Hammer and Bolter

This show is the perfect example of you get what you paid for because this show clearly didn't pay any animators. It's basically a powerpoint presentation with pretty solid voice acting. It's a real shame, because the universe deserves more and the stories are overall decent to amazing depending on which episode you're watching. We fans deserves better and the IP deserves and NEEDS BETTER FROM GW!

It is unfortunate that such a good story telling, and all the charachter development goes to waste. We 40k fans are basically thirsty for any sort of content and we apreciate it. This was grim dark indeed, but the lack of good animation and cheap production which is outcome of the terrible GWs ways resulted in having an average show which would have been much more. Frankly GW is one of the worst companies (if not the worst) when it comes to fan support. That being said I apreciate GW being so strict on the lore, not making it woke or soft or just chaning it toward's nowadays media test; but this is not enough. GW... I say this in the most humble of manners, I have never seen an IP in which the fans and the copy-right owner are so separated, People love the IP which great passion, yet most of the fans utterly hate GW. I know you like money and all, but making 40k fans hate you is not the way to go. In the past you have done shocking blow to the fandom and content creators, that cant be forgotton. But there is still hope, you can make money and make peace with the fans if only you change your ways a bit. In any case, I am looking forward to see any 40k content, hope it gets better in the future.

As another review said, and I think it's valid, is this it at times feels more like a slideshow than actual animation.

Each episode is a different story sometimes they are fun other times they are very serious so the tonal shifts are all over the place. Apart from the fact that they are all in the 40K universe, there just isn't enough of a through line of character to explain it as an anthology. Angels of Death is better and shows how bargain basement this is but that's hardly perfect either.

Most fan films for Warhammer are better than this.

Yes, the animation is weak (getting better in newer episodes). Everything else is great. This is exactly the kind of stuff I have always wanted to see for WH40K.

Let me clarify: Astartes 2 is exactly what I want to see, Hammer and Bolter (and everything else on WHTV) is what I want to see in the meantime.

A lot of this stuff has never appeared on screen before. It's a massive universe, and really difficult to put on screen. Not everything has to be Astartes level to be acceptable.

GW hired talent from the community and hit the ground running. Covering as much ground, as fast as possible. A 2D anthology series is the perfect vehicle for that.

I'm not sure if any community talent was involved in H&B, but there's Sayama of course, and Richard Boylan of Helsreach fame made Angels of Death. I'm not sure who else, but some of the other shows feel reminiscent of fan work I've seen.

I'm just excited to finally see 40k making a big push to the screen. But that's not why I'm giving H&B a 9. I'm giving it a 9 because I docked 1 star for animation. Voice acting, art, writing, world building, lore, variety, grimdark brutality - everything else is great.

Because GW is so dominant in their space, I think people forget that it's still kind of a niche thing. Even dominating that space as they do doesn't mean they have the funds to snap their fingers and produce nothing but top tier CGI shows right out of the gate.

For what it's trying to be, Hammer and Bolter is a 9/10. It's really unfortunate how so many people just dismiss it due to the animation. Tell me you never cared about WH40K until Astartes without telling me.

In my opinion this animated show is the best movie/tv-serie adaptation of Warhammer 40k I have ever seen.

Even though it's budget animation it's really well written, awesome sound design and good voice acting. I like it all a lot, it's better made then a lot of other animated shows out there.

It captures the Warhammer 40k universe perfectly and the lore is just spot on.

I highly recommend this tv-show to anyone who is interested in the 40k universe and want to know more. And this i want to see a lot more off! Because the 40k universe is big, and got a lot of lore, so there is a lot to make around it.