The forgotten weapons.

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**Breton**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
How do!

Wasn’t entirely sure if this belonged in General or Background. If I’ve placed it wrong, I’ll know where to find it

Anyways. 40K is rushing headlong into being 40 years old. In fact that’s next year, 2027.

And over the years, not all weapons have continued to be a thing on the tabletop. I felt that might make an entertaining thread. I’ll kick us off with some.

Harpoon Missile

A Titan Grade support weapon, intended for use against opposing Titans. Whilst it would of course cause some damage to the superstructure, its real trick was allowing control of the target Titan to be overridden until the Titan was destroyed, or the warhead was dislodged.

Warp Missiles

At least, I don’t think they come up much. Again, a Titan Grade support weapon, with a miniaturised warp engine onboard. This allowed the missile to skip in and out of reality, bypassing any kind of shielding, and ideally appearing inside the target for its grand finale. Not terribly accurate of course, but an absolute menace. Not to be confused with the Vortex Missile.

Eldar Psychic Lance

Gosh, there’s a theme occurring, because it’s yet another Titan Grade weapon, a unique to the Warlock PSI-Titan. Essentially a scaled up, souped up Neurodisruptor Pistol. Used against a vehicle crew? It would wipe their minds, leaving them as drooling mindless shells. Against an enemy Titan that makes use of Mind Impulse Units it could be catastrophic, burning their brains out entirely. And oddly, I don’t think we’ve seen that technology replicated in any size other than Pistol and Titan Grade. That feels like a very real oversight, and a niche for a terrifying Aspect Temple.

Right, that’s some low hanging fruit out there way, anyone else got any to add?

The Thudd Gun. It had its own template. And something like 4 rolls of a D12 or something.

**Andykp**

Is this thread really showing us that apart from specific grenade types, and the load of dark ELDAR stuff that has been gutted, most weapons still exist if not renamed slightly or not as interesting or complicated as they used to be? Even the thud gun above is represented in the new guard artillery pieces, witch blades still exist, the ork guns except the hop splat all are still in game if not renamed a bit, the pulse rocket is back in the tank bustas squad.

In 40K they have been tapping into nostalgia massively last few years so all the stuff I loved from 1st or 2nd edition is knocking about now but as characterful as it was, even grenade names are making a come back as special rules or strats.

**Charax**

well a lot of powerful single-use effects like Vortex grenades or Orbital Bombardments are more suited to being stratagems than one-shot weapons, and situational non-damaging grenades like Antiplant and Tanglefoot work better as rules than as weapons too so I'm not surprised a bunch got carried over.

In the same vein, I miss the attacker/defender armouries from Cityfight, a great opportunity to model up urban warfare specialists

**Karol**

Thunder hammers, falchions, halbards, psykout grenades, digital weapons, scarab shackles , storm shields. And if those count as "weapons" psychic powers.