The best boarding scene I've ever seen was in Astartes, when the Retributors kill team boards the heretic ship. I've also enjoyed the Donnager battle in Expanse, but this is a nice compilation, though. Keep up the good work! :)
Every other warhammer fan and I are gonna tell you to watch astartes. It kicks so much ass. It has the best boarding strategy: bore your way into the enemy ship and turn the passengers to human paste
Claes Welinder as well as teleportation, Drop pods reconfigured to be boarding rams, thunder hawks or just straight up jumper on to the ship and cut through the hull on Occasion
You’re gonna tell me a Breaching pod that gently latches on and then cuts it’s way into the surface is cooler than Giant Cruise missile that slams into the side of its target, boroughs deep inside the enemy ship with a huge laser and then disgorges 8ft tall Demi gods of war.... if you haven’t watched Astartes you need to
@@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536 There was also the time during the Heresy where Night Lords captain Sevatar boarded the Dark Angel's flagship by clinging to the wing of a void interceptor.
@@MadMalkavian maybe us true fans will call it canon, buy as long as Disney holds the rights, they can call it what they want... even if people like you and I would call it part of the timeline
According to pretty much every star trek reference I can find, including memory alpha, memory beta, Eaglemoss, and DITL, The Reman Warbird was named Scimitar, not Schimitar. Brent Spiner's name is Day-ta, not Dah-Tah. He even made a point of correcting this when Dr. Polaski said his name wrong asking "What's the difference?" to which he replied, "One is my name, the other is not." Macross had a much more epic boarding sequences. They used their capital ship, which transformed into a mile tall giant robot, to board the enemy command ship/station and destroy the structure from the inside out. They also used, on occasion, that same transformed giant robot to ram an "arm" (which was really a submersible amphibious landing craft for 30' tall walking tanks) inside an enemy ship, open the boarding ramp, and assault the enemy inside their own ship!
Fan films usually never get included in these things. Shame. If it was endorsed by games work shop and was part of a proper movie/show, it probably would have this list.
You forgot the one from Babylon 5 where the breaching Pod comes in during the battle with the Earth Alliance ships (Severed Dreams I think is the Episode, which is actually one of my favourites!) - yes it is stupid that the armed Narns don't just let the borders walk into a crossfire and instead go for hand to hand combat, but it is still an epic scene!
I got the impression that the Narns had been spoiling for a fight after losing their homeworld. As it turned out, their hasty attack was accidentally providential... it kept the GROPOS bottled up, delaying their deployment before more security forces arrived and turned it into a melee.
@@johngardner4096 That fight was gutwrenching, there's no other way to put it. To see the wounded and dead from both sides lying on the deck was both disturbing and moving.
Lots to choose from in Halo. I would’ve gone with Blue Team’s attack on Bloodied Spirit. Let the Covenant unknowingly deliver them and a bunch nukes onboard their ships. Clear the hangar bay, vent the ship from the hangar, remote detonate the nukes on the sister ship and jump away before anyone knows what happened. Bonus points for using the Covenant’s own arrogance and dogma against them. The Ferrets’ infiltration of the Keeper’s secret base was pretty slick, too.
Unfortunately unlike every property shown here, it's unofficial. It's sad it's unofficial because that is one of the best boarding actions involving super soldiers shown and some of the most competent enemies I've ever seen.
I saw it and other than the LUDICROUS concept of cities rolling about the landscape like off-roading 4x4s without losing all of their buildings... I liked it.
@@richardstone5552 It's not perfect (and dropped some rather important scenes from the book it was adapting, but that's the nature of adaptations). The overall premise is ludicrous, but that's an artefact of the original books, can't blame the film for it; there's some off and iffy characterisation, and a lot of the pacing was rushed, with the story being way too condensed. Overall though, I actually enjoyed it. Not enough to watch it at the cinema, nor enough to buy it on DVD/bluray (maybe secondhand I might), but it's certainly worth the time for an entertaining movie night on a package streaming service, or as a rental.
The highly unfortunate fact that it wasn't endorsed by games workshop may have been the reason it's not mentioned. These guys know about Warhammer 40000 so it's highly likely they know about it but since these guys do official films, shows, and games it probably wasn't included.
@Klausbärbel Fömm heh starwars is just shit and just like you and seems to have forgotten that there are heavier forms of blasters available to them "dozen" isnt even close to the amount of capable people on that ship 10 seconds is just so pathetic
Star Trek Voyager s3 e24 Displaced - just get beamed off through shields from over 40 light years away. A casual way to hijack a ship. Star Trek - Insurrection - just beam the entire bridge crew onto a holographic simulation of their own bridge while they have to reset shields. They won't even realise. Now that's sneaky.
So you missed Babylon 5, that uses breaching pods to cut their way into a vessel. Legends of Galactic Heroes, that uses gas to make firearms useless on the ship being boarded, meaning that fighting is done in melee in space suits with axes and swords. And the big boy 40K that have more ships, vessels and devices used for boarding than most universes have different ship types in total. Some are even just torpedoes filled with men, others are huge landing crafts made for docking directly to a ship, not to mention the somewhat unreliable teleportation and the most famous drop pods that are basically made to drop from orbit, but as reentry speed is too slow they add rocket engines to make it go even faster, only to break the speed a few meters over the target. Or we could point to the Orcs way of doing it, which is really just dropping asteroids with people on and hope they survive, or a small moon in some cases, usually also filled with a uncountable amount of engines that may or may not be controlled by the same factions.
I saw the title and immediately thought “oh cool, someone has seen Astartes” but no, the video let me down there. However this comments section is gold.
Best boarding action: Have your friendly (but grumpy) Asgard beam a Mk 82 nuke into the enemy hive ship's engineering section, watch the pretty fireworks.
#1 The Tantine 4. Important part of the boarding procedure, tractor in any escape pods that get jettisoned as they may have the contraband you are looking for, along with droids that don't show up on life scanners.
Adeptus Astartes make Stormtroopers look like friggin' amateurs! They load up onto a boarding TORPEDO, and, just blast their way onto an enemy ship, kill everything, and, leave.
In Firefly was a nice boarding. When crew attempts to rescue Captain from Nishka space station. It was simpe but very elegant and more science, then fiction ;)
that whole movie was a "meh" in my opinion (they didn't even keep "Thun, Prince of the Lion-Men" like from the original (1930's) and from the cartoon).👎🏻🤦♂️🤦🏾♂️🙄
The Galactica ramming the Colony just goes to show how tough of a ship she is. She's supposed to be on her *last leg* at the point, but she still manages to bring the crew back alive So say we all
It's also a part of a castle. A good castle design has the entrance have two gates you must pass through in order to pass that entry. In between the two gates is an empty room, above which is a hole in the ceiling that allows defenders in the room above to attack the invaders below from an elevated position. This opening is often referred to as a Murder Hole.
Was thinking that too, the way they pump gas in to make lasers useless is a brilliant way of explaining why they need axes, swords and lances instead. Also would have like Babylon 5 and 40K, as in 40K it's kinda a main thing to do as they also have more vessels dedicate to bording than most universes have different ships in total.
Nice shout-out to the Expanse, but imo the last sequence in Season 4 where Ashford and crew fight their way through Marco's ship takes the cake for me. Ashford and Marco are both ruthless in their own way, and the slow, careful cat-and-mouse games during a zero-G gunfight are some of the tensest action scenes I've ever watched.
I like the Borg way from Star Trek!! Tractor beam a vessel, take down its shields, start beaming drones on board and pull it in side the cube at the same time! There’s a “Voyager” Ep called “Collective” where this basically happens
I liked the boarding of the Enterprise in Star Trek Beyond. The atmosphere was sheer chaos as the Enterprise was fighting for her dear life. Being shredded and boarded at the same time while also capturing fleeing Enterprise crew members was phenomenal to watch while also painful to watch as the Enterprise fight quickly becomes futile.
I was thinking a Stargate scene would appear, they have Ancient rings that can transport member from one ring station to another, including those on ships edit: typos
@@bradleyrutledge I think he is which is not what was portrayed - in the novel they fly banshees through the gravity lift and drop the bomb up into the ship. Kind of disappointed as the lack of research here, especially given the number of options for boarding actions in Halo
The Expanse novels describe a boarding action as a race. The way the authors describe it, it is practically a game of chicken. To the boarding parties, the Bridge isn't the main target, it's engineering. See, doesn't really matter who holds the bridge, because if you lose engineering, you don't really own your ship anymore. The game of chicken is between the boarders, the boarded ship's defenders, and the nerve of the captain with their hand over the self-destruct button.
The Manned Insertion Pods in Wing Commander IV were a really unique way of getting troops onto an enemy ship as they were launched from a torpedo bomber and latched onto the hull. Very sneaky, stealthy, and effective, but with a tremendous amount of risk involved. They were affectionately referred to as "Spam cans" by Col. Decker, commander of the TCM Marines that did the landing ops.
For me, the best ship boarding was from Babylon 5 episode Severed Dream and SeaQuest DSV season 2 final episode where the crew board enemy ship. Both using boarding ship that attach to ship's hull and cut hole in it for the crew to board.
Darro from the Red Rising series firing himself through a window of a much larger ship, demonstrating the will of the first Iron Golds of antiquity. I don't do the scene justice. Seriously Red Rising and all the books in the series are simply amazing.
Dave blasting himself with out a helmet into the airlock using decompression by opening up his shuttle pod door is high speed and violent. James Bond Moonraker is violent as well. They deliver moving targets with a space shuttle. Honorable mention because it takes place in the atmosphere, and probably the best. Flash Gordon and the hawkmen take a Mingo rocket ship by force. Definitely the highest burning bodies count on the list
I honestly can't believe you left out the boarding sequence in Spaceballs. Flying a Winnebago into the ear of a giant spaceship/maid beats all of these, hands down.
No Astarts episode 2? Attention all citizens of Imperium! The RU-vid channel Generation Films is E X C O M U N I C A T E D by the orders of His most holly Imperial Inquisition!
Macross/Robotech Daedalus manoeuver; a giant robot-ship punches an alien battleship to deliver a cadre of giant robots inside its armor and vlow it up from the inside; SDF-1 even does an improved full-bodied version inside the Mothership of the enemy fleet near the end of the series! A giant robot covered in robots firing all their weapons inside the enemy ship before engaging their reflector-field and staying inside the enemy when it explode! How could you left THAT one out and have Gravity on your list? How about 2001 Space Odyssey between Dave and Hal?
Actually the 2008 Clone Wars series had a lot of awesome ship boarding sequences, while the OG Tantive scene is iconic it has since been out done. Also I would like to shoutout the Collectors boarding the Normandy in Mass Effect 2.
There was a Warhammer video game, don't remember the title, where you played as a Tau. When the Imperium boarded the Tau warship they fired dozens of boxcar looking troop transports right into the hull. It was epic!
There was an interesting use of the transporter in the Star Trek Film "The Search for Mr Spock". Thea Enterprise was damaged and a boarding party of Klingons Gold them to give up and lower their shields. They lowered their shields. While the Klingons beamed onto the Enterprise they beamed onto the Klingon ship. Their own ship was on countdown for self destruction. They escaped with the Klingon ship.
Just finished reading Alien Secrets by Ian Douglas. It has a neat boarding scene of the USSS Hillenkoeter by the Saurians. While the human carrier has its shields up, the Saurian dimension portal tech ignores them. The only requirement is that both points must be at relative rest to one another. While it is technically possible to open a portal to a ship that’s moving at a radically different vector, it’s very difficult. So after the initial boarders appear all over the ship (and with the resident space marines off-ship), the Captain has the pilot start moving randomly, so that the enemy ship can’t match vectors and send in more boarders
