DEATH RAY GUNS - Volkite Weapons EXPLAINED in 60 Seconds

#40klore #40kmemes #warhammerlore #spacemarines

[@chocolatecaake_]

The idea that the thing was scrapped for being unreliable and hard to clean is actually really realistic

[@agentc7020]

Very realistic in an universe where demons can kill you with magic sound weapons, yeah, I'm sure dedicating man power to the maintenace of their ordenamce would have been too unrealitic for the 30k imperium.

[@deeznuts-kw6yv]

@@agentc7020sure it sounds easy as first until your realize that you need to put the infrastructure, manpower and resources to upkeep the supply lines and the manufacturing power to keep it all going would be an absolute logistical nightmare on such an astronomically large scale as the imperium of man, to the point where a bolter would be a lot more reliable

[@varxe7]

​@agentc7020 for an imperium with their crap together to give their standing armies, sure. it's way different when considering this was the time of the great crusade, meaning that their forces were going away from their forge worlds for longer periods of time. Ease of use and reliability are gonna be a much larger factor when you can't easily take care of your gear without turning the ship around. Also, remember that the emperor was speedrunning the great crusade, and if swapping from volkite to bolters removed possible delays than the change made even more sense.

[@The_trees_have_ears]

@@deeznuts-kw6yvand let’s keep in mind that the loyalists on Istvaan 3 kept fighting with their less advanced bolters even after virus bombing and extended battle

[@Yurt_enthusiast7]

Yeah the small snippets of realism was one of the things I really liked with earlier lore, nowadays they just cram as many different weapons as physically possible on models to keep the power creep going.

[@arcturus960]

A giant destructive laser beam will never stop being a good idea for sci-fi

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Lore: tears through power armor Tabletop: 0 AP

[@fats3342]

Just try to play a game of 30k.

[@cyanideinmycereal1077]

@@thenerfkid9228Literally on a 17% chance lol

[@atlas6538]

​@@cyanideinmycereal1077ts tabletop game, you wouldn't be having a good time if it did mortals 100% of the time, it was one of the most broken gun in 9th

[@cyanideinmycereal1077]

It was terrible in 9th...? The only thing it was good on was the contemptor, and even then, it wasn't like THAT good.@@atlas6538

[@BrunoBy1]

Even in lore they dont work against amored targests ... he is just spreading bullshit. In the Lexicanum is a article were thentalk about then being ineffective against Heavy armored enemys like an enemy like space marines.

[@theanathema3062]

Cawl has actually began making volkite weapons again, and is distributing them to the Primaris Marines, so we gunna start getting more Volkite guns again.

[@reliantbelial2341]

i hope we get to see them in admech later down the line

[@ServitorDominusPrime]

Can't beat a good old fashioned death ray!

[@OljeiKhan]

Brother get the Volkite Charger. The HEAVY Volkite Charger.

[@emzetkin1100]

I believe an astartes-portable volkite weapon is a caliver

[@OljeiKhan]

@@emzetkin1100 If a Catachan Sergeant can operate a HEAVY BOLTER i think a Veteran Astarte could theoretically operate a Volkite Charger kekw

[@maltheri9833]

*Just in case anything happens....lets not do the invincible death ray.* -"Big E Johnson"

[@bloodangel19]

The Emps really was like: should i give this to the guys who i know for a fact I will eventualy have to wipe out or to my immortal, incapable of rebellion bodyguards?

[@xanderortega4359]

If only the guardsmen have those, their enemies wont say flashlight anymore

[@eXpriest]

You could equip an entire Solar Auxilia army with Volkite and just ash a whole board of demons turn one.

[@UnknownSquid]

I have a Volkite Pistol in VRChat. Can fire it and everything. Made the special FX for it myself. It's only litterally in the past couple years that the weapons have started getting more coverage on KZbin and 40k video games, so back when I made it, very few 40k fans actually knew what it was. It was good fun being able to meet up with the VR 40k community and show it off to them, challenging people to name what kind of weapon it was. Most were confused because at a glance it seemed like a strange combination of a plasma pistol with a lazgun. That was about three to four years ago. A lot more people recognise it these days. Is good fun.

[@The_trees_have_ears]

One of the moments where 40k introduced some realism with the reliability issue.

[@HydraDominatus420]

So that’s why the Lord of change became fried chicken when I blasted my volkite on it in BOLTGUN 😂

[@Dutch40KGuy]

I love these pew pews

[@solidzaku2]

Considering how it's described, you'll never be able to tell me that Volkites don't make the sound of the ray guns from Mars Attacks

[@cookiecraze1310]

That explains what the red crystals are in Darktide

[@maltheri9833]

Red crystals?

[@aRandomFox00]

I think they're referring to the Prismata Crystals that you are tasked to steal on one of the missions. I doubt they have anything to do with volkite weapons, though.

[@CMTechnica]

Those have nothing to do with this

[@cookiecraze1310]

@@maltheri9833 one of the missions in Darktide is to steal red crystals that are being traded between factions on Atoma. The pre-mission message says that they're for a special form of las weapons and that there's no reason for us to steal them since without the right equipment they're useless.

[@thewanderer765]

​@cookiecraze1310 That hardly implies or relates to Volkite weapons anyways

[@GeneralBradley101VA]

There's a reason, why Veterans love these.

[@connorcooke1502]

Leagues of Votann laughing in the background

[@Mastercio]

Necrons just watching from far away... "heh... thats funny".

[@connorcooke1502]

That’s it you’re going in the book Writing furiously in the book of grudges it reads: the dam tin skeletons are mocking us again by gotrek Balls make it stop. lol 😂

[@MkillMonster88]

The more I learn about Warhammer the more I want to learn

[@Madman2429]

I suspect it also would have to do with what the space marines were mostly fighting. During the crusade they weren't really fighting ceramite armored foes regularly so boltguns likely were a superior choice. Then with the heresy the infrastructure for mass rollout of volkite was lost.

[@CMTechnica]

Favorite weapons in the setting, especially in 30k. Should have mentioned that it uses thermodynamics to work, though. The beam is so hot that the target is freezing cold my comparison that it explodes the contents within. Using it against a tank leaves it relatively undamged, like a gamma neutron laser used on certain tanks. Using it on infantry will usually disintegrate them, and leave survivors blind because they essentially stared into the sun at point blank

[@NeoIsrafil]

Imagine if a certain semi-heretical inventor gets a hold of one....

[@aRandomFox00]

Apparently he has. And he is working on a way to mass-produce them.

[@annhentaiuser6658]

Cawl: *SCIENCE HAS NO BOUNDS*

[@CMTechnica]

Most Doninus class tech priests have them to begin with

[@Googleisstupid-sk3hm]

Which ones

[@memesofwarhemmer7076]

They also destroy geenseed so when during the Horus heresy both sides lost much of their ability to restore lost geenseed since it is burn to a crisp

[@gamechanger8908]

The fact a lot of Raven Guard had their Apothecaries sniped by the Alpha Legion and perhaps getting destroyed by Volkite. Made them pretty desperate.

[@aRandomFox00]

Pretty much any plasma weapon will do that, not just volkite guns.

[@awesomechaos4034]

“Possessed an incredible punch for their relatively small size” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@luca-ou8pv]

This stuff was probably used to shave people's ass hair during the dark age of technology

[@Googleisstupid-sk3hm]

Bro come on! Obvious it cigar lighter

[@envergursoy]

Another great short brother

[@TheStarWarsStoryteller]

ZAPP

[@lurkingedge]

You missed the largest. The main gun of the Emperor's personal ship is a Volkite weapon. Now that is terrifying.

[@trevorking2820]

That Sons of Malice in Saturnine terminator armor is legitness. ❤

[@bernhardvonbarret1729]

Necrons: Hold my Gauss Flayer Meatbags...

[@LordOmnissiah]

Behold a literal Martian heat ray!

[@brotheralaric7177]

I the novel " flesh and steel" the admech inspector have a volkyte, it's describe how powerfull it is . .it's like a plasma weapon but worse and wethout the leaking problem

[@robertross45]

Truly, the best weapon is the one that works.

[@warhounds]

Now everyone can wear it in 40k...

[@Blade40688]

Volkites are cool, but nothing will ever come close to my love the Melta gun, Melty Melty

[@raoulmdj6683]

No one talking about the picture at the end of vid, when you see the ''other horus'' lost his face against a white scars ? First time see this picture. Love to have link to it.

[@IstvanThree]

Did you know that the Bolter was invented by Emmanuel Robert Bolt? He was from Frankia, who would have guessed 🙄

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

Am I the only one that noticed the helmet dangling between the first guy's legs????? 💀💀💀💀

[@wmc4920]

favorite gun to melt those annoying aspirant champion in boltgun 😆

[@CHRF-55457]

It makes me wonder, if space marines were given this at the start, then why did thunder warriors have bolters?

[@nydajackmccoy]

Good thing it was volkite weapons that the Legions got. I'd hate to think of what would've happened during the Heresy if the Emperor didn't forbid everyone (except his Companions) adrathic weapon tech.

[@EngineerOfVaul]

Volkite basically cooks you inside your own armor. Wearing power armor is a nerf against these guns. Armed with volkite chargers, a squad of guards could even take on space marines with ease.

[@inductivegrunt94]

One of my most favorite weapons in all of 40k. A death ray that turning everything into fire. It's a shame that these amazing and powerful guns have been dumped from 40k almost entirely, I'd love to see more from them in modern 40k.

[@zagomyego]

flaming liquid ash you say?

[@adammoore3703]

I wanna see a Primaris Volkite Sargent.... Maybe have him weaken the target when he rolls a 6?

[@CARTOONHAMMER]

Holy

[@deepdungeon8465]

Is this the same to the *Concentrated Neutron Particle Lasers* from DAoT used by the Astartes Super Heavy Tanks that has the power to punch through Titan's defenses?

[@walkerspectre]

SONS OF MALICE APPEARANCE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ RAHHHHH

[@Webly101]

“Flaming liquid ash” What...?

[@Dutch40KGuy]

The official term for it in the book🤣

[@dustinbragg1921]

Ever heard of a pyroclastic flow? It's a mix of volcanic gasses, ash, rock, and other ejecta all flowing down and out from an eruption. When it starts to cool down a little you get flows of molten ash that burn everything they touch before they smother it under their thousands of pounds of weight. Flaming liquid ash.

[@Webly101]

@@dustinbragg1921 I mean, if you really want to get technical about it; that’s just ash mixed with molten/semi molten material; ash is already burnt, it can’t be liquid or on fire because it’s already “spent” and has nothing left to burn; that was kinda my original point To add another layer; liquid doesn’t burn, it changes to a gas and then combusts; so “flaming liquid” is still **technically** inaccurate. If you want to get technical about it 💁🏼‍♂️

[@dustinbragg1921]

@@Webly101 Yeah, but it's a description not a scientific analysis. There's molten slag pouring out of the wound and it appears to be on fire, flaming liquid ash.

[@FrankAaron]

@@Webly101 where the hell did you get the idea that ash doesn’t burn?

[@Mighty_Mr_B]

So are these where melta guns came from?

[@mhsohn6798]

Is their firepower more effective against heavy armor than Bolters?

[@arsacyclopentadiene6865]

Damn

[@pablo1006pr]

Liquid ash?

[@Dutch40KGuy]

its the descriptor in The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal

[@CrashHeadroom]

This just screams "we wanna attract the power gamers to warhammer for quick half hour battles". Screw you citadel, you havent been good since 5th ed, IF THAT.

[@MrJara1018]

How are they different then Melta weapons?

[@dylankahn168]

The beam still fires as long as you keep the trigger down, and also has longer range.

[@absp2006]

This was the one used against the ball that sucked up the marines in the Astartes short?

[@FrankAaron]

No that was just a standard plasma pistol

[@kokodayo5796]

But the shape is exactly the same

[@CMTechnica]

@@kokodayo5796plasma is always canonical blue. Volkite is red.