Addendum: where I talk about the sci-fi influences on the Ulator I was focused on fiction outside the 40K universe. I'd just like to add to this that Ordinatus first appeared in Epic as written by Gav Thorpe in his 1995 White Dwarf article where he described the Ordinatus Mars that is armed with a colossal sound cannon. The Ulator is an in-universe spiritual successor to this awesome unit. Hope you enjoy the video :) Edit 23.02.24: another possible design influence here is from the Gozilla films (!) Several of the movies feature a variety of vehicles carrying “maser cannons”. While not sonic weapons like the Ulator, the designs are surprisingly similar with a dish array configuration. In particular, the Type 70 Maser Cannon shares features, including a twin-chassis type set up with a tractor vehicle and weapon carriage: wikizilla.org/wiki/Type_70_Maser_Cannon Also of note is how these Godzilla series weapons bear resemblances to the Epic Ordinatus designs of the mid-nineties. Coincidence or a design homage? Many thanks to viewer @tunguskalumberjack9987 for this info 🙂
@@Mikey__R Very cool! I'd forgotten about it until I was doing some post-production research and found a digital copy online. It's so cool there were 3 Ordinatus of different types: missiles, cannon and sound. Peak 40K IMO.
@@leakycheese Epic had some fantastic stuff released around 2nd ed. The Daemon Engines of the four powers were explored, I think they're also peak 40k: medieval steam punk siege machines powered by a shackled warp entity, what's not to love! The old Epic scale big models had a bit of height to them as well, which makes sense when everything else was closer to the table. I suppose that wouldn't translate so well to 28mm as they'd be too tall to fit on a bookcase.
I’ve been struggling to deliver my latest new legion project and I’m starting to think slow burn centrepieces like this are where I spend my twilight years in the hobby..
Automatically hitting just one target is already quite a force multiplier. This thing is essentially a flamer template 72" long. I wonder if this will make it into epic scale?
Thank you, glad you enjoyed and yes, what a beast. So the Ordinatus Sagittar. I've always felt a bit ambivalent towards this vehicle, mainly because it looks like someone just slapped a Belicosa Volcano Cannon on the Ulator chassis. Feels a bit.... unfinished? Maybe it's the look of the weapon, maybe it's because it looks just like the Warlord / Warbringer version. So no, never bought one (and can't now, I suspect it sold poorly given it's early withdrawl). That said, I guess one could buy a belicosa and convert it onto the Ulator chassis? Bet it could be magnetised as well!
Actually are sonic weapons currently in deployment in various parts of the world. They're 'non-lethal' weapons by classification, so perhaps not in the same ballpark as the sci-fi sort of destructive weapon, but seem to be effective none the less. They use phased array transducers to be able to shape and focus very low frequencies of sound at very high intensities, and generally target frequencies that resonate in the abdominal cavity of humans, causing extreme pain, nausea, and sometimes loss of bowel control. There has also been research into resonation of the cranial cavity to knock people unconscious (and in fact, a case where a factory next to a chicken farm started causing deaths of the chickens because it hit their cranium's resonant frequency), but I don't think they were getting the same effect, or perhaps were having issues making them non-lethal (or even control whether it's lethal or not). Some drawbacks are the limited range in air, dispersion, and due to the wave nature, having hot spots and voids in the energy field, just due to the constructive and destructive interactions of the sound waves. I've heard of them being used for riot control, but seems they're seen more use being outfitted on ships for anti-boarding weapons against piracy along the African coast and whatnot. One could imagine better control of the frequencies and phase of the energy modulating rapidly to avoid some of these spotty energy fields, and use of multiple, much higher frequencies (into the ultrasound and above) to destroy harder targets. As some of the new tech into understanding wave mechanics and meta-materials advances, this may become more and more doable (as would armor against sonic weapons).
@@leakycheese I've lead a meandering life that has filled my head with a weird variety of technical depths in many subjects. Glad it was helpful! Share it as your random useless fact of the day if you need one!
I love that ridiculous model. It just looks amazing. I think the reason sonic weapons have dropped from sci-fi is, boring really, sci-fans tend to have an understanding of physics and sonic weapons just aren’t viable. lol.
The idea of an atomic bomb was unimaginable to someone who fought in the 1853 Crimean War, yet less than 100 years later it was a reality. One of 40K’s strengths as a setting is never tries to explain the tech on the basis it’s too advanced from our modern understanding and that in-universe there is a lot of technological ignorance.
@@leakycheese lol. Absolutely. Conversion beamers, magnetic containment of plasma, multimelta, battle services, void shields. Love it all. I was just was commenting on the lack of sound weapons in modern sci-fi. 👍❤️😸
What a wounderfull model. And the weapon is every bit as devastating as it should be. I’ve played a large ca. 8000 point game against a friend of mine on TTS. I had two of these things and is was insane. In the first shooting phase I disrupted and annihilated a 3rd of his army.
Addendum: where I talk about the sci-fi influences on the Ulator I was focused on fiction outside the 40K universe. I'd just like to add to this that Ordinatus first appeared in Epic as written by Gav Thorpe in his 1995 White Dwarf article where he described the Ordinatus Mars that is armed with a colossal sound cannon. The Ulator is an in-universe spiritual successor to this awesome unit. Hope you enjoy the video :)
Edit 23.02.24: another possible design influence here is from the Gozilla films (!) Several of the movies feature a variety of vehicles carrying “maser cannons”. While not sonic weapons like the Ulator, the designs are surprisingly similar with a dish array configuration. In particular, the Type 70 Maser Cannon shares features, including a twin-chassis type set up with a tractor vehicle and weapon carriage:
wikizilla.org/wiki/Type_70_Maser_Cannon
Also of note is how these Godzilla series weapons bear resemblances to the Epic Ordinatus designs of the mid-nineties. Coincidence or a design homage?
Many thanks to viewer @tunguskalumberjack9987 for this info 🙂
I think I might even have that WD in a box somewhere!
@@Mikey__R Very cool! I'd forgotten about it until I was doing some post-production research and found a digital copy online. It's so cool there were 3 Ordinatus of different types: missiles, cannon and sound. Peak 40K IMO.
@@leakycheese Epic had some fantastic stuff released around 2nd ed. The Daemon Engines of the four powers were explored, I think they're also peak 40k: medieval steam punk siege machines powered by a shackled warp entity, what's not to love!
The old Epic scale big models had a bit of height to them as well, which makes sense when everything else was closer to the table. I suppose that wouldn't translate so well to 28mm as they'd be too tall to fit on a bookcase.
I’m glad that it got such a respectable name. Any weapon that fires or produces a wall of sound is in danger of being called the Phil Spector Cannon.
I’ve been struggling to deliver my latest new legion project and I’m starting to think slow burn centrepieces like this are where I spend my twilight years in the hobby..
ah... the asmr of the ulator tracks in first few seconds, truly blessed by the omnissiah
Automatically hitting just one target is already quite a force multiplier. This thing is essentially a flamer template 72" long.
I wonder if this will make it into epic scale?
I’d so love to see the Ordinatus in Epic! It’s the perfect setting for them 🔊
Always Quality reviews. Thanks LeakyCheese
Such an amazing piece
Wow! Big kits!
This is really quite amazing. Huge and detailed!
Lovely model and great review! Since you also have the Aktaeus, do you have the trio of Ordinatus: Sagittar, Ulator, and Aktaeus?
Thank you, glad you enjoyed and yes, what a beast.
So the Ordinatus Sagittar. I've always felt a bit ambivalent towards this vehicle, mainly because it looks like someone just slapped a Belicosa Volcano Cannon on the Ulator chassis. Feels a bit.... unfinished? Maybe it's the look of the weapon, maybe it's because it looks just like the Warlord / Warbringer version.
So no, never bought one (and can't now, I suspect it sold poorly given it's early withdrawl).
That said, I guess one could buy a belicosa and convert it onto the Ulator chassis? Bet it could be magnetised as well!
I know it’s just a fevered pipe dream but as these are clearly 3D printed I hope someday GW sells STLs.
Actually are sonic weapons currently in deployment in various parts of the world. They're 'non-lethal' weapons by classification, so perhaps not in the same ballpark as the sci-fi sort of destructive weapon, but seem to be effective none the less.
They use phased array transducers to be able to shape and focus very low frequencies of sound at very high intensities, and generally target frequencies that resonate in the abdominal cavity of humans, causing extreme pain, nausea, and sometimes loss of bowel control. There has also been research into resonation of the cranial cavity to knock people unconscious (and in fact, a case where a factory next to a chicken farm started causing deaths of the chickens because it hit their cranium's resonant frequency), but I don't think they were getting the same effect, or perhaps were having issues making them non-lethal (or even control whether it's lethal or not).
Some drawbacks are the limited range in air, dispersion, and due to the wave nature, having hot spots and voids in the energy field, just due to the constructive and destructive interactions of the sound waves. I've heard of them being used for riot control, but seems they're seen more use being outfitted on ships for anti-boarding weapons against piracy along the African coast and whatnot.
One could imagine better control of the frequencies and phase of the energy modulating rapidly to avoid some of these spotty energy fields, and use of multiple, much higher frequencies (into the ultrasound and above) to destroy harder targets. As some of the new tech into understanding wave mechanics and meta-materials advances, this may become more and more doable (as would armor against sonic weapons).
That’s interesting background on real-world, thanks dor sharing 👍
@@leakycheese I've lead a meandering life that has filled my head with a weird variety of technical depths in many subjects. Glad it was helpful! Share it as your random useless fact of the day if you need one!
welll you have a GREAT MMXXIV and tune in to nest vid the painting of
Happy New Year to you as well 👍
I thought that would be a lot smaller then it is
I'm hoping at some point we get a Legions Imperialis version so I can take one to a game without needing a suitcase.
I love that ridiculous model. It just looks amazing. I think the reason sonic weapons have dropped from sci-fi is, boring really, sci-fans tend to have an understanding of physics and sonic weapons just aren’t viable. lol.
The idea of an atomic bomb was unimaginable to someone who fought in the 1853 Crimean War, yet less than 100 years later it was a reality. One of 40K’s strengths as a setting is never tries to explain the tech on the basis it’s too advanced from our modern understanding and that in-universe there is a lot of technological ignorance.
@@leakycheese lol. Absolutely. Conversion beamers, magnetic containment of plasma, multimelta, battle services, void shields. Love it all. I was just was commenting on the lack of sound weapons in modern sci-fi. 👍❤️😸
For the amount of money they are charging the finish quality can be abysmal.
Can be.
Comes with the territory of large resin models Kharmazov. I've not seen one manufacturer at vehicle scale who produces issue-free models.
What a wounderfull model. And the weapon is every bit as devastating as it should be. I’ve played a large ca. 8000 point game against a friend of mine on TTS.
I had two of these things and is was insane. In the first shooting phase I disrupted and annihilated a 3rd of his army.
it would be awesome to see a chaos warhound or something with this giant sonic cannon. imagine that thing singing the song of slaanesh!
Oh now that’s an amazing idea! Especially if they do a full-size Dire Wolf…. stick a sonic destructor on it’s back mount 🔊
Nice vehicle wow 👌
Happy new year Mr. Cheese!!!
Happy New Year Mike!