match a warhound in size.
@@thebastard890 there is a cerastus pattern lancer in all of the banner work, I know they were more common during the heresy, but aren't they still around, just rarer?
@@Asageun Yup. All the HH classes are still around but rare. This includes the Cerastus and Acastus patterns, as well as the mechanicum-knights (Styrix, Megaera, and Armiger Moirax)
The merging of Battletech lore is super cool. The Gundam UC origin story does a great job portraying how bipedal construction equipment could evolve into mobile suits.
Throughout thousand of years, us people, our ancestors brought invention and art from a lesser and more base form to an ever refined, accumulated form. They worshipped plays, and had paintings like the Mona Lisa and the lessons we took from that. Now, at this very moment we live in a world where every single scene in a movie, every single fucking frame is beyond the capacity of what billions of people had throughout history... Every frame here represents a most glorious art, like a davinci painting, a mona lisa painting. A castle, a theatre, a story... We fucking have it all... And even today, as we live in this gross wealth, billions of other people do not have access to this technology. To this stories and moving paintings that are just...beyond anything that's ever been. That's why I am extra grateful for it. I just cannot take it for granted and it is worthy of a million praises and more. Simply astonishing.
Got to say Counterpoints has quickly risen to the top of my favorite UA-camrs....all my favorite genres in one place...plus advanced weapon development ....top tier....ty.
I gotta say I'm a little disappointed, These knights move more like full size titans. I was under the impression from the novels they are far more agile. There were so many times I thought they would use their Ion shields to deflect attacks but it never happened. My immersion was broken sadly, a good effort though.
@@okancanarslan3730 Yeah they tried to bring this battletech vibe into it and it's all weird. The knights looked not knightly at all and despite of all the work that went into making this I am disappointed. At least the armigers looked kind of cool
@@arikauraniemi9383 If they are fighting Nurgle isn’t it possible that the plague lord is causing their machines to wear down ? When you look at death guard their gear is visibly corroded I’d assume that the mere presence of Nurgle forces would break down their enemies bodies and machines
I enjoyed this so much, I'm hoping we get another year as good as 2023 for warhammer+ . I really feel like it could become the next big streaming service if they put more money into shows!
My only critique is the weapons don't have that audible punch as they should. The armigers are shooting large caliber autocannons and should sound heavy, and not like little machine guns.
I just think that the Imperial knights were going out to to meet, the swarm of Nurgle. 3:55 Also when the knights warden was first encountering, the Knight Abominatus was the coolest. 4:40 what a mark of honor to pilot.
I LOVE the including of armigers. Because they make so much sense, of course you would want small fast flankers with rapid needle strikes. Thats your outrider to the catephract of the lumbering knight. Sadly, they are red shirts most of the time. But damn me if i wouldnt want to be sprinting through the field with two autocannons on rapid fire blaring fortunate son.
Most entertaining sponsorship spot I ever seen...who cares about a smooth transition who cares about a add that looks professional I want to see someone make a fool of themselves now that's entertaining thank you man I needed that
This was SO fucking dope Connor. Damn 07 homie. ill be rewatching this one a few times. That all being said, why didnt any of them simply stop fucking. no more blood heirs no more curse. Hold a genetic "lottery" with the babies of the planet, find the single most genetically strong person with the highest machine spirit compatibility. Announce that the winner of this lottery is going to be adopted into the royal family, marry into another knight house with that adopted heir. Boom no curse and two Great Knight Houses are bonded in marriage in the light of The Emperor. The new genes would strengthen both Houses and the future of the combined House.
That short was cool, the mech battle were pretty badass, I'm just wondering if they used AI to animate those faces. I had some really heavy **The Azylum Home Entertainement : The little mermaid** face animation vibes not gonna lie xD
I have to say, that knight-armor doesn't look much thicker than a tank from today. One would think the knights would be clad in armor. Also, @ 16:40 we can see a single shot from whatever weapon it is, easily punch a huge hole clean through a knight and kill it, so why doesn't a majority of knights carry this armament which would render them able to take out a vast majority of enemies at range and not risk melee ?. If you can engage your enemies in an open field, artillery or hardhitting ranged weapons are clearly better than knives.
Right around 23:25 that’s the same female tech priest that was in one of the previous episodes where she turns an imperial guardsman into one of her servitor isn’t it? Either that or they just used the same art they used for that character as a filler in this episode but it was a cool catch nonetheless
I want to see the house of Malinax in action so badly! Their rise to their prime, their fall to chaos, what happened after they fled into the void, any of it would be my favorite faction come to life on screen.
Amazing technical compartment, compelling lore and twists. I only have one minor gripe: the balancing of the action sequences versus exposition sequences feels a bit too uniform
CounterPoints either forgotten or ignored the 2 largest known Knight Classes, the Cerastus and Acastus. The Cerastus has 4 main variants: the Acheron which is armed with a massive and powerful Flamer on one arm and a large Chainfist with in-built Heavy Bolters on the other, the Lancer which is equipped with a long&powerful shock lance on one arm and an ion gauntlet shield on the other(there's one depicted on some of the tapestries in the Broken Lance Animation), the Castigator which has a Bolt Cannon on one arm and a Tempest Warblade which is as long as a SpaceMarines Rhino APC and lastly the Atrapos which is armed with an extremely large&high quality LasCutter reminiscent of the modified Mining Laser that the famous Questoris Class Canis Rex has and a massive, exotic and brutal Graviton Singularity Cannon. The Acastus Class has 2 known variants, both of which have extremely long-range weapons powerful enough to consistently destroy multiple SuperHeavy Tanks or cripple an unshielded Battle Titan with a well placed vollley. The Acastus Class is also nearly as tall as a Warhound Scout Titan, and appears to have more thorough Armour Plating but is significantly slower and doesn't have any Void Shields. The Acastus Porphyrion is armed with 2 sets of twin-linked Magna LasCannons, each individual one is almost as large as a Volcano Cannon...and it has 4 of them, 2 per Arm. It also has a massive Missile Launcher System usually equipped with Ironstorm Missiles or Anti-Air Warheads, and it can have 2 AutoCannons or 2 LasCannons, one on either side of its head. The Acastus Asterius has 2 sets of twin-linked Heavy Conversion Beam Cannons, which shoot out concentrated beams of antimatter. For secondary armaments it has a very large Missile Launcher System built into the Carapace that can fire the same Rad Warheads that the Mechanicums Karacnos Mortars used, aswell as having 2 Volkite Culverins[one mounted on either side of its head]. The Acastus Class and Cerastus Class Knights were very rare even during the Great Crusade, and as such most of the surviving Warsuits were placed deep inside the stasis vaults of the Knight Households that still had any after the apocalyptic battles of the Horus Heresy and The Scouring, and very few of those Warsuits survived into M42. So whenever they are seen in Battle, it is guaranteed that whomever deployed them is very desperate.
Im looking forward to that chainsword . I appreciated the effort Man At Arms did. Still looked like a chainsaw. Imagine a creation from the ground up. Something slim belt driven with huge custom jaged teeth ,even a grotesque orc stares in awe. Good on ya.
Thank you again for these breakdowns. It's wonderful to see the talent, creativity, and attention to detail these creators have that isn't always visible to someone like me that is not a subscriber to this digital channel. They absolutely deserve this attention and encouragement that games workshop may not be providing.
If i could be anything in Warhammer it would be a imperial knight pilot, they have everything i like honor, courage and more importantly Giant mechs and overwhelming firepower.
This is the best of 40k animation. This is how all videos eoisodes etc should be! The action, voice acting, animation, story telling, detail, especially in the murals, was phenomenal. My only complaint is they cut the final, killing thermal lance blow too fast. They shouldve let that linger in slow mo.
Its solid, but it fails to represent knights correctly. Knights arent like titans, they arent lumbering and clunky, theyre fast, agile, and capable of impressive maneuvers. There's also the fact that the princeps pilot them with levers and switches, while they should actually be connected to the knight, piloting them like its their own body
I am going to sound like the biggest nerd but the Dominus chassis is neither the largest nor rarest knight chassis, after that we have the cerastus the ones on the tapestry in the beginning, after that is the Acastus, rivaling the warhound in size. Of the two the Acastus is,like titans, ridiculously rare and very few knight houses still have them after the Horus heresy.
So, from what I understand, the curse is carried by bloodline. Weird take then. Adopt a candidate from outside the house and do not have a biological descendant. While it would result in the original bloodline dying out, it would not leave the world without defenders. Seeing as it is a curse carried in the Blood
This is from the team who did Exodite. Beautiful models but it does lack a certain fluidity. I know how hard animation is though so I only expect Pariah Nexus level projects once or twice a year considering how long it takes to get them right. Angels of Death and Exodite tier stuff I would like to see more often even if its a bit janky.
Agreed, I just want Warhammer to be the best it can be and would prefer fewer exquisite releases over a greater number, but less than exemplary. Quality over quantity...thats just my 2 cents, i know others may disagree.
Oh my gosh, what is up with the facial animation?! it's got that uncanny valley AI feeling about it, no lip syncing, not even close. I know they use different teams but you'd think they would hold things to a specific standard. Because at the moment, there's just this inconsistency of hit's and misses. :(
It seems to me that the god we all know, like you says at 20:00, did exist inb the 40k univers. But i remenber that the emperor maked all religions dissapear before the great crusade. I even remender the part when he has to kill the last "priest". But not shure of all that of course, didn't read any books, just watching video of 40k.
Long time viewer. I absolutely love your reviews and breakdowns. There are a number of music videos as a backdrop to Warhammer 40K (Thunderstruck, Welcome to the Jungle, etc). I am curious on how you would review these?
Thanks for the glimpse! Reinforces why Im probably never going to sub for Warhammer+. This animation has too much screen shaking. Also no effects with the chainsword or powerfist, gatling cannons not rotating. It's obvious the people who animate this aren't great. Although it would be good for a fan animation, as a monthly sub payment to a company, not great and not worth.
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LIES!!! He likes pineapple pizza. Absolute heresy. :D
Imperial Knights, the best Non-space Marine Imperial Faction; knight honor and large robots, what's not to love?
Honestly, researching feudal worlds made me think they’re one of the most stable planets to be born on. You might be a serf, but you’re way less likely to get rando Murdered as long as you don’t have a huge Nurgle incursion.
Counterargumment! The Guard has the Baneblade. While I respect anyone who loves the Knight's, my Heart belongs to the Baneblade
Wellllll u hopefully don't get a huge nurgle attack
@raphaelweischer6046 Now, think about this, an imperial knight on top of a shadowsword baneblade varient
I’d say the wall of guns are better
I wished this animation showed just how nimble knights can be. Even the largest varieties can leap, do combat rolls and pirouette gracefully. I also wish they'd have shown the ion shields deflecting shots.
Leap? Yes, Combat rolls? Fuck no, they can spring and jump which automatically makes them the third-best walker in the galaxy behind Tau suits and Eldar wraith constructs
That's been my issue with these animations. They always seem to forget about shields. In the Blood Angels show the damn ships fly apart like they're made of Legos after one shot. The Exodite is the only one so far that mostly got the wargear right.
The armigers at least are relatively fast and also snap around, but yeah the bigger ones are kinda slow and more like titans are.
Well i doubt the giant knights like the Tyrant class (imperial name escapes me) can do that but everyone other class absolutely.
If the story had been different and if it had just been knight suit on knight suit I'd agree with their movement.
But if you look at the story then their movement becomes somewhat symbolic. The stoic solemn match of the honorable towards destiny vs the implacable advance of sin and degradation. All while the rest of the world swirls about swiftly beneath them both. Faster but uktimarkey still beneath what truly matters.
Or something like that.
I’m glad our giant stompy robots are getting their own animation, but my god these knights move SO SLOW. Look at the freeblade game for an example on how fast they can move.
another good representation for knights was the DoW 3 trailer
@@BrotherGSIf DOW3 was even half as awesome as the damned trailer we'd be well into DOW 5 by now!
How much gas do you think they use walking half a mile?
@@jasoninthehood9726 Well I assume they would use promethium not gas. Since it's a fictional substance, there is no telling exactly how efficient is compared to our current stuff. Could be worse, could be better. There might be some lore nugget somewhere that might have a clue, whose to say.
@@joeydahl9594 I wonder if it’s nuclear powered. I guess that would make more sense since the Astartes have that backpack on the back of the armor. Do any 40K books even talk about battlefield logistics? I never see pictures with fuel trucks or lodging.
Hearing that the knights were for working kinda gives me titanfall vibes with how the titans were weapons of war but also members of families with the pilots were connected to them
I love that lore. It makes the colonists seem hopeful and forced into war rather than just conquering barbarians looking for a fight.
@SordidusFellatio Bonding with your machine is like one of the base tropes of Mecha genre, so are most of the other things you're gonna say they stole. You're just being a duckling here claiming the place you first saw something must have invented it and so is the originator of everything
@@alalalus7692 *Uhm AKSHUYALLY* bonding with machine comes from bonding with ones steed, which predates the concepts of Mechas in GENAERAL *Hnyuk*.
But for real, the trope is ancient because it draws from actual history. In this case, nobody copied anybody without first having copied history to begin with. It's all silly fanboyism for sure.
@@Dallows65 Yeah thanks, that is achcually 🤓 interesting. The knighthood concepts and Mecha are unsurprisingly very close. Which in some other aspects can also be seen in fighter jet fiction as well
It's a recurring theme in warhammer, a arrogant youth think he's thougher than his elders and will do better but in the end, is just perpetuating the cycle of lies and torment.
Not really... But arrogant marysur female POCs for sure. Just like the shitty usurping captain in the blood angel series and the bulldykes Celestials in Sigmar lore.
god the knights are moving like there reaver or emperor titions, they should be so much faster like there squires in animation should be knight speed and the squires should be more agile, like leaping and stuff (IDK the squires i dont know too much about there lore but i do know knights and how they are describe by titions prenseptes.)
What are titions?
Ah but that would require money. Gw doesn't spend that.
@SordidusFellatio🤓
The _throne which houses the machine spirit_ otherwise known as the biointerface with ten centuries of cache that has never been cleared and a system that has never been defragmented.
Aka, the voices the pilots hear may very well be actual voices xD
So its basically windows after the latest update fixed the previous update.
The only thing they should've done different, is show these knight pilots using the throne mechanicum, and not the hand controls.
I was kind of hoping that the castle would rise up as a titan when the queen was talking about fighting for 10 years. It would have been cool if she was fighting the ghosts of the original blood oath takers within the machine spirit of a full fledged titan while hooked up to the throne.
Nah a titan abandoned on some backwards knight planet with no care takers firstly i doubt it would still function after the first oath takers and secondly the mechanicus would have a fit 😂
@@battlebrotherwh40k34 all true, but a secret titan could be a good explanation for why nurgle was so interested in that family line and planet. What the mechanicus doesn't know hurts them far less what what they do know haha.
@emwZEEK while i get what ur trying to say i feel like a lot of writers have ur mind set where they put a plot point in because its "cool" and not because it makes sense its like the knights in this video being slow brawlers moving like titans to show that their big and heavy when in reality they should be quick and nimble and have ion shields to block projectiles , like yes a titan would be cool but why would a titan be on the world its a literal titan meaning there would be a titanicus house out there in the void missing a reaver or even warlord class titan that just wouldnt happen
@@battlebrotherwh40k34 arnt titans relics of the dark age of humanity that cannot be manufactured anymore? Doesn't the imperium find lost artifacts all the time? Surely they don't have a list of every titan ever made and where they are, the imperium record keeping is awful.
@emwZEEK i mean firstly only warmonger and imperator classes cant be made anymore but warhound to warlords can but anyways i get what u was trying to say and yes while the imperium it self is trash at logistics...the adeptus mechanicus isnt they have far less bureaucracy to do ESPECIALLY when it comes to retrieving a whole titan like what would be the backstory of a titan being on the planet if it was from previous colonisation then the world would atleast be pre forge if not full fledged forge world a titan is a physical representation of their god its like a prophet, maybe even their primarch (heresy i know) so the world would have a whole legion based there so where are they now if they had a war with chaos then reports would have been sent out blah blah ive thought about it and its reaaaallly long to explain so long story short i dont like that plot point
Chaos knight player here. I hate the fact that they show the abominant not using psychic powers.
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"Hey, Comstar? Would you kindly put in a call for a Lyran scout lance? There's some stompy action needed!"
I like how you included footage from videos games such as Titan fall, MechWarrior, and others.
Working on a lore video to combine a dozen IPs into a single timeline, I'm really excited about it even if it doesnt do well metrically
In a grim dark future full of strong independent women and feelings.
21:18 So the denizens of 40k are all just game pieces in the Chaps Gods’ tabletop game? Dang, that grimdark!
I feel like they did the armigers dirty in this one because they are helverins, they are equipped with 2 autocannons which can punch quite hard above their weight. These are like rapid fire 50mm cannon but here they might as well be firing stubbers
warglaves cutting through the chaos knight's knees whould have been hilarious
Still, they are fighting chaos knights, they may very well well have armor and joints strengthened by the ruinous powers.
That one scene where the corrupted father points at his daughter with his electroscourge like a finger and challenges her to a duel is raw AF.
Raw cringe
@@johnanon658 You talking mad shit for someone with a default pfp Joanna.
@@johnanon658 The only thing raw here is how the local Target employees rail your single mother in the employee rest area after she tried to steal adult diapers for your uncontrollable bowels.
I LOVE the Armigers being able to full spin their torso while on the move. Felt so much like Mechwarrior, AWESOME!
Am I the only one who wanted to see what her father looked like when he was corrupted? Like while he was in the Knight Abominant?
24:33 Bro really said what`s good
that punch was more funnier than it was supposed to be.
Also
NOT THE TINY ARMIGER, NOOOOO
3:34
Kinda reminds me of the OG Transformers. There was one scene where Megatron is looking around and Optimus comes out of nowhere from where he was just looking at and punches him. Hello Megatron! 🤜 💥😵 It's like Bro where the F did you come from? 😅😅
I always enjoy seeing the smile on your face with each breakdown of a Warhammer episode.
Thx for this breakdown.
I like how at the end the imperial Knights under Geneveve ready themselves and march out to face their nemesis.
The sound of the knights’ cannons could be a bit more powerful but nevertheless a great depiction of this army.
I wished Geneveve would have broken the curse, but then again… it‘s grim 40k.
Love seeing some Battletech clips during the lore explanations. Big stompy robots in knightly service to feudal like future societies is just good fun no matter what IP it's under. Keep up the good work man always enjoy your breakdowns.
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Here here. Long time Battletech player. Great universe with done awesome lore.
There is a class forgotten here and mainly because its wxistence is only documented in extreme rarity in 40k, but more in horus heresy.
There is also a class above Dominus called Acastus. The knights themselves push the limits of being able to he piloted by a single man, and nearl match a warhound in size.
Don't forget the Cerastus Knights!
@@thebastard890 there is a cerastus pattern lancer in all of the banner work, I know they were more common during the heresy, but aren't they still around, just rarer?
@@Asageun Yup. All the HH classes are still around but rare. This includes the Cerastus and Acastus patterns, as well as the mechanicum-knights (Styrix, Megaera, and Armiger Moirax)
I like to think of the knights as the 40k equivalent of forklift certified
Man. Looking at those nice packed lines of enemy armor and zombies I can't help but dream of artillery and airstrikes.
23:20 Look! Cameo from Magos Castia-Theta 9! 😅
Gotta love them reused assets
My same thoughts 😂 Ahhh, good old AoD times 🩸
The merging of Battletech lore is super cool. The Gundam UC origin story does a great job portraying how bipedal construction equipment could evolve into mobile suits.
Throughout thousand of years, us people, our ancestors brought invention and art from a lesser and more base form to an ever refined, accumulated form. They worshipped plays, and had paintings like the Mona Lisa and the lessons we took from that. Now, at this very moment we live in a world where every single scene in a movie, every single fucking frame is beyond the capacity of what billions of people had throughout history... Every frame here represents a most glorious art, like a davinci painting, a mona lisa painting. A castle, a theatre, a story... We fucking have it all... And even today, as we live in this gross wealth, billions of other people do not have access to this technology. To this stories and moving paintings that are just...beyond anything that's ever been. That's why I am extra grateful for it. I just cannot take it for granted and it is worthy of a million praises and more. Simply astonishing.
Got to say Counterpoints has quickly risen to the top of my favorite UA-camrs....all my favorite genres in one place...plus advanced weapon development ....top tier....ty.
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I gotta say I'm a little disappointed, These knights move more like full size titans. I was under the impression from the novels they are far more agile. There were so many times I thought they would use their Ion shields to deflect attacks but it never happened. My immersion was broken sadly, a good effort though.
and also, whey the pilots need to use buttons and levers if they have a mind connection with their machine.
Yeah, they are more mobile. Just GW animation budget, I expect.
@@okancanarslan3730 Yeah they tried to bring this battletech vibe into it and it's all weird. The knights looked not knightly at all and despite of all the work that went into making this I am disappointed. At least the armigers looked kind of cool
@@arikauraniemi9383
If they are fighting Nurgle isn’t it possible that the plague lord is causing their machines to wear down ? When you look at death guard their gear is visibly corroded
I’d assume that the mere presence of Nurgle forces would break down their enemies bodies and machines
This is true they are hooked into the Throne Mechanicum
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Omnissiah, grant my steed an under-chin PPC, to smite the enemies of Man near and far, banishing the unclean in a flash of plasma.
I enjoyed this so much, I'm hoping we get another year as good as 2023 for warhammer+ . I really feel like it could become the next big streaming service if they put more money into shows!
I watched all your videos over the past week, and this one was, by far, the best.
Never had a desire for knights, but now I want to play them.
My only critique is the weapons don't have that audible punch as they should. The armigers are shooting large caliber autocannons and should sound heavy, and not like little machine guns.
I always love when guns that could shoot effectively at close to a mile are charged into melee combat.
I just think that the Imperial knights were going out to to meet, the swarm of Nurgle. 3:55
Also when the knights warden was first encountering, the Knight Abominatus was the coolest.
4:40 what a mark of honor to pilot.
I LOVE the including of armigers. Because they make so much sense, of course you would want small fast flankers with rapid needle strikes. Thats your outrider to the catephract of the lumbering knight. Sadly, they are red shirts most of the time. But damn me if i wouldnt want to be sprinting through the field with two autocannons on rapid fire blaring fortunate son.
man the magos from the blood angels show sure loves being in places where the battle is a losing one
Damn man you're quick :D
You can let Warhammer TV know that thanks to your breakdowns I'm buying their subscription next week.
I appreciate your work!
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Most entertaining sponsorship spot I ever seen...who cares about a smooth transition who cares about a add that looks professional I want to see someone make a fool of themselves now that's entertaining thank you man I needed that
Amazing animation so cool to see so many knight class mechs just Duke it out in a brawl
This was SO fucking dope Connor. Damn 07 homie. ill be rewatching this one a few times.
That all being said, why didnt any of them simply stop fucking. no more blood heirs no more curse. Hold a genetic "lottery" with the babies of the planet, find the single most genetically strong person with the highest machine spirit compatibility. Announce that the winner of this lottery is going to be adopted into the royal family, marry into another knight house with that adopted heir. Boom no curse and two Great Knight Houses are bonded in marriage in the light of The Emperor. The new genes would strengthen both Houses and the future of the combined House.
That short was cool, the mech battle were pretty badass, I'm just wondering if they used AI to animate those faces.
I had some really heavy **The Azylum Home Entertainement : The little mermaid** face animation vibes not gonna lie xD
I have to say, that knight-armor doesn't look much thicker than a tank from today. One would think the knights would be clad in armor.
Also, @ 16:40 we can see a single shot from whatever weapon it is, easily punch a huge hole clean through a knight and kill it,
so why doesn't a majority of knights carry this armament which would render them able to take out a vast majority of enemies
at range and not risk melee ?.
If you can engage your enemies in an open field, artillery or hardhitting ranged weapons are clearly better than knives.
My head cannon FIRMLY places Battletech in the 40k Universe. The aliens were just, uhm, hiding. Yes, thats it. Dormant! 💥🤪👈
is it me or is the helm she has looks like a fallout 4 mod?
Right around 23:25 that’s the same female tech priest that was in one of the previous episodes where she turns an imperial guardsman into one of her servitor isn’t it? Either that or they just used the same art they used for that character as a filler in this episode but it was a cool catch nonetheless
it was also in angels of death, they probably didnt want to have to make a new moddel
This is the BEST BREAKDOWN 40K Channel. Keep on. I'm a big fan. Playing 40K since 1993
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Not for the Emperor? ;-)
Damn I was born in 93 lol😅
These animations are definitely not what i would expect for a knight as far as mobility. Hopefully we get more organic movement in future media.
Your videos are the only way i can watch Warhammer and your breakdowns help so much
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It’s great to see you looking so healthy and confident brother!! Keep up the hard work, it’s paying off.
I want to see the house of Malinax in action so badly! Their rise to their prime, their fall to chaos, what happened after they fled into the void, any of it would be my favorite faction come to life on screen.
Amazing technical compartment, compelling lore and twists. I only have one minor gripe: the balancing of the action sequences versus exposition sequences feels a bit too uniform
CounterPoints either forgotten or ignored the 2 largest known Knight Classes, the Cerastus and Acastus. The Cerastus has 4 main variants: the Acheron which is armed with a massive and powerful Flamer on one arm and a large Chainfist with in-built Heavy Bolters on the other, the Lancer which is equipped with a long&powerful shock lance on one arm and an ion gauntlet shield on the other(there's one depicted on some of the tapestries in the Broken Lance Animation), the Castigator which has a Bolt Cannon on one arm and a Tempest Warblade which is as long as a SpaceMarines Rhino APC and lastly the Atrapos which is armed with an extremely large&high quality LasCutter reminiscent of the modified Mining Laser that the famous Questoris Class Canis Rex has and a massive, exotic and brutal Graviton Singularity Cannon.
The Acastus Class has 2 known variants, both of which have extremely long-range weapons powerful enough to consistently destroy multiple SuperHeavy Tanks or cripple an unshielded Battle Titan with a well placed vollley. The Acastus Class is also nearly as tall as a Warhound Scout Titan, and appears to have more thorough Armour Plating but is significantly slower and doesn't have any Void Shields.
The Acastus Porphyrion is armed with 2 sets of twin-linked Magna LasCannons, each individual one is almost as large as a Volcano Cannon...and it has 4 of them, 2 per Arm. It also has a massive Missile Launcher System usually equipped with Ironstorm Missiles or Anti-Air Warheads, and it can have 2 AutoCannons or 2 LasCannons, one on either side of its head.
The Acastus Asterius has 2 sets of twin-linked Heavy Conversion Beam Cannons, which shoot out concentrated beams of antimatter. For secondary armaments it has a very large Missile Launcher System built into the Carapace that can fire the same Rad Warheads that the Mechanicums Karacnos Mortars used, aswell as having 2 Volkite Culverins[one mounted on either side of its head].
The Acastus Class and Cerastus Class Knights were very rare even during the Great Crusade, and as such most of the surviving Warsuits were placed deep inside the stasis vaults of the Knight Households that still had any after the apocalyptic battles of the Horus Heresy and The Scouring, and very few of those Warsuits survived into M42. So whenever they are seen in Battle, it is guaranteed that whomever deployed them is very desperate.
Im looking forward to that chainsword . I appreciated the effort Man At Arms did. Still looked like a chainsaw.
Imagine a creation from the ground up.
Something slim belt driven with huge custom jaged teeth ,even a grotesque orc stares in awe. Good on ya.
Always enjoy your break downs thanks for the work you do
This makes me really want to go buy a knight that I’ll probably never paint
As always, in the grim darkness of the future there's only war
Skaven got announced would you do a breakdown on that ?
Oh yeah. I saw that trailer and it was solid
Reading the Siege of Terra series now and this was awesome after reading Mortis
a mechwarrior game in 40k is making my mouth water.
At 2:47 you can see the chains on the chain sword pop in lol
Thank you again for these breakdowns. It's wonderful to see the talent, creativity, and attention to detail these creators have that isn't always visible to someone like me that is not a subscriber to this digital channel. They absolutely deserve this attention and encouragement that games workshop may not be providing.
If i could be anything in Warhammer it would be a imperial knight pilot, they have everything i like honor, courage and more importantly Giant mechs and overwhelming firepower.
I really liked Knight World lore, it seemed like it was one of the few places that didn't totally suck.
@@Counterpoints truth brother also good luck on the bolter
Praise for the lore master?!
Someone needs to turn their alerts off 😅
Great video man, it's always a good day when I see you've uploaded. Stay awesome!
Keep em coming bro warhammer tv won’t work for me but I still got yo channel 🤣
This is the best of 40k animation. This is how all videos eoisodes etc should be! The action, voice acting, animation, story telling, detail, especially in the murals, was phenomenal.
My only complaint is they cut the final, killing thermal lance blow too fast. They shouldve let that linger in slow mo.
It wasn’t perfect but I did think it was a solid outing
Its solid, but it fails to represent knights correctly. Knights arent like titans, they arent lumbering and clunky, theyre fast, agile, and capable of impressive maneuvers. There's also the fact that the princeps pilot them with levers and switches, while they should actually be connected to the knight, piloting them like its their own body
@@BrotherGS her face looked weird to me, no one else also thinks so?
Im shocked GW would let such a detailed breakdown of the video stand. Happy they have thought.
I am going to sound like the biggest nerd but the Dominus chassis is neither the largest nor rarest knight chassis, after that we have the cerastus the ones on the tapestry in the beginning, after that is the Acastus, rivaling the warhound in size. Of the two the Acastus is,like titans, ridiculously rare and very few knight houses still have them after the Horus heresy.
Almost knocked me out with those combos bro! 😎
GREAT VIDEO!!!
One of my favorite yet!! Keep up your hard work and I LOVE your new bolter! (But you need to invest in Dragons Breath)!
The intro video where you can see more of that is epic, could you upload more about that fight please?
Hopefully Geneve has the strength to fight the taint of nurgle. Seeing these magnificent giants in action was very appealing would see more of them 💯
Brilliant breakdown as always, thank you! Such a shame on the amination side, though. I was really hoping for some "oomph" with this short but nahhh
So, from what I understand, the curse is carried by bloodline. Weird take then. Adopt a candidate from outside the house and do not have a biological descendant. While it would result in the original bloodline dying out, it would not leave the world without defenders. Seeing as it is a curse carried in the Blood
From some reason I think Jenovies father lost on purpose to pass the curse on. As the deamons promised. They wouldn't kill all.
I knew it wouldn't end. The Queen was once that same young Knight.
Brother, there is a 72mm bolter in this world & in our timeline.
Plasma cannons as well but you know how the government is.
I mean I like the lore and all, but the animation seemed clunky and rushed. After pariah nexus I expected more.
This is from the team who did Exodite. Beautiful models but it does lack a certain fluidity. I know how hard animation is though so I only expect Pariah Nexus level projects once or twice a year considering how long it takes to get them right. Angels of Death and Exodite tier stuff I would like to see more often even if its a bit janky.
Agreed, I just want Warhammer to be the best it can be and would prefer fewer exquisite releases over a greater number, but less than exemplary. Quality over quantity...thats just my 2 cents, i know others may disagree.
@@Counterpoints the face, her face is weird and it's a main part of the story.
This is awesome, just wish they put a tad bit more in sound design
Youre quite fit as a dad man. Once a marine always a marine. Great job
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Transmission *Break thy shakles! Embrace the Power of eight!*
Don’t titans have void shields? Kinda odd they didn’t add that bit of lore to this
These aren’t titans. They’re knights. They have ion shields which have to be oriented towards the shot to work
Has anyone ever told you that you look like the child of Ron Swanson?
No but very based
Breakdown, break lance and... break @$$ 😎 Totally awesome lore, story, action and commentary! Thank you!!! o7
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Just love some mechanical action
Quite like a hybrid between Battletech and WH40K.
(I did notice the Battletech clips used).
I have been eagerly awaiting for this video like a fat kid awaiting his birthday cake. Emperor protects.
Oh my gosh, what is up with the facial animation?! it's got that uncanny valley AI feeling about it, no lip syncing, not even close.
I know they use different teams but you'd think they would hold things to a specific standard.
Because at the moment, there's just this inconsistency of hit's and misses. :(
Her face is not woman, it's like an inbetween and it confuses me.
It seems to me that the god we all know, like you says at 20:00, did exist inb the 40k univers.
But i remenber that the emperor maked all religions dissapear before the great crusade.
I even remender the part when he has to kill the last "priest".
But not shure of all that of course, didn't read any books, just watching video of 40k.
Nice breakdown
Long time viewer. I absolutely love your reviews and breakdowns. There are a number of music videos as a backdrop to Warhammer 40K (Thunderstruck, Welcome to the Jungle, etc). I am curious on how you would review these?
You can email some to me and I’ll see if I can do it somehow
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I had no idea nurgle could take hold of titans
I would love an Imperial Knight game.
Anyone knows where the intro comes from ? (First 3 seconds of all his video)
Curious to see technopriests that means that planet and that Imperial knight house isnt forgotten by the Imperium.
Anyone else notice that they used the same female techpriest model that was seen in the Blood Angels series? I feel a little cheaped out tbh
Thanks for the glimpse! Reinforces why Im probably never going to sub for Warhammer+. This animation has too much screen shaking. Also no effects with the chainsword or powerfist, gatling cannons not rotating. It's obvious the people who animate this aren't great. Although it would be good for a fan animation, as a monthly sub payment to a company, not great and not worth.