KRAKDUK On The Best 40K Games Never Made | Astartes Anonymous Podcast #35 

Krakdruk on the rise

Thanks for the love on my squiggoth! Made my day! ❤

I'm weird because I was sitting through the "Heresy Battlefront" and thinking to myself, "Yeah, but I want Guard Battlefield."

For the Guardsmen point and click game, the ending has to be an Inquisitor quizzing you on the game and if you get something wrong, they shoot you because they think you lied to them

Game for the Space Wolves: a Nintendogs knockoff, where you raise your Fenrisian wolf, feed it, clean it, take it out on patrol, etc

All I'll say is that Fromsoft already proved they can do cosmic horror in a Gothic setting. Put bloodborne in space, and it's already half way to being a 40k game already. A Fromsoft 40k game would be grimdark, brutally difficult, and have a story you have to dig to find. It's a perfect marriage

Survival horror game, wherein you're a random imperial citizen accused of heresy. Intro cutscene is your trial and you're found "guilty" and your thrown into essentially the minotaur's labrynth. The minotaur/monster in this case being a sister repentia who has gone completely mad. Just a roided out woman with a giant chainsword chasing you through this maze. And throughout the game, you're going through the maze and you can find shrines to act as save/level up points. There's ones to the various chaos gods, which grant you boones that eventually allow you to take on the sister and bust out of the maze. Alternatively, there are far fewer shrines to the emperor some of which have essentially journal entries from the sister and if you collect all of them you can essentially break through to her and mend her shattered mind and she can then take you out of the maze and prove your true devotion to the emperor. Just an interesting idea i had for a game for a while. It gets to show off the gritty and horriffic side of the imperium in a neat way.

I remember hearing about a game idea I think it was from edeptus ridiculous that was a day by daylight like game were you play as daemons trying to escape a grey knight

Depending on how well the space marine 2 multiplayer combat feels, a 40k/HH battlefront game is all the more possible.

"Krieg: the unending war" set in the civil war of Krieg, two forces: loyal and separatists to the imperium, mostly focused on trenches and big fields but also having smaller maps like cities. Four battlefield-like classes, each squad with a commander. The commander of the squad could call for artillery, chem weapons, etc. No glory in the fight, no happiness, just blood and mud by the end.

Warhammer battlefront has been my Roman Empire for a long time, I am glad other people see the vision!

I’m proud to see my boy KrakDuk is making it big.

Can we PLLLEAAASEEEE get an expanded video on Horus-Battle-Heresy-Front 3?? I need to hear expanded ability ideas for the chapters, plus abilities for different vehicles AND BATTLEFIELD SETTINGS!! Not to mention I’d love to hear the ideas for your basic troop-reinforcements like how the new BF2 has Arc Troopers and Commandos and jet troopers etc

The battlefront one could also have a custom game mode where you build your list and that is everything that you get to play like a death match type thing, it could also be fun to have a general role like in battlefield 4 and it will work much better because of the bots

Mount and Blade: Old World Play as an orc or chaos lord and become unstoppable

I love the chibi icons for you guys, they're super adorable on top of being tonally consistent with Krakduk's persona style

For the pattern question: JK Simmons as perturabo. Perfect casting.

2:26:26 You know, I have actually never seen the end of one of your full length videos, just your shorts, and I must say that I was a bit blown a back.

I feel like one of the replacement items for Warhammer Kart would be a little Gretchin riding a missile and it would act like the blue shell.

I just want a literal command and conquer generals version of warhammer

Nice to see Krak Grenade in this video. I also kinda feel like Alex is more or less a permanent host on the channel, since hes been on so much recently.

Sigh, the *PROTECTRONS* were awesome. And the named one is Primm Slim, from New Vegas.

The Horus Heresy Battlefront should be called “Warhammer 30,000: Horus Heresy, Star-Scourge”

For the battlefront Horus heresy thing, you could have the world eaters start out in blue and white and then, when you keep getting kills for the world eaters, your colors change to the red and brass

I love the small krakduk smiling with the three marines

For 40K Kart, you could always have a virus bomb function as the lightning bolt from Mario Kart. Blue Shell would unironically be a Chibi Khârn that just screams blood for the blood god while screeching and chasing the first player down. Green and Red Shells would be Tzeentch Horrors. Bob-Bombs would be a Vortex Grenade. Bullet-Bills would be you turning into Daemon Angron. Also to expand on it, each of the racers gets a special ability that they can pop during the race if their gauge is full. Ahriman would conjure the Rubric and turn all racers to dust for like 5 seconds. Guilliman would just whip out the Codex Astares and start smacking people in the head with it flattening them. Yvraine would call upon Ynnead and give her a masssive speed boost similar to the golden mushroom power up. Angron would do that Moon Splitting strike and screw up the terrain/cause the ground to crack apart. Abadon would just crash his black stone fortress into the track and wipe anyone out while he’s untouched. Commisar Cain would just toss Yurgan at the nearest person and they’ll instantly crash into the nearest wall/off the map. Also if I could suggest a game idea, 40k game but it’s similar to Halo: Reach/Battlefield. You play as a Tempestus Psion and you’re tasked with extracting a magos studying the Blackstone pylons in hopes of producing more of them under order by Cawl. The planet the Magos is on is currently under siege by either Orks (because why not) or insurrectionists. Half way through the campaign the Magos manages to touch a random device in an old tomb and everything starts to turn green. Turns out the planet the Magos was on is a Tomb World and now you’re tasked with trying to extract him. The campaign ends with you and your remaining squad staying behind to ensure the inquisitor you’ve been sent with and the limbless torso of the Magos off world.

I want 40k Dynasty Warriors. Maybe you play as a custodes or the primarchs. Actually thinking about it this would work for warhammer fantasy as well. (I commented this before the watching the video I think it would fit Eldar aspect warriors better but if there needs to be space marines here's a compromise) Playing as a guardsmen in an FPS would also be cool. But not like in darktide were you are supposed to be disposable but function in gameplay as special forces and can tank 20 lasgun shots to the face. I want to play as a normal human in 40k and to be as close to as squishy as would still be fun. Another fun idea would be playing as a knight pilot but you know done well instead of being a on rails mobile game shooter. More like Mechwarrior or Titanfall.

I love the avatars for this episode :D

Regarding the Battlefront 2 ideas, those games had 2 elite classes per faction that you unlock after a certain amount of points so to extend your concept: Ultramarine elite units allow you to spawn on them aswell as on objectives, Nightlord elite units allow other Nightlords to critical strike from behind so on and so forth

KRAKDUK on astartes anonymous??? Way to move up so fast man that’s inspirational!

A rogueslike were you play as a thunder warrior fighting technobarbarians and maybe the odd man of iron

It's the boi!!

The Dynasty Warriors series did do a couple Gundam spin offs, so the series CAN do ranged weapon combat, they had Heavy Arms in it.

My idea: Modern style Battlefront/Battlefield At the start 3 Factions, but can be expanded: -Imperium of Man -Chaos -Tyranids Everyone starts as a regular Solider (Guardsman, Cultis, Geenstealer Cult) . Loadout: Class + Primary, Pistol, Granate or Pistol, Melee, Granate Guard/GSC vehicles are available to enter. After a while a limited number of players can respawn (Or Pickup) as (Chaos)Space Marine, Bigger Tyranids, (Chaos)Knights, Demons, Special Admech/Space Marine Vehicles. (Same Loadout System) After halftime the loosing side gets a BF1 style Behemoth (Titans, Low Orbit Spaceship, Bio-Titans) Finally ad the Darktide/Space Marine 2 Skinsystem.

My greatest hope would be a Mechwarrior-style (1st/3rd-person-shooter mecha) game... but with Knights.

If I may; a resident evil style game as a inquisititorial retinue delving into a governor's manor at the top of the hive city rumored to house a chaos cult. Have a chaos marine be the big guy chasing you around, dlc expansion could have the same become a possessed marine it'd be great 👍

A small scale FPS similar to R6S or CoD inspired by Kill Team.

Papers Please but you're trying to catch Genestealers

Uncharted mixed with just cause.... But Caiaphas Cain.....

Let's go Krakduk! I love his videos, I'm glad y'all had him over

Based on the pitch for the first game, i can imagine a white scar going mac speed towards an enemy astartes, only to collide with a cloaked raven guard standing still.

Take Warhammer 40Kart but add the gunplay mechanics from Crash Tag Team Racing for some Dakka

One of my friends once had the idea of primark smash bros. Actually would be so fun with all the different possibilities for abilities and stuff.

I want a Votann colony management sim 🙏

How about the opening for Horus Heresy Battlefront be actually at Ulanor? I feel like the greatest narrative theme in the horus heresy is obviously betrayal, but betrayal means nothing if you weren't backstabbing someone you trust. So I'm imagining you're at ulanor, fighting an ungodly amount of orks as a Luna Wolf, and you intermittently throughout see Horus and the Emperor fighting side by side, throughout the battle getting the occasional narration about their love for one another and greater context about the crusade, and this prologue ends with the announcement of Horus as Warmaster, and more importantly the emperor departing the crusade. The player will see these two gods of war, feel invincible for being beside them, only for the most prominent of them all to basically say "peace" and leave. Then, the player can choose loyalist or traitor, and it goes from there. But i think starting at ulanor, seeing the ceremony of all these primarchs, millions of marines, swelling fanfare and all this. Only to be told that all of this glory is on borrowed time, and you're about to watch it all burn. I don't know, just i think highlighting as much of the little tragedies throughout the story would hit the hardest narratively

For the Horus Heresy game Cause you can play everyone and it’s a sprawling mass battle “Horus Heresy: Legions”

Amazing idea I wish would happen, but unfortunately for some perks or buffs dealing with formations players on the internet never play tactically like that unless you make the bots fight in formation and have players receive buffs and perks fighting with the bots it would be unused.

in lieu of a primarch the iron hands can field a heavily modded dreadnought

Genestealer Isolation is just Octarius war POV

Something in my brain finds the idea of Aaron pinging alex from across the map with a softball so goddamn funny and I dont know why

That’s cute, little chibi versions of you guys.😻

the world eaters abilty really reminds me demomands eyelander from TF2 but without the debuff

Man, I've been teaching myself Ren'Py (a python program for visual novels) and now I really, really wanna do Tom's idea because there are some *dark* VNs out there, and it would a great kind of olive branch out towards people who are more interested in the books and the lore than the tabletop game itself. Like I know at least a dozen people just in my own friend group who would play something like that who have no interest in war gaming of any kind.

for the tyranid isolation one you could make a flowchart of it. you start off as a factory worker and witness your world gets invaded by tyranids so you make your way to an evac area only to be stuck in the crowd of refugees as an ork ship rams thru your rescues. eventually you do find rescue only for the ship to get snapped up by drukhari. as your escaping something goes wrong maybe due to your actions and demons of slannesh invade the ship. your escape craft ends up crashing on a world being fought over by necrons and space marines forcing you to dodge like hell thru the no man's land. the space marines curious as to how your still alive and how you got there send you to be interrogated by an inquisitor only for that planet to start a civil war over joining the tau and during your escape your mistaken for a guevesa. now in tau territory you can finally rest. the ending scene has you called in to get your new job assignment which is.... Factory Worker.

Those avatar pics would be great stickers or/and pins

KRACKDUCK MY BEAUTIFUL BOY LEZGOOOOO

i feel like that battlefront mission with Ferrus would be like a fromsoftware game, with the starting boss battle that you are meant to lose

A game I would love to have:A RTS game where you play as a member of chaos(Slaanesh, Khorne, undivided, nurgle, Tzeentch.) during the Horus heresy, where it’s similar to rogue trader(the game), where it’s very story driven, and different to rogue trader(the game) you’d be actively trying to please the gods, and traitor primarchs and you just try to build up a fleet and ground force that could rival the ultramarine’s after the siege of terra. But something I’d like is where you have this timer which clicks until the siege of terra, which then once the timer reaches 0 you are presented with a choice. 1.Join the siege (lose any percentage of your army but have the chance to win) or 2.Don’t join the siege(keep army strength but lose a large amount of respect and relations with different chaos-aligned characters) and after the siege you are presented with another option 1.Flee from the Great Scouring[Canon decision](survive with majority of your army and lay dormant within the eye of terror while building up your forces, and begin a new campaign during one of these periods A. Age of Apostasy B.After the great rift opens. Which will give various bonuses and offsets) 2.Resist the great scouring(If having a large enough force you will have the small chance to win, which would require a large force.)

Arkham night or anyone of the Arkham games but you play as a night lord instead

Why not a space Wolf passive that connects back to sagas? You don't have an ability at first, but if you beat hero units, you and your allies get buffed.

I still want a fleshed out version of that Chapter Master game that got cancelled

W COLLAB!!!

With the resurgence of mech games i think we need a tau battle suit game like the new armoured core game

This reminds me of an old fan thing for Halo, Halo: Battlefront

YOOO ITS MA BOIIII

Toms hive manager game sounds alot like suzerain to me.

The hero for the Iron Hands should just be a bane blade in place of Ferrus Manus.

Ok actually straight up just make a digital version of the tabletop game and I see two potential issues with this one of this I think can be resolved and one actually would work as a marketing strategy for GW. Problem one: the tabletop game is very cluttered and to do this you could basically integrate all the passive effects and stuff just into the game you don’t have to mess around with them so for example passive squad buffs, basically streamline out some of the super niche mechanics and strip it down a little bit. Problem 2: wouldn’t this discourage people from buying minis, and I say that no people still love the physical minis and in person play but the real way to avoid this is to cap the games at 500 or 750 points basically make them small scale games so that the larger 2000 point games you have to buy the minis for, and additionally this could get people who wouldn’t normally buy minis to try it out first and see how they like it and if they want to play the bigger games or have the minis they would then play the physical game.

A 40K MMORPG like Star Wars Galaxies or TOR would probably be a money printer if James workshop ever got around to licensing a studio to make it. Integrate ship combat like Star Trek Online, let the player become a rouge trader or an inquisitor or something, and perhaps integrate some big multimedia events to draw in people. Infinite money maker.

I think a steel division or Arma style 40k game would work really well

Reverse-horror puzzle game similar to Carrion where you play as a Night Lord slaughtering your way through a hive city. Much like in Carrion, you're very deadly, but if you're not careful, the stronger enemies can absolutely shred you. This incentivises you to play like an asshole, just like a Night Lord would!

Not one mention of wanting a Mass Effect-style highly-narrative/character-driven light RPG where you play an Inquisitor?

Lmao karkduk being only guardsmen is a whole mood 😂

1:41:25 I think the game he was referring to was Faith: The Unholy Trinity. Game creepy af despite basically being 16 bit

28:30 missed opportunity to name it "flesh is weak..."

Found krakduk literally a week ago and he's already showing up other places.

THERE'S MY FAVOURITE LITTLE CADIAN!

and a stream tm with arthur and pancreas krackduk next up😭

Have you heard about TrenchCrusade

a mass effect style death watch or inquisitor game

battlefront but it is impireal guarde would be cooler then the space marien thing.

A couple other ideas for the passives and active for other legions Black templars: Passive: (champions of dorn): boosted defense and attack power when in melee Active: (wrath of heros): boosted damage and defense for a short period of time (duration increases for each melee kill) Raptors: Passive: (superior sight) increased range and accuracy on snipers Active: (death from afar): boosts damage of ranged weapons for self and teammates Lamenters Passive: (tragic heroes): increased damage and defense for self and teammates when health is below 30% Active: (avenge the innocent): significant increase in movement speed and damage Red corsairs Passive: (maelstrom raiders) increasee speed and damage when using ships Active (Blackheart's reprisal): increased damage and weapin accuracy Carcharodons: Passive: (from the void): physic attacks have the chance to stun and debuff enemy defense Active: (the maw hungers) increased damage and attack speed but cannot use melee (buff increases for each melee skill Kraken hunters (my bad if the name is wrong) Passive: (monster hunters): increased defense and damage when facing monstrous troops Active: (drowning might) aquatic weapons have increased range, damage and fire rate at the cost of reduced melee damage and defense.

The Assassinorum has aspirants in a battle royal for to become full fledged Assassins in the lore. They have to fight and survive in a constantly evolving environment. Perfect for a BR title.

I will say that a lot of the actives and stuff for the first game idea just seem very irritating; stuff like going invisible is extremely hard to balance, and the Iron Warriors could basically just remove vehicles from the game by getting auto crits on them. Both of these would need a lot of work and fine tuning to make them feel fair - for example, the Iron Warriors have massively reduced movement speed during their active, so they are easier to hit in return and rush down unless they play it smart. A lot of the others are just stat buffs, which makes them a bit less distinct from one another, but that can be fixed by the differences in loadouts (e.g. Salamanders having more Melta options between the classes) and the Hero units. Still some cool ideas, though

Nathan Fillion as trazyn the infinite

YOOOOOOOOOO got my question answered let's GET IT

The Hive Manager reminds me of a recent-ish game that came out called "I Was A Teenage Exocolonist" where you play from the ages of 10-20 on a new planet and trying to survive on it. It's got visual novel, deck management, and relationship management elements. It also has a neat little benefit of playing mutliple different times. I think that would be really fun and would allow for a lot of meditation on the 40k universe, which you don't get to tab into a lot.

Why not start at the great crusade instead of the heresy so you can have fights with the Iron Warriors vs Hrud, Blood Angels vs Mega Arachnids in a last stand fight like at the end of Halo Reach with a part 2 with the Emp Children/Sons of Horus, Sons of Horus vs Interax.

Krakduk you inspired me to make one of my kasrkin duelwield bolt pistols

Good onya krakduk ❤

40k cart requires a rough rider/death rider character for the guard

What about a warhammer game in the style of Natural Selection 2?

It would be badass to have an outlast style game where you are a guard on a Cadian moon, you travel around a dilapidated hive city while hearing distant screams or a large echoing crack from the broken planet above you.

I can't remember he said Night Lords or World Eaters having 100% chance to stun in melee, but that is broken Jesus.

Krakduk my beloved

if GW is not noting down everything here like that scene from Spongebob, they are dumb to lose a goldmine of this scale

Hitman but you play as a deathleaper

A game I want is a destiny 2 like game but for tau, or another firewarrior game with Kais killing whole squads of marines

I kinda think that the night lords might have an execute active ability where when you kill a bot, you have the option to brutally execute them, making the other bots less accurate, i think that would be cool.

Krakduk the goat