The 5 Most Obscenely Powerful Swords in Warhammer 40k
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Warhammer is full of crazy weapons. So here are 5 wildly powerful swords.
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“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
I’m surprised Khorne’s blade, World’s End, is not mentioned.
Me, hearing the 2nd statement: "w8 wut?"
He specified that he hasn't with a battle axe. He never said he hasn't killed.
He in australia he has fucking Tyraninds wild life to kill before he can find anyone so not worth the effort.
No no he’s just never been convicted
Everyone knows every asutralian has had to murder a drunk bogan wielding a spider army in self defence
I know this because I’m australian
Number 69: The emps "stick".
mittens
Pork swords don't count.
The Stick of Imperial Truth
We all know that one, Empy tried to fuck The Galaxy and that's how the "eye" of terror was ripped. The end
Ah yes, the real reason the sisters of silence are so silent… I’ll see myself out now.
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!!!!
Not gonna lie, I think Trazyn would actively _assist_ the Eldar in order to find a way to imprison _Slaanesh_ to put in his museum! Literally, that would be the biggest flex of all time!
I could see him helping them get all five so he can steal them as a set….
Eldar deserved that since they cause the galaxy to be screwed by creating Slaanesh and waking up the three older Chaos Gods
blood Ravens: allow us to introduce ourselves
@@anthonylamonica8301 that would be funny just seeing Trayzn helping them then as Slaanesh is about die then Trayzn jumps out and then putting Slaanesh in his museum
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?🤨
What do you think happened to Timmy?
Timmy has a sword stuck in his back. He is kept on life support for the memes.
I've never killed any one before in general. But I have cut down a tree, I prefer using an axe to a sword (or machete).
@@ianyoder2537 Everyone around Camelot knows that the only true way to cut down a tree is with a herring!
@@barklordofthesith2997 I won't do it, now leave and get me a shrubbery or I'll say "it" again.
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.
Also, the emperor stabbed the custodes Whit the sword demon, don't know why tho
@@fcomolineiro7596 gotta make sure it's nice and in there. After he was stabbed with the sword it fused into him, so his body basically became a living sheath/prison for it. Since if he was just holding the sword he could be disarmed or it could be separated from him.
@@joshwoodferd5737 Hard as fuck beefcake, a cockstode is.
It also possesses a dead custodes which was terrifying
@@joshwoodferd5737 No neccesarily, it was infered that the the Ra was being used to quench and control the blade.
Much like the Emperor used his own blood to make Drach'nyen switch to sword form.
I cant remember any part about thr blade fusing with Ra
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
Thanks J B 👍🏻
The sword's true poison was male pattern baldness
@@hammondvascovich3479 Damn it! You beat me to this joke!
Technically a different blade im pretty sure.
The Laya blade, Fulgrim foind in thr Laya temple.
The other laya blade was stolen by Erebus from the Interex im pretty sure
Been a while since i read the firet few books of the Horus heresy, so im a bit foggy on the details
@Vae Victis Thanks.
I only listen to the Books via Audible
and you know how that british accent is lol
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.
Bro jumped through the roof without even asking
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?
I feel like it wouldn't be made by either, because why would Chaos create something that can actively hurt them? Unless it was made by Tyneech in that case it makes perfectly (meaning no) sense. It probably wasn't made by the Necrons either primarily because it doesn't have their overall theme, no green glow or dark metal. Plus, despite the ability to close warp rifts which is a huge plus the Necrons have, it doesn't keep with the Necrons overall abilities.
@@irishspartanstudios perhaps the old ones or Eldar could have made it
@@irishspartanstudios I could see some extremely high up greater daemon or prince making a sword that could kill daemons permanently. Making it as a sword that could truly kill failing subordinates or captured prisoners, and not thinking it would ever be used against them out of sheer arrogance and ego.
@@the_man_emperor_of_mankind Eldar! That could be it! And come to think of it, these Eldar _could_ have been influenced by Chaos, judging by the overall evil vibes the sword gives off, though the Eldar have made some pretty edgy s___ before so that could be a coincidence. So yeah, let's say until disproven an Eldar group crafted this vampiric sword capable of closing warp rifts. Sound plausible?
@@irishspartanstudios it seems like something Varl would craft so yeah
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.
Audiobooks said it like "anna-thame"
"especially for someone raised among kangaroo humping convicts." :-D :-D :-D
It’s also a reference to an “Athame”, which is a blade used in witchcraft, ceremonial magic, and Wicca.
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!
The armor thing is mostly a myth, daggers and spears are much better for precise stabbing than most swords. Swords were over glorified personal protection devices. Most weapons are very inconvenient to carry with you and most that you can carry with you wont pack much punch in a straight fight. Swords are a perfect mid ground for convenience and lethality.
With the exception of greatswords, swords didn't see much use on the battlefield. They were duelling weapons and side-arms/back-up weapons.
Axes and maces on the other hand were a lot more useful but still, the ultimate winner on any battlefield was the spear or pike.
Swords were also a status symbol.
@@Salted_Fysh "swords didn't see any use on the battlefield" ... maybe dont use declarative statements that are clearly false? Cavalry swords were a thing... Cavalry is ... a battlefield unit. In case you dont know.
@@MrFallenone still a sidearm.
And the pike still saw a lot more use than the sword during the age of sworded cavalry.
But yes. With the reduction of armor due to the introduction of firearms, sword came into heavier use again. But not as a skilled weapon but as a good way to slice through lightly armoured targets as quickly as possible.
I don't really count the 18th century onward as traditional battlefields. It's the start of modernized warfare.
@@Salted_Fysh You still said a false declarative statement. Why did you even word it that way when you contradict yourself in the same comment by saying it was a side-arm? Being a side-arm still means it sees use on the battlefield. They wouldn't bother carrying side-arms if they saw no use.
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.
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.
Genzoman? The guy who drew god making Adam with what looks like science and magic?
@@mugenokami2201 Yes, that one was my commissions too, as well as Hera, the now 5 gods of chaos and Pre-fall Lucifer
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I'm willing to bet the Blood Ravens have a few of those weapons.
Magpies are known are to steal shiny trinkets
Or copies of all of them
I’ll take that be- wait, where’s my wallet? What’s this note?
“The Blood Ravens thank you for your generous gift to the chapter’s coffers?”
Damn you Bloody Magpies!
They have Fulgrims' hammer
Wrong, Perturabo has it.
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.
Who wields that? Or does it just kinda wield itself?
@@ellis7622 technically, Castellan Garran Crowe wields it, but he more acts as it’s jailer. The only powers it can exert while in his possession is telepathy and being indestructible. However, it is a daemon blade, and so it does wield itself when not trapped
It’s also so powerful that the rumor is that it was originally another chaos god, as it is clearly a daemon weapon but apparently hates all the chaos gods that currently exist. Leading people to believe it was originally a chaos god that was bound by the others in the form of a sword for being too powerful, or a minor god that was close to ascending before the others stopped it.
No other weapon has so much influence, it conquered three SECTORS with its cult and it took all 8 Grey Knight Brotherhoods working together to stop it.
There is NOTHING that has ever assembled ALL the grey knights ever again. Even the arrival of a daemon prince primarch. So this weapon was so powerful they consider is a bigger threat than a DEMON PRINCE
Fucking weird. That’s what that is. I wonder what they were smoking when they came up with that or did they play too much cosmic horror tabletop based off of call of Cthulhu that week?
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.)
Samurai even prefered Yumi over Katana, because firing with a bow requires more skill
the stereotype of "X-Sword cutting through Armor like butter" really needs to die, it isnt even that much of an interesting weapon... i really hope Halberts or Maces would get some more attention in mainstream medie
@@TheHorreK2 Swords look far more elegant though which is why significant heroic and villainous figures alike are often shown with swords rather than halberts or maces.
@@TheHorreK2 40k used to have power maces but they're legends now (at least for Guard)
Correction, Yes Samurai can test their Katana on peasant but not many actually do that. Most use it on Criminals.
Why you may ask? Cause killing a bunch of unarmed peasant wouldn't do great for your reputation. Sure by the law they have total rights but it's like a license to kill, "Yes you can kill anyone but abuse that power and it'll be consequences."
"Krieg Shovel > The Emperors Sword"
- 90% of the internet
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.
You really are Some Guy ❤️
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...
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.
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.
“You deny your weapon its purpose”
- Unaugumented Samurai, 2030s.
"It yearns to bathe in the blood of your enemies, but you hold it back"
Let's Dance
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.
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.
That’s awesome.
Yeah, the legend of Arthur pulling the Chop Sticks out if the stone .... Just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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
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.
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
A few other swords of note; the lions sword wielded by Azreal and the sword held by Nathaniel Garro, rumored to be Excalibur.
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.
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
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.
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.
Who do u main
@@garenooo8959 tryndamere
Battle-axes were a bad example, they're pretty skill intensive to use well. Spears, maces, and quarter-staves are more like you described
Glad to know I won't be the only HEMA nerd trying to correct the rule of cool.
Majorkill made a video specifically about swords. He's done it, lads.
MAJORKILL HAS GONE FULL WEEB.
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!
Thx! The over the top unique weapons and equipment is one of the biggest reasons I love Warhammer.
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.
Or dead. Don’t forget that depending on what your dueling against.
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.
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
He could, but you'll learn (perhaps disappointed) that many settings, novels, etc aren't exactly true to each others universe. The greater theme is there, but Canon is... kinda fuzzy in ALL instances
@@downtostandup Canon drinks a lot of Bourbon apparently.
At the risk of The Inquisition, I blame the Ecclesiarchy. There are huge holes in the records they keep. At least 3-4 thousand years are missing. And they claim some events happen at different times in history. What is this cannon you speak of? Will it help the Imperium?
@@ReaLibro It can't if nobody other than i can read your comment. (YT ghosted it for some reason)
@@barklordofthesith2997 if it got ghosted, it means someone reported it. Shame really. It was funny and answered the question.
"But majorkeel, wouldn't these weapons be impracti.." "STFU TIMMY, IT LOOKS KOOL!"
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.
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.
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
Honourable mention is the Daemon blade wielded by the Grey Knights Castellan.
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.
"I've never killed anyone with a axe in melee combat" Implies you have killed someone with an axe in ranged combat
Aw, I was kind of hoping that Warhammer Fantasy would get a semi-honourable mention with the Widowmaker; The Sword of Khaine.
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.
Let's be very honest, theost Powerful sword in the galaxy is the 15 Inch Big Brown 'Sword' of the Emperor
My honorable mention is The Blade of Shadows, although as far as I can tell most of the power comes from the fact that Be'Lakor is the one swinging it around.
Its special gimmick is that it can switch between a tangible and intangible form whenever Be'Lakor wants, and he's gotten so good at it that it basically just completely ignores armor.
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.
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.
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
Bull shit! True story.....in Iraq in 05, some royal british marines just recently came back on base and one deacribed how his "lefteinant" gave the order "fix boyonets" during an engagement. Yea they racked up 9 bayonet kills.
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 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?
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'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.
Thank you for the insight and inspiration. Now to go put that to good use!
First minute major kill insinuating he’s killed some one with a sword in melee combat.
"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"*
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
really enjoying the community built here and the respectfull addition of information and corrections in the comments. g'day guys & gall *tip o' the hat*
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
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.
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.
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!
I don't remember his name but the story around the Custode that The Emperor told to flee with Drachnyan would be really interesting.
Ra Endymion
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.
We need a follow up video with the top 5 warhammers. Should be easy, as there’s 40000 of ‘em.
I reckon Libertas should have had an honourable mention due to how much of a badass Garro is.
They need to start a new Warhammer series that is in the Fantasy setting rebooted, but with the Emperor and his Son's. They would be scattered at birth, the Wolf raised by Norscans, the Lion raised in Brettonia, Vulkan raised by the Lizard people, Konrad by the Skaven, etc etc. Would be so bad ass.
Majorkill gonna give us the top 5 toilets in the imperium before he acknowledges that squats are back fffff
Letting your viewers know you're going on vacation so they aren't unpleasantly surprised when they don't have new content for a couple weeks (watching a Majorkill vid has become an after work ritual), and then surprising them with content anyway. What a legend!
Pre-planning things like this is the fruit of experience. But he DID say that he pre-recorded vids to be released when he's not at home.
I need a top like 50 powerful warhammer weapons or something. It’s so cool to see all the unique weapons and which ones are more powerful. The sad bit is most important weapons just seem to be on a base level of primarch tier. Tho it is mentioned that forgebreaker (vulkan’s old hammer, now perti’s) is made of a strange metal that no one knows what it is but it’s implied it’s extra special even amongst the primarch’s weapons.
Medieval warfare but with GoPro's you say?
Welcome to "Buhurt" my friends. The greatest sport ever known.
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
love your channel never stop!
Hey majorkill, a video for the father of remembrancers and sigismunds personal one sounds like a neat idea!
Farsight just waiting patiently in the back for his giant time-eating xeno/demon sword to get a mention...
My man is still rocking even on vacation
I'd like to point out how beautiful the thumbnail is. God damn!
The most powerfull sharp stick in existence is probably whatever Khorne's weapon of choise is
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 think having the Emperor being the strongest OP omg can't be killed superhero is a bit annoying. It's kinda hard to take the chaos god serious when the Emperor can just 1v4 them.
Obviously he doesn't actually 1v4 them but having a sword that is stronger that anything the Eldar or Necrons have or using his brainpower to set Nurgle forest on fire is a bit wack imo.
That thumbnail was so good I thought it was like Leutin and not the funni Aussie man
The Blade of Antwyr could be a contender for this list since it is very similar to Drach’nyen since it is likely a minor chaos god in the form of a sword.
thumbnail looks amazing!
One honorable mention should be Khorne's sword, which is said it could kill the other gods in a single swing
You seem to be pretty spot on on the Anathema
"Well, that dipshit happened to be Fulgrim."
*wheeze*
If you look at the picture of fulgrim at 4:11 you will notice that he’s doing “blue steel” from Zoolander.
Now that's a good video miniature
I’ll be running on the 11-15th. Good luck mate 🤙🏻
You should do a video about the lore behind each champion of chaos
"a spear is better against calvary"
This man Total Wars.
Ya know what, you just got yourself a new subscriber
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
The spears are looking on disapproving of your short staby toothpick love
0:45 love how he specifies "with a battle axe" 😏