Eldar Weapons are Weird

[@thewerdna]

Mr Bones, in your next video hold the intro for two extra seconds if Pancrasnowork is holding you hostage. We will send help.

[@WARSMITHAFROW]

👀 V sus

[@nottegiew]

we will instead take pancreas's skull measurements as punishment

[@shovel662]

@@nottegiewwe will take his skull (for Khorne)!

[@InVinoVeratas]

I'm so used to Arthur pausing before saying his name, it feels unnatural for him to say his name so quickly.

[@The_Libationist]

I’m left to conclude that elves just love the term “monomolecular”

[@Ironbattlemace]

Word shuriken just enrages me. I am actually whipping myself in to a fury just writing it.

[@Tehstampede]

It just rolls off the tongue

[@llab3903]

@@Ironbattlemaceshuriken shuriken shuriken shuriken NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

[@Ironbattlemace]

@@llab3903 AAAAHHH AAAAAARRHH

[@AverageIrishDude]

Is pancreasnotwork blackmailing you?

[@Enoch_Trismegistus]

Isn't Pancreas blackmailing all of us?

[@chaplainsenpai1359]

That's right big smiles everybody is happy

[@daverage4729]

The most messed up Eldar weapon for me is the 'Harlequins Kiss', a wrist mounted monofilament launcher that fires the wire into your body, pulps flesh and bone turning you into a flesh sack of goo then the wire retracts back into the Kiss again. Nasty!

[@johncolvin2754]

I was gonna ask if this was still a thing after he mentioned the fist with wrist mounted catapult, I wondered if it weren't a harlequins kiss, it was deadly in game

[@thehat4244]

Meat soup!

[@Cmdtheartist]

Caliber just means how wide a projectile is. A 9mm bullet is 9mm's wide, etc. You could use caliber to describe the width of a beam, or you could use collimation, where the rays of light are parallel to one another and there is no diffusion over distance. "The laser has a collimation of 10mm", that sort of thing. In the real world, diffraction would prevent this, but we're talking about space elves, so....

[@inductivegrunt94]

Eldar weapons, from incredibly weeby with shurikan weapons to incredibly terrifying with literal Warp blackhole launchers. Eldar really have some cool weapons like their chainswords, brightlances, the various polearms, fusion guns, prism weapons, and the nightmare fuel that is the D weapons. The D weapons are my absolute favorite for how hilariously strong and dangerous they are. Nothing like sending your target, or sections of it, directly into the warp with each projectile launched.

[@ghostparty2062]

Yeh eldar have some awsome weapons, though I think mine would have to be the harlequin kiss.

[@BloodKnight003]

I quite like the fusion weapons myself (probably made obvious by my Fuegan pfp) Instead of setting them on fire with fuel or anything you just kinda *microwave noises with muffled screaming*

[@Naedlus]

@@ghostparty2062Harlequin's Embrace for me. The idea that a Harlequin would be so bold as to actually use localized phasing fields to reach inside a person's chest through armour and flesh and only remove the heart (well, on a good roll at least,) is peak Harlequin Drama Queen.

[@lookslikeEzio]

Honestly, the D-Scythe might be the most horrifying weapon in the 40k universe, from a survivors standpoint. The D-scythes seperate their targets souls from their bodies, killing them instantly, and in a flamer-like pattern. What makes them so horrifying is that they emit no sound or light while firing and that they leave behind no visible injuries on the bodies. Imagine being a guardsman being ordered to hunt down a squad of wraithguard because they've been giving your armored company trouble all week. You find them and charge, as your sarge says their D-Cannons aren't effective against small, fast moving targets. Unfortunately for your squad, these Wraithguard are actually armed with D-Scythes, turn slightly, look and point their guns at you and 9 out of 10 men just die and keel over mid charge, tumbling over one another. A surviving guardsman must think Wraithguard can kill with a thought after that. Even better, a hemlock wraithfighter strafes a trench and everyone inside just falls over dead without any warning. Fucking horrifying.

[@jackmakinson-sanders7279]

No Harlequin's Kiss? If you like the monofilament weapons, accept no substitutes.

[@clusterfox6143]

I love Eldar weapons. They are familiar, but unique in all the right ways.

[@SarthakChaudhary-vu8fp]

Hey Arthur, just wanted to thank you for your videos. They have been a breath of fresh air to 40k . Your videos seem to have a soul an active insight from the eyes of a fans . Love your contact

[@fluffywolfo3663]

the great thing about Arthur is that he feels like... just, well, _a guy_ conversationally talking to you about 40k.

[@punishedredruby]

​@@fluffywolfo3663 Thanks for putting what I've been feeling into words. You're right.

[@themelon_1785]

I think "High power" is the term youre looking for, laser weapons use energy, so power is the appropriate term

[@BLANK-pr5qs]

Even as an Eldar fan, I think they’re often poorly handled, but have such cool concepts. I love them for the concepts, the executions are rarely well done.

[@pigeon4x250]

If you like the monofilament weapons check out the Harlequin's Kiss. It's easily one of the meaner weapons I've heard of.

[@moleculeman27]

I just assumed it had been in the vid, and I'd just missed it!

[@Dokari-l9m]

There are also the sonic amplifying howling banshee mask and the striking scorpions blaster mask

[@sharlockshacolmes9381]

The main difference I see between the Eldar weapons and the Imperium's is that the Eldar actually care to put the more dangerous weapons on things that can handle them where the Imperium will just give plasma weapons to guardsmen and replace them everytime they blow up

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

The guardsmen or the plasma gun?

[@SpliffingBrit]

​@@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandleyes.

[@therudecanadian8068]

In their defence, how's the eldar's strategy going for them?

[@wahbegan]

Harlequin weapons are much cooler. They got shuriken cannons that make you blow up like a balloon full of blood and guts and explode, a tube they stick inside you that releases a monofilament wire that purees your insides....

[@Rizz_Messiah]

With lasers you generally describe their power by the wattage they output.

[@docomalleyd4279]

Lumens is a great measurement for laser weapons. Or you can use something like high refraction rate since the eldar's laser weapons generally use some sort of crystal.

[@jonathanathor117]

Or candela

[@liv9520]

I want to see you go insane covering AdMech weapons

[@novagreyson261]

mechanicus armory is funny because they all do stupid things like rip your potential energy or vibrate until they hit the right frequency to cut through you. necrons are also funny like their particle removal blasts and nervous system burners.

[@PenumbranWolf]

In Dark Heresy there is a minor alien race called the Anulians who use splinter rifle variants that fire mono molecular wires that embed into targets, be they walls or people. They can hold and touch them without being cut, but no one else can and it makes ambushes set up by them particularly dangerous. Also, do AdMech.

[@EngineerOfVaul]

The ranger longrifle is kinda unique as a laser weapon, cause its not just a laser that comes out of the barrel. There's also a superlight monomolecular needle that gets propelled by said laser beam and into the target at near lightspeed. So it does both thermal and kinetic damage. Why not stay on a roll and make the next one on the Drukhari? They have all the disturbing haemonculus weapons like the flesh gauntlet and the ossifactor. They also interestingly use particle cannons instead of lasers like their craftworld cousins, which are more powerful. They are probably the faction with the hardest hitting weapons in the setting, even above craftworlds and the necrons.

[@DerSisch]

1. The Eldar Chainswords make honestly a lot more sense the Imperial ones, they are much, much lighter and more elegant, the blade rly just adds a "saw"-action to the cutting without an additonal input from the wielder, beside they are almost silent even when activated. 2. The Shuriken weapon are honestly terrifying, imagine you get pierced by a dozen razor sharp objects you barely can actually see, even trough most body armor a human(oid) can wear. 3. The Weapon Teams (and Artillery Teams) honestly seem like a influence from the past, since GW doesn't show much love for Eldar (at all) these seem out of style nowadays, same goes most likely for the War Walker, design-wise.

[@FarremShamist]

The actual penetration of shuriken weapons isn't that much to write home about--it's how they're used. They basically use a "beam" of shurikens to dissect unarmored locations from the body. Or at least try to, dire avengers are a lot better at this than guardians are.

[@curiouswind9196]

The Drukhari's arsenal consists of - Dark Lances, Agonisers, Electrocorrosive Whips, Flesh Gauntlets, Chain Flails, Scissorhands, Huskblades, Hellglaives, Punishers, Stingers, Destructors, Crucibles of Maledictions, Combat Drugs, Gruesome Talismans, Hell Masks, Shadow Fields, *INHALE* Terrorfexes, Horrorfexes, Tormentor Helms, Masks of the Damned, Goblets of Spite, Shardcarbines, Splinter Rifles, Nightmare Dolls, Archangels of Pain, Torture Amps, Xenospasms, *Murderdick Shooters* , Sword of Balenight, Scornspitter, Storm's Teeth.

[@kdelfino1767]

Murder WHAT?

[@Ratman36]

Skaven weapons are more fun because of bigger chance of explosion. Skaven yet?

[@punishedredruby]

Is that you, J?

[@Gibbons3457]

The music kicking in at 10:35 nearly caused me to choke. Fucking perfectly timed.

[@Metzgeweiser]

Personally, I like hearing about the different weapons in 40k. Titans and their sheer scale are basically what got me interested, and one of my favorite things is when a capital ship ai fires on an alien ship and the crew has no idea what is going on

[@canyunhicks1587]

A quick note about elder plasma weapons is that the projectiles they fire are guided.

[@robingraves9517]

You ought to look through all the Harlequin weapons. Back in the early days they got insane.

[@ericsteenbergen9470]

"Thicker laser beams" More power. Lasers are usually measured in watts, or megawatts and up and up up you go. So higher wattage rather than higher caliber.

[@jakeku2662]

-'isn't that bad because the Imperium does it also." said no one ever until Arthur Bones.

[@yungmalaria]

The next natural progression for an armory video, is a league of votann weapons video ofc

[@sukmykrok3388]

Orcs! Love me those green bois!

[@RoaringShack]

How to describe higher energy laser weapons; the engineer ate more batteries than the others

[@abcdodd]

hem, hem......mandiblasters, harlequin's kiss, banshee mask, *cough*

[@daltondaily1540]

I can forgive not going into Harlequin stuff since they're weird, but I am sad they didn't bring up the Mandiblaster or Banshee Mask. Those two are like, my favorite pieces of Eldar tech, and the Mandiblaster in particular is delightfully weird.

[@gavinboyer4634]

I think Eldar and their weapons are like apple-bros and their tech. Apple-bros will insist that apple products are better and higher quality, even though they do the exact same things as other companies' phones and products. They just cost more and give a false sense of superiority to the owner. Eldar weapons are basically that to imperium weaponry.

[@Dio_07]

On the other hand much like a Samsung phone the Imperiums plasma weapons are known for exploding. Which isn't great.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

i mean they are actually better, and they actually cost less (the eldar are post-scarcity society)

[@BlackChrom3]

What? as was already mentioned: Eldar technology actually IS better? And not only spoken as a "fanboy" but also in rules: Eldar always had the "better" version for it's specific job. Brightlance had rules to show their superiority against heavy targets (be it that higher AV didn't matter or more Damage than a same sized laser cannon.) D-Cannons are a class of their own in devastation and rules (which often results in issues because their rules break the game or are not close enough to the lore). Shuriken always were better than bolter (expect range - which apparently is a result of GW nerfing them when being a stormbolter with assault was actually insane ruleswise). Scorpions had better chainswords. The claw was a better powerfist. And so on. And this is not taking lore into account, which was also mentioned: Easy to mass produce and safe - we don't see D-Cannons everywhere because they are dangerous, scarce and too complex like many imperial weapons but simply because they are associated with a "horrendous" practice in the eldars eyes (Wraith constructs - since, you know, eldar actual have at least some moral standards by 40k levels) and the whole aspect idea (hence why it is explained in the lore that eldar don't use their most overpowered shit like drones and automata since they fear a similiar result like with the birth of Slannesh: Exodites being the extreme version of that and with the Drukhari showing the actual side of "unregulated" eldar with planet-destroyers as trinkets to wear as fashion; immortality through perfect cloning; and stealing suns with the snap of a finger). We see most other heavy weapons readily available with the limit being bodies, not weapons or ressources (best example is the Wraithknight - you know, a super walker that inspired the imperial knights, which are seen as super weapons ... while the eldar use it mainly for harvesting soulstones. The limiting factor here is not the Wraithknight which apparently is "disposable" enough to be a glorified farmer, but the twins operating the wraithknight).

[@adriancontreras7523]

15:15 I mean yeah, most weapons in real life can also be summed up the same way. Stick, stick but bigger, stick but it flies now and used with string. Modern military too. Gun, gun but bigger, gun but bigger and used for vehicle, biggest gun used for aircraft/naval vessel.

[@OptimusPasche]

“The Singing Spear” you showed was actually a Force Rod.

[@locomotivevoice]

Its ok Bonesy, I'd get distracted if i had to speak of knife-ears for so long

[@vitaliyred622]

I am convinced ancient humans either stole or traded the chainblade technology.

[@DIGITALDOGMUCK]

Anyone hear his chair creak at 1:18 ?

[@Infinity_Coda]

You gotta do Tyranid bio weapons next. The fact that so many, if not all, are themselves living Tyranid organisms, sometimes even the individual ammunition is, is so wild and I love it.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

calibre is fine for lasers. in firearms it refures to the bore diameter, which can translate to the laserbeam diameter. but also the fact that it derives from a french word meaning class (as in social class), high calibre = high class.

[@katgut]

Because of how we evolve our tech, calibur will work, same as for printing press terminology being the same as computer typing terms

[@baitposter]

As someone just getting into 40k lore, I'm surprised the Eldar have missile launchers and chain swords, but that's probably more oweable to it being an older faction. They probably wouldn't if they were made today.

[@plasmyth5501]

Threw me off there without your signature thumbnail style, didnt see it was your vid until i read the channel name lol

[@sethzac2424]

Thanks for making this video, being an Eldar fan is miserable and it’s nice to have a break from the hate

[@Enoch_Trismegistus]

Pancreas gave Arthur the beatus. Shame.

[@Hunt98cz]

Votann Armory. ROCK AND STONE

[@whitlocktherevanchist5236]

Nice connection to mass effect. I never considered that. That whole series, yes Andromeda included, is one of my all time favorite game franchises

[@johnmccarrick3123]

Calibur refers to the barrel diameter, so the beam generated from a laser should theoretically match the interior diameter. Ergo Calibur still is accurate I reckon, at least as accurate as fantasy space guns go.

[@drewhalcro6082]

You missed out the Harlequins! They have a small wrist mounted Night spinner that they inject into the body. Also, laser weapons "burn" through the target so a wider laser beam would result in a more grievous wound. Also also, as far as I can recall, Beam Diameter is how you would define the size of a laser beam.

[@matthieupaquette5889]

If you are interested in Eldar weapons, i sincerly suggest looking into Dark Eldar weapons. There is some overlap, but the Drukhari do have a significantly different arsenal to the craftworlds.

[@SpamRage]

The word you're looking for is diameter, wattage is also important, but people will know what you mean. Also we have had directed energy weapons for like at least a decade

[@lordofdefiance8174]

Great video dude, your the best 40k youtuber

[@hex_2384]

For the reaper launcher, i always picture how they fire, just like the pulse missiles from ac6. Animation wise i mean... Also i wish there was more eldar weapons to see, let alone just tech.

[@liam24040]

The triskele always reminded me of the glaive from the classic sci fi fantasy epic "Krull"

[@thedragon2393]

Are you going to do the over xenos weapons

[@eindalton2638]

Dark Eldar weapons make these look tame.

[@CaraBolsaSTUDIOS]

Would u make a vide about genestealer cult weapons?

[@ithiusdomino]

Necrons will be a pretty big change from " gun but bigger" if a change is what youd like

[@jackgriffi7826]

I guess in terms for Laser power, it would be beam intensity instead of calibur? But, you're right that it would better smaller, as it would keep the concentration of energy to a minimum, and therefore focus more power in one location. But, then no giant laser, so that would be lame.

[@Tehstampede]

I've never really thought about it but yeah I don't know what the nomenclature would be for different "calibers" of laser weapon. Can you have different power levels of laser in real life? Based on what I've read a laser is a laser and will always be horrendously destructive no matter the size of the beam (which is usually invisible).

[@sypho-diaz.thisnamewasgive6866]

Mr bones. Gauge. the gauge of the laser.

[@chrismartin1020]

In real life we describe lasers in a lot of different ways, but "Beam Diameter" is an acceptable measurement. Sometimes people talk about the Beam Waist or 1/e^2 diameter, but they're all basically referring to how "wide" the laser beam is at its focal point.

[@shadogiant]

High power. The word your looking for is high power laser

[@BrandonWard-oj3yh]

Can we get a break down on death guard guns? Or maybe chaos weapons in general.

[@curtisthornsberry4236]

A bigger laser would probably be a “higher yield laser”

[@kmanalpha453]

If i had like an extra thousand dollars, Craft world would definitely be my next army i start collecting

[@satzbau9185]

Eldar weapons should frankly be even weirder

[@Masonicon]

Eldar monofilament weapons with superpowered bacterias was to negate Exterminatus when dealing with Orks

[@MarlyGnar]

Big laser = high output Small laser = lower output

[@Krojester]

F the knife ears.

[@jaqssmith1666]

hating elves is not a personality trait. calm down.

[@sameerdodger]

@@jaqssmith1666It literally is for some people, it’s all they have. That and Death Korps shovel memes.

[@Reddotzebra]

I just like to refer to all the monomolecular wire weapons as "Razor Floss".

[@gwilliam2731]

I invented a term for you. LDI. Light Density Index. It's a ratio of a light beams density compared to its cross-sectional area. A higher LDI means a high density over a smaller area ( which in ballistic terms means greater armour penertration). Boom.

[@greatpurplecroctopus]

You talked about striking scorpions but you missed the mandiblasters!!!

[@vaisendaisen]

you should cover chaos weapons, either CSM ones and/or ones used by Daemons

[@PorterMerrell-wb2so]

Eldar have dubstep cannons confirmed

[@t.z2359]

Im a bit split, on one hand I think it would be interesting to hear your opinion on Tau weapons, that said I think your insights on biology could be interesting when discussing the Tyranids load out. Honestly I'm more excited to hear what you have to say about the space bugs.

[@SebastianPereira]

The power of a laser is meassured in the watts needed to power it. More watts means a more powerful laser, military lasers do exist.

[@karlthomasson6776]

The Triskele must obviously be based on the Glaive from the 1983 masterpiece Krull.

[@MrJackWorse]

The Eldar using chain weapons is so unfitting. It's like elves fighting with gnarled branches or sth

[@anguscampbell7045]

I'd love to see drukhari, they don't have a super wide variety, but what they do have is pretty cool

[@quint3ssent1a]

One of the most infuriating things about eldar weapons, namely about their bread-and-butter standard rifle is that it is very short-ranged. For a race that's supposedly excels at gunlines making your default weapon so short really seems odd.

[@Cadmus_of_the_Knight_Seekers]

The weapons the Dark Angels had during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy (and they might still have them)

[@AndreyMakarov-i7h]

I'm suprised that not everything looks like a..slaanesh approved toy.

[@plagueparchments]

i want to bully the elves so bad but i feel like its punching down. help

[@lionelfaure1633]

Team necron here. We just need 1 weapon, a désintegrator ray (size and name variations but same usage all the time, destroy things to a atomic level)

[@topcat59]

I’m honestly surprised that the Eldar have their own version of the chainsword.🐱

[@Vinzat666]

All the weapons! Nice Video!

[@rump438]

bro really just spent a whole ass video describing guns that fire single atom flechettes, impossible lasers, black hole guns, and crystal laser guns and then calls sonic weaponry, one of the only things here that actually exists, sci fi garbage lmao

[@thee_pyro3590]

I wonder what your reaction would be when you list off Adeptus mechanicus weapons. Considering its imperium

[@sheriffhotdog1443]

Cant wait to see a Tau weapon video

[@Drunken_mage]

As a necron fan boy I have to say necron weapons.... Will it be very samey? Yes. Will it still somehow be interesting to describe? Also yes(hopefully).

[@CrimsonKrakhorn48]

I'd like to see a video on Necron weapons if you haven't already

[@Allen667sjja]

Mr. Bones I want to get off your wild ride

[@Pegomastax-1124]

10:32 wattage

[@pisquid9309]

as a Necron simp I would request the insane doomsday weapon of the skelly bois

[@nikoazure5235]

This is why I like Gundams Beam weapons thier ION beams higher voltage more dangerous beam

[@ChromisPasqueflowerBowerbird]

Perfect example of just because your army is high tech doesn't mean your army know how to craft good weapons

[@johnnypop-tart335]

I really want to know more about tau military Structure

[@juliendacoolien3454]

Do the Orks next! They're funni :) I particularly like that one vehicle weapon thay just catapults explosive squigs.