In-lore, Commissars love the Bolt Pistol cause of its distinct firing sound, perfect to let Guardsmen under their charge know what's in it for them if they fell out of line. However, the primary drawback is that in order for the Bolt Pistol to fit into the Commissar's hand, the gun either has to sacrifice magazine capacity (meaning less shots, a very dangerous drawback in actual combat), or the Commissar in question requires augmentations to carry the weapon around, either with a bionic arm or extensive genetic enhancement similar to those received by some Tempestus Scions.
Unless your cain, in which you find a master crafted bolt pistol and then never use it, cuz the trusty las pistol has saved his life more times than he could count
Or, be extremely fucking filled with determination like Yarrick and *o n e h a n d* a *S t o r m B o l t e r* used by *T e r m i n a t o r s* while being almost unaugmented (Save his infamous power klaw, conversion field etc.) AND old at the same time.
Not really..... They wouldn't or shouldn't make a bang like a gun. Rather a fffffffft like a missle. To see an ACTUAL gyrojet pistol in action, search on RUclips for gyrojet
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 Old lore they won't change because it's just too funny. The intention was one of two things: (and no one knows which) 1. To say Uranium, hence the 'depleted' part. 2. To laugh at how so few people would realize what they just said. Being that 40k started as directly satire, I bank on the latter.
I wouldn't say the Bolter is absolutely what brought success to the Imperium. Remember that about 75% of the Imperium's success in war and conquest is because of the Imperial Guard. Yes, that remaining 25% is vitally important, because anything less than 100 (and then some) means certain defeat in 40K, but it was the humble lasgun (and perhaps an artillery round or two) that held the Imperium afloat across the galaxy.
You mean the Imperial Army. The Imperial Guard like Codex Compliant Space Marine Chapters are but a shell. Of what helped conquer the Galaxy with the combination of the Military and Navy were what led a succesful conquest back in the Great Crusade.
0:55 deuterium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen gas. I don't remember the books ever mentioning what standard bolt rounds are made from but depleted uranium would likely make more sense than an extremely light weight gas. Deuterium has the same density as helium.
I think they mean heavy water. It still makes no sense, but you got to remember this stuff was written pre-wikipedia days... not that people ever seem to check that stuff anyway even now, but you get the point.
For density alone, osmium would make sense because it is the densest material on earth, and a space faring empire would probably have access to more of the stuff than we do currently.
My favorite is the Adrastus Bolt Caliver used by the Custodes. Okay so you take a heavy Bolter, make it Custodes quality, attach a death laser to it, making it a combi-weapon, and then have the Custodes using it shoulder fire this thing instead of having it underslung like a Space Marine would. This is essentially the Custodes version of a “normal” shoulder fired Boltgun and its absolute madness.
It’s said in the lore that before the Horus heresy much more potent weapons were kinda standard, like plasma, volkite and disintegration ray weapons, but the knowledge to mass produce and equip masses of soldiers with such weapons was lost, so humanity sticked to the old reliable bolter
5:40 bolt shotguns are used by the imperium but are mainly for the space marine deathwatch group and i think space marine scouts use em too they also have access to special rounds as well but they are weaker and on table top they don't get much shots or anything and honestly suck sadly
As much as i like the Bolter, its proportions are always a bit weird to me, the magazine looks kinda small compared to the huge chunky rest of the gun and the ammo it spits, and they´re supposed to hold 30- 60 rounds in their standard variation. It feels like the artist who designed it forgot about it and quickly added a small mag where still was room on the gun.
It's also supposed to be a .65 to .75 caliber round, meaning just about every depiction of the round is massively exaggerated. Just doing the math for .75 rounds, the magazine capacity should actually be fine, but the magazine itself accommodates rounds that are at least 3 times longer than a bolter round.
@@Dimetropteryx If it is firing something closer to .50 BMG than a 40mm grenade, the magazine size does make a bit more sense (though, I still don't think you could fit 30 rounds into the "standard" mag like that unless they're like quadruple stacked or something)
@@jooot_6850 Doing some quick math, the rim diameter of a .50 BMG is about .78" or 20mm, so a single stack of 30 is 60cm, or two even 30cm stacks, which I would say fits pretty good in a standard bolter mag.
One of my favorite since it came out relatively recently is the Heavy Boltgun used by Space Marine Heavy Intercessors. Basically an oversized boltgun, firing heavy bolter shells at extremely long range. Realisticaly it is more like a Hand Held Bolter Autocannon, but the concept is so beautiful, its a sin that it isn't used more often. With even heavier and assault variants it fill the role of effectively Anti-Materiel Bolt Sniper Rifle, it is ludicrously heavy and beautiful.
@@Ontheregz I know that, but look at the magazine well in the 3d animation ! Sure, in a normaly dized mag, you can only fit one row of rounds. But with magazines THICKER THAN THE FOREARM OF THE SHOOTER, it's not the same.
Like many sci fi settings the math on the weapons isn't anywhere near proper. Bolt projectiles resemble 4 bore and 2 bore stopping rifle bullets from the 1800s and early 1900s more than. 75 caliber, which would mean theyd be just a little bit fatter than a 50 cal., but bolts are definitely MUCH larger than those (most people know what 50 cal. looks like so I'm using it for as an example). It reminds me of the scorpion tank in Halo. It fires brass casing 90mm APHE which is an ammo type we haven't used in tanks since WWII; most tank ammo doesn't use casings these days and APHE is terribly outdated but we went back to using it 500 years in the future for some reason.
Well, double stack magazine, .75 caliber, that gives the wall of the magazine.. What? 0.25" *roughly* in thickness. Which sounds like a lot but holding that many bolter rounds would demand a sufficiently sturdy magazine.
10:47 saying that I'm sure some chapter wanna want a psycanon And then showing the blood ravens, the most kleptomaniac space marines chapter is hilarious
That's because it operates like any bullet up to that point. Trigger causes firing pin to strike the primer, primer ignites the propellant in the round, expanding gas propels the round out. Literally bog-standard rifle technology no different than modern day firearms, up until the round becomes rocket-propelled.
If anyone is confused about the beginning and how a bolt works, its like firing a frag grenade similar to a bullet and that frag grenade itself knows when to blow up.
this is not about weapons, but I wonder about how Space Marines are with water, cause we see some graphics depicting Astartes chest deep in water, so does the power armor give the ability to breathe in water?
what @cmmpr111 said. Space Marine power armor can be airtight sealed to prevent water from getting in, and if that doesn’t work all space marines have a third lung that is able to filter water and poisonous toxins.
1:03 Me as a physicist hearing "Depleted Deuterium." So its full of stable hydrogen gas? Like...deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen gas. Its used in nuclear fusion but in and of itself it doesn't do anything. It certainly doesn't have any properties that would make sense in a projectile.
Yeah, it's a prime example of a SF author pulling technobabble out of their ass, mashing up science terms to make something that ends up being absolute nonsense, like Star Trek's dilithium crystals. Clearly the inspiration was depleted uranium's use in real world munitions for its density and pyrophoric properties, but they didn't want something that would sound like a technology developed in the 20th century, so they swapped out for probably the worst choice to swap out for. Freelance Artist Philip Sibbering, whose work has adorned at least a few official 40k Novel covers, came up with the headcanon idea that the Deuterium is actually being used in a Thyratron, a vacuum tube -like electronic component filled with gas that is sometimes used in radar applications. He also came up with an explanation of how it could be "Depleted", as it was a potential byproduct of a multi-stage hydrogen enrichment process. "Phillhammer" is in no way an official explanation, but it at least answers the question.
I think they wanted it to sound cool without just stating hydrogen. Nonetheless, I'm sure it'll still function the same as hydrogen is very explosive with the right oxygen mixtures. If i had to guess how it works and make sense of this, the Diamantine tip penetrates and sets off the mass reactive detonator which then sets the ignition charge off. The ignition charge injects compressed oxygen into the encased hydrogen core which then ignites it and builds up pressure till it explodes and sends shrapnel tumbling throughout the victim. But again, it's honestly best chalked up to the rule of cool though.
@@terrelldurocher3330 That's the innate issue with armor piercing high explosive rounds. The structural integrity of the shell is weakened by containing a powdered explosive filler rather than a solid metal slug. A solid shot AP rounds will almost always penetrate more than its APHE counterpart. I think it would make more sense if bolters fired a HEAT round, as HEAT rounds can both act as an armor penetrator, but are also explosive by nature. In modern tanks, HEAT (and to some extent, HESH) rounds are used both as anti vehicle and anti personnel rounds.
Another thing about rhe heavy bolter: unlike the standard bolter wich is a more tredtional striker fire closed bolt system the heavy bolter is electrnic detonated and has the ability to progrsm its rounds as they leave the barrle to adjust for range
0:19 In what sense is an adeptus astartes a "warrior monk"? They don't consider the Emperor a god. They're non-religious. (With various specific exceptions of course)
@@KingLich451 No, the armed forces of the state religion are the Sisters of Battle under the Adeptus Ministorum. The space marines are under the authority of the Adeptus Terra. They simply are not "warrior monks".
@@adrianmillard6598except they are. They do not need to praise the emperor as a god to be a warrior monk type culture. They reside in fortress monasteries, they have the figure of a chaplain, they are a Brotherhood, they refer to their colors and symbols as heraldry and are divided in chapters like the knights crusaders of old, they recite litanies and liturgy, they make use of purity seals, tabards and Bones of martyrs and deceased brothers...
@@vjun8492 Lets ask Wikipedia shall we? "A monk is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. A monk usually lives his life in prayer and contemplation." Space marines aren't part of a religious order. They don't spend their time in prayer. They share things /in common/ with monks but lack fundamentally essential characteristics to be considered monks.
@@adrianmillard6598 Lets ask wikipedia shall we? "Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements[1]-although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.[2][3] Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine,[4] sacredness,[5] faith,[6] and a supernatural being or beings." Budhist monks do not believe in God. You do not need to believe in God to be a monk. Astartes have more in common with monks than not. They do "pray" tho. They recite litanies, cathecisms and mantras before and during battle which is in itself a form of contemplation.
"It's a specialty rocket-propelled grenade launcher." No. It's a gun that fires big rocket-propelled explosive (unless it's not standard rounds) tank shells. So basically a miniaturized tank canon that fires self-propelled rounds.
well, the one we use in darktide is a much, MUCH smaller version of a bolt gun fit for a normal human. if we use the one space marines use, our arms would literally fly off.
Not to be that guy, but deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen, and therefore a gas. Pretty sure you can’t use “depleted deuterium” as a solid penetrator tip. But I get it, they needed something more sci-fi’y sounding than depleted uranium rounds, which we have now.
I think the implication is that the he round is actually fusion powered. Badass from a lore perspective but doesn't make sense since the bolts don't incinerate entire squads per shot.
You missed Plague Bolters of the plaguemarines that are toxic and inferno bolters of the thousand sons which are magically enhanced for increased penetration.
The way you described the firing mechanism of the Bolter reminds me of the Gyrojet, a type of gun that fired miniature rocket-propelled missiles. That in of itself sounds like a James Bond weapon, but it was real.
Sisters and Guard are also stated as being .50 or .60 caliber. The Storm bolter is supposed to be a slower firing Heavy bolter as an upgrade to the twin linked bolter and has always been classed as just another bolter.
I'm very late and gonna risk ruining the suspension of disbelief but a thing that has bothered me for quite some time is, as I got to know more and more about the bolter and when I found out how massive the rounds are, I asked myself, how much ammo does a marine carry and for how long can they fire until they run dry? Even the heavy bolter with the belts doesn't seem to have a lot for its purpose.
Can you talk about each of the rank of each faction and tell us why there better, such example of who has the best navy, ground forces, equipment and vehicle
How about the lore behind all space marines carrying absolute zero additional magazines for bolters (and its hard to imagine them to do that cause of bulkiness of such magazines) and them basically having 20-50 bolts to shoot for whole battle?
I think it would make more sense, both realistically and thematically, for bolters to be belt-fed and more like a mobile automatic grenade launcher that feeds through a backpack of some kind. Would make them look even more killer by giving each Astartes like 1,000 rounds to use without ever having to reload!
Space Marines do have pouches to carry extra magazines. It could also be magnetized to their armor. They can have ammo supplies dropped to them from orbit. Or they may have a retinue of serfs, servitors, etc following behind the Space Marine force and running supplies and ammo when called for. Many models and other media just doesn't show this for some reason. _"Human peons rushed about with heavy sack bags full of bolter magazines, passing them out to the transhumans. Spent magazines clattered to the floor. New ones were slammed home."_ *- Dawn of Fire: Avenging Son*
Not so fun fact: Deuterium is a real material, however it is not a dense metal as it is hydrogen with an extra neutron. No such thing as depleted deuterium exists, it is most likely a reference to the real life uses of depleted uranium in tank rounds.
As a Leagues of Votann fan, one thing I would like to point out about the Kin's bolters that seems unique to them, at least the Auto-Pattern bolt pistol, bolter and combi-bolter (not the Bolt Cannons), is that they lack any ejection port for spent casing. This seems to imply though it isn't stated anywhere, that the Leagues of Votann have developed their Bolters into purely Gyrojet rocket rounds over most of the Imperial bolter round models..!
As far as im aware the imperium uses a two stage system with a conventional powder charge to get it out the barrel followed by the jets. So this means what you are saying means votan have gone full gyrojet which would mean caseless ammo at the cost of lacking close range hitting power. Kinda cool to think about imo
I think it's more likely they use a magnetic accelerator instead of a chemical charge to get the initial round out the barrel. Two reasons: 1. The Votann have better tech than the modern Imperium in general. 2. Because they do so much close quarters fighting, anything that would lack close range power wouldn't be widespread.
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In-lore, Commissars love the Bolt Pistol cause of its distinct firing sound, perfect to let Guardsmen under their charge know what's in it for them if they fell out of line. However, the primary drawback is that in order for the Bolt Pistol to fit into the Commissar's hand, the gun either has to sacrifice magazine capacity (meaning less shots, a very dangerous drawback in actual combat), or the Commissar in question requires augmentations to carry the weapon around, either with a bionic arm or extensive genetic enhancement similar to those received by some Tempestus Scions.
Unless your cain, in which you find a master crafted bolt pistol and then never use it, cuz the trusty las pistol has saved his life more times than he could count
@michaelscalese3142 the gigachad of the Imperium
Or, be extremely fucking filled with determination like Yarrick and *o n e h a n d* a *S t o r m B o l t e r* used by *T e r m i n a t o r s* while being almost unaugmented (Save his infamous power klaw, conversion field etc.) AND old at the same time.
@@dominicgorriceta6487 hell yeah
Not really..... They wouldn't or shouldn't make a bang like a gun. Rather a fffffffft like a missle.
To see an ACTUAL gyrojet pistol in action, search on RUclips for gyrojet
2:08 lmao i love that the only picture you could get to represent the PIS round was a guy reading a doc like ....WtF
My reaction exactly.
How do you even impregnate metal?
@@tdpuuhailee8222 very carefully....
Wait... depleted Deuterium?
It literally just... fires hydrogen? Like... the lightest material in the universe? LMAO
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 peashooter
@@gae_wead_dad_6914 Old lore they won't change because it's just too funny. The intention was one of two things: (and no one knows which) 1. To say Uranium, hence the 'depleted' part. 2. To laugh at how so few people would realize what they just said. Being that 40k started as directly satire, I bank on the latter.
I wouldn't say the Bolter is absolutely what brought success to the Imperium. Remember that about 75% of the Imperium's success in war and conquest is because of the Imperial Guard. Yes, that remaining 25% is vitally important, because anything less than 100 (and then some) means certain defeat in 40K, but it was the humble lasgun (and perhaps an artillery round or two) that held the Imperium afloat across the galaxy.
It’s mostly artillery and tanks, lasguns are almost useless in universe
Lasguns are just there to highlight targets for the heavy bolter and lascannon crews to do their thing
You mean the Imperial Army. The Imperial Guard like Codex Compliant Space Marine Chapters are but a shell. Of what helped conquer the Galaxy with the combination of the Military and Navy were what led a succesful conquest back in the Great Crusade.
@@TheROOTminus1 Lazer Pointers
You're fkn lame
The Emperor's angels show when you need them most, but a guardsman's las rifle is with him always.
"Maybe if they're lucky they could give us a headache with that bolter rifle!"
- A chaos tank commander, 5 seconds before his head exploded
Finally another long-form more lore video! Love this!
Thanks! We’ll keep em coming
"I imbued this with bad vibes" one made me die laughing for no reason 🤣
11:07 “solution? Get a gun, if that dont work, use more gun”
I would leave an honorable mention to the (potentially apocryphal) Sororitas Trinity Gun. A triple combi stack Flamer, bolter, and melta gun
Wait, something like that exists?!?!?
@thearchives1094 as I said, it MAY or MAY NOT be canon but yes
Well Deathwatch have a heavy bolter/flamer hybrid
@@alexejvecera6317 sure but it still isnt THE Trinity Gun
HOW DO I GET ONE
Meanwhile, distant laughter of Mekboys taping random scraps with cardboard handlers and somehow still just as lethal, giving Tech priest a migraine.
I think this fact gives every other race in 40k the same effect.
"like how? it works just because you BELIEVE it does? WTH physics?".
Screams in aneurysm 😂
"It just works, innit" - Big Boss Todd 'Oward
More Dakka is more gooder
Tech-priests be like: *curses in binary*
0:55 deuterium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen gas. I don't remember the books ever mentioning what standard bolt rounds are made from but depleted uranium would likely make more sense than an extremely light weight gas. Deuterium has the same density as helium.
Lmao man i think you're right
I think they mean heavy water. It still makes no sense, but you got to remember this stuff was written pre-wikipedia days... not that people ever seem to check that stuff anyway even now, but you get the point.
For density alone, osmium would make sense because it is the densest material on earth, and a space faring empire would probably have access to more of the stuff than we do currently.
And deuterium is an stable isotope, it doesn't produce radiation. So... The term Depleted deuterium just makes no sense. It's just heavy hydrogen.
@@iscasko you're righy it was tritium that I was thinking of thats slightly radioactive
My favorite is the Adrastus Bolt Caliver used by the Custodes. Okay so you take a heavy Bolter, make it Custodes quality, attach a death laser to it, making it a combi-weapon, and then have the Custodes using it shoulder fire this thing instead of having it underslung like a Space Marine would. This is essentially the Custodes version of a “normal” shoulder fired Boltgun and its absolute madness.
Me watching this while missing all my bolter shots in the tabletop game
Big oof
It’s said in the lore that before the Horus heresy much more potent weapons were kinda standard, like plasma, volkite and disintegration ray weapons, but the knowledge to mass produce and equip masses of soldiers with such weapons was lost, so humanity sticked to the old reliable bolter
It was before Imperium, in the "golden age"
Volkites were initially standard-issue weapons for Astartes, but due to their complexity, cost and lack of adaptability they were replaced by bolter.
5:40 bolt shotguns are used by the imperium but are mainly for the space marine deathwatch group and i think space marine scouts use em too they also have access to special rounds as well but they are weaker and on table top they don't get much shots or anything and honestly suck sadly
Nope, they use regular shotguns, categorized as being "stubber weapon"
They are also used by Malum Caedo in Boltgun, one of the most fun weapons imo
As much as i like the Bolter, its proportions are always a bit weird to me, the magazine looks kinda small compared to the huge chunky rest of the gun and the ammo it spits, and they´re supposed to hold 30- 60 rounds in their standard variation. It feels like the artist who designed it forgot about it and quickly added a small mag where still was room on the gun.
It's also supposed to be a .65 to .75 caliber round, meaning just about every depiction of the round is massively exaggerated. Just doing the math for .75 rounds, the magazine capacity should actually be fine, but the magazine itself accommodates rounds that are at least 3 times longer than a bolter round.
@@Dimetropteryx If it is firing something closer to .50 BMG than a 40mm grenade, the magazine size does make a bit more sense (though, I still don't think you could fit 30 rounds into the "standard" mag like that unless they're like quadruple stacked or something)
@@jooot_6850 Doing some quick math, the rim diameter of a .50 BMG is about .78" or 20mm, so a single stack of 30 is 60cm, or two even 30cm stacks, which I would say fits pretty good in a standard bolter mag.
@@Dimetropteryx eh, shows what I know lmao
One of my favorite since it came out relatively recently is the Heavy Boltgun used by Space Marine Heavy Intercessors.
Basically an oversized boltgun, firing heavy bolter shells at extremely long range. Realisticaly it is more like a Hand Held Bolter Autocannon, but the concept is so beautiful, its a sin that it isn't used more often.
With even heavier and assault variants it fill the role of effectively Anti-Materiel Bolt Sniper Rifle, it is ludicrously heavy and beautiful.
Давно такого не хватало, вообще весь дизайн новых пушек прекрасен.
Это именно то чего раньше не доставляло в вахе.
And now its in SM2.
Trust Dwarves to come up with an improved version of human tech, regardless of if they're human themselves.
And their plasma weaponry doesn't kill the user!
FOR THE LOVE THE EMPEROR WHY ARE THEY SO BIG IN THE MAGAZINE WELL ?! THEY ARE .75 CALLIBER, NOT 2IN !
The mags are probably quadruple stack for high capacity
@@Ontheregzit's almost certainly only a double stack at most seeing as the standard mag for a bolter carries 30 rounds at the highest
@@Ontheregz I know that, but look at the magazine well in the 3d animation ! Sure, in a normaly dized mag, you can only fit one row of rounds. But with magazines THICKER THAN THE FOREARM OF THE SHOOTER, it's not the same.
Like many sci fi settings the math on the weapons isn't anywhere near proper. Bolt projectiles resemble 4 bore and 2 bore stopping rifle bullets from the 1800s and early 1900s more than. 75 caliber, which would mean theyd be just a little bit fatter than a 50 cal., but bolts are definitely MUCH larger than those (most people know what 50 cal. looks like so I'm using it for as an example).
It reminds me of the scorpion tank in Halo. It fires brass casing 90mm APHE which is an ammo type we haven't used in tanks since WWII; most tank ammo doesn't use casings these days and APHE is terribly outdated but we went back to using it 500 years in the future for some reason.
Well, double stack magazine, .75 caliber, that gives the wall of the magazine.. What? 0.25" *roughly* in thickness. Which sounds like a lot but holding that many bolter rounds would demand a sufficiently sturdy magazine.
This guy’s edits are great
10:47 saying that I'm sure some chapter wanna want a psycanon
And then showing the blood ravens, the most kleptomaniac space marines chapter is hilarious
Hell yeah. Thanks for this.
Never thought I'd see the day where I'd see my Bolter 3D model. Great video, love your content man.
1:24 this is hilariously vague. User pulls trigger...stuff happens...bullet leaves the barrel 😂. Thanks Dr. Science.
That's because it operates like any bullet up to that point. Trigger causes firing pin to strike the primer, primer ignites the propellant in the round, expanding gas propels the round out. Literally bog-standard rifle technology no different than modern day firearms, up until the round becomes rocket-propelled.
@@dalemorgan8263 this is 100% true, it's basically a hybrid of conventional firearms technology with that of the gyrojet guns
If anyone is confused about the beginning and how a bolt works, its like firing a frag grenade similar to a bullet and that frag grenade itself knows when to blow up.
this is not about weapons, but I wonder about how Space Marines are with water, cause we see some graphics depicting Astartes chest deep in water, so does the power armor give the ability to breathe in water?
The power armor is airtight. Space marines can also breathe underwater.
How do you think SPACE Marines breath in space? Their armor is obviously a space suit!
what @cmmpr111 said. Space Marine power armor can be airtight sealed to prevent water from getting in, and if that doesn’t work all space marines have a third lung that is able to filter water and poisonous toxins.
Most power armor is fully enclosed (looking at you Scouts) And The have been battles fought on the sea/ocean floors in lore.
There's a chapter who's specialized in underwater combat, forgot the name.
1:03 Me as a physicist hearing "Depleted Deuterium."
So its full of stable hydrogen gas?
Like...deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen gas. Its used in nuclear fusion but in and of itself it doesn't do anything. It certainly doesn't have any properties that would make sense in a projectile.
Yeah, it's a prime example of a SF author pulling technobabble out of their ass, mashing up science terms to make something that ends up being absolute nonsense, like Star Trek's dilithium crystals. Clearly the inspiration was depleted uranium's use in real world munitions for its density and pyrophoric properties, but they didn't want something that would sound like a technology developed in the 20th century, so they swapped out for probably the worst choice to swap out for. Freelance Artist Philip Sibbering, whose work has adorned at least a few official 40k Novel covers, came up with the headcanon idea that the Deuterium is actually being used in a Thyratron, a vacuum tube -like electronic component filled with gas that is sometimes used in radar applications. He also came up with an explanation of how it could be "Depleted", as it was a potential byproduct of a multi-stage hydrogen enrichment process. "Phillhammer" is in no way an official explanation, but it at least answers the question.
@@radwolf76 40k tends to follow the "rule of cool" so i wouldn't question it too much
I think they wanted it to sound cool without just stating hydrogen. Nonetheless, I'm sure it'll still function the same as hydrogen is very explosive with the right oxygen mixtures. If i had to guess how it works and make sense of this, the Diamantine tip penetrates and sets off the mass reactive detonator which then sets the ignition charge off. The ignition charge injects compressed oxygen into the encased hydrogen core which then ignites it and builds up pressure till it explodes and sends shrapnel tumbling throughout the victim. But again, it's honestly best chalked up to the rule of cool though.
"BROTHER, THE BOLTERS AREN'T EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE XENOS"
"JUST MAKE IT BIGGER OR GLUE ON MORE WITH GORILLA GLUE, WE STILL USE GORILLA GLUE"
The Mechanicus Taping more and more AND MORE Bolters then pointing excitedly at them Meme just keeps cracking me up man XD
Bolter shells dont detonate on contact. There is a microsecond delay, so that the explosives detonate inside the target after smashing thru armor
So if a bolter round hits something harder than itself it will shatter and hence won't explode.
@@terrelldurocher3330 That's the innate issue with armor piercing high explosive rounds. The structural integrity of the shell is weakened by containing a powdered explosive filler rather than a solid metal slug. A solid shot AP rounds will almost always penetrate more than its APHE counterpart. I think it would make more sense if bolters fired a HEAT round, as HEAT rounds can both act as an armor penetrator, but are also explosive by nature. In modern tanks, HEAT (and to some extent, HESH) rounds are used both as anti vehicle and anti personnel rounds.
@@jooot_6850 I learnt more here, than one week of history combined together, respect and have a good day.
Bro this channel is sick.
Just found it and just subbed!
Ha ha, big Gyro Jet goes f'wooooosh!
keep up the great work !
Another thing about rhe heavy bolter: unlike the standard bolter wich is a more tredtional striker fire closed bolt system the heavy bolter is electrnic detonated and has the ability to progrsm its rounds as they leave the barrle to adjust for range
Time stamps
0:50 - 2:26: Ammunition
2:27 - 3:32: Bolt Pistol
3:33 - 5:39: Boltgun (Stalker Bolter, Forge Bolter, Bolt Casters, Combi-bolter, Angelis Bolt carbine and Angelis Boltgun mentioned)
5:40 - 6:16: Bolt Shotgun
6:17 - 7:09: Bolt Rifle (Auto Bolt Rifle, Stalker Bolt Rifle, Heavy Bolt Rifle, Primaris Carbine and Shrike Bolt Sniper Rifle variants mentioned)
7:10 - 8:16: Storm Bolters/Twin-link Bolters
8:17 - 8:49: Boltstorm Gauntlets
8:50 - 9:35: Heavy Bolters (Primaris Assault Bolter variant mentioned)
9:36 - 10:53: Psycannon
10:54 - 11:54: Sponson Bolters (Tempest and Hurricane Bolters mentioned)
11:55 - 13:18 Special Vehicle Bolters (Avenger Bolt Cannon, Mauler Bolt Cannon and Scatterbolt Launcher mentioned)
13:19 - 14:06: Titan Bolters (Castigator Bolt Cannon and Vulcan Mega Bolter mentioned)
0:19 In what sense is an adeptus astartes a "warrior monk"? They don't consider the Emperor a god. They're non-religious. (With various specific exceptions of course)
They are a brotherhood, and they"re an armed force of a state religion
@@KingLich451 No, the armed forces of the state religion are the Sisters of Battle under the Adeptus Ministorum. The space marines are under the authority of the Adeptus Terra. They simply are not "warrior monks".
@@adrianmillard6598except they are. They do not need to praise the emperor as a god to be a warrior monk type culture. They reside in fortress monasteries, they have the figure of a chaplain, they are a Brotherhood, they refer to their colors and symbols as heraldry and are divided in chapters like the knights crusaders of old, they recite litanies and liturgy, they make use of purity seals, tabards and Bones of martyrs and deceased brothers...
@@vjun8492 Lets ask Wikipedia shall we? "A monk is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. A monk usually lives his life in prayer and contemplation." Space marines aren't part of a religious order. They don't spend their time in prayer. They share things /in common/ with monks but lack fundamentally essential characteristics to be considered monks.
@@adrianmillard6598 Lets ask wikipedia shall we? "Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements[1]-although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.[2][3] Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine,[4] sacredness,[5] faith,[6] and a supernatural being or beings."
Budhist monks do not believe in God. You do not need to believe in God to be a monk. Astartes have more in common with monks than not.
They do "pray" tho. They recite litanies, cathecisms and mantras before and during battle which is in itself a form of contemplation.
Please do a video on titan types or chaos legions / warbands
"It's a specialty rocket-propelled grenade launcher."
No. It's a gun that fires big rocket-propelled explosive (unless it's not standard rounds) tank shells. So basically a miniaturized tank canon that fires self-propelled rounds.
Imagine getting shot at by storm bolter. Turn u into mince meat
DAKKAS are probably just the Warhammer equivalent of KelTec weapons
Smh. The rfb is a amazing. It's insides are like an alien spacecraft per complexity, but my God it's good.
Great quality
"and if that don't work.. use more bolters"
when the emperor wants something gone he will crank it to 11 and make sure chaos knows about it
Cathedral Titans please!
Every single bolter that ain't in Darktide*
well, the one we use in darktide is a much, MUCH smaller version of a bolt gun fit for a normal human. if we use the one space marines use, our arms would literally fly off.
@@KingdonIV and even then that's if we could lift it, prolly only the ogryn could lift a space marine bolter
Not to be that guy, but deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen, and therefore a gas. Pretty sure you can’t use “depleted deuterium” as a solid penetrator tip. But I get it, they needed something more sci-fi’y sounding than depleted uranium rounds, which we have now.
Also wouldn't "depleted Deutrium" just be hydrogen? Since depleted Uranium is just a much less radioactive/more stable version of Uranium 285.
I think the implication is that the he round is actually fusion powered. Badass from a lore perspective but doesn't make sense since the bolts don't incinerate entire squads per shot.
@@ryetoaster 40k is very "rule of cool" so i don't question it lol
I was going to be that guy
@@ryetoaster could it be just enough charge to blow up a single target, or is the sorce of propulsion.
Amazing video!
Idea: bolter Marines. There is 100 bolters attached all over their arms and bodies
the Bolter Shotgun is all I needed to know to love the Leagues of Votann
The vengeance launcher
Sounds promising.
I love that this is an average British person's idea of what a futuristic gun is.
You missed Plague Bolters of the plaguemarines that are toxic and inferno bolters of the thousand sons which are magically enhanced for increased penetration.
The way you described the firing mechanism of the Bolter reminds me of the Gyrojet, a type of gun that fired miniature rocket-propelled missiles. That in of itself sounds like a James Bond weapon, but it was real.
This made me realize, I don't think I've ever seen someone reload that magazine under these in any game
Such a great breakdown mate.
I love this! Can we have a video on the variants of other imperium weapons?
I like your take on 40k and the way you present and explain things. Consider me subscribed to your channel
I'd like the same video but with Gauss weapons
I want to see a tech marine quad wielding storm bolters.
I honestly don’t see the bolt ammo as a grenade I see it more as a .75 armor piercing payload round
The megabolter. I'd buy it for dollar!
The visuals are amazing xD
Sisters and Guard are also stated as being .50 or .60 caliber. The Storm bolter is supposed to be a slower firing Heavy bolter as an upgrade to the twin linked bolter and has always been classed as just another bolter.
I'd love to see a type/variant vid for the workhorse of the imperial guard, the lasgun.
The boltgun is pretty much a pop-culture iconic scifi weapon, its design is cool for simple how simple it is
My man, you forgot about the glorious and I mean absolutely glorious footfall Bolter.
I'm very late and gonna risk ruining the suspension of disbelief but a thing that has bothered me for quite some time is, as I got to know more and more about the bolter and when I found out how massive the rounds are, I asked myself, how much ammo does a marine carry and for how long can they fire until they run dry? Even the heavy bolter with the belts doesn't seem to have a lot for its purpose.
The imperium of man runs a gyro jet as thier primary weapon😂 very grim dark
Talk about Meltas next!
Can you do a video about their melee weapons
shooting marshmallow in space marine 2 while watching your video.
A reminder, the bolts are much smaller than shown, and are actually thinner than a 12 gauge slug
They are larger 75 caliber > 50
@cptclonks7279 they’d still be a lot smaller than these 40mm grenade-sized things everyone always shows
My head cannon is that the unit of “calibre” increased in the 42nd millium
@@howardxu8050 thats stupid
Do power sword variants next?
Would love to know the velocity and ballistic coefficient for exodus pattern and carbine variants.
Can you talk about each of the rank of each faction and tell us why there better, such example of who has the best navy, ground forces, equipment and vehicle
i love boltstorm-gauntles, close range=deadly, even closer=disastrous, and with 2 of them=fun!
Every lazgun next!
Love how they’re just surgical rpgs
You should do ship types next
BRUH IMAGINE GETTING HIT WITH A TRANQUILIZER ROUND FROM A BOLTER
Titan bolters are basically howitzer artillery gun ifkt had auto click and auto reload
They're like the Gyrojet if humanity decided to keep developing it.
How about the lore behind all space marines carrying absolute zero additional magazines for bolters (and its hard to imagine them to do that cause of bulkiness of such magazines) and them basically having 20-50 bolts to shoot for whole battle?
I think it would make more sense, both realistically and thematically, for bolters to be belt-fed and more like a mobile automatic grenade launcher that feeds through a backpack of some kind. Would make them look even more killer by giving each Astartes like 1,000 rounds to use without ever having to reload!
Space Marines do have pouches to carry extra magazines. It could also be magnetized to their armor. They can have ammo supplies dropped to them from orbit. Or they may have a retinue of serfs, servitors, etc following behind the Space Marine force and running supplies and ammo when called for.
Many models and other media just doesn't show this for some reason.
_"Human peons rushed about with heavy sack bags full of bolter magazines, passing them out to the transhumans. Spent magazines clattered to the floor. New ones were slammed home."_
*- Dawn of Fire: Avenging Son*
Ah yes my .75 caliber rocket propelled tranquilizer round (it’s less than lethal)
Not so fun fact: Deuterium is a real material, however it is not a dense metal as it is hydrogen with an extra neutron. No such thing as depleted deuterium exists, it is most likely a reference to the real life uses of depleted uranium in tank rounds.
* ignites flamer *
Shout outs to the Wolf Scout's Stalker Pattern Silenced Bolt Pistol.
Me learning everything I can about space marines so I can enjoy the video game :)
I would love to see these versions in Darktide when they updated in the future
As a Leagues of Votann fan, one thing I would like to point out about the Kin's bolters that seems unique to them, at least the Auto-Pattern bolt pistol, bolter and combi-bolter (not the Bolt Cannons), is that they lack any ejection port for spent casing. This seems to imply though it isn't stated anywhere, that the Leagues of Votann have developed their Bolters into purely Gyrojet rocket rounds over most of the Imperial bolter round models..!
As far as im aware the imperium uses a two stage system with a conventional powder charge to get it out the barrel followed by the jets. So this means what you are saying means votan have gone full gyrojet which would mean caseless ammo at the cost of lacking close range hitting power. Kinda cool to think about imo
I think it's more likely they use a magnetic accelerator instead of a chemical charge to get the initial round out the barrel. Two reasons: 1. The Votann have better tech than the modern Imperium in general. 2. Because they do so much close quarters fighting, anything that would lack close range power wouldn't be widespread.
Guys, how does a bolter revolver sound?
Ngl,easy maintenance and no jamming. But ammo is limited
Yes, absolutely
Was hoping you’d cover the pattern of bolter used my the retributiors
short summary: either more bigger or more barrels on the brick XD
Butt stocks and sights exist on rifles for a reason. So you can shoulder the weapon and aim.
WH40k ignores all reason with auto-senses and recoil-puffering armor etc.
In the grim darkness of the far future...aiming is for losers
The severe lack of a buttstock explains the terrible recoil and muzzle rise of these weapons as small arms. 💀
Great video
The lasgun is the crossbow of its age.
It’s made killing at a distance cheap, easy to learn and somewhat reliable.
3:51 you just put the scope over the part where the casing ejects lmao
This is basically America with its 50 cal
Is Baneblade Cannon sort of a Bolt weapon since it's primarily fire rocket propelled shells ?