LASGUNS Are WAY BETTER Than You THINK - The Most RELIABLE Weapon In WARHAMMER! - Lasguns EXPLAINED 

The Lasgun has destroyed almost every enemy of The Imperium of Man. It's unfortunate that we are stuck fighting the ones it couldn't" - Disgruntled Guardsmen

A skirmish is won by courage. A battle is won by tactics. A campaign is won by logistics.

"The Demolisher, the Vanquisher, even the mighty Deathstrike Missile Launcher pale in comparison to the sheer firepower of trillions of lasguns unleashing hell in unison."

I forgot where I read it, but a Chaos lord mentions that despite being clad in power armor, it takes more than super human will to charge into a wall of Lasgun fire. I think the quote went something like “Any man can run into combat, Legion Astarties have no fear of it… but only a fool charges into a thousand Lasgun bolts and expects to walk out the other side intact. That is the strength of the Guard, not their skill, but the overwhelming numbers and ordinance they can call on.”

"One Lasgun doesn't do diddly. But fifty Lasguns, that's a shitload of diddly."

A modified Long-Las set to overcharge, to use the entire magazine in a single shot, tends to punch a hole through a number of things.

The problem is anything that could be killed effectively with lasguns has was exterminated thousands of years ago

A present-day country with lasguns would be terrifying. That level of damage with that level of simplified logistics, with zero bullet drop for maximum point-and-shoot lethality? Another nation would need a ton of other advantages just to draw even with that country.

I love how in one of the books a Tau was talking about how inferior lazgun was for him only five or six chapters later in the book to have his entire left arm severed by a single shot

A gun is still a gun

In terms of both numbers and reliability there really isn’t anything that compares to the humble lasgun. When you have armies of soldiers in the billions and supply lines can be spotty at best, the fact that you can ensure that everyone has a gun that will basically never run out of ammunition is a Godsend. Think of it like this. What would you rather have in the zombie apocalypse: a rocket launcher with 2 rockets, a minigun with a single drum of ammo or a .22 pistol with infinite ammo and will rarely jam.

"it can be recharged by a myriad of other methods." >That one trooper that seems to have no need for any additional magazines and has a strange "glow" about them. **Inquisitorial and unsanctioned Psyker stare**

It's always good to remember that the lasgun is a genuinely horrifying and powerful weapon. The issue is that it exists in 40k, where galaxy-devouring abominations and literal portals to hell are a thing, and plenty of things are similarly - if not more - horrifying.

If you think about it, a lasgun is the dream weapon of any army: 1-Rather simple and rugged in construction despite being an energy weapon; 2-performs about as well as a ballistic weapon of similar size, while being more reliable in general (no need to clean the barrel, no bullets being chambered and ejected, meaning the firing system can be fully enclosed, etc); 3-its ammo is the dream of any army logistics officer (batteries or power packs that also work with basically any other las type weapon, and can be used for other needs when needed, such as powering computers, tools, appliances, etc); 4-works just as well in zero g and in low oxygen environments (basically no recoil, no propellant used). 5-instead of needing specialized ammo like armor piercing rounds, you can dial the power of your shots up to deal with harder targets, at the costs of having less "rounds" to fire overall. 6-ammo is basically infinite if you have some of those fancy power packs capable of regenerating energy over time. No need to haul ammo crates around either, you can charge it off some random generator, your vehicle, solar panels, etc. All you need are spare batteries/power packs for when they burn out or go through too many cycles. Really, any real world military would salivate at the thought of having anything close to a lasgun.

"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 Skargiven, Warhammer 40,000: Black Crusade

"Though the lasgun may be outclassed by the higher tech of xenos weaponry" *shows a single shot gunpowder based kroot rifle*

"He who derides the power of a lasgun has never had to charge an open field covered by ten thousand of them."

Lasgun is love, lasgun is life

The lasgun also serves for the baseline metric of how over the top this franchise is > can hit with the kinetic force of a .50 cal bmg > can penetrate/melt up 6 inches of steel per shot > no bullet drop off > has 1st shot pin-point accuracy > near infinite ammo > almost none maintenance > is single/semi/full auto fire mode > is a all in one platform for attachments that transform it to a rifle/LMG/sniper/AT rifle **IS CONSIDERED THE WEAKEST FIREARM IN THE SETTING**

We were born to inherit the stars

Its insane that a lasgun is jokingly called a 'flashlight', but if it was brought to modern era, it would be like every soldier having a 40mm auto cannon with no recoil given how easily it can blow apart the body

To remind folks who may have forgotten, the lasgun is an energy based anti material rifle. Every guardsmen is rolling around with a recoiless Barrett .50

So basically the AK-47 of the Warhammer: 40k universe

In addition to everything, a lasgun or a longlas has inherently perfect accuracy and produces instant impact on target (for all intents and purposes). No need to account for any projectile deviation whatsoever; no need to lead the target; as long as the target is in the effective range and you can put the crosshairs on it, you will make a hole in it as soon as you pull the trigger. This is huge because it makes even the greenest conscripts become a viable threat when armed with lasguns.

"If the Emperor protects He does it with Cadian steel and massed Las fire!"

All fun and games until the sky turns red with Lasgun Fire. --some chaos warlord.

Tbh with trillioms of gaurdsmam that little lasgun shot turns into a fucking deathstar ra

lasguns are good against 99% of xenos only problem is the 1 % are the ones that are left.

Lasguns actually have decent armor penetration as well.

GIVE ME HELLBORE OR GIVE ME DEATH

My recon lasgun vld in darktide made me fall in love with the humble flashlight because it a flash of red light thats the last thing a crusher sees before being mowed down in seconds. Crits and burn stacks forever.

In a galaxy overrun with gigantic world eating bugs, hyper-aggressive sapient fungus, Post-human super soldiers powered on hell magic, and numerous other threats, the lasgun is almost a mere flashlight. Even still, the men and women of the Astra Militarum fight on. It’s quite admirable.

A single lasgun ain't diddly, but a hundred lasguns? That's a whole lot of diddly.

I miss Charing my charge packs in a camp fire. Back when I was serving as an inquisitors acolyte in a campaign to prevent a chaos rebellion. Good old dark heresy

The one laughing at the power of humble lasgun, never tried to run across the field with thousand of 'em.

Lasguns aren't weak, everything in 40k is just batshit crazy

The lasgun, a menace created by the Imperium of Man with nigh effective abilities to bring forth a crazy dominion over the cosmos, however this is only just the standard in a world full of abominations and eldritch constructs where having a personal-use nuke launcher is a must.

Guardsman ‘I have a lasgun’ Chaos marine ‘one of those does nothing!’ Guardsman ‘what about a trillion?’ Cue screaming and many versions of ow from the marine

The Lasgun statline has been unchanged since, what, the beginning of the game? 1 shot, 2 at half range, S3 AP0 D1. I, for one, think GW needs to give it a second firing mode, 1 shot S4 AP-1 D1 , with Heavy.

The one thing a lot of people seem to forget about the Lasgun is how it’s practically the perfect weapon for a force such as the Imperial Guard. Out of every weapon in the setting, there isn’t any better weapon for the guard. Sure it will struggle to kill a space marine, necron, or Ork by itself, but the thing is that it’s never just 1 lasgun firing, it’s hundreds of thousands of lasguns firing. Not to mention that logistically, it’s the best weapon ever devised. If you were in charge of maintaining an army 1 trillion strong, having a weapon that is dirt cheap to produce, is super reliable, has a large magazine capacity in a compact power pack, can be recharged by leaving it in a thermal generating environment, and is powerful in vast numbers (which if anything is what the guard will always have) that is countless resources that you can dedicate to other things like food, supplies, or even better weaponry.

would you rather: be eaten by a trynide? or freeze to death? you have an empty packed lazgun and can recharge it with body heat.

It's the 99.9% antiseptic of weapons, it's just stuck dealing with 0.1% left that can take it.

People underestimate just how powerful the fact you can recharge a lasgun power pack by throwing it in fire is. Logistics are the main make or break part of wars, something made painfully obvious by the current conflict in Ukraine where Russias rapid progress ground to a halt the moment their supply lines ran dry. Lasguns do not suffer this issue. Any guardsman in any shithole that has any flamable material at all can recharge the power packs of a lasgun with no issues. Hell in some australiaesque environment you'd just put it on a big rock and let it simmer for some time. And don't even get me started on the accuracy benefits of practically no bullet drop, no recoil, and instant shot travel time. You point at the target, shoot, and as long as your crosshair is on the target when the shot leaves the gun you hit. Plus it has no moving part which allows them to make it super sturdy. Even an utter idiot could use the gun to devastating effects with no issues. Then they give it to millions of professionally trained soldiers. This is why the Astartes may be the Emperor's sword, but in the franchise of Warhammer 40000 it is in fact the imperial guard that is His hammer.

"He that mocks the humble Lasgun has never walked through a field of a thousand of them."

Meanwhile the necrons…. “Aw, adorable”

Also if you add a flashlight it becomes twin linked

You missed one detail, and it does matter for making some sense of the story: All common las guns-- not heavy or hellgun-- have a built in variable setting similar to Plasma guns. The reason that Las guns can be overcharged to explode is because they are locked into 'safe' mode by the AdMac, and overcharging it is simply turning on other settings without taking it off safemode. Outside AdMac control, namely pirates and chaos, the safe mode guard is removed, allowing the user to properly overcharge it increasing it's damage and ammo consumption, or max charge which quads the ammo used but effectively bridges the gap between a normal las gun and a hellgun, with the former being able to fire more quickly for just slightly less damage.

"For every one of us that falls, 10 more will take his place"

A bolter is no match for 100 lasguns. If the imperium invested more in the gaurd, they would make the astartes look like pimped out clowns. Well, more so than they already do anyway.

The problem with lasguns is that they lack armor piercing capabilities. Even on high power settings, laser weapons do particularly poorly against enemy armor. Hence its bad reputation which comes from moments when guardsmen have to fight foes which are beyond their capabilities. Heavily armored xenos, astartes or ork mega boys with crude, but effective metal sheets. Likewise armored orks in general tend to be unusually resistant to this type of armor due to their physiology and tendency to use scrap metal as armor. Likewise, ceramite found in guardsmen armor is particularly effective against lasgun shots. Carapace armor offers similar immunity to such weapons. The issue is that armor usually protects just essential parts of a soldier, making protection unreliable in most castes. This is why autoguns still have an use in W40k. They simply punch more penetrative power and are a lot better at stopping enemies. They are superior against orks, tyranids in a tactical battle. However, supplying ammunition at large scale would require an effort which would render tactical advantages of autogun as not worth it.

What I love about the Las-Weapons... Just upscale every part and you've gone from Rifles, to Anti-Tank, Anti-Air and even Orbital defences.

The 40k thing is in any other universe. The las gun would be considered peak Miliary tech

Bolters and the other weapons of the same family are demolition level equipment so they can afford to be less convenient in exchange for raw power and a quick job. On the other hand a normal soldier doesn't need all that power but a rifle that will work even under the most unfavorable situations. In Vietnam an AK47 worked even after a mud bath while the M16 was often jamming, anyone can see the results

I wonder how many imperial guardsmen joins the tau ( Because if you think about it the imperium How it basically works in its current state Is making a lot of people turn against it Because simply how bad they treat people Especially in the military )

There is a reason why my old gaming group used to joke that lasguns are flashlights that are used to morse code message "you are ded" at the enemy forces. It may be one of the weakest weapons on the tabletop, but by The Emperor, there are enough Guardsmen in an army to give even Space Marines (of any flavour) a good challenge.

Ironically, when playing 40k Darktide; The basic laser rifle you automatically get as a veteran, is one of my favorites.

Imagine if someone Jerry rigs a heater onto the mag, literally infinite ammo

Lasgun in tabletop: flashlight Lasgun in lore: .50BeamMG

And yet we call these things flashlights. Welcome to 40K!

Dont forgot its big brother, The Lascannon.

One flashlight does diddly. 100 flashlights? That's a whole lot of diddly.

i have no idea who said it (or if its even a Warhammer quote and not something i found on reddit) but it went something like "he who does not fear the humble lasgun clearly has never been shot at by 100 of them at once."

I always love the sounds that Lasguns make in most games. The crackle after in Darktide, is just *Chefs kiss*

YT gave me the "want to buy products featured in this video?" pop-up - where can I buy a lasgun

“Yo guys” “what” “I just found an infinite ammo glitch”

"The Lasgun is weak" said the human from the 21st century as he gazed beautifully at his primitive assault rifle that still used chemicals and metal to fire

Who ever has made fun of a lasgun has never had to run through a firing line of over a thousand of them

another fact is that its not just one lasgun, but more than a million. and with that even space marine armor will fail.

There's a lot more than power involved in considering an army's weapon. But even the perfect gun in a trillion hands isn't enough in 40k.

"LOL, they have lasguns? They don't do diddley..... oh,... it's the Imperial Guard? That's a lot of diddley."

Lasguns might be the peak a standard rifle might achieve. But too bad it’s in a universe where there is always something to overpower another overpowered concept

It’s basically a 50. Cal with zero recoil or drop, and a near infinitely rechargeable magazine the size and weight of a smartphone. They’re astonishingly good weapons that would dominate most other settings.

Back when i ran a 40K Space marine themed group in a game as Chapter Master I said I'd even keep a las pistol hanging around. Sometimes a small low calibur thing is just enough, and the power packs can be re charged by throwng them next to a fire. May lower the over all life of the battery pack, but yout ake what youc an get in a pitnch, and bolter ammo doesn't last quite as renewably as las shots with some hanging around battery packs you can cycle over and over from next to the fire and back into a gun.

Every other faction: "Hur hur, flashlights!" Guardsmen: "VOLLEY FIRE!" Even the oceans evaporate when enough light is applied.

They say in an emergency, guardsmen can throw their lasgun packs into fires to recharge them. If they survive the battle, they are repremanded for damaging equipment.

"That Lasgun you hold in your hands has exterminated 99% of the galaxy, but unfortunately for you soldier, we're up against that remaining 1%. Glory to the first man who dies, for there is only war!" -Bricky

A single lasgun shot does diddly. Trillions of them do a whole lot of diddly.

Question I haven’t seen anyone else ask/answer- any clue where I could find any of the art depicted in the short? Especially the guardsmen with the Brodie-type helmets! The art in this video was superb!

Those who scoff at a lasgun has not charged across an open field against a hundred of them.

Oh so you made a 2+ save? Now do it 50 more times Abbadon

A gorillion lasers each with the power of a .50 cal is a horrific prospect for any being

In any other setting, a laser weapon capable of amputating limbs with a single shot and having almost infinite ammunition would be a super weapon. In 40k, that's comically underpowered.

I hate that you don’t see the ease of recharging las guns more often.

I think the lasgun is an excellent weapon. I still feel like I might prefer an auto gun of sorts. However, considering the inconsistency of logistics in some parts of the galaxy and scale of the battles the imperium fights, I would much rather prefer having a weapon that is almost always reliable and has a nearly infinite power supply. The benefits of the Lasguns are certainly made known.

"If you do not fear the Lasgun, you have not faced down one-thousand of them at once". - Chaos warriors

In every ruleset ever the lasgun has been about comparable to a .30 cal or so battle rifle, since that's what an Imperial stub gun is. When you look at the author who's novels claim they can blow people to pieces, he's one of those anti-gun loons who thinks an IRL 9mm handgun can do the same.

remember: its not how strong your laser pointeecis, its how many you havr

Then why is it's Stat line SO LOW? If you want to roll dice for shooting then PLAY ORKS!

Equivalent of getting stung by 1000 bees

Only 60? But my uplifting primer swears its 200!

The soldiers in white look like Cobra from GI Joe

This just makes me want a darktide like game but as foot soldiers and with mass multiplayer

The AK47 of the Imperium

The real problem with lasguns is what they *would* do to the terrain. If you can dump enough heat into a limb to slice it off in a fraction of a second, that same heat will set most things on fire. That is to say, anything like a jungle, forest or most cities would easily be set on fire by a few shots. Massing such weapons, such as an army and firing thousands of shots would put so much heat into the area you'd have an inferno almost anywhere not explicitly made to be fireproof.

Here's an interesting question Can any alien species in warhammer reproduce with humans like Easy is example the tau ot Eldar

Yes. Just like in real life, just a shot in the wrong place and now the precious space marine can't see and/or feel his leg.

Angry light

It's The Emperor's Flashlight. Shine the light of the emperor upon thy enemies.

No thanks, I prefer my shovel pls

The thing is, compared to all the other weapons of Warhammer 40k, the Lasgun seems weak, espeacially in the Tabletop Game. Also the Guardsmen seem weak. But if you would compare them, to todays Weaponry and Soldiers, guardsman with their Lasgun are killing machines.