(NON WARHAMMER FANS) react to Helsreach The Movie (RBoylan Film) part 1 

Helsreach is better than 90% of everything that came out of Hollywood this last decade. No joke. And that is not me having 40K fanboy-bias. It really is that good.

The animation style gets sharper and more clear the closer to the story gets to the part Grimaldus is worried about, then starts getting fuzzy again as it moves beyond it. It's a stylistic choice to symbolize the importance that Grimaldus himself places on the events in question.

Chaplains are the ones who wear the skull masks. Almost all space marine chapters have chaplains. Their job is to see to the mental health of their squads by leading from the front and chanting prayers and vows of battle. So they charge into the enemy fearlessly while reciting prayers and chants of hatred for the enemy. They are pretty much the hardest, most badass, and terrifying Space Marines of all. Reclusiarch is the head chaplain of the Black Templars. So the beast of beasts.

5:50 you actually nailed it. This is an animated version of the Helsreach audiobook.

The one dude they mentioned at 10:02, the Apothecary, is essentially the battle-medic of a Space Marine squad. As big and tanky as Space Marines are, they can still be left messed up by some injuries. Each one carries a wrist-mounted device that allows the Apothecary to punch/saw through a Marine's armor, provide treatment, and then seal the breach they opened up with a fast-hardening repair cement spray- often in the middle of combat. Another one of their duties if not their most important ones is to ease the suffering of their mortally-injured brethren via euthanasia referred to as the "Emperor's Peace". Following that is the collection of the fallen brother's geneseed for safe keeping until they can return it to storage. With that geneseed they can create more Space Marines, so an Apothecary is in charge of the preservation of their Chapter's genetic legacy.

A lot of reactors I've seen miss this, but just to be clear, the scene in the drop pod wasn't real. It was a daydream of Grimaldus's premonitions that he will die on Armageddon.

Y'all gonna enjoy this. It starts like you said, audio book over that animation but does get brand new voice acting. But it starts and ends in black and white like this. These are Black Templar and they go HARD. The planet Armageddon has a history, and this is the second war for it. The first war had some frickin legends. Commissar Yorik who fought an ork war boss and lost his hand, so dude cuts off the orks claw to replace his own.

So Helsreach started as a novel published by Black Library following the Third Armageddon War global campaign event of Warhammer 40,000. It details the defense of Hive Helsreach, one of the many warzones in that event. Richard Boylan took the audio novel version and created this animation as a passion project. It was released in 13 parts over 2 years. The version you're watching is a compilation of those parts. By the time the series reached the end, it had gotten so popular that Games Workshop itself contacted Boylan and hired him to help produce a series for them: Warhammer TV's Angels of Death.

@10:13 'the dudes wit tha Eagle masks' Those are from the Mark VI Corvus pattern armor, the prototypes were originally tested by the Raven Guard. Affectionately known as "Beaky" 🦅armor and Beakies. It was developed early in the lead up of The Heresy. Ultimately the MKVI lead to the development of the MKVII Aquilla Armor you see all the time for loyalists. On the Chaos Space Marine side, only The Alpha Legion got any Corvus armor. Classic CSM wore a mixture of MKIV Maximus and MKV Heresy Armor. The longer you spend in The Warp/The Eye of Terror, the more twisted wargear becomes. It....becomes apart of you. Even thinking about your gun or sword too much can make it sit in your hand better. Feels more natural until it starts to merge with you. A lot of traitor ships can also become fleshy and haunted 👻😈or even possessed.

So, I'm new to warhammer, but I believe the whole 'hitting a person when annointing them with a higher title/rank' thing is a thing taken from old traditions for knighthood and such. You give a person their oaths, make them repeat them, and then give them a slap or a hit, with the point being that they not ever forget their oaths. Essentially it's not only to make a person not forget, but to some it is to make them fight with a greater *fire* in their heart, or believe in their cause just that much more strongly.

Ahaha YES FINALLY ANOTHER REACTION TO Helsreach!! I Swear I Search For New Reactions To This Daily To Find New Reactions To My Favorite Movie I Swear I Don't Have A Problem. Cant Wait Till You Get To Episode 7&8 I Recommend You Watch Both Episodes Together! Keep Up The Great Work!

There is a flashback to in the next segment that is a little confusing without knowing the back story. It is of Commisar Yarrick who was a bad ass and leads the overall war effort in Armegeddon. It shows how he gets his iconic bionic arm. His story deals more with the entire War of Armegeddon while the story of Helsreach is just about this one hive city.

Aah, this is the one we were hoping you'd see! You're in for a treat, gentlemen. This is some of the best fan work out there!

So a little bit of lore on the Black Templars. They were founded by Sigismund. Now I want to give you an accurate picture of the kind of man Sigismund was: I could best describe him as the HIM of HIMs. The single most HIM HIM in all of history. To the point where even the primarchs called him “death incarnate”, and The Emperor chose Sigismund to be his personal champion during the Horus Heresy.

You're right, Helsreach was an audiobook, and Boylin is putting animation to the audio.

I can't wait until you meet Andrej and get into his bits. One of the best parts of the book and this film.

Yessir pure hype for yall watching this.

I am excited for you both to see Sebastian Yarrick, and the speech Grimaldus gives in part 7

Yes the voices are from the audiobooks. (They say that in the credits.)

There is not another movie experience that I have ever seen. That evolves in the way that this movie does. It literally gets better with each part. A lot of people say that the detail and the color match the main characters mindset which I think is true but consequential rather than intended. The series is a true master piece. Especially when you get to the end. The first 45 minutes is in black & white and sketched. The second 45 minutes is invarious. Evolving colors and representations that become crisp and clear.. And the last hour is a full cgi level project. And it's a great story.

Thats me!

These are so good keep them up!

big J was right about it being a audio book cover

So bassicsly if you didn’t know the legion in the animation are called dark Templar (which are basically crusaders) here’s what they do: if the empire discovers a new world they go there to spread the truth of the emperor if the world dosent adopt these truths they wipe the whole planet out but there are also other legions like the salamanders who try to save civilians there the most compassionate, then there are the blood angles who require blood to sate there thirst and if they don’t get blood they go crazy. There are also imperial fists who are just cannon fodder And try to protect the masses (your welcome for this info if you dident know) also a apocrathy id also supposed to collect the gene seed from dead brothers so the enemy doesn’t get the seed

Absolutely lovin' this bru shit is hilarious. Y'all best be rockin' it.

Put on the closed captions :)

This series os amazing

YEEESSSSS!!!!

Stick with it.

You boys have a new sub from me.

Hey guys you will like shredder soon because he is no joke at all in ninja turtles

yeeeddddddsdssssssss Lets Fucking Goooooooooooo

So are yall just done with death battle

Next part wen?

Your new to the Emperors light, give it time. You will soon worship him as we do. If you sit and watch this alone and pay attention. If you dont shed at least 1 tear id go so far S to say your not a human being. 😢

Guess I'm a bit anal about these things but this is all 3D. It's using a filter to hide it. It's also why all the character models are off if you know the lore. Like Grimaldus is probably the only chaplain that doesn't have a skull helm and Helbrects model is just wrong. Not saying that's a bad thing. If he modeled everything this will never have finished. But if you tried to do this by hand, the animation wouldn't be that smooth and floaty. He has a whole like 5 hour vid on the making of this that I watched because I'm boring like that.

I can't believe people think ninja turtles 2003 is better its not I say ninja turtles 2012 is way better

Tnmt