The Siege of Vraks | Warhammer 40K Animation 

Will the models used in these videos ever be made available, would love to port those landers into arma 3

@@poisonsteak5746 Many of them already are

Dude, how much dollar do I need to pay you to make an animation like your quality in my Universe. In willing to pay.

Ah, yes Vraks it was one of the best wars I was in

has a 'Madworld' kinda style to it. great stuff bro!

In court: vengeance

@@Janovich Hotel : Trivago.

In-grown: toenail.

In Heretic: Shovel

Enemy Position: Bombardment Artillary Fire: Hans Vibing Priceless

These are men of Krieg they are the greatest

In Krieg, their training consists of cadets shooting other cadets with live rounds. Krieg is a meat grinder. They ensure the best of the best are sent out by tossing their guardsmen into a meat grinder and picking out the lucky ones that survived.

I think it really underscores the horror of a lot of these situations. These people are the very best-trained, best-equipped, most disciplined soldiers that the planets of the Imperium had to offer. By today's standards any of them would be the greatest soldiers on the planet. But despite all of the training and equipment they're mowed down en masse. It's terrifying to think about.

@@mangofandango665 yessir

Are you saying that since disney aquired star wars we havent seen a single competent stormtrooper... because you'd be right :-'(

passion! if you only focus on economy, try to achive the minimum neccesary with the least recourses neccesary, the end product can only be mediocre. the fans are passionate about what they are doing. to GW it is only busines. the time, where GW was passionate, about what they were doing ist over. it is sad, but this is how it is.

Because Warhammer + only cares about money and they will do the least amount of work that gets them any profit. They may or may not have passion but with how they don’t even do much battle reports and such it’s basically saying that it’s all they think your money deserves and you should be happy with what you get.

@@crimsonknight7011 yeah after they crushed all the fan animation instead of embracing it. That let everyone know that all we are to them is dollar signs

and we lost Astartes.

@@manuellaslo1282 No... theres something more to it.. Someone there is purposefully making their work turn into shit.. The works these passionate fans create in just months are light years better than what GW has put out with years of work. It honestly feels like there is someone there who takes a piece of gold then drags it through a pile of slaaneshi excrement and puts it out to people just to laugh and say ha ha we got your money now STFU and be greatful we did this much for you.

Fancy seeing you here Brandon

They are zealous, not crazy. They Will die just so they can shoot at a world eater for half a second.

Crazy doesn't mean stupid! XD

They're using authentic ww1 storm and infiltration tactics that typically get ignored in media depictions of the war, but that were very effective against trenches. Trenches themselves were far from the most effective defensive system of ww1, but thats another story...

@@randallorndorff i would disagree about the trenches. I belive that for the time it was the best defensive system simply because the constant artillery. I think static strongpoints such as bunkers naturally has their place as well, but the trenches offered the largest amount of protection from shelling (unless you get hit directly). saying its the best at the time is based on the lack of technology for pushing effectively and maintaining supply lines. in a sense I think the best proof for their effectiveness is how widely it was used. I'm fairly certain if they could find a better way or better design they would have resorted to it. however, I would agree that trenches are vulnerable for raids unless supported by machine gun nests, early warning scouts and sharpshooters and not to mentioned barbed wire. I would also agree that defensive lines such as the Maginot Line would be better being a sort of fortified line including bunkers cannons trenches. but outflank-able. however to further prove the usefulness of tranches as a defensive network even against combatants with armor one can look at the finnish against the Russians. note that armor was not easily accessible everywhere but the general use of forcing an enemy to charge a trench seems very dissuading for any force if you have enough defenders in the trench naturally. in short, i personally think the trench especially later war trenches were a decent alternative as opposed to not. especially against enemeies that relay on shelling the general fuck out of you. not all will be safe, but one shell wont wipe out the entire army.

Trying to remain stealthy until you are certain that you have alerted the enemy makes sense and you often notice when you are detected by the increase in activity and the shouting of alarms, blare of alarm sounds etc. which is typically used to ensure all hands are alerted to the attack. As to reacting to shots fired, it is all about individual discipline and unit discipline. They *should* react to it always and every time to some level. That doesn't mean they always do. When I was doing basic we had a smoke screen triggered in front of our positions. I was the senior guard at the lookout and I sent the junior guard to sound a *silent alarm*. The guards of the squad to our left didn't. They were from city and thought the smoke screen was regular fog - they didn't understand it didn't make sense. Had it been a real enemy two things would have happened: 1) Our squad would have been in positions with the silent alarm not warning the attackers that they had been detected. Our sector would have massacred them. 2) There would have been only two men on the sector to our left. They would have been instantly pinned down and overrun. The enemy would then have made it through the perimeter and rolled sideways, our squad would have been picked up from behind. The enemy would have advanced with ease all the way to the secondary defense line if there was any. In worst case if the battalion was on it's own the battalion could have been devastated.

Constant shots from the trenchs wouldnt be abormal (WWI snipers going at it and just the casual reminders that theyre there and occupied)

@@MaroReaver That's why you have other practices such as paired guards etc. and the one that is less exposed has a wire that goes into the bunker and is attached to an alarm bell. But also it happened even in WW2 that a forward lookout was just simply snatched from his forward post - the next lookout to relieve him would find the forward post vacant and the guard presumably captured. Some squads specialized in and became incredibly effective at conducting raids. We also have accounts of such raiders finding enemy trench positions during winter cold without *any* lookouts, even the machine gun pits unmanned and able to take out the whole defending platoon with a single satchel charge into their bunker. And of course some of these raiders might spend several days observing the defenses to learn of all the routines of the defenders to identify weaknesses. So yes, these things happened but they also often depict failures in procedure and discipline on the receiving side as these kinds of raids can be effectively countered often with mere discipline. For nothing makes your platoon as vulnerable as a common agreement that it is easier to let the guard down than to adhere to vigilance. I mean it's a quiet sector and all....

Real soldiers are taught to shoot if they spot something 🙄

@@chiefteefteefreturns3320 I have "panzerjäger" training, thank you. 😁

haha lol thanks

I remember in a comic where some cadians are being chased by Tau there is a sergeant who goes to fall asleep and as soon as he does the Tau attack and he rushed out of his sleeping bag saying “I swear they are watching me”

@@crimsonknight7011 monitoring the enemy’s sleep schedule for the greater good

They lost the STC for sleep in M38

I've seen squigs sleep once

Thank you :)

Yeah, people meme up the Kriegers as suicidal maniacs that will, given the slightest opportunity, charge an Ork Stompa with nothing but a shovel. But let's not forget that needlessly throwing your Emperor-given life away is a grave sin, so Kriegers will always avoid death, as long as it's not necessary for their mission.

@@zimnylech527 Well see people lapdog suckup GWs piss anywhere they aim, including Kriegs Lore, they are not stupid insane freaks, they are incredibly brave zealous, highly dedicated, focused warriors who have chosen to serve to the highest standard. They are not suicidal, they do not do stupid WW1 charges into open enemy fire, they use tactics, however what defines them, is if THAT was what was needed to win a crucial engagement for sound tactical reasons, they would not shirk from it in the slightest!

I liked that they captured a bunker that was in the path of their approach, this gave their assault some breathing room to advance without being completely cut down.

A friend of mine once said it best: "The Kriegers aren't suicidal, they're fantastic. Suicidal people just want to die, fanatical ones want their death to be worth something."

In all honesty I think the best thing to compare kriegers to is dwarf slayer from warhammer fantasy they want to die but they’re death must cost the enemy as much as possible

Even space marines have what, maybe 10 for an entire company.

Good that it didn't then.

Or you know, double tapped.

And not had to go through a marble column.

@@tarektechmarine8209 you mean the shields ? I don't think even ten. Maybe 5. Iron halos even rarer

on that line the like button shined

I was going to buy a bunch of their books, screw GW, they are chaos looking for a dollar

In the nasty obscurity of the after right now, there is only skirmishing.

chinese bootleg 40k be like

I love the BattleFlail 30G universe

Hanz isn't the name you're looking for. Hanz would likely be extremely rare.

@@DaReaperZ perhaps Hanz is an a transfer guardsman? That's why he doesn't have a number..........Or maybe they just use the name more than the number.

@@alexeibolavik1072 I was saying it's probably the name "Hans" he was thinking of.

@@DaReaperZ Ah. I'm so fucking stupid. sorry my bad.

@@alexeibolavik1072 Haha no you aren't, it's fine. I just see the Hans with a z quite often and me being a slight stick in the mud I want people to know the real name uses an 's'. :)

Thats what you took from the whole thing, you not think it would be worse to be fighting in a siege than just being locked up listening to one? you are looking far too deeply into it lol.

He didn’t say it was worse, just saying to imagine what it would be like. It’s a different kind of torment

@@Long-Horse stories can have layers

@@K1NKYN1NJA like Shrek?

@@Long-Horse Fighting in a siege can grant you a quicker death which I wouldn't say is worse than being locked up.

@@mikeg8564 The only resemblance is that both battles involve the siege of a fortress.

That's the spirit, just feel happy with whatever gift some may give you and pass a nice day with friends and family.

@@THExRISER oh, my bad i replied to the wrong comment

@@jetpilledmyron2056 absolutely this was a gift. Merry Christmas

@@mikeg8564 Oh no worries. Merry Christmas.

Thank you brother :)

@@Janovich That twist really caught me off-guard, and was excellently done. :D Wonderful animation!

@@crimsonquill4255 Damn near broke my heart. I thought the shovels did a good, but then the Alpha Legion ballsed it up

you make it sound like the age of mythology cinematic intro

@@Janovich You have all kinds of talent...I'd love to see you make something of your own so GWS cant mess with you, plus it'd be cool to see something grimdark yet all new at the same time!!! Excellent work

Fiction, especially the science flavor of it rarely appreciate or account for the idea of how wars are best fought. By doing the smart thing with minimal resources wasted. Warhammer 40k is genius in the way that wars are fought. The Imperium keeps striving for the best results with minimal losses of critical resources. Trenches are really useful because they turn the ground into a shield for your troops and would surely be much cheaper and easier to set up than some amazing energy shield that needs just what the name implies. Energy. Creating the energy for that likely requires burning fuel. Fuel that could be instead used for vehicles, or to make more energy for lights, cooking and perhaps even heating.

we dont see them cuz they're outdated, I mean tanks were developed in order to break the trench warfare of WW1 so even nowadays no one uses trenches anymore, much less in the future but this is warhammer and logic is not very important in this universe lol

@@jjwang7597 Trench warfare is still used today. It is a great advantage that should not be overlooked. Not sure what country you are in, but western militaries love dig ins and foxholes. We also like shallow trenches left laying around because it can slow enemy advancement.

@@YuGiOhAbridgeFAN Have you heard of smart munitions? Cause those things can accurately hit your target or wherever a commander wants the shell to hit. Then there's drones. Then there's the fact that every military in history tries to come up with a weapon that can break a defense. Why? Cause no one likes a long war. Long wars suck, there's no reason to keep digging long trenches for every kilometer when you could keep on the offensive. Heck, it's even on the Art of War itself. This isn't 1900 where weapons where heavy on the defensive favor. Iraq thought trench warfare would be useful in 1991 and the Coalition thought they'd be losing 30k guys, but it just so happened that warfare changed so much that the Iraqi defenses got curbstomped in only 100 hours. Reason why foxholes are still being used is for infantry to hold ground so the rest of the formation could keep up.

@@jjwang7597 Tanks were able to break a 4 year stalemate, not breack trench warfare itself.

And yet you need to see. Sometimes a dumb thing to do can still be without alternative.

@@cauchyschwarz3295 why don't they have night vision goggles?

@@Pedro-ho2xj Idk. Why do they use WW1 tactics that are long obsolete even today (let alone in 38k years)? Its fantasy. It doesn't make sense. But apparently they don't have nightvision.

@@cauchyschwarz3295 I can think of a few reasons. In an age where technology is advanced enough to intercept radio waves; if the enemy tries to signal the enemy with radio you can realize that your frontline bunker has been raided and an attack is about to commence. But if instead of an interceptable technology, you just use a flash light that you point towards the friendlies, the enemy you just raided would be clueless about the situation in the bunker. There are times where primitive tactics are harder to track than the modern tactical things we rely on. As for night visions it could be just that they were never issued to Krieg soldiers since they are supposed to die on frontlines, expandable and not worth wasting a NVG on.

@@grimmoire5952 You are trying to make it work, starting from the conclusion. Thats a bad way to reason in general. I get that you like that universe, it delivers awesome and emotionally charged visuals. But none of this makes sense. We have seen the relative decline of armour compared to firepower for centuries now. All the more pronounced today. And it is a tendency that is likely to continue. And that is apart from chemical, biological and nuclear warfare. It is very very unlikely that people 38k years from now would use what is essentially knights in power armour or cavalry charges or slow moving tanks with thick armour. They'd be sitting ducks even today. Maybe look into reactive armour and why it is necessary. I can't imagine what warfare in 38k years would look like, but certainly not like a mix of middle ages and WW1. Warhammer mixes tech and attiudes from different ages for entertainment, not for realism.

Sodaz/Siama/janovitch Did this in a cave with rocks and bits of metal! But sir, we're not them, we're just games workshop!

Games workshop? Billion dollar cimpany? More like million dollar. They aren't that rich.

@@Arnor2207 While perhaps not on the same level, look into Absolutelynothing. He created a decently well made Krieg and was making a Armageddon Steel Legion vid when the whole fiasco came down. Still better than the animations GW made

@@toledochristianmatthew9919 They (GW) are worth well over €10bn today actually. They've been a billion dollar company for some time now, but they have had huge growth over the last 2-3 years after recent restructuring.

Shovel boi for sure

Yes. It does feels like a trailer lol

"Hopefully GW gets their collective heads out of their asses" It will not happen unless people stop buying their products

@@zenosaracino8678 Some of us have.

@@Pooknottin Unfortunately just "some" isn't enough.

@@baconcommando2454 Well I can only be me. If others want to buy their crap stuff I can only point out how it wasn't always crap.

Thank you thats a great compliment!

@@Janovich and it is very much deserved, seriously enjoyable! Can’t wait to see more.

Theres no loop hole. Gw lawyers can still attack at any moment

It was truly worth the wait.

Game workshop is crap tho, this should have been so much better but GW ruined it

@Delna Feta **equips holy chastity belt** The Emperor Protects

Instead of praising your work... ...the suits at GW absolutely hate your guts now. And i'm sad this is so.

Yeah and he made it clear GW can’t touch him at the opening lol

The whole point of wathammer minis is to be creative and put work on something you like, when iy became just for profit, they loset their origens

Well recently theres been rumors that GW is starting to regret the whole PURGE thing. Of course this is GW so there never gonna go back to how things use to be but perhaps they will become slightly bit more accepting of warhammer animations. Maybe just force you to sign a NDA where you cant monatize your videos.

@@Prophetofthe8thLegion or hopefully allow monetization, but sign an agreement that states that your work isn’t canon with 40K lore.

@@rebel1717 Hopefully but remember GW tried to copyright claim the word space marine so the idea of them allowing you to make money off a fan animation is dubious.

@@Prophetofthe8thLegion They're the epitome of pettiness. They don't see fans only consumers. Their creation is amazing, GW itself though...

Warhammer? What is this HammerWar you speak of? This is an original works inspired by various franchises!

I tried really hard, but i couldnt make it any darker :']

Watch it before you start the Gamma kvetching.

@@Janovich how much should i gather so you could do an entire film about vraks?

@@Janovich Consider adding some lights, even like...you know, visor-lights and the like, just to help the details stand out a bit more. Its hard to appreciate the art properly when you're struggling to make out just what is what and what is where on-screen. Backlights are your friend. Use pitch black just a little more sparingly I'd say. Other than that, pretty good.

Seirge of vawws

100% corrrect

Thanks! Merry christmas

i dowloaded the video just in case

@@Janovich archive this on other platforms just in case GW sends their goons

Merry christmas saludo de argentina

@@Janovich if the the video copyright striked by YT/GW .ill share it in your discored

Absolutely

whats death korps they are all alpharius

Yah the Death Korps are very smart, they just have a great desire to die which results in them running straight at machine guns. They try to accomplish something tho with the sacrifice of their lives so their death isn’t pointless. Also you gotta feel for the Vraks defenders. If you read the story they gave the Death Korps, one of the hardest sons a bitches in the Imperium, a serious beating over and over and over again. The Imperium was gunna call off the siege because it was in a stalemate and they wanted access to the weapons on the planet and probably would have gladly allowed the Vraks defenders to serve as an elite force in the Imperial army (cause even they don’t turn away good fighters). The only real thing the Vraks defenders did was defend their home from an invading army and as far as they knew it was the Death Korps that were on the wrong side (civil wars happen all the time in the imperium when commanders and groups disagree). The thing that screwed them tho was the Chaos Marines arriving because now the Imperium had a reason to continue fighting and there would be no pardoning the defenders.

Was that the alpha legion or thousand sons?

@@danny9008 yes

Why bother making quality when you can deliver cheap crap, knowing fans will buy nonetheless because of the 40K label?

There is no incentive for GW to make good quality animations, precisely because amateurs are doing a fine job and if GW spots something they want to use that is fan made they can just take it and use it lol.

They tried with Ultramarines, but it's so shit that the whole movie is on RU-vid for free.

because ... budget. Dumping a decent amount of your budget into making the best video quality, with a chance for the money you've spent to not return if it goes wrong, Fans, on the other hand, they don't care. _There is no budget._ Or should I say, the fans simply don't have some worried boss/CEO who is concerned about going over the budget on their projects.

Explosive lances

As a lancer it always puts a smile on my face

Those horses are basically flesh tanks, they are genetically modified into fucking spacemarine grade beasts.

Can't wait for your other projects

You should checkout BattleTech or maybe “Iron Kingdoms” think they both leave soon room for fans.

@@Br1cht have my eyes on battletech, slowly consuming the lore. Enjoyed that Jade Falcon cartoon haha

Why not just upload the whole thing 5 minutes at a time. You get to upload the whole thing and get around GWs dumb guidelines

@@naomipeay5277 The problem is ge can still take them down whenever they want

Death Korp of Krieg: WE LOVE TRENCH WARFARE!!

spasiba

@@Janovich :)

@@Janovich Тебе спасибо за твой труд

Yes... *he does*

yep

Thanks! Merry christmas

I thought the exact same.

The AT-70 Reaver Battle Tank was indeed a discount Leman Russ, but my question is how and why did the Vraksian Heretics get them? My reason is that the AT-70 is most known for being among the forces of The Blood Pact, a large Chaos force that used ti to supplement a lack of Leman Russes and other Frontline vehicles. Vraks would almost certainly have a decent supply of Russes and Russ variants. Maybe what you saw was a Chimera or other armored vehicle? I'm not saying it CAN'T be an AT-70, just that it seems questionable. Then again, at one point in this campaign Khornate Berserkers were being airdropped onto the frontlines to paste Kriegers. So I guess it'd not totally out of the way for the AT-70 to show...

Ill watch that video asap!

@@Janovich merry Christmas Janovich. See you in a few minutes for the launch of Vraks.

Watched both these videos back to back. GW killing these incredible fan projects is utmost shameful.

Thanks man. Merry christmas! Thanks for the donation

may or may not have a shovel in hand and gasmask on my belt for the occasion ...

So you are saying this beats Astartes?

@@planetkc Astartes was originally made by a fan. When Games Workshop consumed and reuploaded it. It had the green tone of corruption in it. GW's corruption.

@@planetkc you mean bastardised GW version

@@planetkc I think you’re brave, not many would willingly look like a total Spergberg but you, you did it! #Thanks4theEntertainment

Honestly I wouldn’t hate Warhammer + if they didn’t go after fan animations and instead let them Flourish. Though they could’ve hired the fan animators to help with the animations. But they should’ve never made a steaming service

Nice

Right? It was fanmade animations that really got me hooked on the 40k universe. GW should be encouraging creators, not punishing them. I was gonna start buying miniatures until their great purge of RU-vid.

You can blame shitty modern copyright laws for that.

@@deezboyeed6764 you really cant, gw did this copyright thing to corner their animation for warhammer+.

They have only issued I think 1 c&d so far they really aren't being bad about it

@@johnanderson9026 you can, because of corperations copyright laws have been extended so far it doesnt work. Originally copy right was 30 years or less so it would encourage people to create new things, but thanks to big companies its now the originals creators life +90 years. Why do you think weve reached the point of stagnation with creative properties?

:')

Thank you

В левой руке чоппа, в правой руке дакка, мой пиар-менеджер...

@@HTWW Газкул Урук Трака

Ok

No it was going to be a much longer video, but GWs new IP policy made him only do a 5 minute video. Screw GW.

Get well soon. Merry christmas

FIX BAYONETS

There wont be a whole series unless GW removes fan film from zero tolerance list

@@Janovich * sighs* Helsreach's developer were really the luckiest of you all so far. I wish for you, Sodaz and all the others, to get an employement in actual production that will make GW's directors eat Smurfs' overprized miniatures in anger

@@Janovich SODAZ switched to making Stalker animations, is there another IP that would interest you to animate (Battletech perhaps)? This turned out great by the way, Amazing work as always!

Yeh Iron Harvest is first on the list

@@Janovich If you( and Sodaz, should you contact him) are interested, there's also a friends of mine that writes awesome stories on Webnovel. I'd love to see them animated.

and Canadia stands, sir!

@@szymond3408 I am actually making a Mountie themed Guard regiment. If I could post pictures….

Canadians are literally the Cadians in 40k

@kira he said he won't keep working on it unless GW stops cracking down on fan projects.

@@lamogio7938 yup its sad gw chose to start going down a path of baffling bad choices

@@xenocyde8498 they are kinda forced to do that because of how stupid UK copyright law is. It doesn't allow for parody and fair use like US law does and forces companies to proactively protect their IPs or risk loosing them.

@@xenocyde8498 so are you saying they shouldn't have offered artists jobs with their company? Having to pay for content isn't something that just GW does. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney +, and others are all pay for content. The difference is that GW isn't a large media empire like the others. Honestly most of the complaints I've seen boil down to "how dare I have to pay for a hobby, I should be getting things for free"

@@erwin669 the hell you on about? and no its not something just gw does the problem is gw doesnt know what the hell they are doing, they killed free advertisement , if you are to review their product under gw's permission you are not allowed to say anything negative and model painters that wanted a carrier in painting already had one on youtube no new jobs were made and many animators gw hired are apparently not happy with their choices to sign up with gw but stay because its the only way they can make animations for 40k anymore... at least based off what i was able to find/hear while looking into... no promises this is true but honestly i would not be surprised but regardless what is your issue with me having my perspective based off of gw's choices they have made and personally i dont agree with them if your upset by then gladly keep it to yourself because i simply do not care to waste anymore time on this discussion and no im not trying to be rude about this... i simply do not wish to argue any more then this over im at this point far done with

Merry christmas hope you will still have a good time