Assault (Warhammer 40k Animation)

Amidst urban buildings, a group of guardsman launch an attack on a small heretic force.

Explosion effects by @SirFloofius

This is intended as a test project to see if I can achieve the results I want in Blender before proceeding to bigger projects. I think this test was successful. I'll finally start work on the project I said I'll work on since June lol

I'm aware there's some jankiness here, but I accepted it to just move on to the next project.

SOUNDS FROM:
Escape from Tarkov
Team Fortress 2
CS:GO
Black Mesa
Soundly

[LegioSymphonica]

A pleasure to work with you brother, looking forward to compose more music for what's coming next ;)

[mantha]

If only we got a large-scale Guardsman FPS with this level of quality, action, and fun.

[zaen_vg]

"The heretics are in a good entrenched position, I'd rather avoid a frontal engagement"

The guardsman: "Hold my lasgun"

[graysonc]

I was minutes away from going to sleep before i noticed this beauty of an animation.

[fistofthebrownstar]

I really love seeing gaurdsman actually being shown as the heros of the imperiums that they really are instead of just lol xd cannon fodder for daemons and xenos before the astartes can get around to doing somthing.

[samuel]

Can we just admire that Guardsmans trigger discipline.

[alastor-ywog]

Man its honestly cool to see a new fan warhammer 40k animation in a long time

[mastadonking]

Somewhere, GW is going rabidly feral, foaming at the mouth and clawing at the walls, because this fantastic piece was released.

[parkermaisterra]

Holy crap the amount of intense energy in this scene is incredible

[PheonyxJay]

I absolutely love how snappy and full of intent the movement is; like a soldier, no movement or action is wasted, and the stylized polish to the whole short is phenomenal, really makes it stand out to other animations I’ve seen.

Well done

[sladewilson]

Can't even express how much i missed the sfm era of 40k. god bless you and the emperor protects

[pepphtr]

40k fps idea:
It takes place during the fall of Cadia, you play as the imperial guard, trying to fight off abaddons black crusade. However unlike other games where when you die once you restart at the last checkpoint, you respawn as another guardsman, this can happen 15 times before you fail and move on to the next mission, inbetween missions you are shown a quick cutscene of a general’s eye view of the battle and the ground you have either lost or taken back

[qtreis]

When I hear street to street fighting in Imperial Guard lore this is what I think about.
Excellent job!

[Kriegsman]

Months later this is still one of the best animations I've seen.

[xXFuzzeeXx]

Beautiful. Really captures just how obscenely well trained your average guard veteran is.

[Youngstonex]

THAT GRENADE THROW IS SO SATISFYING OH MY GOD

[sketch]

The angles and framing you've used in this are so dynamic in this. Really puts the audience in the action with the character. Excellent work!

[SirCowdog]

It's rare to show the Guardsmen as actually being competent.

I think that's something a lot of people forget. It's not that Astra Militarum are trash. It's that they're up against some of the craziest bullshit monsters the universe can imagine. That's why there's space marines, after all.

Like Picard once said(I know, heresy to quote Star Trek in a WH40k discussion): "It's possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life".

Describes the Imperial Guard perfectly, I think.

[RockyX]

Remember - just because he's a normal sized human wielding a flashlight, doesn't mean he can't blow your brains out.

[captainjules]

watching your krieg video and then watching this is such a shock, like they're both so good, but where the former felt pretty standard, this is just dripping with style and uniqueness.