(Video) 226 - Astartes Armoury: Rare and Retired Weapons
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 126 minutes
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In this episode, we exhume the armaments abandoned by history: volkite rays that turned flesh to fire, disintegration weapons erased by decree, graviton and rad arms deemed too terrible or too complex to endure. We’ll explore why these weapons vanished from the battlefield, who still dares to wield them, and what their disappearance says about the slow decay of Imperial knowledge. This is a cold, methodical descent into the arsenals the Imperium would rather forget. Once forged at the height of the Imperium’s technological mastery, rare and retired Astartes weapons are more than relics—they are sermons of steel, plasma, and forgotten science.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Hello and welcome back to Lorhammer. I'm your host, Mark, and we got another Starty's Armory episode. |
| 0:33.6 | Today it's rare and retired weapons. So we're going to be checking out a lot of weapons from the Horace |
| 0:38.7 | era type stuff from disintegration weapons to, I think my new favorite one on this list is that |
| 0:45.3 | aetheric shock mall, which is pretty fucking tight. But yeah, we're getting to that. First, |
| 0:50.1 | well, let's introduce our guest. We got young Jacks joining us. Hey, man. |
| 0:55.4 | Yo, how's it going? |
| 0:57.1 | Good, good. |
| 0:58.0 | I had to get you on this episode because we're talking about the Nostorian chain glave. |
| 1:02.7 | So I said, you know, have them on, throw him a bone. |
| 1:06.9 | Oh, night lords, my beloved. |
| 1:10.0 | Do you want a bone or do you want like a patch of skin next time I throw you something? |
| 1:14.2 | Like, what's the nightloves vibe? |
| 1:16.7 | I'll think like a skin, skin coat. |
| 1:20.3 | Like a little bit of a nice medium-sized skin coat, so it's tight. |
| 1:26.7 | Ah, it's like I'm wearing nothing at all. Excellent. We also got joining us for the second time. Aaron, hey, how's it going, man? Had it pretty good. Have fun. Time for Warhammer. Yeah, time for a little Warhammer. Do you guys have a favorite melee weapon that we've kind of gone over? |
| 1:44.8 | It doesn't have to be on the episode we're covering today, but just kind of in general. |
| 1:48.7 | The eviscerator. |
| 1:50.8 | Two-hand-chain swords. |
| 1:52.3 | So good. |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah, I didn't know that that weapon had a power field in it as well. |
| 1:59.0 | So it's like a chain sword with a little, |
| 2:03.6 | it's not as potent as like a power sword power field, |
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