mike says:

Me too. I’m on linux 64 so I usually assume it’s the borked integration of 32bit Flash. Not this time though… eh. Why did I just write this? Oh yeah, give me the vid.

July 15th, 2008 at 9:24 am

Lh'owon says:

That was glorious! I don’t even know anything about Dawn of War and I love that trailer to bits.

July 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am

MasterBoo says:

Amazing trailer.

July 15th, 2008 at 9:40 am

Arsewisely says:

Wow, that was an awesome video! I hope you get a sense of that combat in the actual game.

July 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am

Nick Halme says:

Warhammer nerd, on site. This is most definitely a Tyranid reveal.

As part of a Tyranid invasion they release toxic spores into the atmosphere, which is what you see swirling around the moon. This is all outlined in the newest 40k rulebook, which describes the death of a planet after Tyranid invasion.

Not to mention that the Tyranid are slightly creepy-crawly; and those strings being plucked at the end certainly mark them and not the more surly Chaos.

July 15th, 2008 at 10:03 am

Albides says:

This made me grin wide. The Dawn of War cutscenes have always been great. That put even Blizzard to shame. You know the technique has been terribly contrived, and has been used elsewhere, but it’s just fantastic watching the units you know and love strutting their stuff one after the other. “Howling Banshees! Warp Spider! Ranger! Eee! Dreadnought!”

Yes, I am a pansy elf lover and proud of it.

July 15th, 2008 at 10:43 am

The Hammer says:

That was indeed a very nice trailer, and a damn good reveal.

It’s nice too to see units to know get a showing. Interesting opposite sides, too.

July 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am

Kommissar Nicko says:

Flambé…

One thing I will never understand is: why, despite the lessons of history, do the cool kids never wear their helmets?

July 15th, 2008 at 11:37 am

cullnean says:

lol dreadnaught makin eldar marshmellows

July 15th, 2008 at 11:43 am

Lightbulb says:

Hmmm…

I am disappointed with the the webspinner (thats teleporting dude to you non-40k players). The gun should be a mono-filament web which traps and then cuts to pieces the Marine not some energy weapon.

As for if its a Tyranid spoiler it could just as easily be Chaos since that looked alot like how they describe a warp storm in the books - this would indicate to a large (non-eldar) fleet so could go either way.

I was expecting a swarm of spores to be coming down which would be a definite Tyranid spoiler.

I don’t think the trailer is conclusive.

July 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

Albides says:

Lightbulb,

Webspinner? I thought they were called Warpspiders? Look closely at the marine as he gets shot, though, and it does look like the sparkly monofilament wires. It seems to stick to his armour, though the scene is too brief to show the slicing.

July 15th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Chris says:

He’s definitely a Warp Spider, unless they changed the name for the first game.

Mind you, my entire knowledge of 40k is from a) Dawn of War, and b) first edition rulebook plus about 2 or 3 issues of White Dwarf from nearly 20 years ago. I think the last one I saw was the one which introduced the Harlequins. The various Harlequin types seem to have been pretty much expanded out into standard Eldar units from what I can see. I thought the monofilament thing was a Harlequin’s Kiss, which always seemed like a mega-nasty weapon (?).

July 15th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

James T says:

This is actually by plasticwax, not Blur Studios as some of you are speculating. They’re keeping up the tradition of awesome DoW cutscenes though.

Oh yeah? They did the STALKER cinemas as well; respect to PW.

I never gave a shit about Warhammer, despite admiring some of the concept art in yer codexes and so on, but this does give me fond memories of highschool, where most of my even-nerdier friends and associates were gaga about 40k; this would’ve have spurred a trip to the laundry for those boys (well, for their mothers).

…But I still don’t care to play, as I don’t enjoy RTSes (unless Commandos counts). Oh well!

July 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

El Stevo says:

The big men in suits talk like transformers. That’s all I have to contribute.

July 15th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Chad says:

James,

Although you probably haven’t read much on this game since you aren’t interested in RTS, it sounds as if it is going to be quite different. It’s supposedly dropping many of the traditional RTS aspects and focusing on small scale fights.

July 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

Cradok says:

Do we know yet which Ravens company is going to be in this game? The Marine commander in the videos doesn’t look or sound like Angelos…

July 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

JM says:

It does look very Tyranidy - the mycetic spores are supposed to be basically numberless and the hive fleets themselves are impossibly vast.

Now if only someone would make a good Battlefleet Gothic game so we could fight the bugs in space….

July 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Nick Halme says:

Those are Howling Banshees, not Harlequins

As for a warp storm, it would be much more…violent.

July 15th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

zanbowser says:

You guys talking about the Warp Spiders are all a little right, a little wrong; their Aspect is the “Warp Spider,” their weapons, “Deathspinners.”

GW changed the rules for Deathspinners (2nd/3rd ed.? - not sure which) from template weapons (heavy flamer) to single/assault X(not sure there, either) target-based weapons. This was probably changed because of guys like me: I had three squads of seven, each with double-deathspinner Exarchs, which would mulch up any Guard army, and pretty much anything else reliant on infantry with an armour rating lower than a Space Marine. I think it was 4s to hit, auto-wound (or S8 or something - don’t feel like looking)… not pleasant for my opponent.

I recall a particular savaging of Greenskins in which I eliminated better than 75% of the opposing army in a single turn. But - now I just play Tyranids… 100 model Hormagaunt swarm, FTW!

All that is to say that the representation in the video is probably closest to the current vision of the rulebook. Gone is the “cloud of monofilament,” replaced by a “high-energy clump of monofilament plasma” or some such “projectile mess-you-right-the-funk-up.”

Anyway… just clarifying for GW geeks and non-GW-geeks, alike.

/nerdstorm

July 15th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

Subjective Effect says:

@zanbowser - didn’t your enemy know that you liked that set-up? Assuming you played by points (and fairly) was he/she not able to muster a suitable repellent?

I think we can also safely say that Relic know just how much everyone is hankering for Tyranids and, even if this trailer didn’t really hint at it (as in if that was actually chaos indicated at the end) they are surely inevitable.

July 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

Dolphan says:

@Master Builder

Fire Warrior wasn’t all that bad, especially once you got to fight Space Marines.

July 16th, 2008 at 12:41 am

Birdoman says:

The HD version is brilliant, just watched it three times, although it’s not /quite/ as good as the DoW intro. Good catch @Jonathan!

July 16th, 2008 at 3:40 am

Chryso says:

Worth pointing out: console controls were actually alright for Fire Warrior. It was a completely generic FPS apart from the art, and linear as hell, but the models were well done, and a few levels managed to give some sense of 40k’s epic-ness. Mostly though, it was pretty crappy: the hilariously wimpy and impractical Bolter they give you to use was a particular highlight.

This cinematic on the other hand, was goddamned awesome; I peed a little when the sniper got perforated. They need to let Abnett out of his box for a weekend, get him over to the studio, and put a full-length feature together.

July 16th, 2008 at 4:15 am

Lightbulb says:

Albides - Yes they are infact. Dodgy memory on my part. I thought that didn’t sound right! Maybe the gun is a webspinner…

I guess it could be, didn’t notice it sticking but if it did then i withdraw my comment.

July 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am

rocketeer says:

Dawn of War 2: Games for Windows Live.

Dawn of War 2: SecuROM.

Dawn of War 2: FU, Relic.

July 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Sicarius says:

This is absolutely the first stage of a Tyranid Hive Fleet invasion. Nothing else in 40K should look like that, and the OP is correct in the assertion that it would be pathetic to have that big of a cliffhanger only to let everyone down with “it’s Chaos … again!”

One minor clarification … the Eldar psyker in the movie is not a Farseer, as the article suggests. She is a Warlock. You can tell this due to the very simple fact that you can see her face / head … she’s not wearing a Ghosthelm, which all Farseers wear. As trivial as it might sound, that’s a major issue for Games Workshop. They have rejected several amazing Farseer models in the past simply due to the fact that the character was not wearing a Ghosthelm. The lightning-type attack she was using was the Destructor psychic power … it’s a unique ability to Warlocks.

Anyway, the cinema was F-ing mind-blowing. I am ecstatic that we’re finally getting Tyranids … but now I have to decide which of my favorite two races to play. Eldar or ‘Nids? Dammit!

-Sicarius

July 19th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

Nick Halme says:

@Sicarius

Ah, that would make more sense, seeing as she was killed by a Space Marine Sergeant! I’m only experienced at getting zapped by Eldar, so thanks for clearing that up.

July 21st, 2008 at 3:38 am

Rambo says:

The guy that teleports is a Warp Spider and his weapon is called a Deathspinner. Warp Spiders have portable warp generators on their back that allow them to teleport. In fact it appears the Warp Spider in the trailer is an Exarch (aspect leader) cause he has TWO Deathspinners although he doesn’t have the plume on his helmet.

July 28th, 2008 at 5:19 am

BrotherShanks says:

Sweet trailer. I love how it shows the intensity of the combat. And fingers crossed for the Templars to get their own scheme this time round.
I think what they could do that would be really interesting, but difficult to balance, would be to add in specific traits for each individual sub-faction. It would be tricky to balance because for Orks they’d probably have to be fairly simple things like Speed Freakz get a higher max vehicle pop cap and cheaper vehicles, have unique research that makes them faster etc. But for the Space Marines you could go a bit more to town, with Templars getting Crusader squads rather than Tactical squads. Codex chapters could have the ability to split their Tactical squads into combat squads. Blood Angels could get Honour Guard, Space Wolves could have Wulfen. With Chaos, you could have the sub-faction decide the Daemons, with World Eaters getting Bloodletters and Bloodthirsters, Thousand Sons getting Flamers and The Lord Of Change, Emperor’s Children getting Daemonettes and the Keeper Of Secrets. You get the idea. And, in light of recent developments, the Daemons could get their own faction, giving you access to Soul Grinders and Juggernauts. I dunno, maybe if I give it some thought, came up with a decent list that was fairly balanced, we could petition it to Relic. I doubt it’d happen for DoWII but you never know, maybe if they make a DoWIII…
Erlam, as to what you said about a 40K FPS… I’ve had quite a few ideas for something along those lines. Again, it’d be hard to actually bring those ideas into fruition but I’ve got a Space Marine skin pack for UT3. That’s a start. Maybe if I can figure out the modding utility for it I could come up with something halfway there. With some custom maps, custom weapons, custom skins and some manipulation of the racial traits system, it could look, and play, the business.
Anyway… I digress. Back to the trailer, I’m pretty sure it’s a sign of ‘Nids. That was my first thought when I saw it. Granted, it could be another Chaos warp storm, here to wreak havoc. But I think Relic know we all want ‘Nids to play with or, at least in my case, slaughter. And looking at the ‘Nids fluff and artwork of ‘Nid invasions, that certainly looks like ‘Nids to me.
Peace.

July 28th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Tristan says:

I love the trailer, my only question is will there be only orks, space marines, tyranids , and chaos? Because i love my necron’s, and Tao is a cool race as well.

July 30th, 2008 at 2:39 am