not a weapon but a whole region of space , the calixis sector is over the top needlessly dark, a whole area of space with to many lurking horrors even for 40k standards
And that variety (as well as the fact that despite this, it is habitable and has civilization) is why it's used as the primary setting for the 40k inquisition TTRPG "Dark Heresy"
@@ErikVonStrix3 just finished a two year dark heresy campaign, and by the emperor did I enjoy it. I did go through five characters though by the end lol. Out of the several of us, only two players had their original character by the end and they were NOT in a good way lol.
Not just Wes, but others too. However, I actually got into Warhammer by playing Age of Reckoning, and loads of video games after that. Never actually assembled a single Warhammer mini, as I'm more of a scale mini kinda guy. But I love the lore and video games set in these universes.
Some of these weapons had very little or no artwork of them, so I had to borrow a few things that look similar enough or at least got the concept across.
hey, I finally ordered my first minis. Love your videos especially the longer videos. Your custodes video convinced me to start a custodes army. Got some dreadnoughts on their way now. Can't wait to start painting.
Are we sure that the torsion cannon wouldn't be able to rip a Necron apart? I mean being torn to pieces a minor inconvenience for a Necron but still could take them out of a battle.
You were my introduction to the 40k world and lore. There is something in the way you make you're videos conversational rather than like you're reading a textbook that is amazing. Like being told about the lore by a friend, rather than being lectured to. Thank you for existing.
@@lostbutfreesoul Oculus is a brilliant storyteller. I would hope Wes follows him. His "personal" accounts as an Archivist are great. I really enjoyed the Ork one recently..... You could hear the pain in his characters voice as he had to say "Mightiest is Rightiest"......
One thing about the Shock Attack Gum is sometimes it will send the ork operating the weapon into a target instead of the snotling, given the toughness of orks this is more fun then dangerous for them.
A particularly sharp Mek this happened to got the inspiration to adapt the technology to finally fulfill it's untapped potential: Cheating at car races!
Psi titans, i mean one of them was named “ the king of of terrors” by the unfortunate inhabitants of a planet where one was deployed. And that was without it ever firing a shot, all it did was walk and wherever it went people experienced all consuming, abject and debilitating fear and terror. It’s mere presence not only put down a revolt bloodlessly but spread so much horror that ever considering anything less than absolute loyalty to the imperium of man was impossible.
Yes Psi-Titans of Ordo Sinister! Their major weapon being the Sinistramanus Tenebrae, also called the 'Left hand of Darkness'. That's a good name for a weapon that eats light and fractures reality.
The most interesting thing about the Shokk Gun is how often it is re-created. Get enough orks together and one of the mek boys will have a bright idea....
Shock attack gun additonal: the terror of the warp will likely have the snotling deficating and uranating uncontrollably too (not that they have much more control over that than sqwigs)
I would LOVE to see a video like this for each race as I'm sure all of them have enough fuel to throw on that fire. Heck, a run down of all the terrible weapons you know or can find could be a running series. I would sure watch it.
I still think the Celestial Orrery is the most unnecessarily dark “tool” in 40K, I understand it’s not a weapon, but it can totally be used AS a weapon
I love it because it isn't really a weapon, but sort of is... like any good shovel or pitch-fork could become. Sort of a tribute to the fact most medieval weapons where farm-tools, modified to better kill a man. What better faction to have such a tool, one that could prune away 'toxic' stars, then the Necrons?
What’s worse is that The Silent King decommissioned many hundreds of Necron weapons used in the war in heaven, the Celestial Orrery was not decommissioned.
The worst part about the Harlequin’s Kiss is that it’s most prominently seen in the hands of a Solitaire. Harlequins have found a way to keep their souls from being devoured by Slaanesh, or She-Who-Thirsts as the Eldar call it. They’re also, as you can probably guess, Eldar clowns. (What the Eldar, a race that literally murder orgy’d a chaos god into existence, find funny is a lot more extreme than humans.) So they go to both the Aeldari and Drukhari as a neutral third party and put on a play to remind them of their common history. However, the one designated to play the role of She-Who-Thirsts is doomed to have their souls consumed by Slaanesh. As you can guess, these are the Solitaires. Outcasts for their role in the play, doomed to their inevitable fate, yet none are more dazzling. Harlequins are already acrobatic soldiers. Imagine Cirque du Soleil, but more murder. A Solitaire takes that to the extreme. They have an an anti-gravity belt like all Harlequins, but they also have three things unique to them. The Harlequin’s Kiss, as described in the video. The Harlequin’s Caress, an energy field surrounding the Harlequin’s hands that turn it into a weapon comparable to the strength of an Imperial power weapon. And the Holo-Suit, a psychically activated bodysuit that transforms the Solitaire into a burst of dazzling colors and explosions of light, making it virtually impossible to hit them as their enemies are dumbfounded by the display. The faster they go, the more pronounced the effect.
You'd think of all the Eldar the Solitares (and Drukhari in general) would throw themselves into Yvraine's service as Ynnead is the only other protection from Slaanesh besides Soul Gems. Being in proximity to Yvraine (don't know how far) allows Ynnead to not only protect the souls of fallen Eldar but can even revive the fallen. Merely hearing this would be enough for any Solitare to offer themselves as a personal guard
@@JoseTorres-ry9qe You would think but the Harlequin's sheer devotion to the Show they put on stands side by side in intensity to a Battle Sister's zeal. It's a horrifying reality for them but if memory serves, Harlequin choose their fates.
Wes, you are now my favorite 40K loremaster. your energy has that "hanging out with my buds and nerding out" vibe that is just so great to come home to and have on in the background. thanks for what you do.
Forgot his name but there's a null so powerful that it was theorized he was the polar opposite but equal to the emperor's psychic might.. Imagine that guy going up against the tyranids, chaos forces and eldar.. He could literally just stare at them and their heads will explode..
Between this channel, Adeptus Ridiculous, and Luetin, I have learned so much about Warhammer! Yall have me ready to build an army of my own! Keep up the awesomeness!
1) I love the Mechanicus weapons because I work in a machine shop and the ease that some machines, even just a simple drill, can cause pretty grody injuries is crazy, and weaponized meat robots using them as weapons is cool 2) I remember when I was in the service if we used a range after they used TOW missiles, people would get tripped and cut up by the super thin copper wires that guide the missiles, so the fact the Eldar have a cannon that fires giant cotton candy clouds of super sharp wire definitely makes me wanna make an army of them next
The humble (or not-so-humble because it’s basically magic) Necron gauss weapon is terrifying because of how simple its wielders consider it. It doesn’t shoot projectiles in the normal sense; rather, it fires a focused magnetic beam that severs molecular bonds and attracts atoms towards the gun. The green beams seen in 40k art and games aren’t fired from the gauss weapon. The magnetic beam is invisible, but it rips oxygen apart into single atoms as it travels, generating a green glow like an aurora. When the beam hits something, it starts pulling it apart layer by layer (which is why the guns are called gauss flayers). This is extraordinarily painful if it doesn’t instantly reduce the target to dust. Keep in mind that this is the BASIC Necron weapon. Scary.
Would love a video on the greenest boyz the orks, they got ghazghknull, ork gods, war of the beast, krorks, their weapons, the connection to the old ones, how gork and mork are acting now AND as well as that you could even look into the whole shared abilities of said orks like them being spores and also believe powers.
Don't think I've been as glad to see someone getting sponsors as with you dude. Your uploads dominate my importance of viewing when your upload cross with my other subs uploads. It's always a pleasure to make a brew sit down and just absorb the glory of 40k
you missed one detail of the devourer that really makes it shine as the second worst weapon of the nids its the path those worms make they arnt actually very good at eating trough flesh and bone, beetles are used for that but the softest tastiest part of a creature devourer worms love to eat is nerves they are made to eat their way along the most painful path, and few is the guardsmen not wishing for death before they finally arrive at the brain it makes the gun so great at breaking morale (not that the TT represent it in any way, they even lost their living ammo trait since 4th :( ) because the death is slow, and they will be screaming the entire time but the best is the barbed strangler its like that eldar string cannon, but not fast and painless and with lots of extra thorns seed hits body or ground and a giant bush of barbed vines burst out and entangle the target and grow tighter with every struggle while the thorns dig into flesh and feast on blood to grow the plant more, both more vines to grasp nearby enemys or roots to latch onto more of those already caught its usually not the weapon that tears its victim apart but the victim itself as they trash in pain as more thorns keep piercing their flesh and roots start to grow deeper into bones and nerves pulling themself free, just without their flesh
I remember there was one book where chaos soldiers were trying to locate an item in this one star system. I think it was called the Heart of Something. Supposedly it was a device of immense power. Turns out that it was an Eldar device that had shrunk down and contained a green giant STAR that had originally been part of the system. And the book ends with the IG soldiers turning off the containment measures on purpose and letting the star expand to its original size, taking the empty world it'd been placed on with it. So pocket-sized Stars are kinda a thing too. The Eldar used to Pokeball them for fun I guess.
The celestial orrery is under the protection of a specific dynasty because of how powerful it is. They probably wanted to preserve it for surveillance purposes and the weapon part is an unfortunate side bonus.
@@curtismcpsycho8212 , God Killers... imagine weapons that influence the heavens themselves, and what that does to the material plane. As much as I don't agree with the Dark Forest concept, the author had some really nifty ideas... and it is clear 40k pinched some of them. For example - The universe that we know, our reality, is a fragment of a much more perfect universe that saw battles involving weapons that influenced space itself. Not like 'create black hole' type of influence, but as in make it so space itself no longer has X number of dimensions. Rips in fundamental laws of physics themselves, thrown around as if they where nothing more then stones to lob at one's enemy to make them go away.... The Necrons had weapons just like that, with the current Warp being created by the fallout of their use.
One of the craziest and most brutal weapons in Warhammer has to be the sonic weapons of the Noise Marines. When you get hit by the sound it makes your entire body hemorrhage, teeth explode, and the skin ripped from your body. It can go through walls and bounce around corners... Because it's sound. One of the coolest weapons in 40k
Lathe accidents are extremely nasty. From torn off limbs, being skinned alive to complete pulpification of a body while you're alive. I'm quite resistant to body horror but I puked when I saw some aftermaths.
While it's not necessarily grimdark in nature the necrons have a weapon that projects a holographic map of the universe that updates in real time. What makes it a weapon is when you touch a star in this holographic projection said star in real space goes super nova (also the necrons that currently guard it with religious zealotry from other necrons call themselves the galaxys gardeners)...mind you this necron tech weapon was considered tame enough by the silent king to not be destroyed before he went on his 65 million year voyage out into unknown space. Which really puts into perspective how insane the war in heaven was when there were necron weapons that dwarf something that causes stars to go super nova just from touching a hologram of it.
Ironically, it's not actually a weapon, according to the Necrons, which begs the question, what did the weapons they decommissioned do that they felt were too powerful.
Your shorts videos are skyrocketing your content quickly to the top of the genre. It's cool that you are getting more people into 40k. We are a hobby that has definitely needed more players in recent years.
Longtime lover of the lore. Never owned a single mini or read the books, but all these lore creators, dawn of War games, and artists are amazing. Keep doing what you're doing!
Well... This is not a weapon... *shivers* ... But the single most needlessly DARK thing in my opinion... Well, everyone know what Daemonculaba is? Then no words needed.
#11: My mother-in-law. She has every single one of these plus 2 not mentioned here. They carry the names Thanksgiving and X-mas. Both have the ability to confine all the member's of her family to endure her incessant babbling up to 8 hours, causing all brains to slowly liquefy. Only ending when all the food is gone.
Amazing, love your content. you are my favourite 40k UA-camr, the energy, the soothing voice, concise but encompassing. These long form videos especially are my favourite, the video on the death guard was just amazing (they’re my favourite traitor legion!!) and i hope you continue with some of the other legions and there primarchs. Have a good one. :D
The Devourer (and the shit that the Mortrex does) is pretty much my worst phobia come to life ( I blame the Botfly / Hookworm episode of Monsters Inside Me for that).
As far as I know, the Shokk Attack Gun is the swingiest shooting on the tabletop. D6 Shots, Orky Ballistic Skill, Random Strength, Potential for Mortal Wounds on really high strength rolls, Random Damage. The only thing reliable is that no armour save will save your enemy, it has Armor Piercing -5.
Hello Wes, I've been a Warhammer 40,000 nerd for nearly five plus years and just heard of your Channel from another 40k channel, I love the simple but a good depth of lore and you make the lore seem more creativly interesting, keep it up!!!
*Hits some guardsman with the ossefactor and flesh gauntlets at the same time* *effects cancel each other out instead of working independantly* *guardsman turns into a Space Marine-sized angry boi* Well fuck
Thanks! I'm starting to get the hang of making UA-cam videos, but I'm doing my best to experiment with something new with every video I make. I'm proud of here they are at now, but I know I can keep improving :)
Wes, I can't say I've seen someone seriously undertake this task but would you consider it? Golden Age/ Age of Strife tier humanity technology/power/influence vs Eldar of the time/ Eldar at their peak vs Necron tech comparison. I know that Eldar basically had hack codes due to the psykers so perhaps there isn't a tech comparison to be made there but more a galactic power/influence one. I am curious to know how Golden Age humanity tech ranked against Necron peak tech... Seems like in many regards it was at least comparable.
One very tiny thing that I will mention. The reflection of your microphone was a smidge distracting. Love the audio quality and keep up the great work.
The Harlequins Kiss was the first one that came to _my_ mind, followed by the Orks' Shok Atakk Gun which teleports live snotlings, driven into panicked fury by the experience, inside its target.
A retired Tyranid main from 4th ed. The devourers you mentioned brought back so many memories. Only had to retire because my army got stolen from me, I miss playing haha
Hey! just new to Warhammer and absolutely love the chaos factions. Since the World Eaters are finally getting their own codex in the near future, hope you cover them too in a long video, as your lore vids are absolutely fantastic to watch.
The Aeldari have a bunch of monofilament weapons. There’s also the Harlequin’s Caress, a relative of the Kiss, and the death spinners of Warp Spiders, smaller versions of the weapon seen on a Doom Weaver.
If i recall, the Caress is actually a sort of phasing field that allows the Harlequin's hand to pass through armour like it was nothing, and do things like plucking out the heart, redecorate the inside of the ribcage or even grace the oesophagus of the lucky one that gets to be touched by the funny elf clowns with a perfectly executed Eldredge knot
Man your cranking out such great content! There's alot of warhammer youtubers but none match your pure enthusiasm for the setting. Keep up the great work 😁
When I worked at a lumber mill the lathe got jammed.Maintenance didn't shut the power off and used a steel pipe to unjam it. When it started to rotate again the pipe impaled him. He's still alive.
Personally I think both the dark elder weapons sound like something a shitty little edge lord would think is awesome while the walking pix and sun snuffer is genuinely horrifying because who would want to be turned into a mindless shambling monstrosity and can you imagine the existential horror of watching your sun be smothered by a giant mechanical abomination
Things like The Walking Pox are the reason I consider Nugle to perhaps be the most insidious of the Chaos gods. Nurgle has diseases which only the most staunchly faithful could ever hope to resist, and for everyone else, it will infect them and result in soul corruption, thats right, Nurgle can taint and claim your soul without ever having even heard of you. As far as I know all the other chaos gods need you to make deals with them or fall to their whispers, but Nurgle doesn't.
Surprised the D-scythe isn’t on there. It’s a gun that rips the soul out a body and sends it directly to the warp. It’s considered so horrible that no living eldar is expected to wield it and so powerful it can even severe the memory engrams of necrons even though they lack a true soul.
One thing that kind of gets boring is how in an attempt to make things as horrible as possible they utilize "staying concious" a lot. Like, you die but you are still concious to experience whatever horror comes afterwards. Which is like, yeah thats scary but its used SO fucking often in warhammer. Turned into a servitor but still concious, Brain parasite takes over your body, but still concious, Disease turns you into a zombie, but still concious and so on. Just at a point now that when i hear it i just roll my eyes because its just such a cliche at this point. Its like all the writers suffer from sleep paralysis and thats all they can write about.
An older description in the lore about the Shokk Attack Gun was that the Snotlings would often defecate in terror when they pop out of the portal. This was especially awful when the Ork gunner aimed at a Marine or Terminator and the Snotlings materialized inside the armour, biting and scratching and screaming and sh*tting inside the Marine’s suit. Much like having a squirrel run up your pant leg, but about a million times worse.
I can think of a weapon even more terrifying. Having the capability to create a black hole on command and using it on either a star system or a series of them all at once. Wiping out not only stars but everything near them.
How about the Tyranids neuroparasite , it's a Psychic ability which turns part of the target's brain into a creature that tries to escape the target's skull .
This is just semantics but GW meant to use the word "monomolecular" and not "monofilament" "Monofilament" refers to a single strand of material, in deference to a twisted or braided rope of multiple strands [ie monofilament fishing line] The Shokk Attack Gun is an interesting one: depending on how screwy the teleportation/portal physics are, when the gretchin materializes _inside_ another object (or person) the atoms of both the gretchin and their new life partner could catastrophically annihilate eachother as they tried to move out of the way to make room - resulting in a probably atom bomb scale explosion. I do work in a machine shop and lathes _are_ one of the most dangerous tools. Anything that spins with enough torque to cut steel is not something you want your hair, fingers, clothing or genitals getting caught in. Also the "horizontal band saw" and band saws in general for that matter.
One terrifying thing about death spinners which wasn’t mentioned is the fact that a smaller, portable version can be used by the warp spiders. Aspect of elite warriors who teleport behind their enemies using similar method to the Teliporta, just more controlled and elegant. Meaning that a squad of elite edged up space elves (who are kinda ded from the inside due their reliance on the warp) can just appear behind you and your mates. Obviserate you all in a swift storm of blades. And begone before anyone can notice.
I always find it interesting that it's always the Harlequin's Kiss that's mentioned, and no-one ever mentions the Shrieker shots fired by the Death Jesters? Razor sharp crystal shuriken filled with a neuro-toxin that makes the target move unpredictably until their head explodes, raining brain-goo and skull fragments on the rest of the target's squad.....
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Meanwhile malal : yea I torture demons with a magical axe 🪓
@@memesofwarhemmer7076 Meanwhile malal : yea i don't exist anymore
Make a Video about Konrad Curse or Sevatar,
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Hi Wes
Can you cover the impact TTS has had on the community and wider 40K franchise?
I love the flashgitz shirt
not a weapon but a whole region of space , the calixis sector is over the top needlessly dark, a whole area of space with to many lurking horrors even for 40k standards
Sounds like the ghoul stars
Sounds like vacation for da boyz
Aren't those planets so dangerous that exterminatus just didn't work?
And that variety (as well as the fact that despite this, it is habitable and has civilization) is why it's used as the primary setting for the 40k inquisition TTRPG "Dark Heresy"
@@ErikVonStrix3 just finished a two year dark heresy campaign, and by the emperor did I enjoy it. I did go through five characters though by the end lol. Out of the several of us, only two players had their original character by the end and they were NOT in a good way lol.
Am I the only person who doesn't play this game but love the lore due to Wes being a great storyteller
Oh him and lutien09 are just the best!
Nah, the minis cost a fortune so there's plenty of people who never buy them or play tabletop but love the lore and videogames.
Nope I'm here for the same reason
Not just Wes, but others too.
However, I actually got into Warhammer by playing Age of Reckoning, and loads of video games after that.
Never actually assembled a single Warhammer mini, as I'm more of a scale mini kinda guy. But I love the lore and video games set in these universes.
Nope, I'm in the same boat plus I really really love the novels which is how I was introduced to 40k
Some of these weapons had very little or no artwork of them, so I had to borrow a few things that look similar enough or at least got the concept across.
Fair enough
I Love your gay videos
Sun snuffers are like dyson spheres but grim dark
hey, I finally ordered my first minis. Love your videos especially the longer videos.
Your custodes video convinced me to start a custodes army. Got some dreadnoughts on their way now. Can't wait to start painting.
@@kyuraki lmao wtf
The most horrifying thing is that the Necrons are immune to every single one of thoses items. (Except the Ork one, because you know, Ork technology)
Most Hilariously is that the necrons consider most of that tech pretty primitive
@@trazyntheinfinite which is funny because even more primitive weapons end up being somewhat effective against them.
Are we sure that the torsion cannon wouldn't be able to rip a Necron apart? I mean being torn to pieces a minor inconvenience for a Necron but still could take them out of a battle.
@@pappajudas9267 it would take them out but becomes can just “respawn” elsewhere in a different body
@@Jack-c yeah thats true, arrogance is quite a heavy flaw with the necrons
You were my introduction to the 40k world and lore. There is something in the way you make you're videos conversational rather than like you're reading a textbook that is amazing. Like being told about the lore by a friend, rather than being lectured to. Thank you for existing.
My I recommend Oculus Imperia, for in-character reading of the lore.
It is criminal that Wes has more followers then this master of storytelling.
@@lostbutfreesoul cool story. Have a nice day.
@@focusman420 check out leuten, He’s really good at lore videos. He was my introduction into 40k
@@REXae86 I have also checked out leuten. Enjoyable.
@@lostbutfreesoul Oculus is a brilliant storyteller. I would hope Wes follows him. His "personal" accounts as an Archivist are great. I really enjoyed the Ork one recently..... You could hear the pain in his characters voice as he had to say "Mightiest is Rightiest"......
One thing about the Shock Attack Gum is sometimes it will send the ork operating the weapon into a target instead of the snotling, given the toughness of orks this is more fun then dangerous for them.
A particularly sharp Mek this happened to got the inspiration to adapt the technology to finally fulfill it's untapped potential: Cheating at car races!
Psi titans, i mean one of them was named “ the king of of terrors” by the unfortunate inhabitants of a planet where one was deployed. And that was without it ever firing a shot, all it did was walk and wherever it went people experienced all consuming, abject and debilitating fear and terror. It’s mere presence not only put down a revolt bloodlessly but spread so much horror that ever considering anything less than absolute loyalty to the imperium of man was impossible.
A Titan that causes fear and terror over continent-sized areas at a time just by minding its business? 🤔
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Well damn as if regular titans didnt already cause enough fear and terror lol
Yes Psi-Titans of Ordo Sinister! Their major weapon being the Sinistramanus Tenebrae, also called the 'Left hand of Darkness'. That's a good name for a weapon that eats light and fractures reality.
Sounds like my ex-wife.
@@henryviiifake8244 they might actually have them, konrad and the couple non insane nightlords locked them up.
The most interesting thing about the Shokk Gun is how often it is re-created.
Get enough orks together and one of the mek boys will have a bright idea....
Shock attack gun additonal: the terror of the warp will likely have the snotling deficating and uranating uncontrollably too (not that they have much more control over that than sqwigs)
I would LOVE to see a video like this for each race as I'm sure all of them have enough fuel to throw on that fire. Heck, a run down of all the terrible weapons you know or can find could be a running series. I would sure watch it.
Yes that would be intriguing
Seconded.
It would be nice to just see Wes' pick of odd and unusual weapons from each faction.
Except for tau. To my knowledge, they dont really have anything that crazy grimdark
I still think the Celestial Orrery is the most unnecessarily dark “tool” in 40K, I understand it’s not a weapon, but it can totally be used AS a weapon
It's not really dark, just powerful
I love it because it isn't really a weapon, but sort of is... like any good shovel or pitch-fork could become.
Sort of a tribute to the fact most medieval weapons where farm-tools, modified to better kill a man.
What better faction to have such a tool, one that could prune away 'toxic' stars, then the Necrons?
It's darn fortunate that Necrons don't have lungs. They could wipe out half the galaxy with a careless sneeze.
@@minimalbstolerance8113 or by tripping and falling
What’s worse is that The Silent King decommissioned many hundreds of Necron weapons used in the war in heaven, the Celestial Orrery was not decommissioned.
The worst part about the Harlequin’s Kiss is that it’s most prominently seen in the hands of a Solitaire. Harlequins have found a way to keep their souls from being devoured by Slaanesh, or She-Who-Thirsts as the Eldar call it. They’re also, as you can probably guess, Eldar clowns. (What the Eldar, a race that literally murder orgy’d a chaos god into existence, find funny is a lot more extreme than humans.) So they go to both the Aeldari and Drukhari as a neutral third party and put on a play to remind them of their common history. However, the one designated to play the role of She-Who-Thirsts is doomed to have their souls consumed by Slaanesh. As you can guess, these are the Solitaires. Outcasts for their role in the play, doomed to their inevitable fate, yet none are more dazzling.
Harlequins are already acrobatic soldiers. Imagine Cirque du Soleil, but more murder. A Solitaire takes that to the extreme. They have an an anti-gravity belt like all Harlequins, but they also have three things unique to them. The Harlequin’s Kiss, as described in the video. The Harlequin’s Caress, an energy field surrounding the Harlequin’s hands that turn it into a weapon comparable to the strength of an Imperial power weapon. And the Holo-Suit, a psychically activated bodysuit that transforms the Solitaire into a burst of dazzling colors and explosions of light, making it virtually impossible to hit them as their enemies are dumbfounded by the display. The faster they go, the more pronounced the effect.
A very accurate description for our Eldar murder clowns.
Solitares are solitares because their soul belongs to Slaaneesh on death. The price of being Slaaneesh in their plays.
@@lupaswolfshead9971 The Laughing God will not allow such a devouring.
You'd think of all the Eldar the Solitares (and Drukhari in general) would throw themselves into Yvraine's service as Ynnead is the only other protection from Slaanesh besides Soul Gems.
Being in proximity to Yvraine (don't know how far) allows Ynnead to not only protect the souls of fallen Eldar but can even revive the fallen. Merely hearing this would be enough for any Solitare to offer themselves as a personal guard
@@JoseTorres-ry9qe You would think but the Harlequin's sheer devotion to the Show they put on stands side by side in intensity to a Battle Sister's zeal. It's a horrifying reality for them but if memory serves, Harlequin choose their fates.
Wes, you are now my favorite 40K loremaster. your energy has that "hanging out with my buds and nerding out" vibe that is just so great to come home to and have on in the background. thanks for what you do.
I think the guys at Games Workshop looked at a list of war crimes and thought 'How do we make that a weapon?'
ah, the good ol' Geneva Checklist
"War crimes" is just 21st century-speak for what 40k calls "Happy Fun Times Party."
Forgot his name but there's a null so powerful that it was theorized he was the polar opposite but equal to the emperor's psychic might.. Imagine that guy going up against the tyranids, chaos forces and eldar.. He could literally just stare at them and their heads will explode..
It wasn't Jurgen, was it?
Between this channel, Adeptus Ridiculous, and Luetin, I have learned so much about Warhammer! Yall have me ready to build an army of my own! Keep up the awesomeness!
Check out wolf lord rho and baldermort..
And MajorKill
1) I love the Mechanicus weapons because I work in a machine shop and the ease that some machines, even just a simple drill, can cause pretty grody injuries is crazy, and weaponized meat robots using them as weapons is cool
2) I remember when I was in the service if we used a range after they used TOW missiles, people would get tripped and cut up by the super thin copper wires that guide the missiles, so the fact the Eldar have a cannon that fires giant cotton candy clouds of super sharp wire definitely makes me wanna make an army of them next
The humble (or not-so-humble because it’s basically magic) Necron gauss weapon is terrifying because of how simple its wielders consider it. It doesn’t shoot projectiles in the normal sense; rather, it fires a focused magnetic beam that severs molecular bonds and attracts atoms towards the gun. The green beams seen in 40k art and games aren’t fired from the gauss weapon. The magnetic beam is invisible, but it rips oxygen apart into single atoms as it travels, generating a green glow like an aurora. When the beam hits something, it starts pulling it apart layer by layer (which is why the guns are called gauss flayers). This is extraordinarily painful if it doesn’t instantly reduce the target to dust. Keep in mind that this is the BASIC Necron weapon. Scary.
Would love a video on the greenest boyz the orks, they got ghazghknull, ork gods, war of the beast, krorks, their weapons, the connection to the old ones, how gork and mork are acting now AND as well as that you could even look into the whole shared abilities of said orks like them being spores and also believe powers.
Don't think I've been as glad to see someone getting sponsors as with you dude.
Your uploads dominate my importance of viewing when your upload cross with my other subs uploads.
It's always a pleasure to make a brew sit down and just absorb the glory of 40k
you missed one detail of the devourer that really makes it shine as the second worst weapon of the nids
its the path those worms make
they arnt actually very good at eating trough flesh and bone, beetles are used for that
but the softest tastiest part of a creature devourer worms love to eat is nerves
they are made to eat their way along the most painful path, and few is the guardsmen not wishing for death before they finally arrive at the brain
it makes the gun so great at breaking morale (not that the TT represent it in any way, they even lost their living ammo trait since 4th :( ) because the death is slow, and they will be screaming the entire time
but the best is the barbed strangler
its like that eldar string cannon, but not fast and painless and with lots of extra thorns
seed hits body or ground and a giant bush of barbed vines burst out and entangle the target and grow tighter with every struggle while the thorns dig into flesh and feast on blood to grow the plant more, both more vines to grasp nearby enemys or roots to latch onto more of those already caught
its usually not the weapon that tears its victim apart but the victim itself as they trash in pain as more thorns keep piercing their flesh and roots start to grow deeper into bones and nerves
pulling themself free, just without their flesh
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite Warhammer channels. Dig your presentation style my dude!
I remember there was one book where chaos soldiers were trying to locate an item in this one star system. I think it was called the Heart of Something.
Supposedly it was a device of immense power.
Turns out that it was an Eldar device that had shrunk down and contained a green giant STAR that had originally been part of the system. And the book ends with the IG soldiers turning off the containment measures on purpose and letting the star expand to its original size, taking the empty world it'd been placed on with it.
So pocket-sized Stars are kinda a thing too. The Eldar used to Pokeball them for fun I guess.
Everything might as well be Necron made or Space Frog made,cause even the Celestial Orrery wasn’t even considered powerful.
Who said it wasn't 😂
After the war in heaven the Necron destroyed all the weapons they considered TOO POWERFUL
@@carriewilson1006 they (the forbidden weapons) were probably multiplanet or galaxy buster at the worst at best they were probably too uncontrollable.
The celestial orrery is under the protection of a specific dynasty because of how powerful it is. They probably wanted to preserve it for surveillance purposes and the weapon part is an unfortunate side bonus.
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God Killers... imagine weapons that influence the heavens themselves, and what that does to the material plane.
As much as I don't agree with the Dark Forest concept, the author had some really nifty ideas... and it is clear 40k pinched some of them. For example - The universe that we know, our reality, is a fragment of a much more perfect universe that saw battles involving weapons that influenced space itself. Not like 'create black hole' type of influence, but as in make it so space itself no longer has X number of dimensions. Rips in fundamental laws of physics themselves, thrown around as if they where nothing more then stones to lob at one's enemy to make them go away....
The Necrons had weapons just like that, with the current Warp being created by the fallout of their use.
One of the craziest and most brutal weapons in Warhammer has to be the sonic weapons of the Noise Marines. When you get hit by the sound it makes your entire body hemorrhage, teeth explode, and the skin ripped from your body. It can go through walls and bounce around corners... Because it's sound. One of the coolest weapons in 40k
You're starting to roll out videos pretty quick while keeping your quality, love it.
Me using a stolen torsion cannon to give the emperor of mankind testicular torsion
As a machinist who runs lathes, 10 sounds like a bad day at work
Lathe accidents are extremely nasty. From torn off limbs, being skinned alive to complete pulpification of a body while you're alive. I'm quite resistant to body horror but I puked when I saw some aftermaths.
While it's not necessarily grimdark in nature the necrons have a weapon that projects a holographic map of the universe that updates in real time. What makes it a weapon is when you touch a star in this holographic projection said star in real space goes super nova (also the necrons that currently guard it with religious zealotry from other necrons call themselves the galaxys gardeners)...mind you this necron tech weapon was considered tame enough by the silent king to not be destroyed before he went on his 65 million year voyage out into unknown space. Which really puts into perspective how insane the war in heaven was when there were necron weapons that dwarf something that causes stars to go super nova just from touching a hologram of it.
Ironically, it's not actually a weapon, according to the Necrons, which begs the question, what did the weapons they decommissioned do that they felt were too powerful.
Pls do more videos on terrifying weapons I’m new to 40k and I’d love to learn more about just how crazy the weapons can be in this universe
I cannot believe how you can consistently put out these great videos, Keep it Up!
Thanks dude! I'm really glad you like them
Your shorts videos are skyrocketing your content quickly to the top of the genre. It's cool that you are getting more people into 40k. We are a hobby that has definitely needed more players in recent years.
Longtime lover of the lore. Never owned a single mini or read the books, but all these lore creators, dawn of War games, and artists are amazing. Keep doing what you're doing!
Love these quick little deep dives into the weapons and lore of 40k Wes, keep up the great works my man.
9:25 “a little demoralizing” 😂
Well... This is not a weapon... *shivers* ... But the single most needlessly DARK thing in my opinion... Well, everyone know what Daemonculaba is? Then no words needed.
2:32 testicular torsion cannons 🗣️😳
#11: My mother-in-law. She has every single one of these plus 2 not mentioned here.
They carry the names Thanksgiving and X-mas. Both have the ability to confine all the member's of her family to endure her incessant babbling up to 8 hours, causing all brains to slowly liquefy.
Only ending when all the food is gone.
Amazing, love your content. you are my favourite 40k UA-camr, the energy, the soothing voice, concise but encompassing. These long form videos especially are my favourite, the video on the death guard was just amazing (they’re my favourite traitor legion!!) and i hope you continue with some of the other legions and there primarchs. Have a good one. :D
I’ve barely started getting into 40k and you make this gigantic story super easy to learn and digest
That Rips
The Devourer (and the shit that the Mortrex does) is pretty much my worst phobia come to life ( I blame the Botfly / Hookworm episode of Monsters Inside Me for that).
As far as I know, the Shokk Attack Gun is the swingiest shooting on the tabletop.
D6 Shots, Orky Ballistic Skill, Random Strength, Potential for Mortal Wounds on really high strength rolls, Random Damage.
The only thing reliable is that no armour save will save your enemy, it has Armor Piercing -5.
Hello Wes, I've been a Warhammer 40,000 nerd for nearly five plus years and just heard of your Channel from another 40k channel, I love the simple but a good depth of lore and you make the lore seem more creativly interesting, keep it up!!!
This dude's haircut screams "I'd like to speak to your Emperor".
*Hits some guardsman with the ossefactor and flesh gauntlets at the same time*
*effects cancel each other out instead of working independantly*
*guardsman turns into a Space Marine-sized angry boi*
Well fuck
When the harlequins kiss was only number 9 I knew i was going to be in for a ride
The small bits of editing are helpful to process the info. Thanks Wes!
The "I still think I'm 14" hair 😂
Hell yeah!!! It's a great turn of the day when a new Weshammer Video drops!!
Bless you and thank you for your entertaining breakdowns.
Thanks! I'm starting to get the hang of making UA-cam videos, but I'm doing my best to experiment with something new with every video I make. I'm proud of here they are at now, but I know I can keep improving :)
OH HEY! I'VE BEEN GONE FOR A MO AND I COME BACK TO YOU HAVING SPONSORS! WAY TO GO WES! I'M HELLA FUCKING PROUD. KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK!
Wes, I can't say I've seen someone seriously undertake this task but would you consider it? Golden Age/ Age of Strife tier humanity technology/power/influence vs Eldar of the time/ Eldar at their peak vs Necron tech comparison.
I know that Eldar basically had hack codes due to the psykers so perhaps there isn't a tech comparison to be made there but more a galactic power/influence one. I am curious to know how Golden Age humanity tech ranked against Necron peak tech... Seems like in many regards it was at least comparable.
i love you wea hammer you genuinely help me during the worst times of my life
Thank you wes for creating these content. Warhammer has juggernaut lore and I can't digest any of it without your vids. Keep up the great work ✊
I love your approach to 40k bud an as the way you put it together is well done respect
One very tiny thing that I will mention. The reflection of your microphone was a smidge distracting. Love the audio quality and keep up the great work.
Take a shot every time he says "Not actually a weapon."
Man, the uploads have been on point recently. Keep up the good work, love the presentation of your videos
I knew absolutely nothing about this at all until i came across you’re channel and i’m very interested
The Harlequins Kiss was the first one that came to _my_ mind, followed by the Orks' Shok Atakk Gun which teleports live snotlings, driven into panicked fury by the experience, inside its target.
A retired Tyranid main from 4th ed. The devourers you mentioned brought back so many memories.
Only had to retire because my army got stolen from me, I miss playing haha
"At least the Harlequen's Kiss is a melee weapon."
Next weapon: "hold me beer"
Hey! just new to Warhammer and absolutely love the chaos factions. Since the World Eaters are finally getting their own codex in the near future, hope you cover them too in a long video, as your lore vids are absolutely fantastic to watch.
The Aeldari have a bunch of monofilament weapons. There’s also the Harlequin’s Caress, a relative of the Kiss, and the death spinners of Warp Spiders, smaller versions of the weapon seen on a Doom Weaver.
If i recall, the Caress is actually a sort of phasing field that allows the Harlequin's hand to pass through armour like it was nothing, and do things like plucking out the heart, redecorate the inside of the ribcage or even grace the oesophagus of the lucky one that gets to be touched by the funny elf clowns with a perfectly executed Eldredge knot
Yooo keep making spooky weapon videos! They are flippin RAD
"Shot out at ludicrously high speeds."
Oh great, PLAID worms are devouring my brain...
Ah learning the lore slowly but surely
3:21 YES! Can confirm!
I've had it happen to me (minor injuries), and i've witnessed other people having an accident (finger ripped off).
Nice flashgitz shirt. "AVENGE ME, BROTHER! BROTHER, AVENGE ME!!!!"
Man your cranking out such great content! There's alot of warhammer youtubers but none match your pure enthusiasm for the setting. Keep up the great work 😁
When I worked at a lumber mill the lathe got jammed.Maintenance didn't shut the power off and used a steel pipe to unjam it. When it started to rotate again the pipe impaled him. He's still alive.
The Harlequin kiss is my favorite weapon and one of the things that got me hooked on warhammer
You are my favourite Warhammer Lore Chanel on UA-cam
Your vid production value has gone up significantly. You're awesome man!
Personally I think both the dark elder weapons sound like something a shitty little edge lord would think is awesome while the walking pix and sun snuffer is genuinely horrifying because who would want to be turned into a mindless shambling monstrosity and can you imagine the existential horror of watching your sun be smothered by a giant mechanical abomination
This dude makes warhammer 40k content and still makes a advertisement cool
A sun snuffer?
Necrons: "hold my beer"
Things like The Walking Pox are the reason I consider Nugle to perhaps be the most insidious of the Chaos gods.
Nurgle has diseases which only the most staunchly faithful could ever hope to resist, and for everyone else, it will infect them and result in soul corruption, thats right, Nurgle can taint and claim your soul without ever having even heard of you.
As far as I know all the other chaos gods need you to make deals with them or fall to their whispers, but Nurgle doesn't.
The necron deathmark's synoptic disintegrator is terrifying weapon. It fires a fine needle that completely destroys the targets nerves
"The Torrision Cannon"
"Oh God please no"
"It rips you apart"
"Oh thank God"
I'll admit you have pretty much got me into 40k with your story telling and narration. Keep it up!
Great video, love the Black Templar shirt, but I would have paid to have him switch to a Misfit or My Chemical Romance
Both great bands!
I gotta admit the Walking Pox really surprised me when I first discovered its vector of transmission was *SOUND*
“This is a surprise but a welcome one” when I see a new epic video here.
Surprised the D-scythe isn’t on there. It’s a gun that rips the soul out a body and sends it directly to the warp. It’s considered so horrible that no living eldar is expected to wield it and so powerful it can even severe the memory engrams of necrons even though they lack a true soul.
One thing that kind of gets boring is how in an attempt to make things as horrible as possible they utilize "staying concious" a lot. Like, you die but you are still concious to experience whatever horror comes afterwards. Which is like, yeah thats scary but its used SO fucking often in warhammer. Turned into a servitor but still concious, Brain parasite takes over your body, but still concious, Disease turns you into a zombie, but still concious and so on. Just at a point now that when i hear it i just roll my eyes because its just such a cliche at this point. Its like all the writers suffer from sleep paralysis and thats all they can write about.
That doom weaver cannon is horrifying, but at least it is a quick death
That flashgitz episode (your shirt) was a masterpiece lol
An older description in the lore about the Shokk Attack Gun was that the Snotlings would often defecate in terror when they pop out of the portal. This was especially awful when the Ork gunner aimed at a Marine or Terminator and the Snotlings materialized inside the armour, biting and scratching and screaming and sh*tting inside the Marine’s suit. Much like having a squirrel run up your pant leg, but about a million times worse.
I can think of a weapon even more terrifying. Having the capability to create a black hole on command and using it on either a star system or a series of them all at once. Wiping out not only stars but everything near them.
How about the Tyranids neuroparasite , it's a Psychic ability which turns part of the target's brain into a creature that tries to escape the target's skull .
Did nobody notice Wes is wearing a Flashgitz Shirt?
I love the fact that during this video, you are wearing the avenge me brother t shirt from flashgitz 😂😂
Hey Wes where do you get all of your music? its both chilling and cool to listen too.
This is just semantics but GW meant to use the word "monomolecular" and not "monofilament"
"Monofilament" refers to a single strand of material, in deference to a twisted or braided rope of multiple strands [ie monofilament fishing line]
The Shokk Attack Gun is an interesting one: depending on how screwy the teleportation/portal physics are, when the gretchin materializes _inside_ another object (or person) the atoms of both the gretchin and their new life partner could catastrophically annihilate eachother as they tried to move out of the way to make room - resulting in a probably atom bomb scale explosion.
I do work in a machine shop and lathes _are_ one of the most dangerous tools.
Anything that spins with enough torque to cut steel is not something you want your hair, fingers, clothing or genitals getting caught in.
Also the "horizontal band saw" and band saws in general for that matter.
One terrifying thing about death spinners which wasn’t mentioned is the fact that a smaller, portable version can be used by the warp spiders.
Aspect of elite warriors who teleport behind their enemies using similar method to the Teliporta, just more controlled and elegant.
Meaning that a squad of elite edged up space elves (who are kinda ded from the inside due their reliance on the warp) can just appear behind you and your mates. Obviserate you all in a swift storm of blades. And begone before anyone can notice.
There is only love in grandfather Nurgle's embrace.
I always find it interesting that it's always the Harlequin's Kiss that's mentioned, and no-one ever mentions the Shrieker shots fired by the Death Jesters? Razor sharp crystal shuriken filled with a neuro-toxin that makes the target move unpredictably until their head explodes, raining brain-goo and skull fragments on the rest of the target's squad.....