Devotion to the Emperor in his aspect as the Omnissiah. One could do a warhost family history/size spread sheet of the Adeptus Mechanicus. From the Great Warlord Titans, to House Knights, down by Kastelan and Skitarii, to finally a groveling Servitor. Just to see how they stack up as an expression of the will and eminence of the Machine God's divine motive force. 01000100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100101 Thb tho, I feel for the Tau big titty propaganda. Kudos to anyone who read the entirety of the post.
@@jordank7062 Tech-Priest, Child of the Omnissiah. May the rites of manifold applications, the liturgies of ignition and the songs of Engine-seeing forever be blessed. As you commune with to the spirits of thee ancient tech-machines.
To be fair.. if that church is coming to the frontline i'd be just as scared as a guardsman than if i was the enemy. Titans don't tend to care.. or even notice a few hundred guardsmen getting incinerated, liquified or stomped beneath them.
Buyer: "Do I need 18 void shields?" Titan Salesman after slapping the titan: "You see that? My hand literally shattered and the paint is still intact."
I think void shields help with the actual structural integrity, bringing a small level of warp physics to reduce overall strain and stress. I've also always thought that the reason they can 'scout' is because in reality they have the range to shoot across the planet and at that point optics are useless and so the void shields eat up everything making them more or less invisible on scanners. The more void shields you have the less chance the enemy can use it's larger weapons and allows to close distance and that's where melee could take place.
@@tarektechmarine8209 No it's energy fields that literally absorb the force of impact from attacks and channel that feedback into capacitator banks and it's those you need to overcome so the shield pops from lack of channelling that energy anywhere.
@@kinagrill if it absorbs energy shot at it. It would also absorb the energy used in active targeting. Which means that you can't use radar to target them over the horizon with void shields up. Plus since they absorb kenetic energy, they can prevent damage to the structure. From the total weight stomping around on highgrav worlds. Keeps the toes from turning into smushed nubs when the titan tries to run.
Normal universes: "This giant robot has advanced artillery systems so it can destroy everything from range, because melee combat would be ridiculous." Warhammer 40K: *"GET OUT OF MY WAY, I WANT TO PUNCH THAT TANK WITH MY TITAN-SIZED FIST!"* God bless. God fucking bless.
AUUUUGH, AEUGH. Titans Note: The Ordo Sinster was deployed to a craftworld that predominantly fielded Eldar Titans. Upon deployment, the entire craftworld shrieked in fear and anguish at the presence of the wrongness of these psi-titans.
DK is correct on Nuceria, one of the Audax titan drivers kept getting ping'd from his machine with "let's go that way, i wanna kill what's over there...NO FUCKING REALLY, WE GOTTA GO THIS WAY." and the driver finally relents but gives the order to "BRING EVERYTHING... NO REALLY, ALL. OF. IT.". when asked by his crew "WTF do you think we're about to tangle with??!!" he said it was The Corinthian, a Legio Oberon Imperator class titan.
You want some extra lore? I got extra lore Ordo Sinister was commissioned by the Emperor himself, who basically went to Mars, asked for a bunch of Titans and brought them to Terra. They seemed to vanish after the Heresy however One notable instance was when one Psi-Titan simply walked across a rebelling planet; without firing a single shot it brought madness, nightmares and eventually compliance
A titain does not simply "walk" whatever Alpha+ level Princep Psyker was commanding that MF was using that thing like a 5G tower to mindfuck the planet.
@@TheBuster0926 Correct! Hence why it quashed a rebellion without firing a shot even if it did, pretty sure those lances of a pure black energy seeming to suck the life outta the air would nail it
Some of my favorite Titan (and Titan-adjacent) facts: - The Quake Cannon is named because it literally causes localized seismic activity. The Quake Shells are made from the core chunks of planets that have undergone Exterminatus. Guardsmen say you can hear them screaming as they fly, which… yeah, that tracks. - There’s a melee variant of the Warmaster Titan called the Warmaster Iconoclast. It has a desolator chainsword mounted on one arm, and either a siege drill or grav imploder on the other. The latter weapon (and I quote) “can crumple a knight like an empty tin of corpse starch”. And yes, it still has the knee gun. - The mechanism that powers the Psi-Titan, the Ciricrux Anima, was actually invented the Emperor himself. This means that not only did he tolerate the use of giant psychic robots powered by human suffering and piloted by someone without a soul, *he actively approved of it*. Nice going, Emps. Also, how unbelievably rare do you think a princeps with the Blank gene is?
In a Galaxy of uncountable numbers of humans, probably not that rare. There are so many planets filled with people in 40k that you could have your thing only being able to be piloted by a one armed, one legged, idiot savant with three ears and find a few hundred of them.
Talking about titans being destroyed IRL, the GW shop that I grew up with here in town burned down back in like... '08? '09? And several titans and so many many other pieces and armies stored there went up in flames too, building was a total loss. Every single person who used to play there always laments the lost titans, THEN laments the loss of the store. It's so weird and yet very 40k fan.
Makes a bit of sense. The titans were works of art that their creators put a lot of effort into it. Imagine if you lost a big chunk of your army. Sure you could just remake it, but it will never be the same again. Meanwhile, the store is just a store. It's a lot less personal. There's also the cool and rarity factors. Those titans were probably a lot cooler and a lot rarer than a game store.
Fun fact: The Vatican City has a population of 883 (at the time of this writing), so an Imperator titan likely has more crew than a sovereign nation does people
St. Peter's Basilica is 136m tall. A titan can fit in it (idk about the door), and therefore, we could have a church walker walk in a church. A decent encyclopedia would have helped GW figure out scale...
Final mission in dawn of war winter assault happens on top of a partially buried emperor Class titan. As the imperial guard you take control of a handful thermo plasma generators and bring its side arms online. The small Guns of the titan. They almost oneshot necron monoliths.
Devotion to the Emperor in his aspect as the Omnissiah. One could do a warhost family history/size spread sheet of the Adeptus Mechanicus. From the Great Warlord Titans, to House Knights, down by Kastelan and Skitarii, to finally a groveling Servitor. Just to see how they stack up as an expression of the will and eminence of the Machine God's divine motive force. 01000100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100101 Thb tho, I feel for the Tau big titty propaganda. Kudos to anyone who read the entirety of the post.
Additional Facts about Titans and their weapons: -The Gatling Blaster fires literal Tank Shells at such a rate that the "BRRRRRRRRT" reaches a decibel that nearly rips reality each time is fired -When Warlord Titans are deployed, those who bear witness to it usually stop and stare and fall to their knees. Psi-Titans eminate such a Psychic Presence that it causes EVERYONE to run in fear. They're known as "Lords of Dread." -The Psi-Cannon is basically an exposed and directed warp core that fires *darkness and silence.* If you stand too close to the weapon when its fired, your soul is pulled into the beam. You don't scream in agony or wither away. You just fall over and die. -Whereas the Emperor class Titan is known as a "Battle Titan," there is one Imperator class subvariant thats even rarer than the Emperor: the Warmonger. Whereas the Emperor wears a cathedral, the Warmonger is a dedicated weapons/artillery platform. The Warmongers are used for sheer annihilation of an enemy force from one continent over. -The Hellstorm Cannon is basically five Volcano Cannon's strapped together, that can either fire in five-round bursts or all at once. -The Warmonger get access to the Vengeance Cannon, a massive double barrel Las-Weapon that has been known to shoot down starships from orbit, AS WELL AS the Doomstrike Missile Battery: Eight massive ICBM's strapped to its arm, for when you REALLY want to tell the Tyranids to fuck off. Hopefully this doesn't seem too "ackchually" or anything. I look forward to my Wednesdays because of you guys, so great work!
Nah, it’s not too “actually”. They definitely go into deep detail for these Titan classes. I’m hoping they go into deeper detail on them individually in the future. Especially when more info is released (I NEED more stories about the Psi-titan!!!!!).
I want a 40k game where you're in a cathedral and you fight wave after wave of demons or orks or whatever, all the while it has a bar showing "reactor power level" slowly going up and at the end of it, the screen zooms out and you just get to pilot an Imperator class titan and mow down hundreds of thousands of enemies.
Tonite on Ridiculous Gear: DK wants to learn more about those Titan toes, Kirioth gets his nuts quaking with the Mori quake cannon, Shy tries to fight back against the sweating horde of Warframe fans with her trusty Warhound turbo-laser destructor and Bricky lusts after that Erebussy
Remember: Tau though Titans were Human Propaganda. They didn't think humans would really have them. Until they saw an Emperor-Class Titan for the first time. They shit their pants.
@@jaegercat6702 Yeah...Tau learn from their mistakes and first experiences. Unlike all the other races. Though I can say, Tau are more "realistic" in the 40K universe. Even with all the "Greater Good" nonsense. They are something we Humans likely do more than the Imperium. Yes, heresy, but let us be real here. If the Emperor was still a live. He would straight up accept the Greater Good. By taking over the Tau and being the head of the Greater Good.
@@jaegercat6702 I was kind of disappointed that they went with the "let's make giant robots of our own!" route. Earlier lore stated that the Tau just used their space-grade torpedo bombers to take out titans since from the Tau's POV they're just weirdly-shaped land-warships. I would have loved to see the Tau's more practical and utilitarian thinking in practice with them just having hover-artillery platforms with anti-titan cannons and fuck-off huge missiles that can operate from further behind the front lines. That way they could strike against enemy Titan assets from above with Mantas and Tigersharks while plasma ballistic missiles and stuff fire from ground vehicles behind fortifications and cover that don't have to deal with the logistics trouble of maintaining giant complex mech legs and joints and stuff.
The one thing that *bothers* me is the official scaling of Titans. On the one hand, you have imagery with Imperial Titans that appear to be literally half a kilometer tall, with a massive cathedral on their back, which on it's own would be at LEAST 60 meters tall, and then you have official records, which state that a chaos Imperial Titan (Imperator Class) called the Dias Irae _(awesome fucking name btw)_ is only 55.5 meters tall. Like, yeah, that's tall... _But god damnit, _*_that thing should be at least a half a kilometer / 1000ft tall._* For reference, when Kirioth said "tiny titans" when referring to Jaegers, _Jaegers are all around 70-80 meters tall. TALLER THAN AN IMPERATOR TITAN, OFICIALLY._ WH40K, i love you, but fix the scaling issues.
@@victorpedrosoceolin3919 true. There’s a reason in most recent books, they are usually described on the smaller side of the scale for what has been mentioned. Don’t think any new books has mentioned a single titan being larger than 100 meters.
My favorite fact about Titans is when they first heard about them, the Tau assumed they were just propoganda. Not because of fear or thinking no one can build them, but rather thinking "no way anyone would be that stupid to waste that many resources to make something so impractical"
@Claptrap yeah. Once the shock and fear wore off they realized they could just snipe them with the biggest rail guns they had from a hundred miles away. Which really does show that the shock and awe factor is the ONLY real benefit to Titans. If that fails, they are basically just massive, impractical, expensive targets
@@thewerdnamakes me wonder if the non-tyranid factions all suddenly had access to the current technology of the other factions the imperium would flop over crazy quickly.
I hear an Ordo Sinister quote incoming... Is it a sign that we'll get to hear about the god-engine that wears fear like armor, wields a gun of darkness, and is powered by space wizards- all the while being piloted by a soulees commander? Dang Psi-Titans are evil. Peak-dark technology. Proper grimdark. Dang, is the Emperor an *accidental* Lych-God?
If he is, the accident is only by technicality. The Emperor was definitely malevolent while he was alive. Unification Wars? Geneva Conventions are a checklist. Konrad Curze? Give him a Legion rather than therapy and don't set up any law enforcement on Nostramo.
Love the Pacific Rim reference! But you said that the Jaegers are the size of small Titans or large Knights, but they're actually taller than most Titans, rivaling even the Imperator.
On the subject of size: Gazgul's WAAGGHHH! had a Gargant that "towered over" the Titan of Princeps Majoris: an Imperator-class. Imperator-class is a variant of the Emperor-class along side the Warmonger-class. I'm not sure how they vary from one another but most, like 9 out of every 10 pieces of art work or illustrations, depict the Imperator. So picture a literal mountain of scrap metal, with a piggish looking face, moving forward as the top of its head scrapes the atmosphere. Also it's being maned (so to speak) by Orks.
Or just to handle the recoil. I’m just imagining a literal tower of gun barrels all pointed in one direction mounted atop three massive, beefy legs. Hell, at the size I’m imagining you could straight up use it as a mobile anti-orbital battery.
"It looks like a Transformer." "Don't cross the streams!" There are titan-class Transformers, such as Metroplex or Trypticon. They turn into entire cities/bases.
Scout could refer to being used to coordinate fire support. Example warhounds can probably run into an entire tank battalion and there like huh that's not good big titan kill this here.
I don't get why everyone is confused about this. Warhounds are scouts for battles with *other Titan forces.* That's why they're called that. They scout out formations of Titans and relay back information so the commanding Princeps can deploy his main line more effectively.
@@Pink.andahalf It's because none of these people are studied in how militaries work. That's not said to disparage them, but they made the same mistake with Dauntless Scout Cruisers- the Dauntless is a scout not because it's a tiny dinky thing compared to the big manly Lunars, it's a scout because it shoots off into the infinite black on its own for a year or so throwing hands with whatever comes its way, because the Battlefleet needs to know what's out there.
As far as what you would deploy an Emperor-class Titan for, you were pretty close. It'd be a situation where the only other option is Exterminatus, but they really can't afford to push that button (*STRATEGIC VALUE: ABSOLUTE*). It's also a situation where AdMech *really* don't want to depliy them unless there's no other choice because they can't make more of them. If an Emperor Titan gets destroyed, that's it.
If they are downed they can be repaired so long as they can be retrieved though I think. Pretty sure I read that in the second war for Armageddon book when the imperator class titan was destroyed by an ork gargant that towered over it. Pretty sure it was reclaimed and hinted that it would be repaired.
@@velphidrow you guys are all confusing titans with dreadnaughts. a titan is run by a neural link (mind impulse unit) between the machine spirit of the titan and the princep guiding it. box naugt space marines are the ones that choose not to awaken.
So on the point you brought up in the beginning of the video. In Betrayer there was an Emperor Class Titan that was on the loyalist side. The World Eater Warhounds worked together to bring it down with their special harpoons.
@@parkermaisterra8532 honestly not surprised that they forgot. They have so many topics to discuss that it can mess with your mind. Doesn’t mean that I won’t point such things out.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the castigator class titan. It was the single largest man made titan and had a machine spirit so powerful, it could piolet itself. However it was destroyed by the grey knights and had its blueprints burned after it started firing greater daemons from its main cannon.
When discussing the Warmaster Titan: Kirioth: "For some reason, they have guns in the knees" Me, thinking back to Bricky's 'So you wanna main Urgot?' vid: (inhales), *SHOTGUN KNEES* Keep up the great content
Yall forgot to mention that the Warlord Powerfist has a Vulcan Mega Bolter on the back of it. So, you COULD dual wield Mega Mister Fisters and lay down incredulous amounts of Dakka.
The Dies Irae is a famous titan of the Legio Mortis! Attached to the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet under the command of the Warmaster Horus, its princeps cheerfully joined with Horus in treason with the entire legio following him into heresy. Mortis still maintains its unity in the era of 40K.
The Dies Irae (Dee us - E ray) is mentioned occasionally during the first 3-4 Horus Heresy books if I recall correctly. Also, Dies Irae means "Day of Wrath" and is a funeral hymn.
Tonite on Ridiculous gear:Bricky the scion of the forehead, the mentor for the curious and the Lord of the Lil guys smashes a Carnifex, DK the Lord of the unwise, the blissfully ignorant and the herald of the Lil guys trips over a chimera and dies and Shy, mistress of the warp, the destroyer of the Lil guys and the queen of Rage burns a hive tyrant to ash and Kirioth of the land of bad tooth hygiene and the occupant of my walls steals every tank he can find.
Devotion to the Emperor in his aspect as the Omnissiah. One could do a warhost family history/size spread sheet of the Adeptus Mechanicus. From the Great Warlord Titans, to House Knights, down by Kastelan and Skitarii, to finally a groveling Servitor. Just to see how they stack up as an expression of the will and eminence of the Machine God's divine motive force. 01000100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100101 Thb tho, I feel for the Tau big titty propaganda. Kudos to anyone who read the entirety of the post.
Psy Titans work like: >show up to a doomed battle unannounced >no one knows who you they are or where they came from >wreck the shit out of a bunch of wraithlords >refuses to elaborate >leaves
Adeptus Ridiculous, the only podcast im always down to listen to, wether im at school or work, hanging out or trying to sleep, they always fit the mood. but hey maybe its just cause their little guys
I saw an Imperator at Games Day one year. Presumably there was steel structure inside for stability, but most of the outside was kitbashed from existing plastic kits. I remember the Cities of Death buildings being used heavily, in particular the big one with the eagle in the calves.
Today I learned that most Gundam suits are either as tall or taller than a Warhound titan. That's...wow. really puts the two series into perspective against each other.
Honestly Gundams are way scarier if you look at it this way. Titans are terrifying but Gundams are that big and still able to move almost like a normal person
And frankly, the mobility of a Gundam makes them a terrifying opponent for a Titan. Barbatos could potentially dodge the superior firepower, or have beams refracted off, and rip into the thing. Then there's tricks likke being able to sneak a bit into pas the void shield at low velocity and then start lighting the Titan up.
@@bthsr7113 ones like Aerial and 00Q would likely be a full-blown nightmare for a titan.. same rather high mobility with potentially a crapton of remote weapons that can fly around like little fightercraft..
On the idea of deploying Imperator class titans, I imagine they're used like actual portable Ordinatus weapons, since Ordinatus typically can't be moved and are one offs. Imperators are a bit more "standard", so they're are probably ships designed and configured to move them. They could also be used a mobile command fortresses for a warmaster, playing into the actual walking city aspect
Yeah each Titan legio has ships special made to carry Titans, I forget what the specifics were, but they can either transport a few "smaller Titans" or like 1-2 Emperor Titans. Also I think the way they are deployed is that they are most often dropped from low orbit and have either in-built or shedding boosters to soften the fall and still create like a crater + earthquake when they land, direclty onto a battlefield.
Apparently one of my friends faced down a Imperator class (he said that the one at 1:05:53 was basically it) at a Warhammer event. This is back in the days of blast templates, so pre 8th. He rocked up with his (now recalculated) ~3.5K of models including his RESIN Shadowsword (yes apparently they used to be resin) and as he lined up his army the guy controlling the Imperator said something along the lines of "For this weekend this Titan is going to be fighting its battles sequentially, it will not be repairing any health or voids it looses in between people attacking it. You are one of the first, you have one shot at doing as much damage as possible before it guts your army, good luck." He barely scratches off a void shield.... the Imperator then proceeds to fire a DINNER PLATE SIZED BLAST TEMPLATE at his forces, in one shot it destroyed about 2/3 of the army Soooo, yeeeeeeaaah, Imperators
I wish they would bring out a "classic" version of the Warlord, the boxy looking one with the skull. Not to replace the current model, just as an alternative.
On the subject of the Ordo Sinister, it was called that because it was the "Left Hand of the Emperor". Sinister has a history of meaning the left side, especially in regards to heraldry. It's also the origin of the term Ambisinister, the opposite of Ambidextrous. One who is ambisinister is clumsy with both hands, having "two left hands".
11:24 Apparently there's a similar joke among the Battletech community, where Steiner Scout Squads operate exclusively in Atlas mechs (which are these giant 100-ton "assault" class mechs with skull-heads for the cockpits) and _somehow_ are still legitimately good at being sneaky.
Probably been said but I would love to see a follow up to cover the other titan like equivalents of the other races both xenos, chaos etc. the storytelling and explanation is top notch in this. Would just love more
When you guys hit $40k on Patreon you four should build Legio Ridiculous. 4 Titans of your choices kitbash how you want(if you want), agree on a paint scheme and get a Titan banner made
Funny that we always term Gundam as "real robot" in anime, when they are actually around 40K Warhound size, and the warship in the show often carries 4 to 6 of them... Because I often term 40K to be in the equivalent of "Super Robot", maybe we need to move Gundam to semi-Super instead
40k's Titans are super robots relative to something like Heavy Gear or Battletech (where most Battlemechs are Knight sized and Heavy Gears are Armiger-sized), they don't really fit cleanly into most Japanese Mecha genre stuff though
Because pacific rim was mentioned Jaegers aren't ''very small titans'' most of them are considerably taller than imperator class titans. Imperator titan is about 56 meters tall, Gipsy Danger is about 87 meters tall. Jaegers range from 30 meters tall to 150 meters tall and all of the ones we saw in the film were more than 70 meters in height. Some of them are three times the size of an imperator titan.
Remember, 40K has no consistency. Lexicanum cites 7 different heights for Emperor class Titans (Imperator and Warmonger), all citations being from novels, that range from 43 meters to 140 meters. (The sizes on the page about the Warlord titan range from 33 to 200 meters.)
@@gokbay3057 Oh yeah and that's fine and all, but I was mostly highlighting the fact that Jaegers are by no means small, even by titan scale. Absolute smallest ones are still about 20% bigger than Reavers.
Also Jaegers are way faster and more agile, and specifically built for close combat. Yeah they don't have void shields, but I'd bet some of them would at least have a good chance of taking down a 40k titan in a melee fight.
Yeah, that's a thing that wh40k isn't particularly good at, their "ultimate technology" stuff isn't particularly astounding, even by modern standards. I was looking up weapon and armor equivalents, and a Leman Russ would, by the numbers, get absolutely shit on by basically any modern tanks, and quite a few apcs
One of my favorite possibly misquoted or even right up false bits of Titan lore is just how much friendly fire happens even with Warhounds when they let off with their laser weapons, just the heat from the beam just absolutely melts all the Guard and Skitari underfoot.
Though they were wrong about deploying them alongside an army. Titans are almost always deployed alongside skitarii legions because one of the ‘easiest’ ways to take down a large titan is laying traps like in the second war for Armageddon when orks collapsed hive spires onto an imperator which immobilized it. So they use the skitarii to scout and protect against traps and ambushes that could lead to the titans being boarded.
The Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan is basically the Titan version of the Grey Knights(secretive, fully psyker variant). Also seems unpopular but I actually like the way the Reaver's head looks. Idk it just looks cool to me and honestly I don't think it's similar to Stewie's head at all.
IIRC the Imperator has two things more that realy makes them stand out. Each lower leg is a fortification with a battlecannon and several heavy bolters for close defense, they also house several squads of infantry for defense and to sally out to take objectives. The cathedral also has the ability to launch and recover a Lightning Strike Fighter aeroplane for use as a spotter/recon or target of opportunity strikes.
1:04:27 thats the gamestore i go to every week. I know the guy who built it with his wife, he plays nids. really nice guy. weird to see it in an adrid episode.
The Imperator and Emperor Class Titans' shell casings falling on your allies below the titan is a real concern. It often endangers the leman russ tanks and chimeras that might attempt to provide support/prevent boarding actions!
It’s worth noting that there’s an actual game for his called adeptus titanicus. In it an imperial knight is about the size of an ork or firstborn space marine. A warmaster titan is the size of a normal imperial knight. A knight is an unimportant to a titan as a space marine is to a knight. The surrounding battle does not matter. When titans walk the field, they dominate everything else.
Thank goodness for 3D printers. You can buy a nice printer for less than a Warhound and then make as many titans as you want. It’s a lot cheaper to be a Titan collector these days.
@@velphidrow I printed a Titan that I can use on the table top. I now own a Titan. I’m a Titan owner. Except I paid $50 in resin for one instead of over $600 just for the body of one, because weapons aren’t included.
@@velphidrow You mean the unofficial forum/ club that “official” Titan owners made for themselves? It is basically a fan club that has a sign that says: “You must spend at least $800 to enter.” Are you a member?
@@The_E_Paladin lol just ignore the guy. He's probably just malding because he literally spent a life's-savings worth for a plastic toy while you did the smart thing.
when the imperator titan first came out in the adeptus titanicus epic box you could put a division (6 companies if I remember correctly) of infantry squads in it and spill them out from the legs. don't know if they updated that.
I do believe there was a larger titan than the Imperator, i forgot the name of it but if i recalled was from the Dark age , it was unique as it had a far more Humanistic shape with its head being above the shoulders but it was operated by an AI that went chaos and the Grey Knights took it out. Might be wrong but i believe i heard that some time ago
1:00:04 ....OH MY GOD..... IMAGINE INSTEAD OF A PSI-TITAN.... THERE WAS A BLANK TITAN..... WITH A GIANT COLEXUS BLANK AMPLIFIER?! Can be a giant mobile black stone fortress!!!
So on the Warbringer-Nemesis, it's weapons are called "Reaver-X" because they are the weapons designed for the Reaver Titan, but it uses those to bring that Quake Cannon into range. They're Reaver weapons being used by a platform that bridges the gap between Reaver and Warlord.
With the Warbringer, it’s arm weapons are called ‘reaver’ weapons because they are the same ones used on a reaver Titan. For example, a reaver’s Gatling blaster is smaller than a warlord’s. The big gun on it’s back is warlord-sized, however.
Imperator Titans used to / maybe still do have giant doors in their shins and could hold a company of guardsmen inside them for close support against assaults.
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In response to Kirioth wanting to put a titan weapon on the side of a baneblade, I propose a titan with baneblades for hands.
A lot of superheavy imperial tanks have a Titan weapon as a fixed main gun.
I approve of this.
Does they come with a commissar to hit the enemies with their swords ?
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@Fragrom59 obviously...😂😂😂
Guardsmen: " Emperor-dammit, we cant make it to church from the front line."
Ad-Mech: "Dont worry, we got you fam... the church is coming to you!"
Devotion to the Emperor in his aspect as the Omnissiah. One could do a warhost family history/size spread sheet of the Adeptus Mechanicus. From the Great Warlord Titans, to House Knights, down by Kastelan and Skitarii, to finally a groveling Servitor. Just to see how they stack up as an expression of the will and eminence of the Machine God's divine motive force.
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Thb tho, I feel for the Tau big titty propaganda. Kudos to anyone who read the entirety of the post.
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@@jordank7062 Tech-Priest, Child of the Omnissiah. May the rites of manifold applications, the liturgies of ignition and the songs of Engine-seeing forever be blessed. As you commune with to the spirits of thee ancient tech-machines.
To be fair.. if that church is coming to the frontline i'd be just as scared as a guardsman than if i was the enemy. Titans don't tend to care.. or even notice a few hundred guardsmen getting incinerated, liquified or stomped beneath them.
Buyer: "Do I need 18 void shields?"
Titan Salesman after slapping the titan: "You see that? My hand literally shattered and the paint is still intact."
I think void shields help with the actual structural integrity, bringing a small level of warp physics to reduce overall strain and stress. I've also always thought that the reason they can 'scout' is because in reality they have the range to shoot across the planet and at that point optics are useless and so the void shields eat up everything making them more or less invisible on scanners. The more void shields you have the less chance the enemy can use it's larger weapons and allows to close distance and that's where melee could take place.
could i interest you in a warranty......:p
@@tarektechmarine8209 No it's energy fields that literally absorb the force of impact from attacks and channel that feedback into capacitator banks and it's those you need to overcome so the shield pops from lack of channelling that energy anywhere.
@@kinagrill if it absorbs energy shot at it. It would also absorb the energy used in active targeting. Which means that you can't use radar to target them over the horizon with void shields up. Plus since they absorb kenetic energy, they can prevent damage to the structure. From the total weight stomping around on highgrav worlds. Keeps the toes from turning into smushed nubs when the titan tries to run.
Normal universes: "This giant robot has advanced artillery systems so it can destroy everything from range, because melee combat would be ridiculous."
Warhammer 40K: *"GET OUT OF MY WAY, I WANT TO PUNCH THAT TANK WITH MY TITAN-SIZED FIST!"*
God bless.
God fucking bless.
You mean God-Emperor? Shame on you, heretic..
*emperor bless
@@mokithepepe2454 _Are you suggesting there's a difference?_
No point in being human shaped if you don't want to punch things. If you just want to shoot lasers and missiles, use a tank or drone.
also Battletech's reinforced fists on things like the Marauder then the development of Hatchet tech, all hail Atlas with a 1-shot axe
AUUUUGH, AEUGH.
Titans
Note: The Ordo Sinster was deployed to a craftworld that predominantly fielded Eldar Titans. Upon deployment, the entire craftworld shrieked in fear and anguish at the presence of the wrongness of these psi-titans.
Of course theres fuckin psychic mechs, why wouldnt there be.
If theres one way to fuck up eldars its to create psychic backlash
successful troll
So I'm not crazy and did remember something about psi titans
@@tequilawhiskey and they’re powered by suffering psykers
DK is correct
on Nuceria, one of the Audax titan drivers kept getting ping'd from his machine with "let's go that way, i wanna kill what's over there...NO FUCKING REALLY, WE GOTTA GO THIS WAY." and the driver finally relents but gives the order to "BRING EVERYTHING... NO REALLY, ALL. OF. IT.". when asked by his crew "WTF do you think we're about to tangle with??!!" he said it was The Corinthian, a Legio Oberon Imperator class titan.
Yeah that part was awesome
You want some extra lore? I got extra lore
Ordo Sinister was commissioned by the Emperor himself, who basically went to Mars, asked for a bunch of Titans and brought them to Terra. They seemed to vanish after the Heresy however
One notable instance was when one Psi-Titan simply walked across a rebelling planet; without firing a single shot it brought madness, nightmares and eventually compliance
A titain does not simply "walk" whatever Alpha+ level Princep Psyker was commanding that MF was using that thing like a 5G tower to mindfuck the planet.
@@TheBuster0926 Correct! Hence why it quashed a rebellion without firing a shot
even if it did, pretty sure those lances of a pure black energy seeming to suck the life outta the air would nail it
Its standing there menacingly
Some of my favorite Titan (and Titan-adjacent) facts:
- The Quake Cannon is named because it literally causes localized seismic activity. The Quake Shells are made from the core chunks of planets that have undergone Exterminatus. Guardsmen say you can hear them screaming as they fly, which… yeah, that tracks.
- There’s a melee variant of the Warmaster Titan called the Warmaster Iconoclast. It has a desolator chainsword mounted on one arm, and either a siege drill or grav imploder on the other. The latter weapon (and I quote) “can crumple a knight like an empty tin of corpse starch”. And yes, it still has the knee gun.
- The mechanism that powers the Psi-Titan, the Ciricrux Anima, was actually invented the Emperor himself. This means that not only did he tolerate the use of giant psychic robots powered by human suffering and piloted by someone without a soul, *he actively approved of it*. Nice going, Emps. Also, how unbelievably rare do you think a princeps with the Blank gene is?
Emps also approved of the Dark Angels Excindio’s. Literally repurposed Men of Iron.
In a Galaxy of uncountable numbers of humans, probably not that rare. There are so many planets filled with people in 40k that you could have your thing only being able to be piloted by a one armed, one legged, idiot savant with three ears and find a few hundred of them.
A blank doesn't pilot a psi titan. They're tortured in the chambers inside it
well there are only 25 of these titans ever made
@@baldy117irl during the heresy. We don't have numbers for m42
Eric’s Hobby Workshop is working on a 7’ tall Emperor Titan with a playable Kill Team board on its back.
Talking about titans being destroyed IRL, the GW shop that I grew up with here in town burned down back in like... '08? '09? And several titans and so many many other pieces and armies stored there went up in flames too, building was a total loss.
Every single person who used to play there always laments the lost titans, THEN laments the loss of the store. It's so weird and yet very 40k fan.
We're all just 2 steps from being machine cultists when it comes to mourning our models.
Makes a bit of sense. The titans were works of art that their creators put a lot of effort into it. Imagine if you lost a big chunk of your army. Sure you could just remake it, but it will never be the same again.
Meanwhile, the store is just a store. It's a lot less personal.
There's also the cool and rarity factors. Those titans were probably a lot cooler and a lot rarer than a game store.
Fun fact: The Vatican City has a population of 883 (at the time of this writing), so an Imperator titan likely has more crew than a sovereign nation does people
I could have sworn the vatican has like a population of 1
@@respectfulevil9022 You could've. But it's good you didn't.
Aircraft carrier have over 3.000 men so that's actually not that insane.
@@fluffynator6222and now we have something to actually compare it to 3000 is still a fucking lot of people
St. Peter's Basilica is 136m tall. A titan can fit in it (idk about the door), and therefore, we could have a church walker walk in a church.
A decent encyclopedia would have helped GW figure out scale...
With the cost of Forge World Titans, and the scope of a Titan battles, might as well make them actual walking robots VR control.
Like the one Perturabo made lol
Final mission in dawn of war winter assault happens on top of a partially buried emperor Class titan.
As the imperial guard you take control of a handful thermo plasma generators and bring its side arms online.
The small Guns of the titan.
They almost oneshot necron monoliths.
Devotion to the Emperor in his aspect as the Omnissiah. One could do a warhost family history/size spread sheet of the Adeptus Mechanicus. From the Great Warlord Titans, to House Knights, down by Kastelan and Skitarii, to finally a groveling Servitor. Just to see how they stack up as an expression of the will and eminence of the Machine God's divine motive force.
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Thb tho, I feel for the Tau big titty propaganda. Kudos to anyone who read the entirety of the post.
No, it was the Hellstorm. One of the MAIN guns.
@@bthsr7113 Six months out, but the Hellstorm Cannon is Dark Crusade, not Winter Assault.
Additional Facts about Titans and their weapons:
-The Gatling Blaster fires literal Tank Shells at such a rate that the "BRRRRRRRRT" reaches a decibel that nearly rips reality each time is fired
-When Warlord Titans are deployed, those who bear witness to it usually stop and stare and fall to their knees. Psi-Titans eminate such a Psychic Presence that it causes EVERYONE to run in fear. They're known as "Lords of Dread."
-The Psi-Cannon is basically an exposed and directed warp core that fires *darkness and silence.* If you stand too close to the weapon when its fired, your soul is pulled into the beam. You don't scream in agony or wither away. You just fall over and die.
-Whereas the Emperor class Titan is known as a "Battle Titan," there is one Imperator class subvariant thats even rarer than the Emperor: the Warmonger. Whereas the Emperor wears a cathedral, the Warmonger is a dedicated weapons/artillery platform. The Warmongers are used for sheer annihilation of an enemy force from one continent over.
-The Hellstorm Cannon is basically five Volcano Cannon's strapped together, that can either fire in five-round bursts or all at once.
-The Warmonger get access to the Vengeance Cannon, a massive double barrel Las-Weapon that has been known to shoot down starships from orbit, AS WELL AS the Doomstrike Missile Battery: Eight massive ICBM's strapped to its arm, for when you REALLY want to tell the Tyranids to fuck off.
Hopefully this doesn't seem too "ackchually" or anything. I look forward to my Wednesdays because of you guys, so great work!
Nah just Titan awesomeness. Loved the psy-canon one!
Child: What does the vengeance cannon do
Tech priest: why, fire out the omnissiah’s vengeance of course.
Aw sweet, man made horror beyond my comperhension
Alll of these facts are amazing! The psititan is definitely my favorite!
Nah, it’s not too “actually”. They definitely go into deep detail for these Titan classes. I’m hoping they go into deeper detail on them individually in the future. Especially when more info is released (I NEED more stories about the Psi-titan!!!!!).
I want a 40k game where you're in a cathedral and you fight wave after wave of demons or orks or whatever, all the while it has a bar showing "reactor power level" slowly going up and at the end of it, the screen zooms out and you just get to pilot an Imperator class titan and mow down hundreds of thousands of enemies.
Tonite on Ridiculous Gear: DK wants to learn more about those Titan toes, Kirioth gets his nuts quaking with the Mori quake cannon, Shy tries to fight back against the sweating horde of Warframe fans with her trusty Warhound turbo-laser destructor and Bricky lusts after that Erebussy
How?
@@megathornax4402 what?
I need to bleach my eyes after reading the last sentence
@@Dangerman25ify I'm sorry my child
Grab the Conflagration Cannon brother
How has no one mentioned the Castigator Titan yet? The ‘father of all titans’ needed to be talked about.
Very sad that his STC was smashed to bits by the Grey Knights so it doesn't fall into the hands of Chaos
That entire book is fantastic.
im surprised they didnt talked about abominatus or other corrupted Titans
Idk man that Titan was anti-emperor and therefor cringe
@@chistosquisto9079 HERESY!!
Remember: Tau though Titans were Human Propaganda. They didn't think humans would really have them. Until they saw an Emperor-Class Titan for the first time. They shit their pants.
And then they developed their first anti Titan weapon in just a few years
Love that lore that sounds hilarious
@@jaegercat6702 Yeah...Tau learn from their mistakes and first experiences. Unlike all the other races. Though I can say, Tau are more "realistic" in the 40K universe. Even with all the "Greater Good" nonsense. They are something we Humans likely do more than the Imperium. Yes, heresy, but let us be real here. If the Emperor was still a live. He would straight up accept the Greater Good. By taking over the Tau and being the head of the Greater Good.
@@jaegercat6702 I was kind of disappointed that they went with the "let's make giant robots of our own!" route. Earlier lore stated that the Tau just used their space-grade torpedo bombers to take out titans since from the Tau's POV they're just weirdly-shaped land-warships. I would have loved to see the Tau's more practical and utilitarian thinking in practice with them just having hover-artillery platforms with anti-titan cannons and fuck-off huge missiles that can operate from further behind the front lines. That way they could strike against enemy Titan assets from above with Mantas and Tigersharks while plasma ballistic missiles and stuff fire from ground vehicles behind fortifications and cover that don't have to deal with the logistics trouble of maintaining giant complex mech legs and joints and stuff.
@@fadelsukoco3092 Was the Stormsurge not a Project of a Earth Cast Guy because his Worl was getting a Tyranid Invasion?
The one thing that *bothers* me is the official scaling of Titans.
On the one hand, you have imagery with Imperial Titans that appear to be literally half a kilometer tall, with a massive cathedral on their back, which on it's own would be at LEAST 60 meters tall, and then you have official records, which state that a chaos Imperial Titan (Imperator Class) called the Dias Irae _(awesome fucking name btw)_ is only 55.5 meters tall.
Like, yeah, that's tall...
_But god damnit, _*_that thing should be at least a half a kilometer / 1000ft tall._*
For reference, when Kirioth said "tiny titans" when referring to Jaegers, _Jaegers are all around 70-80 meters tall. TALLER THAN AN IMPERATOR TITAN, OFICIALLY._
WH40K, i love you, but fix the scaling issues.
I don't know How they would fit that in a ship, and i don't care
@@victorpedrosoceolin3919 lore wise, most imperial ships dwarf the titans by a strong margin.
@@thejestor9378 i know, but still, try fitting a 500 meter mountain inside a 4 kilometer ship without a dedicated space for it
@@victorpedrosoceolin3919 true. There’s a reason in most recent books, they are usually described on the smaller side of the scale for what has been mentioned. Don’t think any new books has mentioned a single titan being larger than 100 meters.
@@thejestor9378 it's sad, the description of power doesn't fit the size
Fun fact; They fixed it so the shells dont Rain down and crush friendly units. The rerouted the empty shells back into the magazine.
My favorite fact about Titans is when they first heard about them, the Tau assumed they were just propoganda. Not because of fear or thinking no one can build them, but rather thinking "no way anyone would be that stupid to waste that many resources to make something so impractical"
The Tau's first thought when they saw titans was pure terror.
Their second thought was how easy of a target it was
@Claptrap yeah. Once the shock and fear wore off they realized they could just snipe them with the biggest rail guns they had from a hundred miles away.
Which really does show that the shock and awe factor is the ONLY real benefit to Titans. If that fails, they are basically just massive, impractical, expensive targets
@@thewerdnamakes me wonder if the non-tyranid factions all suddenly had access to the current technology of the other factions the imperium would flop over crazy quickly.
@@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle then they hit the void shield
@@epicassassin8502 void shields cannot protect titans forever. Especially when T'au have the range advantage AND the mobility advantage
I hear an Ordo Sinister quote incoming... Is it a sign that we'll get to hear about the god-engine that wears fear like armor, wields a gun of darkness, and is powered by space wizards- all the while being piloted by a soulees commander?
Dang Psi-Titans are evil. Peak-dark technology. Proper grimdark.
Dang, is the Emperor an *accidental* Lych-God?
If he is, the accident is only by technicality. The Emperor was definitely malevolent while he was alive. Unification Wars? Geneva Conventions are a checklist. Konrad Curze? Give him a Legion rather than therapy and don't set up any law enforcement on Nostramo.
Worth pointing out that the lower leg of the Imperator is explicitly designed to carry a company of infantry for transport and defence of the titan
The way I heard it was a regiment, but that only works with the bigger end of the size inconsistency.
Love the Pacific Rim reference! But you said that the Jaegers are the size of small Titans or large Knights, but they're actually taller than most Titans, rivaling even the Imperator.
Yeah, 40k scaling is a problem.
Also people saying Titans are bigger than Godzilla but they're barely bigger than Godzilla's 50m sizes
@@jessenielsen7218 Correct, the smallest godzilla in fiction is much larger than most Titans.
On the subject of size: Gazgul's WAAGGHHH! had a Gargant that "towered over" the Titan of Princeps Majoris: an Imperator-class. Imperator-class is a variant of the Emperor-class along side the Warmonger-class. I'm not sure how they vary from one another but most, like 9 out of every 10 pieces of art work or illustrations, depict the Imperator. So picture a literal mountain of scrap metal, with a piggish looking face, moving forward as the top of its head scrapes the atmosphere. Also it's being maned (so to speak) by Orks.
Helsreach?
How dare you not mention that the name of the Gargant was God-killa
Maybe the punisher class is some sort of artillery titan, and that third leg is for stability to maximize accuracy.
I'm an Artillery Titan and my Third Leg has an entirely different purpose...
Or just to handle the recoil.
I’m just imagining a literal tower of gun barrels all pointed in one direction mounted atop three massive, beefy legs.
Hell, at the size I’m imagining you could straight up use it as a mobile anti-orbital battery.
It reminds me of the clone war at-ap. Has a third leg as a stabiliser and a massive hull cannon.
"It looks like a Transformer."
"Don't cross the streams!"
There are titan-class Transformers, such as Metroplex or Trypticon. They turn into entire cities/bases.
Scout could refer to being used to coordinate fire support. Example warhounds can probably run into an entire tank battalion and there like huh that's not good big titan kill this here.
I don't get why everyone is confused about this. Warhounds are scouts for battles with *other Titan forces.* That's why they're called that. They scout out formations of Titans and relay back information so the commanding Princeps can deploy his main line more effectively.
@@Pink.andahalf It's because none of these people are studied in how militaries work. That's not said to disparage them, but they made the same mistake with Dauntless Scout Cruisers- the Dauntless is a scout not because it's a tiny dinky thing compared to the big manly Lunars, it's a scout because it shoots off into the infinite black on its own for a year or so throwing hands with whatever comes its way, because the Battlefleet needs to know what's out there.
There's a story from the Battle of Armageddon that features an Imperator Titan. So you need an Armageddon level threat to bring one out.
As far as what you would deploy an Emperor-class Titan for, you were pretty close. It'd be a situation where the only other option is Exterminatus, but they really can't afford to push that button (*STRATEGIC VALUE: ABSOLUTE*). It's also a situation where AdMech *really* don't want to depliy them unless there's no other choice because they can't make more of them. If an Emperor Titan gets destroyed, that's it.
Also the larger the titan, the harder it is to awaken it
If they are downed they can be repaired so long as they can be retrieved though I think. Pretty sure I read that in the second war for Armageddon book when the imperator class titan was destroyed by an ork gargant that towered over it. Pretty sure it was reclaimed and hinted that it would be repaired.
@@khairallahdh no awaken. As in turn the damn thing on. Titans have a degree of sentience and will resist it if they don't wish it
@@velphidrow you guys are all confusing titans with dreadnaughts.
a titan is run by a neural link (mind impulse unit) between the machine spirit of the titan and the princep guiding it.
box naugt space marines are the ones that choose not to awaken.
@@cr90captain89 I'm not confusing anything. Titans are damn near sentient and can be stubborn as hell
So on the point you brought up in the beginning of the video. In Betrayer there was an Emperor Class Titan that was on the loyalist side. The World Eater Warhounds worked together to bring it down with their special harpoons.
Was surprised they forgot that since isn’t Betrayer like Kirioths favorite book or something
@@parkermaisterra8532 honestly not surprised that they forgot. They have so many topics to discuss that it can mess with your mind. Doesn’t mean that I won’t point such things out.
Kiritoh proving once again that he is the resident techmarine.
And we love his guest appearances for it!
Therapist: Direchicken isn't real, it can't hurt you
Direchicken: 23:14
I really want you guys to do an episode on older Warhammer 40k and Rouge Trader models. Like the old ArmorCast titans.
"nothing could get bigger than an Imperator" *LAUGHS IN CASTIGATOR*
Sunfury Plasma Annihilator and Belicosa Volcano Cannon are easily the coolest weapon names in 40k.
So my local store growing up had an Imperator Titan display and the damn thing was larger than I was but it looked so god damn cool.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the castigator class titan.
It was the single largest man made titan and had a machine spirit so powerful, it could piolet itself. However it was destroyed by the grey knights and had its blueprints burned after it started firing greater daemons from its main cannon.
They did, but too little, and too late to avoid us talking about it.
The castigator is suprisingly small,given that its daot,i thought it would have been continent sized.
When discussing the Warmaster Titan:
Kirioth: "For some reason, they have guns in the knees"
Me, thinking back to Bricky's 'So you wanna main Urgot?' vid: (inhales), *SHOTGUN KNEES*
Keep up the great content
It's a good position that afforrd decent firing angles for tanks trying to get close and fire within Void shields.
Yall forgot to mention that the Warlord Powerfist has a Vulcan Mega Bolter on the back of it. So, you COULD dual wield Mega Mister Fisters and lay down incredulous amounts of Dakka.
The Dies Irae is a famous titan of the Legio Mortis! Attached to the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet under the command of the Warmaster Horus, its princeps cheerfully joined with Horus in treason with the entire legio following him into heresy. Mortis still maintains its unity in the era of 40K.
Blasted through the palace walls on Terra.
Dies Irae also shows up in Storm of Iron.
Isn't the dies irae confirmed destroyed now thou ? If not I'm surprised abbadon hasn't casual used it during a curesade or several
@@karlrichards7188 It was heavily damaged during Storm of Iron, possibly destroyed but you know how GW likes bringing things back.
@@VallornDeathblade that's true I'm sure the dark machicum will just stick a demon inside it and it's back to killing everything
I could listen to Kirioth say the word "guns" for hours.
Thank you Shy, for the end 😂 I was waiting to hear DK react to the Castigator Titan
The Dies Irae (Dee us - E ray) is mentioned occasionally during the first 3-4 Horus Heresy books if I recall correctly. Also, Dies Irae means "Day of Wrath" and is a funeral hymn.
Tonite on Ridiculous gear:Bricky the scion of the forehead, the mentor for the curious and the Lord of the Lil guys smashes a Carnifex, DK the Lord of the unwise, the blissfully ignorant and the herald of the Lil guys trips over a chimera and dies and Shy, mistress of the warp, the destroyer of the Lil guys and the queen of Rage burns a hive tyrant to ash and Kirioth of the land of bad tooth hygiene and the occupant of my walls steals every tank he can find.
Always love seeing this, literally the first thing I look for when clicking on new vids
THERE'S ANOTHER ONE! YUUUUS!
@@Chem-Dog_Trout There's two here ^^
Devotion to the Emperor in his aspect as the Omnissiah. One could do a warhost family history/size spread sheet of the Adeptus Mechanicus. From the Great Warlord Titans, to House Knights, down by Kastelan and Skitarii, to finally a groveling Servitor. Just to see how they stack up as an expression of the will and eminence of the Machine God's divine motive force.
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Thb tho, I feel for the Tau big titty propaganda. Kudos to anyone who read the entirety of the post.
Psy Titans work like:
>show up to a doomed battle unannounced
>no one knows who you they are or where they came from
>wreck the shit out of a bunch of wraithlords
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
I’m so upset that they didn’t talk about the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. Cause shooting bolts of Warp stuff to kill things is way interesting.
Every time the Imperator titan takes a step, the tectonic plates of a planet are forever altered...
Them talking about when you field an emperator synopsis. “Strategic value absolute.”
Adeptus Ridiculous, the only podcast im always down to listen to, wether im at school or work, hanging out or trying to sleep, they always fit the mood.
but hey
maybe its just cause their little guys
*they're
I saw an Imperator at Games Day one year. Presumably there was steel structure inside for stability, but most of the outside was kitbashed from existing plastic kits. I remember the Cities of Death buildings being used heavily, in particular the big one with the eagle in the calves.
"Look Mom, it's a visualization of my 401K" - lost it. Holy damn.
Today I learned that most Gundam suits are either as tall or taller than a Warhound titan. That's...wow. really puts the two series into perspective against each other.
the smallest gundam is like 15 meters tall and from what i remember the Tallest ones are the Psycho Gundam mk1 and mk 2
Honestly Gundams are way scarier if you look at it this way.
Titans are terrifying but Gundams are that big and still able to move almost like a normal person
And frankly, the mobility of a Gundam makes them a terrifying opponent for a Titan. Barbatos could potentially dodge the superior firepower, or have beams refracted off, and rip into the thing. Then there's tricks likke being able to sneak a bit into pas the void shield at low velocity and then start lighting the Titan up.
@@bthsr7113 ones like Aerial and 00Q would likely be a full-blown nightmare for a titan.. same rather high mobility with potentially a crapton of remote weapons that can fly around like little fightercraft..
13:36 "Set building on fire" MFW that weapon can set an entire Neighborhood ablaze in one burst
On the idea of deploying Imperator class titans, I imagine they're used like actual portable Ordinatus weapons, since Ordinatus typically can't be moved and are one offs. Imperators are a bit more "standard", so they're are probably ships designed and configured to move them. They could also be used a mobile command fortresses for a warmaster, playing into the actual walking city aspect
Yeah each Titan legio has ships special made to carry Titans, I forget what the specifics were, but they can either transport a few "smaller Titans" or like 1-2 Emperor Titans.
Also I think the way they are deployed is that they are most often dropped from low orbit and have either in-built or shedding boosters to soften the fall and still create like a crater + earthquake when they land, direclty onto a battlefield.
fun fact- the warhound carries 14,000rnds of ammo for the vulcan mega bolter. as such, it will run dry in 46.6min of sustained fire.
I always love the kirioth episodes because he embraces the ridiculous
Apparently one of my friends faced down a Imperator class (he said that the one at 1:05:53 was basically it) at a Warhammer event. This is back in the days of blast templates, so pre 8th. He rocked up with his (now recalculated) ~3.5K of models including his RESIN Shadowsword (yes apparently they used to be resin) and as he lined up his army the guy controlling the Imperator said something along the lines of "For this weekend this Titan is going to be fighting its battles sequentially, it will not be repairing any health or voids it looses in between people attacking it. You are one of the first, you have one shot at doing as much damage as possible before it guts your army, good luck."
He barely scratches off a void shield.... the Imperator then proceeds to fire a DINNER PLATE SIZED BLAST TEMPLATE at his forces, in one shot it destroyed about 2/3 of the army
Soooo, yeeeeeeaaah, Imperators
I wish they would bring out a "classic" version of the Warlord, the boxy looking one with the skull. Not to replace the current model, just as an alternative.
Just remembered, Kirioth forgot the Imperator-class titan that got possessed by a greater daemon of Khorne, and is STILL out there
On the subject of the Ordo Sinister, it was called that because it was the "Left Hand of the Emperor". Sinister has a history of meaning the left side, especially in regards to heraldry. It's also the origin of the term Ambisinister, the opposite of Ambidextrous. One who is ambisinister is clumsy with both hands, having "two left hands".
11:24 Apparently there's a similar joke among the Battletech community, where Steiner Scout Squads operate exclusively in Atlas mechs (which are these giant 100-ton "assault" class mechs with skull-heads for the cockpits) and _somehow_ are still legitimately good at being sneaky.
Atlas are big but not that big, a good hill could hide them.
Could you do demon engines? I think the reaction would be fun.
I can confirm the titanwalk thing. We've talked about them over in the Imperial Knights & Titans discord
Probably been said but I would love to see a follow up to cover the other titan like equivalents of the other races both xenos, chaos etc. the storytelling and explanation is top notch in this. Would just love more
Love all these Iron Hands videos you guys keep pushing out!
When you guys hit $40k on Patreon you four should build Legio Ridiculous. 4 Titans of your choices kitbash how you want(if you want), agree on a paint scheme and get a Titan banner made
The safe distance from an emperator class titan is the same a nuke. If your thumb is bigger than it, you're at a safer distance
The more I think about it, Forgeworld Titans would be a decent money reserve. They would hold their value.
Until 3d printers get to the point where they just shit all over forge world.
@@cousinzeke4888 the can't replicate the certificate of authenticity
@@velphidrow oh no! So anyways
@@velphidrow What I'm saying is that once they're easy enough to make that anyone can, forge word will have no value.
@@cousinzeke4888 except for GW events
Funny that we always term Gundam as "real robot" in anime, when they are actually around 40K Warhound size, and the warship in the show often carries 4 to 6 of them... Because I often term 40K to be in the equivalent of "Super Robot", maybe we need to move Gundam to semi-Super instead
its real robot as in you seat in a pilot seat super robot is usually the mech can do what ever you do while you are inside of one
40k's Titans are super robots relative to something like Heavy Gear or Battletech (where most Battlemechs are Knight sized and Heavy Gears are Armiger-sized), they don't really fit cleanly into most Japanese Mecha genre stuff though
Just got done reading a thousand sons and in the finale psy titan perils and goes nuclear its pretty awesome.
Imperial Titans are the most accurate representation of the sheer unapologetic absurdity of Warhammer 40k that peoople love so much.
I love that opening every time. Wish I knew where it was from.
someone made it for them, can't remember what episode, but they featured it
I think that the punisher class titan might have an extendable leg at the back, kinda like a tail, to brace before firing the main armaments.
Because pacific rim was mentioned Jaegers aren't ''very small titans'' most of them are considerably taller than imperator class titans. Imperator titan is about 56 meters tall, Gipsy Danger is about 87 meters tall.
Jaegers range from 30 meters tall to 150 meters tall and all of the ones we saw in the film were more than 70 meters in height. Some of them are three times the size of an imperator titan.
Remember, 40K has no consistency.
Lexicanum cites 7 different heights for Emperor class Titans (Imperator and Warmonger), all citations being from novels, that range from 43 meters to 140 meters.
(The sizes on the page about the Warlord titan range from 33 to 200 meters.)
@@gokbay3057 Oh yeah and that's fine and all, but I was mostly highlighting the fact that Jaegers are by no means small, even by titan scale.
Absolute smallest ones are still about 20% bigger than Reavers.
@@BarokaiRein Yeah, true. I was mostly responding to the bit about the Imperator Titan.
Also Jaegers are way faster and more agile, and specifically built for close combat. Yeah they don't have void shields, but I'd bet some of them would at least have a good chance of taking down a 40k titan in a melee fight.
Yeah, that's a thing that wh40k isn't particularly good at, their "ultimate technology" stuff isn't particularly astounding, even by modern standards. I was looking up weapon and armor equivalents, and a Leman Russ would, by the numbers, get absolutely shit on by basically any modern tanks, and quite a few apcs
One of my favorite possibly misquoted or even right up false bits of Titan lore is just how much friendly fire happens even with Warhounds when they let off with their laser weapons, just the heat from the beam just absolutely melts all the Guard and Skitari underfoot.
That art with the three of you fighting is great, make another one with Kirioth commanding a leman russ or rogal dorn
Though they were wrong about deploying them alongside an army. Titans are almost always deployed alongside skitarii legions because one of the ‘easiest’ ways to take down a large titan is laying traps like in the second war for Armageddon when orks collapsed hive spires onto an imperator which immobilized it. So they use the skitarii to scout and protect against traps and ambushes that could lead to the titans being boarded.
The Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan is basically the Titan version of the Grey Knights(secretive, fully psyker variant). Also seems unpopular but I actually like the way the Reaver's head looks. Idk it just looks cool to me and honestly I don't think it's similar to Stewie's head at all.
IIRC the Imperator has two things more that realy makes them stand out. Each lower leg is a fortification with a battlecannon and several heavy bolters for close defense, they also house several squads of infantry for defense and to sally out to take objectives. The cathedral also has the ability to launch and recover a Lightning Strike Fighter aeroplane for use as a spotter/recon or target of opportunity strikes.
My head canon is the Apocalypse Class is an Emperor Class but with more guns and no citadel. Just a giant fortress.
It's listed as battle, not Emperor size and weight.
1:04:27 thats the gamestore i go to every week. I know the guy who built it with his wife, he plays nids. really nice guy. weird to see it in an adrid episode.
A bit of a shame they didn't talk about the Secutarii a little bit.
21:41 I love everything about this. That's the most adorable titan I've ever seen.
The Imperator and Emperor Class Titans' shell casings falling on your allies below the titan is a real concern.
It often endangers the leman russ tanks and chimeras that might attempt to provide support/prevent boarding actions!
It’s worth noting that there’s an actual game for his called adeptus titanicus. In it an imperial knight is about the size of an ork or firstborn space marine. A warmaster titan is the size of a normal imperial knight. A knight is an unimportant to a titan as a space marine is to a knight. The surrounding battle does not matter. When titans walk the field, they dominate everything else.
fr love the pacific rim reference
i love how Kirioth always goes: "its silly and i really like it"
its every episode and thats great
Thank goodness for 3D printers. You can buy a nice printer for less than a Warhound and then make as many titans as you want. It’s a lot cheaper to be a Titan collector these days.
Yeah but you aren't a titan owner
@@velphidrow I printed a Titan that I can use on the table top. I now own a Titan. I’m a Titan owner. Except I paid $50 in resin for one instead of over $600 just for the body of one, because weapons aren’t included.
@@The_E_Paladin titan owners club proves otherwise
@@velphidrow You mean the unofficial forum/ club that “official” Titan owners made for themselves?
It is basically a fan club that has a sign that says: “You must spend at least $800 to enter.”
Are you a member?
@@The_E_Paladin lol just ignore the guy. He's probably just malding because he literally spent a life's-savings worth for a plastic toy while you did the smart thing.
when the imperator titan first came out in the adeptus titanicus epic box you could put a division (6 companies if I remember correctly) of infantry squads in it and spill them out from the legs. don't know if they updated that.
*foghorn intensifies*
*Tanc A Lelek and war horns intensifies*
This show is so much fun with all three hosts present at the same time.
General: "Titan. Do you see that army there?"
Princip: "I do."
General: "I don't want to."
Princip: "Gladly."
There is a real, canocial quote where a Titan Moderati goes "Target, uh... neutralized Princeps." after literally stomping the enemy in question.
Kirioth is just the unofficial fourth member at this point and I love it
I do believe there was a larger titan than the Imperator, i forgot the name of it but if i recalled was from the Dark age , it was unique as it had a far more Humanistic shape with its head being above the shoulders but it was operated by an AI that went chaos and the Grey Knights took it out.
Might be wrong but i believe i heard that some time ago
You're right. I think it was called the castigator
1:00:04 ....OH MY GOD..... IMAGINE INSTEAD OF A PSI-TITAN.... THERE WAS A BLANK TITAN..... WITH A GIANT COLEXUS BLANK AMPLIFIER?! Can be a giant mobile black stone fortress!!!
So on the Warbringer-Nemesis, it's weapons are called "Reaver-X" because they are the weapons designed for the Reaver Titan, but it uses those to bring that Quake Cannon into range. They're Reaver weapons being used by a platform that bridges the gap between Reaver and Warlord.
With the Warbringer, it’s arm weapons are called ‘reaver’ weapons because they are the same ones used on a reaver Titan. For example, a reaver’s Gatling blaster is smaller than a warlord’s.
The big gun on it’s back is warlord-sized, however.
Introducing Imperial Titans: For when reducing your enemies to dust is no longer sufficient; they much be ERASED
Imperator Titans used to / maybe still do have giant doors in their shins and could hold a company of guardsmen inside them for close support against assaults.