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  • @BertramMoranda
    @BertramMoranda Рік тому +255

    Important to note that the only reason Conversion Beam Weapons exist in the lore is so GW could make a reference to Blade Runner's greatest line : "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."

    • @leovaeg
      @leovaeg Рік тому +22

      worth it

    • @foxbat51
      @foxbat51 Рік тому +20

      Ha, that never occurred to me. Every day is a school day.

    • @watts18269
      @watts18269 Рік тому +9

      25 years of being into 40k and a fan of blade runner my whole life and never made the connection 😂 thanks!

    • @TimJohniLL
      @TimJohniLL 9 місяців тому +1

      Is that confirmed

    • @tomgarside480
      @tomgarside480 4 місяці тому +1

      Conversion beamers are mentioned in laserburn which I think came out before blade runner I think conversion beamers must be from old sci-fi

  • @morganhay3968
    @morganhay3968 Рік тому +81

    I think my favourite 'Imperium weapon trivia' is that according to the original Rogue Trader, Las-cannons are also known as 'Blazoogas'.

    • @Baalur
      @Baalur Рік тому +9

      'Blazoogas' sounds inappropiate somehow.

    • @pretzelbomb6105
      @pretzelbomb6105 11 місяців тому +13

      @@Baalur Sounds like the kind of thing a guardsman says shortly before a sororitas caves his face in.

    • @DavidManser
      @DavidManser 4 місяці тому

      Bazooka meets Lazer - ahhh Rogue Trader, you never disappoint with the realistically goofy!

  • @JimCarr
    @JimCarr Рік тому +132

    Please please do a complete series of this, all the weapons for all the factions - this is brilliant, I love the combination of lore and "how to tell what weapon your little toy soldier has" 😄

    • @leovaeg
      @leovaeg Рік тому +2

      Agreed - would be entertaining AND useful :)

    • @daelnelbel
      @daelnelbel Рік тому +5

      Makes me want to see his reaction of the Orkz guns…. The Shokk Attack Gun just shoots a goblin (it’s usually a snotling, but don’t need to get into that discussion here) through Space-hell, only to hope that the goblin rematerializes inside of the target in a lethal (for the target) way…. Sure it occasionally rips a hole in reality itself, sure it sometimes teleports the Big Mek that shot it, and sure sometimes the goblin appears in midair and instantly splatters anything within 20 feet of it with liquid goblin, but no matter what, the Big Mek’s gonna have a laugh…. Unless the big Mek dies, then someone else has a laugh.

  • @jakethadley
    @jakethadley Рік тому +217

    I know it'd be an insane amount of work, but I'd love to see you do a run down of all the main xenos firearms!
    Tyranids in particular would be fun, they have some *really* gruesome things available...

    • @felis1977
      @felis1977 Рік тому +8

      I love Tyranids and all of their obviously phallic guns but I pity anyone not into Tyranids to actually try to memorize and recognize them all :)

    • @arthurhill8185
      @arthurhill8185 Рік тому

      @@felis1977 so basically, you've got the weird dicks, the weird dicks with spikes on, the weird bitey dicks, the weird veiny dicks, the weird dicks with tentacles, and the spinefist.

    • @darudy
      @darudy Рік тому +2

      I second to this

    • @murphy7801
      @murphy7801 Рік тому +2

      Tau weapons, you can pretend it's whatever because 90% people don't know

    • @eriksieurin334
      @eriksieurin334 Рік тому

      I agree!

  • @Michael_Raymond
    @Michael_Raymond Рік тому +59

    It feels weird to be watching a video like this without an appearance by Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum

    • @ahsanzee
      @ahsanzee 9 місяців тому +3

      In my suggested videos, there is a "Firearm Expert Reacts to Warhammer 40k Darktide's Guns" video featuring Jonathan Ferguson right next to this comment. 😂

    • @Michael_Raymond
      @Michael_Raymond 9 місяців тому

      @@ahsanzee it’s doubly hilarious because they’re both in the UK

    • @DanielGreen-j4c
      @DanielGreen-j4c 13 днів тому

      His reaction to space marine 2 guns is also epic

    • @DanielGreen-j4c
      @DanielGreen-j4c 13 днів тому +1

      Ps cudos for using his full name 😅

  • @Rurik_Luci
    @Rurik_Luci Рік тому +2

    2:30 Remember when a .75 caliber hole isn't a big enough middle finger. Make it explode.

  • @euansmith3699
    @euansmith3699 Рік тому +26

    I really enjoy Ian's videos. They are clear, concise, and, most importantly for the grim darkness of the future, comedic.

    • @darudy
      @darudy Рік тому +1

      He is great

  • @matthewcampbell3146
    @matthewcampbell3146 Рік тому +64

    So chaos use pretty much the same guns as the imperium so here's the Xenos guns.
    Eldar: long, sleek, smooth, and uses some kinda magnet to throw projectlies.
    Dark Eldar: long, sleek, uses some kinda magnet to throw projectiles, and are Spikey.
    Tau guns: thin, blocky looking laser rifles with a smooth round bit somewhere on them. Looks abit like designer kitchen ware.
    Tyranid guns: HR Giger drew a rifle and stuck it on an angry bug. Uses acids or living ammo.
    Votann Guns: like space marine guns but smaller.
    Necron guns: stripped down, minimalist engery weapons with a green tube in the middle and some type of spike on the end.
    Gene stealer cults: the same guns normal humans use.
    Ork guns: a pile of scrap cobbled togther to sort of look like a gun. Runs on hopes and dreams.

    • @alexsmith7313
      @alexsmith7313 Рік тому +2

      The Necrons have a really cool Staff Weapon called a ‘Synaptic Obliterator’; it projects gauss plasma through a target into their internals and blows them up from the inside out. Gnarly.

    • @nekrataali
      @nekrataali Рік тому +5

      Alternative description: Ork weapons prove Mikhail Kalashnikov to be the greatest weapon designer of all-time.

    • @pyroglyphics
      @pyroglyphics Рік тому +3

      Bro your description of Tau weapons is so spot on😂😂.
      I am so using that to heckle my mate who plays a Tau killteam.

    • @samhunter1205
      @samhunter1205 Рік тому +3

      I thought the original lore for shuriken weapons was that they used some form of gravitational singularity to catapult the projectile (hence the weird bulbous sections, particularly on the older models). Sadly GW don't seem to bother with lore like that any more so I can't be sure I have remembered that correctly.

    • @nekrataali
      @nekrataali 11 місяців тому +1

      @@samhunter1205 I think the bulbous sections are where the crystal is stored that gets shaved to create the projectiles. Shuriken/splinter weapons work by scrapping off tiny bits of a special crystal, then launching them at high speeds. Since F = MA, the tiny particles are capable of shredding through limbs. But they're smaller than bullets, so they can be difficult to remove or can get between armor plates. The crystals themselves are enough to provide enough ammo for the duration of the weapon's life.
      Basically, they're weaponized sandblasters.

  • @martinconway8174
    @martinconway8174 Рік тому +12

    This is the kind of thing most 40K UA-camrs skip, but is vital work. Excellent video right here

  • @Malky24
    @Malky24 Рік тому +7

    Orks: whatever they've managed to cobble together. Every bullet is fired at a different velocity and there's probably a few random energy blasts coming out of it for good measure. It will almost certainly have a knife strapped/welded to it as well.
    Thanks for watching.

    • @pretzelbomb6105
      @pretzelbomb6105 11 місяців тому

      If an Ork is holding it, it's probably a gun. If it isn't a gun, it's probably a knife. If it's neither, he's still fully capable of and willing to murder you with it.

  • @MartyFreeze
    @MartyFreeze Рік тому +24

    Thank you for this video! When I was putting together my first Death Guard minis, I was having conniption fits because I couldn't tell what weapon was what and the packed in material was not very helpful. Please make more of these weapons of the factions videos! informative and entertaining!

  • @NoxMortem
    @NoxMortem Рік тому +3

    "That Guardsman pissed me off..." "What did you do?" "I issued him a Plasma Gun" ;)

  • @bad-people6510
    @bad-people6510 11 місяців тому +2

    I'd say another drawback of the bolter outside the hands of an eight-foot tall super goon is that the projectile they fire is only marginally smaller than a 20mm anti-aircraft shell. So there's some recoil.

  • @normtrooper4392
    @normtrooper4392 Рік тому +61

    My favorite imperial weapon is the psycannon. Nothing screams imperial like shooting mind bullets

    • @HistoritorJimaldus
      @HistoritorJimaldus Рік тому +11

      🎵 Wonder booooooy! 🎵

    • @0452514
      @0452514 Рік тому +3

      That's Telekinesis Kyle...

    • @pierrelindgren5727
      @pierrelindgren5727 Рік тому +5

      The Banesword. Firing shells containing fragments of worlds that have undergone Exterminatus. Death on an unimaginable scale callously weaponized into a fortress-buster.

    • @jimhughes3961
      @jimhughes3961 Рік тому +5

      "How about the power to kill a heretic from 200 yards away! WITH PSYCANNONS!
      Thats the power of Bolters brother, the power to move you"

    • @flonkplonk1649
      @flonkplonk1649 Рік тому +1

      Grey Knights only..

  • @alexandermee989
    @alexandermee989 9 місяців тому +1

    10:38 Bullets go here is an excellent caption.

  • @mistformsquirrel
    @mistformsquirrel Рік тому +2

    I just want to say the way you said "Craaaazy Science Guns" is now my headcanon for Tech-Priests explaining any new weapons to Guard regiments.

  • @marrvynswillames4975
    @marrvynswillames4975 Рік тому +1

    1:58 Bolters
    5:44 Lasgun
    8:28 Autoguns
    10:45 Stubbers
    12:14 Launchers
    12:46 Flamers
    14:22 Grav Guns
    15:40 Melta Guns
    17:00 Plasma Guns
    18:42 Volkite Guns
    20:12 Needler Guns
    21:09 Conversion Beamers

  • @Hartmansgrad
    @Hartmansgrad Рік тому +10

    I guess if you can see C-beams glittering down from as far as the tanhauser gate, you're going to need better than a 3+ armour save

  • @kieranbeecroft8414
    @kieranbeecroft8414 Рік тому +2

    Im gutted you skipped the Assault cannon and though it was in the images, you never spoke about the webber... best 2nd ed surprise weapon ever!

  • @krulla
    @krulla 11 місяців тому +1

    My favorite Warhammer gun fact is that quite a few models with heavy stubbers have what is just straight up a real life world war 1 vintage M1919 Browning machine gun.
    I just love the notion that design is still in use unchanged 38 thousand years later.

  • @goalden5350
    @goalden5350 Рік тому +3

    “I’m not American. I don’t know anything about guns”. Massive LOL moment 😂

  • @Pantouflor
    @Pantouflor Рік тому +3

    Oh, good take to remark that the boltgun is a terror weapon!
    In the middle of a fantasy universe where Napoleonic wars and Mars Attack green laser beams are on the same battlefield, one weapon makes sense. And it's for psychological warfare!

  • @ReneAlbertoZuritaSanchez
    @ReneAlbertoZuritaSanchez Рік тому +2

    I just love your approach to content creation, it is informative, concise and fun. Thanks!

  • @scottywan82
    @scottywan82 Рік тому +3

    The utter exhaustion by the end. 😂 Thank you, Ian. We appreciate your hard work.

  • @ericjome7284
    @ericjome7284 Рік тому +10

    Would love to see melee and alien!

  • @CrimsonTemplar2
    @CrimsonTemplar2 Рік тому +3

    Excellent resource. I’d internalized the design cues without realizing it.

  • @dallonrobbins5078
    @dallonrobbins5078 Рік тому +3

    "you should be able to differentiation from your, heat ray and your heat ray and your heat ray" 😂

  • @Silvofox
    @Silvofox Рік тому +3

    The pointers on the weapon schematics, hilarious 😂😂

  • @OnlyRoke
    @OnlyRoke Рік тому +2

    This was awesome! I really hope you might make this into a series eventually and tell us all about the various horrible hell-guns from the Chaos factions and of course the spooky and weird Xenos guns :D

  • @dendronkenfoetus
    @dendronkenfoetus Рік тому +2

    Very fun video! I've seen other channels doing something similar about specific weapons, but Arbitor Ian's tongue-in-cheeck presentation really works :D

  • @johnlander2219
    @johnlander2219 Рік тому +3

    Yey! ‘Unexpected Arbitor’ video, happy days.

  • @alphapink9996
    @alphapink9996 Рік тому +2

    I feel like this whole video was just a set up for that last bit. A+ work, Ian.

  • @apjapki
    @apjapki Рік тому +14

    I've always felt like there should be a significant difference between the massive bolt guns marines use and the kind used by human troops or that show up in Necromunda.

    • @dekai7992
      @dekai7992 Рік тому +13

      There is. But the RPGs tend to have a higher granularity to take that into account than the tabletop game.

    • @Yurt_enthusiast7
      @Yurt_enthusiast7 Рік тому

      Well they did differentiate them now with those ugly bolt rifles that Primaris wield.

    • @flonkplonk1649
      @flonkplonk1649 Рік тому +1

      @@Yurt_enthusiast7they are not ugly at all

    • @Yurt_enthusiast7
      @Yurt_enthusiast7 Рік тому

      @flonkplonk1649 nah they're way to oversized for me, looks like the caricature of a bolter.

    • @flonkplonk1649
      @flonkplonk1649 Рік тому +1

      @@Yurt_enthusiast7 of course they are oversized for you, you're not a Primaris Astartes 😁

  • @hedon6665
    @hedon6665 11 місяців тому

    This was great Ian, for a 'non-gun' guy you did a pretty decent job sorting through all the terminology! Well done! 🤘

  • @ROALD.
    @ROALD. 11 місяців тому

    Your presentation style has developed really nicely, your delivery is much more natural and laid back now. Very easy to watch, cheers

  • @TheMrFishnDucks
    @TheMrFishnDucks Рік тому +1

    Very informative. Thank you for explaining how the exotic and rare weapons function in game and in the lore. Nice video. Keep up the good work.

  • @lukusridley
    @lukusridley Рік тому +6

    Man I really feel like you would enjoy playing Darktide simply to pull out all the guns and shoot them in the meatgrinder. They are so beautifully done and the way they represented the 15-shot locke pattern bolter - just the sheer heft of the thing and the effect it has - is kind of beautiful. I know games of that kind are less up your street but it really made me happy seeing how they had rendered so much stuff I had just read about or seen in rulebooks in first person and beautifully done at that.

  • @wolflordgio6320
    @wolflordgio6320 Рік тому +15

    Surprised you didn’t cover the mechanicus radium and arc weaponry including their lightning guns and digital lasers.

    • @Bluecho4
      @Bluecho4 Рік тому +3

      The point of this video was to sort of cover all the most common Imperium weapons, that cross faction lines. Radium guns are really just an AdMech thing.

    • @flonkplonk1649
      @flonkplonk1649 Рік тому +1

      But Assaultcannon, Onslaughtcannon, Reapercannon? So the Gatlingguns! They are common!

  • @codymusser1555
    @codymusser1555 Рік тому +2

    Great video. Love to see the melee and the xenos vids too!

  • @renyatheviking7470
    @renyatheviking7470 5 місяців тому +1

    Everyone's been saying I gotta give some of my Sisters meltas, now thanks to this vid I know what they look like

  • @ala5530
    @ala5530 Рік тому +2

    While you've missed out the smallest version of a lot of those technologies (the digi-weapon), that's understandable, as something small enough to fit into a ring or other piece of jewellery, is usually too small to be worth sculpting as an option for a model (off the top of my head, the only models with digi weapons actually physically represented were the Rogue Traders from the 54mm Inquisitor game, and the 2nd edition Captain Tycho).
    However, going one step up from a digi-flamer, but smaller than a hand flamer, there's another option, which did actually get models carrying it: the exterminator cartridge. This is a little miniaturized one-shot flamethrower, shrunk to the size of a tacticool accessory you could mount on another weapon, turning it into an ersatz combi-weapon. Unlike a standard combi-flamer, the exterminator wasn't limited to being fitted to a bolt weapon, oh no. You could mount one on ANY weapon, even melee.
    And that's why the exterminator was one of my favourite flamers, because nothing says "fanatical devotion to the God-Emperor" like a chainsaw greatsword that shoots fire...

    • @refoliation
      @refoliation 11 місяців тому +1

      Lmao at there being wearable flamer rings. If you see a guy who has no hair on his knuckles on one of his hands, beware.

  • @ieyasumcbob
    @ieyasumcbob Рік тому +15

    "I'm not an American, i don't know anything about guns" 😂🤣😂

    • @meanmanturbo
      @meanmanturbo 7 місяців тому

      But what about Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history?

  • @johnnywatkins
    @johnnywatkins Рік тому +2

    Great idea for a video, I’d love to see more vids like this for the other factions, I remember starting my dark eldar army and not having a clue which weapon was which, a vid like this would have been super helpful

    • @Bluecho4
      @Bluecho4 Рік тому

      Same. It's especially difficult when collecting older Dark Eldar models, where the designs might have changed. And Drukhari are a fairly niche army, even by Xenos standards, so tracking down the information on their weapons is a lot harder.

    • @ArbitorIan
      @ArbitorIan  Рік тому +4

      Ah yes. Do you want the jaggedy spiky gun or the spiky jaggedy gun?

    • @johnnywatkins
      @johnnywatkins Рік тому +2

      @@ArbitorIan yeah exactly, with for example orc guns what yer shoota is and yer rocket launcha is fairly obvious, but what the hell does a sadist elf blaster look like?

    • @rogerstewart5525
      @rogerstewart5525 Рік тому +2

      The old raider box used to have the dark lance and disintegrator cannon mislabelled. So even gw don't know what our guns look like

  • @Mr_Bunk
    @Mr_Bunk Рік тому +1

    This video has given me the urge to get something that comes with a *warpfire cannon,* because that is the most metal weapon name I’ve ever heard.

  • @lazyc0mmander277
    @lazyc0mmander277 9 місяців тому

    22:34 Honestly, I could use a primer on t'au weapons. Many variants of them that are decently rapid fire and can punch through some armor. And that's ignoring all the fancy high-tech names they have too...

  • @triangulan
    @triangulan Рік тому +1

    I have to say my least favourite weapon for distinctiveness is the Hot-shot volley gun on the Kasrkin. Basically identical to the standard hot-shot gun, except it has a slightly different end of the barrel. Totally indistinct at table top distances. As you say, they have generally managed to make weapons actually quite identifiable, but they ballsed it up with that one.

  • @philvalz
    @philvalz Рік тому +1

    I really like the use of all the Necromunda art.

  • @seanoneill1308
    @seanoneill1308 Рік тому

    Really interesting video!! I'm a Necromunda player and I base all of my gangs around a spine of lasgunners. Good range, never run out of ammo and strength 3/D1, which isn't that punchy but they do just enough to dominate the table if you have height and fields of vision.

  • @Powoga
    @Powoga Рік тому

    18:07 Back when orks also used plasma weapons.
    And I was going to complain about the lack of Mechanicus weapons, but considering that most of them fall in the "only exist on one specific model" range, that's understandable.

  • @peterlicskay827
    @peterlicskay827 Рік тому +12

    I wish you would do a similar video for Xenos and Chaos weapons as well.
    Or at least another like this one for melee weapons! 😊

  • @lamicrobio...engros5427
    @lamicrobio...engros5427 Рік тому +2

    Volkite gun : a microwav gun that turn the ennemy's rank into giant barbecue ! Congrats for the 100k by the way !

  • @EngineerOfVaul
    @EngineerOfVaul Рік тому

    Loved this. Would really like to see a similar video on xenos armament, but I feel like that's gonna be a LONG one considering just how many things you'll have to go through with just the Tau. XD

  • @Squirrelsquid
    @Squirrelsquid Рік тому

    Great video! A video about Chaos and Xeno weapons would be neat too!

  • @Vladislavaklyma
    @Vladislavaklyma Рік тому

    7:43 yay, my Lascannon. Three days ago it literally decapitated a necron Lord. I love my lascannon and my deathwatch corebook]

  • @andyshaw5378
    @andyshaw5378 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely brilliant video Ian. Thank you so much

  • @tHiNk413
    @tHiNk413 Рік тому

    Awesome vid as ever! "Martian Heat Ray(TM)" had me giggling much to hard...

  • @paulcollett762
    @paulcollett762 Рік тому

    Always enjoy your content, but is next level. Hope you do more of these types of shows. The lore vids are great, but this mix of fluff, explanation and description is quite unusual. Awesome work!

  • @gwin2719
    @gwin2719 Рік тому +1

    The bolter is a lot like the real world Gyrojet, interesting weird little development

  • @_gelon
    @_gelon Рік тому +1

    What they do: NOT ENOUGH DAKKA. That's for sure.

  • @gringotom242
    @gringotom242 Рік тому

    This video reminded me of the countless hours i spent reading the second edition wargear book as a kid!

  • @stevenharrison151
    @stevenharrison151 5 місяців тому

    1:51 that is hilarious. A bullpup combi bolter that couldn´t possibly get a round from the magazine into the chamber 😆

  • @steweygrrr
    @steweygrrr Рік тому +2

    A couple of things, this isn't an ACKSHULLY though its more of I like sharing cool stuff, first being las weapons are not _exclusively_ laser weapons. Las is a catchall term for directed energy weapons but laser based weapons do make up the majority. Secondly is that volkite beams don't bounce, they explosively vaporise the targets bodily fluids causing them to detonate and its the flying shards of bone and armour that cause the secondary damage, very much a weapon in line with the purpose of the Astartes. It is my head canon (and therefore official!) that they sound like the heat rays from the 1953 version of The War of The Worlds including the pulsing charge cycle.

    • @ArbitorIan
      @ArbitorIan  Рік тому +2

      See in my headcannon they are 100% Mars Attacks guns. Ack ack ack!

  • @N0-1_H3r3
    @N0-1_H3r3 Рік тому +5

    Inferno Pistols are named that because of a pun.
    The Inferno Pistol was originally a unique weapon carried by the Blood Angels Chapter Master, Commander Dante.
    Thus, it was _Dante's Inferno_ Pistol.

  • @enthusiasticgrog465
    @enthusiasticgrog465 8 місяців тому

    Good to see you referencing the FFG table top RPGs! I recognize those illos

  • @andyconnell7432
    @andyconnell7432 Рік тому

    Cracking video as ever, my favourite had always been the Heat Ray, no, not that one, the other one.

  • @hughcromwell7845
    @hughcromwell7845 Рік тому +1

    Another great video Ian, many thanks.

  • @Raspberrygoop
    @Raspberrygoop Рік тому

    Love your informative videos! Thanks for continuing to make cool stuff, man.

  • @sir_dreadlord_on_blitz7042
    @sir_dreadlord_on_blitz7042 11 місяців тому

    Next Video Idea: melee wepaons in 40k, Like Power wepaons, swords, knifes, Hammers, all the Things you can equip in tabletop

  • @veryblocky
    @veryblocky 11 місяців тому

    You should do this again for some Xenos Factions, would love to see you cover something like Necrons

  • @happyharibo1330
    @happyharibo1330 Рік тому

    Ork Weapons would particualrly intrigue me for a future video idea...

  • @ToTheNines87368
    @ToTheNines87368 Рік тому

    I remember reading a Horus Heresy novel (not which one) where a character used a Volkite gun and there is sounded really OP and rare. Something about it disintegrating people on a molecular level or some such.

  • @Alex-bc3gz
    @Alex-bc3gz Рік тому

    You should do this for other factions too. It took me way too long back in the day to understand witch one was the deveourer and witch was the fleshborer.

  • @Scrombo2
    @Scrombo2 11 місяців тому

    L O V E seeing all these retro shoulder mounted heavy weapons, very fun video, keep on keeping on

  • @raincoast_bear
    @raincoast_bear Рік тому

    Waiting for Ian to tell us about the Conversion Beamer - my favorite example of Rogue Trader overkill.

  • @GH-nk1eu
    @GH-nk1eu Рік тому +1

    That bullpup combi/ plasma bolter is one of the most cursed 40k guns. Who designed that...

  • @BeckiMuttley
    @BeckiMuttley 10 місяців тому

    I am certain in 1996, I had some conversion beam armed space marines. They actually had individual C weapons. I definitely remember it! I just can’t find the minis in amongst all of my legacy models. 😢

  • @rangerlongshot
    @rangerlongshot Рік тому

    I've been a big SFF nerd and a gun owner since the late 60's. I've even fired a Gyrojet, the only firearm ever built that actually shoots rockets. 40K firearms are absurd and make no sense and in most cases are downright silly. That's what I love about them!

  • @DanielGreen-j4c
    @DanielGreen-j4c 13 днів тому

    Humanity in 40K:
    “We have anti gravity powering our speeders and some tanks.”
    Mechanicus: “yeah we can weaponize the crap out of that.”
    Imperium: “cccccooooooolllllll”

  • @Gruntcakes69
    @Gruntcakes69 Рік тому

    Awesome vid thank you! Melee weapons next?

  • @SamuraiMujuru
    @SamuraiMujuru Рік тому +3

    Huh. While the thruster only igniting after the round leaves the barrel makes approximately zero sense, that DOES technically explain why bolt rounds have casings. Presumably contains a charge strong enough to get the round out of the barrel, which would conceivably improve rate of fire compare to existing gyrojet ammunition.

    • @WozWozEre
      @WozWozEre Рік тому +5

      Canon lore shows them having a kicker charge to accelerate the Bolt to a high muzzle velocity before the bolt rocket motor ignites.
      They'd be useless at point blank range otherwise.

    • @jessicalacasse6205
      @jessicalacasse6205 Рік тому +1

      many missile use stagger charge to propel then rocket engine for the rest like ww2 stumtiger rocket mortar

    • @jessicalacasse6205
      @jessicalacasse6205 Рік тому

      and casing are just preprepared ammo you could probly use different charge for different range like naval artillery ...

  • @zipherdias420
    @zipherdias420 Рік тому

    Lol with that "PRIMUS" marque on the grav, I know it means something else but sometimes I like to think some marines pray to Les Claypool.

  • @aldraone-mu5yg
    @aldraone-mu5yg Рік тому +3

    Ian you forgot Phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range.

  • @HeartlessNinny1
    @HeartlessNinny1 Рік тому

    This was a good bit of fun!

  • @mrtyler603
    @mrtyler603 Рік тому +1

    the issue with stubbers is that GW forgot they are suppose to be lowtech by 40k standards weapons and now we have the high tech ironhail stubbers for space marine tanks

  • @thomasdupuy116
    @thomasdupuy116 Рік тому

    Would LOVE one of these for tau weapons, I've always had a hard time remembering which is which 😅

  • @michaelstevens6920
    @michaelstevens6920 Рік тому

    As a new player this is super useful!

  • @hadesdogs4366
    @hadesdogs4366 5 місяців тому

    If anyone wants an idea of what happens to some poor sod who gets hits by a bolter round its best not to, whilst the actual damage caused by the explosion is actually rather small, it’s no less devastating whenever it hits a target where even something as stupid as say a glancing hit or something similar such as a bolter round hits a Spartans shoulder plate and it barely hits the Spartan, there’s both the kinetic energy behind said bolt round which is powerful enough to cause space marines to stagger, but even if the Spartan hasn’t been thrown off his feet, having a small explosion to suddenly happen with the explosive power of a large firecracker going off next to him is more than enough to kick the Spartan on his ass and that’s if he’s lucky enough not to be directly hit, since bolters by their nature are armor piercing as well as hyper velocity which in turn means that both the initial damage and subsequent explosion of being hit by something equal to that used to take down an elephant is going to cause significant internal damage only to have a large firecracker go off a microsecond afterwards which if it didn’t cause massive amounts of internal bleeding and hemorrhages as your organs and bones are being pushed apart, not only that but bits of bolter fragments are sent flying everywhere with similar effects as to being hit by a fragmentation grenade as bits of shrapnel and bones are sent flying everywhere case even more internal damage, which is why it’s best to describe the effect as a small explosion or popping effect and that’s just a body shot, if it’s say as limb or what not then all that’ll be left is a bloody and messy stump as the rest of their limb is simply blown away.
    Sorry for the graphic depictions but in all fairness and in the words of arch warhammer
    It’s basically firing flack rounds
    And that’s the least graphic depictions I could give as to the overall horrifying nature of bolt weapons where as even being grazed by a bolt round is enough to result in significant damage let alone the sheer amount of trauma inflicted by such a weapon making any and all wounds nearly impossible for anyone to recover or treat, that being unless they’re able to regrow limbs or body parts like Deadpool or wolverine or is magical and can use magic to heal the victim, the only real medical solution for being hit by even just a glancing shot by a bolter is being given the emperor mercy and that’s about it. Anything else is pretty much useless.

  • @thescienceofghosts
    @thescienceofghosts Рік тому

    Sounds like they're going with the way they've done books for Middle Earth, which I think is the ideal way to do it.

  • @jaanikaapa6925
    @jaanikaapa6925 Рік тому

    Las weapons actually sound more like photon weapons. Get a camera flash and flash it against a white paper. You get a snap like the one Ian describes. Also if you have a soap bubble, it will burst if hit by a light flash, like from a reflection. Light is both matter and radiation energy.

  • @YourHighnessIV
    @YourHighnessIV Рік тому

    Started building terminators last night and literally had a mind blank on all weapons because they're not labeled feels like you need a PhD is 40k to know what they are

  • @vodac1206
    @vodac1206 11 місяців тому

    Id kill for a version of this but for common vehicals

  • @theniteowl7777
    @theniteowl7777 Рік тому

    good to know that standard bolter round is basically a grenade encased in a bullet

  • @BackPackBadger
    @BackPackBadger Рік тому +3

    I'd love to know how the Chaos Space Marien Boltgun fed by a belt of Boltgun shells through the magazine well works 😂

    • @903lew
      @903lew Рік тому +2

      Same as any feed-though machine gun I’d guess?

    • @BackPackBadger
      @BackPackBadger Рік тому

      Maybe through the feed pawls of a feed cover but not through a magazine well designed to be fed by a magazine not a belt 😂

    • @TheKsalad
      @TheKsalad Рік тому +4

      All boltgun magazines are just boxes to hold the belts

  • @daniellogue8365
    @daniellogue8365 Рік тому

    Ouch being called out for our insane gun culture right off the bat ❤ u Ian :)

  • @richiestan.
    @richiestan. Рік тому +1

    Awesome 👌🏻

  • @Jayleon72
    @Jayleon72 Рік тому

    Double points for the ending

  • @BriefMortal777
    @BriefMortal777 Рік тому +4

    Arbitor Ian + Johnathan Ferguson crossover wen

  • @SimonProctor
    @SimonProctor Рік тому

    Watching this as a Votann player is fun :)

  • @sgtmarcusharris4260
    @sgtmarcusharris4260 Рік тому +1

    Volkite sounds like it be a good counter to tyranids

    • @ArbitorIan
      @ArbitorIan  Рік тому

      If only they'd remembered how to make it!

  • @ghannos9869
    @ghannos9869 Рік тому

    I don't know if you have played any Borderlands games, but Torgue weapons remind me of various Bolters.