1)active-reactive artillery is a real thing and was a real thing from the 1960's at least. So two stage ammunition that fixes main weakness of gyrojet is obvious solution; 2)people forget how massive Astartes are and how big are their bolters. Combine that with the existence of irl 12 gauge double stack 20 round magazines and suddenly bolt magazines aren't such a mystery. Not to mention with how chonky they are, they could be even quad stacks; 3)flash hider and actual bore diameter have no connection. Caliber of bolter is always .75 at smallest. The big visible "bore" is actually a flash hider protruding forward of real barrel "mouth"; 4)no, humans use same caliber of bolter as Astartes. The charge may be a little less spicy, but caliber is the same. If anything, Custodes would be the ones to have smaller caliber bolter as miniaturization means higher ammo capacity, higher rate of fire, higher reliability and lower weight. It's like comparing M4 to M1 Garand. There were two patterns with smaller calibers, BUT both were Astartes exclusive and were lost during Heresy. Bolter in .50 is a myth that some youtuber spawned by misunderstanding the reference to irl gyrojet pistol; 5)apparently guided ammo is(or at least was) a thing. And apparently it also is a real world reference. I feel like I'm the only person in the world, who haven't seen that DARPA video when it first appeared; 6)bolter uses direct feed to marine helmet. Frontal post of fake "iron sights" on bolter actually houses camera and scope. Halo copied that... well, it was supposed to copy that, but for some reason did only for pistol😅 7)the only real mystery about bolter is where does it get the explosive power since majority of projectile weight is rocket motor that is burned out during flight. It's possible that it's some sort of miniature fission (sc)ramjet, that uses its own fissile core as improvised APDS on impact, but I still have no idea where the explosive part comes from and why authors mentioned deuterium. Idk, maybe if it had antimatter capsule it might have worked, but even then it falls into the trap of resulting explosion being too large and powerful for a handgun that you're supposed to be able to use in close quarters too. Woops, we're all dead because marine Doviculus used his bolter within 100m "no-no" zone😅
@@samdurfee6093 considering they've mentioned the myth that normal humans use smaller bolters, that was created by "lore youtubers"(no idea if it was Archcast or Majorkill, who is to blame for that disinformation), I guess you can say yes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@TheArklyte well “Normal Humans” do use Bolters. Guard Commanders, the Sister of Battle, Inquisitors, and the Adeptus Arbites. To name a few. So it’s not a “Myth” but rather Black Library authors being far too liberal with what constitutes a Bolt-Gun. In Lore the Astartes Bolter is ment to be extremely dangerous and powerful. But that gets lost in interpretation when Authors write Inquisitor “Self-insert” who are not Astartes but can totally wear Tactical Dreadnaught Armor, with a Astartes Storm Bolter Power-sword and also they are an Alpha level Psyker. What I am getting at is Black Library authors have steadily decreased their attention to “Lore” details. Which is how we get such stupid shit like one story depicting Boltguns tearing through Power Armor and another where the armor holds without issue. This isn’t “Personal Interpretation” but internal inconsistency.
@@fredericmartin7352 mostly Xenos and Heretics but some loyal guardsmen and civilians as well mostly done by Traitors but some friendly fire here and there does happen especially when in a chaotic battlefield intentional or not.
The elegant and beautiful, yet brutal and ferocious melody of the Imperium. Where the Imperium strikes, the symptoms of a thousand boltguns ring long into the night. And the enemies of man quake in fear as the orchestra plays the song of their ruin.
Tau Commander: “Surrender human! If not for yourself, then for the Greater Good!” Space Marine Commander: “The ‘Greater Good’ is coming to you from the end of my bolter, _alien!_ “
hasn't the tau been like winning vs the imperium like 90% of the time? plus i doubt they care about integrating people at all since they usually want to keep to themselves
"The bullet is more than a mere munition. It is an ancient thing; it's an echo of every bullet fired. Every death dealt out by the hand of man since the beginning. You hear a bullet you hear the sound of humanity's bloody history made real" The Remembrancer Eldin Takley
@@DivineOrange Ork, Chaos cultists, Renegade Imperial guards, Genestealer cults, Tau sympathizers, Necromunda gangs, Hiveworld scavs, and many other enemy of the inperiums that got humanoid fingers uses Bolters.
Other Science Fiction franchises typically have some kind of energy weapon as their flagship gun; phasers for Star Trek, blasters for Star Wars, Warhammer 40k has a 19mm full auto armor-piercing RPG.
Starcraft has the C14 Gauss rifles (both chemical propellant and the Gauss effect) Alien has their Pulse Rifles (forgot actual designation, but it's basically the Vape of guns) Most scifi can be categorized in 2: do they use energy weapons or not?
@@satitlertritsumpun8930 I mean, a flashlight that can shear your arm off from a couple football fields away with a single shot is one helluva flashlight
"Whose recoil might shatter their spine." That never stopped a particularly huge Catachan Gunnery Sergeant to fucking sprint with a heavy bolter as a main weapon.
“To a Space Marine, the boltgun is far more than a weapon; it is an instrument of Mankind's divinity, the bringer of death to his foes. Its howling blast is a prayer to the gods of battle.” -Roboute Guilliman
@@appo9357 That depends on the readiness of that force user. Due to the availability of blaster tech, slug based weapons aren't too much common so your run of the mill padawan, knight, or sometimes even a master might not exactly be ready for a round that moves faster than a blaster bolt and would either blow up/molten metal mist on you if you struck it or go through depending on the round. Granted particularly evasive, powerful, or experienced Jedi like Obi-Wan or Yoda or Sith like Vader or Palpatine would stand a much better chance than some random and lesser force user.
Funny thing: bolters are extrapolation of real british idea of gyrojet round. Later projects like OICW, korean K-11 20mm grenade launcher and Inkuzi 20mm ( see video on Forgotten Weapons ) tried explosive rounds as individual ammunition.
The "Astartes" short film was brilliant in its depiction of the Bolter. Absolutely lethal in Space Marine hands; even the Space Marine 2 trailer showed bolt pistols can tear large Tyranids apart.
Sometimes it makes you wonder why ships aren't installed with defenses that can make entire halls crush or otherwise have a turret do all the shooting instead of squishy human rebels.
You should check out Darktide’s Bolter depiction. It’s hands-down the most powerful gun in the game, and you can watch a single round blow multiple targets in half in real-time.
It's funny how certain standard weapons get hyped up by the lore: Space Marine Bolters are automatic mini rocket launchers. Pulse Rifles are high precision plasma guns. Shuriken Rifles shoot blades with a monomolecular edge. Tyranids Warriors spit brain eating parasites. Gauss Flayers disassemble the atoms of whatever they hit. ...and they all do the same damage as a literal piece of trash an Ork glued together or a Guardsman's glorified flashlight in the tabletop.
Lets be honest here, if the tabletop was completely accurate to the lore, a guardsmen would cost half a point per model, Tau would be shooting at you from three tables over and a Custodes army would consist of a single model.
I like to think the Bolter was in use during the Dark Age of Technology as standard side-arms or something as the "cheaper" and "easier" option to something much larger and scarier. Much like how Terminator armor use to be just mining gear lol
Dark age stuff is only better in the most rare sense of that word. The common stuff is likely the same as what the Imperium uses on a wide scale now. Literally being what survived to the modern times.
Well, I support this since Leagues of Votann also use them as primary weaponry for many of their troops, but their boltgun pattern is directly plucked from a votann memory banks, and those things are DEFIENIETLY pre-Man-of-Iron uprising dark age tech.
@@flameendcyborgguy883 The Votann might not have used memory banks for it, but designed it from the ground up. Though it probably was common knowledge.
I think the Institute is at its best when investigating the Warhammer Fantasy and 40K universes. Not that the other material isn't good, but there's something about having such a bonkers setting explained so calmly and clearly that appeals to me very much. :)
Can I just say how much I appreciate your videos, the main investigations like this one, I made a whole playlist of them and listen to them when I write. It really helps.
The idea of making an automatic grenade launcher would be so ridiculous but yet sounds like something that could actually exist in some way in the future
30k terra: / "what have you brought me, tech-priest?" - "well, you wanted a grenade launcher and a machine gun. so i made a rocket-grenade-machine gun!" / "overkill much, priest?" - "you don't like it?" / "i love it."
What a well done video and tribute to one of the best weapon systems produced by the Imperium. This gun is synonymous with the Legion Astartes and its many auxiliaries. Bravo!
From Necromunda's House of Iron: 956.M41 Guns at Dorn - A massive master-crafted bolt pistol, stamped with a fist icon, falls into the hands of Orlock gang boss Helgan Graywater, who modifies a servo-fist so he can fire it without breaking his arm. The gun turns out to be a mixed blessing, as it earns Graywater a fearsome reputation, but eventually spells his downfall when its owner comes to reclaim his property.
Gunnery Sergeant "Stonetooth" Harker of the Catachan 2nd disagrees regarding the claim that bolters cannot be wielded without a mount by the unaugmented
The way it is described, each "bolt" is apparently more complicated and expensive than the actual bolt gun itself! The gun itself is not necessarily any more complicated that a modern real world automatic rifle, meanwhile the standard bolt is like a small bunker buster missile.
Best part is that most of the variants on the bolter don't DO anything, because the differences affect properites of bullets that are utterly nullified by the fact that the 'bullet' is a rocket (trade offs in range and accuracy, mostly. The properties of the rocket completely override any effect the gun could be imparting (if not, the gun would be better off firing regular bullets).
@@Jpeg.g not really, at least in today’s interpretation. As Templin pointed, current bolters are rocket-assisted as opposed to being solely rocket propelled. It’s also well known that the Gyrojet was not a good system either.
It would suck considering either the explosive payload is sacrificed for the rocket or the other way around. Making it 20mm is negating its armor piercing potential too, as real 20mm armor piercing rounds use a smaller tungsten core jacketed by aluminum for it to penetrate, while the bolter would be hollow and the size would only serve to spread out the impact. TLDR it would be really good at killing a person if it ever hit one, but not much else.
The tech? Yes. The materials? Ehhhhhhh I don't think so, unfortunately. Inside your standard 75 cal bolt round is an explosive charge powerful enough to blast a human into a spread of shredded meat and splintered bone, and that's a hit at CENTER MASS. Idk if we possess an explosive powerful enough to do that in such a small quantity. Like, yeah, a bolt round is 3/4s of an inch in diameter, but you can only pack so much boom into one round, y'know?
@@congnghequansuvn474 ah but bolter rounds are actually effective for what they do, the gyrojet rounds are too inefficient to mass produce cuz a regular lead core round will do just fine in our modern age
@@congnghequansuvn474 Because its a good summary of the state of humanity in the setting where the apocalypse happened long ago. Humans went from using engines that consume matter into a digitalized form, back to using projectile weapons conceived during our cold war.
Leagues of Votann also use bolters as their primary shock trooper arms, alongside the Ion weaponry, so Bolters must be from the dark age of technology.
I always found it amusing that the Bolter is loosely based upon a real-world rocket propelled munition; one that never made it to mass production due to how unreliable and inaccurate it was. We really should be hitting on 5's and 6's with these things when on the tabletop.
“But can we really know if Boltguns actually just fire giant lasers? We actually can’t be sure due to the unreliable narrators the setting relies upon.”
There is nothing, that more adequately portrays just how over the top the 40k universe really is, other than the bolter - a handheld, rapid firing, grenade launcher, and with the fact that even such a vile, flesh destroying weapon isn't always enough. I just love it!
This video is timed well especially with the upcoming boltgun game superb work as always very few RUclipsrs capture just how devastating the bolter really is
Once again a so well written and construct script delivered with that amazing voice and skills for voice over! If Invicta is back in a third season…I pray you will be on narrator’s team !👍
Decent for a handheld weapon. Fun to use too. I like how cute and cartoony it looks with the big boxy shape since it was made primarily for tiny models.
I think the most terrifying bolt weapon for me is the dual hurricane bolter racks mounted on landraider crusaders and storm ravens. Bolter rounds are already scary enough by being a rocket propelled explosive round. Now imagine sitting in a trench when the section to your right suddenly erupts in an absolute hailstorm of fire, fragmentation, small explosions as hundreds of bolter rounds blanket the area and turn everyone that was there into bloody pulp and viscera. You look up to see a storm raven gunship fly past as a literal roar of bolter fire can be heard as if the thing was a metal dragon.
Not sure who said lore doesn't matter, but we actually made a video about the lack of canon in 40k. It's called "Female Space Marines & The Death of Canon". Check it out!
My mind: "You have read and watched so much about bolters, are you really going to watch another one?" Me: "Silence, Brain! The vox machine lamemts of the Holy Bolter!"
as a note they did try making rocket propelled small arms in the past (the gyro jet) the ammo ended up being way to expensive and it had a minimum range of 60 feet (because it takes that long to burn out all of its propellant and get up to terminal velocity)
@@Nickname-hier-einfuegen and the way you get those two propulsion systems to actually aim where you want them to go are largely nullified by the effect of the other propulsion system. So that's fun. Also, if the thing Explodes at the end, it has a minimum safe distance Anyway.
By the Emperor, I love this video. Its works so well even as a Gym Background hum. Let the Emperor Guide ypu and find strength with him to achive anything you set your mind to!
"To a Space Marine, the boltgun is far more than a weapon; it is an instrument of Mankind's divity, the bringer of death to his foes. Its howling blast is a prayer to the gods of battle." -- From the teachings of Roboute Guilliman as laid down in the Apocrypha of Skaros
What's everyone's favorite bolter design? Mine's probably the Heavy Bolt Rifle, there's just something about that M16-style carrying handle that does it for me!
Great video! could you do one on the Star Ship Troopers Morritar rifle? the original movie was amazing and now there are games out making it popular once again. Be cool to see the rifle explained
Self-propelled rounds where actually tested in the real world. The results where less then stellar. On average self-propelled rounds had lower stats across the board compared to conventional rounds.
Also speak kindly to it; the machine-spirit will appreciate it if you treat it as a comrade, and not as a mere tool. Some of them have real attitudes though, so you need to judge for yourself which tack to take when dealing with a machine-spirit.
I have a collection of real size replicas of my favorite weapons of sci-fi franchises, an assault rifle from Halo, a Lancer from Gears of War and a Bolter from Warhammer 40k, it cost me a lot of money because I ordered them from a specialist in doing this kind of work but it was worth the price.
Love your videos, however I have to point a few things out here. This is pulled directly from the wiki; The Condemnor Pattern Bolter is a highly specialised Combi-weapon used almost exclusively by the operatives of the Ordo Hereticus and Adepta Sororitas. It combines a bolter with a single-shot crossbow armature. Though archaic in appearance, the crossbow fires a silver stake engraved with sigils of disruption that destabilise a psyker's connection with the Warp. A direct hit from the crossbow will therefore not only deal a severe wound to a psyker, it will also send his power spiralling out of control, consuming the user in a storm of untrammelled psychic energy. (Bolt Stakes really? no it doesn't, it launches silver stakes from the cross bow as an attachment, the same way an under slung grenade launcher tosses grenades as an attachment, just because something is combined to a Bolter does not mean that object fires Bolt rounds) So um yeah that aside, I have heard of a I have heard of a "Marksman Bolt Carbine" but never heard of a "Marksman Bolter", ever, it's called a Stalker Bolter or it's younger bigger brother the Stalker Bolt Rifle (yes, these are two very different guns google them) The "Assault Bolter" so what? That is a general description of almost every Bolter presently. Seriously though, it's called a Storm Bolter, I have never heard of the gun having more barrels then two and the only variants I know of for the Storm Pattern are handheld and arm mounted on both the Grey Knights, Castodes of the Black Cells under the Imperial Palace, and Space Marine Terminators.
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Make like a bolt, and self--propel over to our Twitter at tremendous speeds before detonating in a fiery explosion. twitter.com/TemplinEdu
Blow up Twitter. Got it.
1)active-reactive artillery is a real thing and was a real thing from the 1960's at least. So two stage ammunition that fixes main weakness of gyrojet is obvious solution;
2)people forget how massive Astartes are and how big are their bolters. Combine that with the existence of irl 12 gauge double stack 20 round magazines and suddenly bolt magazines aren't such a mystery. Not to mention with how chonky they are, they could be even quad stacks;
3)flash hider and actual bore diameter have no connection. Caliber of bolter is always .75 at smallest. The big visible "bore" is actually a flash hider protruding forward of real barrel "mouth";
4)no, humans use same caliber of bolter as Astartes. The charge may be a little less spicy, but caliber is the same. If anything, Custodes would be the ones to have smaller caliber bolter as miniaturization means higher ammo capacity, higher rate of fire, higher reliability and lower weight. It's like comparing M4 to M1 Garand. There were two patterns with smaller calibers, BUT both were Astartes exclusive and were lost during Heresy. Bolter in .50 is a myth that some youtuber spawned by misunderstanding the reference to irl gyrojet pistol;
5)apparently guided ammo is(or at least was) a thing. And apparently it also is a real world reference. I feel like I'm the only person in the world, who haven't seen that DARPA video when it first appeared;
6)bolter uses direct feed to marine helmet. Frontal post of fake "iron sights" on bolter actually houses camera and scope. Halo copied that... well, it was supposed to copy that, but for some reason did only for pistol😅
7)the only real mystery about bolter is where does it get the explosive power since majority of projectile weight is rocket motor that is burned out during flight. It's possible that it's some sort of miniature fission (sc)ramjet, that uses its own fissile core as improvised APDS on impact, but I still have no idea where the explosive part comes from and why authors mentioned deuterium. Idk, maybe if it had antimatter capsule it might have worked, but even then it falls into the trap of resulting explosion being too large and powerful for a handgun that you're supposed to be able to use in close quarters too. Woops, we're all dead because marine Doviculus used his bolter within 100m "no-no" zone😅
Is this your “Personal Interpretation”?
@@samdurfee6093 considering they've mentioned the myth that normal humans use smaller bolters, that was created by "lore youtubers"(no idea if it was Archcast or Majorkill, who is to blame for that disinformation), I guess you can say yes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@TheArklyte well “Normal Humans” do use Bolters.
Guard Commanders, the Sister of Battle, Inquisitors, and the Adeptus Arbites.
To name a few.
So it’s not a “Myth” but rather Black Library authors being far too liberal with what constitutes a Bolt-Gun.
In Lore the Astartes Bolter is ment to be extremely dangerous and powerful.
But that gets lost in interpretation when Authors write Inquisitor “Self-insert” who are not Astartes but can totally wear Tactical Dreadnaught Armor, with a Astartes Storm Bolter Power-sword and also they are an Alpha level Psyker.
What I am getting at is Black Library authors have steadily decreased their attention to “Lore” details. Which is how we get such stupid shit like one story depicting Boltguns tearing through Power Armor and another where the armor holds without issue.
This isn’t “Personal Interpretation” but internal inconsistency.
“The emperor protects, but having a loaded boltgun never hurt either”
Technically speaking, boltguns have hurt many billions
The Ultramarines movie was fun
@@fredericmartin7352 mostly Xenos and Heretics but some loyal guardsmen and civilians as well mostly done by Traitors but some friendly fire here and there does happen especially when in a chaotic battlefield intentional or not.
just suxx after the 1 mag they get is empty....
I could hear AHOY say that in my head. Hope his weapons videos remember
The elegant and beautiful, yet brutal and ferocious melody of the Imperium. Where the Imperium strikes, the symptoms of a thousand boltguns ring long into the night. And the enemies of man quake in fear as the orchestra plays the song of their ruin.
Ugly, low tech, recommended for dummies only!
I think you meant “symphony”
A thousand boltguns and a million lasguns.
thunkpooooshthunkpoooosh
@@TeutonicKnight92 I think it's a Nurglian(Freudian) slip. He must be a heretic!.
Tau Commander: “Surrender human! If not for yourself, then for the Greater Good!”
Space Marine Commander: “The ‘Greater Good’ is coming to you from the end of my bolter, _alien!_ “
Do the deaths of your men mean so little to you?
Davian Thule: "Do yours mean so much?"
Stormsurge go burrrrrrr
I belive brother you mean xeno
@@Fellcat101nope it's alien in the actual quote
hasn't the tau been like winning vs the imperium like 90% of the time? plus i doubt they care about integrating people at all since they usually want to keep to themselves
"The bullet is more than a mere munition. It is an ancient thing; it's an echo of every bullet fired. Every death dealt out by the hand of man since the beginning. You hear a bullet you hear the sound of humanity's bloody history made real"
The Remembrancer
Eldin Takley
Very few problems in life a Bolter cannot solve. Heresy isn't one of them.
You made me remember of that Simpsons episode when Homer solve all the things shooting at them.
Then you realize the heretics also uses bolters
@@MesaAufenhand only chaos space marines do, a cultist or mutant is screwed
@@DivineOrange Ork, Chaos cultists, Renegade Imperial guards, Genestealer cults, Tau sympathizers, Necromunda gangs, Hiveworld scavs, and many other enemy of the inperiums that got humanoid fingers uses Bolters.
@@MesaAufenhand bolt pistols not actual bolters it would shatter the spine of a average human
Other Science Fiction franchises typically have some kind of energy weapon as their flagship gun; phasers for Star Trek, blasters for Star Wars, Warhammer 40k has a 19mm full auto armor-piercing RPG.
Starcraft has the C14 Gauss rifles (both chemical propellant and the Gauss effect)
Alien has their Pulse Rifles (forgot actual designation, but it's basically the Vape of guns)
Most scifi can be categorized in 2: do they use energy weapons or not?
Guard-issue lasguns.
@@videogamer596 do you mean flashlight?
@@satitlertritsumpun8930 I mean, a flashlight that can shear your arm off from a couple football fields away with a single shot is one helluva flashlight
Confused MA5 noise
"Whose recoil might shatter their spine."
That never stopped a particularly huge Catachan Gunnery Sergeant to fucking sprint with a heavy bolter as a main weapon.
The writing and delivery for this is so eloquent and powerful, I thought the divine Emperor himself spoke once again!
That requires a text to speech device...
The Emperor Divine is always speaking. But few are loyal enough to hear his edicts in their hearts.
A speech worthy of a floating skull with bright red eyes and a goose pen taking note of it on a scroll.
A-la Shakespeare, perhaps?
“To a Space Marine, the boltgun is far more than a weapon; it is an instrument of Mankind's divinity, the bringer of death to his foes. Its howling blast is a prayer to the gods of battle.” -Roboute Guilliman
"its howling blast is a prayer to the gods of battle"
So.....khorne?
"Yes, you could have lasers. But where's the fun in that? No dakka"
Some Ork, probably.
That intro is just so well done, with the illusions to the weapons being instruments! Gotta run that back one more time before finishing the video 😅
*Allusions 😉
@@BigStrap Grammar pedants represent! ❤
Jedi: *wields the Force and lightsaber*
Space Marine: "Parry this, witch!" *fires boltgun with rocket propelled firepower*
*flicks it away with a mere hand gesture.
@@appo9357 *and that it's the Space Marine's helmet as an insult to injury*
@@appo9357
That depends on the readiness of that force user. Due to the availability of blaster tech, slug based weapons aren't too much common so your run of the mill padawan, knight, or sometimes even a master might not exactly be ready for a round that moves faster than a blaster bolt and would either blow up/molten metal mist on you if you struck it or go through depending on the round.
Granted particularly evasive, powerful, or experienced Jedi like Obi-Wan or Yoda or Sith like Vader or Palpatine would stand a much better chance than some random and lesser force user.
@@mill2712, bolt rounds aren't really fast either in comparison to bullets.
@@mill2712 Since it was a joke, let’s just go with an experienced and capable Force user.
I wish TotalBiscuit was alive to witness how popular WH40K has become.
The Boltgun, as we all know, was designed by famous tech priest Sebastian Bolt.
Bolters Brother! Let none pass unscathed!
Funny thing: bolters are extrapolation of real british idea of gyrojet round. Later projects like OICW, korean K-11 20mm grenade launcher and Inkuzi 20mm ( see video on Forgotten Weapons ) tried explosive rounds as individual ammunition.
The "Astartes" short film was brilliant in its depiction of the Bolter. Absolutely lethal in Space Marine hands; even the Space Marine 2 trailer showed bolt pistols can tear large Tyranids apart.
Sometimes it makes you wonder why ships aren't installed with defenses that can make entire halls crush or otherwise have a turret do all the shooting instead of squishy human rebels.
You should check out Darktide’s Bolter depiction. It’s hands-down the most powerful gun in the game, and you can watch a single round blow multiple targets in half in real-time.
It's funny how certain standard weapons get hyped up by the lore:
Space Marine Bolters are automatic mini rocket launchers.
Pulse Rifles are high precision plasma guns.
Shuriken Rifles shoot blades with a monomolecular edge.
Tyranids Warriors spit brain eating parasites.
Gauss Flayers disassemble the atoms of whatever they hit.
...and they all do the same damage as a literal piece of trash an Ork glued together or a Guardsman's glorified flashlight in the tabletop.
Lets be honest here, if the tabletop was completely accurate to the lore, a guardsmen would cost half a point per model, Tau would be shooting at you from three tables over and a Custodes army would consist of a single model.
the ork make sense because they are really good at believing
I like to think the Bolter was in use during the Dark Age of Technology as standard side-arms or something as the "cheaper" and "easier" option to something much larger and scarier.
Much like how Terminator armor use to be just mining gear lol
I imagine weapons like Volkite were probably much more commonplace then.
Dark age stuff is only better in the most rare sense of that word. The common stuff is likely the same as what the Imperium uses on a wide scale now. Literally being what survived to the modern times.
Well, I support this since Leagues of Votann also use them as primary weaponry for many of their troops, but their boltgun pattern is directly plucked from a votann memory banks, and those things are DEFIENIETLY pre-Man-of-Iron uprising dark age tech.
Considering bolters are the most unrealistic, overly complicated & impractical piles of junk ever conceived, no.
@@flameendcyborgguy883 The Votann might not have used memory banks for it, but designed it from the ground up. Though it probably was common knowledge.
Oh great, I thought that speaker was gone, now he's back! His voice is very special and gives everything a sense of fundamental meaning and weight.
The Sisters wielding bolters as their standard fire arm is severely underappreciated and thematically perfect.
One day someone will make a working 3d printed version of this!
Its machine spirt would be foul indeed. No weapon should be made without the spark of human divinity imbued into the process.
@@TemplinInstitute
The spirit must be awakened somehow.
People already do
@@adman1381 Perhaps we can put it in the holy wash and cure it before use? Praise be the Omnisiah! 🤖
make sure to rub it in holy oil & praise!
"Bolt 'em till they're dead." - The Emperor of Mankind, probably.
I think the Institute is at its best when investigating the Warhammer Fantasy and 40K universes. Not that the other material isn't good, but there's something about having such a bonkers setting explained so calmly and clearly that appeals to me very much. :)
@luentin09
Can I just say how much I appreciate your videos, the main investigations like this one, I made a whole playlist of them and listen to them when I write. It really helps.
The idea of making an automatic grenade launcher would be so ridiculous but yet sounds like something that could actually exist in some way in the future
They literally already exist
@@BAGELMENSKNot handheld ones. Yet.
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@@NCRVeteranRanger
Just because they don't have enough rounds for that.
@@NCRVeteranRanger Inkunzi PAW was a legit working attempt at a boltgun. Sadly never moved past prototype
Alright Rejects, nobody talk about the Bolters they're giving us.
30k terra: / "what have you brought me, tech-priest?"
- "well, you wanted a grenade launcher and a machine gun. so i made a rocket-grenade-machine gun!"
/ "overkill much, priest?"
- "you don't like it?"
/ "i love it."
What a well done video and tribute to one of the best weapon systems produced by the Imperium. This gun is synonymous with the Legion Astartes and its many auxiliaries. Bravo!
This is the first time you did a handheld weapon, you should definitely do more weapon videos
From Necromunda's House of Iron:
956.M41 Guns at Dorn - A massive master-crafted bolt pistol, stamped with a fist icon, falls into the hands of Orlock gang boss Helgan Graywater, who modifies a servo-fist so he can fire it without breaking his arm. The gun turns out to be a mixed blessing, as it earns Graywater a fearsome reputation, but eventually spells his downfall when its owner comes to reclaim his property.
"Every Weapon is an instrument"
* Noise Marines Intensifies *
FOR THE EMPEROR
FOR THE IMPERIUM
I have never heard such a loving and poetic description of a weapon.
“Speak softly, and carry a big gun”
Why do I get the feeling that the Templin Institute made this video in response to the game Warhammer 40k Boltgun that came out just recently?
Gunnery Sergeant "Stonetooth" Harker of the Catachan 2nd disagrees regarding the claim that bolters cannot be wielded without a mount by the unaugmented
that man was augmented by the Emperor himself.
I love this narrator. I want him to continue narrating for every mini-documentary.
The writing or script here is great. A rather epic ode to the bolter.
The way it is described, each "bolt" is apparently more complicated and expensive than the actual bolt gun itself!
The gun itself is not necessarily any more complicated that a modern real world automatic rifle, meanwhile the standard bolt is like a small bunker buster missile.
Best part is that most of the variants on the bolter don't DO anything, because the differences affect properites of bullets that are utterly nullified by the fact that the 'bullet' is a rocket (trade offs in range and accuracy, mostly. The properties of the rocket completely override any effect the gun could be imparting (if not, the gun would be better off firing regular bullets).
The bolt is a 19mm round, far from a bunker buster missile. It is more akin to an auto cannon in real life.
I’d love to try to engineer/build an IRL boltgun, most of the tech at its base already exists right now
You should google the gyro jet, it was basically a bolter irl. (Except it sucked cause it was made in the 19’s lol)
@@Jpeg.g not really, at least in today’s interpretation. As Templin pointed, current bolters are rocket-assisted as opposed to being solely rocket propelled. It’s also well known that the Gyrojet was not a good system either.
if you ever do then the question now is,Will someone be able to fire it without breaking their bones?
It would suck considering either the explosive payload is sacrificed for the rocket or the other way around. Making it 20mm is negating its armor piercing potential too, as real 20mm armor piercing rounds use a smaller tungsten core jacketed by aluminum for it to penetrate, while the bolter would be hollow and the size would only serve to spread out the impact. TLDR it would be really good at killing a person if it ever hit one, but not much else.
The tech? Yes. The materials? Ehhhhhhh I don't think so, unfortunately. Inside your standard 75 cal bolt round is an explosive charge powerful enough to blast a human into a spread of shredded meat and splintered bone, and that's a hit at CENTER MASS. Idk if we possess an explosive powerful enough to do that in such a small quantity. Like, yeah, a bolt round is 3/4s of an inch in diameter, but you can only pack so much boom into one round, y'know?
Never rly got into Warhammer (That changes now) but such fine weaponry deeply fascinates me. 🧐
Fine weapon?
Now adays we have rocket-bullet pistol that has no recoil and the Bolter interesting because?
@@congnghequansuvn474 its also a really ineffective self propelled pistol, so yeah, bolters are way more interesting
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Only because the rocket rounds are too expensive. The same thing can be said to a Bolter rounds
@@congnghequansuvn474 ah but bolter rounds are actually effective for what they do, the gyrojet rounds are too inefficient to mass produce cuz a regular lead core round will do just fine in our modern age
@@congnghequansuvn474 Because its a good summary of the state of humanity in the setting where the apocalypse happened long ago. Humans went from using engines that consume matter into a digitalized form, back to using projectile weapons conceived during our cold war.
"None escapes the Emperor's 'quisitor with the boltgun on his hip."
BOLTGUN MY BOLTGUN!!!
Give thanks Brothers, for Glory awaits!
Whenever a Space Marines goes for a walk with a Boltgun, he asked his enemies how's their health plan.
Apparently it was great.
Very enthusiastic walks
@@DavidSonofDavid Ok... WHO THE FUCK gave alucard bloody bolt pistols?!
he or sheeee ? hhhh i think they learned the lesson
Leagues of Votann also use bolters as their primary shock trooper arms, alongside the Ion weaponry, so Bolters must be from the dark age of technology.
This is my BOOMSTICK! - Bruce Campbell
I always found it amusing that the Bolter is loosely based upon a real-world rocket propelled munition; one that never made it to mass production due to how unreliable and inaccurate it was. We really should be hitting on 5's and 6's with these things when on the tabletop.
“But can we really know if Boltguns actually just fire giant lasers? We actually can’t be sure due to the unreliable narrators the setting relies upon.”
who said boltguns fire lasers?
A fantastic tribute to the bolter and good info om what it is and its importance to humanity in 40k😊
An insightful piece of information.
Continue the good work!
The Emperor Protects!
There is nothing, that more adequately portrays just how over the top the 40k universe really is, other than the bolter - a handheld, rapid firing, grenade launcher, and with the fact that even such a vile, flesh destroying weapon isn't always enough. I just love it!
This video is timed well especially with the upcoming boltgun game superb work as always very few RUclipsrs capture just how devastating the bolter really is
Warhammer 40k has such distinct weapons. The boltgun and chainsword are as iconic to me as the e11 blaster and the lightsaber
Once again a so well written and construct script delivered with that amazing voice and skills for voice over! If Invicta is back in a third season…I pray you will be on narrator’s team !👍
At this point the templin institute could say "the emperor sits on a throne" and I'd start becoming suspicious about it.
40k media, normally: high explosive miniaturized rocket rounds
Dawn of War 1: regular bullet
Decent for a handheld weapon. Fun to use too.
I like how cute and cartoony it looks with the big boxy shape since it was made primarily for tiny models.
Yo not gonna lie the guy who narrates this sounds like he's 60% through being converted to a servator
The last shot being the art from the Boltgun game was a nice touch.
I think the most terrifying bolt weapon for me is the dual hurricane bolter racks mounted on landraider crusaders and storm ravens. Bolter rounds are already scary enough by being a rocket propelled explosive round. Now imagine sitting in a trench when the section to your right suddenly erupts in an absolute hailstorm of fire, fragmentation, small explosions as hundreds of bolter rounds blanket the area and turn everyone that was there into bloody pulp and viscera. You look up to see a storm raven gunship fly past as a literal roar of bolter fire can be heard as if the thing was a metal dragon.
Of all the firearms to choose for Arsenal, you nailed it first try
It seems like so many games get these wrong. Thinking of them as bullets rather than explosive rounds.
Weapon for dummies, those explosive round have less penetration than solid rounds.
Even Ork would know that
@@congnghequansuvn474 Did you not watch the video?
@@JimmyAgent007
Of course I did, even with the harden chop it still less penetrative that completely solid round
@@congnghequansuvn474 Even if that were true, what bearing does that have on my original statement?
Now the real question is do you know how gene seed works?
Thanks as always for bringing us this universe
Who cares since according to you the lore doesn't matter
Not sure who said lore doesn't matter, but we actually made a video about the lack of canon in 40k. It's called "Female Space Marines & The Death of Canon". Check it out!
@@TemplinInstitute 🤡
@@TemplinInstitute ‘Not sure who said lore doesn’t matter’..... ‘And the death of canon’.... 🙄🤦🏻♂️😑
You losers are STILL salty about that?
My mind: "You have read and watched so much about bolters, are you really going to watch another one?"
Me: "Silence, Brain! The vox machine lamemts of the Holy Bolter!"
Bolters: for when you REALLY want to see your target dead.
as a note they did try making rocket propelled small arms in the past (the gyro jet)
the ammo ended up being way to expensive and it had a minimum range of 60 feet (because it takes that long to burn out all of its propellant and get up to terminal velocity)
Bolt guns use a hybrid system, though. Gyrojets are only self-propelled.
@@Nickname-hier-einfuegen and the way you get those two propulsion systems to actually aim where you want them to go are largely nullified by the effect of the other propulsion system. So that's fun. Also, if the thing Explodes at the end, it has a minimum safe distance Anyway.
I like these kind of your informative videos. Can you post more of them?
they're our bread and butter, baby.
By the Emperor, I love this video. Its works so well even as a Gym Background hum.
Let the Emperor Guide ypu and find strength with him to achive anything you set your mind to!
Great video. As always from y'all. Thank you for this.
Nothing more satisfying than purging xenos with your dear boltgun
Love the 40K content
Good bye enemy, Good bye hand, Good bye shoulder, Good bye hearing, Good bye that other guy.... good bye additional other guy..
You will never convince me this video shouldn't be called 'Bolters'.
This is my Boltgun.
It bolts guns.
"To a Space Marine, the boltgun is far more than a weapon; it is an instrument of Mankind's divity, the bringer of death to his foes. Its howling blast is a prayer to the gods of battle." -- From the teachings of Roboute Guilliman as laid down in the Apocrypha of Skaros
What's everyone's favorite bolter design? Mine's probably the Heavy Bolt Rifle, there's just something about that M16-style carrying handle that does it for me!
A weapon truly blessed by me
It should be telling that humanity is barely holding on with weapons like this in its arsenal
To be fair, the bolter is pretty mediocre gun in the setting.
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"OHHH AT LAST!!"- Devastator battle brother Tiro.
This is MY Boltgun, there are many like it but this one is mine.
Munitions for the boltgun sound like an advance form of the Rocket Ball for the Volcanic rifle and Volcanic repeating lever action pistol.
The way you spoke in this vid is like a master poet.
Great video! could you do one on the Star Ship Troopers Morritar rifle? the original movie was amazing and now there are games out making it popular once again. Be cool to see the rifle explained
Self-propelled rounds where actually tested in the real world.
The results where less then stellar. On average self-propelled rounds had lower stats across the board compared to conventional rounds.
Remember brothers, bless your boltgun before battle.
Also speak kindly to it; the machine-spirit will appreciate it if you treat it as a comrade, and not as a mere tool. Some of them have real attitudes though, so you need to judge for yourself which tack to take when dealing with a machine-spirit.
The Primarks are the Emperor's second greatest work. The first? The Boltgun.
*Primarchs
First would be Custodians
Your destruction is the will of the God Emperor, and these are His instruments.
I have a collection of real size replicas of my favorite weapons of sci-fi franchises, an assault rifle from Halo, a Lancer from Gears of War and a Bolter from Warhammer 40k, it cost me a lot of money because I ordered them from a specialist in doing this kind of work but it was worth the price.
Love your videos, however I have to point a few things out here. This is pulled directly from the wiki; The Condemnor Pattern Bolter is a highly specialised Combi-weapon used almost exclusively by the operatives of the Ordo Hereticus and Adepta Sororitas. It combines a bolter with a single-shot crossbow armature. Though archaic in appearance, the crossbow fires a silver stake engraved with sigils of disruption that destabilise a psyker's connection with the Warp. A direct hit from the crossbow will therefore not only deal a severe wound to a psyker, it will also send his power spiralling out of control, consuming the user in a storm of untrammelled psychic energy. (Bolt Stakes really? no it doesn't, it launches silver stakes from the cross bow as an attachment, the same way an under slung grenade launcher tosses grenades as an attachment, just because something is combined to a Bolter does not mean that object fires Bolt rounds) So um yeah that aside, I have heard of a I have heard of a "Marksman Bolt Carbine" but never heard of a "Marksman Bolter", ever, it's called a Stalker Bolter or it's younger bigger brother the Stalker Bolt Rifle (yes, these are two very different guns google them) The "Assault Bolter" so what? That is a general description of almost every Bolter presently. Seriously though, it's called a Storm Bolter, I have never heard of the gun having more barrels then two and the only variants I know of for the Storm Pattern are handheld and arm mounted on both the Grey Knights, Castodes of the Black Cells under the Imperial Palace, and Space Marine Terminators.
*“BASTION-220 COMBAT STANCE!”*
From the immortal words of the Black Templars: "EAT BOLTGUN!"
The Unholy child of a Assault Gun and a Rocket Launcher
Heretic!!! How dare you profane the embodiment of the Emperor's righteous fury.
Every weapon is an instrument... badass line.
Bolters are fuckin sick
It's a Gyrojet? That truly is a horrifically dark future.