EVERY SINGLE Boltgun Type/Variant Explained!

The boltgun is the brick that forms the very foundation of Mankind’s galaxy-spanning empire - so get the sacred oils ready, and pay attention while we tell you all about the Bolter.
EVERY SINGLE Boltgun Type/Variant Explained!
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[@equinoxo8813]

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.

[@Goblinhandler]

It’s mostly artillery and tanks, lasguns are almost useless in universe

[@TheROOTminus1]

Lasguns are just there to highlight targets for the heavy bolter and lascannon crews to do their thing

[@gamechanger8908]

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.

[@dazmaz1269]

@@TheROOTminus1 Lazer Pointers

[@nathanworthington4451]

You're fkn lame

[@kennycai8695]

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.

[@michaelscalese3142]

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

[@NeocrimsonX]

​@michaelscalese3142 the gigachad of the Imperium

[@dominicgorriceta6487]

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.

[@NeocrimsonX]

@@dominicgorriceta6487 hell yeah

[@edrozenrozen9600]

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 KZbin for gyrojet

[@sheogorath-the-incrazy]

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

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

My reaction exactly. How do you even impregnate metal?

[@sangerzonnvolt6712]

​@@tdpuuhailee8222 very carefully....

[@gae_wead_dad_6914]

Wait... depleted Deuterium? It literally just... fires hydrogen? Like... the lightest material in the universe? LMAO

[@theotv5522]

Meanwhile, distant laughter of Mekboys taping random scraps with cardboard handlers and somehow still just as lethal, giving Tech priest a migraine.

[@firstnamelastname8058]

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?".

[@twoshieldsandsomemilk]

I would leave an honorable mention to the (potentially apocryphal) Sororitas Trinity Gun. A triple combi stack Flamer, bolter, and melta gun

[@thearchives1094]

Wait, something like that exists?!?!?

[@twoshieldsandsomemilk]

@thearchives1094 as I said, it MAY or MAY NOT be canon but yes

[@alexejvecera6317]

Well Deathwatch have a heavy bolter/flamer hybrid

[@twoshieldsandsomemilk]

@@alexejvecera6317 sure but it still isnt THE Trinity Gun

[@penguin_reader_yt9510]

HOW DO I GET ONE

[@TheJedinator13]

Finally another long-form more lore video! Love this!

[@MoreLoreYT]

Thanks! We’ll keep em coming

[@RuSosan]

"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

[@noahahn3658]

FOR THE LOVE THE EMPEROR WHY ARE THEY SO BIG IN THE MAGAZINE WELL ?! THEY ARE .75 CALLIBER, NOT 2IN !

[@Ontheregz]

The mags are probably quadruple stack for high capacity

[@El_Hornio_II]

​@@Ontheregzit's almost certainly only a double stack at most seeing as the standard mag for a bolter carries 30 rounds at the highest

[@noahahn3658]

@@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.

[@everythingsalright1121]

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.

[@gregtso7505]

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.

[@Keemperor40K]

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.

[@Anomalocaris-hy4kv]

Me watching this while missing all my bolter shots in the tabletop game

[@thearchives1094]

Big oof

[@leachofsouls]

"I imbued this with bad vibes" one made me die laughing for no reason 🤣

[@jacobheller3146]

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

[@RaikoTechnologies]

Nope, they use regular shotguns, categorized as being "stubber weapon"

[@9.11wascausedbyLoganPaul]

0:06 I love chunky guns

[@UpToSpeedOnJaguar]

The Emperor's angels show when you need them most, but a guardsman's las rifle is with him always.

[@death31313]

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.

[@TheDragonKnight98]

Lmao man i think you're right

[@mrnohax5436]

when the emperor wants something gone he will crank it to 11 and make sure chaos knows about it

[@ryanchong9965]

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.

[@jwbrooks55]

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.

[@jurajsintaj6644]

Also wouldn't "depleted Deutrium" just be hydrogen? Since depleted Uranium is just a much less radioactive/more stable version of Uranium 285.

[@marcurobert4699]

Every single bolter that ain't in Darktide*

[@rikiorikio9368]

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

[@RaikoTechnologies]

It was before Imperium, in the "golden age"

[@jasonwilliams74]

Cathedral Titans please!

[@staszoltek8364]

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?

[@cmmpr111]

The power armor is airtight. Space marines can also breathe underwater.

[@phelanwolf6747]

How do you think SPACE Marines breath in space? Their armor is obviously a space suit!

[@alexyoblick]

⁠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.

[@NicolaiVE]

Most power armor is fully enclosed (looking at you Scouts) And The have been battles fought on the sea/ocean floors in lore.

[@FatGouf]

There's a chapter who's specialized in underwater combat, forgot the name.

[@Here_comes_Hope]

Bro this channel is sick. Just found it and just subbed!

[@MadtheManiac]

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.

[@Dimetropteryx]

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.

[@thrillium8623]

Extremely well made, i liked this a lot!

[@MrSpetnaz01]

keep up the great work !

[@Barry-Sweaty]

Hell yeah. Thanks for this.

[@Grabungle]

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.

[@kaiquebrasil1031]

Amazing video!

[@HorizonIsHere1337]

Such a great breakdown mate.

[@sashamakeev7547]

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?

[@LuluTheDuck33]

Imagine getting shot at by storm bolter. Turn u into mince meat

[@RiffSilverthe1andonly]

This guy’s edits are great

[@katanalama2174]

Great quality

[@declanmoore7275]

Please do a video on titan types or chaos legions / warbands

[@lorenzofrassinetti9439]

I love this! Can we have a video on the variants of other imperium weapons?

[@GreyJedi_Lore]

Your Production Value / Animations are crazy 😂😅👍

[@KazzKhan]

Never thought I'd see the day where I'd see my Bolter 3D model. Great video, love your content man.

[@devingendron2287]

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.

[@radwolf76]

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.

[@mikepenny8940]

I like your take on 40k and the way you present and explain things. Consider me subscribed to your channel

[@lafleur8414]

Great video

[@shanatokisaki4596]

I would love to see a video about some of the aeldari, drukhari and necron weapons and what they are meant to do.

[@mattiismouse1086]

Idea: bolter Marines. There is 100 bolters attached all over their arms and bodies

[@rtur_kotin]

The visuals are amazing xD

[@cascadianrangers728]

Bolter shells dont detonate on contact. There is a microsecond delay, so that the explosives detonate inside the target after smashing thru armor

[@terrelldurocher3330]

So if a bolter round hits something harder than itself it will shatter and hence won't explode.

[@user-qg8ye4di6d]

Every lazgun next!

[@pandaberserk3390]

4:58 🤣

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

Trust Dwarves to come up with an improved version of human tech, regardless of if they're human themselves.

[@peacechan4500]

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

[@necronlord52]

The megabolter. I'd buy it for dollar!

[@nomcarver4436]

Was hoping you’d cover the pattern of bolter used my the retributiors

[@justanormaljugofmilkonthei2439]

DAKKAS are probably just the Warhammer equivalent of KelTec weapons

[@forwarddiscipline]

Smh. The rfb is a amazing. It's insides are like an alien spacecraft per complexity, but my God it's good.

[@mookman4541]

My man, you forgot about the glorious and I mean absolutely glorious footfall Bolter.

[@agentoy6065]

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

[@Kaegro]

I'd like the same video but with Gauss weapons

[@noahahn3658]

First error: The mass detonator makes the round go off in the target, not on contact.

[@GrimrDirge]

1:24 this is hilariously vague. User pulls trigger...stuff happens...bullet leaves the barrel 😂. Thanks Dr. Science.

[@tombaron3646]

a video abou lasguns whould be super cool

[@EpicCheese765]

I love that this is an average British person's idea of what a futuristic gun is.

[@xxd3athxx63]

I would love to see these versions in Darktide when they updated in the future

[@vake1234]

i love boltstorm-gauntles, close range=deadly, even closer=disastrous, and with 2 of them=fun!

[@cybercat3113]

Pretty sure I’ve seen Black Templar neophytes using bolt shotguns.

[@loner_kdot]

Can you do guardsman ranks

[@bolojohnson711]

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

[@kamaeq]

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.

[@colcommissar23]

Butt stocks and sights exist on rifles for a reason. So you can shoulder the weapon and aim.

[@w4rpf1nnlad]

WH40k ignores all reason with auto-senses and recoil-puffering armor etc.

[@thomasengelthaler462]

The Vulcan bolter minigun

[@Mrpoopybutthead111]

Chain weapons next

[@bbj705]

Lucius-pattern lasgun the bayonet dose it for me

[@GiskardRevenlov]

A reminder, the bolts are much smaller than shown, and are actually thinner than a 12 gauge slug

[@FRPMM]

Titan bolters are basically howitzer artillery gun ifkt had auto click and auto reload

[@mrblobby809]

They would hold about 3 rounds!

[@franksworld9922]

Ravener used psycannon on his lifesupport unit.

[@MiniFuxy11]

I would mention the Bullpup Boltgun of Azrael, the Supreme Grandmaster of the Dark Amgels.

[@chenli9778]

Is Baneblade Cannon sort of a Bolt weapon since it's primarily fire rocket propelled shells ?

[@nijithegemini]

short summary: either more bigger or more barrels on the brick XD

[@johndoe6737]

You missed Plague Bolters of the plaguemarines that are toxic and inferno bolters of the thousand sons which are magically enhanced for increased penetration.

[@TheCrookedMoon]

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..!

[@AlexWithington]

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

[@ayrton1899]

What happened to the bolter stalker, long live eternal crusade.

[@DiakosDelvin]

You forgot the A-10 warthog of 40k, the avenger strike fighter and it's volkswagon sized gatlign style Avenger Bolt Cannon.

[@terrelldurocher3330]

Deuterium so depleted that it becomes a solid maybe?

[@cactusproductions6531]

Ah yes my .75 caliber rocket propelled tranquilizer round (it’s less than lethal)

[@adrianj8370]

The imperium of man runs a gyro jet as thier primary weapon😂 very grim dark

[@wesfoster1178]

I love WH40K. Its so op and crazy. I cant wait for people to compare my sci-fi series to it. It'll be interesting to see the comments.

[@KillerOrca]

The Xeelee Sequence says hello. As does the Culture

[@isaiahsmith7123]

The fleets in Andromeda and LOTGH would like to have a friendly chat.

[@alphabimbleton8172]

5:40 deathwatch use bolt shotguns

[@rupertcortes3980]

Bolt pistol, boltgun, and bolt rifle I love it. Hmmm❤❤❤

[@clockword9189]

5:39 isn't the bolt shotgun used by the space marines scouts?

[@MegaDoom101]

The lasgun is the crossbow of its age. It’s made killing at a distance cheap, easy to learn and somewhat reliable.

[@AlphagonOmegarius]

Are there mortal pattern storm bolters?

[@gavinflynn9345]

Shoutout to the Eversor assassin who use a combi-boltgun (bolt and needlegun). Proof that stealth is optional

[@elitedangerous7591]

I thought storm bolters are double bolter handheld guns, primaris aggresor wrist mounted are assault bolters ?

[@jebadaiah1228]

this video is correct, I need to buy more guns...

[@LOUIZZZ2003]

are you the guy from Red Five channel?

[@user-zx5yv3yv6l]

An honourable mention would be the assault cannon, which fires explosive bullets, so it's technically a grenade launcher.

[@THEHOLYCHAINSWORD]

I mean now we get a new boltgun centurion bolters ha ha

[@nicoaicher7864]

The deathwatch uses shotguns and im pretty sure they are of the bolter variety

[@FatGouf]

The psycannon isn't the difficult thing the create, its ammo is.

[@TheGamingPrinny]

I honestly don’t see the bolt ammo as a grenade I see it more as a .75 armor piercing payload round

[@rodzacjisook]

What about assault cannons?

[@vulkanXVII]

* ignites flamer *