THE HUMBLE LASGUN | Warhammer 40k Lore

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[@znalniaskas]

That was the coolest add that I've seen in a long time.

[@cato_sicarius]

Can you do blood angles or blood ravens and are going to do the indomitus crusade or you can do iron hands

[@HunterSentinel]

You know what would make a good las gun pattern would be a hold down shot that gets stronger the longer you hold it. I know there’s one that charges up and the discharge happens when you let go.

[@nitesy381]

still cant believe you call 2.3 kg light.

[@dvol]

"This is the LockPickingLawyer, and today we have this reinforced bunker door from MasterLock. After literally tens of millennia, they seem to have finally produced a somewhat pick-resistant security device. Unfortunately, it is still vulnerable to a very low-skill attack. What I have here is a standard lascannon..."

[@alejandrorivas4585]

Immensely underrated joke

[@SWHSMonsters]

I just fucking died of laughter

[@KitKatHexe]

Thank you I'm going to literally lose sleep thinking about this again and asphyxiating on my own laughter repeatedly for the next 3 hours probably

[@bonogiamboni4830]

Nah he's been promoted to LockPickingArchmagos.

[@dragonking8085]

Let’s be honest a normal laspistol would break it easily

[@SinCitysOnly]

Guardsman: *adds a flashlight to his lasgun rail system* Commisar: Private, what are you doing? Guardsman: Twinlinking, sir!

[@ornu01]

BLAM!

[@iambumbo7534]

Commisar: Are you creating tech? HERESY-

[@Freedmoon44]

@@iambumbo7534 that aint creating tech Sir, thats Salvaging it, to make a makeshift weapon, medieval world uses swords and spears and primitive techno stuff they found, im doin the same with ma lasgun

[@iambumbo7534]

@@Freedmoon44 Oh, carry on then guardsmen

[@KitKatHexe]

Commissar: shouldn't a tech-priest be doing that? Guardsmen: well I tried to ask them but they were busy chanting at a baneblade and doing... Something... with those metal arms they have. Commissar: ...I see... Well... Blessed are the ignorant I suppose, carry on.

[@korstmahler]

*Thought for the day:* "On certain hive worlds, flare guns loaded with explosive projectiles are sold as 'boltguns' to unknowing hive-scum."

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

Lasgun is less about "Oh the wound is cauterised" and more "I literally super-boiled the water in your body to the point that it exploded out of you and it will very likely take a chunk off yourr body too."

[@Sue_Me_Too]

The science behind that is pretty dubious at best. The laser only actually heats what it touches - it can heat the surface rapidly, but the rate at which heat diffuses into the material is determined by its physical properties. Steam is also highly reflective, so once your skin starts to boil it will coat you in a layer of shielding gas that will protect you from further direct contact with the laser. If the laser is powerful enough to decompose the water molecules into their component gases that could cause an actual explosion when the hydrogen re-oxidizes, but a laser like that would have a limited range because it would _also_ burn the air on its way to the target - diffusing and weakening the beam.

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

@@Sue_Me_Too bold of you to assume believable science in a Warhammer setting. Our bodies still consists majorly of water, when all that energy gets sent to us armour melts, clothes turn to ash and blood boils that if it can't escape the body from such pressure then it would react in a violence of gore, as 40K would say it works. These are still weapon grade lasers, it ain't going for a slow death so the bolt coming at you is high energy and it won't just be a single Guardsman shooting but a firing line.

[@theinternetidiot]

@@Sue_Me_Too joy kill! Your not wrong but jeez.

[@Al-fp7tx]

this is a universe were the color red makes my waghbike go faster and bro's over here talking about science.

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

@@Al-fp7tx last I checked Humanity isn't Orks (ignore Digganobz), get off your pedestal of "It just works" because sometimes the science can be just as fun as when the science DOESN'T work.

[@elitemook4234]

Say it with me, lasguns are by no means weak, It's just the stuff the guard goes up against it stupid overpowered.

[@nickr9689]

Hell yeah brother!

[@octoinnorrland]

ur mum

[@Shape07-0]

@@octoinnorrland your father

[@gokbay3057]

Preach

[@rhorynotmylastname7781]

Nah they'd probably be weak compared to ballistic weapons

[@asianbandit4054]

"Any man who doubts the power of a lasgun has never had to run through a field full of them all firing at once" - some random Mordian Iron Guardsman (circa 40,000) (Edit: Never expected a fucked up quote to get this much attention from such a dedicated community)

[@KageRyuu6]

“The Legionnaire that scoffs at a lasgun has not charged across an open field against a hundred of them.” -Maor the Scarred, Siege-Champion of the Scargivers (Black Crusade pg 348)

[@asianbandit4054]

@@KageRyuu6 Thankyou I was looking for the quote online and couldn't find it. So made up what I could from memory

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

That guardsman clearly has never seen terminators, greater demons, titans , Ork sguigoths, etc. There are plenty of things in the 40k universe that could stroll through a battlefield full of lasfire and not even realize that its being shot at.

[@ladywaffle2210]

@@angrysocialjusticewarrior Terminators would get fucked up by 100 Lasguns. Besides, 100 Lasguns is a small deployment, all things considered, and they never deploy exclusively with Lasguns.

[@jasonlee8532]

I thought creed said that

[@rekadd]

i love the theory that laz weapons only have recoil because they are dark age training weapons with actuators in them to simulate recoil and imperium being imperium they always put the actuator in because its in the design

[@bthsr7113]

Sounds about right.

[@furiousdefiler7734]

It could be that the recoil is there to give soldiers a bit of physical feedback when they discharge their weapons. Sure there is the light and flash but if several are going off at once you could suffer a malfunction without realizing it. Also might be that the recoil gets soldiers to fire more accurately by getting them to check their aim after every shot. Of course I'm sure the Imperium doesn't care about this at all and they just think lasers should have recoil.

[@poffzihavenoidea531]

Nah, its because the orks believe all guns have recoil, so all guns have recoil, regardless of whether they should.

[@SittingOnEdgeman]

@@furiousdefiler7734 This would actually be just like electric cars... electric cars have artificial engine noise designed into them to make everyone more aware that they're around. They put it in to help the blind know that it wasn't safe to enter the road, among other uses.

[@ShahbazBokhari]

Ooo sauce for that???

[@jocosesonata]

I actually prefer the lasgun's crackle, makes it sound more powerful. And fits the setting! Unlike the meek and graceful "pew pew", the lasgun goes "crack-zzzt" like a fuse box popping.

[@DragonfameDracas]

I still think my favorite sound for las-guns is the *kra-kow* sounds they had at the end of the Helsreach movie has the feel of both guns and almost thunder clap that I feel the weapon should have.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

A thunder clap is the most likely noise a laser would make if it was powerful enough to make a noise.

[@suacemanaquiatan9380]

I prefer the *Ka-chow!* sound because its satisfying with a little smoke coming out

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

I'm more of a "boom prrrrr phaaaaaa dooof doof" sound kinda guy.

[@ScullyBoy]

The lasgun in Space Marine 2 Reveal Trailer sounds pretty good.

[@son0fgrim]

In one of the comics, A Tempestus Scion "overcharges" his rifle and shoots a chaos space marine in the chest and it goes through him. doesn't kill him but that's still impressive.

[@VallornDeathblade]

That would probably be a Hotshot power pack, it's essentially a 1 shot Hellgun with greater power and penetration.

[@AGrumpyPanda]

@@VallornDeathblade Scions are equipped with hellguns by default, which funnily enough can *also* take hotshot power packs to get the same effect.

[@beregondibram2985]

@@AGrumpyPanda you are wrong my friend. Kasrkin have hellguns, scions have hotshot lasguns. Boths weapons bqsically cranked up lasguns that basically require backpack power plant to have a reasonable amout of shots but they are different in way they are booster. Hot shot lasguns fire slightly slower than normal lasguns but piętce better. Hellguns get the same armour piercing capability from volume of fire. You would be forgiven for mistaking one for they other as they share stats in tabletop

[@AGrumpyPanda]

@@beregondibram2985 Insert appeal to authority here, but I've been in the hobby for a decade and a half, back when they were just called Hellguns in the book and the fluff mentions their official name as hotshot lasgun. The terms have been used interchangeably for most of the game's shelf life, if they're different now that's a very recent development.

[@Sue_Me_Too]

Laser cutting tools in real life need two things to happen in order to produce a cut: the laser heats the metal to melting and a jet of compressed inert gas (usually Argon) blows the molten metal out of the "kerf" or cut channel. Lasers only really transfer thermal energy, so without some other force acting on the target the molten/burnt/vaporized material will stay mostly where it is. A Microwave Laser on the other hand (read: meltagun) can penetrate quite a ways into organic material and heat it on the inside as well as the surface - also seriously wrecks other electronics.

[@nathangrantham7889]

In a recent 40k game I fired 134 lasgun/laspistol shot did a grand total of 4 wounds Guard is great

[@keirbird5900]

Try demolisher cannons...

[@tyrusdalet]

Bruh what were you shooting at? Custodes in cover?

[@whosthere8658]

Laughs in 20 man noise marine squad shooting 120 shots and killing on average a castellan Knight and a half with 3 stratagems costing a grand total of 3 cp.

[@gabelowe5285]

Where you using conscripts or shooting at something that is well armored because those numbers are low even for IG.

[@MattManDX1]

@@whosthere8658 Noise Marines probably had pound-for-pound the best shooting in the game until the recent Tau codex came out. They'll probably be specifically nerfed in the 9th edition Chaos Marine codex while everything else in the codex gets buffed because they're a bit nutty.

[@spacemonkey7972]

40k fun fact: All Lasguns are licensed from a forgeworld called "Maglite".

[@nicholaswalsh4462]

Some are powered by Duracell. Others by Energizer.

[@ladywaffle2210]

@@nicholaswalsh4462 You mean the Dura-cells of Forge World Metallica, and the Energizer Energy Coils of Mars?

[@bodenking]

That does feel like a great nickname for one

[@pilot778spartan3]

@@bodenking mag lite makes flash lights

[@bodenking]

@@pilot778spartan3 The guardsman modifies his to be a better bludgeon weapon

[@guyman9655]

Who would win? A weapon that can blow a soccer ball sized hole in a human, doesnt jam, has 100 shots (on standard power) in a self recharging power pack, and is commonly employed in massive numbers or several greeney boys

[@jessenielsen7218]

Several greeney boys

[@woaddragon]

WAAAAGGGHHHHH DDDAAAKKKAAA DAKKA

[@Lightscribe225]

Green boys.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

How badly are the guns outnumbered? And how many total people are carrying lax guns

[@woaddragon]

@@henrypaleveda7760 the actual cannon answer is...not enough.

[@TyrusR3chs]

The person who laughs at the humble lasgun clearly hasn't run through a firing line of a thousand of them

[@Archon3960]

Unless it's a Space Marine. X)

[@Psychoangel-d23]

@@Archon3960 “The Legionnaire that scoffs at a lasgun has not charged across an open field against a hundred of them.” -Maor the Scarred, Siege Champion. If a space marine champion tells you it´s not laughing matter... you better listen to that guy.

[@SilimSavertin]

@@Archon3960 That's gonna be a very dead space marine. Their armor is in fact not invincible even to lasguns.

[@Yacovo]

Don't forget the much-beloved Las Lock. Used mostly by low tech worlds or in an imperial antique shop, the las lock is a laser musket that has only a couple of shots before needed to be recharged. Regiments using Las Locks often use 18th century tactics like square formation and volley fire, often only having to deal with equally technologically backwards opponents like horse riding marauders.

[@Cpt_Graftin]

Though they do pack more of a punch than the normal lasgun.

[@T3CHPR135T]

And stinky ork boyz

[@Archon3960]

Would that work against Tyranids though? X)

[@knuckle1493]

@@Cpt_Graftin As does a musket. That shit will punch a fist sized hole in you, more then 5.56 or 7.62.

[@colbyvarner7799]

Misread this as las-rock, I now want a las-rock.

[@knukman]

You know who loved las-pistols? Caiaphas Caine. loved his standard issue kit, preferred it over the bolt pistol for its light weight and ease of use, plus the ability to carry way more ammunition than a bolt pistol equivalent.

[@herrdoctor2895]

Easier to run away with- I mean, easier to run towards the enemy with

[@thewerdna]

Also is a testimate to its durability as he only ever owned two Laspistols his entire 100+year career. And he only got the 2ed one because the first was destroyed by a shot from a Necron rifle

[@theenderdestruction2362]

@@thewerdna even the necrons were like "fack that gun"

[@LocalInnocentHereticJoe]

I now imagine a guardsmen in full body armour with sunscreen all over it and just in the middle of a heavy warzone, artillery shells all over the place, just laying there like it's nothing while waiting for their ammo to recharge

[@9899931]

Spf 20,000,000 stops enemy flashlights

[@ehansultan]

@@9899931 *spf 40,000

[@Archon3960]

Catachan or 1st Tanith would do it. 😎

[@sonofjack6286]

@@Archon3960 Especially the Tanith, though that's why they always carry four or five energy packs.

[@Midnight-Starfish]

Me: More Primarch and Legion episodes! Bricky, DK, and Shy: Lasgun. Me: ... I'll allow it.

[@bthsr7113]

For as scary as Cawl's additions to the Astartes arsenals are to the enemies of the Imperium, if he made a better lasgun/power pack that replaced the old designs, that would represent a monumental increase in lethality for the Imperium My personal favorite my just be the Elysian bullpup with underslung grenade launcher.

[@genericprofile2381]

If cawl made them hit even as hard as boltguns, the imperium would go unchallenged.

[@ShahbazBokhari]

@@genericprofile2381 broke: wall of guns Woke: fortress of fire power

[@bthsr7113]

I mean, even a 10% increase in damage output or shot capacity would be helpful

[@BigBex]

The thing is that while the las gun schematics are very well understood and easy to modify, the las power pack is one pf those big no no's that the admech wont touch for they dont completely understamd how or why it works. It's golden age tech

[@davidthomas2870]

Ceramite is probably a type of ceramic material in the same way that composite tank armor is also made with ceramics. Strong outer and inner metal layers, with ceramic sandwiched in between. The metal deflects or stops ballistic amo, when faced with shaped charges the cerami shatters into powder absorbing a lot of the explosion energy and causing the metal jet to be dissipated into the powder. Against energy weapons, ceramic is both a very good insulator for electricity and sink for heat against thermal energy weapons.

[@Milk192]

You are correct. Report to the nearest forge world to serve the Omnissiah 🥳

[@pennding3415]

So ceramite would be super good at absorbing and dissipating the heat of a few lazguns, but to many or something more powerful like a lazcannon would turn the cerimite from protection to cook wear.

[@camramaster]

@@pennding3415 or if it's a well-designed ceramic, into vapor.

[@davidthomas2870]

@@pennding3415 or just cause enough of the surface to explosively decompose into plasma to cause interior spalling, propelling shards of the inner layer of armor ricocheting around inside, or concus the target into a chunky paste inside their armor, or have such a powerful blast that it causes an overpressure event and squeeze the victim out their armor like toothpaste from a tube depending on specific target and atmospheric conditions or lack thereof.

[@michaelwebster3124]

Don't forget plastic. It is surprisingly useful in composite armours

[@lsynno]

For a real world equivalent, lil Derringer pistols are ridiculously weak too... It'd still be fatal to get shot by fifty of them though.

[@AneurysmHooks]

Derringers aren't weak, they are just inaccurate at range and have limited capacity. You can get them in rifle and shotgun calibers.

[@schmorgus4592]

@@AneurysmHooks there's a derri grr chambered in 7.62 and it's awful

[@AneurysmHooks]

@@schmorgus4592 Awful does not equal weak.

[@thesugardaddy7037]

@@AneurysmHooks True but in this instance I think he's referring to the small caliber ones.

[@AneurysmHooks]

@@thesugardaddy7037 Words should be more accurate than bullets.

[@Turk3YbAstEr]

the javelin is good because instead of trying to go through the incredibly well-protected front of the tank, it goes up then comes down and bonks the poorly armored roof. bigass shaped-charge goes boom and puts a hole in the roof of the tank. Also, it is fire and forget, which is nice since shooting a missile at a tank tends to not be a very subtle action and it's good for your health to scoot somewhere else afterwards.

[@Ake-TL]

Has direct fire mod too if necessary

[@AsbestosMuffins]

there's that but from pictures it seems like a lot of these tanks had retrofitted ERA which seems to have done fuckall to stop anything

[@rapter229]

@@AsbestosMuffins The Javelin has a tandem charge designed to defeat ERA. You need a good APS to stop it.

[@imperialguardsman8088]

St. Javelin! Protector of Ukraine!

[@Able542]

The Javelin is bad because a single missile costs more than what the average American makes in two years. But, you know, the military-industrial complex marches on. Who cares if the poor die of easily treatable diseases?

[@nickr9689]

The AK-47 of the 41st millennium. The Lasgun. A fine weapon if their ever was one.

[@rkrom4231]

Lmao, why do I feel like an AK today is a way more of a competent weapon than a lasgun in 40k 😂

[@JohnnyMarsBar]

@@rkrom4231 it's just not though

[@Aniyah-CHG]

@@rkrom4231 I mean relatively speaking yeah. Because the AK doesn't have to deal with space marines, demons and orks

[@cryamistellimek9184]

@@JohnnyMarsBar Unless you’re dealing with armor, then ballistic weapons do better.

[@emperorscorpion6788]

@@rkrom4231 because it's an elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood, it doesn't break, jam or overheat, it will fire weather it's covered in mud or filled with sand, it's so easy a child could use it. and they do

[@camramaster]

The lasgun is weak, short-ranged, and cheaper than human life in 40k. Hence why the best anti-infantry in 40k might be a wall of lasguns all pointing in the same direction. Seriously- duct-tape a hundred together, link them to a single trigger, mount them on a swivel mount, and then you have a delete button for everything but heavily-armored vehicles or maybe chaos space marines.

[@bthsr7113]

Yeah, but the Mechanicum will be screeching by the third rifle, shooting you by the fith.

[@juggerboy7182]

Sounds like some tech heresy

[@emmanuelgrossiordmayen3906]

Lmao, just like ww2 Russian anti air, which sometimes was just a bunch of old Maxim machine guns slapped together

[@ultramarinescaptain3840]

That's just a twin linked Lascannon

[@tdab3883]

@@emmanuelgrossiordmayen3906 and it worked

[@TheKingsPride]

Yo I love flashlights. They really highlight the contours on the 60 foot murder bug about to turn me into biomass. No better time to fix bayonets, I guess.

[@the_mad_fool]

You misspelled "shovel"

[@TheChaoticToaster]

If las guns existed in our own universe, they’d be one of the strongest weapons an infantryman could wield. That doesn’t mean much against an Ork WAAAGH!!

[@12SickOne34]

It's spelled "WAAAGH!", good Sir.

[@TheChaoticToaster]

@@12SickOne34 Ah, thank you good sir.

[@ahardworker2154]

@@12SickOne34 have you been writing in red?

[@TheChaoticToaster]

@@ahardworker2154 Da Boyz ritez in Green

[@azathoththe3rd]

@@ahardworker2154 Ya see ya stiupid humie, we's started writin in red cause red makes us go fasta so we'd read fasta. But then we started thikn about our ways of life and a boy of mine krumped himself from being a sad thinky pants so now we's write in purple soze you humies or whatever else can't read it.

[@sicor94]

Now THIS is an episode, i hope they quote the maintenance instructions of the imperial infantryman's uplifting premier!

[@comixcam9154]

You mean the standard issue toilet paper?

[@sicor94]

@@comixcam9154 Reading it gives you some usefull information though, like how to create boobytraps and other usefull things.

[@nothingunderthemask]

563334

[@Plopman43]

@@nothingunderthemask ?

[@nothingunderthemask]

@@Plopman43 I didn't mean to type that. Wet fingers. Forgot what I meant to write

[@HauntrAndrw]

Hope this leads to more episodes centered around equipment and weapons in 40k! The faction episodes are great but I feel these topics are a gold mine for ridiculous 40k shenanigans

[@davideddy8557]

Agreed!

[@ShotGunner5609]

Mega agree

[@OneTrueWindfall]

Did you watch the tanks of the imperial gaurd episode? If not definitely recommend, hell even if you have seen it go watch it again its a good one

[@Archon3960]

We need a Bolter episode. 😎

[@bthsr7113]

I practically LIVE for fictional tech videos, so I'd be game for them covering the hangars, motorpools, armories, dry docks, and mech stables of every faction that isn't Orks or 'nids. Well, I guess covering the improvised armies of genestealers works to an extent.

[@Frosty4427]

Sodaz's Krieg animations had the best Lasgun sounds imo. It's just a loud, sharp smack.

[@JackwagonInc]

As an EMT and a volunteer in an emergency room, I sympathize with the squeamish susceptibility. I have gutted deer and can handle the sight of car crashes with 0 issues...but the moment I smell/ see stuff coming out of either end I got to pull out that Cadian discipline to not blow chunks all over the patient.

[@AimlessSavant]

I lose it at greymatter spatter cases..

[@JesperoTV]

"The name speaks for itself; Volcano lance, a lance with the heat of a volcano" Oh Dk... Sweet, naïve, Dk... This is 40k, things cannot be called the thing it is

[@MattManDX1]

Volcanoes are also not that hot relatively speaking, especially considering all the overpowered nonsense in 40k

[@CodexQuinn]

You say this but forget that the Land Raider is called that not because it raids over the land, but because Arkhan Land found the STC for it. By this logic, the Volcano Lance was found by Techpriest Basalt Volcano, and his half brother, Lance Heat.

[@wesleyjudson599]

I just realized; has DK not seen the Astartes Project? Cause that would be a fun thing to have them comment/react to. (I know Bricky doesn't like reactions. But they could at least talk about it, like a book club extra episode)

[@Resomius]

isn't astertes on warhammer+ by now? they would probably be Copyright striked by that

[@tomoyaokazaki7010]

@@Resomius it is still on KZbin, with all episodes on one video.

[@claudiu-mihaipuiu1221]

@@tomoyaokazaki7010 That video is not of the original creator however, thus it is rather debatable if they're still allowed to react to it.

[@TheMagicalTouch]

On the point of ceramite being ceramic, they actually make ceramic armor right now. Turns out something really hard is really good at slowing down and breaking up blobs of lead, even if it breaks down after a couple of hits.

[@austindow9850]

I don't remember where I saw it, but there was a short snippet about some guardsmen finding some golden age power packs. Using them, the power output made their lasguns into essentially mini lascannons.

[@Irondrone4]

50:40 I would think the biggest advantage of a lascannon over a traditional cannon would be it's lack of recoil. It just projects a beam of high-intensity light; no kick from propellant to knock it around.

[@bthsr7113]

That is a big one. Whether the lack of ammo concerns would be offset by heat mitigation, fuel, and spare parts is a bit hard to say, but it's pretty consistent that you'd be dealing with little, if any recoil.

[@e-rankluck2594]

I feel like people forget that even if a barrage of lasfire doesn't penetrate your armor. Its still a bunch of heat and you might get cooked inside your armor like its an oven.

[@Cyberpsychos_Dirge]

A quick note about the Kalibrax Las-Rifle. As you mentioned Bricky, it’s used by the Solar Auxilia in the Crusade and HH times. The Solar Auxilia were the precursors to the Tempestus Scions. In fact they were a lot better, close to (but not at) Astartes level for mere humans. The Solar Auxilia were often sent into super hazardous environments, like space, hence their void suits. So to compliment this was the Kalibrax. As you mentioned it’s really durable, basically the AK of AKs. What you didn’t mention was the coolest part. Kinda like how you can change attachments on the go in BF2042 (sorry to bring that failure up), you can change the capacitor/barrel. You can quickly change it from being a lasgun (with a better base bunch btw), to a hotshot lasgun equivalent, to a mini multilaser in pretty short order. Enemy Astartes? Well now the Tercio has Hotshot lasguns. Horde of cultists? Now you have 20 dudes with handheld multilasers

[@JettMann8]

With the questions raised in this video, I am left to wonder if the two most iconic dynamic duos that I follow need to team up for a video and talk WH40K guns. Mike and Zach coming on Adeptus Ridiculous so Zach can rant like a lunatic seems right up the alley of our beloved podcast! And also he can answer all of Bricky's questions :). The most epic of crossovers!!

[@mrtrekie1833]

Yessssssssss

[@bonogiamboni4830]

Best part is that zach is also a 40k nerd (they played space marine on the channel) so it would absolutely be possible.

[@JettMann8]

@@bonogiamboni4830 My thoughts exactly!

[@randombencounter263]

"What happens when the backpack runs out of power?" You affix bayonets, DK.

[@trajanfidelis]

The Astra Militarum might give you cardboard armor, and send you to die hundreds of lightyears from your homeworld for a regime that sees you as cannon fodder, but they DID give you a lazer gun so...

[@kdolo1887]

38:51 - The battery on a lasgun is going to last longer than the soldier carrying it.

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

Admittedly not a high bar to clear...

[@KiwiTheIguana]

44:45 I'm sure a hundred people on here and twitter have already said why, but AFAIK the reason the javelin coming from above is so good is that armor is pretty much always thinnest on top of vehicles to save a bit of weight where it matters the least, since you don't expect to get shot at from above most of the time. Probably also something about it being harder to avoid or stop with countermeasures (trophy system and stuff like that) since they'd probably be focused around the sides since that's where normally projectiles come at you from.

[@pablonunalvares5391]

"The good shit is high maintenance and pretty expensive" should be part of Bricky's wedding vows, if he ever has one

[@ktinga1]

You forgot the las-lock! One of my personal favorites. It acts like a breech-loaded rifle, where you load one power pack into it, fire all the power at once, and then eject and reload.

[@sidneyc5248]

Actually just finished Krieg it’s a good one really enjoyed it and it hinted at some terrifying possibilities for the guard

[@allenpoe17]

I finished it a bit ago. Wish the whole thing was just the history of Krieg. Instead of back and forth.

[@gestaltblitz8296]

But is it worth buying, alot of book lately from gw haven't been really as worth the prices.

[@gestaltblitz8296]

But is it worth buying, alot of book lately from gw haven't been really as worth the prices.

[@judjementine]

for the hot shot laspack. since the weapon is used by special operation units such as the tempestus scions and kasrkin, the assumption is basically that one pack will be good enough. the units that utilize them primarily engage in specialized operations rather than engaging in a prolonged conflict on the frontlines. additionally the packs for the hot shots lasguns still store a substantial amount of the overcharged shots inside them so they can be utilized for a very long time. basically it's not a problem because they rarely engage in conflicts where the battery life of their weapons will fall into question.

[@kolbycampbell3957]

"I'mma come into your home. I'm gonna get in your walls." Bricky your Night Lords is showing

[@DragonfameDracas]

On the 40k lightsaber thing, I know there use to be one for Chaos, I can't for the life of me remember what its called, but they were terrible. The damn things were deafeningly loud, required a backpack power source to keep them going, and radiated so much heat that anyone outside of power armor couldn't stand the be near the thing. I believe Eisenhorn had a better, more refined version and even he swapped it out eventually.

[@bthsr7113]

Oh wow. So a shitty version of a protosaber. Next time someone 40k whines about Star Wars weapons, I'm throwing this in their face.

[@Madjo-qj2ge]

I actually like the concept of Power sword It maybe not portable enough, but when somebody destroy the field generator, you still have a sword

[@feral_orc]

@@bthsr7113 the joke in 40k is that they're terrible though?

[@lornbaker1083]

@@feral_orc also that when you activate one in the middle of a battlefield you're sending up a gigantic glowing flare indicating to every enemy on the field "hey enemy Commander right here. Come and give me a spanking"

[@Sorain1]

Some older Power Sword models outright work like lightsabers instead of the more standard 'energy field around high quality sword." of most Power Swords. Usually it's Inquisitors or Mechanus who have some of those Archeotech ones.

[@Khronos12]

Somebody did the math, apparently the imperial guard numbers at around 410 trillion while pdfs are at around 4 quadrillion. Don’t know how reliable it is but GW doesn’t give numbers so we have to do it ourselves.

[@suacemanaquiatan9380]

That's a lot.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

It is supposed to be the largest amry in human history...

[@Khronos12]

@@suacemanaquiatan9380 yet still plausible.

[@Khronos12]

@Bizarre I think that GW should be more precise with their numbers, and generally put them on the extreme high end of it. There’s one quote of a commander in the guard that is basically explaining how many soldiers he has and how much of a force his army his. He has something like 250,000 soldiers at his command. Germany captured soviet army groups larger than that multiple times during the Second World War. This is 40k. I want to see planetary invasions with hundreds of millions not tens of millions.

[@apollothecoderule.8639]

the irony of projectile based hand cannons being more powerful than energy based rifles is such a w40k thing for w40k to do

[@Gitskreig]

I mean, a bolter doesn't fire a bullet. It fires an exploding shell designed to burrow into a target and detonate inside them. Normal ballistic weapons like autoguns are still around and mostly used by gangs, militia and more primitive worlds. Some assassins use ballistics too for specialist rounds.

[@bthsr7113]

@@Gitskreig Real talk, given the insanity of bolter rounds, especially the ones that somehow need extra penetration, they could serve as devastating anti-tank weapons today. Like, possibly whittle through an M1A2 Abram's armor with concentrated fire.

[@NameIsDoc]

Kinetic weapons are extremely powerful

[@broccoligaming7611]

Now I want a Buckshot, Drum-mag Boltgun 🤣

[@fluffly3606]

I mean realistically an IRL energy weapon would be more of a sidegrade than an upgrade to a projectile weapon of similar size, at least in atmosphere

[@UltimaXReborn]

I love how Shy just communicates through shitpost images in the background.

[@JagerEinheit]

sadly IRL the AK's were only cheap due to the labor costs being either eaten by the state, or just using conscripted labor. in countries with fair market labor rates that have tried to produce or continue to produce the AK (eastern europe as an example) the prices have risen substantially. seeing as the imperium does not suffer from such "restrictions" on its populous, the las guns should remain cheap and plentiful

[@Vapourwear]

+1$2,000.00 American AK

[@cappinjocj9316]

Always thought of the lasgun as more comparable to the British Sten gun in terms of production, just with far less moving parts to worry about.

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

So in 40k terms, its accurate to call it cheap

[@kriegdeathrider7805]

The lasgun is extremely over powered it's just that even the weakest grunt in 40k is basically the end game boss in any other universe

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

Las guns are weak bro. The only reason they give them out to the guard is because they are trying to save costs. The regiments in the imperial guard that actually take themselves seriously giver theit infantry Hellguns (Lasgun on steroids) and gives their officers plasma pistols. They also give support crew heavy weapons such as Las cannons (can destroy enemy tanks or other heavily armored vehicles) or Autocannons (the same type of cannons used in Space marine/Guard tanks). Those same regiments that take themselves seriously will also equip their men with high tech helmets that come equipped with advanced target finders that allow a guard to fire with enhanced accuracy and over much greater distances beyond what the human eye can see. And everything I have mentioned is just for foot soldiers, don't get me started on their military vehicles and aircrafts. Seriously man, the imperial guard can actually be one of the most powerful armies in the 40k (as long as scary enemies like chaos demons are not involved). The problem is that most regiments just focus on using their men as meat shields instead of actual soldiers.

[@aetherius6221]

@@angrysocialjusticewarrior its kinda like mount and blade, your options are 400 recruits or 30 knights

[@GamingGlatorius]

*Bricky and DK mention some potential Guardsman fanart material* "What the F@ck have you two brought upon this cursed land !?!"

[@woaddragon]

Sorry I could not resist 19:15 Start of a sunbathing guardsman animation. 19:39 Turn the guy Into a woman.....

[@AsbestosMuffins]

one of the best bits from books is the one time the Tanith are about to combat drop and the Munitorum gives them Standard Pattern 5 Las cells, fething crates of them, however the entire regiment uses Standard Size 3 cells, which can be distinguished by their smaller dimensions oh and THE FETHING 3 ON THE SIDE OF THEM. its one of those funny little conversations that make the Gaunt Ghost books worth the read

[@tyrusdalet]

Lasguns tend to make like a crk-POP sound; as it flash-boils all liquids in the air. This is actually brought up in one of the Dark Imperium books, where the amount of lasguns firing causes a mist to form; which actually reduces their effectiveness

[@McSkumm]

Something I saw when playing Necromunda: Hired Gun that always made me chuckle was some product recall posters for the Nihlus Pattern Lasguns made since M35, serial numbers from the low thousands to the ten billions, because of radiation leakage.

[@lesserfool]

Unfortunately the terminator with the lascannon arm would have to be a ultra marine to complete the Mega Man look

[@MattManDX1]

A Crimson Fist would work just as well

[@malchaon7888]

In regards to the energy blade question: The Inquisitor Eisenhorn had an archaic power sword that was described as a hilt that upon activation extended a power field without needing a blade to project it on (definitely a lightsaber). Unfortunately it exploded when he stabbed a demon with it and it overloaded.

[@zobblombie8155]

Gotta love the jealousy that guard is giving off from the BDE of a Space Marine with a big ass las cannon.

[@samuelbarnes4976]

With the las gun rail system you can specially modify your weapon by adding a laser pointer to your laser pointer , or a flashlight to your flashlight

[@RepKyle95]

Man, I'm sitting here sick with an awful sore throat, on antibiotics, and this comes out to take my mind off how miserable I am. Thanks, AR!

[@shovel662]

Embrace grandfather Nurgle

[@nelzelpher7158]

Boosts your immune system

[@SinCitysOnly]

That ad read to open up the sponsor....*chef's kiss*

[@ToxicMynd]

My favorite thing about the power packs is that a fast and common way guardsmen charge them is to take their empties and throw them into a fire to recharge them. It lowers the overall lifespan of the pack, but you're a guardsman, you ain't got the to worry about that.

[@AnoAssassin]

It's neither fast nor common, it's a total emergency maneuver for supply lines have totally shut down. Using the method caused great losses in the Jopal Regiment on Armageddon as guns malfunctioned against an Ork charge It doesn't just lower the lifespan, it halves the capacity and renders the pack very likely to malfunction, and it could even explode. A guardsman should absolutely worry about that

[@rickbloedorn9652]

I like playing Warhammer with my dad. He likes to play marines and I play guard. I really managed to wound a Redemtor dreadnought with a lasgun

[@magoo7277]

DK: "Do they just carry lascannons around on their shoulders" Ah second edition... I miss that version of dev marines

[@CaptainRasmot]

On the topic of Ceramite, i think the best explanation is that it's a form of Metal Ceramic hybrid or Alloy. Much like how you get Steel from Iron and coal, or Bronze from Copper and Tin. So they probably have some sort of lightweight but durable metal (probably something along the lines of titanium) and it's combined with a heat resistant or durable Ceramic compound . . . or perhaps even Graphite. So it'd be more akin to "baking" armor in very specific forms/shapes. Which more than likely explains why the "plates" of Space Marine armor are shaped like pieces of a carapace/shell or even like old knight armor.

[@andrewfenbit5409]

Larkin used hotshot cartridges for his longlas rifle. It fired the WHOLE hot shot cartridge in one shot at once. Basicly a mini lascannon for snipping

[@ShadowGhost0117]

I love how when Bricky says lascannon at 26:50 Shy posts a picture of a grav cannon.

[@zacharyallison5491]

I saw the yellow space marine and I was so exited but then I read the title and I cried still love you guys also ALL HAIL THE QUEEN

[@indecisionator]

on tabletop, you only need 5040 lasgun shots to kill a warlord titan

[@AzelRavenWood]

I haven't even started watching this episode yet, but as an Imperial Guard Player, I truly love and enjoy just throwing a plethora of Lasgun Shots downrange at my opponents!!! Doesn't matter if you have the 2+ save, I will crack you eventually!!!!

[@swordsman1_messer]

To answer DK’s question, there is in fact a laser blade. It’s a relic attached to the King of Adrastopol’s Questoris Knight in the novel “Kingsblade”.

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

The lasgun is able to vaporise a meter square of reinforced concrete, in terms of killing power it's slightly less lethal then a atomic bomb. Shame it's used against beings that can tank that ammount of damage..

[@jmagowan12]

I often say in game your very likely to fight something like or is outright a space marine. Whereas in the story, space marines & the like are very rare.

[@bigkrumpahdaork6652]

I have much respect for the Lasgun. I met a mortal, one of the defiant sons of the Steel Legion, Captain Andrej, who used one called a "Hellgun." A very effective weapon.

[@nickkurzy2246]

I love the fact that 40k has so much lore that these two can talk for nearly an hour on lasguns, among the (individually) weakest, most mundane weapons of the Imperium.

[@rafale1981]

Not just a great ep, but im amazed how these two still manage to make something as routine as ending an ep funny

[@worldlinezero4783]

From what I know about chemistry naming conventions, Ceramite would likely be a Covalent Compound related to ceramic

[@AsbestosMuffins]

thing about the lasgun is its stamped out on every world that raises a guard regiment, and basically every world for that matter, but every regiment has their own world's specific version which could be made with their own materials, such as tanith having a mix of nalwood and all metal lazguns because they're a mix of tanith and verghast troops

[@evileraxis2625]

30k had plasma swords, more particularly on the thunder warriors and high ranking solar auxilia. In addition volkite is the concentrated beam weapon dk was talking about, it was mostly around in 30k but some still remains in 40k

[@theoverpreparerlamenters3r436]

I actually have a Laspistol on me at all times, it's reliable as hell. Never jams, has a nigh endless mag that you can recharge with practically anything, and fools some idiots into thinking that it's just a guardsman shooting at him, when it's actually a company champion.

[@a.gravemistake3061]

Bricky, read Cadian Blood. It's a Guard novel where a Tempestus Scion puts a Hellgun to a commissar's head, and then fist fights a Chaos Dreadnaught

[@TheLonelyBrit]

I think we can all agree that StyroPyro, 28:33 is him, would make a great techpriest that's obsessed with las weapons.

[@cyanideinmycereal1077]

I wonder if they'll ever do an episode about the small guard regiments, like the knight house episode. Idk I think that'd be pretty neat.

[@durandus676]

39:30 pray you’re fighting orcs and loudly proclaim thank the emperor for this fully charged energy pack. Then let er rip

[@KageRyuu6]

The AK is not as reliable as many would hope, at least when dropped in mud anyway, but is surprisingly easy to clear when frozen over though. Actually, going by Only War stats, the Lascarbine is just a shorter ranged lower ROF Lasgun, same damage, same charge capacity, and easier to wield one handed. Then again, the standard Lasgun doesn't have a Full Auto mode in any of the Dark Heresy games, so grain of salt. Speaking of the Lucius pattern, aka Krieger Lasgun, in Only War it deals 1d10+5E vs the M36 Lasgun's 1d10+3E, and gets Variable Lasgun Settings as well, Overcharge for +1 Dmg, and Overload for +2 Dmg +2 Pen and Unreliable, which means it Jams on a 91+. However, the Lucius gets Unreliable on Overcharge, and Overheats and Unreliable on Overload, meaning if they Jam (91+ with Unreliable) they take damage from the weapon with 0 Pen. So, a Krieger could martyr themself with their Lasgun. While the Triplex, once more from Only War, doesn't have the normal Variable Lasgun Settings, it has Precision Mode, gives it Accurate and 150m range, and Inceneration Mode, which reduces it's range to 50m and gives it Proven (5) and Felling (4), Proven is effectively a min damage roll, So it deals 5-10+3, while Felling ignores Unnatural Toughness up to it's rating, which is good with dealing with Orks and Space Marines. Arguably it's not as good as the Standard Lasgun beyond the Precision Mode though, because Proven (5) just increases the average by +1 dmg, while Felling is only useful against Unnatural Toughness, unlike +2 Dmg +2 Pen. Hot-Shot Lasgun/Hellgun in Only War is 1d10+4E Pen 7, really good for dealing with Power Armor with AP 7+. Capacity wise the HSLGs have 30 cap for a 10kg satchel, vs the Lasgun's 60 cap for a .25kg charge pack. Though there are of course much larger ammo backpacks, which are 15kg and hold up to 5x the weapon's cap. So, for the same weight the Lasgun can have more shots, but significantly less potent.

[@brianfarris5676]

Ive seen too many abused AK's still fire. Not as reliable as what? Its the gold standard of modern assault rifles for reliability.

[@whosthere8658]

@@brianfarris5676 we are comparing a modern firearm to a 40k advanced laser weapon that is science fiction. The lasrifle IS more durable because ITS WRITTEN THAT WAY...... Bro wtf are you on and where can I get some.

[@VallornDeathblade]

Having played a lot of Dark Heresy, the lasgun not having full auto is probably for balancing purposes. Full auto weapons can use Pinning which is a ridiculously powerful ability for locking down entire groups of enemies. Giving that to a Lasgun would make it a Must Take. Personally though, I tend to see a LOT of Long-Las builds in endgame, because they do frankly obscene levels of single target damage with the right skills, traits, and gear like hotshot packs.

[@Archon3960]

While you shouldn't compare lore elements with how they're porteayed ingame, I appreciate the info. 😉

[@bonogiamboni4830]

@@whosthere8658 i don't think the comment was about the lasgun at all, i'm pretty sure the original commenter was just talking about the AK's reliability compared to other guns from nowadays and the other guy replied still about that, not really about AK vs lasrifle.

[@tompearce8173]

ceramite is absolutely ceramic, up armoured, some sort of metallic bi-weave. It’s modern day equivalent would be the the same as reentry plate for space fairing craft.

[@hutchy1k94]

I heard a lasgun's sound being like a whip crack, so always imagined it sounding like a predator's plasma caster.

[@titusmanlius8307]

All laser based weapons should be the most accurate weapons on the battlefield. Windage would have no effect, nor bullet drop. The only issue would be whether or not you can see the target. Dust, smoke, fog, cover, and concealment would put limits on you of course. But a sniper with a decent scope, good weather, and being high enough to disregard the planet curvature. None Shall escape the Emperors judgement.

[@boxtank5288]

Considering the Long-Las is ALSO a thing in 40k...Sniping suddenly becomes 'Point and Click' no matter the distance.

[@BlazingShadowSword]

So basically it's hitscan.

[@Knightedskull]

In regards to the Hot-Shots temperament : The Hot-Shot Lasgun acts like a hot shot. A [BIG SHOT]!

[@Olanius_Pius666]

Thank you for the extension on the contest. It took a long time to prepare everything I need for it let alone writing the story for it.

[@woaddragon]

19:15 Start of a sunbathing guardsman animation. 19:39 Start of a guard woman commission art piece

[@newnthepyro9796]

shout out to the centurions holding a las-cannon in each hand

[@hereticalpaintjobs]

Fun fact, in the deathwatch RPG you fan equip your space marine with a freaking lasgun, it's hilarious AF

[@keeganwilliams8046]

Javelin is so good because The missile comes down on top of the tank, using inertia to punch thru armor. It enables you to hit vital areas of the tank, such as the back top part for the vents of the engine bay

[@bthsr7113]

It's a lot easier to armor the flanks and front than the top,

[@wokedog1799]

It's a top attack missile with a set of tandem HEAT warheads. The inertia doesn't really count for shit

[@michaeledmunds7266]

Ironically, it's one of my favorite weapons in the "Inquisition Martyr" game. It kill stuff real good.

[@Spartan135]

as if GW wanted to scream out:"Lasguns are no weak joke weapons!"

[@PastorOfMuppets91]

Guard sunbathing with powerpacks as censor bars should absolutely be the next poster

[@Hoangapalooza]

The humble lasgun was my first ever weapon introduction into the 40K universe! It was the Warhammer 40K short, "GUARDSMAN - 2018" by the esteemed Richard Boylan that I happened to stumble across while roaming KZbin that lead me to where I am today. In short, I was a witness to the lasgun before the bolter. Unfortunately, the lasgun didn't hold out too well for our poor guardsman in that video haha. "The Emperor Protects" On another note, I am saving Bjorn the Fell-Handed to be painted last in my army so I can give him my full attention. However, I am not much of a player but moreso a painter and I hear the Twin Lascannon is a much better loadout than the standard Assault Cannon that's included. Gonna have to magnetize and test them both out Either way Day 38 of asking for a Space Wolves Lore video

[@Milk192]

That guardsman manspreasing sunbathing with his power packs seems like an interesting poster 👀

[@gokbay3057]

Lucious Pattern Lasgun is the one Krieger's use. They don't have an automatic mode but hit harder per shot compared to Galaxy.