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I do agree with the raider and other variants Yet I would love to see something like a hive city or other permanent installation to be explored though interiors would be tricky on such a scale and volume 😊
Would be hard since a battlebarge isn't a specific class but is insteall the term used to decribe battleships used by the space marines and can be of many different classes and sizes. Some are said to be 17km long, where others are mentioned as being 8km long.
I wonder how many people are going to get into 40K just because of these videos. I have never once played a single game of the Table Top version, but have played a few video games and a bunch of books as well. Its nice being able to get into the lore without needing to spend hundreds on building and painting a little plastic army.
I'm in a similar boat. Its actually a lot of fun being able to play with digital models as now I can actually have True Size armies without spending thousands of dollars and hours
there are fans from the table top, and there are fans from the lore like me I learned about 40k from the lore videos tho I've been introduced thru the table top I've become a fan mostly thru the games, movies, & series
okay but when your little plastic men race across the board to capture objectives or punch your opponents plastic men in the face. Played a ton in college and it was amazing
a good portion of the fans also only collect and paint models without playing the table top game itself, because believe it or not, the rules are also pay walled
I love how this thing don't obey laws of aerodynamic, instead forcing itself to flight trought sheer tenacity just like SMs don't obey trivial things like enemy "defences"
@@FifingFossil Triumph of engine power over aerodynamics. The shape itself is optimized to beat air into submission instead of plying thru them like Eldar crafts.
What I love about the Thunderhawk is how it embodies something that got slowly eroded away by media depictions of 40k: It's both an assault lander and a groungs to space/space to ground vehicle. At least as stuff used to be depicted (particularly by forgeworld) most assault aircraft are pure aeronautica (atmospheric aircraft) and orbital transports are huge machines not generally capable of deployment into combat. This is supposed to make direct assault from orbit a somewhat uniquely Space Marine thing. The Astra Militarum typically lands in uncontested areas (typically far away from any enemy presence) and takes days, if not weeks to establish landing zones/beachheads were their forces are landed and from were they are deployed to their actual tasks.
Absolutely love the content! Even though it's a breakdown of one single ship - the immersion of how its presented make you feel you are in it. Fantastic work of art in all aspects
@@InvictaHistory the resin Thunderhawk came with components to make a fully modeled interior with cockpit crew, and as resin has very similiar properties to birch wood, it's not hard to go at it with a dremel and long bit drills to hollow out space in the larger components for interior LEDs and other immersive display features😊
"The craft decended rapidly, faster then anything Sertas Balsta had ever seen in 10 years service in the guard. There where white contrails flowing off the edges of blunt, practical wings and the exhaust of its engines. He remembered what it was when its sillhouete became a shadow against the desert sands and its yellow livery burning in the sun like a deliverance of intent. He fell to his knees and formed The Emperors Aquilla on his chest as he realized what it was as he remembered the picts he saw as a child. The thunderhawk roared over the artillery lines, a large, black fist adorning its doors as the massive thunderhawk sang past, angrily heading towards the Ork, all along the lines cheers where roaring into the sky as another thunderhawk passed, and another, and another, company banners being waved franticly to proclaim loyalty, some troops laughed with tears in their eyes and screaming in almost zealous joy. The Emperors Angels of Death had arrived"
Own a Thunderhawk for home defense, since that's what Robute Guilliman, son of our Founding Father the Emperor intended. Four heretics break into my hab unit. "By the Throne!" as I perform the rituals to awaken my aircraft's machine spirit and start winding up my Twin Heavy Bolter cannons. Blow into chunky smears the first man along with the door he was coming through before I even lift off cleverly hidden front yard landing pad. The pressure from the Thunderhawk's downthrust upon lift knocks the other three invaders prone, along with shattering all of my windows and setting off the entire hab block's car alarms. Focus and blast my Turbo-Laser Destructor but since it isn't warmed up it misses entirely, incinerating my neighbor's canine... and my neighbor's hab unit. Our remaining weapon system is a resort to the Hellstrike Missile Battery in spite of it being an air-to-air platform, "For the Emperor!" I cry, overriding and engaging. Fire everything, only 25% of the missiles obliterate both my home and two more of the heretics, the remaining 75% find other targets including a nearby powerstation accidentally. Though I am out of weapons on this humble Thunderhawk, I am not without arsenal, or alone... I smirk. Pivot yaw to rotate hovering Thunderhawk to face rearward and deploy my 30 chainsword wielding Space Marines directly on top of the last terrified traitor. He is eviscerated before the klaxon alarms begin blaring in response to the many explosions. The hab block is a burning ruins filled with screams of lost and wounded, but is secure. Just as the Primarch intended. Emperor protects.
@@thijshagenbeek8853 Orks 2200pts mek goff before they put Buzzgob into Legends, RG before 10th clipped the wings of my already very fluffy phobos 2000pts, have about 200ish pts of cultists and another squad or so of CSM and the krieg killteam but I'm pretty tired of getting burned by GW... Skaven would prolly be my fantansy pick tho warcrimes are pretty neat, I also like the sea elf and lizardfolk aesthetic and look fun to paint.
In the horus heresy there is an ultramarine that is riding in a thunderhawk and complains about its rough edges and unfinished looks, but thinks that its just a stopgap because of the war and lack of resources. I love the flying brick, ive wanted to get the forge world one since i got into 40k
And then to reassure him his commander says that the Mechanicus has faith in the craft, because they stamped it with their religious iconography. Like Bart pointing Lisa to the Krusty Brand Seal of Approval.
I love the Thunderhawks but I find it hilarious how this video comes out a little after Space Marine 2 where we see these ships shot down with SHOCKING regularity lmao, as well as only dropping off small 3-6 man squad of marines
@@squishmellowspeaks6785 that's how 40k is, batshit insane things vs another equally batshit insane. Everything can be killed. Of course unless you are a named, bare faced, space marine. Joking aside, even the new game shows you will be easily overwhelmed if you are singled out and swarmed.
If you have the seen the video you will know that Thunderhawks has 4 armor layer which include all insane layer of armoring, and see how low level tyranids broke them easily in the begining of space marine 2, this is why i find it funny when some people even try to make xenomorph from alien vs space marine etc, Humanity in warhammer are fighting ancient god,other dimensional go, necron who fought against god and won war of heaven etc
i mean we see only 2 THawks shot down in the game, yes? 1 in the beggining and 1 during the [SPOILER]. Unless i am missing something. Both of which are destroyed within the reasonable parameters. First one's not destroyed from the outside but pried the door open (which seems a little stupid tbh) after which enemies get inside. Second one's either sabotaged or destroyed by psyker abilities, meaning conventional armor woudn't be of much help anyway.
@@vitorossi7839 the intro dropship isn't a thunderhawk, it's a much smaller Ordo Inquisitorii dropship. The specific variant exclusive to the Ordo Xenos/Deathwatch.
@@SonsOfLorgar perhaps, its not like i remember it well tbh. Wasn't examinining it to see if it was a Thunderhawk or any other dropship. Is there a name for this ship? Just assumed since even DW use thunderhawks on a regular. Now thinking about it, the "pass through" passenger hold does not fit TH. but it means there is less of that "shocking regularity of Thunderhawks being destroyed" in the game to the even greter degree.
I feel like Space Marine pilots don't get enough respect. Imagine someone so good at flying that they are made to fly, despite the fact that the Imperium spent the yearly average output of a continent to turn them into super soldiers.
You forgot one of the most standout features. The ability for it to puncture through the hull of a starship, for boarding missions, allowing marines to exit the side door or foward ramp and take the fight on board.
I wouldn't be the first to point out that the Thunderhawk is far from aerodynamic, but what bothers me more is that it is not clear how it stays aloft when hovering. The game Space Marine 2 adds in numerous small rockets pointing lining the edges near the bottom. Also the universe does have anti-gravity tech, but neither of those are visible on model.
@@Rasaiel literally. We already have somewhat avionics that can make the knife shapes we have fly because the aerodynamics are not as nearly as we would want them to be.
Yeah they didn't go into how it's VTOL capable, given that it's a giant armoured brick. There was mention of maneuvering thrusters but they seem a bit too weak for VTOL. Those giant engines seem stationary as well. My only other guess is the same as yours, some sort of internal anti-grav tech.
Own a Thunderhawk for home defense, since that's what Robute Guilliman, son of our Founding Father the Emperor intended. Four heretics break into my hab unit. "By the Throne!" as I perform the rituals to awaken my aircraft's machine spirit and start winding up my Twin Heavy Bolter cannons. Blow into chunky smears the first man along with the door he was coming through before I even lift off cleverly hidden front yard landing pad. The pressure from the Thunderhawk's downthrust upon lift knocks the other three invaders prone, along with shattering all of my windows and setting off the entire hab block's car alarms. Focus and blast my Turbo-Laser Destructor but since it isn't warmed up it misses entirely, incinerating my neighbor's canine... and my neighbor's hab unit. Our remaining weapon system is a resort to the Hellstrike Missile Battery in spite of it being an air-to-air platform, "For the Emperor!" I cry, overriding and engaging. Fire everything, only 25% of the missiles obliterate both my home and two more of the heretics, the remaining 75% find other targets including a nearby powerstation accidentally. Though I am out of weapons on this humble Thunderhawk, I am not without arsenal, or alone... I smirk. Pivot yaw to rotate hovering Thunderhawk to face rearward and deploy my 30 chainsword wielding Space Marines directly on top of the last terrified traitor. He is eviscerated before the klaxon alarms begin blaring in response to the many explosions. The hab block is a burning ruins filled with screams of lost and wounded, but is secure. Just as the Primarch intended. Emperor protects.
The warhammer 40k universe is vast in lore and the community is generally very welcoming! Weather your into the lore, the games, the mini painting, or event the tabletop, there something for everyone. Super excited to see more videos like this in the future possibly 😅
heck I know it's fantasy I am impressed those missiles and bolters under the wings do not explode and still work with repeated re-entries and the fact this thing can only fly thru brute engine power
I love your videos, so informative and entertaining... I hope one day you guys would be willing to cover imperial shock troops, normal regiments, and the sheer size of the thousands of units in battles that occur. Thank you for all the hard work you guys do!
@5:59 visualizing better what Titus and his brothers experienced when they travelled to their missions with all that armor, its still amazing that the ones seen in SM2 were either badly damaged and needed repairs when they landed, or even crashed
I must say how appreciative I am for the fact that @Invicta took the time to put so much effort and detail into this lore video! I can’t think of any other 40k content creator that has done something like this! I hope this isn’t going to be the only one you create? Hopefully you plan on making more similar content on other 40k vehicles!
Thanks for a truly fantastic video! Your amazing 3D digital modeling gets us as close as a mortal will come to walking through the iconic Thunderhawk vessel! Keep up the fantastic work, Invicta. The Emperor Protects!⚔🔥😎👻🙌
I think one of my favorite concepts for a transport ship came from Hammer's Slammers. The lightly armed and shielded transport ships for the Planetary Siege Tanks known as BOLO's carried the vehicles mounted upside down in a similar position to the Thunderhawk. That way the BOLO's weapons, sensors and shields could be used as a force multiplier during transit. To the unknowing, you'd think, oh that's nice... But in the Slammer universe, that means an enemy fleet going after a handful of 'unescorted transports' were likely to be decimated, including capital ships.
Tu m'as beaucoup inspiré, je pense que je vais commencer par ce sublime avion. Avant de passer au pod, pour agrémenter mes tables de jeu, et mes parties narratives. Merci
I have a question about attrition and losses!!! In the space marine 2 campaign I would assume there are at least between 100-200 marines dying in the campaign in the system to the tyranids and chaos which accounts for at least 1/10th of the ultramarine’s total chapter strength. That is a crazy amount of strength to lose in a matter of days. How do these chapters replenish their units? How quickly?
After going through training and surgery Marines will serve in the Scout core until they are slotted into an Company, be it that they get along or that the company has some vacancies open up. The Scouts number more than 1000 and are not considered part of that flimsy 1000 Marine count.
Space Marine 2 takes place in the Dark Imperium period, so at that point (upgraded) marines can be mass produced again. They have to keep founding new chapters just so they can stick to the 1000 limit.
Prior to the final mission you can see about 83 surviving, combat ready members of 2nd Company. We do not see all that many dead marines through the campaign, and hear of only one squad (some of whom are the same ones we find) being lost. I suspect, at least before , that the casualties are way, way lower than 1-200. Closer to 15, plus or minus 5 more critically injured. Also, combat ineffective and actually killed are quite different for space marines. They can recover from incredible wounds if evacuated, and even then the most seriously wounded will be placed into dreadnoughts. It is undoubtedly an usually costly theater, but there was an unusually dangerous complication (on top of the Tyranids) to the theater as well.
Love your work invicta. One faction I'd love a deep dive into, the Adeptus Mechanicus. Their unique weaponry and means of warfare are both strange and efficient.
It’s ironic how a cut down and budget version of the stormbird ended up as a mainstay of the astartes navy, which again the thunderhawk was originally intended to be a mere stopgap inorder to provide the legions with the necessary resources of stormbirds which were much lager being able to carry fifty fully armed and equipped space marines, one rhino or five dreadnoughts or a complete mixture of the lot ie one dreadnought twenty marines and a rhino armed with a twin lascannon. Not only that but. The stormbird was also shielded housing two ion shield generators onboard but due to the stormbirds complexity as well as cost in terms of resources and man hours to produce a single ship, you could easily have built three thunderhawk for the cost of one stormbird and not only that but the thunderhawk gunship was much more ideally suited to the much smaller unit deployments of a chapter who might only end up deploying a hundred or so marines to a given battle and whilst not entirely comfortable or safe a thunderhawk can at least carry thirty marines in a pinch with marines even standing in the cockpit of course but such situations and procedures tend to be fairly rare. Not only that but the thunderhawk was and is ideally suited as a void fighter craft being that its ventral mounted turbo laser destructor is capable of punching through even the hull armor of a space ship along with the ability to land boarding parties onto an enemy ship made it idealistic as a void fighter craft
This is one of the reasons why Guilliman or the Ultra marines are the strongest faction in terms of an upscale war. They are very versatile and can fight you in your own field while still using other tactics that you are not comfortable at dealing with.
I Need one of these videos for every Unit/Armament/Race and piece of technology and worlds in 40k all tucked in its own playlist so i can go to sleep to them please!
I love the over-the-top aesthetics of 40k. That being said, the coolest feature of the Thunderhawk is going supersonic albeit having the aerodynamics of a brick
I can’t wait to see more of this. Maybe starwars or the full size if a halo flood infestation would be cool too. However, this channels WH40K coverage is absolutely amazing. Truly a work of art.
The greatest thing the Imperium ever did was to perfect the Infinite Ammunition Bin. This technology, which enables an ammo magazine to carry nearly infinite amounts of ammunition, is one of the cornerstones of the Imperium's continued success. This is how a Boltgun magazine can carry 30 or more rounds, when from the outside, it only appears to have room for a handful.
The art style of these videos is so frackin awesome, it works so well with 40k, the Marines are even still shown with bases! its reminds me of the sort of miniature action picts in the imperial armour books 🔥 Cavill Protects =C=
I would love to see imperial knights and maybe the ways they are deployed. I know that they can be deployed with drop keeps, but they have very little lore. A creative way I saw that dealt with in the imperial knight freeblade gane was by using a thunder hawk or something similar to deploy them. If you want to see it, it's used for the games' pvp mode.
I strongly suggest 40K fans check out the 40K DLC for Powerwash Simulator. You get up close and personal with the following. ● The Ultramarines Land Raider ● The Dark Angels Deathwing Redemptor Dreadnought ● The Astra Militarum Rogal Dorn Tank ● The House Hawkshroud Imperial Knight ● The Blood Angels Thunderhawk Tangential, I suppose, but cool.
awesome episode! I'd love to hear about the other aircraft of the Space Marines a bit more, as they are a bit underrepresented in the lore and in Tabletop
I love it! You asked what we wanted next, so I'd say that it would be amazing if you could dive in the details of the imperial ships (Navy, Space marines and Mechanicus of course) Thanks a lot!
One flaw in your interior model at about 15:00, you have the side hatches misaligned, they should be directly opposite each other, as they are on the exterior.
... so no seatbelts or restraints. Very Grimdark. Imagine a Thunderhawk getting shot down, spinning uncontrollably in the sky. Now imagine the chaotic scene inside the assault hold with all those astartes, now also spinning, getting tossed around like several ton soda cans. Throw a dreadnought in there for fun. Absolutely brutal. Send me in via drop pod instead ... please...
They do infact have restraints/seats and mag locks that hold the marines in place it just depends on the thunderhawk transport. And what is expected at the other end. Are they doing a simple meeting with locals for recruitment of aspirants or are they hot dropping into a active hot lz or are they doing a stealth insert. Just depends and nothing is standard I'm wh40k, everything is basically bespoke.
Commissar Kain series (for example) makes it a point to talk about about seatbelts in this thing and how he had problems with them, being smaller than your average passenger. But they are still there.
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Definitely Land Raider/Spartan/it's variants
+ maybe special about Macragge's Honour
All vehicles sir
I do agree with the raider and other variants
Yet I would love to see something like a hive city or other permanent installation to be explored though interiors would be tricky on such a scale and volume 😊
Without a doubt, the Leman Russ tank
Would love to see a breakdown of the Primaris Grav vehicles
Love how invicta decided to cover 40k
i love it when IP holders i love sponsor channels i love.
Agreed
@@weon_absoluto it is the logical extreme, Rome IN SPACE!
Only because the new game is coming out. It's timed. Not a dumb move really.
With boring slow AI and generic text? Lame! So lame.
Can't wait for the 'the size of the space marine battle barge' video.
Would be hard since a battlebarge isn't a specific class but is insteall the term used to decribe battleships used by the space marines and can be of many different classes and sizes. Some are said to be 17km long, where others are mentioned as being 8km long.
Ohhoho, I can't wait until we get to the Ork Attack Moon or the Necron super death star
Oh yes
Yesssss
feature length video lol
I wonder how many people are going to get into 40K just because of these videos. I have never once played a single game of the Table Top version, but have played a few video games and a bunch of books as well. Its nice being able to get into the lore without needing to spend hundreds on building and painting a little plastic army.
I'm in a similar boat. Its actually a lot of fun being able to play with digital models as now I can actually have True Size armies without spending thousands of dollars and hours
there are fans from the table top, and there are fans from the lore like me I learned about 40k from the lore videos tho I've been introduced thru the table top I've become a fan mostly thru the games, movies, & series
okay but when your little plastic men race across the board to capture objectives or punch your opponents plastic men in the face. Played a ton in college and it was amazing
a good portion of the fans also only collect and paint models without playing the table top game itself, because believe it or not, the rules are also pay walled
@@NavyDood21 To me, the boardgame is incredible boring. I stay with the lore, minis and videogames.
I love how this thing don't obey laws of aerodynamic, instead forcing itself to flight trought sheer tenacity just like SMs don't obey trivial things like enemy "defences"
The Emperor Protects from the Laws of Physics.
Just like the humble bumblebee which just doesn't care what humans think should or should not be possible.
engines are so nuts that they can move that brick above mach
Dumb humie sweat mighty Orks just has to believe it work and it dos
@@FifingFossil Triumph of engine power over aerodynamics.
The shape itself is optimized to beat air into submission instead of plying thru them like Eldar crafts.
What I love about the Thunderhawk is how it embodies something that got slowly eroded away by media depictions of 40k:
It's both an assault lander and a groungs to space/space to ground vehicle. At least as stuff used to be depicted (particularly by forgeworld) most assault aircraft are pure aeronautica (atmospheric aircraft) and orbital transports are huge machines not generally capable of deployment into combat. This is supposed to make direct assault from orbit a somewhat uniquely Space Marine thing. The Astra Militarum typically lands in uncontested areas (typically far away from any enemy presence) and takes days, if not weeks to establish landing zones/beachheads were their forces are landed and from were they are deployed to their actual tasks.
Absolutely love the content! Even though it's a breakdown of one single ship - the immersion of how its presented make you feel you are in it. Fantastic work of art in all aspects
Its also great to be able to show off the insides of these vehicles which otherwise remain sealed up on the tabletop
Amazing stuff
@@InvictaHistory the resin Thunderhawk came with components to make a fully modeled interior with cockpit crew, and as resin has very similiar properties to birch wood, it's not hard to go at it with a dremel and long bit drills to hollow out space in the larger components for interior LEDs and other immersive display features😊
"The craft decended rapidly, faster then anything Sertas Balsta had ever seen in 10 years service in the guard. There where white contrails flowing off the edges of blunt, practical wings and the exhaust of its engines. He remembered what it was when its sillhouete became a shadow against the desert sands and its yellow livery burning in the sun like a deliverance of intent. He fell to his knees and formed The Emperors Aquilla on his chest as he realized what it was as he remembered the picts he saw as a child. The thunderhawk roared over the artillery lines, a large, black fist adorning its doors as the massive thunderhawk sang past, angrily heading towards the Ork, all along the lines cheers where roaring into the sky as another thunderhawk passed, and another, and another, company banners being waved franticly to proclaim loyalty, some troops laughed with tears in their eyes and screaming in almost zealous joy. The Emperors Angels of Death had arrived"
Own a Thunderhawk for home defense, since that's what Robute Guilliman, son of our Founding Father the Emperor intended.
Four heretics break into my hab unit. "By the Throne!" as I perform the rituals to awaken my aircraft's machine spirit and start winding up my Twin Heavy Bolter cannons.
Blow into chunky smears the first man along with the door he was coming through before I even lift off cleverly hidden front yard landing pad.
The pressure from the Thunderhawk's downthrust upon lift knocks the other three invaders prone, along with shattering all of my windows and setting off the entire hab block's car alarms.
Focus and blast my Turbo-Laser Destructor but since it isn't warmed up it misses entirely, incinerating my neighbor's canine... and my neighbor's hab unit.
Our remaining weapon system is a resort to the Hellstrike Missile Battery in spite of it being an air-to-air platform, "For the Emperor!" I cry, overriding and engaging.
Fire everything, only 25% of the missiles obliterate both my home and two more of the heretics, the remaining 75% find other targets including a nearby powerstation accidentally.
Though I am out of weapons on this humble Thunderhawk, I am not without arsenal, or alone... I smirk.
Pivot yaw to rotate hovering Thunderhawk to face rearward and deploy my 30 chainsword wielding Space Marines directly on top of the last terrified traitor.
He is eviscerated before the klaxon alarms begin blaring in response to the many explosions. The hab block is a burning ruins filled with screams of lost and wounded, but is secure.
Just as the Primarch intended. Emperor protects.
@@attemptedunkindness3632 Sounds like your dicerolls are a thing to behold, with that level of glee I take it you play skaven..?
@@thijshagenbeek8853 Orks 2200pts mek goff before they put Buzzgob into Legends, RG before 10th clipped the wings of my already very fluffy phobos 2000pts, have about 200ish pts of cultists and another squad or so of CSM and the krieg killteam but I'm pretty tired of getting burned by GW... Skaven would prolly be my fantansy pick tho warcrimes are pretty neat, I also like the sea elf and lizardfolk aesthetic and look fun to paint.
In the horus heresy there is an ultramarine that is riding in a thunderhawk and complains about its rough edges and unfinished looks, but thinks that its just a stopgap because of the war and lack of resources. I love the flying brick, ive wanted to get the forge world one since i got into 40k
And then to reassure him his commander says that the Mechanicus has faith in the craft, because they stamped it with their religious iconography. Like Bart pointing Lisa to the Krusty Brand Seal of Approval.
Brothers! The Omnisiah has blessed us with yet another lore video from the great Archmagos!
this feels like an episode of "How It's Made" that a resident in a not-hellish side of a hive city would watch after a long day at work
I love the Thunderhawks but I find it hilarious how this video comes out a little after Space Marine 2 where we see these ships shot down with SHOCKING regularity lmao, as well as only dropping off small 3-6 man squad of marines
@@squishmellowspeaks6785 that's how 40k is, batshit insane things vs another equally batshit insane. Everything can be killed. Of course unless you are a named, bare faced, space marine.
Joking aside, even the new game shows you will be easily overwhelmed if you are singled out and swarmed.
If you have the seen the video you will know that Thunderhawks has 4 armor layer which include all insane layer of armoring, and see how low level tyranids broke them easily in the begining of space marine 2, this is why i find it funny when some people even try to make xenomorph from alien vs space marine etc,
Humanity in warhammer are fighting ancient god,other dimensional go, necron who fought against god and won war of heaven etc
i mean we see only 2 THawks shot down in the game, yes? 1 in the beggining and 1 during the [SPOILER]. Unless i am missing something. Both of which are destroyed within the reasonable parameters. First one's not destroyed from the outside but pried the door open (which seems a little stupid tbh) after which enemies get inside.
Second one's either sabotaged or destroyed by psyker abilities, meaning conventional armor woudn't be of much help anyway.
@@vitorossi7839 the intro dropship isn't a thunderhawk, it's a much smaller Ordo Inquisitorii dropship. The specific variant exclusive to the Ordo Xenos/Deathwatch.
@@SonsOfLorgar perhaps, its not like i remember it well tbh. Wasn't examinining it to see if it was a Thunderhawk or any other dropship. Is there a name for this ship? Just assumed since even DW use thunderhawks on a regular. Now thinking about it, the "pass through" passenger hold does not fit TH.
but it means there is less of that "shocking regularity of Thunderhawks being destroyed" in the game to the even greter degree.
Drop pods are usually used in 2 cases: the mission is more time critical than numbers critical or if the space above the planet is not yet secured.
8:58 in the Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade Mobile Game it shows Thunderhawk Transports to be capable of carrying a Questoris Class Knight into battle.
I have that game as well.
I feel like Space Marine pilots don't get enough respect. Imagine someone so good at flying that they are made to fly, despite the fact that the Imperium spent the yearly average output of a continent to turn them into super soldiers.
Well if these pilots fail, they would lose 30 marines, so it's not a place to cheap out!
Those pilots are (in most chapter) Techmarines.
Reminds me of the Clone pilots in Star Wars, vital but often overlooked.
The oop metal Thunderhawk model by GW was sold at 40,000p (£400). Only about 500 were ever produced.
One sold a few years back for £25,000!
You forgot one of the most standout features. The ability for it to puncture through the hull of a starship, for boarding missions, allowing marines to exit the side door or foward ramp and take the fight on board.
I wouldn't be the first to point out that the Thunderhawk is far from aerodynamic, but what bothers me more is that it is not clear how it stays aloft when hovering. The game Space Marine 2 adds in numerous small rockets pointing lining the edges near the bottom. Also the universe does have anti-gravity tech, but neither of those are visible on model.
Yeah, no way this can fly without some anti gravity tech. But to be fair, imperium does have that.
@MrQuantumInc there was a tau book about how shadow sun say human ship are airborne by shear force and stubbornness
@@Rasaiel literally. We already have somewhat avionics that can make the knife shapes we have fly because the aerodynamics are not as nearly as we would want them to be.
Yeah they didn't go into how it's VTOL capable, given that it's a giant armoured brick. There was mention of maneuvering thrusters but they seem a bit too weak for VTOL. Those giant engines seem stationary as well. My only other guess is the same as yours, some sort of internal anti-grav tech.
@@_Saracen_ the lumps on the "chin" looking like inverted crenelation are indeed anti-grav projector housings.
My good god, Space Marine 2 is absolutely everywhere
Own a Thunderhawk for home defense, since that's what Robute Guilliman, son of our Founding Father the Emperor intended.
Four heretics break into my hab unit. "By the Throne!" as I perform the rituals to awaken my aircraft's machine spirit and start winding up my Twin Heavy Bolter cannons.
Blow into chunky smears the first man along with the door he was coming through before I even lift off cleverly hidden front yard landing pad.
The pressure from the Thunderhawk's downthrust upon lift knocks the other three invaders prone, along with shattering all of my windows and setting off the entire hab block's car alarms.
Focus and blast my Turbo-Laser Destructor but since it isn't warmed up it misses entirely, incinerating my neighbor's canine... and my neighbor's hab unit.
Our remaining weapon system is a resort to the Hellstrike Missile Battery in spite of it being an air-to-air platform, "For the Emperor!" I cry, overriding and engaging.
Fire everything, only 25% of the missiles obliterate both my home and two more of the heretics, the remaining 75% find other targets including a nearby powerstation accidentally.
Though I am out of weapons on this humble Thunderhawk, I am not without arsenal, or alone... I smirk.
Pivot yaw to rotate hovering Thunderhawk to face rearward and deploy my 30 chainsword wielding Space Marines directly on top of the last terrified traitor.
He is eviscerated before the klaxon alarms begin blaring in response to the many explosions. The hab block is a burning ruins filled with screams of lost and wounded, but is secure.
Just as the Primarch intended. Emperor protects.
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Another cool thing about Thunder Hawk transporters is that they can recover drop pods after a battle and bring em back to the ship
I love how the buttons are so simple, just red or green that’s it
Now you just gotta cover the Thunderhawk's cooler, older brothers the Orion drop ship and the Stormbird
And it’s younger(?) brother, the Overlord
Absolutely AMAZING audio mixing, the engine igniting actually shook my room. Shockingly great quality as always!
it looks so small but if you think about space marines are 7 feet tall its pretty big and spacious for a guardsman
I wish I had a thunderhawk. Cool ride to pick up girls with
Lol
You can pick up an entire platoon of girls
Girls will Hauk tuah for a Thunderhawk
Fuck that, I'm picking up my battle brothers and taking them to Disneyland
You can't pick up chicks in a tank, but you probably could in a dropship!
The warhammer 40k universe is vast in lore and the community is generally very welcoming! Weather your into the lore, the games, the mini painting, or event the tabletop, there something for everyone. Super excited to see more videos like this in the future possibly 😅
I love how this documentary sounds like an actual 40k documentary it just perfect
I'd love to see a visual representation of the forces of a Necron Tomb World or a T'au cadre, they are my favorite factions along the Astra Militarum
HERETIC
I love that Invicta does historical content and also Warhammer 40k stuff!
As a Warhammer enjoyer for the past 20 years of my life all I can say is welcome new bloods. You got a lot to learn.
How is there enough lore in the 40k universe to make such a detailed video about a single vehicle… I cant imagine how much else is out there
heck I know it's fantasy I am impressed those missiles and bolters under the wings do not explode and still work with repeated re-entries and the fact this thing can only fly thru brute engine power
Man, it's a GOOD day! Invicta AND Janovich both posting my favorite content on the same day?!? LETS GOOOOOO
I would love to hear Xenos Army overviews as told from the perspective of Ordo Xenos to keep the imperium theme.
Love to see them cover sisters of battle, choas like slaanesh etc.
I love your videos, so informative and entertaining... I hope one day you guys would be willing to cover imperial shock troops, normal regiments, and the sheer size of the thousands of units in battles that occur. Thank you for all the hard work you guys do!
Please do not stop the 40k content it's so good
@5:59 visualizing better what Titus and his brothers experienced when they travelled to their missions
with all that armor, its still amazing that the ones seen in SM2 were either badly damaged and needed repairs when they landed, or even crashed
I can't believe this is free content 😮! Amazing, we truly are living in Warhammer golden age
Recently I downloaded a three 40K mods for Arma 3 and the Thubderhawk turned out far larger than I expected.
Finally
Invicta showcasing some Real Technological marvels
Incredible Vibe
Mostly Beautiful work
Interior model’s struggling
Basically, this craft is comically tiny for what it's supposed to be and carry... A modern day C17 is 53 meters.
I love how this is like a History channel segment :)
I have never played 40k, but I will watch this
8:10 Acheran: best I can do is 3.
They still look as aerodynamic as a brick, especially those wings :'D
“Flies pretty good for a brick.”
Its nice to have a break from the primairs stuff for a change
I always loved how the wings aren't there for any amount of aerodynamics but purely to carry weaponry.
yall must be having the time of your lives making these 🔥
I must say how appreciative I am for the fact that @Invicta took the time to put so much effort and detail into this lore video! I can’t think of any other 40k content creator that has done something like this! I hope this isn’t going to be the only one you create? Hopefully you plan on making more similar content on other 40k vehicles!
Absolutely love it. Would love to see "Size of an Imperial Battlefleet" next.
Amazing video and gives great depth of how the Astartes deploy for those not acquainted.
This Series on Warhammer 40k is fucking Amazing. Amazing work all round.
Thanks for a truly fantastic video! Your amazing 3D digital modeling gets us as close as a mortal will come to walking through the iconic Thunderhawk vessel! Keep up the fantastic work, Invicta. The Emperor Protects!⚔🔥😎👻🙌
I think one of my favorite concepts for a transport ship came from Hammer's Slammers. The lightly armed and shielded transport ships for the Planetary Siege Tanks known as BOLO's carried the vehicles mounted upside down in a similar position to the Thunderhawk. That way the BOLO's weapons, sensors and shields could be used as a force multiplier during transit.
To the unknowing, you'd think, oh that's nice... But in the Slammer universe, that means an enemy fleet going after a handful of 'unescorted transports' were likely to be decimated, including capital ships.
An in dept view on a real battleship like an Legion Battle Barge would be so great. So we could get the scale and capabilities of a chapters flagship.
You lost me at the wing mounted lasguns helping clear the landing site. Those are fixed guns, so how useful could they be for clearing a landing site?
Tu m'as beaucoup inspiré, je pense que je vais commencer par ce sublime avion. Avant de passer au pod, pour agrémenter mes tables de jeu, et mes parties narratives.
Merci
Excellent work explaining the true versatility of this beast!
Tyranid notable bioforms next? Love the animations
Maybe the Valkyrie and it's *many* variants next?
This was incredibly well done and thorough. Subbed
I love the mention of STC's there 3:30. An old tech from humanity's DAOT
ah yes the thunderhawk aka "the brick" aka "that thing would never fly"
without anti gravity, that is
FOR THE EMPEROR! That was very Informative.
Would love to see breakdown of Dreadnoughts. There are so many weapons for them, and so many different kinds!
I have a question about attrition and losses!!! In the space marine 2 campaign I would assume there are at least between 100-200 marines dying in the campaign in the system to the tyranids and chaos which accounts for at least 1/10th of the ultramarine’s total chapter strength. That is a crazy amount of strength to lose in a matter of days. How do these chapters replenish their units? How quickly?
After going through training and surgery Marines will serve in the Scout core until they are slotted into an Company, be it that they get along or that the company has some vacancies open up. The Scouts number more than 1000 and are not considered part of that flimsy 1000 Marine count.
@@Writh811an addendum: below the Scouts, each chapter has hundreds of aspirants that have yet to receive any physical alterations yet.
Space Marine 2 takes place in the Dark Imperium period, so at that point (upgraded) marines can be mass produced again. They have to keep founding new chapters just so they can stick to the 1000 limit.
Prior to the final mission you can see about 83 surviving, combat ready members of 2nd Company.
We do not see all that many dead marines through the campaign, and hear of only one squad (some of whom are the same ones we find) being lost.
I suspect, at least before , that the casualties are way, way lower than 1-200. Closer to 15, plus or minus 5 more critically injured.
Also, combat ineffective and actually killed are quite different for space marines. They can recover from incredible wounds if evacuated, and even then the most seriously wounded will be placed into dreadnoughts.
It is undoubtedly an usually costly theater, but there was an unusually dangerous complication (on top of the Tyranids) to the theater as well.
I would love to see a video about a space marine legion as they are of truly epic scale of both warhammer and the series.
This is awesome. I would love to see a feature of the Carcharodons chapter. Details on ships, war gear , etc.
Love your work invicta. One faction I'd love a deep dive into, the Adeptus Mechanicus. Their unique weaponry and means of warfare are both strange and efficient.
It’s ironic how a cut down and budget version of the stormbird ended up as a mainstay of the astartes navy, which again the thunderhawk was originally intended to be a mere stopgap inorder to provide the legions with the necessary resources of stormbirds which were much lager being able to carry fifty fully armed and equipped space marines, one rhino or five dreadnoughts or a complete mixture of the lot ie one dreadnought twenty marines and a rhino armed with a twin lascannon. Not only that but. The stormbird was also shielded housing two ion shield generators onboard but due to the stormbirds complexity as well as cost in terms of resources and man hours to produce a single ship, you could easily have built three thunderhawk for the cost of one stormbird and not only that but the thunderhawk gunship was much more ideally suited to the much smaller unit deployments of a chapter who might only end up deploying a hundred or so marines to a given battle and whilst not entirely comfortable or safe a thunderhawk can at least carry thirty marines in a pinch with marines even standing in the cockpit of course but such situations and procedures tend to be fairly rare.
Not only that but the thunderhawk was and is ideally suited as a void fighter craft being that its ventral mounted turbo laser destructor is capable of punching through even the hull armor of a space ship along with the ability to land boarding parties onto an enemy ship made it idealistic as a void fighter craft
Now if only GW could make a proper plastic Thunderhawk instead of ForgeWorld-resin, that'd be great...
This is one of the reasons why Guilliman or the Ultra marines are the strongest faction in terms of an upscale war. They are very versatile and can fight you in your own field while still using other tactics that you are not comfortable at dealing with.
I Need one of these videos for every Unit/Armament/Race and piece of technology and worlds in 40k all tucked in its own playlist so i can go to sleep to them please!
amazing job
I love the over-the-top aesthetics of 40k. That being said, the coolest feature of the Thunderhawk is going supersonic albeit having the aerodynamics of a brick
Very accurate of a thunder hawk love that, you bringed the new one some light and i like it !
FOR THE EMPEROR !
The Emperor Protects
This is absolutely fantastic! I hope it becomes a series! Tanks next please!
Im skeptical that those things can travel at supersonic speeds, they look about as aerodynamic as a dump truck.
This video was so good I stopped looking at my main monitor!
I can’t wait to see more of this. Maybe starwars or the full size if a halo flood infestation would be cool too. However, this channels WH40K coverage is absolutely amazing. Truly a work of art.
The greatest thing the Imperium ever did was to perfect the Infinite Ammunition Bin. This technology, which enables an ammo magazine to carry nearly infinite amounts of ammunition, is one of the cornerstones of the Imperium's continued success. This is how a Boltgun magazine can carry 30 or more rounds, when from the outside, it only appears to have room for a handful.
The Thunderhawk is pretty awesome, but to fit 30 marines into that you would have to stack them on top of each other XD
Thus was well presented, very enjoyable
The art style of these videos is so frackin awesome, it works so well with 40k, the Marines are even still shown with bases! its reminds me of the sort of miniature action picts in the imperial armour books 🔥
Cavill Protects =C=
I would love to see imperial knights and maybe the ways they are deployed. I know that they can be deployed with drop keeps, but they have very little lore. A creative way I saw that dealt with in the imperial knight freeblade gane was by using a thunder hawk or something similar to deploy them. If you want to see it, it's used for the games' pvp mode.
I strongly suggest 40K fans check out the 40K DLC for Powerwash Simulator. You get up close and personal with the following.
● The Ultramarines Land Raider
● The Dark Angels Deathwing Redemptor Dreadnought
● The Astra Militarum Rogal Dorn Tank
● The House Hawkshroud Imperial Knight
● The Blood Angels Thunderhawk
Tangential, I suppose, but cool.
The display of firepower certainly looks impressive...
awesome episode! I'd love to hear about the other aircraft of the Space Marines a bit more, as they are a bit underrepresented in the lore and in Tabletop
Where the heck does it's upwards thrust come from?
Spectacular work and art, as allways
I’d love a video detailing the formation of Imperial Guard Regiments.
The scales feel so off, how the hell would fit more then 6 space marines in that cargo hold?
Would love to see you do a version of this for the Corvus Blackstar, that would be epic
I love it! You asked what we wanted next, so I'd say that it would be amazing if you could dive in the details of the imperial ships (Navy, Space marines and Mechanicus of course) Thanks a lot!
One flaw in your interior model at about 15:00, you have the side hatches misaligned, they should be directly opposite each other, as they are on the exterior.
... so no seatbelts or restraints. Very Grimdark. Imagine a Thunderhawk getting shot down, spinning uncontrollably in the sky. Now imagine the chaotic scene inside the assault hold with all those astartes, now also spinning, getting tossed around like several ton soda cans. Throw a dreadnought in there for fun. Absolutely brutal.
Send me in via drop pod instead ... please...
They do infact have restraints/seats and mag locks that hold the marines in place it just depends on the thunderhawk transport. And what is expected at the other end. Are they doing a simple meeting with locals for recruitment of aspirants or are they hot dropping into a active hot lz or are they doing a stealth insert. Just depends and nothing is standard I'm wh40k, everything is basically bespoke.
@@stormlord2178explains why they're so weak compared to the forces from the Rift series.
Marines have magnetic boots. All good in the hood.
Commissar Kain series (for example) makes it a point to talk about about seatbelts in this thing and how he had problems with them, being smaller than your average passenger. But they are still there.