224 - Astartes Armoury: Melee Weapons
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 136 minutes
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In this episode, we crack open the Astartes armoury and get our hands bloody, diving deep into the melee weapons that define how Space Marines wage war up close. From the screaming brutality of chainswords and chainaxes to the cold, crackling lethality of power weapons and lightning claws, we break down not just what these tools do, but what they mean in the myth and doctrine of the Adeptus Astartes. These are not sidearms or backups—they are relics of belief, forged for wars where distance collapses and only dominance remains. Whether it’s a Primarch’s favored blade, a Chapter’s sacred pattern, or a claw built to tear tanks and titans alike, this episode explores why, in a galaxy of guns, the Emperor’s Angels still trust in the edge.
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| 1:02.8 | Learn more and try it out on Adobe.com. Welcome back to Lohammer. I'm your host, Mark, and today we got another episode of 40K content. We're doing an Astardis Armory, melee weapons. We're going to be talking about everything from |
| 1:07.7 | chainswords to Thunderhammers to the fucking arst of the starties themselves so all types |
| 1:15.2 | of cool weapons uh when writing this episode out i uh read in writing and then i got to like chapter |
| 1:20.7 | specific war gear and then i'm like holy fuck that's that's many episodes in and of itself so there won't |
| 1:26.2 | be any of those there but lots of other |
| 1:27.7 | weapons to enjoy hey we got uh gerald welcome welcome good evening as always if you could have a |
| 1:36.8 | range weapon in 40k or a weapon you have to pick one or the other which you think you're going for |
| 1:41.8 | oh no contest melee weapon all the long day okay yeah it's all about the glory of it all you know oh yeah guns are fun but swords are better oh yeah give me like a good curved sword maybe dual wielding some i'm golden yeah and we also got for the first time a, welcome to the show. Hey. Hi. Here from a listener more. Lots of fun. Yeah, yeah. We did one of those together, and now you made it to the big time. So, uh, same question for you. Oh, you picking up a, like a bolter or a chain board? What are you going for that I'm going Space Wolf's Hellforge weapons. They're frost weapons. Okay, there we go. Yeah, frost weapons. The biting cold. If I'm attacking, I want to deal all the ice. Yeah, cool. We're going to go through a bunch of weapons tonight. Before we get into it, let's just do some quick housekeeping. |
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