God I love 40k. Talking about it is like asking a 6 y/o about a superhero they made up. "And then he's 9ft tall. And then he has a Big gun and then the big gun shoots rockets and then this is his laser gun and this is his bigger laser gun.." It's so stupid and awesome.
I love Volkite weapons. Not just are they a stand out between all other weapons like plasma and melta but the idea of Pointing at someone and hitting them with the *FUCK YOU* laser and then you cook them with microwave beam and blow them up internally is basically how the BFG 9000 from DOOM works. Also fun lore tidbit; apparently Volkite weapons used to be the standard Space Marine weapon before Bolters replaced them since they were not just easier to produce but also easier to maintain and weren't as specialized. Volkite is still one of my favorite things and I think its a shame they are considered *30k* only weapon.
volkites fuckin rule. after a lengthy and unneccessary discussion/research effort on a large 30k discord, the conclusion was that volkite weaponry is an umbrella term for their shared mechanism of destruction: high-intensity radiation blast that cooks matter so quickly and thoroughly that when you combust the area in space formerly known as you the heat and pressure given off is enough to also cook your friends standing too close. They were difficult to mass-produce because even during the golden age of the great crusade and the emperor the mechanicum never fully understood the mechanisms that made it tick and so had to rely on miming the DAoT processes to make them instead of being able to re-engineering a production process more suited to their time. Thus, the bolter rises to power, and the volkite only became more rare and esoteric over 10k years of the imperium becoming shit. Which is why the few kicking around are reserved for Captains and the like. Volkites are like a tiny peek into the horrific capabilities of the DAoT.
@@lurkingedge Cawl Big Tech-Heresy bought along some Neo-Volkite weapons. Mechanicus can maintain their weapons better than anyone else in the Imperium.
I think it's more the Volkite Caliver was initially trailed/intended as a replacement service weapon for a Legionary but the idea had to be abandoned, akin to how Tartaros Terminator armour was also intended to be standard issue. The Bolter has a longer service history as the Emperor's black rifle, it was used by the Thunder Warriors.
Personally I love the lightning claws, something about a post human in tons of f*ck off armor running at you with the claws of wolverine that are crackling with lightning makes my cave man brain happy.
The Deathwatch Xenophase Blade will always be my favorite Space Marine melee weapon. Something about Space Marines going, "I have no idea what this Necron-sword-thing is or how it works, but it sure cuts good!" and stuffing it on a power-weapon hilt is hilarious to me
You did forget the one Crozius owned by that one Imperial Fists Chaplain that projected psionic melty fire from the sheer awesome power of John Hurt screaming “Die Heretics!”
Very niche I suppose but you did miss the Helfrost weapons used by the space wolves. Their techmarines use the pistol variants which can spew a chemical that freezes people at short range, or can be focused into a bolt for a single long range shot. The weapon is also used on dreadnoughts and vehicles, and personally when the Long Fangs get updated to true scale I want a devastator version to be introduced. It's just so fun as a concept to have an ice cannon
The only reason I can remember imperial/Spess Mehreen weapons is once you get the past the fluff, alot of them are just iterations and or combinations of the same like.......5-8 ideas
It is a similar theme with their vehicles, the Imperium would be screwed if they ever lost the technology to make the Rhino and Chimera vehicle chassis.
@@nick0875 dont think that would be possible a sector maybe would lose the tech but theyd just get replacement tech from other sectors hell you’ll probably find that tech on a knight world
Sometimes it's not even helpful😂. Like the 320 works so much better by itself but some units insist on attaching it to the m4. It just makes both harder to use in my experience.
I think if you have an underslung gun on a powerfist, and any part of the gun comes out past the knuckles of the powerfist, you no longer have a powerfist, you have a really big glove because youre not really gonna be punching things with that powerfist if your gun barrel pokes out beyond that not unless youre ok with destroying your gun the first time you use your powerfist thats really just an art+model complaint though I think, the lore probably has it so that its functionally built
3:35 - The concept of combining melee and ranged weaponry is actually a fairly old one, and in execution can either lead to pretty decent weapons, or pretty bad weapons. The most well-known combo is the bayonet and long gun. Stick a dagger/knife on the end of a gun muzzle, and you get a very short spear. Of course, having the bayonet attached does result in it weighing down your aim, so it's not a great idea to have it attached at all times, so there's an excuse to make the set-up function as either a knife and a gun, or as a gun-spear that's less maneuverable and has worse aim. Other concepts include the pistol sword (think AC Black Flag), which basically just a worse sword and worse pistol, and the better gun-axe (for how little it's featured in media, it was actually a fairly well-used weapon in Poland) which had the head of an axe on the muzzle, so you could fire, and then immediately get to chopping, but of course, it had the downside of being basically an arrangement as basically a permanently-attached bayonet. Another lesser-known combo is the Katar Pistol, which was a katar (a punching dagger) with small pistols attached on either side. Of course, the Power Fist, for as powerful as it is, isn't perfect. Having a gun attached to it is actually a logical decision. Force Weapons have the added benefit of being more effective against daemons, at least in lore. Basically, seeing as daemons are made of nightmares and emotions, physical weapons have little effect on them. So having a psychic weapon means that now the psyker can cut the emotion daemon with their own emotions and logical capabilities. Indeed, Ordo Malleus inquisitors are known to have a psyker on-hand to basically charge force weapons which the inquisitors themselves would then use to fight daemons.
The biggest heresy is that Astartes don't have their own enlarged lasguns. They, paratroopers on steroids designed to operate without food or sleep for 2-4 weeks after deployment, don't have a version of a weapon specifically designed to not run out of ammo over prolonged periods of time. Better yet, make se sort of backup PDW that is combination of IG Hellgun/Hotshot. Bonus points if you make it look like P90. Ran out of bolter ammo? Whip out that thing from holster.
As a big Dark Angel player, i do looove plasma weapons, especially the new plasma incinerators. And the fact that u can surcharge them at the risk of your own life to be assured of doing your job is a pretty dedicated act.
My absolute favorite weapon is the classic Bolter. The idea that Space Marines carry around rifles that shoot the equivalent of grenades as their STANDARD weapon is mind-boggling to me.
I like Force weapons because the psyker is channeling the powers of another dimension into the weapon and in the 40k RPGs they can be broken because when you deal damage with them your psyker has a chance to increase the amount of damage done via their mental strength channeling the Warp into their opponent via the Force Weapon. This gives your Librarian/Sorcerer/Primaris Psyker the chance to become melee demigods if you build towards that, surpassing what the dedicated close combat classes can do.
I always felt that THQ's Warhammer 40k: Space Marine game had the best representation of a Space Marine shotgun I've ever seen. And it was actually a melta gun that fulfilled this role. Truly operated like a shotgun. Cone shaped discharge of melta fueled fuck you that could one shot most enemies provided you were both close enough to the target, and had done enough previous damage to them. I've always felt like turning the melta gun into a plasma shotgun would be the best way to introduce a real shotgun type weapon to the Space Marine forces. GW could even simply just give the meltagun a second firing profile that operates more like the melta gun in THQ's Warhammer 40k: Space Marine game. I'm with you brother. Space Marines and shotgun go hand-in-hand and the fact that there isn't more attention paid to this is criminal. You should check out the way the melta gun is used in the gam it's really pretty cool.
Could have mentioned that guillimans hand of dominion is a power fist with a heavy bolter with the firerate of a regular one but thats mega specific. In short cool vid cant wait for more. Im a bolter guy myself but i do enjoy overcharching my plasmas and make heavy infantry or even tanks go away.
Oh... Hello. *cue Matrix scene* Neo: "We need guns. Lots of guns" You are slowly pushing me to plastic crack. League's of Votann and Alpha Legion memes! Just because a family member plans Mechanicus. And just perfectly describe my relationship around them and how the squats act around some others.
I remember my biggest frustration with Primaris for a long time was that outside Hellblasters and those silly autocannon jump pack guys, all the infantry just dudes with slightly different boltguns. Even squads that could take other types of weapons like Aggressors and Inceptors could still take boltguns. Even Reivers, a supposedly melee oriented unit, could trade out for boltguns. It was so aggrevating and boring. Really can't understate how much the Indomitus box set and subsequent range release saved Primaris for me.
Plasma weapons, all of them, they are my favourite type of weapons. grew up playing the hell out of Halo and always loved the Covenant plasma weapons. When I eventually got into 40k and found the knightly aesthetic of the Dark Angels and their heavy use of Plasma I knew I found my faction.
As a Mega Lore Nerd who can&will Nitpick the shit out of Lore Videos when I get bored....you did a pretty fucking good job. Didn't go into as much detail as I would have but you explained everything pretty accurately and didn't miss any Normie Astartes Infantry Weapons.....and I tend to go into a bit too much detail lol. I rate this Video a firm 10/10. Also you have great taste in Background Music.
I just started getting into Warhammer lore 6 months ago and have a few books of the horus heresy, and I just gotta say i love your videos and you have a new loyal subscriber man
I know I'm really late, but you missed my favorite part about the heavy bolter; It doesn't have a firing pin. It uses electrical pulses to fire the shells at a higher rate than a firing pin and spring could ever hope to reach
Never heard of the Conversion Beamer, but I'll have to add it to my top picks. My FAVORITE of all these is hard, but I do like the Melta and the Power Fist. Been waiting for a video discussing all the Space Marine weapons that has a little soul to it!
Way back when, shotgun used the template (the flamer one) when firing to represent the spread. GW got rid of that and gave them Assault 2 instead. Probably the greatest act of heresy GW has ever committed, as you do not mess with a good shotgun design. Favorite weapon... Black Hole Grenade. Tanks, Titans, infantry, can all be killed or destroyed. But not a black hole doing a walkabout across the battlefield with the power to destroy anything. Best part is that anyone can carry one
Trust me,a video about every pattern of bolt gun ain't silly,we fellow War hammer 40K fans would love a video like that no🧢,YT got only one vid with 200k views
I love the bolter for it is what a marine SHOULD need for most duties and it is a brutal weapon, never done any justice in any 40k media to this day. I love the chain weapons because something about revving a chain weapon inside any of the monsters in 40k makes my mingles tinkle. They may be impractical, they may loose teeth a lot, it might be a chore to align the edge perfectly each swing etc etc BUT if a chainblade is revving inside you, it doesn't matter what you are, you are most likely dying very soon because a lot of your vitals are now like a milkshake. As much as i adore the higher end of Spehs Mahreen weaponry, the standard bolter and a standard chainsword will always have a special place in my heart 😂
I'm an iron warriors fan, any heavy weapons tickles my brain just right... So yes... Chain bolters, chain cannons, heavy stubbers, any sort of siege weapons that the IW have? I'm a sucker for those.
You make a convincing argument for the laz cannon, however the power hammer, heavy flamer, chain swords, and power fists (yes especially the under slung weapon variants) are my favorite. honorable mentions are the assult cannon and deamon engines.
Escaton power claw is a good melee winner, but id love a deathwatch heavy thunderhammer. Love the heavy evil weapons like a plasma cannon. In fact i have a small deathwatch force with 10 terminators 3 with assault cannons and 3 plasma cannons
I flashbacked to the first time a Mushroom Man in Dark Souls punched out all of my blood... and my skeleton... good artwork btw. I think Power swords are my favorite melee weapon, my biggest sci fi influence is definitely Star Wars so anything that scratches my itch for lightsabers is awesome. The most of 40k I've actually experienced was playing Battlesector, so I didn't really know what Melta Guns were. I just knew the bigger Tyranids didn't like getting shot with them. I also learned from Battlesector that I love charging in with Assault Squads. Everything dies if you bring enough buffed up Blood Angels with chainswords.
Oh thank god you covered Volkite, maybe i'm just dumb but i spent like an hour trying to figure out what the hell they actually do to someone. If i have to hear the term deflagration one more god damned time... But wait no Needlers????? No Needlers?!?
I haven't heard before someone actually describe what a melta gun is and my God, it really does describe the setting considering the fact that they would give the imperial guard these things en mass for heavy weapons squads if it was not so hard to produce it
I wish autocannons had a space marine version, i just love autocannons so much, 75mm gun firing almost as fast as a slow automatic shotgun, but being a fucking 75mm cannon and capable of penetrating the armor of a tank
I don't know if this qualifies, but there's also the Narthecium carried by apothecaires. It's a big drill used for extracting geneseed from downed marines. I don't think I've heard or read anything about apothecaries using it as a melee weapon, but they probably could.
The conversion cannon... beam... Gun? Thing is legit nightmare fuel from a physics stand point. They found a way to convert matter to energy and weaponized it. That's insane and means NOTHING would be effective armor against it and every molecule of air the beam hits just adds more energy to the beam as it heads your way. That has to be something from the golden age of Mankind.
there technically is several steps in between but weirdly enough they are either only on specific vehicles or used by the guard like the next steps up from the las gun is the hotshot lasgun, or the hellgun. but the middle step between both would likely be the Multi las? it's only on guard vehicles. but it's a light anti-vehicle weapon
Combi weapons gotta be my favorite especially very unique melee weapons used by Chapter Masters, Custodes, and Primarchs like Storm's Teeth, The Gauntlets of Ultramar, Custodian Power Spears, Custodian Power Swords, and Hunger/Slake
My fave is hands down Vulkite culverins. I love all variants of vulkite tbh but my god a heavy support squad with Vulkite culverins and an Armistos is just chefs kiss in heresy
Salamanders player here or I was, melta all the way there is no problem that a melta can not solve if problem persists apply additional melta to problem until it solves itself
I really like the power fist and flamers- but fist because look cool Because in the darkness of the 41st millennium, among psykers and gods, I cast the spell any simpleton knows with the effective strength of Zeus: *I CAST FIST*
The Adeptus also have phased plasma rifles which don't have the chance to explode. They were the prior better version of the plasma rifle used most commonly.
Technically speaking a close range bolt impact would do a little more damage than a long range bolt impact. Since at close range the detonation of the bolt’s explosive charge would also set off all the unused rocket propellant in the bolt, while at longer ranges it would be just the explosive charge doing its thing alone
Grav gun on a vehicle is essentially the “crack torsion bar” spell. Mobility kill at least. And really how many times its design weight are turret rings supposed to handle? And if the human loader or mechanical autoloader was moving a shell when it gets hit that’s prolly gonna break.
Any chains weapons or fire based weapons like flamer, Melta, or volkite are all i specifically use if I have a choice. The volkite, infernus, and heavy bolt pistols are my favorite since these awesome pistols goes very well with melee. I don’t like the usual tactical space marine squad weapons and armor but the Horus heresy Phobos bolters are great and the new heavy bolt pistols are great for regular troop like my assault intercessors.
In the fairly new Warhammer 40k video game Boltgun, the Astartes Shotgun is in fact strong enough to end a Space Marine, as well as pretty much everything else.
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God I love 40k. Talking about it is like asking a 6 y/o about a superhero they made up. "And then he's 9ft tall. And then he has a Big gun and then the big gun shoots rockets and then this is his laser gun and this is his bigger laser gun.." It's so stupid and awesome.
AND THE CHAPTER MASTERS HAVE IRON HALOS WICH CAN BLOCK THE UNBLOCKABLE LASERGUN!!!
I mean hey, if you're going to have superstrength you may as well use it to carry some superguns
Yea but have you seen the biggest laser gun?
The acid spitting and brain-eating definitely fall into this sort of thinking
@@ijustreviewnah brain eating is asking the edgy 14 yo about their oc
I love Volkite weapons. Not just are they a stand out between all other weapons like plasma and melta but the idea of Pointing at someone and hitting them with the *FUCK YOU* laser and then you cook them with microwave beam and blow them up internally is basically how the BFG 9000 from DOOM works.
Also fun lore tidbit; apparently Volkite weapons used to be the standard Space Marine weapon before Bolters replaced them since they were not just easier to produce but also easier to maintain and weren't as specialized. Volkite is still one of my favorite things and I think its a shame they are considered *30k* only weapon.
volkites fuckin rule. after a lengthy and unneccessary discussion/research effort on a large 30k discord, the conclusion was that volkite weaponry is an umbrella term for their shared mechanism of destruction: high-intensity radiation blast that cooks matter so quickly and thoroughly that when you combust the area in space formerly known as you the heat and pressure given off is enough to also cook your friends standing too close. They were difficult to mass-produce because even during the golden age of the great crusade and the emperor the mechanicum never fully understood the mechanisms that made it tick and so had to rely on miming the DAoT processes to make them instead of being able to re-engineering a production process more suited to their time. Thus, the bolter rises to power, and the volkite only became more rare and esoteric over 10k years of the imperium becoming shit. Which is why the few kicking around are reserved for Captains and the like. Volkites are like a tiny peek into the horrific capabilities of the DAoT.
At least we have Neo-Volkite.
Aren't there a couple volkite Dreadnought weapons in 40k? And I thought certain Tech Priests could also take a Volkite weapon.
@@lurkingedge Cawl Big Tech-Heresy bought along some Neo-Volkite weapons. Mechanicus can maintain their weapons better than anyone else in the Imperium.
I think it's more the Volkite Caliver was initially trailed/intended as a replacement service weapon for a Legionary but the idea had to be abandoned, akin to how Tartaros Terminator armour was also intended to be standard issue. The Bolter has a longer service history as the Emperor's black rifle, it was used by the Thunder Warriors.
Personally I love the lightning claws, something about a post human in tons of f*ck off armor running at you with the claws of wolverine that are crackling with lightning makes my cave man brain happy.
I prefer power fists but, that's extremely valid
"Watch me turn this guardsman into 5 guardsmen." - Night Lord, Talius Blood Night.
@@ZW-ps5fg definitely more of a wolverine fan I just like simplicity of "I cast fist"
@@Scrombo2 "I cast fist...on your face."
@@ZW-ps5fg my fave combo has to be storm shield and big punchy melee weapon.....and then maybe one squad of dudes with big guns
I gotta say, I love flamers the best... Vulkan lives!
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The Deathwatch Xenophase Blade will always be my favorite Space Marine melee weapon. Something about Space Marines going, "I have no idea what this Necron-sword-thing is or how it works, but it sure cuts good!" and stuffing it on a power-weapon hilt is hilarious to me
It really has that Ork-style energy of "I dun know or care how it workz. Itz great fer killin' beakies!"
I think if you tried to attack a C'tan with that sword they would probably absorb it as if a part of their own self.
In older editions that literally happened as part of the rules.
@@nadaningunos9339 Happened with Callidus Assassin M'Shen when assassinating a governor that was actually a C'tan Shard
Space marines wepons are just, "we hate this what is the biggest we can strap to a marine with a stabilizing rack"
Next, you must do Ork weapons, as they have some terrifyingly random stuff that does horrible things.
Best dakka is ork dakka 😊
You did forget the one Crozius owned by that one Imperial Fists Chaplain that projected psionic melty fire from the sheer awesome power of John Hurt screaming “Die Heretics!”
It also stoped chaos marines in place for a few moments
Very niche I suppose but you did miss the Helfrost weapons used by the space wolves. Their techmarines use the pistol variants which can spew a chemical that freezes people at short range, or can be focused into a bolt for a single long range shot. The weapon is also used on dreadnoughts and vehicles, and personally when the Long Fangs get updated to true scale I want a devastator version to be introduced. It's just so fun as a concept to have an ice cannon
What’s the name of the “freeze gun” you mentioned? Sounds neat.
The only reason I can remember imperial/Spess Mehreen weapons is once you get the past the fluff, alot of them are just iterations and or combinations of the same like.......5-8 ideas
It is a similar theme with their vehicles, the Imperium would be screwed if they ever lost the technology to make the Rhino and Chimera vehicle chassis.
@@nick0875 with a few exceptions (that no one ever plays/talks about cause they suck or are FW exclusive) exactly
@@nick0875 dont think that would be possible a sector maybe would lose the tech but theyd just get replacement tech from other sectors hell you’ll probably find that tech on a knight world
bruh dont be so hard on the imperium duck taping guns together. we also do it too, we duct tape grenade launchers and shotguns to rifles
If Ripley did it, it can not be wrong.
Sometimes it's not even helpful😂. Like the 320 works so much better by itself but some units insist on attaching it to the m4. It just makes both harder to use in my experience.
I think if you have an underslung gun on a powerfist, and any part of the gun comes out past the knuckles of the powerfist, you no longer have a powerfist, you have a really big glove
because youre not really gonna be punching things with that powerfist if your gun barrel pokes out beyond that
not unless youre ok with destroying your gun the first time you use your powerfist
thats really just an art+model complaint though I think, the lore probably has it so that its functionally built
3:35 - The concept of combining melee and ranged weaponry is actually a fairly old one, and in execution can either lead to pretty decent weapons, or pretty bad weapons. The most well-known combo is the bayonet and long gun. Stick a dagger/knife on the end of a gun muzzle, and you get a very short spear. Of course, having the bayonet attached does result in it weighing down your aim, so it's not a great idea to have it attached at all times, so there's an excuse to make the set-up function as either a knife and a gun, or as a gun-spear that's less maneuverable and has worse aim. Other concepts include the pistol sword (think AC Black Flag), which basically just a worse sword and worse pistol, and the better gun-axe (for how little it's featured in media, it was actually a fairly well-used weapon in Poland) which had the head of an axe on the muzzle, so you could fire, and then immediately get to chopping, but of course, it had the downside of being basically an arrangement as basically a permanently-attached bayonet. Another lesser-known combo is the Katar Pistol, which was a katar (a punching dagger) with small pistols attached on either side. Of course, the Power Fist, for as powerful as it is, isn't perfect. Having a gun attached to it is actually a logical decision.
Force Weapons have the added benefit of being more effective against daemons, at least in lore. Basically, seeing as daemons are made of nightmares and emotions, physical weapons have little effect on them. So having a psychic weapon means that now the psyker can cut the emotion daemon with their own emotions and logical capabilities. Indeed, Ordo Malleus inquisitors are known to have a psyker on-hand to basically charge force weapons which the inquisitors themselves would then use to fight daemons.
The biggest heresy is that Astartes don't have their own enlarged lasguns. They, paratroopers on steroids designed to operate without food or sleep for 2-4 weeks after deployment, don't have a version of a weapon specifically designed to not run out of ammo over prolonged periods of time. Better yet, make se sort of backup PDW that is combination of IG Hellgun/Hotshot. Bonus points if you make it look like P90. Ran out of bolter ammo? Whip out that thing from holster.
They kinda do in the Las Fusil Sniper rifles that he missed.
@@MCNshot2shot its a sniper
As a big Dark Angel player, i do looove plasma weapons, especially the new plasma incinerators. And the fact that u can surcharge them at the risk of your own life to be assured of doing your job is a pretty dedicated act.
Yes brother the emperor blessed our legion with coolest looking and more stable plasma weaponry
My absolute favorite weapon is the classic Bolter.
The idea that Space Marines carry around rifles that shoot the equivalent of grenades as their STANDARD weapon is mind-boggling to me.
I like Force weapons because the psyker is channeling the powers of another dimension into the weapon and in the 40k RPGs they can be broken because when you deal damage with them your psyker has a chance to increase the amount of damage done via their mental strength channeling the Warp into their opponent via the Force Weapon. This gives your Librarian/Sorcerer/Primaris Psyker the chance to become melee demigods if you build towards that, surpassing what the dedicated close combat classes can do.
The heavy bolter, that is the best , easy , classic , beautiful, chonk, dakka, everyone loves it
The classic boltgun pattern is downright iconic. The bolt rifle is cool but it simply isn't bulky like the OG.
As a shotgun enthusiast I really wish space marines used them more often or at least they be seen more often, both model wise and just in general
I always felt that THQ's Warhammer 40k: Space Marine game had the best representation of a Space Marine shotgun I've ever seen.
And it was actually a melta gun that fulfilled this role.
Truly operated like a shotgun. Cone shaped discharge of melta fueled fuck you that could one shot most enemies provided you were both close enough to the target, and had done enough previous damage to them.
I've always felt like turning the melta gun into a plasma shotgun would be the best way to introduce a real shotgun type weapon to the Space Marine forces.
GW could even simply just give the meltagun a second firing profile that operates more like the melta gun in THQ's Warhammer 40k: Space Marine game.
I'm with you brother. Space Marines and shotgun go hand-in-hand and the fact that there isn't more attention paid to this is criminal.
You should check out the way the melta gun is used in the gam it's really pretty cool.
Black Templar initiates
Could have mentioned that guillimans hand of dominion is a power fist with a heavy bolter with the firerate of a regular one but thats mega specific.
In short cool vid cant wait for more.
Im a bolter guy myself but i do enjoy overcharching my plasmas and make heavy infantry or even tanks go away.
Oh... Hello. *cue Matrix scene*
Neo: "We need guns. Lots of guns"
You are slowly pushing me to plastic crack. League's of Votann and Alpha Legion memes! Just because a family member plans Mechanicus. And just perfectly describe my relationship around them and how the squats act around some others.
I remember my biggest frustration with Primaris for a long time was that outside Hellblasters and those silly autocannon jump pack guys, all the infantry just dudes with slightly different boltguns. Even squads that could take other types of weapons like Aggressors and Inceptors could still take boltguns. Even Reivers, a supposedly melee oriented unit, could trade out for boltguns. It was so aggrevating and boring. Really can't understate how much the Indomitus box set and subsequent range release saved Primaris for me.
You forgot the power folding chair.
Man, starting with your content so early in the day is a great start to a poorly started day. Thank for being around man.
Plasma weapons, all of them, they are my favourite type of weapons. grew up playing the hell out of Halo and always loved the Covenant plasma weapons. When I eventually got into 40k and found the knightly aesthetic of the Dark Angels and their heavy use of Plasma I knew I found my faction.
HEAVY BOLTER FROM SPACE MARINE 1! THAT FUCKING SOUND!!!
Grav is probably my favorite special weapon class. Why? Simple: haha space marine go *unbelievably loud cracking and crunching sounds*
I love the deatwatch frag canon basically a huge automatique grenade launcher
As a Mega Lore Nerd who can&will Nitpick the shit out of Lore Videos when I get bored....you did a pretty fucking good job. Didn't go into as much detail as I would have but you explained everything pretty accurately and didn't miss any Normie Astartes Infantry Weapons.....and I tend to go into a bit too much detail lol.
I rate this Video a firm 10/10. Also you have great taste in Background Music.
I gotta say, i didn't find you to long ago, but damn is that "eeeh... Hi!" a pleasure to hear.
And the slowly more insane rambling towards the end.
I just started getting into Warhammer lore 6 months ago and have a few books of the horus heresy, and I just gotta say i love your videos and you have a new loyal subscriber man
Little known fact to horrify people even further:
There are Volkites that are so big they come mounted on Titans and Starships ... Yea.
I know I'm really late, but you missed my favorite part about the heavy bolter; It doesn't have a firing pin. It uses electrical pulses to fire the shells at a higher rate than a firing pin and spring could ever hope to reach
Recently started playing Space Marine and discovered how much I love the Thunder Hammer. Your description of it sums it up perfectly!
Never heard of the Conversion Beamer, but I'll have to add it to my top picks. My FAVORITE of all these is hard, but I do like the Melta and the Power Fist.
Been waiting for a video discussing all the Space Marine weapons that has a little soul to it!
Idk .75 cal for a space marine sized Bolter seems small, like I could see that for a guardsmen. The muzzle looks like it’s for a 40 mm.
I honestly love the combi-weapons cause of how goofy but fun they can be. At least in 9th edition, in 10th they’re eh.
Meltagun: what are you gonna do? Make it an anti titan weapon?
Volcano Cannon: am i a joke to you?
I'm a Vengeance Launcher guy myself, i mean, in what other universe you can shoot enemies with VENGEANCE!
Way back when, shotgun used the template (the flamer one) when firing to represent the spread. GW got rid of that and gave them Assault 2 instead. Probably the greatest act of heresy GW has ever committed, as you do not mess with a good shotgun design.
Favorite weapon... Black Hole Grenade. Tanks, Titans, infantry, can all be killed or destroyed. But not a black hole doing a walkabout across the battlefield with the power to destroy anything. Best part is that anyone can carry one
Trust me,a video about every pattern of bolt gun ain't silly,we fellow War hammer 40K fans would love a video like that no🧢,YT got only one vid with 200k views
Okay, Arthur- you made magic happen because never have I ever just looked at a 40k weapon and began to laugh audibly until you showed the launchers.
reaper chaincannons are more a spacemarineweapon then any of the gimmicks the newmarines carry around
I’m a bolter shooty mcbangbang kinda guy
I love the bolter for it is what a marine SHOULD need for most duties and it is a brutal weapon, never done any justice in any 40k media to this day.
I love the chain weapons because something about revving a chain weapon inside any of the monsters in 40k makes my mingles tinkle. They may be impractical, they may loose teeth a lot, it might be a chore to align the edge perfectly each swing etc etc BUT if a chainblade is revving inside you, it doesn't matter what you are, you are most likely dying very soon because a lot of your vitals are now like a milkshake.
As much as i adore the higher end of Spehs Mahreen weaponry, the standard bolter and a standard chainsword will always have a special place in my heart 😂
Bro gotta say love the work you do explaining the 40k universe
I'm an iron warriors fan, any heavy weapons tickles my brain just right... So yes... Chain bolters, chain cannons, heavy stubbers, any sort of siege weapons that the IW have? I'm a sucker for those.
Agreed, there is nothing better than the visceral thud of heavy bolter/autocannon fire.
I like to kitbash and even create other lore weapons
Like Chain Cleavers, chain Rakes, power Spears
And give them to my Marine Boys
Fell in love with the heavy bolter after playing boltgun 😍😍
You make a convincing argument for the laz cannon, however the power hammer, heavy flamer, chain swords, and power fists (yes especially the under slung weapon variants) are my favorite. honorable mentions are the assult cannon and deamon engines.
Escaton power claw is a good melee winner, but id love a deathwatch heavy thunderhammer. Love the heavy evil weapons like a plasma cannon. In fact i have a small deathwatch force with 10 terminators 3 with assault cannons and 3 plasma cannons
Last I checked the multi-melta doubled the range of a meltagun, not rate of fire.
i WISH, hope and pray these weapons make it into Space Marine 2
I flashbacked to the first time a Mushroom Man in Dark Souls punched out all of my blood... and my skeleton... good artwork btw.
I think Power swords are my favorite melee weapon, my biggest sci fi influence is definitely Star Wars so anything that scratches my itch for lightsabers is awesome.
The most of 40k I've actually experienced was playing Battlesector, so I didn't really know what Melta Guns were. I just knew the bigger Tyranids didn't like getting shot with them. I also learned from Battlesector that I love charging in with Assault Squads. Everything dies if you bring enough buffed up Blood Angels with chainswords.
After playing Boltgun, I'd say that the Heavy Bolter is my favorite.
I, personally, am a meltamyballs kind of man
I can respect that
Oh thank god you covered Volkite, maybe i'm just dumb but i spent like an hour trying to figure out what the hell they actually do to someone. If i have to hear the term deflagration one more god damned time...
But wait no Needlers????? No Needlers?!?
Arthur did you get your youtube personality from Diamond City Radio pre mission. Either way, you're doing great. Love the content.
favorite weapons gotta be heavy eviserators/chainaxes
I haven't heard before someone actually describe what a melta gun is and my God, it really does describe the setting considering the fact that they would give the imperial guard these things en mass for heavy weapons squads if it was not so hard to produce it
I prefer to describe them as lightsaber shotguns.
Love a good flamer, really liking the new infernus squads, a great addition to my salamanders
People keep forgetting the eviscerator is a power weapon
I wish autocannons had a space marine version, i just love autocannons so much, 75mm gun firing almost as fast as a slow automatic shotgun, but being a fucking 75mm cannon and capable of penetrating the armor of a tank
I don't know if this qualifies, but there's also the Narthecium carried by apothecaires. It's a big drill used for extracting geneseed from downed marines. I don't think I've heard or read anything about apothecaries using it as a melee weapon, but they probably could.
Oh lord so many weapons and there are still too many things to kill with them
The conversion cannon... beam... Gun? Thing is legit nightmare fuel from a physics stand point. They found a way to convert matter to energy and weaponized it. That's insane and means NOTHING would be effective armor against it and every molecule of air the beam hits just adds more energy to the beam as it heads your way. That has to be something from the golden age of Mankind.
Meltagun is probably my favourite.
Because it´s just a goddamn anti tank shotgun.
Point it at the target and *POOF* only slag is left.
I love power swords and chainaxes because I'm a diehard melee guy. But you can't go wrong with a heavy bolter or a missile launcher.
i wish there was something in between a las gun and a las cannon
there technically is several steps in between
but weirdly enough they are either only on specific vehicles or used by the guard
like the next steps up from the las gun is the hotshot lasgun, or the hellgun.
but the middle step between both would likely be the Multi las? it's only on guard vehicles.
but it's a light anti-vehicle weapon
@@TheBoneZone40k I mean something like a las bolter. Something meant for space marines but below a lascannon. Basically a space marine las gun.
Lighting claws, chain fist, oh and assault cannon
I love the grav gun the idea of using the weight of the enemy against them is so cool, also the lasgun just looks cool
I didn’t know that the assault bolter was a modified heavy bolter,the more you know
Lascannon and thunder hammer appreciator.
I see you too are a man of culture.
>your background music giving me more trauma than any 40k lore ever could
Combi weapons gotta be my favorite
especially very unique melee weapons used by Chapter Masters, Custodes, and Primarchs
like Storm's Teeth, The Gauntlets of Ultramar, Custodian Power Spears, Custodian Power Swords, and Hunger/Slake
Chainswords just look so iconic, such a silly and fun idea for a close combat weapon
My fave is hands down Vulkite culverins. I love all variants of vulkite tbh but my god a heavy support squad with Vulkite culverins and an Armistos is just chefs kiss in heresy
Salamanders player here or I was, melta all the way there is no problem that a melta can not solve if problem persists apply additional melta to problem until it solves itself
I really like the power fist and flamers- but fist because look cool
Because in the darkness of the 41st millennium, among psykers and gods, I cast the spell any simpleton knows with the effective strength of Zeus:
*I CAST FIST*
Okay Marneus Calgar
No Chainglaive mention!!! You are breaking apart, Arthur.
Are they diamond tipped now? They use to be deuterium tipped (and yes, I know that would be liquid at room temperature).
The Adeptus also have phased plasma rifles which don't have the chance to explode. They were the prior better version of the plasma rifle used most commonly.
Since im a grey knight simp, I usually love the Nemesis halberd or the black blade of antwyr
That smirking pic of Perty will never get old. 😂
This was a great video man.
Thunder Hammer, I also really enjoyed your review of these beauties.
Technically speaking a close range bolt impact would do a little more damage than a long range bolt impact. Since at close range the detonation of the bolt’s explosive charge would also set off all the unused rocket propellant in the bolt, while at longer ranges it would be just the explosive charge doing its thing alone
Ive always imagined Vulkite as a beam that makes murder level microwaves on sufficient contact.
Mine would be the Graia pattern Stalker Bolter though I do wish it hit like an anti tank rifle
U Forget the CHAIN AXE
I have to say that the way u always start, a little worn sounding, almost to the point of having a cold really strikes a chord as a Warhammer player.
Grav gun on a vehicle is essentially the “crack torsion bar” spell. Mobility kill at least. And really how many times its design weight are turret rings supposed to handle? And if the human loader or mechanical autoloader was moving a shell when it gets hit that’s prolly gonna break.
I Love salamanders
So flamers and meltas are my cup of tea
Heavy and multi variants as well
VULKAN LIVES
STOMP STOMP
Any chains weapons or fire based weapons like flamer, Melta, or volkite are all i specifically use if I have a choice. The volkite, infernus, and heavy bolt pistols are my favorite since these awesome pistols goes very well with melee. I don’t like the usual tactical space marine squad weapons and armor but the Horus heresy Phobos bolters are great and the new heavy bolt pistols are great for regular troop like my assault intercessors.
In the fairly new Warhammer 40k video game Boltgun, the Astartes Shotgun is in fact strong enough to end a Space Marine, as well as pretty much everything else.
Who said everywhere at the end of time is just valid background music
Lightning claws and plasma guns. Favorite weapons in the space marine arsenal
Jackie Brown is a super underrated movie, I appreciate the reference
Fun fact about phosphex! It *moves* towards targets! Þis fire seems to be sentient and it wants to kill!