#hammer and bolter

[beethereal-knight]

May have watched a few Hammer & Bolter episodes and started experimenting with art styles again...

Now Haladroth has his own episode (In my heart)

[kinasin]

Hammer and Bolter

[magistralucis]

Headcanon that the current Solemnace crew all have Waist Inventory™, taking after their overlord, who still carries his curios in this manner despite also having free access to such things as dimensional pockets and tessarect labyrinths. We know the Huntmaster canonically carries his trophies like this, and since Sannet apparently fashions his writing implements out of his own necrodermis, it doesn't sound too far-fetched that he might keep field notes and the like in a similar fashion. Ashkut could have a chronomancer prod there or something. The possibilities are endless

I bet he'd be delighted by the concept of a fanny pack

[doolallymagpie]

i'm thinking about the hammer and bolter clip where trazyn strokes a chaos marine's chin while sauntering around and talking all slowly and seductively again...

[ladymirdan]

So I rewatched all the Hammer and Bolter episodes and im just loving Hamilcar soo much. Should I get some of his books? Are they good? Is he just as unhinged?

[aviruserothanatoguru]

sketch

Abaddon the Despoiler. Fan art based on the Warhammer 40K universe. This was inspired by episode 9th of the "Hammer and Bolter" animation. The Black Legion devastates the Necron underground tombs. Abbadon punishes the necron Lords.

[tagedeszorns]

The Lucius-episode of Hammer and Bolter was great. Absolute mood. Enjoyed it immensely.

They even allowed him to be clever! Within his limited possibilities, of course. Lucius will never be the brightest candle on the cake. That's just not his niche.

In any case: fantastic episode!

But of course the character design leaves a lot to be desired. So I improved Lucius and his one dude (I don't know who that's supposed to be) a bit.

Bare-midriff-guy has to be promoted more. Skimpy-Armour-Astartes are such an aesthetic win in my book.

I wonder who the Terminator cow is. Afilai is unlikely to have suffered an accident with a Beastmen. And there was no one else with Terminator armour in the Cohors Nasicae. I wonder if Lucius brought him back from Commorragh.

[ask-zaukodar]

There's something about Warhammer 40,000 lore that just makes no damn sense to me...what even is the appeal of Nurgle?

As I understand it there are four Big Bad Demon Gods who rule from within the Warp: Khorne, Tzeench, Slaanesh, and Nurgle.

Khorne is the Big Bad Demon God of violence cranked up to eleven, so I can see the appeal of people who just want to rage and brutalize and rip and tear want to fall into that following.

Tzeench is the Big Bad Demon God of knowledge and secrets, so I can see the appeal of people who want to learn things that they normally aren't allowed to learn want to fall into that following.

Slaanesh is the Big Bad Demon God of lust and pleasure, so I can see the appeal of people who just want to party hard with sex/drugs/rock-and-roll and not be bothered with anything else want to fall into that following.

Then there's Nurgle, the Big Bad Demon God of disease, sick, and all things gross. Why would anyone willingly want to fall in when all they have to look forward too is being wracked with sick 24/7? What kind of sick fuck would even look at someone with smallpox and go "yeah that's legit sign me up"?

Anyway what brought this all on was the disservice I did to myself by watching "Hammer and Bolter", which has some narratively fun and mind-numbing stories but holy shit is the animation stiff as hell. It painfully reminds me of the Marvel cartoons from the 1960's at least until it's broken up by the anime-CGI characters that get thrown in. At least the background art is gorgeous.

[ketchuplaser]

Watching the Hammer And Bolter 40k anime, and it's a good reminder.

Everyone is bad in 40k.

Even the ones you like.

Which sucks.

[makiruz]

"Hammer and Bolter broadcasted from 2021 to 2023" Okay, but where? Where did it broadcast? Cartoon Network? HBO? the Warhammer YouTube Channel? Where?

[theaceofskulls]

Been awhile since I’ve done this, and as such two more episodes of Hammer and Bolter have come out in the interim. So you’ll be getting 3 reviews. That’s how math works, don’t question it.

Episode 12: Monsters

Can you believe we got a second Age of Sigmar episode? Wow, I’m impressed. Anyways when this was first announced with Darkoath being the protagonists and the whole “who are the real monsters?” tagline I had to admit I didn’t really care about it. This is partly because I’ve never really cared about barbarian fantasy aesthetics and the answer is always “man”, so color me surprised when this episode shot towards the top of my list of “episodes I’d recommend that you check out if you subscribe to this service to get a miniature and want something to watch”.

Darkoath as it turns out are a faction that acknowledge the chaos gods but make bargains with them rather than worshiping them. And the story of this group of barbarians fighting against the invading forces of Order is actually an interesting take on the setting’s view of who are the good guys. However it turns out that the question of “who are the real monsters” is actually more interesting than you think it would be when it turns out there is something in the burning woods that most of this episode takes place in, and what it wants is more than a little horrifying.

This one is a fantastic story that fits in the anthology rather well.

9/10, actually made me interested in a faction I’d mostly written off as not for me.

Episode 13: A New Life

A family learns that Tyranids are coming in the next couple hours and are rushing to get off the planet before the worst happens.

Look, this one is one of those ones where you know it goes one of two ways. Either it’s a kill-em-all splatterhouse slasher where you’re in it to see the dwindling cast disappear into the jaws of 40k’s overhyped always-antagonists (yes I’m am aware that people enjoy the ‘nids a lot, but look, every faction is described as the absolute greatest faction with the coolest toys. Tyranid fans, please stop pretending that your faction is going to actually destroy the universe), or it’s going to involve a genestealer twist.

However, the episode does a great job of dealing with this by putting almost every single visible character in a hat, making it impossible to tell which side the factions are on. It winds up as one of those stories that works even if you figure out what’s going on ahead of time as it hides just enough to keep you guessing, even if it tilts its hand just a bit more than it needed to a minute before the actual reveal. It also makes for a better Tyranid episode than the previous Cadia Stands.

In the end, it’s an episode that works, but isn’t as particularly haunting as some similar short stories I’ve read or as some of the others in this series alone.

7/10, I can solidly recommend it, especially to people who know less about the setting.

Bonus: Goff Rocker ‘Ere We Go

Not an episode and also not locked behind the subscription, and also kind of an advertisement, but it’s clearly made by the same team in the same style, and what the hell, I want to show it.

I mean, it’s a dumb Christmas video featuring singing orks, short shots of a bunch of other factions, and it made me want to put together a diorama by the end of it.

10/10, get stuck in (your head)

[lodgeofthecat]

Oh yeah I almost Forgot.

This Friday and Saturday at 6pm est we're gonna be doing a Warhammer watch party in my Discord. Here's what's on the menu! -Astartes -Hammer & Bolter -Angels of Death -If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device

[kinasin]

[antisolanum]

Wow so episode 6 of Hammer and Bolter was a special kind of sad, huh? Way to make me just start bawling like an absolute shit when I realized what Iocarus was looking for.

[doolallymagpie]

they didn’t have to make trazyn so hot in hammer and bolter

i’m glad they did, but they didn’t have to do that

[ghostinthegallery]

Watching Trazyn's scene in "Artefacts" (aka my robot fucker awakening), it really does make me wonder if the creators were intentionally trying to make Trazyn into the fruitiest loop in the cereal box (if so, A+ job) or if they were just trying to villain code him!

Because yeah, thanks to the Hays code back in the day forbidding the explicit portrayal of homosexuality in Hollywood films, film and tv have a robust visual language for coding characters as queer (without explicitly stating anything about gender or sexuality). And of course queer coded characters couldn’t be GOOD, they had to be the baddies… which then created a situation where the visual language for Gay is also the visual language for Evil.

In “Artefacts”, we have the Chaos marines, who are definitely Not Good Guys (represented visually with dark colors, spikes, skulls, normal chaos stuff). For Trazyn they obviously wanted a contrasting antagonist, and they had about two minutes of screen time to work with. Naturally, some narrative shortcuts (aka coding) were in order. But contrasting the hypermasculine marines lead to…more slender design, a smoother vocal delivery, and the goddamn chin stroke. This is Disney Villain level shit, but I genuinely don’t know if that was intentional queer-coding or just a side-effect of this weird quirk of film history.

(I mean obviously I choose to believe Trazyn is gay as a rainbow house fire, but y’know…not sure if that’s “canon” XD)