40k Lore! The Bolt Gun! The Weapon of Angels! 

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"There's nothing 'sexy' about a boltgun." As a recognized and ordained techpriest of holy Mars, I *demand* you take that back.

What kinda ammo you want? Rocket propelled, armor-piercing, high explosive, fragmentation rounds. That’s a lot of ammo, gonna slow you down. I want it all in one round. ENTER BOLTER

Arch Warhammer: *slaps top of bolt gun* “This bad boy will exterminate so many xenos”

The Emperor protects, but a loaded bolter never hurt either. Chainswords tend to help too.

Fluff: The Space Marines' bolters are hand cannons that when fired at a human, said human looks like he stepped on a land mine. Tabletop: 67% change to wound a human, 33% change to fail penetrating a guardsman's armor and the same stats as a normal human's boltgun.

I need bolters and power armor in my life. For me. Not my enemies obviously. That would be really, really bad.

The Emperor protects, the bolter insures

So....are you suggesting that playing 40K Space Marine with autoaim on is actually CANON? XD

If an Ultramarine shoots you, you get a bolt from the blue.

This is my bolter. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

The most impressive feature of the bolter is the trans-dimensional pocket in the magazine that holds way more than the five-round capacity its appearance suggests.

20th Century Gunshop Owner: What you after? Space Marine: Bolter .75cal G O: Hey buddy, only what you see!

Rapid fire 1. Strength 4. AP nothing. Damage 1. Kinda sad it has become nothing but a "lasgun+" in the 40k tabletop

"Walk softly, and carry a big gun" - Gabriel Angelos Indeed the bolter is a big gun. But it could always use more dakka.

*Ork Mekboy explanation of a 'bolt gun':* Dis 'ere iz da spess mahreen's shoota. Dey call it ah "bolta" or "bolt gun" It iz sum o' da humies best dakka around. Itz dakka iz yuge rokkit-bullets (for humies) dat go _boom_ afta dey punch thru ah target. Only way dey could make an even bigger boom is if da 'dakka' waz painted yellow. Afta all, yellow is da 'splodiest coloah. Any questionz?

Normie: So I hear 40K is centered around rule of cool. Those chainswords are neat. How do the guns work? 40K fan: So, you know how assault rifles, grenade launchers, and rocket launchers all work? Normie: Yeah? 40K fan: Yeah, all of that, all at once. No Longer a Normie: ... That's insane. I love it. Can we also put a chainsword bayonet on it?

This is one of the things that drew me to warhammer 40k the fact the conquers are human and we are as brutal as the middle ages we are one of the most aggressive raceis in the galaxy looking at our history irl we are more likely to have this kind empire then a federaton we ARE the klingons we ARE the Mandolorians we are the hyper warlike race. 40k shoves this aspect in our face when other sifi try to dismiss or pacifii it i still love and play Tau but the imperium is so intresting because at the end of the day it 40k (the game) was made by humanity and its a deep desturbing look at our selves that lets us explore the darkest sides of our psyki in a way thats fun and harmless the bolter to me personifies that the most

The weapons of the 40k universe: Boltguns: if you don't care about what others think. Lasguns : quantity over quality. Autoguns: for the gangsters of the 40k universe.

If any other person made a lore video about the bolt gun they would have just recited the wiki page on it, but Arch like always goes that one step more my elaborating and comparing the lore with other sources and real life comparisons. And for that Arch thank you, for giving the W40k lore justice we all appreciate it.

"Set your phasers to 40k"

I remember the day when i read the ultramarines omnibus and there was a scene where a boltshell was described as fist sized. 14 year old me rose his fist infront of his eyes... And was simply fascinated.

This video make me happier then when I first discovered gold.

"What requires a 20mm round to put down?" a zogging ork that's what and you better make sure you use more than one.

I wonder if the Astartes can fix bayonets...

God I love it when Arch talks about guns

DAKKA and more dakka with a bit of dakka on the side

the lasgun is sooo much cooler to me :P 1000 shots, runs out of ammo, chuck it in a fire, pull it out of the ashes fully intact and now its recharged! :D

"Just listing them alone would probably take a solid 10 minutes" I look forward to your next bolter video

Boltgun; for when you need to make a statement to the heretics.

One of the reasons many Sci-fi universes prefer lasers over bullets, isn't neccesarily the obvious answer of technological development. It's in part because TV and Movie writers realise....geeks count bullets. Had the iconic scene in Dirty Harry happened in space, many geeks would without batting an eyelid have been able to tell Clint exactly how many shots were fired. Laser....they run out for plot reasons. Hasn't Arch done this video before?

It took you quite long to release a video on Bolters if you think about it. Even Lasguns were featured earlier.

Aiming down sights is not in Astartes vocabulary.

"I like - big GUNS and I cannot lie..." "You otha brothas may de-ny..."

"It will take around 10 minutes to list all of them" when has that ever stopped you?

I think the bolt gun gets its name from the device used to slaughter livestock. I read the Crimson Fists refer to Orks as 'Kine' meaning cattle. #grimdark #HarvestingSeason #Bannerlordwhen

Ohhhh the rrrrrrrrolling r's and the... *ahem*..... Pregnant pauses.

closest thing to a real life bolter 'AA 12 Shotgun in The Expendables' 250 rounds per minute micro grenades

"Bolter, tyranid and you. I got a tyranid and a bolter and I'm bringin em home to you!"

one thing i want to mantion is the fact that space marines are made for clearing out enemy strongholds so a 20mm he round would make some sense because even concrete cover wouldnt be that usefull to hide behind. i mean if you are shooting out of a window at a sm he didnt even need to hit you it would do the job if he hits the wall you are hiding behind with 2-3 bolts and you are dead anyway

Bolt Guns: because Turn Undead is far more satisfying when the Holy Symbol makes zombies crap themselves while they run.

The 0.75cal is a 19mm, there it's fixed, the angry marine bolters shoot mini marines with dual lightning claws that dig into you and shred you from the inside out

it simple an quite advanced gyrojet rifle with HEAT ammo

Hello Arch. Unlike most players, I both did the numbers, AND was an Enlisted Weapons Instructor in the United States Marine Corps. A 0.75 calibur round is 19.01mm, so your generalization of it being a 20mm grenade launcher is fairly accurate. The Bolt fired is definitely projected out of the barrel of the weapon by an explosive charge like gunpowder. And once free of the weapon, the gyro-jet rockets built into the base of the round fire up and thrust it even faster to it's target. This explains the relatively short range of a Space Marine's weapons fire on the tabletop, since the 'powder' charge is only large enough to get the round out of the weapon, and the gyro-jet rockets have only enough fuel for a relatively short duration flight. Plus the mass of the round is fairly hefty, and thus once the explosive charge and rocket fuel are expended, air resistance would sharply limit it's range. Once the round reaches it's target, it's adamantium tip enables it to penetrate almost any kind of armor, for the most part, and a delayed action fuse causes the enclosed explosive charge to fire, shredding the round inside it's target, doing the maximum possible damage to it. A similar weapon is already available. The NEOPUP PAW 20mm Rifle. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xsBEQ-Pulvc.html speaking, Frank-ly

The bolt is actually closer to the 20mm grenade used on the XM29 OICW or the K11 DAW than a full sized 20mm cannon shell. Same for the heavy bolters bolt. It's closer to the 25mm grenades on the XM25 than the Bushmasters 25mm chaingun ammo. And just to be nitpicky, you can only lock and load open bolt weapons or weapons that need to lock back the bolt before loading a new magazine.

I think a bolter shell would be more in line with a 12 gauge slug, which is a .73 round. In fact, we have 12 gauge grenade rounds. And rocket propelled 13mm rounds. You know, I could probably build a functional bolter gun out of extant technology if I had the various explosive and destructive device licenses.

Wouldn't be cool if some weapons company (for shits and giggles) were to make a fully functional bolt gun? Probably never happen but it's interesting to think about 😎

The 'my righteous fire makes enemies go boom boom' gun. Lovely. I can only think of Borderlands 2 Torgue to be honest. Explosions!

'Shoots ork in it's squigg's hole with a boltgun.' Ork; 'I iz not ev'en ful, ooman.' Orks.....

For frame of reference the 12gage shotgun is .72 inches.

A non elegant weapon for a universe we for sure will not want to live in... Also star trek personal weapons never made any sense to me

It's essentially a bigger, fully automatic version of the Gyrojet firearms of the past. I also wonder if it has a bolt hold-open device.

Herald of the coming doom, by cry of raven we are drawn. This oath of war and vengeance, on blade of exalted iron sworn. With blood anointed sword aloft, advance we into dread's dark shade. Punishment divine unleashed with hate, a wrathful storm of bolt and blade. Purge with plasma, fist and shell, bring cleansing fire's righteous breath. For the Emperor! We are His Angels Of Death No forgiveness, no retreat.

I was playing Enter the gungeon the other day, and found a bolter. I immediately started using it exclusivly to purge the enemies of the emperor of man!! And then I ran out of bullets :(

it's funny to me that we actually have the tech to make bolters irl, at least in theory, but there is no man alive strong enough to not break from the recoil from it.

Another thing to consider is that, with a round propelled like a Bolt is, they can minimize recoil and wear on the internals of the weapons, and it can basically be expected to fly in the same way in any environment, regardless of gravity or atmospheric conditions. Additionally, has anyone else noticed that the ejection port and barrel are completely off?

Look mate. That was good and all, but release the real version. The 17 hour rant you first recorded or unsubbed tbh.

*"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!"*

"Boltguns are essentially flak, that's designed for squishier targets". Fun fact, armys use full auto AA cannons against infantry whenever possible, essentially since their advent. Great anti-personelle weapons.

Arch, yet another example of your usual high quality videos, well researched and clearly explained with very nice comparisons. Please keep up the excellent work.

A heavy bolter is more of a 20mm, and you make it sound as if the bolt detonation is like a grenade. It's more like a bursting shell, which is what it is. Still makes no goddamn sense that this only equates to a S4 no AP weapon on the table though..

"Its not sexy" Internet: *creates bolter-chan*

The bolter reminds me of a a3 grease gun, they have that slow heavy 45 caliber slugging along at around 350 rounds a minute Dakka Dakka Dakka beautiful in its simplicity and brutality!

I’m just amazed that you were able to talk about the motor and keep it interesting the entire time your kick ass bro I love your videos thank you for your hard work and effort and energy you put into all of this

hey arch you know on very rare occasions you do a video on star wars. well it turns out in legends the republic basically became the imperium of man thousands of years ago. seriously they even had cathedral ships, it's like star wars writers looked at Warhammer 40k and decided "yeah let's do something like that"

5:30 ehhh not really .75 caliber isn't really as big as people think. 12 gauge shotgun fires .684 caliber shells. and that's just a shotgun. HE rounds are pretty awesome but they dont have anywhere near the impact of a grenade round. High Explosive rounds are usually made to explode, with the force of the explosion killing or wounding the enemy. however the exsplosion will almost always be pretty self contained. where a grenade either from a launcher or thrown is meant to hit many targets with similar or greater force. Its actually like 18mm round but yeah that is overkill How Bolt rounds have AP, HE, and Shrapnel. This is fucking magic, heavy AP with HE is more detrimental than anything, as you will often (should) get moments where your Bolt round fly's through a person and dosnt have anywhere near the effect especially given the caliber your more than likely going to experience over penetration more often than anything else without the AP with it your likely to put a clean bolt round sized hole in your enemy but they are likely going to keep fighting since unless you hit something vital they likely wont even notice it do to how fast it happened. it really should just be HE and it would be very effective HE rounds typically are, but it carries the risk of your ammunition getting hit and cooking off to much more detrimental effects you than normal ammo. dont get me started on the Gyro jet 2nd stage of the weapon. severe heating from the barrel would warp the bullets on the exiting of the barrel combined with the gyro jet would reduce your accuracy stupidly. *The space marines do have special bolt rounds for stalker bolters that dont have the Gyro jet and they would work just fine.* but the standard round would not function in reality. .75 caliber would not rip off someone's arm you can look up a video of people firing .90 caliber rifles. You would not have to miniaturize the bolter the barrel and mechanisms wouldn't be that large. if anything you would have to scale the holding parts and grip for the marine but even than not by that much. honestly a human variant of a bolter just add a stock to it and if you really feel the need give the man a bit more of padding where his stock is going to go and after some training he wont notice the kick nearly as much. as that area of his body would increase in density do to the consistent hits to it. as a result the human body will try to compensate for the consistent force by increasing the density of that section of his body *look up density training* its really fascinating and their are people who use steal poles as punching bag's from the training. As always its Science Fantasy so at the end of the day. Its designed to be cool and it does achieve that if nothing else, I just wish more research on guns was done before they came up with this weapon. As always great video arch looking forward to the next one.

dude we today do not try to repair barrels we swap them with new ones

Your ak47 might go "RAT-A-TAT-TAT" but my bolter gun goes "KABOOM KABOOM KABAAM"

Yas, bolt me down like the foul heretic I am, Daddy Arch~

Literally just watched the LasGun video 😂😂

So I was thinking, if bolters, or at least some bolters are about .75 cal they would be roughly the same size as a 12 gauge shotgun which equals .729 cal. Considering that frag-12 rounds are a thing as well as automatic shotguns like the AA-12 and Saiga-12, aside from the armor penetrating delay-fuses and rocket assist on bolts, don't we already kind of have bolters? Granted an AA-12 loaded with frag-12 isn't going to be punching through any amount of armor, but soft targets are going to have a really, really bad time.

finally more lore form arch ive been waiting for so long

So it's a chad Gyrojet?

Suddenly, Astartes knees. You look at these now.

A 2cm bullet isn't exactly a projectile of mindblowing proportions. The art always gives you the impression that bolters fire a full grenade with each shot.

4:39: Chaos marine on the left is having the time of his life. Skipping around and shit.

Arch talking about Phasers and the Federation ? Is this a crossover episode ?

I am triggered by the lack of a trigger on that gun

Finally. A video about 40k in which I get and ad for a 40k product.

"it's not round, it's not sleek, it's not... Sexy" ILL HAVE YOU KNOW I LOVE MY BOLTER NO MATTER WHAT!

Weekend....Arch....good.

How about a video about power weapons... And what is your personal favorite melee weapon , as a fan of the night lords mine is the lightning claws natürlich.

Amazing lore as always, thanks!

Love all your 40k content, other stuff 2 but you're 40k content is the best on RU-vid. Just wish there was more:)

How many round those a spacemarine carry in a particural mission and how offten do they run out of amunition and have to relay on melee?

Would a normal bolter be used as a small machine gun for the meat shields/guardsmen?

1 boltgun: you're gonna have a bad day 2 boltguns: you're gonna have a bad week 3 boltguns: EVERYTHING IS PAIN!

One of the more terrifying aspects of the bolt round would be the effect of hydrostaic pressure from the explosion in a body would cause micro-tears to the surrounding tissue and internal bleeding. Had some time on my hands and thinking about bolters. Skipping the detonator charge in the round and use the heat and flame as the ignition source for the HE might be best, it would only work on medium to hard impact. Does limit the range, but simplifies manufacturing, reduces fail rate for explosion, and potentially gets a better spread pattern for shrapnel.

Think you can do a video on the Orks Shoota?

Arch,could you do another primarch video?

The bolter is so destinct because its the only gun that blows itself up in concept art

My favorite piece of lore is that some people steal Bolter rounds and modify them for use in shotguns.

The only thing, that a xenos deserve, is a fine bolt round in its head...

My Bolter designs were best.

I really like the meta out of universe opening before the lore part, keep up the good work!

The most accurate description of a Bolter is a Fully Automatic-MicroRPG

Come on dude we want more then 15 minutes .

How to describe a bolter "a fully automatic self propelled 75 calibre armour piercing sort of granade launcher"

The fact that the trigger guard is designed to stop your fingers getting jammed between the trigger plate and the handle only says something quite interesting. Those with a bolter aren't trained to think should I shoot. They are trained to just shoot as quickly as possible.

You say there's nothing sexy about it... yet there's this pull that I NEED it... like firearms IRL, or big machinery: sirens songs to the masculine.