Bolters: a 3D Breakdown in 5 minutes
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I own a bolter for home defense since that's what the Emperor of Mankind intended
4 Heretics break into my Fortress Monastery
3 chaos cultists break into my domicile. "What the emperor?"
It shouldn't matter what type of bolter rounds I own.
The emperor expects all humans to be proficient in the operation of firearms.
@@applepiepieapple5464as i grab my cawl patten bolt rifle and mark 10 tatictus power armor helmet
Darktide's use of the bolter is one of my favorite examples of just how uncontrollable the bolter truly is in human hands. Even with a considerably smaller version, you can see every time the bolter is fired it looks like it's about to be thrown over the veteran's shoulder or how much of a struggle it is to reload it during a firefight due to its sheer G I R T H .
The smaller bolters are essentially .50 cal handheld "rifles". It's a miracle normal people can even use them.
and the recoil on those things is insane i love it
get up close to a miniboss and go full auto and shave a good chunk of it's health away.
@@davisdf3064 The bolter in Darktide kicks way harder than it should for a .50 cal
@@davisdf3064 All bolters are .75 in the new cannon im pretty sure.
"Depleted deuterium" is still warhammer scientific accuracy at its finest. Deuterium is already a stable isotope of hydrogen, there is nothing to deplete. And the point of having dpleted uranium ammo is to make it as dense as possible. Deuterium is denser than protium, which make it only the second least dense atom.
yeah that makes 0 sense as an explosive charge in a very small bullet all things considered.
A member of the Inquisition will be visiting you shortly to "correct" your heretical so called "science."
Thank you, I snorted my drink when I heard that part...
maybe however they "deplete" it makes it more dense
Some of the later lore tried to correct this by getting rid of "deuterium core" and replacing it with "metallic core." So, it was kinda fixed. I guess simplest way to explain away the older lore is that the meaning of "deuterium" changed at some point over the course of 38,000 years?
_"The standard bolter round is .75 calibre with a _*_super-dense metallic core_*_ and diamantine tip."_
*- Deathwatch RPG Core Rulebook, pg. 146*
Correction: Throughout the Great Crusade, and the Horus Heresy, the Astartes legions made use of the Phobos pattern boltgun as their standard issue service weapon. THAT one was .70cal. The Astartes-grade Godwyn pattern, was stepped up to .75, and the MKII Cawl pattern series inherited this caliber. And occasionally, Astartes during the Crusade and Heresy would make use of the Umbra-Ferrox pattern, chambered for a smaller caliber than the Phobos, firing non-explosive rounds which would impart overall less destruction on each target, but had increased penetrating power due to their solid heavy metal cores.
I thought the Godwyn patterns were .998cal ?
@@cadendains8106 No. The Godwyn pattern Bolter is .75 caliber. The “998” was always referring to the Bolter’s model number, not the caliber.
_“998. model bolter: Godwyn pattern with ammo counter, sinister/dexter locking mechanism and sickle magazine containing 30 rounds of .75 calibre bolts with diamantine tips, depleted deuterium core & mass reactive detonators. Fires in 4 round bursts.”_
*- Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 11*
@@cadendains8106 The materials are confusing and misleading, I thought so to for a long time. de'Az pattern are smallest for human use, Godwyn .75 cal for Astartes, and full 1 cal for heavy bolters.
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@@cadendains8106 that is heavy bolter sized rounds, though your confusion likely comes from GW them selves forgetting the .998 being the model number year of adoption as being a caliber size.
How the hell do you make such high-quality content with such little appreciation for what you do? I really admire your dedication, man.
I second this! I love your style. What programs do you use?
It really is incredible. Warhammer is a hobby and people express it in many ways!
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@@AndroidFerretIn the grand scheme of youtube it seems small. People are used to hundreds of thousands of views, and even a million views on some channels are considered a bad thing. What is implied here is that this level of quality seems like it comes from a channel with much higher views, and thus should have much higher views and more praise. A thing I think we can all agree on. Concise, easy to digest dialogue with impressive visuals, this channel will see great success as Warhammer gets more attention. This video is still climbing as well, proof that the quality is high and deserves widespread attention and praise. Since your comment the views have more than doubled. :)
These animations and voiceovers are priceless. You my friend are one of a kind. Not like those AI people who reuse other people's content.
Yeah ngl especially now there’s a fuckton of AI channels posting shorts. Its even worse when the channel spread misinformation but since the AI voice is in fluent English with deep voice, newer viewers immediately assume it to be true.
@Tiku- you'd think it's because they're very good at manipulating people. Truth is people are dumb, which makes it easy to manipulate them.
“Palm print detection” through armored gloves.
So stupid.
A better idea. It scans the armor's ID chip via frequency or something, then it scans through the armor, and recognize the gene markers.
@ definitely better. The judge dredd style “dna verification handle” just doesn’t make sense here, especially because astartes can use spare bolters.
Power armor isn't just armor. It also has a host of internal sensors that could likely send the bolter detection system a palm print through the armor using these sensors. As for Astartes using spare bolters, it may recognize friendly Astartes through some kind of set chapter database or simply not all bolters have this feature.
_"Matteus smiled darkly beneath his helmet, then stooped to the ground. He ran his fingers through the packed red dust whilst a host of internal sensors calculated its density and consistency. Once battle was joined it would fill the air in a choking cloud but would do little to impede the senses of the Adeptus Astartes."_
*- The Gildar Rift, pg. 171*
@ all of these are better ideas than what was shared in this video.
I created a Godwyn Pattern Bolter model in Blender and 3D-printed it at a 1:1 scale for someone who does Warhammer 40K cosplay. The bolter was so large that I had to print it in nine separate parts. The printing process took a total of 250 hours and used two spools of filament. After sanding and painting it, I was really pleased with the final result. I earned $500 from this project, and it has inspired me to consider starting an online store that sells cosplay props for Warhammer 40K.
It's worth mentioning that unlike other fictional materials in 40k, like adamantium or ceramite, deuterium actually exists, and it's just a stable isotope of water.
It's been added as the author had clearly heard of depleted uranium in shells but wanted it "more sci-fi". However, adding water to the end of a projectile has the opposite effect of a very dense metal like uranium. Bolters rounds would actually be quite ineffective.
Nothing like blessing my sacred bolter to send high velocity exploding holy water at the heretics.
I think the deuterium is supposed to be the explosive part of the bolter, the diamantine tip is supposed to be the penetrator. Though as far as im aware, deuterium isnt particularly great for going boom, at least not more than hydrogen.
@CrazyDutchguys it's just water, not explosive at all. I'm pretty sure it's just the original author not knowing what it actually is and he's just used the "rule of cool". Deuterium sounds cool.
It's a hydrogen isotope... not water. As in it has a proton and a neutron instead of just a proton. No water included
@austinbrightwell2405 I guess because Deuterium is called Heavy water, which is very similar to water, but not actually water as such.
I'm not sure about the depleted part though, I can find examples of Deuterium depleted water which is water with deuterium atoms removed, but I'm not entirely sure what depleted deuterium would be.
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3:39 that's combi bolters. Storm boltors are made from the get go as a double barreled version, not slapped together like the first ones.
No combi bolters are typically two weapons in one often time combi bolters feature either under slung needle rifle snipers or miniature plasma and verrrrryyy rarely volkite weaponry
@marcdman6229 no, thats just combi weapons. The boltor is a given, so when you have a combi-volkite or a combi-melta it's a boltor with either attached. Just check the lexicanum.
You are thinking of "twin-linked" Bolters where they are indeed two bolters in a chasis but the Storm bolter is mechanically the same just the frame has a unified trigger mechanism rather than two side by side with a jerry rigged single trigger. The storm bolter also has a shorter barrel as it's more for room clearing or ship boarding actions where you don't really need to aim to hit much. Combi weapons are typically two different weapons like an under slung nade launcher in real life it can be a plasma gun or flamer and in some cases even a melta gun which is bonkers to think of an under slung anti-tank weapon but it is a space marine so chances are he could need it. In lore more than once storm bolter and twin-linked bolter have been used as though they were same thing as well as used as though they were two different types of weapons but in 7th they were shown to be different though I doubt it matters much as they are all being phased out for the primaris stuff sadly.... Storm bolters are fun.
@@taliawtf6944 nope, he's right. Storm bolters are double-barrelled bolter with a single magazine feed. Combi-bolter also includes the rougher combination of two bolters into one weapon.
@@taliawtf6944two of the same weapon glued together is also considered combi weapons
Cant wait to see this channel blow up. No one is doing WH content like this
Perturabo: "No, I won't drop you onto the citadel, you'll have to climb"
Gotta love how they made the bolter a gyrojet - a weapon whose main advantage is low recoil and lighter weight - and then made it shoot the shells like a regular gun before the rocket ignites. All the recoil of a regular gun and all the complexity of a gyrojet.
"Hurr durr a helldiver could survive being hit by a bolter, their armor is made of the same metal as the destroyer hull."
My brother in christ your helldiver armor is going to end up in a different postal code from the torn up fleshy remains of your helldiver.
Yup. Hell-Divers ain't got anything on 40k. Only universe that can ROFLMAO-stomp 40k is the Xeelee Sequence. Stephen Baxter understood power-scaling.
I can assure you the armor will survive....not the helldiver tho 💀
Tell me you havent played helldivers without telling me you havent played helldivers.
@piuli95 I have 400 hours on Helldivers 2. I recently picked up Space Marine 2 and from everything I've seen so far, the standard Helldiver armor which is made of like a Titanium composite alloy is comical. It is the equivalent of Stormtrooper armor, at which it performs fantasticly.
Compared to Ceramite coated Plasteel and adamantine though it is a piece of tin foil when it comes to bolter fire.
@@vadenummela9353 Ive survived direct blast from a hellbomb wearing democracy protects, explain that.
Just wanted to let you know that youve become my favorite 40k channel i love these videos and the cool style you use
4:15 a bit inaccurate here, anyone can get a bolter in the imperium, hack the local shoes shop in necromunda sells them, it's the astartes one that will get you in troubles
Wow what a good Warhammer channel. It feels like watching documentarys about past engagements, technologies and characters of the Warhammer universe. Please keep up with the great videos 👍👍.
3:47 that’s 200mm. I refuse to believe a .75 cal projectile is capable of over-penetrating (passing fully through) a Tiger 1…
It has been a while since I subbed to a Warhammer 40K channel, most of the new ones are AI regurgitating the same lore. I like this though, short, concise but clearly a lot of effort has gone into it, nice one dude!
Phobos Bolter came first actually, but, still cool
And umbra came after phobos, godwyn is one of the most recent patterns
and most before Godwyn do not use .75
To my perspective, firing a bolter is like rapid firing an RPG but holding a big gun
a .75cal is only 19mm so like half the size of a modern grenade launcher. it would have about as mush Kick as a magnum 12gage slug. people have no sense of scale. go look up the xM25 it's a 25mm multi purpose payload gun.
Can't wait to see where you go man, I love seeing moments from the Heresy being portrayed. I would love to see something on the Great Siege of Lesser Damantyne at some point. Dantioch deserves some love.
Nice work dude! The effort you put into this is clear to see and I can't wait to see what you do next!
Believe it or not, we have invented bolt guns and used them in combat. I would like to introduce you to the XM-29 the modern day Warhammer 40K bolt gun, it was discontinued because it technically qualifies as a war crime, makes sense that the astartes carry these though.
>How about we stick to bolters together
top mechanicus engineering
Hey, night haunter I really love your video essays and the visuals explaining it makes me feel like rediscovering 40K all over again. Thank you
Bolters are both a very deadly weapons and a Psychological weapons . Imagine being a soldier on a planet in war with the Imperium and seeing your battle brothers litterally turn into Tomato soup .
Honestly think the cawl pattern bolt rifle is the best thing to happen. The charging handle and ejection port is finally inline with the chamber 😊
Nothing say "cleanse the alien" more clearly than a bolt round whistling through the air!
Don’t wholly agree with the emperor being its designer as it is evidently a STC design. Bolters are weapon left behind from the age of tech and can could be found on other worlds during the great crusade. Eg: Caliban and the Orijan Technocracy.
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He's not, when horus met the Auretian Technocracy they had power armour and bolters, big E probably sized it up but the originals was for baseline humans not the otherway around.
@@lokensicarius9347 plus the thunder warriors to my memory used bolters and early version of power armor which was an improvement upon the designs of the other technobarbians.
Hey man I just want to say that your videos are awesome, all the ones I have watched so far are such high quality. And I think your large increase in views is reflective of that, I think you have a fery bright future as far as TH-cam is aware, and im all here for it. Keep making these awesome videos, theres nothing else in 40k quite like it, cheers.
If you can keep up the quality of these videos, I can see your channel getting big. Underrated right now, but I am looking forward to where you are in a year. Great stuff so far.
The Battle of Gaduaré demonstrate how horrific and deadly bolters were.
Also, really good video!
I'm currently reading Angel Exterminatus and automatically knew the start of the video was how the book starts. Great timing
there are something like 13 varients and updates to the Godwyn bolter since the heresy, bolters, power armour, plasma and las weapons are some of the few techs that have always been in development and improving since the heresy. the Multi laser is a M41 pattern weapon before GW retconed it to being a thing on HH era solar Aux units. storm bolter was a new piece of kit from like M40 with a bunch of issues as per Space hulk and why they jam in that game. the newest pattern is from mid M41. Cawls patterns are just his mark that gets general adoption do to building them for millennium so big stock piles. Having the Regents backing to side step the usual red tape that stopped Mark VIII power armour from being the main marine armour.
3:24
Just wait till everyone realizes the Heavy Bolt Pistol is just a Godwyn pattern with a shorter Magazine
Imagine being a Firstborn Marine and seeing your bread and butter bolter is just a sidearm for the Primaris Astartes
The Emprah smiles upon your work brother! You have honored yourself and your chapter.
One thing to note. The heavier large framed bolt guns would have much less felt recoil then a smaller firearm shooting the same projectile. This is due to the gun itself stabalizing the shot due to its increased wheight. This is further adjusted considering that a longer barrel generally increases recoil as the expanding gasses push back against the frame of the fire arm for a longer duration as the round is pusshed along the barrel of the gun. On the plus side the increase of pressure over a longer period of time as the munitions travel down that barrel increases both the mussle velosity, and the stabilization of the projectile as it is subject to more revolutions due to the barrels 'rifling'.
The fact that the core of the rocket is depleted deuterium is so funny because deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen
@3:55 You can almost see the Space Marine smiling in anticipation!
I really do appreciate with the folks from the Adeptus Mechanicus take the time to put together instructional videos like this one so my simple civilian brain can learn things better. Glory to Emperor and Praise be to the Omnissiah
A bolt gun bullet is basically "how much death can we cram into a single bullet as possible?"
You got it slightly wrong on Stormbolter. The twin-Godwyn bolter is not used by Astartes, but by Ecclesiarchy, called Godwyn-Deaz. The other version made by joining the 2 bolters was "Combi-Bolter" and is now used mostly by Chaos Astartes.
Stormbolter does not use 2 bolters, but rather employs twin-barreled design with double feed system from a single ammo drum.
My man Kruger rocking that mkX primaris helmet ten centuries before it was made, what a baller.
🤓 its a mk4 maximus
Another BANGER, this new style is really working bro!
Bless you, tech-adept, for preserving holy knowledge without the perversion of abominable intelligence voicing your work
May your machine spirits forever be strong
I love that if the Emperor is around, the bolters would be outdated for about 2 - 3 hundreds year later with entirely new weapon created for perhaps entirely new space marine generation. But in 40k? 10 thousands years later ppl still use the exact same design, with the newest update being added modifications and sometime roughly improvise variants like double boltgun glued together.
Spectacular breakdown with great visuals! The fact that it reaches its maximum kinetic energy and armor penetrating potential at a certain distance also acts as a clever in-universe explanation as to why chainswords and thunder hammers are a viable option; if an astartes gets too close, a bolter won't be able to pierce his armor, so your only remaining option is to engage in glorious melee!
I've always considered the fact that armors are so advanced in 40k that closing distance and fighting close quarters is just very viable. Also standard bolter rounds are meant for softer targets than space marines, and not as effective anyway.
Great video, i would like to see a breakdown of more space marine equipment in this style, its something thats always interested me especially if and how marines would carry supplies for long missions
The way the bolter works and the way it is portrayed are very at odds with each other. A 19mm rocket assisted round would not only look smaller then that, but the recoil would be lower then a conventional 20mm AMR; which while it would suck is hardly unusable by normal humans if given a proper stock.
Ah but they don't usually have a stock now do they? Honestly I don't really subscribe to the "it'll break your body" recoil explanation. Not when "The holy bolter is reserved for His Angels" is plenty enough reason why humans don't get to use them.
Bolt rounds are two-stage. They have an extremely powerful first stage charge that fires the round out like a conventional .75 caliber bullet, giving it a high muzzle velocity. This initial charge is why a Bolter suffers none of the drawbacks that a real gyrojet gun has when firing at close range targets (you could literally stop the round of a real world gyrojet gun by putting your hand in front of muzzle.) This is where the consistently stated "rip your arm from its socket" extreme recoil comes from for Astartes grade bolters.
Great video! Looking forward for the next week's Istvan!
Great stuff mate! This what I love....and I'm here for it. Happy Christmas and have a great next year. Keep em coming. ;)
In comparision to modern weapons the bolter is an incredible destructive weapon. This is often overlooked.
If the bolters have cameras so they can aim, then what's the point of the new Cawl-Pattern having a SCOPE??
cawl's boys must get their own exclusive toys!
The bolter: A weapon that while extremely dangerous by design, is one of the few weapons that gets more dangerous the closer it gets to its 'optimal' range. Those rounds continuing to accelerate until either terminal velocity in their environment, or out of its propellant. Which means... It's armor penetrating value at 300 meters is better than its value at 100. Assuming that 200 meter gap is continuous acceleration.
I imagine a normal human could use a bolt-rifle, but it would likely be a heavy marksman’s rifle if so, forced to be mounted like a heavy bolter or auto-cannon.
Ah yes the Bolter that has space manipulating mags that can store bullets that far exceeds the magazine size.
This channel is really going places.
0:12 I think you forgot to swap the primaris helmet for the old helmet. It's kinda weird because he does have the correct horus heresy chest piece with the straps, and at the beginning, you can see one with the aquila, so clearly there was some modification.
Also, a storm bolter is not just two bolters strapped together, that would be the the combi bolter. A storm bolter has much more extensive modifications.
Edit: Never mind, you use the same helmet in the entire video
Edit2: On second thought, that might just be the mark 4 Maximus armour that has the same looking helmet. Compleatly forgot about that one.
I hardly know enough lore to comment on the various types of sm armor, but wasn't there a brief period where space marines were supposed to universally receive armor with respective helmets similar (but not the same) as modern day primaris helmets?
@@therealw04 Yeah, the mark 4 maximumus armour has the same looking helmet as the primaris armour. I admit I forgot about about it and it definitly could be that.
Also, not really related to this, but a lot of the time the armout was heavily modified, with the helmets being swapped around a bunch, not to mention that legions often had their own helmet type.
Damn my man, your subs are skyrocketing! Congratulations on everything you've accomplished man! Great content 😊
people calling bolters minitature grenade/rocket launcher never sits right with me, i rather compare them to ww2 era antitank guns, except fully automatic and handholdable (by astartes but still) AND used for normal anti-infantry warfare. Sure theyd rather see a multi-las or two staffed by guardsmen mow down an enemy horde, but an astartes would still manage aswell. For the sheer shrapnel effect that these bolt rounds cause to the human body, as morbid as it is.
Either way, wonderful video, cant wait for more. Nice narration, animation, informative but no lore dump either. Keep em coming !
fully auto grenade launchers exist bro
They sure do in 40k, too, I'd assume, but calling a bolter that just doesn't sit right with me
This is incredible, you are incredible, keep up the good work. The Emperor protects!
love this vid but those intro astartes shouldn't be primarus
it might be mark4
Those aren't Primaris tho. I know they got the Maximus face plate angle wrong but the chest plate is correct.
@@eyeballpapercut4400knee guards says mkx in some part of the vids
Standard bolt shells actually suck against Astartes Power Armor. That's why Kraken Penetrators and Banestrike Rounds were developed. Hell, Banestrike was first openly used during the Drop Site Massacre to great effect against the Loyalist Legions.
Depleted Deuterium, lmao. It gets me every time. Some fool wrote that, and everyone reads it in full seriousness. My guys, Deuterium is Hydrogen isotope. Depleted means it is not isotipe anymore, so just plain Hydrogen. Hydrogen is the most light element in periodic table, and most common gas in universe. Stop reading depleted Deuterium. Get some help.
lol and the 40k Fandom/Wikia page for bolter has long censored the use of the phrases "depleted deuterium" and "deuterium core" and does not replace them with uranium or any other element
Well, it's canon so 🤷
@@techa6336 everything is cannon nothing is true lmao
Bro thinks he’s smarter than the God Emperor of Mankind
The least dumb and brainwashed heretic right here
Subscribed so fast after the Fulgrim video! Keep working hard man!!
I use a boltgun for homeworld defense, just as the Emperor of Mankind intended.
I demand we broadcast this out to the cosmos so no xeno dont get uppitty and think they can take on Earth pre-Imperium
Wonderful visuals, good quote from the Iron 4th
AMAZING CONTENT!! Hope to see more!!
Fantastic Animation. Subbed.
The bolter can break some people’s bones with one shot WHEN shooting it. That’s why bolters are given to space marines because space marines are strong er and more able to handle holding a bolt rifle than a normal human, so bolters are standard issue for space marines
In Italy we have a very inspired and evocative translation for the bolter: requiem rifle, where requiem is the Latin word for eternal rest
Small note. The example used of the Space marine for the iron warriors were primaris marines, indicated by their mk X tacticus armor, whereas Iron Warriors more commonly adorn mk 3, 4 & 5.
Only one question remains: How does the bullet already explode when hitting a soft human but still only explodes after penetrating a space marine armor at the same time?
I imagine it’s the same as aphe shells used in cannons. After penetrating a minimum amount of material the fuse inside the shell is started. After a certain distance, the payload explodes. This is timed to detonate inside the target, and could potentially be updated real time by more advanced tech in the futuristic shell.
the original bolters had zero recoil (they're semi-automatic caseless gyrojet rounds) and were suspensor-fitted so, weighed very little. It's mildly interesting they forget about lore tech over time. End up chaps walking around with equipment that you'd need a forklift to move without any idea how they do that, and yet they imply they're aware suspensors are a thing with so many other bits of junk. I mean you could never take any of it seriously, the main weapon of the grimdark has always been hyperbole, but it seems to get sillier and sillier.
3:58
"Mortal, what in the Emperor's name are you doing?"
It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to make larger bolters that normal humans could fire easily by just adjusting the charge in the rounds. Gyrojet rounds have existed irl for decades, and the guns that fire them have little to no actual recoil, because 90% of the force that propels the round comes from the rocket propellant that fires after the round has left the barrel.
I really hate the silhouette of the new bolters. It’s a small thing, but it just isn’t the same as the classic design
Yeah. I understand the logic of making the longer-barrelled bolter be standard issue... I just like the more compact-looking Godwyn much more.
The gaurdsman would have jumped over the railing with a vest of krak grenades
If the smaller bolt gun still fires the same sized round, it would actually kick more.
Stormbolters Are more than just 2 bolters clued together. This would be a combibolter. Stormbolters are synchronized and finer, used by loyalists, the traitors still use old combi patterns
i love the style of these
You cool 3d animator!Never stop
Mom i want a bolter
we have a bolter at home
the bolter at home: the JAR-5 Dominator from Helldivers 2
The bolt gun this particular traitor marine would be using is almost certainly a smaller calibre tigrus, phobos or umbra pattern bolter from the Heresy Era. The godwyn is a more recent design.
In effect, calling it a bolt "gun" is a misnomer. It's more like a magazine-fed repeating rocket launcher
It's kind of in a grey-area between gun and rocket, it does use an initial charge to launch the bolt out; like a gun, but most of the force is generated by a rocket motor. By today's classifications it would be a gun, but gun and rocket aren't really mutually exclusive.
This channel is amazing
3:40
Alright, 1 bolt gun's fire power isn't enough for this mission.
What if we strap another bolt gun to that bolt gun?
You're a genius!
Combi-bolters were made to be used alongside Terminator armour, since the stronger servos in that, alongside the increased difficulty the wearer has with easily reloading makes a larger capacity gun with doubled firing capacity the perfect match.
This dude deserves a Dimond play button already ❤
I want to see a 3D Breakdown about Bolter Pistol and Bolter Revolver.
I think the bit at 3:51 has been WAY overblown by the wh40k community and whatever initial writers put this idea out there
a space marine sized bolter would weigh well over 4 dozen pounds, the sheer weight of it combined with the fact that the only thing generating recoil when it's fired is a kicker charge, means the recoil would be incredibly light, considering the power of the round
now a space marine bolter would still be atrocious in the hands of an unaugmented human, but that's due to the sheer weight and bulk of the piece, not the recoil, which at the absolute peak I would put it on par with large stopping rifles chambered in 600 or 700 NE, so still hefty, but absolutely not the arm breaker people like to think
For context, Deuterium is a isotope for hydrogen, and is the second ingredient for Heavy water (D2O)
Amazing work man!
Thank you for these animations they are very helpful.
Just one little nerd thing is i hope you scaled the space marines to appropriate scale.
If you look at old codexes pre 6th edition they are always 7 feet tall in armor.
Primaries are 8 feet tall in armor. They confirmed this on a twitter post. Sadly and disappointingly, they don't put this in the codexes anymore.
And an RPG book gives them a height variation of 7 foot to 7'6 feet and 8 feet to 8'6 feet rolling a dice.
But the base standard is always 7 and 8 feet
It's why i am always slightly angry when people start using fan made height charts, which are inaccurate.
Hope this info helps in future videos for more accuracy.