Recently we looked at the Death of Knowledge within the Imperium, and while its true that generally mankind has been stuck in a state of unending stagnation for millennia the cogs of the Mechanicus slowly are turning and we see a resurgence in some tech that was assumed no longer able to be produced. This raises some exciting possibilities and more importantly leaves us asking why and what other pieces of Archeotech are the Cogface boys keeping locked up in their underground vaults on Mars. Could it lead to a confrontation with the return of Roboute Guilliman when the Imperium faces its darkest days for Millennia.
Luetin09 volkite is best!! Volkite weapons look cool, they are powerfull and they have THE best name EVER!!! Just so fun to say volkite. Volkite, Volkite, Volkite!!!!
Can it kill the Tenno? I don't think so They can't die anyways or defeated, mind controled etc seriously someone should make Warhammer vs warframe already! They literally fits together so we'll.
I think its largely to them going well we make weapon x y z not volkite and change for the Mechanicus is bad. Lord Guilliman did have to go around slapping a few heads around to get them back into doing other stuff. With thousands of forge worlds, someone had to have had the blueprints laying around.
The Martian death ray. In M2 Mars was inhabited by octopus-like xenos that have invaded Terra once. Since then they disappeared for unknown reasons, leaving their heat-rays and tripod walkers to the humans that colonised Mars. As time passed, the bulky heat ray evolved into smaller hand weapons, while the tripod walkers eventually became the proto-titans of early DAoT.
"Those under their shimmering rays will simply combust. The unfortunate victims of a Volkite weapon will be simply burned to cinders in an explosion of jetting flame and this will often spread to nearby comrades, frequently taking them to the grave with them." Do you hear that? That's the sound of every Sister of Battle in the Galaxy having the biggest and most profound Purgegasm of her life.
@@erayergi I can even imagine them sharing it with the Sisters. I picture a Salamander and a Sister, both in full power armour, merrily skipping through a meadow, incinerating all of it.
I was thinking the same thing!! It would be hard to counter. I guess the tyrands could learn to have thick skin embedded with stone or something, but that would be heavy and unable to grow later. So I think this would be great to kill the bugs!
@@wert1234576 the thing is the beam does not act like real electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. In real life there are also kinds of beams that aren't radiation, like atom lasers for example. These beams don't interact with matter the same way regular electromagnetic radiation does, atom lasers will just corrode and cut through a mirror like any other slab of matter
I don't need no newfangled adrathawhatsits. I just need my trusty flamer...unless it also burns things, give me more of that. ---from a Salamander probably
Characteristically weak, thematically awsome. They missed a beat with the hellblasters, they should've equipped them with volkite rifles instead, to make them differ a bit more than just being 'those plasma guys'.
Sad thing is, Hellblasters are touted as the new "heavy hitters", yet the only way they're going to burn down an enemy tank the way a Devestator Squad with Lascannons could is with a full squad of ten with the heavy version of their weapon (a unit that is prohibitively expensive) on overcharge. A five man Devestator Squad with 4 Lascannons doe the job better, with an extra shot (cherub) and a reroll (Signum) and not suffer casualties from shooting for fewer points. Hellblasters are ... disappointing. I field them, but only to vape medium to heavy infantry or light armor, in five man squads (due to their bloated point cost). GW dropped the ball on them pretty badly.
I was thinking if them more as a “special weapons” squad than a “heavy weapons” squad. But I could totally see that same base model fitting each description, as long as they had the weapons choices. For a line that’s supposedly going to replace basic Astartes someday, Primaris are rather limited.
Hell blasters are just much stronger lasguns. They're still anti personnel and they're much better at it than Volkite weapons which have a much smaller range. If you need anti-armour, melta guns will do the same or better job while being easier to make than Volkite.
I love your videos on these relatively obscure subjects! It really helps imagining this world, even for people who have never played 40k, like myself. Thank you man
If you are new to 40k you should check out the video "helsreach" that was made by Richard Boylan on YT. Its a reallly well made 40k story from a video animator that dipicts the defense of helreach.
@@k.h.120 I would search for "The Horus Heresy" books. It's a good place to start because the series starts at the beginning of the major events in the 40k universe. It would give you a good sense of everything timeline-wise so you understand everything going on. Most are on audible, the first one is called Horus rising I think. There are also the books by Aaron Demski-Bowden (the first heretic is good) who wrote the Helsreach book the YT video is based off.
You need to start doing character profiles of the primarchs. each one of them getting there own standalone episode. You always do great work, I don't even play the games but the general depth and complexity and amount of content is what truly makes it worth enjoying
40k lore.. this is a god gun, anyone who even sees a picture of it melts to death.... 40k game.. 5 up to hit, 5up to wound enemy gets a 3 up save. 20 shots, 1 kill..... Smh.
Love all you do Luetin. As you did such a good job with the fall of Cadia would you consider doing a lore video/series on the Gathering Storm events? I feel like the resurrection of Guilliman plotline has been very poorly provided to us by GW as there are no novels of the events. I reckon having you give your version through narration would do it justice
I remember reading a book dedicated for just that, Guillimans resurrection and the time before and after it. I'll edit this with the name of the book when I find it Edit: pretty sure it was "Dark imperium"
I strongly agree with this, I was very dissapointed to find out the fall of cadia wasnt contained in novel form, GW fucked up there. would be good to get a lore series
I love the idea (like in star wars) of a society of a race or races...that are so ancient , that they have many millennia ago reached a technological plateau. Such that a ship, vehicle, computer, or weapon from 5000 years ago- is much more advanced than what they are currently able to produce.
Ya but it's pretty over used idea these days with sci-fi You should look into warframe as the ancient race called the Orokin is responsible shaping the world of warframe. They are mysterious, and was powerful empire. Only it's ended by there owned creations that destroyed them.
Only the most gifted and renowned space marines can have access to Volkite. It's simply too rare and powerful to give it to a krieger that... what, charges enemies with a shovel? Or as the community likes to portray them. That's like giving a normal guardsman a Grav gun.
I always thought chapters such as the Grey Knights and Deathwatch should of been equipped / had units with Volkite weapons in them due to them fighting daemon and xenos hordes (i.e. Khorne and tyranids) that have more organic units within them.
Daemons aren't organic. That being said, volkite could still work on them fine, it's always hard to say with daemons, as they don't really follow rules of logic.
I don’t see how it can be done, the Stormtroopers serve the same role in the current era. Where as in the great crusade even normal human armies had weapons that would be considered rare in 40k, the current armies lack these weapons and vehicles
Scions are more elite than the Solar Auxilia, but have worse equipment (with some exeptions such as the Hotshot lasguns) The Solar Auxilia were elite regiments of the Imperial army, roughly equal to the 25% of non-militia/pdf human forces in the Great Crusade. If you think about it, they were like a slightly less elite version of the current Adepta Sororitas (equiped with bolters and power armor). But had better tanks and non-standart equipment.
Luetin, I’d like to say that you genuinely make my day when I see you’ve uploaded a new vid, Thankyou very much for your entertaining and informative content, your audio and visuals are always awesome. Praise the emperor my brother
Being as boltr ammunition is explosive, its damage isn't that its explosive, its that its specifically expansive. You might say thats the same thing but the distinction being that an explosion on the surface of something the bullet couldn't pit or penetrate is unlikely to do any damage the projectile on its own didn't. However if it penetrates to any degree the explosive payload is now a contained explosive in that hole or dent etc and much like a firecracker in a closed hand rather than an open palm, significantly increased damage.
Sounds like the "well aimed shot at incredibly close range" bit about a hellgun. I assume there trying to hype it in the fluff while still leaving room to go "nope the Marine lived" or they thought it sounded cool.
@@darksceptre7 This, though it's also possible it means narrowing the beam width to focus more energy on a single point or charging the beam further before firing/overloading it to a degree. It would be interesting if they had a beam weapon which could widen or narrow it's firing radius according to whether it was required to kill a dozen squishies or punch through a single tough target.
@@Eyessetonthehorizon dude, what? No. His account was literally stolen from him. There's nothing funny about that. He loses any revenue that he was making, and YT basically told him to go fuck himself.
Luetin! Mate! Your content just keeps getting better and better. Your research and delivery are impeccable! Each video is a real pleasure to watch (even if the subject matter is fucked up beyond all reckoning). I personally dont play 40k, but holy shit, you have me so heavily invested in the lore! Keep up the great work!
Hi Luetin, first I want to thank you for making these videos. They give me, someone who cannot afford nor have the time, a way to delve into the world of 40k. I would love to hear about the logistics system for the imperial army. All we hear about is the combat troops and never anything about for example mechanics, engineers, cooks, medics or any of the critical support that our modern armies today have. Who provides the common guardsman with his food, who makes sure that the tanks have the ammunition or fuel to continue the never ending wars?
lol, you know things are bad when the mechanicus suddenly starts producing new or very old technology. "We can't make these any more" *13th black crusade, fall of cadia, cicatrix maledictum* "We found some blueprints behind the couch"
you should do a collaboration with ian over at forgotten weapons, it would be cool to see the both of you try and explain in extreme detail the functionality of the vast amounts of guns within wh40k.
Look up fiara the tank girl and 40k theories colab vids on 40k weapons, vehicles, and equipment. They do a brilliant job of applying real world science to everything and the results are surprising .... like for example ork fighta boma models tested in wind tunnels proving that not only can they fly by the laws of physics but that they fly really really really well with phenomenal lift, turning radius, and dare I say it structural stability .....
@@CorvusCorone68 "basically like a more sci-fi version of WWI tech" Which doesn't make sense. Nothing about 40k tactics or strategy makes any sense given how advanced they are.
I am so happy Volkite is coming back to the Table top, I like my Blade guard Lieutenant, it’s been fun to use the Volkite pistol. I am really hoping guard can get a Leman Russ turret or a Caradon 2.0.
All the descriptions have the victims disintegrate to ash spreading from the point of impact. I imagine it akin to how people disintegrated after Thanos used the stones. Just a bit more immediate and violently
You just know your in for a great video when the first art shown is of my fellow sons of Curze! I'm trying to be extremely patient right now as I'm waiting on forgeworld to send me my Night Lords Leviathan dreadnought but not gonna lie, I'm extremely excited!
Love your videos. Just realized I've watched all this lore and hadn't subscribed to your channel yet! An over site I have quickly remedied. Thanks for all the fantastic content! Peace.
Luetin some video ideas- Lore video series on the return of Robute Guilliman, Gathering Storm and the Plague Wars. That should be your next "epic" akin to your Emperor of Mankind, STC, Grey Knight videos.
Ok Luetin09, Putting you on the spot. Let’s say that you were the emperor for a year and you could impose your will on the Imperium. What would you do, to set it on the right path, to slow the decline and start progress again? Your power is unchallenged. What would be your reform agenda, your military strategy your approach to remaking the bureaucracy? How would you approach technology? Is your classic if I was king for a day question. You’re the expert on this. And if you can’t approach it in such a manner, What would be the one thing you would do to reverse the slow decline? I know it’s a difficult question but it Hass to begin somewhere, with a single decision. What would you do? Thanks for your hard work.
Hey Luetin, can you make a video explaining your thoughts on the II and XI legions. I think it would be very interesting to hear your thoughts on the subject since you put a lot of effort into your research. Thank you
I think you needed to see them more like Phasers, as seen in Star Trek, as this a beam weapon. Trying to compare it to a melta and flamer doesn't quite do this weapon justice. If a Volkite beam hits a normal trooper, they flash disintegrate, creating a powerful bloom of heat that can also hurt nearby troops, or simply sets everything around them on fire. If one hits an armoured target, like a Space Marine or bigger, it dumps a huge amount of energy into that location, melting the armour, and essentially turning them into a mobile heat source. Assuming the target survives, they will continue to carry this massive burning heat with them. Quite the death-ray! It comes as no surprise how the Imperium was able to dominate the galaxy, if they were all armed with such terrifying weaponry.
just a correction, a focused energy weapon would refer to las guns, melta guns as well but not flamers. focused energy weapon is basically a catch all for laser weapons. my understanding reading the heresy lore around volkites is that they are laser weapons like a las weapon but much more closely related to the age of technology weapon they were based on and the las gun was a replacement for the volkite as supplies dwindled
Its not explained fully in the lore exactly how a volkite delivers, but it is most certainly an energy weapon. This is why I gave general descriptions. I dont personally think there is anything to correct in this instance.
I wonder with the Imperium being split in two if the Mechanicus etc. are being forced to open those long-dormant supply dumps like Vraks and pulling out all those ancient vehicles and weapons found in the deeper storage pens.
My take on melta vs volkite is that the melta is more like a short-range infrared gun, somewhat akin to its "shotgun" playstyle in SM2, though not shooting shells, instead requiring the user to hold the relatively narrow heat beam in one spot for a short period to melt through and inflict damage, and the volkite shoots more of a classic "ray"/"beam" with each trigger pull or possibly as long as the trigger is held down, and it being something like a hotshot lasgun mixed with ion weaponry; the superheated beam isn't just laser light, its more like aiming the business end of a rocket at your enemies and vaporizing them like a candle in a blowtorch.
Volkite weapons are ideal for engaging Tyranid forces. You can force the Hive to redeploy with lighter armor and a focus on mobility, only to whip out artillery or other explosive ordnance. If they switch to thicker armor, you bring out meltaguns. They should definitely not be the primary weapon of an entire force, the same way that you would not field a few dozen men with just shotguns. A mixed arms approach is how I see these being used for best results.
Been awhile since I was subbed to Luetin09. Last I saw he was making some quality Arma vids, weird to see how channels change gear so as basically be a new channel all together. Oh well I like 40K too.
hi Luetin, im so glad you made this video , volkite isn't talked about enough. I'm currently working on some volkite weapons mods for fallout 4, and i would really like to make the one seen at 6:02 , does anyone know the exact model/name? Its quite an interesting look.
Here's a theory, if flamers are conduction weapons, with the burning fuel conducting the heat directly into the target, and Melta's are radiated weapons, presumably using microwaves to radiate the heat onto the the target, then perhaps Volkite type weapons are convection weapons, using some type of control field to limit the direction in which the excited atoms containing the thermal energy can move, forcing them directly onto their target (instead of them moving upwards, which is the traditional direction in which thermally excited atoms move.) Never seen any lore confirming this but it would explain why the three weapon types are considerably different technologies.
They would just adapt their forces, dropping heavy chitin shell armour and focus on speed and mobility, as well as change the surface layer of the tyranid skin to something that can withstand flames and heat better, that even if they catch on fire they'll still function for several minutes. There's no winning against tyranids.
Considering its a thermal weapon that heats up the water molecules, imagine being clad in a suit of armour thinking you're invincible and suddenly you're being roasted alive, cooking inside your suit like a lobster in a pot. Think i'd rather get decapitated by a khornite berserker.
@@Promethium666 "and don't forget to rotate your space marine so it comes out crispy on all sides, and yes the proginoid glands are indeed the choice cut
A Space Marine Killer? That's...damn I know Astartes aren't invincible but to actually damage them on the same level as a normal person could be injured
i've been playing WH40K Inquisitor Martyr, i find the best wep to 1hk a Chaos Marine, at least as the Crusader, who gets heavy weps, is a charged multimelta blast; i dunno if the game has volkite but if melta can do it...
strikes me as a Weapon system hat would be good for the Standard Guardsman , i mean aside from maybe ammo capacity it's a 100% upgrade from the lasgun , having these to replace Non AT units Melta/plasma weapons seems like a fairly good way to make just about any standing unit of guard able to deal some nasty damage to literally anything they come across, horde of orks... toasty , chaos astartes? has actual chance of doing SOMETHING , light vehicles , about as good as a melta or plasma
You'd probably want to mix them in with heavy weapons teams. Volkite has medium range, high damage, okay armor penetration, and high cost. I think Lasguns might outrange Volkite weaponry depending on the respective scale and calibration. Maybe mount them on Chimeras replacing the multilaser? Cost would be the major issue, and potentially maintenance. It could be most regiments can't maintain them so it wouldn't work well in that case. The way I see it: Stubbers and Autoguns: Basically modern firearms but rendered in the 40k style Logistics: Poor (Needs actual bullets in the correct calibers) Range: Medium+ Damage: Low? (Compared to other stuff, still deadly to people) Reliability: Moderate (not many complex moving parts, but can still jam) Anti Armor: Poor Lasgun: Somehow turns a laser into a more bullet like form. Logistics: Excellent (rechargable power packs that only degrade slightly. Likely to outlive wielder) Range: Medium+ Damage: Low? Reliability: Excellent (You need to clean it and oil it to prevent rust. That's about it.) Anti Armor: Moderate Plasma Gun: A device that tries to kickstart a fusion reaction before firing it at the enemy Logistics: Poor (Hard to maintain, requires refined hydrogen) Range: Medium (The blasts do tend to lose heat) Damage: Moderate+ Reliability: Awful (literally explodes in user's face) Anti Armor: Good Melta: Similar to plasma but uses a chemical charge instead of a nuclear reaction to generate a superheated blast. Logistics: Moderate (uses chemical based charge instead of more complex fusion, better understood) Range: Short (Superheated jet dissipates quickly) Damage: High Reliability: Moderate (Few moving parts, better understood than plasma) Anti Armor: High Bolter: It's a gun that is also a rocket launcher. Suitably extreme Logistics: Difficult (Ammo is bulky and more complex to manufacture than bullets) Range: Long (it's a rocket propelled projectile) Damage: Moderate+ (Less than disintegration, but still brutal) Reliability: Moderate+ (More complex than an autoweapon, but way stricter standards in manufacture) Anti-Armor: Moderate, high with specialty ammo Space Marines have their Battle Barges to fabricate new Bolter rounds and they need the extreme lethality so Bolters suit them. The Astra Militarum have limited supplies, and vast numbers so the more reliable Lasgun makes sense, especially given that they don't have all that many skilled engineers and technicians. The primary roles of the Astra Militarum are Garrison duty/putting down revolts Defending a planet in the likely vain hope of reinforcements Marching to their death to stay the advance of terrible alien power Volkite weaponry would be overkill in the first case, prohibitively expensive in the second case, and utterly wasted in the third. Volkite is like Tactical Dreadnaught armor. It's far too powerful to ignore completely, but also too expensive and rare to be used often. If it was easily scaled to pistol size, I could see it becoming an officer's weapon, like how Commisars use Bolt Pistols. Otherwise, it would probably be used by one elite force or another. In the case of Astra Militarum, most likely the Tempestus Scions. Those are basically fanatics raised in the same boarding schools as commisars and such.
@@federationprime The Solar Auxillia were elite special Forces of 30k. The consider as the Tempestus Scions or navy Seals of the Imperial Guard. The make Jupiter the new Cadia.
I can’t help but ponder the lethality of volkite weaponry should it be scaled for titans like the warlord or Emperor forbid, the imperator. Such firepower could potentially one shot other titans.
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Recently we looked at the Death of Knowledge within the Imperium, and while its true that generally mankind has been stuck in a state of unending stagnation for millennia the cogs of the Mechanicus slowly are turning and we see a resurgence in some tech that was assumed no longer able to be produced. This raises some exciting possibilities and more importantly leaves us asking why and what other pieces of Archeotech are the Cogface boys keeping locked up in their underground vaults on Mars. Could it lead to a confrontation with the return of Roboute Guilliman when the Imperium faces its darkest days for Millennia.
Can you do a video on the lasguns and tanks and ships in 40k please thanks
Luetin09 volkite is best!!
Volkite weapons look cool, they are powerfull and they have THE best name EVER!!!
Just so fun to say volkite.
Volkite, Volkite, Volkite!!!!
Can it kill the Tenno? I don't think so
They can't die anyways or defeated, mind controled etc seriously someone should make Warhammer vs warframe already! They literally fits together so we'll.
Leutin, what is your least favorite color
I think its largely to them going well we make weapon x y z not volkite and change for the Mechanicus is bad. Lord Guilliman did have to go around slapping a few heads around to get them back into doing other stuff. With thousands of forge worlds, someone had to have had the blueprints laying around.
The Martian death ray. In M2 Mars was inhabited by octopus-like xenos that have invaded Terra once. Since then they disappeared for unknown reasons, leaving their heat-rays and tripod walkers to the humans that colonised Mars. As time passed, the bulky heat ray evolved into smaller hand weapons, while the tripod walkers eventually became the proto-titans of early DAoT.
"Those under their shimmering rays will simply combust. The unfortunate victims of a Volkite weapon will be simply burned to cinders in an explosion of jetting flame and this will often spread to nearby comrades, frequently taking them to the grave with them."
Do you hear that? That's the sound of every Sister of Battle in the Galaxy having the biggest and most profound Purgegasm of her life.
Also Salamanders, i think :p they can craft it perfectly too if they can get an STC
@@erayergi I can even imagine them sharing it with the Sisters. I picture a Salamander and a Sister, both in full power armour, merrily skipping through a meadow, incinerating all of it.
@@aecides3203 that would be perfection :D
So pretty much Prometheus Lens from “Destiny 2”.
My heart made that noise when I learned you could give flamers to Titans. The Sisters of Battle make it now.
tbh volkite sounds like a pretty solid counter to the tyranids given that they are all organic
Until the hivemind counters the thermal weapon, then we're back to hellfire rounds from bolters and explosive munition drops.
I was thinking the same thing!! It would be hard to counter. I guess the tyrands could learn to have thick skin embedded with stone or something, but that would be heavy and unable to grow later. So I think this would be great to kill the bugs!
If it's a beam weapon wkuldent they just need to be reflective to some degree cause I rember somthing about slime to help with lasguns
@@wert1234576 the thing is the beam does not act like real electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. In real life there are also kinds of beams that aren't radiation, like atom lasers for example. These beams don't interact with matter the same way regular electromagnetic radiation does, atom lasers will just corrode and cut through a mirror like any other slab of matter
They would just develop mucus membranes and cover themselves in heat resistant goo.
They always ask "What are Volkite weapons?"
Never "How are the Volkite weapons?"
This comment is criminally under liked.
*sad Volkite noises*
Volkite weapons hurt. A lot. Took a while for me to heal from a wound on my back from one.
I’ll do you one better. “Why are volkite weapons?”
gone, forgotten by the Ineptus Mechanicus
No mention of the Glaive? A super heavy tank sized volkite is pretty sick.
Do ADRATHIC weapons next!! They are basically the most powerful hand held weapons the imperium has
Excuse as i steal them for my own fan faction thank you very much.
@@comradetonk8280 Is it an erotic one? They are THICC weapons after all
yes, but those are very POWERFULL ones, only the Custodes can use them or are basically allowed to.
I don't need no newfangled adrathawhatsits. I just need my trusty flamer...unless it also burns things, give me more of that.
---from a Salamander probably
It doesn't burn the target, as much as it rips it to shreads on the atomic level...
I was getting worried because it’s been a while since you’ve done a lore video. Missed you Luetin, you really shine on Lore Videos. 🙏
He uploads with perfect regularity. You have to wait just long enough to miss his content. Imo
he just did one on exterminatus bro.
Volkite is the gift of the gods. It's why every army I have has quite a bit.
AlaricScandoveski and what gods are we talking about here
@@homelessswede9675 the gods of the machine
AlaricScandoveski just cheaking
@@homelessswede9675 *cough cough* mechanicum *cough cough*
@@AlaricScandoveski Hmm...maybe exterminatus to be on the safe side.
Characteristically weak, thematically awsome.
They missed a beat with the hellblasters, they should've equipped them with volkite rifles instead, to make them differ a bit more than just being 'those plasma guys'.
Especially since the Hellblasters can only use plasma. If they had Melta and Flamer options, it’d be different.
Sad thing is, Hellblasters are touted as the new "heavy hitters", yet the only way they're going to burn down an enemy tank the way a Devestator Squad with Lascannons could is with a full squad of ten with the heavy version of their weapon (a unit that is prohibitively expensive) on overcharge.
A five man Devestator Squad with 4 Lascannons doe the job better, with an extra shot (cherub) and a reroll (Signum) and not suffer casualties from shooting for fewer points.
Hellblasters are ... disappointing. I field them, but only to vape medium to heavy infantry or light armor, in five man squads (due to their bloated point cost). GW dropped the ball on them pretty badly.
I was thinking if them more as a “special weapons” squad than a “heavy weapons” squad. But I could totally see that same base model fitting each description, as long as they had the weapons choices.
For a line that’s supposedly going to replace basic Astartes someday, Primaris are rather limited.
Hell blasters are just much stronger lasguns. They're still anti personnel and they're much better at it than Volkite weapons which have a much smaller range. If you need anti-armour, melta guns will do the same or better job while being easier to make than Volkite.
I love your videos on these relatively obscure subjects!
It really helps imagining this world, even for people who have never played 40k, like myself.
Thank you man
If you are new to 40k you should check out the video "helsreach" that was made by Richard Boylan on YT. Its a reallly well made 40k story from a video animator that dipicts the defense of helreach.
@@mementomori9189 I watched it and I love it. Thank you for the recommendation, but where can I find more similar stuff? I dont know what to look for.
@@k.h.120 I would search for "The Horus Heresy" books. It's a good place to start because the series starts at the beginning of the major events in the 40k universe. It would give you a good sense of everything timeline-wise so you understand everything going on. Most are on audible, the first one is called Horus rising I think. There are also the books by Aaron Demski-Bowden (the first heretic is good) who wrote the Helsreach book the YT video is based off.
You need to start doing character profiles of the primarchs. each one of them getting there own standalone episode. You always do great work, I don't even play the games but the general depth and complexity and amount of content is what truly makes it worth enjoying
40k lore.. this is a god gun, anyone who even sees a picture of it melts to death....
40k game.. 5 up to hit, 5up to wound enemy gets a 3 up save. 20 shots, 1 kill..... Smh.
Ikr, Build an army based of fluff of their weapons and realize its just a gambling game.
@@porkchop4401 That's why I only paint marines, not play the game.
Now they're pretty good, especially with rerolls to Wound. 6s are MW.
Love all you do Luetin. As you did such a good job with the fall of Cadia would you consider doing a lore video/series on the Gathering Storm events? I feel like the resurrection of Guilliman plotline has been very poorly provided to us by GW as there are no novels of the events. I reckon having you give your version through narration would do it justice
I remember reading a book dedicated for just that, Guillimans resurrection and the time before and after it. I'll edit this with the name of the book when I find it
Edit: pretty sure it was "Dark imperium"
@@Mixu. Yeah I know of it and I've read that book but it's set about 100 years later than his resurrection, not during
@@96tommyt also not very well written and a surprisingly confusing timeline contained therein.
I strongly agree with this, I was very dissapointed to find out the fall of cadia wasnt contained in novel form, GW fucked up there. would be good to get a lore series
I love the idea (like in star wars) of a society of a race or races...that are so ancient , that they have many millennia ago reached a technological plateau. Such that a ship, vehicle, computer, or weapon from 5000 years ago- is much more advanced than what they are currently able to produce.
Ya but it's pretty over used idea these days with sci-fi
You should look into warframe as the ancient race called the Orokin is responsible shaping the world of warframe. They are mysterious, and was powerful empire. Only it's ended by there owned creations that destroyed them.
Give the Death Korp Volkite, the mobility issues wouldn’t exactly bug them.
The cringe corps doesn’t need anything
Only the most gifted and renowned space marines can have access to Volkite. It's simply too rare and powerful to give it to a krieger that... what, charges enemies with a shovel? Or as the community likes to portray them.
That's like giving a normal guardsman a Grav gun.
@@cyborgfish1139 I think he means vehicle based volkite
So what I'm hearing is a salamander's molten dream
Burn baby burn, Volkite Inferno!
EVERYBODY SING!
As a survivour of the grim darkness of the 70s, I'm pretty sure Disco would fit into 40K. BURN BABY BURN!
They're basically the martian heat rays from War of the Worlds. Hmm...do the Mechanicus have any three-legged warmachines going around? :P
Not sure if officially they do but I've seen artwork of that before.
Onager Dunecrawler
* eve of the war intensifies*
@@majordakka5743 it has 4 legs.
No, but Necrons have one that can carry a heat ray.
Whos here after seeing a volkite pistol get announced for space marine 2
Me
I hope they let the vangaurd use it. Vangaurd has very low weapon selection compared to other classes 😅
I was about to browse for makeup tutorials and then Luetin showed up and saved me with a new lore video.
A chick who passes up makeup tutorials to watch 40K lore is my kinda' gal!
Kudos.
Indulge your vanity in excess, and you will please Slaanesh. Carry on, loyal Citizen!
I always thought chapters such as the Grey Knights and Deathwatch should of been equipped / had units with Volkite weapons in them due to them fighting daemon and xenos hordes (i.e. Khorne and tyranids) that have more organic units within them.
Inquisitors are probably using them.
Grey Knights are fine with psi enhanced stormbolters and melee weapons
@@Markus-zb5zd yea, why be even more efficient.
Daemons aren't organic. That being said, volkite could still work on them fine, it's always hard to say with daemons, as they don't really follow rules of logic.
@@MikeTheGamer77because demons would be resistant to it?
Grey Knights and their psy weapons are the counter to warp based being, not a volkite weapon
Can't wait till Scions are allowed to use this on the table. Do you think the Solar Auxila might be reinstated under Guilliman's rule?
I'd like that. And it'd make sense, even with the new marines I imagine they'll need stronger and better human troops too
Maybe lore wise, but I fail to see them as different than a 30k version of stormtroopers. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I would love that.
I don’t see how it can be done, the Stormtroopers serve the same role in the current era. Where as in the great crusade even normal human armies had weapons that would be considered rare in 40k, the current armies lack these weapons and vehicles
Scions are more elite than the Solar Auxilia, but have worse equipment (with some exeptions such as the Hotshot lasguns)
The Solar Auxilia were elite regiments of the Imperial army, roughly equal to the 25% of non-militia/pdf human forces in the Great Crusade.
If you think about it, they were like a slightly less elite version of the current Adepta Sororitas (equiped with bolters and power armor). But had better tanks and non-standart equipment.
Luetin, I’d like to say that you genuinely make my day when I see you’ve uploaded a new vid, Thankyou very much for your entertaining and informative content, your audio and visuals are always awesome. Praise the emperor my brother
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i love Volkite, reading about the weapon system in Master of Mankind was awesome, and instantly fell in love.
Being as boltr ammunition is explosive, its damage isn't that its explosive, its that its specifically expansive.
You might say thats the same thing but the distinction being that an explosion on the surface of something the bullet couldn't pit or penetrate is unlikely to do any damage the projectile on its own didn't.
However if it penetrates to any degree the explosive payload is now a contained explosive in that hole or dent etc and much like a firecracker in a closed hand rather than an open palm, significantly increased damage.
"what are volkite weapons?"
fun, what else
pew pew pew pew pew pew pew
Sir, SIR. The only acceptable noise for volkite shots is CHOOOOM!
They could kill space marines with one well aimed "concentrated" (whatever that means) shot from what I have read.
Sounds like the "well aimed shot at incredibly close range" bit about a hellgun. I assume there trying to hype it in the fluff while still leaving room to go "nope the Marine lived" or they thought it sounded cool.
The weapon fires a beam. So you have to keep it pointed and firing at one point on the space marine to punch through its armor.
@@darksceptre7 This, though it's also possible it means narrowing the beam width to focus more energy on a single point or charging the beam further before firing/overloading it to a degree. It would be interesting if they had a beam weapon which could widen or narrow it's firing radius according to whether it was required to kill a dozen squishies or punch through a single tough target.
Dude keep up the good work this video was like a throwback to some of the older 40k videos with all the lore and darkness is was just simply amazing
Thinking about it, I think Volkite weapons would be a good option for when your fighting against the Tyranids.
They sound perfect for dealing with Tyranids and Orks!
@@pakman184 what about Ork spores?
Shame Salamanders don't get a buff with them like they get other flame weapons.
burning liquid & standing beams are kinda different tho!
They remind me a bit of the Martian heat ray weapons from WotW.
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* Thunderchild starts up *
Spread the word. The Astartes channel has been hacked.
It seems tzeentch is up to something again
@@Eyessetonthehorizon dude, what? No. His account was literally stolen from him. There's nothing funny about that. He loses any revenue that he was making, and YT basically told him to go fuck himself.
@@Eyessetonthehorizon No it isnt. He is losing money. Money that could be helping him or her to survive.
His channel is back in his hands
And now volkite is back, neo-volkite weaponry has entered the fray with Primaris
how do the volkite weapons operate ? like do they use fuel source like plasma and melta or energy packs like lasguns ?
Like a maser (precursor of lasers). Coherent beam of microwave energy instead of coherent light.
I do love your lore videos my friend, it has been a while since you have done one this long... Luetin my man, with you, bigger is ALWAYS better!
Luetin! Mate! Your content just keeps getting better and better. Your research and delivery are impeccable! Each video is a real pleasure to watch (even if the subject matter is fucked up beyond all reckoning). I personally dont play 40k, but holy shit, you have me so heavily invested in the lore! Keep up the great work!
Volkite weapons are literally Martian Heat-Rays.
release the pigeons !
This is one of the biggest questions i have weapons wise of 40k, ty so much
Please do a video on the Tempestus Stormtroopers and Solar Auxilia
I love how volkite looks!! Some of my favorite gun design in 40k
Hi Luetin, first I want to thank you for making these videos. They give me, someone who cannot afford nor have the time, a way to delve into the world of 40k. I would love to hear about the logistics system for the imperial army. All we hear about is the combat troops and never anything about for example mechanics, engineers, cooks, medics or any of the critical support that our modern armies today have. Who provides the common guardsman with his food, who makes sure that the tanks have the ammunition or fuel to continue the never ending wars?
The Carcharodon Astra have a few of these, one of them was used in the book ''Red Tithe''
These weapons are so old so chaos space marines should have some stashed up abaddons pants
lol, you know things are bad when the mechanicus suddenly starts producing new or very old technology. "We can't make these any more"
*13th black crusade, fall of cadia, cicatrix maledictum*
"We found some blueprints behind the couch"
you should do a collaboration with ian over at forgotten weapons, it would be cool to see the both of you try and explain in extreme detail the functionality of the vast amounts of guns within wh40k.
Look up fiara the tank girl and 40k theories colab vids on 40k weapons, vehicles, and equipment. They do a brilliant job of applying real world science to everything and the results are surprising .... like for example ork fighta boma models tested in wind tunnels proving that not only can they fly by the laws of physics but that they fly really really really well with phenomenal lift, turning radius, and dare I say it structural stability .....
you are an absolute legend, i cannot thank you enough for the recommendation, it's exactly what i'm looking for.
Yeah Ian would shred 40k apart none of it makes sense.
@@mrstarfishh33 actually plenty of it does, the Imperium has tech that's basically like a more sci-fi version of WWI tech
@@CorvusCorone68 "basically like a more sci-fi version of WWI tech" Which doesn't make sense. Nothing about 40k tactics or strategy makes any sense given how advanced they are.
I am so happy Volkite is coming back to the Table top, I like my Blade guard Lieutenant, it’s been fun to use the Volkite pistol. I am really hoping guard can get a Leman Russ turret or a Caradon 2.0.
9:04 If I wore 3D glasses, would this image appear to pop off the screen?
All the descriptions have the victims disintegrate to ash spreading from the point of impact. I imagine it akin to how people disintegrated after Thanos used the stones. Just a bit more immediate and violently
So the Golden age in destiny is like the dark age of technology.
Very awesome video. Recommendation for next weapons video would be Phosphex weaponry. Maybe in conjunction with Destroyer Squads and their loadouts.
USMC444817 THIS.
"It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat. "
You just know your in for a great video when the first art shown is of my fellow sons of Curze!
I'm trying to be extremely patient right now as I'm waiting on forgeworld to send me my Night Lords Leviathan dreadnought but not gonna lie, I'm extremely excited!
Love your videos. Just realized I've watched all this lore and hadn't subscribed to your channel yet! An over site I have quickly remedied. Thanks for all the fantastic content! Peace.
Luetin some video ideas- Lore video series on the return of Robute Guilliman, Gathering Storm and the Plague Wars. That should be your next "epic" akin to your Emperor of Mankind, STC, Grey Knight videos.
- Is shat a new lasgun, Commissar?
Kindof, but not really. And not for you...
Yes! Finally a handheld Hammer of Dawn!
when you real, positively, ABSOLUTLY need something dead lol.
I love the lore Gear series so much
3:05 Picture of combatant ready to fire angry volkite death-ray snake. - Ca. 999. M41, Colorized
Now a hellstorm volkite titan.....that's a tyranid killer
Would love to see more lore gear videos!! Fingers crossed that Luetin sees this and makes more in the future!
We need another Warhammer40k FPS game featuring this weapon and many others.
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Ok Luetin09, Putting you on the spot. Let’s say that you were the emperor for a year and you could impose your will on the Imperium. What would you do, to set it on the right path, to slow the decline and start progress again?
Your power is unchallenged. What would be your reform agenda, your military strategy your approach to remaking the bureaucracy? How would you approach technology? Is your classic if I was king for a day question. You’re the expert on this. And if you can’t approach it in such a manner, What would be the one thing you would do to reverse the slow decline? I know it’s a difficult question but it Hass to begin somewhere, with a single decision. What would you do? Thanks for your hard work.
the problem lies with ALL STC knowledge being in the hands, figuratively, of the mechanicus.
Hey Luetin, can you make a video explaining your thoughts on the II and XI legions. I think it would be very interesting to hear your thoughts on the subject since you put a lot of effort into your research. Thank you
I think you needed to see them more like Phasers, as seen in Star Trek, as this a beam weapon. Trying to compare it to a melta and flamer doesn't quite do this weapon justice. If a Volkite beam hits a normal trooper, they flash disintegrate, creating a powerful bloom of heat that can also hurt nearby troops, or simply sets everything around them on fire. If one hits an armoured target, like a Space Marine or bigger, it dumps a huge amount of energy into that location, melting the armour, and essentially turning them into a mobile heat source. Assuming the target survives, they will continue to carry this massive burning heat with them. Quite the death-ray! It comes as no surprise how the Imperium was able to dominate the galaxy, if they were all armed with such terrifying weaponry.
just a correction, a focused energy weapon would refer to las guns, melta guns as well but not flamers. focused energy weapon is basically a catch all for laser weapons. my understanding reading the heresy lore around volkites is that they are laser weapons like a las weapon but much more closely related to the age of technology weapon they were based on and the las gun was a replacement for the volkite as supplies dwindled
Its not explained fully in the lore exactly how a volkite delivers, but it is most certainly an energy weapon. This is why I gave general descriptions. I dont personally think there is anything to correct in this instance.
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I wonder with the Imperium being split in two if the Mechanicus etc. are being forced to open those long-dormant supply dumps like Vraks and pulling out all those ancient vehicles and weapons found in the deeper storage pens.
I'd describe a volkite weapon like this:
Imagine putting a fork inside of a microwave. Except you're the fork.
Volkite weapons:
"Do you want a Meltagun or a Lasgun?"
"Yes."
“Sighs In salamander “
please make more of these videos more often, listened thru all of them, some 2-3 times
I think the Mechanicus is hampering the Imperium for some reason and I hope Cawl and Roboute can kick the machine into action
Hope you’re doin well bro! Love from Texas! I watch your videos over and over almost every day.
I guess the techpriests of Mars are finally getting of their behinds after 10.000 years, now that a certain Cawl is comming up with improved stuff.
My take on melta vs volkite is that the melta is more like a short-range infrared gun, somewhat akin to its "shotgun" playstyle in SM2, though not shooting shells, instead requiring the user to hold the relatively narrow heat beam in one spot for a short period to melt through and inflict damage, and the volkite shoots more of a classic "ray"/"beam" with each trigger pull or possibly as long as the trigger is held down, and it being something like a hotshot lasgun mixed with ion weaponry; the superheated beam isn't just laser light, its more like aiming the business end of a rocket at your enemies and vaporizing them like a candle in a blowtorch.
Volkite weapons are ideal for engaging Tyranid forces. You can force the Hive to redeploy with lighter armor and a focus on mobility, only to whip out artillery or other explosive ordnance. If they switch to thicker armor, you bring out meltaguns. They should definitely not be the primary weapon of an entire force, the same way that you would not field a few dozen men with just shotguns. A mixed arms approach is how I see these being used for best results.
Been awhile since I was subbed to Luetin09. Last I saw he was making some quality Arma vids, weird to see how channels change gear so as basically be a new channel all together. Oh well I like 40K too.
"Martian heat rays". ;)
Lasguns go zap-zap!
Volkite weapons go zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!
@@Mestari1Gaming , "What did you do?!" "I Zapped." (La Femme Nikita). ;)
*Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds intensifies*
@@Sigmar_Heldenhammer Patrician taste!
Volkite sounds like focused microwave tech
hi Luetin, im so glad you made this video , volkite isn't talked about enough. I'm currently working on some volkite weapons mods for fallout 4, and i would really like to make the one seen at 6:02 , does anyone know the exact model/name? Its quite an interesting look.
Here's a theory, if flamers are conduction weapons, with the burning fuel conducting the heat directly into the target, and Melta's are radiated weapons, presumably using microwaves to radiate the heat onto the the target, then perhaps Volkite type weapons are convection weapons, using some type of control field to limit the direction in which the excited atoms containing the thermal energy can move, forcing them directly onto their target (instead of them moving upwards, which is the traditional direction in which thermally excited atoms move.) Never seen any lore confirming this but it would explain why the three weapon types are considerably different technologies.
I would love to hear your take on the gruesome weapon that is the Conversion Beamer.
Sounds perfect for use against the Tyranids.
Against tyranids... use anything available...
Fucking all of it.
Bash them with the kitchen sink if you have to.
They would just adapt their forces, dropping heavy chitin shell armour and focus on speed and mobility, as well as change the surface layer of the tyranid skin to something that can withstand flames and heat better, that even if they catch on fire they'll still function for several minutes. There's no winning against tyranids.
@@omnissiah7247 necrons beg to differ
@@cc-bk3tx nothing like a Good old molecular flaying eh?
@@Psychoangel-d23 exactly
I think this is one of the weapons I was most interested to hear about
A weapon that can pierce thro an astartese like butter? Yes please
Considering its a thermal weapon that heats up the water molecules, imagine being clad in a suit of armour thinking you're invincible and suddenly you're being roasted alive, cooking inside your suit like a lobster in a pot. Think i'd rather get decapitated by a khornite berserker.
@@Promethium666 "and don't forget to rotate your space marine so it comes out crispy on all sides, and yes the proginoid glands are indeed the choice cut
A Space Marine Killer? That's...damn I know Astartes aren't invincible but to actually damage them on the same level as a normal person could be injured
Easily done in game.
i've been playing WH40K Inquisitor Martyr, i find the best wep to 1hk a Chaos Marine, at least as the Crusader, who gets heavy weps, is a charged multimelta blast; i dunno if the game has volkite but if melta can do it...
Welcome to an other episode of forgotten Weapons...
Sounds like a thermite flamethrower
What are volkite weapons?
My favorite weapons in the setting. Right before the plasma weapons and heavy bolters
strikes me as a Weapon system hat would be good for the Standard Guardsman , i mean aside from maybe ammo capacity it's a 100% upgrade from the lasgun , having these to replace Non AT units Melta/plasma weapons seems like a fairly good way to make just about any standing unit of guard able to deal some nasty damage to literally anything they come across, horde of orks... toasty , chaos astartes? has actual chance of doing SOMETHING , light vehicles , about as good as a melta or plasma
You'd probably want to mix them in with heavy weapons teams. Volkite has medium range, high damage, okay armor penetration, and high cost. I think Lasguns might outrange Volkite weaponry depending on the respective scale and calibration. Maybe mount them on Chimeras replacing the multilaser? Cost would be the major issue, and potentially maintenance. It could be most regiments can't maintain them so it wouldn't work well in that case.
The way I see it:
Stubbers and Autoguns: Basically modern firearms but rendered in the 40k style
Logistics: Poor (Needs actual bullets in the correct calibers)
Range: Medium+
Damage: Low? (Compared to other stuff, still deadly to people)
Reliability: Moderate (not many complex moving parts, but can still jam)
Anti Armor: Poor
Lasgun: Somehow turns a laser into a more bullet like form.
Logistics: Excellent (rechargable power packs that only degrade slightly. Likely to outlive wielder)
Range: Medium+
Damage: Low?
Reliability: Excellent (You need to clean it and oil it to prevent rust. That's about it.)
Anti Armor: Moderate
Plasma Gun: A device that tries to kickstart a fusion reaction before firing it at the enemy
Logistics: Poor (Hard to maintain, requires refined hydrogen)
Range: Medium (The blasts do tend to lose heat)
Damage: Moderate+
Reliability: Awful (literally explodes in user's face)
Anti Armor: Good
Melta: Similar to plasma but uses a chemical charge instead of a nuclear reaction to generate a superheated blast.
Logistics: Moderate (uses chemical based charge instead of more complex fusion, better understood)
Range: Short (Superheated jet dissipates quickly)
Damage: High
Reliability: Moderate (Few moving parts, better understood than plasma)
Anti Armor: High
Bolter: It's a gun that is also a rocket launcher. Suitably extreme
Logistics: Difficult (Ammo is bulky and more complex to manufacture than bullets)
Range: Long (it's a rocket propelled projectile)
Damage: Moderate+ (Less than disintegration, but still brutal)
Reliability: Moderate+ (More complex than an autoweapon, but way stricter standards in manufacture)
Anti-Armor: Moderate, high with specialty ammo
Space Marines have their Battle Barges to fabricate new Bolter rounds and they need the extreme lethality so Bolters suit them. The Astra Militarum have limited supplies, and vast numbers so the more reliable Lasgun makes sense, especially given that they don't have all that many skilled engineers and technicians.
The primary roles of the Astra Militarum are
Garrison duty/putting down revolts
Defending a planet in the likely vain hope of reinforcements
Marching to their death to stay the advance of terrible alien power
Volkite weaponry would be overkill in the first case, prohibitively expensive in the second case, and utterly wasted in the third. Volkite is like Tactical Dreadnaught armor. It's far too powerful to ignore completely, but also too expensive and rare to be used often. If it was easily scaled to pistol size, I could see it becoming an officer's weapon, like how Commisars use Bolt Pistols. Otherwise, it would probably be used by one elite force or another. In the case of Astra Militarum, most likely the Tempestus Scions. Those are basically fanatics raised in the same boarding schools as commisars and such.
I wish they bring the Solar Auxillia into 40k. It could replace Cadia as the best Astra militarum army.
Horus THAgreat they could pair sole auxilia regiments with space marine chapters like how secutarii with titan legions
@@federationprime The Solar Auxillia were elite special Forces of 30k. The consider as the Tempestus Scions or navy Seals of the Imperial Guard. The make Jupiter the new Cadia.
Horus THAgreat that would complete some of the full circle/new hope for humanity themes of the newer lore
@@horusthagreat1802 Or the SBS (Special Boat Service) coz Warhammer is British... 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Sorry... I'll show myself out...
@@JHS270694 Hey I'm American but I know the British SAS are better than the Seals.
at 6:10 someone brought a pipe wrench to a sword fight
Volkite Weapons. One the few weapons that make the Bolter seem tame.
Brilliant video as always Luetin. I hope they bring back the Solar Auxila, and Volkite weapons are indeed a blast.
Thanks Luetin was wondering what they were. They didnt really specify what they were on the Leviathan Dread
I can’t help but ponder the lethality of volkite weaponry should it be scaled for titans like the warlord or Emperor forbid, the imperator. Such firepower could potentially one shot other titans.
There is the Volkite Eradicator for the Warhound & Reaver, and the Volkite Destructor for the Warlord
"Brother please Revive me, I have Volkite"
"Some place their trust in warships, and some in weapons of destruction. But we remember the divine Emperor. They are brought down and fallen; but we are risen and victorious.
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