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It's worth pointing out that in The End and the Death, Horus (admittedly not the most reliable narrator by this point) claims that the Emperor was Alexander the Great. As such, the Bucephalus would have been the Emperor's horse. There is certainly something entertaining and very, very human about naming an enormous ship after your horse that died over 30,000 years ago. Must have been one hell of a horse.
Speaking of Alexander the Great dudes a badass him being able to conquer the entire Persian empire in his early 20s is really god damn impressive the only reason he didn’t conquer the known world was because of desise he definitely had more in him unlike many other great generals like gengis khan which was nearing the end of there lives due to old age
Imagine how strong a horse would need to be to carry the emperor. And how fast it would need to run for the emperor to consider it worthwhile to actually ride it. Shadowfax eat your heart out.
@@incredibleflameboy They called me that because I'd never relent. They'd say "No, no, stop pillaging me" and I'd say "No, everybodies getting pillaged, you included".
13:20 this is the horse that alexander rode into battle for his entire military career of 20ish years. After the battle of hydaspes, when bucephalus died, alexander founded around 20 cities named after him and renamed 70ish more after his horse. He never rode another horse into battle. Best boy.
I just realized: It is kind of wholesome that emperor named one of his ships Bucephalus, since Emperor was canonically Aleksander the Great. He must have genuinely really like that horse, probably more than his sons.
His “dad” Phillip of Macedon, was named as such because of his love of horses. “Phil” love “Hip” horse. (Greek has several words for love, “Phil” is not the kind that those of dirty minds are assuming about his relationships with horses).
Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans position of imperial regent would be pretty cool ngl. Seeing angrons new empire combust or perturabos vicious imperium would be amazing.
The emperor is shown having a few human moments, like naming his giant ship after a horse, I also love that when Ra asks him why he allows people to call him father, he references Pinocchio as an old childrens story from thousands of years ago, and that a little boy made out of wood was given life by his maker and the maker allowed the boy to call him father.
I like the lore nugget that when the Mechanicus delivered The Khan his battle barge, he returned it and made them do it over because it wasn't fast enough.
According the the TT version of Battlefleet Gothic, they still have most of them (basically all of them besides the Gloriana class and bigger) but they phased them out.
The logical reason for melee combat in 40K is that swords don’t need ammo. People/ships can only carry so much. Think about the logistics of transporting trillions of tons of ammunition across the galaxy, now think about how much less you’d have to carry if you have everyone melee weapons. ( also it is just badass )
The reason I always had is that a lot of armor can stop lasguns and bolters, but a powersword or chainsword can go through, provided you're close enough to use it. I'd also imagine that, for this reason, they got more popular as confrontations between astartes, and other better armored opponents got more common
@@saudade7842 How that in the face of tanks, artillery and air power is beyond me. Typically this setting depicts a group of master swordsmen as more effective than aircraft, even though something preforming the role of an attack helicopter should be able to wipe out some charging Marines before they get close enough to take a swing.
@@dragonstormx Yeah, and you also get scenes like that one time some loyalist aircraft, piloted by astartes, almost killed 3 traitor primarchs (iirc, number of primarchs might be wrong)
I think an even more logical reason is that when you have power armour, teleporters, jump packs, personal force fields, and psychic barriers it seems that in certain situations the ability to attack someone with a technologically enhanced meele weapon is more powerful than shooting as once you close the distance then you cant shoot and theres the aspect that you cant really put yourself into a ranged weapon in the same manner as you can with a meele weapon.
The Imperial Army used to have both ground and naval forces under one banner during the Great Crusade. But after the Horus Heresy, the Imperial Army has been divided into the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Navy where the two have interservice rivalry with each other.
the reason is that no one service would have the ability to rebel against the Imperium. The Guard would not have ships to bring them around, and the Navy would not have ground troops to actually occupy any planets
Pretty sure the Invincible class is named for HMS Invincible (1907), the world's first battlecruiser which promptly blew up at the Battle of Jutland from a single hit to a turret which (mostly from poor ammunition handling rather than weak armour) set off her main magazine. Plus, there were 3 British battlecruisers which blew up at Jutland, the other two being HMS Indefatigable and HMS Queen Mary which both also suffered magazine explosions.
Ironclad Battleships are my favorite. Under utilized but I like them. Apparently created before every ship had Void Shields. Instead they were made with slabs of conventional armor materials. Many have been retrofitted in the 41st Millennium.
Number one rule of Surviving on an Imperial vessel, don't name or go onto a ship with Purity in the name. Also Major Mini for Commissar Yarrick please.
Hello Majorkill, Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
My sorta headcanon for the prevalence of melee weapons is that a lot of armor can stop lasguns and bolters, but a powersword or chainsword can go through, provided you're close enough to use it. I'd also imagine that, for this reason, they got more popular as confrontations between astartes, and other better armored opponents got more common
The John Blanche' art at 11:20 realy puts all other illustrations to shame. The level of details elevates the sense of scale and makes it feel like a whole giant city shaped in the form of a "ship". And the design is so perfect too. One of my favorite illustrations from 40k
I'm glad you chose to make this video! I was looking in to imperial ship videos recently and didn't find quite what i wanted but this is exactly what I was looking for.
Watched something about the Emperor's children the other day and realized having someone who knows nothing about 40k guess wether a legion is loyalist or traitor by their war cry could be fun. "For the Emperor" by the third legion would probably mislead most people!
I love it that 40K uses naval combat strategies and ship design made obsolete in WW1. Who needs strategy and logic when you can just make a bigger canon ball.
My personal favorite is the Infernus class battleship. It was mentioned in one of the Carcharodons books and like one magazine from before I was born. It’s defining feature is a dorsal exo-laser. Think, the eclipse class from SW and it’s mini death star laser. Absolutely wrecked a “continent sized” tyranid bio-ship, evaporating “oceans of ichor”
with the intro thing, if you had a super human race which force is measured in tons and are some of the most agile things, and with more armor than a tank, would you have them JUST with plasma guns and bolters? besides for that there are the guardsman heavy weapons
13:20 Is that from the Skallagrim Mod? Glad you did this video, the Imperial Navy is one of my favorite parts of 40k and I always love a video about it.
Am into battlefleet gothic and constantly playing it alongside total war warhammer. Knowing the unit/ship lore kinda nice for me to listen as i mowing the enemy with macro cannons
Not technically Imperial (but if Astartes ships count these do), but one significant one you missed out were the Ark Mechanicuses - the battleships of the AdMech, they are 1) stupidly advanced, 2) stupidly powerful - the lore we have on them is that they are infact STC warships, with incredibly powerful machine spirits (actually an all up AI but don't tell anyone) running them and are loaded with both standard modern Imperial/AdMech weapons, and a secret arsenal of Dark Age weapons (like weaponised blackholes) that they'll break out when/if shit gets so real that the AI decides it's worth risking exposure because the only other option is death.
A request for ship-type series for every faction like you did for the imperials. And hey, there is a game called Battlefleet Gothic Armada (1 & 2) where videos like these help for the immersion for both ingame and universe alike.
Minor observation, most legions got one Gloriana class ship except as you pointed out the Dark angels. However if I recall correctly the alpha legion were reported to have a second and the word bearers somehow collected a bunch having three ships of approximately that tier. One of them was boarded and gifted to an ultramarine successor chapter.
The fact that "broadsides" is a well known bank of weapons within the Imperiums' fleet shows how ridiculous their battle strategy is; not to mention that any physical munitions are loaded by fuckin' slaves being whipped to direction. There's an ancient meme/copypasta about warp travel that initially got me interested in WH40K, I'm sure you all have seen it, but I've been fascinated by these ancient vessels ever since.
So the real question, have you played through Battlefleed Gothic Armada I & II ? Great games - and you get to respect and love some of these ship classes even more!
I like this kind of video where you talk about stuff currently there and present. I bet a lot of newbies have no clue about what the imperium actually does and uses. So a General Series about it’s equiptment would be nice :)
Invincible Class battleship, being a lightly armored battleship that was noted for losing 3 in one battle... I do believe that may be a historical reference to the WWI Battle of Jutland where the British suffered the explosive loss of 3 battlecruisers, 1 of which was notably the HMS Invincible, lead ship of her class which exploded when her magazines detonated. I love finding historical references in stuff like this. Makes my inner history nerd smile.
The Phalanx is not the only movile fortress in the imperium, it's the biggest, Howe we also know that there are a few more of those "ships" the raptorus rex like the Phalanx is a pre imperial mobile fortress but used as a fortress monastery home to the fire hawks space marine chapter, after the Badab war it was lost in the warp after an attempted war jump in the piraeus system The ramilles class starforts are not exactly "mobile" however they can still make warpjumps and arrive in other systems as well to either battle fleets, defend positions or even bombard planets
3:13 *sloop, not stoop. One is what you do when you don't have enough headroom, the other is a general term for age of sail warships that had a single mast. The term Sloop was still in use well into the age of steam and steel to describe fighting ships smaller than a frigate. The term was eventually superseded by terms like corvette or eventually torpedo boat / destroyer as the role of small warships evolved from gunboats to torpedo platforms
I really enjoyed this video about Battlefleet ships.... Rumor has it, a new BFG will be released after 10th edition. Im pretty excited as that was my jam!
Gotta love how some frigates like the Gladius Class Frigate are the size of Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyers. Kuat shipyards ain't got nothin on the Mechanicus!
When it comes to super big ships you could have given at least an honourable mention to the Speranza. Although being an ArK Mechanicus it turns out to be a capable warship - and it is huge!
I really love space combat in 40k. I think it's unintentionally kind of plausible. With the ranges involved (up to thousands of kilometers) the only way to guarantee a hit would be to use near-sentient fire control and guidance systems. This is a big no-no in the imperium, so ships instead are fitted with massive shotguns (aka macrobatteries) which have a reasonable certainty of at least one round hitting the target even at range, and blowing out it's butthole up close. Of course, GW was just going for Age of Sail in space, but it makes some sense
@@сесьсясь You're missing my point. We aren't talking about a battle at sea, tens or maybe hundreds of km. FC computers aren't forbidden in and of themselves, what I'm talking about is something capable of dealing with engaging moving targets that are constantly making evasive maneuvers at a distance many times the diameter of our entire planet. While your ship is doing the same, and likely with a significant amount of crap between your two ships. You can make a gun that fires that distance easily (no friction, but gravity wells definitely an issue), and you could also hit a target easily that was moving on a constant vector and speed... but to do it in combat conditions you'd need a very sophisticated computer, capable of at least some degree of heuristics to have a high probability of hitting with one round. Full-on sentience? Not quite, but the Imperium and especially AdMech is so terrified of anything even resembling AI that it would never happen. The best alternative is to just put a shitload of rounds downrange, over and over again. Some will hit
Don't underestimate the Imperial Navy, especially when their escorts are as big as Star Wars capital ships. And the capital ships dwarfing even the largest Star Wars ships.
So, a Volkite weapon is a heatray that can heat someone up so fast that they insta-die, then turn into a white hot cinder that can cook their buddies to death just from the residual heat. Hand-held weapons. But the Emperor had one as the MAIN GUN on a 30 plus kilometer WARSHIP?! Nice fleet you've got there. It would be too bad if your flagship turned into a momentary star and... flame broiled half your fleet...
The invincible class seems to be a nod to the British class of battlecruisers in ww1. Heavy firepower, weak armour, with 3 battlecruisers (not all that specific class) being lost at Jutland.
So, incidentally, the Rogue Trader line of the Fantasy Flight Games RPG 40k books was my favorite of those lines, and since many Rogue Traders are defined by the ship that carries them through the void, a number of those books feature various classes of asorted starships. This was like a wonderful little jaunt through those, and I enjoyed it greatly! 😁 My own personal Rogue Trader has a severely upticked Tyrant class cruiser, sporting melta torpedoes and plasma cannons, escorted by a fellow torpedo-loaded Destroyer. I'm also a fan of various carrier-style ships, though not as fond of what the Imperium carries as starfighters. I miss the BFG game, and was hoping it would see a small resurgence when Chaos' big push involved it's Arks if Omen, and while I know many fans prefer ground battles, and glorious melee combat, I'm really a fan of some space battles, and the flying space cities, launching explosive-filled hab blocks at each other, in between epic ground engagements.
The admech still have the full Luna crusier STC witch is why they are so numerouse as they can be constructed with ease, it is also worth it to mention that nearly all the classes of crusier that the imperium feild are offshoots of the lunna not independent designes.
I really like hearing about the ships in 40k. Ive been recreating some in galactic civ 4, and ive learned that this rabbit hole goes deeeep. The Ad Mech have variations of the same class ships that look totally different. With giant nova cannons. Love hearing about the ships! Other ships like how does the Astra Militarum transport their forces from world to world?
Realistically collapse and fall to predation by chaos. The religious zealotry isn't a flaw in the Imperium, it's the manifestation of mankind's spiteful refusal to lay down and die in the face of evil gods that want to consume us.
Probably have less suicidal zealots and more "logical" people but no faith no unbreakable will in there belief to push them forward so don't know but this is a question for majorkill hel probably give a better answer lol
So happy. I was just talking about it yesterday on the last video ;D Only missing how to make and how long to make each ship (; And the crew how they are divided in upper and lower class and ranks and like how many standard crew is there and who can they just get new of fast and so on ;D And who use these kinda of ship, like what class/rank faction would use that ship And so how big is a standard battle Group Really do hope the imperium can make the good "old" ships again Or just new ships. After Guilliman has lifted the ban on making new stuff (; Just love how you say " not yet lost" ;D
I think the one thing that would make imperial ships more badass looking is the armor plating from the frontal ram matched with the rest of the ship making it look full bodied instead of skeletal.
Video idea: what would happen if the imperium had to face down an almost full strength aeldari empire. Aka ynnead is reborn and a lot of heroes of old come back like eldanesh.
I've always thought it was a little bit of a bummer that we don't really get much story on starfighters in warhammer. I mean I get that we all love it for the melee and all that, but some of my best syfy books are about squadrons of star fighters like rogue squadron. I'd just be interested to see a 40k version of that. Dogfights in the void make some of the most interesting action packed stories I've ever read. That said I do love reading portions of books about large scale void battles with large scale ships. Instead of tight maneuver we get size and fire power.
the funniest thing to do in bfga2 is getting 2 mechanicus fleets with a total of 6 cruisers carrying nova and a navy battleship, sniping the heretics and xenos from half the map away
11:56 I find the stats used for Battle Barges hilarious in Battlefleet Gothic As marines are meant for ground engagements, Barges in BFG are armed with Bombardment Cannons meant for Exterminatus and used in close range combat Thing is, this is their _least_ devastating weapon in-game. The most devastating weapon a Battle Barge uses is its cargo The Space Marines themselves EDIT: also "Know no Fear" extends to even the Chapter Serfs crewing the ship, to the point that Astartes crew are all immune to losing morale
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Best armor in the galaxy? Like from every races
Love your work. Ever considered any Necromunda lore. ,?
After watching this I really want to more imperial navy vids.
Where is the rock ?
Jobs in the Imperium Next please
Can you do Malcador’s relationship with each primarch? 🧙♂️
I second this
Thirded.
Fourthed... ? xD
He's known as Uncle Malcador and he used to spank Horus
He hated them 🤣
It's worth pointing out that in The End and the Death, Horus (admittedly not the most reliable narrator by this point) claims that the Emperor was Alexander the Great. As such, the Bucephalus would have been the Emperor's horse. There is certainly something entertaining and very, very human about naming an enormous ship after your horse that died over 30,000 years ago. Must have been one hell of a horse.
Speaking of Alexander the Great dudes a badass him being able to conquer the entire Persian empire in his early 20s is really god damn impressive the only reason he didn’t conquer the known world was because of desise he definitely had more in him unlike many other great generals like gengis khan which was nearing the end of there lives due to old age
Seems like something nandor the relentless would do
Imagine how strong a horse would need to be to carry the emperor. And how fast it would need to run for the emperor to consider it worthwhile to actually ride it. Shadowfax eat your heart out.
@@incredibleflameboy They called me that because I'd never relent. They'd say "No, no, stop pillaging me" and I'd say "No, everybodies getting pillaged, you included".
@@Wertsir the emperor has been insinuated to just be the size of a normal human
13:20 this is the horse that alexander rode into battle for his entire military career of 20ish years. After the battle of hydaspes, when bucephalus died, alexander founded around 20 cities named after him and renamed 70ish more after his horse. He never rode another horse into battle. Best boy.
Horses used to mans friend now their for little girls doing pony shows lol
@@NineSeptims idk man with how assbackwards that kind of thinking is just ain't true
In 40k lore it is said that the Emperor was Alexander
I just realized: It is kind of wholesome that emperor named one of his ships Bucephalus, since Emperor was canonically Aleksander the Great. He must have genuinely really like that horse, probably more than his sons.
His “dad” Phillip of Macedon, was named as such because of his love of horses.
“Phil” love “Hip” horse.
(Greek has several words for love, “Phil” is not the kind that those of dirty minds are assuming about his relationships with horses).
Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans position of imperial regent would be pretty cool ngl. Seeing angrons new empire combust or perturabos vicious imperium would be amazing.
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True dedication
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Keep going
The emperor is shown having a few human moments, like naming his giant ship after a horse, I also love that when Ra asks him why he allows people to call him father, he references Pinocchio as an old childrens story from thousands of years ago, and that a little boy made out of wood was given life by his maker and the maker allowed the boy to call him father.
I like the lore nugget that when the Mechanicus delivered The Khan his battle barge, he returned it and made them do it over because it wasn't fast enough.
So the painted it red ?
Fulgrim “i heard you do weird things to your ships”
Jhagatai “I heard you do weird things to your men.”
It's a shame that the Imperium lost some of these ship classes during the 10,000 years of grimdark war.
It's a shame they lost the space marine Orgyns.
According the the TT version of Battlefleet Gothic, they still have most of them (basically all of them besides the Gloriana class and bigger) but they phased them out.
Not really, down with the corpse emperor and all that.
They lost it due to grimderp tbh I don't think the imperium forgets how to make anything maybe certain forge worlds do its just really bad writing
@@clydedoris5002Yup lazy writing which will get fixed in 5 years in some obscure place.
Video idea: How did the Emperor react to the betrayal of each traitor Primarch
Wait, did he react at all? He kinda knew it was coming.
@@EmaRussoUltra *planned it
@@newaryamen *maybe
He was like "ah everything is going according to plan" except he thought jaghatai would betray him instead of fulgrim
@@666Kaca well to be fair ceocorach did switch their home planets. Just my favorite clown god being a silly little man
The logical reason for melee combat in 40K is that swords don’t need ammo. People/ships can only carry so much. Think about the logistics of transporting trillions of tons of ammunition across the galaxy, now think about how much less you’d have to carry if you have everyone melee weapons. ( also it is just badass )
Chainswords still need fuel and replacement parts.
The reason I always had is that a lot of armor can stop lasguns and bolters, but a powersword or chainsword can go through, provided you're close enough to use it. I'd also imagine that, for this reason, they got more popular as confrontations between astartes, and other better armored opponents got more common
@@saudade7842 How that in the face of tanks, artillery and air power is beyond me. Typically this setting depicts a group of master swordsmen as more effective than aircraft, even though something preforming the role of an attack helicopter should be able to wipe out some charging Marines before they get close enough to take a swing.
@@dragonstormx Yeah, and you also get scenes like that one time some loyalist aircraft, piloted by astartes, almost killed 3 traitor primarchs (iirc, number of primarchs might be wrong)
I think an even more logical reason is that when you have power armour, teleporters, jump packs, personal force fields, and psychic barriers it seems that in certain situations the ability to attack someone with a technologically enhanced meele weapon is more powerful than shooting as once you close the distance then you cant shoot and theres the aspect that you cant really put yourself into a ranged weapon in the same manner as you can with a meele weapon.
The Imperial Army used to have both ground and naval forces under one banner during the Great Crusade.
But after the Horus Heresy, the Imperial Army has been divided into the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Navy where the two have interservice rivalry with each other.
the reason is that no one service would have the ability to rebel against the Imperium. The Guard would not have ships to bring them around, and the Navy would not have ground troops to actually occupy any planets
I’m suprised they went made into chapters
Which is supremely stupid. Boys through the power of combined arms out the window because they’re scarred of some becoming daemon fuckers.
@@knightsljx that actually makes sense
"Where the two have an interservice rivalry with each other"
So basically IJN and the IJA
Pretty sure the Invincible class is named for HMS Invincible (1907), the world's first battlecruiser which promptly blew up at the Battle of Jutland from a single hit to a turret which (mostly from poor ammunition handling rather than weak armour) set off her main magazine. Plus, there were 3 British battlecruisers which blew up at Jutland, the other two being HMS Indefatigable and HMS Queen Mary which both also suffered magazine explosions.
A video about what each primarch would've done in Guilliman's place would be nice, ngl.
Hell yea
Ironclad Battleships are my favorite. Under utilized but I like them. Apparently created before every ship had Void Shields. Instead they were made with slabs of conventional armor materials. Many have been retrofitted in the 41st Millennium.
FINALLY. I needed an explanation if a Gloriana class and Emperor class were the same ship or not and which is bigger. Hopefully this explains .
Number one rule of Surviving on an Imperial vessel, don't name or go onto a ship with Purity in the name.
Also Major Mini for Commissar Yarrick please.
Hello Majorkill,
Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.
YES WARHAMMER NAVY VIDEOS, there isn't enough talked about the navy aspect of warhammer even though it's such a important part
My sorta headcanon for the prevalence of melee weapons is that a lot of armor can stop lasguns and bolters, but a powersword or chainsword can go through, provided you're close enough to use it. I'd also imagine that, for this reason, they got more popular as confrontations between astartes, and other better armored opponents got more common
Thank you for this video ! Since you mentioned the Abyssal class ship last video, I kept wondering about it
LETS GO! a 15 minute video, this is pretty cool
The John Blanche' art at 11:20 realy puts all other illustrations to shame. The level of details elevates the sense of scale and makes it feel like a whole giant city shaped in the form of a "ship". And the design is so perfect too. One of my favorite illustrations from 40k
How would each of the Primarchs react if the Emperor told them he loved them?
I'm glad you chose to make this video! I was looking in to imperial ship videos recently and didn't find quite what i wanted but this is exactly what I was looking for.
Watched something about the Emperor's children the other day and realized having someone who knows nothing about 40k guess wether a legion is loyalist or traitor by their war cry could be fun. "For the Emperor" by the third legion would probably mislead most people!
Fun fact Gullimen preference was many many small ships to cut up big ships and death by a thousand cuts
He's practical
I love it that 40K uses naval combat strategies and ship design made obsolete in WW1. Who needs strategy and logic when you can just make a bigger canon ball.
A video on the White Scar Targutai Yesugai and the Sagyar Mazan would be nice ngl.
I find it impressive every ship has a cathedral on them. If you do not come to the God Emperor, the God Emperor will come to you.
Now a video fo every Eldar warship would be amazing. Their aesthetics make them by far my favorite warships of all factions.
5:50 Ahh the "Falkion" class, i love Falkions they are my favourite sword...
Falkion... Falkion.. Falkion.
My personal favorite is the Infernus class battleship. It was mentioned in one of the Carcharodons books and like one magazine from before I was born. It’s defining feature is a dorsal exo-laser. Think, the eclipse class from SW and it’s mini death star laser. Absolutely wrecked a “continent sized” tyranid bio-ship, evaporating “oceans of ichor”
So a giant shark ship with frickin laser beam on its back?
Bucephalus. Larger than Gloriana. Almost fully automated. Dark age ship. Damn! Such a tragic waste!
The Ark Mechanicus ships are my personal favorites, things are like a mini-mobile forgeworld
with the intro thing, if you had a super human race which force is measured in tons and are some of the most agile things, and with more armor than a tank, would you have them JUST with plasma guns and bolters? besides for that there are the guardsman heavy weapons
I think primaris are trying to solve this problem by giving them 20+ types of weapons.
What do they do? no idea, shoot in different flavors?
Honestly the similar looking templates for ships of different names for slightly different purposes is pretty on brand for actual military
Phalanx story during the fall of Cadia was so dope.
13:20 Is that from the Skallagrim Mod? Glad you did this video, the Imperial Navy is one of my favorite parts of 40k and I always love a video about it.
Am into battlefleet gothic and constantly playing it alongside total war warhammer. Knowing the unit/ship lore kinda nice for me to listen as i mowing the enemy with macro cannons
Thank Majorkill, i spend hours watching / listening to your lore videos while driving my semi. Keep up the great and childishly funny content 😅😊
Amazing video! Please do more videos related to the imperium navy. They’re the most underrated faction in wh40k
More weapons and tech videos please. Different factions weapons, vehicles, technology, space ships etc. love that shit.
Not technically Imperial (but if Astartes ships count these do), but one significant one you missed out were the Ark Mechanicuses - the battleships of the AdMech, they are 1) stupidly advanced, 2) stupidly powerful - the lore we have on them is that they are infact STC warships, with incredibly powerful machine spirits (actually an all up AI but don't tell anyone) running them and are loaded with both standard modern Imperial/AdMech weapons, and a secret arsenal of Dark Age weapons (like weaponised blackholes) that they'll break out when/if shit gets so real that the AI decides it's worth risking exposure because the only other option is death.
A request for ship-type series for every faction like you did for the imperials.
And hey, there is a game called Battlefleet Gothic Armada (1 & 2) where videos like these help for the immersion for both ingame and universe alike.
Minor observation, most legions got one Gloriana class ship except as you pointed out the Dark angels. However if I recall correctly the alpha legion were reported to have a second and the word bearers somehow collected a bunch having three ships of approximately that tier. One of them was boarded and gifted to an ultramarine successor chapter.
It would be nice of they actually saw what dark age tech looked like for Humanity. Instead of just words.
Do titans next, it’s hard to imagine titans without references. You can be that reference for thousands
The fact that "broadsides" is a well known bank of weapons within the Imperiums' fleet shows how ridiculous their battle strategy is; not to mention that any physical munitions are loaded by fuckin' slaves being whipped to direction. There's an ancient meme/copypasta about warp travel that initially got me interested in WH40K, I'm sure you all have seen it, but I've been fascinated by these ancient vessels ever since.
Ork during the war of the beast looking at the Phalanx are literally that meme of Omniman. "Look at what they do to achieve a fraction of our power!"
Thank you for making an video on the imperial Navy
So the real question, have you played through Battlefleed Gothic Armada I & II ? Great games - and you get to respect and love some of these ship classes even more!
I like this kind of video where you talk about stuff currently there and present. I bet a lot of newbies have no clue about what the imperium actually does and uses. So a General Series about it’s equiptment would be nice :)
finally talking about the warships.. bobby g appearing in bf 2 armada and giving me control of Macragge's Honour was definitely my favourite moment
How each pre-heresy primarch would react to the current imperium when placed in Gullimans shoes would be a cool video idea
Invincible Class battleship, being a lightly armored battleship that was noted for losing 3 in one battle...
I do believe that may be a historical reference to the WWI Battle of Jutland where the British suffered the explosive loss of 3 battlecruisers, 1 of which was notably the HMS Invincible, lead ship of her class which exploded when her magazines detonated.
I love finding historical references in stuff like this. Makes my inner history nerd smile.
Back to back daily uploads from MajorKill!? Yes sir!
The Phalanx is not the only movile fortress in the imperium, it's the biggest, Howe we also know that there are a few more of those "ships" the raptorus rex like the Phalanx is a pre imperial mobile fortress but used as a fortress monastery home to the fire hawks space marine chapter, after the Badab war it was lost in the warp after an attempted war jump in the piraeus system
The ramilles class starforts are not exactly "mobile" however they can still make warpjumps and arrive in other systems as well to either battle fleets, defend positions or even bombard planets
3:13 *sloop, not stoop. One is what you do when you don't have enough headroom, the other is a general term for age of sail warships that had a single mast.
The term Sloop was still in use well into the age of steam and steel to describe fighting ships smaller than a frigate. The term was eventually superseded by terms like corvette or eventually torpedo boat / destroyer as the role of small warships evolved from gunboats to torpedo platforms
Hearing an Australian swear at me and also teach me 40k lore is some what pleasing
I really enjoyed this video about Battlefleet ships.... Rumor has it, a new BFG will be released after 10th edition. Im pretty excited as that was my jam!
Gotta love how some frigates like the Gladius Class Frigate are the size of Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyers. Kuat shipyards ain't got nothin on the Mechanicus!
11:02 the Invincible-class is a jab at the Royal Navy Battlecruisers and a couple of them exploding during the Jutland Battle.
"Like a katana through a nine year old" made me giggle longer than was necessary.
This video just makes me want new Battlefleet Gothic miniatures
Realized the algorithm wasn't giving me MajorKill in a bit and I love vehicle / tech lore so this is a gift
When it comes to super big ships you could have given at least an honourable mention to the Speranza. Although being an ArK Mechanicus it turns out to be a capable warship - and it is huge!
I really love space combat in 40k. I think it's unintentionally kind of plausible. With the ranges involved (up to thousands of kilometers) the only way to guarantee a hit would be to use near-sentient fire control and guidance systems. This is a big no-no in the imperium, so ships instead are fitted with massive shotguns (aka macrobatteries) which have a reasonable certainty of at least one round hitting the target even at range, and blowing out it's butthole up close. Of course, GW was just going for Age of Sail in space, but it makes some sense
how fire control and guidance systems are big no-no in the imperium if all Imperial ships have guided torpedoes and missiles ?
@@сесьсясь You're missing my point. We aren't talking about a battle at sea, tens or maybe hundreds of km. FC computers aren't forbidden in and of themselves, what I'm talking about is something capable of dealing with engaging moving targets that are constantly making evasive maneuvers at a distance many times the diameter of our entire planet. While your ship is doing the same, and likely with a significant amount of crap between your two ships. You can make a gun that fires that distance easily (no friction, but gravity wells definitely an issue), and you could also hit a target easily that was moving on a constant vector and speed... but to do it in combat conditions you'd need a very sophisticated computer, capable of at least some degree of heuristics to have a high probability of hitting with one round. Full-on sentience? Not quite, but the Imperium and especially AdMech is so terrified of anything even resembling AI that it would never happen. The best alternative is to just put a shitload of rounds downrange, over and over again. Some will hit
Don't underestimate the Imperial Navy, especially when their escorts are as big as Star Wars capital ships. And the capital ships dwarfing even the largest Star Wars ships.
Video Idea: The largest void battles fought by the Imperium.
So, a Volkite weapon is a heatray that can heat someone up so fast that they insta-die, then turn into a white hot cinder that can cook their buddies to death just from the residual heat.
Hand-held weapons.
But the Emperor had one as the MAIN GUN on a 30 plus kilometer WARSHIP?!
Nice fleet you've got there. It would be too bad if your flagship turned into a momentary star and... flame broiled half your fleet...
The invincible class seems to be a nod to the British class of battlecruisers in ww1. Heavy firepower, weak armour, with 3 battlecruisers (not all that specific class) being lost at Jutland.
Video idea: Tech comparison Votann vs IoM. The Votann have a bolter etc
So, incidentally, the Rogue Trader line of the Fantasy Flight Games RPG 40k books was my favorite of those lines, and since many Rogue Traders are defined by the ship that carries them through the void, a number of those books feature various classes of asorted starships. This was like a wonderful little jaunt through those, and I enjoyed it greatly! 😁 My own personal Rogue Trader has a severely upticked Tyrant class cruiser, sporting melta torpedoes and plasma cannons, escorted by a fellow torpedo-loaded Destroyer. I'm also a fan of various carrier-style ships, though not as fond of what the Imperium carries as starfighters.
I miss the BFG game, and was hoping it would see a small resurgence when Chaos' big push involved it's Arks if Omen, and while I know many fans prefer ground battles, and glorious melee combat, I'm really a fan of some space battles, and the flying space cities, launching explosive-filled hab blocks at each other, in between epic ground engagements.
The admech still have the full Luna crusier STC witch is why they are so numerouse as they can be constructed with ease, it is also worth it to mention that nearly all the classes of crusier that the imperium feild are offshoots of the lunna not independent designes.
I really like hearing about the ships in 40k. Ive been recreating some in galactic civ 4, and ive learned that this rabbit hole goes deeeep. The Ad Mech have variations of the same class ships that look totally different. With giant nova cannons. Love hearing about the ships! Other ships like how does the Astra Militarum transport their forces from world to world?
God, this video is really tempting me to play Battlefleet gothic armada 2 again, God I love remembering the times when I first played
I absolutely do wanna hear about the smaller void capable fighters!
Majorkill you should do a video on the life of a chaos cultists
Can you do a video on what would have happened if the imperium didn’t become ultra religious and xenophobic after the emperor’s‘’ascension’’
Read Rouge trader Era lore. That will have your answer
Likely an upscaled auretian technocracy or interrex. Cool idea for an AU however.
Realistically collapse and fall to predation by chaos. The religious zealotry isn't a flaw in the Imperium, it's the manifestation of mankind's spiteful refusal to lay down and die in the face of evil gods that want to consume us.
Probably have less suicidal zealots and more "logical" people but no faith no unbreakable will in there belief to push them forward so don't know but this is a question for majorkill hel probably give a better answer lol
Weren't they always very xenophobic?
So happy. I was just talking about it yesterday on the last video ;D
Only missing how to make and how long to make each ship (;
And the crew how they are divided in upper and lower class and ranks and like how many standard crew is there and who can they just get new of fast and so on ;D
And who use these kinda of ship, like what class/rank faction would use that ship
And so how big is a standard battle Group
Really do hope the imperium can make the good "old" ships again
Or just new ships. After Guilliman has lifted the ban on making new stuff (;
Just love how you say " not yet lost" ;D
There's no question what space marine chapter would win a void war... Imperial Fists are OP in space.
Every day your videos get that ultimate upgrade unlike a few years ago... Well, keep the lore coming, KEEP IT COMING!!
I think the one thing that would make imperial ships more badass looking is the armor plating from the frontal ram matched with the rest of the ship making it look full bodied instead of skeletal.
Hey i love your vids and watched almost all of em for years. Could you maybe do a vid on the Ghosts of Gaunts ?
Man is single handedly trying to get 40k nerds to get fit, smell nice and trim.
Truly a legend.
I believe the Tyranid void ship classification goes: Hongry, Hongrier, Hongriest.
Dark age humanity:and that’s the smallest ships civilians can legally own
Video idea: what would happen if the imperium had to face down an almost full strength aeldari empire. Aka ynnead is reborn and a lot of heroes of old come back like eldanesh.
I've always thought it was a little bit of a bummer that we don't really get much story on starfighters in warhammer. I mean I get that we all love it for the melee and all that, but some of my best syfy books are about squadrons of star fighters like rogue squadron. I'd just be interested to see a 40k version of that. Dogfights in the void make some of the most interesting action packed stories I've ever read.
That said I do love reading portions of books about large scale void battles with large scale ships. Instead of tight maneuver we get size and fire power.
This makes me want to start a new campaign in Battlefleet Gothic Armada
Thank you Mr majorkill form creating this great explanation video about the many types of warships in Warhammer 40K thank you
the funniest thing to do in bfga2 is getting 2 mechanicus fleets with a total of 6 cruisers carrying nova and a navy battleship, sniping the heretics and xenos from half the map away
Roboute:"thats a nice flagship you have their. but you see, i have bunch of small jihadist boats"
Its ironic, because Battlefleet Gothic 2 servers have been down for 2 weeks now and this video pops up
If one of the traitor legions were to be fully redeemed somehow, which would make the biggest impact in helping the imperium
A video on each primaries reactions to chaos and demons would be lit
11:56 I find the stats used for Battle Barges hilarious in Battlefleet Gothic
As marines are meant for ground engagements, Barges in BFG are armed with Bombardment Cannons meant for Exterminatus and used in close range combat
Thing is, this is their _least_ devastating weapon in-game. The most devastating weapon a Battle Barge uses is its cargo
The Space Marines themselves
EDIT: also "Know no Fear" extends to even the Chapter Serfs crewing the ship, to the point that Astartes crew are all immune to losing morale
Imperium ship design philosophy: "What is we put a cathedral in space with guns?"
Pretty powerful ships that the Imperiam is no longer able to replicate.