The 5 Most Obscenely Powerful Swords in Warhammer 40k 

Talking about the efficiency of Swords vs Axes. "I've never killed someone in melee combat with a battle axe before." Swords?🤔 What about with swords majorkill?🤨

How about a video on Ka’bandha and everything that’s he’s done?

0:44 if anyone's curious, this is sort-of correct, but the same mixup techniques of a sword also apply to a battleaxe, but just slower and with less range Oh, and you need more care not to dislocate your wrist due to axes being top heavy. If the sword is a pistol, the axe is a shotgun. Polearm axes are more used as spears for formations

The real reason Horus was so hurt by the Anatheme is because its poison gave him male pattern baldness

Did big E put the vibration ON when he...shoved Drach'nyen to Ra?

What I’ve learned from WH40k is that any blade will clap and eviscerate the cheeks if you exalt our luscious God Emperor of mankind enough you’re sword starts glowing with the power of a thousand blown nuts.

i honestly thought this video was from 6 years ago from the thumbnail

But Major Kill you forget about the cold steel of the bayonet. Where in Europe are you going?

Imagine building up the Ynnari as the next big step of Eldar Lore then just trampling all over it. I mean come on. They have three of the five Chrone swords, the War shard (The biggest and deadliest shard of Khaine) imbedded into Meliniel Pureheart, allied with harlequins, and supported by an additional avatar of death that kills greater deamons no problem. Not to mention Jain Zar is basically their sugar mom and supports them all the time. And yet the lore written for them has a greater deamon of Slaanesh’s projection nearly kill them all then laugh about it. Literally just a super greater deamon who’s shade kills the Visarch, Yvraine, a harlequin Solitaire, and nearly kills Lelith Hesperax in a 1v5 fight. Not to mention nearly kills Jain Zar as well if she wasn’t given Ynnari powers to heal her mid fight. Then when they do beat it, the deamon just laughs and says the thing they fought wasn’t even it’s true form, and that they’ll never recover the last crone sword because it’s in Slaanesh’s favorite sex dungeon. The absolute backpedal by GW to make sure the Ynnari do absolutely nothing forevermore is astounding. It not only killed the appeal of the faction, but it made everyone involved in that fight look like chumps. It’s infuriating to say the least.

“Life would be so much better if wars were fought with only melee”. Khorn sheds a tear of joy “I’ve never killed anyone in melee combat with a battle axe before” Khorn sheds a tear of sadness

Number 69: The emps "stick".

Eldar: Ok lads we've got 4 out of 5 godly swords that can putt an end to the one that thirst once and for all! Until we recover the 5th one make sure to guard them with everything you've got! Trazyn: Well hello there! Eldar: OH COME ON!!!!

Anathame is clearly a play on "anathema," which was used in the excommunication sentence "anathema mal", usually translated as "let he/she/they be cursed" although it literally means "this is dedicated to evil." Anathema is pronounced the way you said. No idea how GW thinks "anathame" is pronounced. I would guess it would be like "anna thay meh," which is close to what you said especially for someone raised among kangaroo humping convicts.

Slight correction (kind of?) on the Custode acting as a jailer for the sword. The daemon didn't think it could corrupt him, it just had to wait for him to die of his wounds. In Master of Mankind when the daemon is sneaking around the webway picking off Imperial forces like Sisters of Silence and Admech titans, it see some Custodes fighting. It doesn't even bother trying to corrupt or possess them and goes to find a new target, because it thinks the stars would burn out before it could bend a Custode to its will.

I feel like Farsight's Dawn Blade deserves a place on the list mainly because judging by how it works it could (in theory) kill off perpetuals. Pluss it can also perma kill daemons, close warp portals and turn you immortal so that's also a pluss. Also, does anyone know if GW has decided if the damn thing was made by Necrons or Chaos?

If I remember correctly , the sword penetrated the shoulderpiece of Horuses terminator armor. The thickest part, of the terminator suit. Horus Baldyman probably did not expect that it would (my best guess) and tried to tank the blade. The wound wasn't that bad (For a primarch) but the poison did a number on his great shiny dome

I'm willing to bet the Blood Ravens have a few of those weapons.

So, swords tend to require a lot more skill, were more expensive, and in medieval Europe, were used to get between armor plates in knights to kill, whereas an axe or mace is easier to harm with due to blunt force trauma and is cheaper to make and faster to produce. Majorkill, please have fun on your vacation in Europe!

Shout out to the Custodes the Emperor just randomly impaled with a demon sword and then told to run straight into the endless maze of the webway. Talk about asking “how high?” when the boss tells you to jump.

"Krieg Shovel > The Emperors Sword" - 90% of the internet

Farsight’s dawnblade should be on this list. It is wielded by an incredibly skilled dualist and it makes the user effectively immortal as it absorbs the remaining life force out of any one slain by the blade.

Also, the sword of Antwyr (or however you spell it). Honestly, you could make a video of the top demon-possessed weapons - you already had 2/5 on this list.

The Black Blade of Antwyr forced the entirety of the Grey Knights chapter to ignore other goings on to quarter off an entire sector and lead a crusade against it, as it had incorporated everyone in the sector into its perfect hivemind. It’s hivemind is so perfect, that it can direct millions of bodies to fire on one square inch of metal. Also, it’s indestructible.

Two corrections: Battle-axes require a lot of skill to wield effectively. Spears are a lot more useful on the battlefield than swords. Swords are duelling weapons and sidearms, not weapons meant for war. For example, despite the Katana being the iconic Samurai weapon, the Samurai weapon of choice in warfare would have been the Yumi (Bow) and Yari (spear/pike) or Naginata (pole-blade). The Katana was only used as a defensive/back-up weapon or against peasants in non-war situations _(cough straight up murder cough)_ and mostly symbolized the status as a Samurai. (Greatswords and early modern Cavalry Swords (1700+) are a category on their own so they are not included here.)

Question: you always talk about "recent lore" but how recent is recent? Could you put the lore in a Realtime perspective? When did cadia fall? In which time could we expect (new) major developments? Just dor example

I love the fact my emperor commission is still so popular after all these years. Genzoman is lasting talent. Also, Gulliman had the Emperor's sword when he resurrected, he cut a khorne berserker in half with it when he woke up. He cut him so hard he didnt split until he hit the far wall.

The Emperor Sword is by the most dangerous weapon against the Chaos Gods because it truly kill off their Daemons for good, and they could do nothing in their power to get back those Daemons back from oblivion.

“You deny your weapon its purpose” - Unaugumented Samurai, 2030s.

Mayorkill: "axes is all about swing and hope for the best" The people who knows: the Council of the 3 (Metatron, Skallagrim and Shadiversity) may decide your fate... And Khan the Betrayer..... Probably...

Battle-axes were a bad example, they're pretty skill intensive to use well. Spears, maces, and quarter-staves are more like you described

So the 5 chroneswords were made from 5 fingers of a goddess. And you need to collect and assemble them all to defeat Slaanesh. My theory is there is a chrone shield made from her palm hidden in Trazyn’s collection. When you connect them all they combine back into the goddess’s hand and give Slaanesh the mother of all bitchslaps.

Fulgrim' Laer blade is like the 3 Witches in MacBeth. The witches are the allegory and personification of MacBeth's treacherous ambition and hubris. The Laer Blade incarnates Fulgrim's path towards insanity, his terror to see his legion suddenly blasted by mutations once again and erased from existance, like the two lost primarchs. Fulgrim was so persuaded that his legion was doomed to genetic devastation that he threw it on a desperate quest for martial perfection, to obtain as much glory as quickly as possible, so the EC could at least survive in the history books after the inevitable would occured. Which is why he almost destroyed his legion in vain glory vs the Laers, why he was so obsequious towards the Emperor. Eventually, Fulgrim's anxiety became insanity, mixing xenos and astartes DNA for improved combat capabilities, a crime the Emperor would never forgive. They had brought upon themselves what they had feared. If MacBeth's fatal flaw was ambition, Fulgrim's was narcissism, his ego unable to accept he could eventually become the forgotten memory of a failed project.

Yeah, the legend of Arthur pulling the Chop Sticks out if the stone .... Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

My headcannon is that the Emperor’s Sword is an embodiment of Man’s discovery of Fire, like Drach’nyen is a demon who is the embodiment of the first human murder.

The Lion Sword. There's hints in the lore that it might attack the soul directly, bypassing all defenses, be it the sword, some secret ability of the Lion, or both.

Let's be very honest, theost Powerful sword in the galaxy is the 15 Inch Big Brown 'Sword' of the Emperor

It took longer for humans to go from using a bronze sword to an iron sword, then it did for humans to go from using an iron sword to a nuclear bomb

Get Draigo to get the fifth crone sword and allow him to bring the Emperor’s wrath to Slaanesh in their palace. Emperor’s Flame turn slaanesh realm into soot glass!

In the first Dark Imperium novel Guilliman has the sword of the emperor when he is wounded by Fulgrim though. And it is said that when we was in stasis he also had the sword in the avenging son novel. Has some of this been retcon'd

A few other swords of note; the lions sword wielded by Azreal and the sword held by Nathaniel Garro, rumored to be Excalibur.

yeah, swords are cool, but spears are just better.

The current lore in Dark Imperium novel says that Guilliman was given the sword after the end of Heresy and had it with him when he was "killed" by Fulgrim during Scouring.

Majorkill made a video specifically about swords. He's done it, lads. MAJORKILL HAS GONE FULL WEEB.

The Emperor had to travel through time the old fashioned way, keep up with expanding knowledge, squirrel away bits of manufacturing and scientific production capability along the way, enough that just prior to the unification wars, he could put it to use to make his high grade tools like Custodes, and to produce the stuff to produce the stuff that produces tech far in excess of techno-barbarian terra. If you play this problem out in your head, it's far more complicated than one might think.

In league of legends, there’s an item called Anathema’s Chains, that makes one person on the enemy team deal 30% less damage to you and be 20% more susceptible to being stunned and the like when near you.

I know that the tau's melee abilities are one of The memes of WH40K wich is why I am surprised Farsight's sword didn't get an honourable mention.

Honourable mention is the Daemon blade wielded by the Grey Knights Castellan.

I feel like The Black Blade of Antwyr deserves an honorable mention. It’s mass possession is quite destructive and impressive, controlling millions and potentially billions into a perfectly coordinated hive mind. It’s quite possibly an old or forgotten god bound into an indestructible blade form.

As a former A.C.L. fighter, axes are awesome to use, but take a lot of training to be able to effectively control your swing. Missing a powerful strike and not knowing the properly recover the momentum is a good way to end up on the ground.

Aw, I was kind of hoping that Warhammer Fantasy would get a semi-honourable mention with the Widowmaker; The Sword of Khaine.

Ironically axes tend to take a bit more skill than your average straight sword edge alignments alot harder. A proper oval shaped handle helps alot

I just combed through the Wahapedia, and the most powerful sword is, as I expected, the Ork Stompa's Mega Choppa. If you go Titans, the Aeldari Phantom Titans have a more powerful warglaive, and the imperial titans and chaos titans can have some klaws or fists with damage 12 (or 18 in the case of warlord titans). But the most powerful sword, and the most powerful melee weapon that you could possibly field in a 2000 point game, is the Mega-Choppa.

"i've never killed anyone in melee combat **with a battleaxe** before"

Horus got wounded because he took the hit on his pauldron. A sane strategy seeing as it's the toughest part of power armor, and it was made of arumite. If it was an ordinary weapon, it would probably break upon contact. And since Horus knew next to nothing of the warp at the time, he had no clue that a warp jizz infused weapon can just cut through basically mythrill but copyright infringement free.

Cool video! Would love to see one about special meele weapons from other factions, like the Crons or the Orks, if there are any.

"I never killed anyone in melee combat with a battle axe before" Sounds too specific 🤨😑. Majorkill either trew the axe or he killed somebody with a different weapon

Thx! The over the top unique weapons and equipment is one of the biggest reasons I love Warhammer.

"But majorkeel, wouldn't these weapons be impracti.." "STFU TIMMY, IT LOOKS KOOL!"

"Swords take prisoners; spears win wars"

Basically: *MELEE WEAPON GUIDE:* *Edged?* - yes: aligning the edge to impact/slice your target will need conscious attention- skill requirements - no: wtf are you using? a piece of 2-by-4? Well, swing hard, follow through with your swings, ensure you train your stamina much more than anything else- since a blunt blow will require more time and strength to recover from before you can follow-up. *Flail-like?* - yes: momentum and spacial awareness are your friends, you are as much a threat to yourself as to your enemy- training requirements. -no: *see above* *Curved profile?* - yes: train against shielded targets, weapons typically are curved to either [at lower gradients:-] inflict more slice damage or/and [at higher gradients + hooked profiles:-] to reach around held shields to inflict guard-breaking strikes. (light, but either enough to create a gap to strike, OR straight following through hard enough may result in fatal impalement) In examples, such as the kukri- thier curve is designed to enable significantly harder swings, a hammering motion is advised and encouraged to inflict armour-crumpling damage. - no: *see above* *two-handed?* -Yes: welcome to the typical scottish butcher's shop! (Claymore joke), practice hand placements in various scenarios (having your dominant hand closer to the guard, as oppose to the pommel, increases the accuracy of the blade edge, enabling slicing damage to be consistent. Placing it closer to the pommel enables a more kukri-reminiscent and armour-raping blow. - no: *see above* Etc, etc- we have made a lot of variants of *"Sharp stick"*

Digging the new thumbnail style. Also, a suggestion for something similar in the future: a video on unique weapons in general. Unique weapons are a huge part of the flavor of a unique character in a setting like 40k. Forgebreaker, Gorechild, and the Baleful Eye are all really cool.

I like how you left the door open. "I have never killed anyone in melee combat...with a battle axe" So...how about a pole arm?

40k Weapons are so metal, I'm already a fan of huge fuck-off swords and Warhammer 40k just ups it even more.

This is one of the best channels for my Warhammer community for multiple reasons One we have a badass Australian who knows when grim dark is good and when it becomes grim dork second and the most important reason the jokes are fucking great and he knows how to hook you into the lore without being forced

As a man who studies HEMA to write better fantasy ... no cheese graters and spinning double katanas* are not dope. Get a pole-axe, those wreck sh!t. "a battle axe is more like a huge swing and hope for the best" 😠"or at least that's how I perceive it." you get a pass for admitting your ignorance. *What you showed was more the length of a Wakizashi, the blades where pointed the same direction so it would nod be ideal for spinning, and katanas are explicitly single edged so adding another blade it's no longer a katana.

Great vid. I've wanted to hear some lore on The Emperor's Sword for a while. I'm a little bit surprised there was no mention of Libertas.

Don’t forget Asurmen’s sword @Majorkill. In the Asurmen book it can also give daemons truedeath and he permakills a demon prince moments after it’s successful ascension. A great moment.

Rogal dorne Chainsword named “Storms teeth” is badass too taking two hands to wield he also had a warhammer but it was lost its name “rogals fist” which is stupid and cool at the same time it was found by the blood ravens of fucking course he also has a bolter made by the custdoes named”Voice of terra or terror” while Perty has farrus fuck giant hammer “mountain breaker” made by fulgrim and also twin bolters in his arms

Very very disappointed that the 1st place wasn't Khorne's sword, "The End", it's the coolest shit ever and you just skipped it, sad

7:43 I see that when Australians aren't mining for Australium or fighting off house sized spiders while upside down, they have time to indulge in meme culture. On a more serious note, have fun on your trip, Majorkill.

I would love a sneaky heist to get the krone swords .! Sounds like an epic tale of horror and ecstasy , sounds epic I need it lol

"I've never killed anyone with a axe in melee combat" Implies you have killed someone with an axe in ranged combat

the laer blade makes me sad, not only did it make fulgrim go traitor but its used as an excuse any time he does something awsome

We need a list of all the melee weapons that each race use. I think that the biggest variaty will be on the imperium side but still. I love the power sword, power axe and thunder hammer but I know there are a lot more.

First minute major kill insinuating he’s killed some one with a sword in melee combat.

0:24 yet a spear beat a sword 90% of the time, longer reach destroy any advantage the sword has

An interesting theory is that Cegorach is actually bating Jaghatai Kahn into his realm, so he can teach the Khan how to move through the warp (similar to the way Corax does) in order to recover the last crone sword from Slaneesh's palace. If this ends up being cannon it would be super interesting to read about I recon.

Had an idea for a video for you, I saw a short story awhile ago of Abbadon fighting against the Blood Angels and Dante, the Blood Angels are losing and Dante finally snaps falling to the Black Rage and going nuclear on Abbadon. So characters in the current 40k setting that could kill Abbadon and how it would go down. I honestly think that Dante finally being the one to kill him but falling to the Black Rage to do so would be fucking awesome Sanguinius greatest son against Horus “greatest” remaining son.

IRL humans are more like the Tau and im sad that we do not engage in glorious melee

the Emperor's Sword is supposed to be the most op melee weapon of the setting and should destroy any other that comes in contact with it but gets constantly parried while being used by Guilliman

I like how Majorkill, despite openly claiming he dont have meele experience got more things right in like 30 seconds than 70+% of people talking about "medieval reality" during 40 minutes long film analisis. lmao

So in terms of using a battleaxe it is not 100% about the swing, though it is certainly a major aspect. Someone good at wielding a battleaxe would have multiple hand positions on the weapon that allow for different combat capabilities. The most predictable is long range where the hands would be further away from the axe head, close enough to be stable, but long enough to get maximum range with stability and combine the power of the torso with the momentum of the axe head. This would be used for breaking shields and doors. Next is a medium range where one hand is a bit closer to the axe head but not too close. This is the range where the hook shape on the bottom of the axe head (could be one or both sides) can be used for hooking the opponent's weapon so that it moves past you and you disarm them by turning or you draw them in which adds to the power of a shorter strike than in the first mentioned hand position. This grip also allows for what I call grinding cuts which is when rather than the blade having a ton of momentum and coming down, you rely on the sharpness of the blade and leverage so that you press the axe head and then do more damage by torquing while pulling it out. This last technique is also possible in the next hand position. Last position is when both hands are closer to the head so that it allows more if the handle to be exposed. In this position you make use of the bottom of the handle as a striking and/or grappling weapon. This is when you are too close to get power from a swing. The handle can be used as a lever to better leverage takedown. This is also the range where a spike or short blade on the top of the axe can be useful as you have more control for thrusting it. I hope this gives some perspective on how dynamic a battleaxe can be, much of this can also be applied to warhammers as well.

0:53 you probably right sense sword were not full battlefield weapons and instead more like side arms

fuck demon swords they turned horus and fulgrim to chaos

I don't remember his name but the story around the Custode that The Emperor told to flee with Drachnyan would be really interesting.

Can the swird of the emporer kill Demonprimearks

Emperor's Limp Dong is missing

Sly Marbo's knife should be nr 1. It was the weapon which killed Horus and wiped his soul out of existance

We all know the emperor has the most powerful "sword" in all of 40k sodomising demons and perpetuals alike.

Majorkill I was trying to find lore on the campaign against the Orcs on Ullanore during the great crusade and found the interwebs to be lacking in this department. Specifically I wanted to hear more about when the big E shows up with some custodes to save the day when things weren't going as planned. Soooo if you're in the mood to tell that story sometime I'm sure the guys and gal would love to hear it!

As a maker of handheld weapons (Swords, axes, and other shit old shit) This video is bloody great. It even gave me the idea to try and make a hand carved, wooden Khorne equivalent of the Laer Blade. If anyone has any name suggestions please post them in the replies. I’d love to hear some ideas.

My favorite part of the unreleased eldar end times lore is when they revive the fallen god Michael Morbius and he morbs on slaneesh so hard that he becomes the chaos god of Morbin and all the eldar become demons of Morbius

Stormsteeth is the best chainsword.

You forgot libertas

Nice

I'm in the US Army and I got my commander to schedule bayonet training which we were in a class room for two hours learning about how to attach, maintain and sharpen the knife. We had to take a written test before actually touching the bayonet and putting it on our M4s. We then went to an improvised Bayonet range and charged in full kit to stab sand bags. When we go over combat training and we get in a bind I always recommend fixing bayonets because nobody does such tactics today and it's so masculine and cool

No C'tan blades?

Anathema is pronounced exactly how you pronounced it. Ανάθεμα, in Greek. You mispronounced it in the stupid English way of saying it, but you were right in the language the word comes from so that's what matters xd.

My man is still rocking even on vacation

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