“Victory as humanity rages against the dying of the light” is the most 40k quote ever spoken

Yeah it's perfect. I think it might be a callback to "Do not go gentle into that good night". Which fits pretty decently.

​@Test Subject4 it is a lift from that poem for sure

@Test Subject4 The poem also gets a mention in the Horus Heresy novel 'The Master of Mankind' The Emperor turned to him, His eyes focusing on the Custodian for the first time. ‘The war is over, Diocletian. Win or lose, Horus has damned us all. Mankind will share in his ignorance until the last man or woman draws the species’ last breath. The warp will forever be a cancer in the heart of all humans. The Imperium may last a hundred years, or a thousand, or ten thousand. But it will fall, Diocletian. It will fall. The shining path is lost to us. Now we rage against the dying of the light.’

I thought the Horus’ trailer was amazing, but Guilliman’s speech alone may have surpassed that for me.

We are glad you liike it!

I've never played a game of 40k, I've never even held a miniature in my hand. But the grit behind lines like "Our people sing of Victory as the galaxy burns. Victory as the Imperium rots around us! Victory as Humanity rages against the dying of the light...Victory..." are what makes me eat every bit of lore I can get my grubby paws on...

With the K/D shown in this cinematic, there aren't enough space marines in the universe to defend even one world.

You can very much feel the colossal burden on Guilliman's shoulders by his voice. Trillions of lives at stake and it all depends on him. One false step and all will be lost - and he is aware of that every single second of his life. What a weight his father put on him to carry.

This last stand is a beautiful artistic reference to all those starter box covers from the old days. A big bow to the creators of the film, for this shot.

You always see this last stand troupe in 40k artwork and it looks cool, a little silly sometimes. But seeing it here and animated is badass.

I feel so sorry for Guilliman…This entire monologue is the most Shakespearean “I’m surrounded by idiots.” In 40K

In a way, but he's getting his Bro back!

It's more of we have too many enemies than anything else.

more like surrounded by literally insurmountable odds on a galactic scale. nobody is an idiot they just don't stand a chance lol

And remember: those are his sons getting slaughtered.

A space marine is an artificially augmented human who represents one of the strongest warriors humanity has to offer. Put that same augmented human in Terminator armor, one of the strongest and most durable armors available to the imperium and you've got a truly formidable supersoldier. That flying Tyranid tore said supersoldier in half like he was wet paper, just let that fact sink in! 😮

"Victory as Humanity rages against the dying of the light!" This single line is so damn cool I can't even begin to describe it

It's from a poem.. "don't go gently into the night, rage rage against the dying of the light"

The Apothecary going down fighting even after being pulled into the shadows horror movie style? Incredible.

One of the coolest Warhammer 40,000 trailers I've ever seen. Seeing Guilliman like this, realist about the true condition of the Imperium, is just amazing. I can't wait for this new edition to arrive!

Agreed wholeheartedly!

The poor chap. Knowing what papa Emps wanted vs what the Imperium is now. Someday I hope we get to see papa Emps wake up too and be all like: “What the HECK did y’all do to my Imperium?!? Ya’ll threw away everything I stood for and believed in, but decided to worship me as a deity even though your society is doing NOTHING that I wanted?!?” etc. poor papa Emps

I had to rewind this at so many points for the little details lol. And this trailer def did the Ultramarines some justice. A perfect blend of winning and losing that shows how cool they are vs how dark the galaxy is.

Ultramarines SUCK BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

Wow, this made the Tyranids feel like an enemy that’s truly impossible to defeat.

Yep, those bugs are hard to get rid of.

They really are

As they should!

The Great Devourer is the greatest threat to not only the galaxy, but possibly the entire universe!

​@Vegeta8300 Meanwhile Orks, just Zoggin off.

I think we can all agree that GW's trailers are always top tier. This is awesome.

Guiliman being presented as such a stoic and indomitable tactician really realises the Warhammer universe for me. Giving us something to relate to and not an abstract construct.

You guys managed to make me root for The Ultramarines for once. This was epic! Edit,:My favorite thing to see in these animations is seeing cause for panic within marines. Physical and mental overload that causes them to put in their 100% and get creative. Its one thing to watch them march forward and shoot, but its more fun to imagine how they get down when just shooting and cutting stuff down isn't enough.

ultramarines is such a goody two shoes, they are probably my least favorite chapter. But i hold spacemarine in general as pretty high regard so its not THAT bad :)

Seeing Astartes fight AGAINST the odds is what makes them interesting in the first place in my opinion. The fact that the Librarian was overwhelmed, the terminator ripped apart, several battle-brothers torn asunder by the carnifex etc... These are the heroes that regularly save the day across countless campaigns. *and they are getting slaughtered* Without these events we wouldn't get the sense of "these guys are never making it out of this alive" and that's when it all clicks. Superpowered demigods of war finding their match, facing utter annihilation with grim determination. Only in death.

for once? BROTHER GET THE FLAMER, WE HAVE A HERETIC

​​@RM You can't stop me from looting that Lieutenant's custom pauldron loyalist! Side note, I really want to kitbash Tyranid carapace onto the armor of my Night Lords now.

I know its 40k and its always been grimdark, but this is genuinely like...desperate. Like humanity has already lost and this is the end act where everything comes tumbling down. Seeing that psyker just fail like that hurt my heart a bit

Well, considering Tyranids are all part of an hivemind, is like having to mentally fight billions of minds at once.

Guilliman definitely put new hope into the Imperium, whether he wants to believe that it will make a difference or not. But now with the Lion awaking, perhaps Guilliman can start to take a breath and give himself some credit.

I think it depends. They did not see eye-to-eye on matters to put it mildly...

Seeing Guilliman being a realist even as his Indomitus Crusade was hopeful is just so cool. I'm excited for 10th edition

He remembers the Imperium at its zenith, he knows the potential of humanity, and how far they've fallen.

Using A.I. make the cost very low, it's a good news to fans, which means we can see more videos and pictures etc...

I know about Guilliman's comeback but where can I find some lore on what happened actually and the crusade itself?

@Pisarz_Milosci It's scattered. The Gathering Storm books have the actual return. Then Watchers of the Throne series has the war on terra that he comes back to. Dawn of Fire series is the big marshaling of the Crusade and some of its earlier moments. The Rogue Trader book Void King has the early onset of the crusade. And finally you have the Dark Imperium series which is the furthest in the timeline if you're following the crusade. There's also a short story somewhere in there where Guilliman declares his greatest enemy to be a normal sized pen and the Ultramarines are shocked to find out that he actually has a sense of humor.

I love that GW have made tyranids seem like the threat they really are with this trailer, and also, turning on the comments for such a momentous occasion!

Warhammer, how do you make such amazing animations like these? This is the best I’ve ever seen!

I love seeing Ultramarines and Tyranids fight each other every since Maccrage. The animation is wonderful and to have Guiliman narrate it is great. Can't wait to play more with the Great Devourer!

I absolutely love Guilliman's voice in this trailer.

Really love Guilliman’s VA. Always love to hear John Banks or Johnathan Keeble but this one is especially great.

First Horus and now Guilliman. PLEASE keep bringing the Primarchs to life in these animations!

Next is the first, the big cat himself the Lion uuuuuu.

Wait? Horus is back?!

@Nothing-wrong no they’re talking about the cinematic Horus heresy trailer.

@Wind Knight ahhh makes more sense

And in both their trailers they talked about the galaxy burning

That is how you make a launch trailer. Bravo! Laurels to the voice actor - he nailed it. And the animation was spectacular.

Guys this trailer is amazing, I'm loving what you're putting down. If you could make full length mini series animated like this, it's be so amazing

The studio that made it ARE making a 40k series.

I played Tyranids nearly 15 years since I was middle-school student, but this trailer makes my heart race ever before. Thank you for both valuable memories in my lifetime and awesome quality trailer GW. From Korea :D

Even the most competent and hopeful Imperial Guard commanders are looking at the situation and going "We don't have enough Deathstrikes for this..."

Are there ever enough Deathstrikes?

@Warhammer Depends on who you ask. For me? No. For the guys playing at one of the other tables when I announce I'm nuking their game from mine? More than enough*. *the fact nobody has ever said "we're not allowing that" makes me love this hobby so much

I definitely dig that last stand scene, classic 40k imagery still hitting strong

Man I REALLY like this trailer. It feels like it shows respect to both sides, while still letting the Nids win.

Finally a tyranid victory.

HERESY

@Glass empty I feel like they win all the time (off camera)

The tattered Blood Angels banner brings such feels. What a nice atmospheric touch.

This is doing every bit of justice to Guilliman and the Ultramarines, and even the tyranids, they're a horrifying threat and the galaxy is in danger

At first, I thought Guilliman was kneeling in front of Eternity Gate. But after seeing the Blood Angels banner and hearing how he mentioned Baal, I thinks that is the tomb of Sanguinius, Primarch of the Blood Angels.

This trailor reminds me of a story that was in White Dwarf back when they first released the tyranids in plastic at the begining of the 00s. A world quickly being enveloped by the swarming monsters, space marines being brutally slain. It still sticks in my mind 20 years later. Roll on the tyranids❤

"It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." This famed quote from The Terminator fittingly describes the superhuman Ultramarines, the diabolical Tyranid hordes, or both.

Love the sense of scale with Guilliman watching over all the battles at the end, makes this universe captivating in a way that other sc-fi stuff is not

Su discurso en parte es propaganda (ganamos batallas cada dia) y luego nos muestra como son masacrados por toda la galaxia, sin duda el hijo mas digno del Dios Emperador

@Sebastian Vargas en realidad se puede ver qué aunque pierda mundos otros los gana

@Sebastian Vargas roba nombres

I love how people write in their language not knowing if the translation will be good enough lol. But yeah, Guilliman it's just trying to be the most optimistic man for the sake of the imperium in the most dark moments

​@Vargas Banda Rodrigo Sebastián ¿Me vas a decir que la gente no puede tener nombres iguales?

Damn that was an amazingly impressive cinematic. I swear, if they made a full-length movie utilizing the technology that created this one... They'd make so much money. I pray that one day we will get to see something along those lines. I could watch Marines shred Tyranids with bolter and gatling fire all day long.

This is the first time sense I've become a warhammer fan (2 years) I've seen comments enabled, along with a spot on, smash hit of a trailer. Really like this direction.

Warhammer trailers are so beautiful. Whoever / whatever team animates them is up with the best in the animated industry

They should really consider making mini-series.

I agree they always have this amazing vibe to them! Imagine a show with this kind of graphics.

Since comments are finally enabled, I feel like I need to say this: I do not play the game, however I'm interested in lore and audiovisual content like these trailers and more recently shows like Hammer and Bolter ever since I became a fan some 4 or 5 years ago. Especially nowadays it feels like WH40k is one of the few franchises that has history and doesn't change much with times (and that's a good thing) in all regards except for one: you're producing more content and expanding to other areas, giving us such sights to watch like this trailer. And I absolutely love it. I hope that you'll produce more, and succeed with tv shows and such.

Feels good to be a Tyranid fan right now.

Guilliman as in himself, charismatic and realistic. What a terrific character.

Boring.

@Ephemis Priest Don't describe yourself

Personally, I see him as a spiritual guide sort of character, my "liege" if you will.

@Vincent Akdag Boring.

This trailer is hands down a narrative and visual masterpiece. Bravo GW, you did the Horror of the Tyranid Swarm justice with this one.

I think they both did and did not. This does show them in their element in the jungle, but it still shows it with large powerful units being on par with the Space Marines. It doesn't even show the Tyranids' true strength on a global level, which are their massive numbers.

As a long haul Nids player, it's incredible to finally see an animation do justice to more than like the 3 most basic Tyranid types. This really conveys how insanely terrifying an invasion from a hive fleet would be. Loved the Lictor scene especially.

This is the 10th time I've watched this trailer and I just love it more and more, the way Guilliman says "victory" in the end all defeated, it makes me shiver, the marines holding their final stand, the new nids it's just so damn good!

As an Ultramarine and Hive Fleet Leviathan player, that was incredibly awesome amazingness.

It's your lucky day

@Warhammer As a Blood Angel Gal, we bled at Baal! We fought them back! Where's Dante? Our Grand Chapter Master!

Mb you meant “as a Smurf marine player”?

@Warhammer I’m a 3rd company ultramarine player and I’m so giddy with joy

@Warhammer YES IT IS GW GOD!!

The Tyranid version of this video just says "Nomnomnomnom" for 4min 30 seconds. Not nearly as poetic, but on point for the lore.

Absolutely fantastic made and wow that voice actor is amazing ! 🤘🏻 🏆 Can’t wait to get my hands on the new edition - and some big , mean and new Terminators yay ! 🤩 Cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰

Yooooooo you guys killed it!! 10/10 banger show banger trailers I'm stunned and speechless. After near 20 years of being a 40k fan I've never been more proud and impressed. Thank you for this community and universe.

Really love this trailer, i love the strength showed from both sides, i would love that someday a trailer like this happens but with orks.

One of the best videos GW has ever made. Looking forward to seeing Mr. Cavill in UltraMarines blue or Blood Angels red… epic times for 40k fans.

Having Guilliman have a canonized voice is incredible.

get this guy to do the audio books

His voice was kinda mid tbh. He sounds pretty generic with what sounds like some obvious audio manipulation to give a little reverb and deepness. I'd imagined rowboat girlman with more natrual gravitas and authority, slightly aristocratic perhaps.

​@sicksock Honestly, the character itself is kinda generic

@sicksock To be fair, a lot of people, especially irl, don't have voices we think they should have.

Been a warhammer fan for 28 years. Reading my first codex (Tyranids) gave me goosebumps at 11 - getting goosebumps again watching this at 39. Thanks for all the fun and memories Games Workshop - looking forward to leading my craftworld into 10th!

How GW manages to continue to evolve and yet still capture that grim dark hopeless badassery feeling that I felt in 1998 getting my first ever marine, seeing 'eavy metal dioramas in my local store, pursuing metal models and imaging how they look, seeing box art for the tau for the first time, getting my battle of macragge starter set, building my first leman Russ, finding new love in the primaris and buying indomitus with my necron mate, discovering the Guants Ghosts and Ravenor novels, and now this. I don't ever see me getting off this train. In the bright prospects of the near future, there is only war.

Absolutely fantastic trailer! Certainly excited to see how the new edition plays and for the new units hinted.

After reading the rules of the new edition, this makes me want to buy more warhammer. Now I don't need to worry about codex's, I can build the army I want, when I want to and all I need are the models. This will be a huge bump to the community as new players will find it much easier to get into the game. And I as an experienced player are definitely looking forward to a simpler, easier game play experience. Thank you GW, mad props

Concept looks interesting and exciting. I just hope the indexes don’t reduce the possibilities too much. Notably thinking of relic weapons. They’re so fun to model and paint, so I’m hoping the indexes at least provide a bunch of relic weapon options (like Admonimortis, which I recently kitbashed before this announcement)

I loved the close ups on Guilliman’s face, it gives off the feeling that he wants to show emotion for his dying sons, but cannot afford it.

Also the way he says victory at the end so exasperated. He's so frustrated and sick of it, but he's not giving up.

Well considering the news from few months ago ... his jawline resembles that of one A lister thats a total 40k nerd

@Paradoo12 the way he says victory at the end actually sounds a lot like him too aha

There's no time for such luxuries.

U are damn right

Seeing a green (presumable safe) world turns red indicating a lost world against the xenos is indeed dark and as Big G zooms out to see multiple worlds in red is such a WH40K vibe. The Imperium always singing praise and triumph while in reality, that is not the case. SM are getting rip apart, slaughtered and some more. Imagine the fate of the guardsman.

What a great trailer! Very nice to see more firstborn models becom Primaris (probably) without changing aesthetic. This makes me really hope for a Primaris Tactical Squad... Overall, really looking forward to the new edition!

Whatever I think of GW and all sorts of stuff you do, credit be given where it's due, these trailers are always absolutely banging, like damn, what a masterpiece.

I am happy to see the PR team taking a different approach to interacting with its consumers. I sincerely hope to see a return to the Dark Mechanicus especially with the Leagues of Votunn in universe now.

Absolutely stunning! Just wish we could have seen a blood angel or two.

This is one of the best trailers I've seen. Kudos GW, kudos. I am officially hyped

SO. MUCH. HYPE!

@Warhammer oh my god, you replied! Lads, let me just say, thank you for the stream. It's the greatest reveal stream you've done and 10th edition sounds so good. Thank you

​@Warhammerflamer troops flamer troops flamer troops flamer troops let's go salamanders have a new spam stick

@Warhammer alright since comments are enabled I'll take the opportunity and say, WHY THE HELL ARE YOUR PRICES SO WACK!?

For anyone interested, Guilliman's "rage against the dying of the light" line is from the famous 1951 poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Here it is: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Oh man, I haven't played since 1.6. This was shocking in regards to the amount of memories that flooded my brain. I'm 40. This is a game I played obsessively at 20.

What a wonderful summary of everything that's happening in 40k. He can't do it alone, it is too much even for a super human.

I am cautiosuly optimistic for the next edition. Also keep these videos coming, so awesome!

You’re going great GW! This looks amazing!

LETSSS GOOOO Epic trailer, tons of new models, THE RETURN OF THE LION It's a good time to be a Warhammer 40k fan. p.s Cheers GW for enabling comments - hopefully a sign of things to come!

"bUt acTually Majir KiLL.." - Timmy. jokes aside. Yep, incredible.

Do not forget the fan animation community they squashed. Do not let them forget.

​@Jack Daws meh.

@Jack Daws hear hear. Most likely they did because next decade they are fully going to focus on digital content as well. Therefore wants the authority over it. But they cannot do it forever. Because DC tried to do that when it comes to reviews - copyright striking bad reviews. Which did not work out.

The Lion is BACK! I wish we could have seen him in this trailer. So excited to see him and the Dark Angels take on the myriad of threats that have cropped up...

I'm very excited for the new edition i'm just afraid after reading the changes that my Night Lords won't still have their special abilities but it's always exciting when a new edition comes out at least

I’ve been a die hard Blood raven since around 7th edition… I think I might shake things up and go Ultramarines this next edition and see how I like them. Also since the tyranids are clearly going to be the main baddies this time around i think I get some of them as well.

It's nice to see someone in the cannon acknowledge the Tyranids as a proper threat. Usually a Tyranid hive fleet is a backdrop for a chaos cult or a chaos fleet invading or for the Space Marines doing something cool (cough cough Ciaphas Cain books and Space Wolves) but in reality hive fleet Leviathan has only just began to rear it's head, only some speartips have been launched, taking hundreds of planets altleast, but the main bulk haven't arrived.

Amazing!! So excited. Keep up the good work GW!

Thank you so much!

Great work GW! Loving this content

Great work by GW, giving everyone the hype with the great trailer for 10th edition.

Watched it like ten times now and still can't get enough. Can't wait for the new edition, and might even revive my Ultramarines army from 2005!

This is literally one of the coolest cinematics I've seen. Hats off to the CG team 🔥

Good to see the Nids actually kicking ass for a change,loving the new bio-forms...did I see a new licktor too?

Hearing Guilliman being brutally honest breaks my heart as a guardsman...but also fuels a fire in me to prove his doubt in us wrong.

Seeing Tyranids being so powerful in animated format is giving me vibes of a war in heaven 2.0

With the lion joining gilliman in battle though Maybe that hopelessness can be turned into hope once again

I mean look at what the lord,nder of the imperium could accomplish by himself Now imagine What he could do with one of his strongest brothers

there's no DOUBT in his mind. "Victory" it's just realistic, people are going to die. but there's no doubt, his faith is as strong as the emperor.

​@spank me you are totally correct and in this video i feel he made this speech before he knew his brother return. I am one of those who strongly believes that he will put the Lion as the Warmaster and he will focus on logistic. For me letting him focus on the logistics and the politics while he let his brother the Lion fucking Johnson do what he does best by leading the armies of the Imperium of Men and keep in mind that he was the prime candidate for the warmaster title. The Emperor did not choose him because he knew who ever he choose will fall to Chaos. Now there is no worry for that. Just imagine how much the Imperium of Men can improve by simply dealing with it logistic problem. There are countless world that are a backward feudal society. Turning them into warhamer modern day society will dramatically improve their quality of life. Dealing the hive world supply chain etc. There are so many works that he needs to get down. But he can't focus on that because he needs to focus on offense and defense at the same time. Having the Lion there will DRAMATICALLY reduce his workload

I cant wait for the box set to drop! First box set i got was the 4th edition Battle for Macragge starter set. So funny to think 20 years later and I would be seeing another space marines vs tyranids starter set. Look forward to seeing were the lore goes for every race.

This cinematic is beautiful in all senses.

It's ace to see that something of the old Warhammer bleakness is coming back into the game and the IP as a whole. The feeling that there is, truly, only war, and that the story of Warhammer is not just one of glory and glamour, but is one of hope in the face of an inevitable end. Fantastic animation that makes the current state of the galaxy actually feel desperate.

Really awesome trailer I hope there'll be more of this quality (and better). And honestly... I hope Cavill makes the tv show during this setting. Hopefully with the Lion and Guilliman on screen. Charles Dance to play Lion and Cavill for RG. But that's just what I think would be cool lol. Plenty of scenarios to choose from obviously.

I just got into the hobby, so this is my first big content drop I've got to experience. Really cool so far, can't wait to see what kind of stuff drops in 10th 😁

It was a nice touch that GW added the tyranids' ability to cut off the warp from a space marine psyker. I always found that ability to be cool and terrifying

Is that what it is? I thought it's the psyker Tyranids overpowering him. I thought the warp cut off was more of a general location thing, and not something that can be used on individual units

The Shadow In The Warp. Less cut off, and more overload with billions of voices

I absolutely love that the librarian didn't explode or something, just sadly and slowly crumple over. So much scarier

We fear he might be cut off for good now.

​@Terkiaz 😢

I’ve been in the hobby since im 11 ( now im 23 ) and i still have the same chills when i see something new like this trailer or any new model, i love this hobby with all my heart.

It is so pleasing to see a high quality warhammer 40k video, nothing is more satisfying than seeing humanity driving back the terrors of the new night. We will yet stand triumphant!

I'm so hyped for new lore to see how the Impirium will deal with this massive new horde of Tyranids. And honestly I hope that Gulliman and The Lion will embrace each other instead of being dicks as even in the grim darkness of the far future there always has to be some light, as darkness cannot exist without its counterpart.

I'm a newbie to the Warhammer franchise and I'm almost done reading the first book of the horus heresy. The first three minutes of the trailer do exactly show my imagination when the astartes fight against the megarachnids on Urisarach. Especially with the impaled bodys and the arriving support :o

Please make more - these are unreal !! So good!!

The most amazing part of this cinematic is that they all look like models brought to life. It really feels like this is a table too campaign brought to life from my imagination

Exactly my thoughts as watching it - This is how to gel models & cinematic to perfection!

Ikr I can just imagine the dice rolling as that guy gets ripped in half

Really tempted to get into Nids when 10th edition drops…feel like they’d be neat to have alongside my death guard

This is my 3rd time watching this trailer and omg they make nids look like the most powerful xenos faction! They went through these marines like they were nothing! I was actually cheering for the ultramarines!

This is so cool. Damn, I know the 41k is grim but at least a glimmer of hope would not hurt either. Really hoping Lion would really take the fight to the enemies.

Absolutely amazing in every single way! Can’t wait!

Despite myself I find I'm slightly warming to the character of Guilliman. There's still a person in there, despite of everything. I can imagine, as he's being represent in the lore, he genuinely wants a better future than what the Imperium has become. What do the Tyranids want? Lunch.

Absolutly fantastic! Great job lads!