Important to note that the only reason Conversion Beam Weapons exist in the lore is so GW could make a reference to Blade Runner's greatest line : "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."

It feels weird to be watching a video like this without an appearance by Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum

I think my favourite 'Imperium weapon trivia' is that according to the original Rogue Trader, Las-cannons are also known as 'Blazoogas'.

Please please do a complete series of this, all the weapons for all the factions - this is brilliant, I love the combination of lore and "how to tell what weapon your little toy soldier has" 😄

I know it'd be an insane amount of work, but I'd love to see you do a run down of all the main xenos firearms!

Tyranids in particular would be fun, they have some really gruesome things available...

"That Guardsman pissed me off..." "What did you do?" "I issued him a Plasma Gun" ;)

So chaos use pretty much the same guns as the imperium so here's the Xenos guns.

Eldar: long, sleek, smooth, and uses some kinda magnet to throw projectlies.

Dark Eldar: long, sleek, uses some kinda magnet to throw projectiles, and are Spikey.

Tau guns: thin, blocky looking laser rifles with a smooth round bit somewhere on them. Looks abit like designer kitchen ware.

Tyranid guns: HR Giger drew a rifle and stuck it on an angry bug. Uses acids or living ammo.

Votann Guns: like space marine guns but smaller.

Necron guns: stripped down, minimalist engery weapons with a green tube in the middle and some type of spike on the end.

Gene stealer cults: the same guns normal humans use.

Ork guns: a pile of scrap cobbled togther to sort of look like a gun. Runs on hopes and dreams.

"I'm not an American, i don't know anything about guns" 😂🤣😂

"you should be able to differentiation from your, heat ray and your heat ray and your heat ray" 😂

I guess if you can see C-beams glittering down from as far as the tanhauser gate, you're going to need better than a 3+ armour save

My favorite imperial weapon is the psycannon. Nothing screams imperial like shooting mind bullets

What they do: NOT ENOUGH DAKKA. That's for sure.

“I’m not American. I don’t know anything about guns”. Massive LOL moment 😂

1:58 Bolters
5:44 Lasgun
8:28 Autoguns
10:45 Stubbers
12:14 Launchers
12:46 Flamers
14:22 Grav Guns
15:40 Melta Guns
17:00 Plasma Guns
18:42 Volkite Guns
20:12 Needler Guns
21:09 Conversion Beamers

Humanity in 40K:

“We have anti gravity powering our speeders and some tanks.”

Mechanicus: “yeah we can weaponize the crap out of that.”

Imperium: “cccccooooooolllllll”

My favorite Warhammer gun fact is that quite a few models with heavy stubbers have what is just straight up a real life world war 1 vintage M1919 Browning machine gun.

I just love the notion that design is still in use unchanged 38 thousand years later.

how can i be expected to enjoy my hobbies like WH40k when america is so close to falling into a christofascist dictatorship

Inferno Pistols are named that because of a pun.

The Inferno Pistol was originally a unique weapon carried by the Blood Angels Chapter Master, Commander Dante.

Thus, it was Dante's Inferno Pistol.

This is the kind of thing most 40K YouTubers skip, but is vital work. Excellent video right here

I just want to say the way you said "Craaaazy Science Guns" is now my headcanon for Tech-Priests explaining any new weapons to Guard regiments.