A second trailer for
Swarm on the Somme:
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Black background. Silent ambient music. Muffled sounds of a WWI battlefield, with human voices and strange shrieks and roars heard. White letters start to appear.
For millennia, they tore their way across the Orion Arm. Swarms of quintillions, from which planet nobody knew nor cared, ravaged their way across solar systems. Even technologically advanced races buckled under the sheer numbers and abilities they possessed. Some choose to ally, trying to postpone the swarm as it carried on rampaging.
Fade to black, new letters:
And now...
Quick montage of black and white photos showcasing the damage done by the Grex in the first few weeks of their invasion. Dark blobs growing over Siberia, the western front, California and Australia on a vintage WWI era map.
...in 1915 AD...
Ominous black and white photos of the regions destroyed by the Grex, human soldiers desperately fighting the black alien monsters, but getting ripped to shreds or eaten.
...it is our world that caught their hungry eye...
Sudden quiet and fade to black. Sudden cut, the intro of Iron Maiden's
The Trooper starts playing in the background, while a quick montage shows the soldiers, civilians, scientists and politicians of the Entente and the Central Powers preparing new plans, tech and materials for a counter-offensive. Soldiers of various races and nationalities seen fighting the Grex together, side-by-side.
Now humanity must overcome its differences...
The last shot of the montage shows the German and Austro-Hungarian high command shaking hands with the British and French commander-in-chiefs and prime minsters.
...and fight to the last man !
Series of quick cuts. French soldier (sighing):
"Merde..."
British soldier (screaming):
"Roaches !"
German soldier:
"Schaben !"
Russian soldier:
"Zhuki !"
Japanese soldiers heard excitedly shouting
"Oni ! Oni !" in the background, while a Japanese lieutenant comes charging toward the camera, katana drawn, screaming:
"Banzaiiiiii !!!"
Machine guns clicking, gigantic swarms of Grex warriors rushing towards entrenchments, cannons firing, roaring Bombardier beetles replying with their own salvos.
The Trooper lyrics kicking in (though in a slightly altered form):
You'll take my life but I'll take your's too...
French soldier getting impaled by a warrior, but managing to shove a handful of grenades into its maw.
You'll fire a musket...
Warrior shooting soldiers with a rifle fused to his side.
...but I'll run you through...
The warrior gets squished by a tank rolling into action and exchanging fire with the Grex.
So when you're waiting for the next attack...
Scared squad of soldiers in a ruined and besieged town, the ground underneath them suddenly errupting with a new Grex onslaught.
...you'd better stand, there's no turning back.
A fallen soldier quickly stands up, grabs his rifle and empties a few bullets into the face of an approaching Grex.
The bugle sounds as the attack begins...
Troops climbing out of the trenches and fighting the assaulting Grex with flamethrowers, swords, shovels, bayoneted rifles and gunfire.
...but on this battlefield no one wins...
Roaches tearing soldiers to bits and gunning them down, but immediately afterward getting blown up by artillery fire and burned by parafin bombs. A Bombardier shooting buildings and tanks to bits, but exploding after getting hit by a salvo of heavy artillery combined with bombs from zeppelins and bombers.
The smell of acrid smoke...
Burning buildings and destroyed military equipment, dark ominous smoke over the frontlines.
...and horses breath...
The Rough Riders and Russian cossacks charging bravely against a Grex rush.
...as you plunge into a certain death...
A frightened and weaponless soldier falling to the ground, turning around and screaming in terror as the darkness of a Grex maw fills the screen.
The horse he sweats with fear...
A few Rough Riders and cossacks falling to the ground after their horses are shot to death by Grex spines.
...we break and run...
Frantically retreating infantry with Grex in tow...
The mighty roar of the Roaches' guns...
A Bombardier fires a massive organic round while appropriately roaring to itself.
And as they race towards the human wall...
Shot from a first-person perspective of a Grex chasing and pouncing on a soldier retreating to his buddies in the trenches.
...the screams of pain as my comrades fall...
A pale shell-shocked soldier lying at the bottom of a trench with a blank stare on his face, while Grex warriors are killing his platoon.
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground...
Both human and Grex soldiers charging each other over the rotting remains of their former co-fighters.
And as the Roaches fire another round...
Organic bullets impaling, mutating or blowing up unfortunate soldiers.
We get so near, yet so far away...
A biplane nearly managing to shoot down a Stingwraith, but it turns invisible in the nick of time and we see the pilot visibly cursing.
We won't live to fight another day...
Tank torn appart by a swarm, the last surviving member of its crew grins insanely and unpins a grenade, laughing at it. Cue outside shot of tank exploding and killing the Grex, with the crews of other nearby tanks visibly sullen about the loss.
We get so close...
Troops fast advancing on surprisingly retreating Grex.
...so near to fight...
Soldiers "fencing" with Grex and impaling them with swords and bayonets.
...when a Roach gets me in his sights...
A soldier suddenly becoming petrified and dropping his rifle, slowly moving his eyes to the left, where a Stingwraith materialises.
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow...
Rifle fused to the side shooting an organic round that punctures a soldiers shoulder.
A burst of rounds takes my horse below...
A Rough Rider guns down several Grex with his rifle, but his horse gets killed by the fired spines. The RR is surrounded. He just shruggs phlegmatically and quickly lights a Teddy tonic.
And as I lay there gazing at the sky...
The pale soldier lying in the trench again, the shot zooming away from his face upward, revealing a trench almost completely overrun by Roaches, closing in on the spot where he lies.
My body's numb and my throat is dry...
Deckard shooting Big Ed straight in the face with a shotgun, then rubbing his scarred arm and pulling a bottle of gin out of his pocket.
And as I lay forgotten and alone...
The Austro-Hungarian soldier that got close to the hive lying trembling in horror in an infested trench.
Without a tear I draw my parting groan...
Barbed-wire-like vines erupt from the mud, entangle the Austro-Hungarian and start pulling him beneath. The last to disappear is his face, bareing a sad expression.
Lyrics and vocals fade away, along with the montage of action scenes.
Fade to black, then sudden cut.
Stalin shooting a Grex with his semi-automatic rifle and grinning at Zhukov:
"Hey, Zhukov ! Hope I didn't shoot your mother !"
Shot of Zhukov and Kemal groaning in an irritated fashion and shaking their heads.
Beat.
Cut to black background and big white letters:
SWARM ON THE SOMME
COMING JANUARY 2015
