If you ever feel like titans are a nightmare when it comes to logistics, remember they need ships to transport them across galaxies and then drop them into battlefields
@@cndenterprise1662 Only the "Warp Runners" seem to have that ability, they are a rapid reaction force of titans, but the vast majority have to be transported
@@charluu1929 they are move via mass conveyor ships and must be mustered before deployment, I recommend reading Titanicus it’s a good read and explains how they get moved around, how they operate and the scale of that type of warfare 👍
Someone was visiting St. Peter’s Basilica and just thought hey we could give this legs and massive planet destroying cannons. So they did and we love them for it
The original lore when Titans were released over 30 years ago stated that they fired ammunition as large as Leman Russ Battle Tanks. Titan's used Plasma Cannons normally mounted on Imperial Cruisers. Three Warlord Titans can drop an Imperial Navy Cruiser from High orbit. It's all in the lore. The table top models etc are all abstract and are NOT true scale. The Warhammer Cinematic Universe if it follows the original lore will show that Titans are equivalent to Mass Effect's Reapers in size and destructive power. Titans truly are GOD MACHINES.
Yeah these things seem too small for how they’re described. 400 feet is tall, but titans are supposed to be so large it defies all logic, guardsmen are left in absolute awe at the sight of them.
Lol Castigor was the father of titans but wasn't even close to the size you described, at that size what is the point of a titan it would be so heavy it would sink into the earth, battleships exist for a reason and even a battleship in warhammer couldn't fit a Titan the size of a reaper in it's berth, unless it was the size of the smaller type of reaper.
@@Wintershot The Castigator outranks any other titan-class walker in the 41st millennium. It was more massive and possessed both vastly superior defenses (regenerative, liquid-metal armor) and vastly superior offensive weapons (the thing had a a more powerful cannon and the power claw/fist was nuts). It was the original titan of Man, from which all existing titans are recursively devolving copies of. There is only one titan that outclasses the Castigator, and only in the area of weaponry: the Warlord-Sinister-class psi-titan's psi-cannon, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. Though, that is because the EoM basically used his techno-hax, as usual, to have them constructed. Still, though, if the STC had been recovered, and the Mechanicum/Inquisition didn't destroy it because it was AI, then the Imperium would have never had to worry about ground combat again. Then the book would have ended with "The End" as the Imperium deployed to the Eye, wiped out the traitors and demons, and all that would be left is "how do we resurrect the EoM?" But, I digress. The Castigator would have been tickled by an Imperator before the Castigator plucked the Imperator's cockpit from its torso, crushed it, and then fired a shot directly into the reactor of the Imperator's corpse.
I never heard of the last two. On the other hand, mega gargants were always the contemporary of the Imperator Titan from my memory, only beind shorter but wider.
I hate how GW alters fluff over the years. I remember seeing art of titans that were literally mountain size. You could store practically an army of Marines inside in the legs alone.
1)Hsrridan is 28m at length, and 5.5 m at height. 2)In game Harridan has a "Supersonic" ability, though Lexicanum lists it's speed at 100 km/h averege and 200 km/h max.
I think the "Rare Imperator" Titans you mentioned are really called 'Apocalypse-Class' Titans. Possibly the largest Imperial Titans in existence, second only to the Castigator Titan (which later turned out to be a Daemon Engine. And the Imperator and Warmonger are both sub-classes of the Emperor Titan class, FYI.
The castigator titan wasn't a demon engine manufactured by dark mechanicum or chaos forces, it was an actual castigator class titan that was corrupted because of it using an Ai to run
@@lucasstr5653 It wasn't corrupted and they all use AI to a degree, just the Mechanicus has no true understanding of what AI is anymore. The Castigator (not really a class, it's a prototype) made its own decision as a thinking being with presumably some form of soul. It chose the Dark Forces, sadly.
@@Kayriel after the grey knights free it from the deamonic possession it gave them the STC to build castigator but they where worried it would fall in the hand of chaos and thus destroyed it... Yes grey knights commited heresy acts, however some people think the inquisition keeps the STC because they don't trust the mechanicus and the destruction is a lie and knowing the inquisition and their means, they might have one
I'll give some benefit of the doubt here that some of these sizes might be correct according to the latest output but none are correct with the original rules/background or early models, Tyranids have bigger bio titans and Orcs ALWAYS build their Gargants bigger than Imperial Titans, a great Gargant should be at least as tall as a Warlord and several times the weight while a Mega Gargant is about equal head height with an Imperator but again much heavier and the Temple Gargant dwarfs them all.
very good video, loved the size comparison when you zoomed out. rather funny how the tyranids are such a threat to the galaxy while their biggest unit shown so far isnt even half way up the list.
Also they have bio ships that are living creatures, and are the size of most of the larger ships in the imperium. Literally tyranids that are kilometres in length.
You missed the titan that stands even taller than imperator titans which was called the castigator or known as the father of all titans. Only 1 of existence but was corrupted by a chaos daemon so it was shut down immediately by grey knights.
6:41 ive never heard of this one. (Also thats a Castellan Knight kitbashed into a maybe Adeptus Titanicus scale which i now want to attempt cus that looks cool)
The Imperator Titan is the name of the first and more common variant of Emperor Titan, the other being the Warmonger, there isn't a class bigger than that.
@@gundamcollector77 I was merely commenting tht the OP was wrong is placing an "imperator" titan bigger than the emperor and warmonger, Imperator and Wamronger being the names of the two types of Emperor class titans. The Castigator is indeed bigger but there was ony one and it was piloted by an AI, and it got destroyed, I don't know if it has a place in that video.
Somewhat surprised that Imperial Knights weren’t on the list. But then again, I guess they’re more of a “mech-suit”, rather than an actual Titan. Cool video!
A mekboy gargant is a bit smaller than a gargant and still considered titan class unit.... Eldar had a scout titan which name i cant remember. Tech guard knights and ork stompas are too small to be considered titans, they are in the super heavy tanks class.
Some of this titan weapons are mounted on spaceships. That shows... how strong having a navy is during combat for orbital support. Especially since 40k factions usually love to do massive swarms as if they where on the year 200bc.
It is worth mentioning "mounted on spaceships" should be followed with "as secondary, tertiary or anti-fighter batteries". Basically no titan weapon has yet come even close to the power of a lance cannon mounted on anything larger than a cruiser (but then those lance cannons are bigger than Emperor class titans).
_"as secondary, tertiary or anti-fighter batteries"._ It's not always the case: "A weapon of terrifying and indiscriminate power, the Sunfury Plasma Annihilator is capable of incinerating entire cityscapes and rendering the strongest armour into steaming vapour. Developed from designs intended for the *broadside batteries of void warships,* plasma annihilators such as the Sunfury are able to be mounted only on the largest of the Imperium's war machines, such as Battle Titans, as both the reactor-strength required to charge them and the motive power to wield them demand nothing less." *-Forge World: Warlord Titan Sunfury Pattern Plasma Annihilator* Even though such batteries normally hold dozens of such cannons with stronger reactors, titans still have some percentage of starship firepower. _"Basically no titan weapon has yet come even close to the power of a lance cannon"_ It's a funny coincidence that lore already drew such comparison for Imperial knights: "The Knight Castellan's dual plasma core fuels a frightening array of weapon systems, sufficient to make it a mobile artillery battery. Its awesome plasma decimator gouges the heart out of an enemy army, while the firepower of its volcano lance is comparable to *an Imperial Navy warship."* *-Games Workshop: Knight Castellan* "The Castellan’s other armament is the volcano lance. Possessing massive range and stopping power, this laser cannon is the bane of super-heavy war engines and beasts. It can core out a lumbering Squiggoth or behead an enemy Titan, and when several Knights Castellan open fire at once, the effect is commensurate with the *lance batteries of an Imperial Navy warship."* *-Codex: Imperial Knights (8th Edition)* Which is not a big suprise: Imperial Knights are known for their apocalyptic battles that can destabilize the planet's crust: "A cloud of Ork Roks plummets to the surface of the Infernal Knight world Cobbran, home of House Qiln. Before the dust of impact has settled, dozens of Stompas bearing the mark of the Deathskulls emerge from the crude landing vessels and begin a lumbering march toward the nearest keep. Filled with outrage, the Chaos Knights stride out in mass to meet the invaders, forming a lance of over five hundred roaring war engines with which to charge head-on into their foe. *Such is the scale of the ensuing battle, so heavy the metallic footfalls and so destructive the barrages, that the tectonic crust of Cobbran shifts, leading to explosive volcanic activity.* Those Knights that are falled are quickly hacked to scrap by wide-eyed Big Meks. Meanwhile every Stompa that is toppled is dragged into the open lava flows by cults of Idolators loyal to House Qiln, and in profane rituals new, fully formed Chaos Knights are summoned into being from the bubbling slag." *-Codex: Chaos Knights (8th Edition)* And chaos cultist engineers can summon knights from the slag 💀 _"mounted on anything larger than a cruiser"_ At least titans can do this: "There are very few enemies who can hope to stand against Myrimidon Maniple. Comprising of the mightiest battle titans, it boasts sufficient firepower to damage cruisers in low orbit" *-Adeptus Titanicus Rulebook (2018)*
@@сесьсясь those are broadside weapons on cruisers, not battleships (battleships can mount them as part of its broadside, but usually find something larger). On battleships they are a secondary weapon at best, hence my original statement stands. Even on cruisers the broadside weapons can be argued to be secondary weapons, their primary weapon is often a prow mounted weapon of some sort. Also consider this, a titan mounts 1 of them as its heaviest primary weapon. A line warship (cruisers and above) broadside is often a few dozen turrets, I some cases a few hundred (the larger battleships). Remember the largest of titans are smaller than most fleet escorts (frigates and the like) and have generally comparable firepower to them (small escorts often only have a handful of broadside weapons). But considering a single light cruiser can given suitable time (hours, days at most) effectively render a planet lifeless, even fitting one of their secondary weapons on a ground vehicle is overkill. As for damaging cruisers in low orbit, naturally, they are using the same weapons as you find mounted on a cruiser to do it, cruisers can kill cruisers, so it's only fair a titan armed with a cruiser weapon can damage a cruiser (notice how they say damage, not cripple, not incapacitate, and definatly not destroy). The issue is what happens when the cruiser chooses to return fire.
The TOP of the TOP is surely the Titan of The Beast. During the War Of The Beast (an Ork who was turning into a Krork), when the Primarch Vulkan was still alive and the Titans where product in mass, there's this super titan so big and so powerful than the Imperium must be forced to use ALL his Titan forces to fight it. When THOUSANDS of Titans where destroyed during the fight, Vulkan, The Space Marines snd the Legions of Titans made an hole on the enormous Beast's Titan and they go INSIDE of that thing to bring the fight. They said it was so big than even a Legion of Imperator Titans can be go inside on that thing without problem of space, and it was so high the none Titan can see the end of it. That thing was insane! Even for Warhammer!
That's because GW and BlackLibrary have a terrible track record of keeping power scales consistent. At that point they could have called the mobile moons they built and called it a day.
The imperator isnt the biggests titan, that would be the castigator which only had one version built a long time ago. It got taken over by a chaos demon and took grey knights to take down
I always thought they were bigger. I mean the 1st level of the Eiffel Tower is 200 feet tall (the top is around 1000ft) Seriously look at a picture of the Eiffel tower.......most of these Titans are walking under it by a lot! 100% none seen from space at these heights liked and subscribed
I always thought they were bigger based on the size of their guns on and stuff in dawn of war, though they are positively tiny compared to modern city buildings, I imagined them towering over buildings, but in reality they could all easily hide in a city.
Read Titanicus, even Warhounds crush entire city blocks after they've been fighting for a while. If you like Titans it's a very good story and really helps illustrate the power and size of them.
It should be noted, that the scale of Warhammer Titans is very conflicting with itself. There is source material ranging from the (conservative) estimates from this video, all the way to Warlord being multiple Kilometers high, dwarfing hive citys.
timestamps for myself for what I came here for 1:15 Warhound Titan 2:07 Reaver Titan 3:28 Warbringer Titan (Nemesis Class) 4:18 Warlord Titan 5:10 Warmaster Titan 5:40 Imperator / Warmonger Titan (Emperor class) 6:38 Rare Imperatus Titan (Apocalypse class)
Damn those last one things are huge, I see them for the first time. Also I expected that there will be titan units from other factions (Tau and Necrons for example), but still it's a great a video!
Haven't kept up with the lore to tell what's up with Necrons but Tau famously can't build titans. They haven't reached that tech capability yet and they thought Titans were a myth at first because it seemed impossible to them. That's why people enjoy the interaction between the Tau and older races. Because the Tau are the only race in rapid ascent whilst every other race bar Nids are long in descent, but the old races fell from such heights that they've forgotten more than the Tau ever knew, so you get these really jarring match ups.
John gramaticus the perpetual has nightmares about the men of iron titans that were essentially planet sized army ants that would snip conquered worlds in half with their mandibles
tabletop fucked up the real sizes of this things XD if you read the books or listen audiobook then you hear clearly from the description that they are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay taller. ive seen a picture from old lore were an emperor class titan is bigger than the empire state building.
There's quite a lot of liberties taken with this video. We have no canonical size for the Emperor class Titan, which is divided between the Warmonger and Imperator, not the Emperor and Imperator. They are also roughly the same size since they are built on the same chassis with differences in weapons and roles, the Warmonger being an indirect fire support Titan, the Imperator a mainline Battle Titan. Last but not least you missed several classes including the Subjugator, Quesator, Castigator, Carnivore, Punisher, Mirage, Komodo, and Apocalypse Titan.
These are big but remember that there is a forgotten class of titan called the apocalypse class which was so big it could be seen from orbit, like the people on the ground could see less of the titan than the people in orbit
People usually don't wanna mention the Castigator, but problem is that only 1 was ever constructed and it ended up getting possessed by a daemon so the grey knights had to destroy it, and its STC was lost to time
Some of these numbers are just utter bullshit. Their "official" sizes were massively shrinked down so they could sell model kits in a more practical scale. The lore never really gave definite numbers beforehand but just from artwork and book discriptions most would likely be at least twice as big as shown here.
The heights seems wrong. Only slightly off but then again, depending on the forge world. Different titans have different heights. If I recall, the warlord is 40m, the war master is the 60 and the emperor class titan ranged from 60m to 140m tall. Might be wrong but this is what I recall from my reading and stuff. Also due to the inconsistency of scaling. Some sources even claimed that titans could be 200 meters tall
@@halfknight2310 nah, operator class Titans are still made but they are more of a propaganda thing than a warengine cause of the resources used in them, it takes 100s of years or sometime even 1000, the warlord Titans are much more cost effective and are the saving grace of legio titanicus
@@gajendrasinghchouhan7877 And i'm going to question that logic in 40k, like Starships are such a large scale ud you think that building a Titan should be more building in months rather than years when compared to the void ships?
@Ronan Christian A. Belleza you have to remember that this is the Imperium, were bureaucracy can legit fuck over an entire sector because a crucial cache of weapons got lost somewhere, and the only one that knew its location was incarcerated and lobotomized by the Inquisition because of them being a possible chaos infiltrate.
okay okay okay okay. not an ork fan, but the garguants have a massive size range, from imperators to reavers. i dont think you re doing them quite the justice they deserve. Still a great video btw! edit: rly sry i only commented this before watching 2:48.... very sorry!
So found this on Wiki. The Castigator-class Titan, also known as the "Father of Titans," was a highly-advanced relic of the Dark Age of Technology discovered upon the Forge World of Chaeronia in the 41st Millennium by the Grey Knights. It was a completely autonomous Titan, controlled by an artificial general intelligence, and it claimed to be the very first Titan ever built, from which all the patterns of Imperial Titans built by the Adeptus Mechanicus were derived, albeit far more crudely. Discovered upon the lost Forge World of Chaeronia, the artificially intelligent Castigator-class Titan was a completely autonomous bipedal weapons platform, the first and only one of its kind ever built. Called the "Father of Titans," the Castigator claimed to be the "original" Titan, as it was first designed during the Dark Age of Technology, and that all subsequent Titan designs were but crude, incomplete copies of it poorly understood and recreated by the ancient Mechanicum of Mars.
i always thought the "emperor class" and "Imperator class" titans are one and the same, just diff "naming" since its the same word just in diff languages... tbh the 60m/150m i thought was just some good old case of lore discrepancy due to alot authors having their hands in it XD
If you ever feel like titans are a nightmare when it comes to logistics, remember they need ships to transport them across galaxies and then drop them into battlefields
With the exception of the Warp Runners, the titans of the Legio Astorum
I think they are warped into the battlefield.
@@cndenterprise1662 Only the "Warp Runners" seem to have that ability, they are a rapid reaction force of titans, but the vast majority have to be transported
I tought that The Titans just appear
@@charluu1929 they are move via mass conveyor ships and must be mustered before deployment, I recommend reading Titanicus it’s a good read and explains how they get moved around, how they operate and the scale of that type of warfare 👍
I love how some of these titans are just walking war churches
Walking War Churchills ?
@@Firebrand6610 where did you get that?
The world needs more walking war churches tbh
@@janemf Fr
Someone was visiting St. Peter’s Basilica and just thought hey we could give this legs and massive planet destroying cannons. So they did and we love them for it
"everybody gangsta
Till the church start walkin"
Didn't go to church? In 40k, church comes to you. Also, you WILL have time to talk about our Lord and Savior, the God Emperor
Using a Warhound Titan for reconnaissance is like starting a campfire with a Sidewinder missile.
*Stealth is optional*
@@Yayaloy9it's still stealth, nobody will witness you if there's nobody left to witness you
It works
The original lore when Titans were released over 30 years ago stated that they fired ammunition as large as Leman Russ Battle Tanks. Titan's used Plasma Cannons normally mounted on Imperial Cruisers. Three Warlord Titans can drop an Imperial Navy Cruiser from High orbit. It's all in the lore. The table top models etc are all abstract and are NOT true scale. The Warhammer Cinematic Universe if it follows the original lore will show that Titans are equivalent to Mass Effect's Reapers in size and destructive power. Titans truly are GOD MACHINES.
You can also find mentions of thousands of meters tall titans in the lore (Hammer and Bolter series) or even 1 km long weapons mounted on them. Lol.
I remember one map in DoW where is one Titan class multi-melta canon across the whole map. This video Doesn't show us true scale of Titans...
Yeah these things seem too small for how they’re described. 400 feet is tall, but titans are supposed to be so large it defies all logic, guardsmen are left in absolute awe at the sight of them.
Lol Castigor was the father of titans but wasn't even close to the size you described, at that size what is the point of a titan it would be so heavy it would sink into the earth, battleships exist for a reason and even a battleship in warhammer couldn't fit a Titan the size of a reaper in it's berth, unless it was the size of the smaller type of reaper.
@@JackJohnson-bw4pu its a fantasy universe for a reason lolol
People have already mentioned the Castigator Class Titan, but there's also the Ork Palace Gargant on Ullanor during the War of the Beast.
The Castigator is really just a bit of fluff.
@@Wintershot sure, but it was an STC titan that outranked anything in 40k.
@@ShimrraJamaane What?
@@Wintershot The Castigator outranks any other titan-class walker in the 41st millennium. It was more massive and possessed both vastly superior defenses (regenerative, liquid-metal armor) and vastly superior offensive weapons (the thing had a a more powerful cannon and the power claw/fist was nuts). It was the original titan of Man, from which all existing titans are recursively devolving copies of.
There is only one titan that outclasses the Castigator, and only in the area of weaponry: the Warlord-Sinister-class psi-titan's psi-cannon, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. Though, that is because the EoM basically used his techno-hax, as usual, to have them constructed. Still, though, if the STC had been recovered, and the Mechanicum/Inquisition didn't destroy it because it was AI, then the Imperium would have never had to worry about ground combat again. Then the book would have ended with "The End" as the Imperium deployed to the Eye, wiped out the traitors and demons, and all that would be left is "how do we resurrect the EoM?"
But, I digress. The Castigator would have been tickled by an Imperator before the Castigator plucked the Imperator's cockpit from its torso, crushed it, and then fired a shot directly into the reactor of the Imperator's corpse.
@@ShimrraJamaane Yes but the Castigator is just fluff from a single novel. It's not canon.
I always loved the size of the Titans and now I can see how large they really are
Gw: we need a bigger Emperor titan
Gw 2: throw some cathedrals on it
Gw: genius, give that man a raise
I never heard of the last two. On the other hand, mega gargants were always the contemporary of the Imperator Titan from my memory, only beind shorter but wider.
U talkin about individual mega gargants which were like peak of their kind, like the godbreaker
those were probably mentioned in some novels where writer throw way to big size number...
I hate how GW alters fluff over the years. I remember seeing art of titans that were literally mountain size. You could store practically an army of Marines inside in the legs alone.
I would be fine with the current titan size if only Emperor Titan was absolutely enormous
How did you forget the temple gargant? That thing would have been way larger than any of these. It had mega gargants walking around inside it.
It isn't a standard titan so yeah
Wtf that’s crazy lol Warhammer is insane
1)Hsrridan is 28m at length, and 5.5 m at height.
2)In game Harridan has a "Supersonic" ability, though Lexicanum lists it's speed at 100 km/h averege and 200 km/h max.
I think the "Rare Imperator" Titans you mentioned are really called 'Apocalypse-Class' Titans. Possibly the largest Imperial Titans in existence, second only to the Castigator Titan (which later turned out to be a Daemon Engine.
And the Imperator and Warmonger are both sub-classes of the Emperor Titan class, FYI.
The castigator titan wasn't a demon engine manufactured by dark mechanicum or chaos forces, it was an actual castigator class titan that was corrupted because of it using an Ai to run
@@lucasstr5653 It wasn't corrupted and they all use AI to a degree, just the Mechanicus has no true understanding of what AI is anymore. The Castigator (not really a class, it's a prototype) made its own decision as a thinking being with presumably some form of soul. It chose the Dark Forces, sadly.
@@Kayriel after the grey knights free it from the deamonic possession it gave them the STC to build castigator but they where worried it would fall in the hand of chaos and thus destroyed it... Yes grey knights commited heresy acts, however some people think the inquisition keeps the STC because they don't trust the mechanicus and the destruction is a lie and knowing the inquisition and their means, they might have one
The size of the Titans really got nerfed when they were transferred to the tabletop.
It's all fun and games until the gothic cathedral you saw in the distance decides to get up and vaporize you.
I'll give some benefit of the doubt here that some of these sizes might be correct according to the latest output but none are correct with the original rules/background or early models, Tyranids have bigger bio titans and Orcs ALWAYS build their Gargants bigger than Imperial Titans, a great Gargant should be at least as tall as a Warlord and several times the weight while a Mega Gargant is about equal head height with an Imperator but again much heavier and the Temple Gargant dwarfs them all.
very good video, loved the size comparison when you zoomed out.
rather funny how the tyranids are such a threat to the galaxy while their biggest unit shown so far isnt even half way up the list.
yes but consider this there is 31 of them closing in on your location what do you do?
@@kamilmaster125 order every explosive in the base be rigged to blow as soon as they are apon us. Emperor be with us.
@@kamilmaster125 now if I was on my own instead of with other guard? Shoot myself in the head.
Also they have bio ships that are living creatures, and are the size of most of the larger ships in the imperium. Literally tyranids that are kilometres in length.
@@silkydarkling9433 well yeah those are ships not planetary forces.
You missed the titan that stands even taller than imperator titans which was called the castigator or known as the father of all titans. Only 1 of existence but was corrupted by a chaos daemon so it was shut down immediately by grey knights.
Barely anyone knew that castegator existed before the shorts.
I thought it was ai
@@hisLoneliness2961 Yes the castegator was a titan but was controlled by an ai that was corrupted.
I was about to say that
I was going to mention the Castigstor too.
Superb vid Nutbug, perfect length and great on the eyes.
6:41 ive never heard of this one. (Also thats a Castellan Knight kitbashed into a maybe Adeptus Titanicus scale which i now want to attempt cus that looks cool)
Seen that at forgeworld.
The Imperator Titan is the name of the first and more common variant of Emperor Titan, the other being the Warmonger, there isn't a class bigger than that.
The castigator Titan is actually the largest of all titans.
@@gundamcollector77 I was merely commenting tht the OP was wrong is placing an "imperator" titan bigger than the emperor and warmonger, Imperator and Wamronger being the names of the two types of Emperor class titans.
The Castigator is indeed bigger but there was ony one and it was piloted by an AI, and it got destroyed, I don't know if it has a place in that video.
The Apocalypse class
Somewhat surprised that Imperial Knights weren’t on the list. But then again, I guess they’re more of a “mech-suit”, rather than an actual Titan. Cool video!
Imperial knights are like battletech battlemech/omnimech in size and mass.Walking tanks .
A mekboy gargant is a bit smaller than a gargant and still considered titan class unit.... Eldar had a scout titan which name i cant remember.
Tech guard knights and ork stompas are too small to be considered titans, they are in the super heavy tanks class.
Some of this titan weapons are mounted on spaceships.
That shows... how strong having a navy is during combat for orbital support.
Especially since 40k factions usually love to do massive swarms as if they where on the year 200bc.
It is worth mentioning "mounted on spaceships" should be followed with "as secondary, tertiary or anti-fighter batteries". Basically no titan weapon has yet come even close to the power of a lance cannon mounted on anything larger than a cruiser (but then those lance cannons are bigger than Emperor class titans).
_"as secondary, tertiary or anti-fighter batteries"._
It's not always the case:
"A weapon of terrifying and indiscriminate power, the Sunfury Plasma Annihilator is capable of incinerating entire cityscapes and rendering the strongest armour into steaming vapour. Developed from designs intended for the *broadside batteries of void warships,* plasma annihilators such as the Sunfury are able to be mounted only on the largest of the Imperium's war machines, such as Battle Titans, as both the reactor-strength required to charge them and the motive power to wield them demand nothing less."
*-Forge World: Warlord Titan Sunfury Pattern Plasma Annihilator*
Even though such batteries normally hold dozens of such cannons with stronger reactors, titans still have some percentage of starship firepower.
_"Basically no titan weapon has yet come even close to the power of a lance cannon"_
It's a funny coincidence that lore already drew such comparison for Imperial knights:
"The Knight Castellan's dual plasma core fuels a frightening array of weapon systems, sufficient to make it a mobile artillery battery. Its awesome plasma decimator gouges the heart out of an enemy army, while the firepower of its volcano lance is comparable to *an Imperial Navy warship."*
*-Games Workshop: Knight Castellan*
"The Castellan’s other armament is the volcano lance. Possessing massive range and stopping power, this laser cannon is the bane of super-heavy war engines and beasts. It can core out a lumbering Squiggoth or behead an enemy Titan, and when several Knights Castellan open fire at once, the effect is commensurate with the *lance batteries of an Imperial Navy warship."*
*-Codex: Imperial Knights (8th Edition)*
Which is not a big suprise: Imperial Knights are known for their apocalyptic battles that can destabilize the planet's crust:
"A cloud of Ork Roks plummets to the surface of the Infernal Knight world Cobbran, home of House Qiln. Before the dust of impact has settled, dozens of Stompas bearing the mark of the Deathskulls emerge from the crude landing vessels and begin a lumbering march toward the nearest keep. Filled with outrage, the Chaos Knights stride out in mass to meet the invaders, forming a lance of over five hundred roaring war engines with which to charge head-on into their foe. *Such is the scale of the ensuing battle, so heavy the metallic footfalls and so destructive the barrages, that the tectonic crust of Cobbran shifts, leading to explosive volcanic activity.* Those Knights that are falled are quickly hacked to scrap by wide-eyed Big Meks. Meanwhile every Stompa that is toppled is dragged into the open lava flows by cults of Idolators loyal to House Qiln, and in profane rituals new, fully formed Chaos Knights are summoned into being from the bubbling slag."
*-Codex: Chaos Knights (8th Edition)*
And chaos cultist engineers can summon knights from the slag 💀
_"mounted on anything larger than a cruiser"_
At least titans can do this:
"There are very few enemies who can hope to stand against Myrimidon Maniple. Comprising of the mightiest battle titans, it boasts sufficient firepower to damage cruisers in low orbit"
*-Adeptus Titanicus Rulebook (2018)*
@@сесьсясь those are broadside weapons on cruisers, not battleships (battleships can mount them as part of its broadside, but usually find something larger). On battleships they are a secondary weapon at best, hence my original statement stands. Even on cruisers the broadside weapons can be argued to be secondary weapons, their primary weapon is often a prow mounted weapon of some sort.
Also consider this, a titan mounts 1 of them as its heaviest primary weapon. A line warship (cruisers and above) broadside is often a few dozen turrets, I some cases a few hundred (the larger battleships).
Remember the largest of titans are smaller than most fleet escorts (frigates and the like) and have generally comparable firepower to them (small escorts often only have a handful of broadside weapons). But considering a single light cruiser can given suitable time (hours, days at most) effectively render a planet lifeless, even fitting one of their secondary weapons on a ground vehicle is overkill. As for damaging cruisers in low orbit, naturally, they are using the same weapons as you find mounted on a cruiser to do it, cruisers can kill cruisers, so it's only fair a titan armed with a cruiser weapon can damage a cruiser (notice how they say damage, not cripple, not incapacitate, and definatly not destroy). The issue is what happens when the cruiser chooses to return fire.
Meanwhile Necrons: Here is a shard of an ancient godlike creature we tamed.
There is also the castigator titan which is much bigger than the top one of this list but, there was only one ever mentioned in lore.
Great video. Very informative
Great vid mate, keep it up!
The TOP of the TOP is surely the Titan of The Beast.
During the War Of The Beast (an Ork who was turning into a Krork), when the Primarch Vulkan was still alive and the Titans where product in mass, there's this super titan so big and so powerful than the Imperium must be forced to use ALL his Titan forces to fight it.
When THOUSANDS of Titans where destroyed during the fight, Vulkan, The Space Marines snd the Legions of Titans made an hole on the enormous Beast's Titan and they go INSIDE of that thing to bring the fight.
They said it was so big than even a Legion of Imperator Titans can be go inside on that thing without problem of space, and it was so high the none Titan can see the end of it.
That thing was insane! Even for Warhammer!
That's because GW and BlackLibrary have a terrible track record of keeping power scales consistent. At that point they could have called the mobile moons they built and called it a day.
Cool video, keep it up
Imperator in the lore - "giant robot with a city on its shoulders."
Imperator elsewhere - "yeah not that big"
The imperator isnt the biggests titan, that would be the castigator which only had one version built a long time ago. It got taken over by a chaos demon and took grey knights to take down
I mean, it developed its own AI first, then made a pact with one of the gods, and one of its guns shoots daemons.
@@themightyalpaca313 well yeah, its been a while since i heard anything about it
That's because it's a bit silly, really.
@@Wintershot Well... yeah...
@@leafy126.5 Good, old Alaric and his Smurfism 😉
when you get titan that big you may as well put legs on a naval ship.
Great vid. Very efficient. Missing castigator
I always thought they were bigger. I mean the 1st level of the Eiffel Tower is 200 feet tall (the top is around 1000ft) Seriously look at a picture of the Eiffel tower.......most of these Titans are walking under it by a lot! 100% none seen from space at these heights
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Imperial Titans are really epitome of "was that church always there."
everyones gansta until the cathedral start walking.
I always thought they were bigger based on the size of their guns on and stuff in dawn of war, though they are positively tiny compared to modern city buildings, I imagined them towering over buildings, but in reality they could all easily hide in a city.
Read Titanicus, even Warhounds crush entire city blocks after they've been fighting for a while. If you like Titans it's a very good story and really helps illustrate the power and size of them.
It should be noted, that the scale of Warhammer Titans is very conflicting with itself. There is source material ranging from the (conservative) estimates from this video, all the way to Warlord being multiple Kilometers high, dwarfing hive citys.
When a planet is so inhospitable you have to make a walking home 150 meters high.
So if one were to build an Imperator Class, it would scale to 7.69ft “mini” model…..right? 1:64 scale of a Classic Space Marine
timestamps for myself for what I came here for
1:15 Warhound Titan
2:07 Reaver Titan
3:28 Warbringer Titan (Nemesis Class)
4:18 Warlord Titan
5:10 Warmaster Titan
5:40 Imperator / Warmonger Titan (Emperor class)
6:38 Rare Imperatus Titan (Apocalypse class)
Damn those last one things are huge, I see them for the first time. Also I expected that there will be titan units from other factions (Tau and Necrons for example), but still it's a great a video!
Haven't kept up with the lore to tell what's up with Necrons but Tau famously can't build titans. They haven't reached that tech capability yet and they thought Titans were a myth at first because it seemed impossible to them.
That's why people enjoy the interaction between the Tau and older races. Because the Tau are the only race in rapid ascent whilst every other race bar Nids are long in descent, but the old races fell from such heights that they've forgotten more than the Tau ever knew, so you get these really jarring match ups.
Everyones gangster until the church starts walking
John gramaticus the perpetual has nightmares about the men of iron titans that were essentially planet sized army ants that would snip conquered worlds in half with their mandibles
tabletop fucked up the real sizes of this things XD if you read the books or listen audiobook then you hear clearly from the description that they are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay taller. ive seen a picture from old lore were an emperor class titan is bigger than the empire state building.
Canonically there are Tyranid bio titans capable of 1v1'ing the Emperor class titans. They must be pretty beefy.
For every emperor titan there are a billion Bio Titan
There's quite a lot of liberties taken with this video. We have no canonical size for the Emperor class Titan, which is divided between the Warmonger and Imperator, not the Emperor and Imperator. They are also roughly the same size since they are built on the same chassis with differences in weapons and roles, the Warmonger being an indirect fire support Titan, the Imperator a mainline Battle Titan. Last but not least you missed several classes including the Subjugator, Quesator, Castigator, Carnivore, Punisher, Mirage, Komodo, and Apocalypse Titan.
Everybody gangster until the church starts moving.
That 'rare Imperator' is actually know as the Apocalypse class Titan
I love your dialect and especially how you pronounce Aeldari. It's like silk or something. Where are you/your dialect from? If i can ask.
The warmonger should be the same size roughly as the imperator, its just another variant of it dedicated to long range fire support weapons
everybody's gangsta till the Church of doom starts blowing it's warhorns and walk forwards XD
Broo what the apocalypse class and the castigador those are badass too
Everybody gangsta 'till the church starts walking.
When a Wraithknight variant is shown instead of a Revenant titan. *smh in xenos*
You really need to run, when some church on the other side of battlefield starts to move.
Everyone forgets the Necron Seraptekh Heavy Construct.
Feel like an honorable mention to Castigator-class Titan should have been made.
Damn I really wanna get into this game!
Good old artwork from the classic epic 40k computer game. 😎
I think you might have used a pic of a wraith knight for the revenant elder Titan great video tho
I really thought the Heirophant biotitan would be... larger... like that one artwork of it fighting the imperial Guard made it look HUGE.
Those are the biggest, but the most dangerous ones are 2 orkz and the belief they can take a titan down
These are big but remember that there is a forgotten class of titan called the apocalypse class which was so big it could be seen from orbit, like the people on the ground could see less of the titan than the people in orbit
Would’ve been cool to compare number 1 with imperial ships
If you hear bells off in the distance then praise the mighty Emperor, you lived in the direction that Titan did not fire at.
Everybody gangsta until the church starts walking
1:51 in this picture, the gargant is against an emperor class Titan.
Anybody knows where the video with the Warlord Titan facing the Tau Crisis suits is from? Thanks in advance
People usually don't wanna mention the Castigator, but problem is that only 1 was ever constructed and it ended up getting possessed by a daemon so the grey knights had to destroy it, and its STC was lost to time
Kinda sad you didnt mention any necron stuff. A harvester and æonic orb would definitely be on the list
Some of these numbers are just utter bullshit. Their "official" sizes were massively shrinked down so they could sell model kits in a more practical scale. The lore never really gave definite numbers beforehand but just from artwork and book discriptions most would likely be at least twice as big as shown here.
You forgot the taunar :(
That last rare imperator titan looks like it can squish the heirophant like a cockroach lol
There's a Chaos Titan inbound. Squad, fix your bayonets.
I'm curious as to where the castigator class would fit
Warhound
Warbringer
Warlord
Warmaster
Warmonger
imagine u see a fucking walking cathedral aiming his guns at you xD
0:53 That is NOT a Revenant Titan but a Skathach Wraithknight.
Came to say this
Is there a specific group of units that are classified as titans? Bc theres no way that the Tau Stormsurge is smaller than all that.
Warhounds from legio Audax (world eaters) captured Imperor-class titan (ultramarines). Now i see difference of this titans and it`s huge!
Was the Mega Gargant used in Helsreach ?
You forgot to mention the Castigator
The first titan from the dark age of technology and the most powerful one by far
Your voice is almost the same as MindQ
40k needs new mech designers, they all look so silly
If you think they’re massive, the largest is one metre shorter than the Statue of Liberty somehow, to put it in perspective
Damn that rare imparator is really gigantic 😳
You used a wraithknight image for a Revenant titan?
You should have talked about the King Titan, the Imperiums Castigator Titan that was taken over by a Daemon
In M3, you go to church. In M42, the church goes to you.
Missed the taunar and if your including the harridan the manta, taunar is around 55 ft, and the manta has a 180 ft wingspan.
The Reaver text is wrong.
The heights seems wrong. Only slightly off but then again, depending on the forge world. Different titans have different heights.
If I recall, the warlord is 40m, the war master is the 60 and the emperor class titan ranged from 60m to 140m tall.
Might be wrong but this is what I recall from my reading and stuff. Also due to the inconsistency of scaling. Some sources even claimed that titans could be 200 meters tall
Imagine if an scribe mistyped the order to build 1 imperator titan to 10 imperator titan, the forge world would legit quit working
@@gajendrasinghchouhan7877probably. but then again, i think imperator titans no longer have the instructions to build them anyway
@@halfknight2310 nah, operator class Titans are still made but they are more of a propaganda thing than a warengine cause of the resources used in them, it takes 100s of years or sometime even 1000, the warlord Titans are much more cost effective and are the saving grace of legio titanicus
@@gajendrasinghchouhan7877 And i'm going to question that logic in 40k, like Starships are such a large scale ud you think that building a Titan should be more building in months rather than years when compared to the void ships?
@Ronan Christian A. Belleza you have to remember that this is the Imperium, were bureaucracy can legit fuck over an entire sector because a crucial cache of weapons got lost somewhere, and the only one that knew its location was incarcerated and lobotomized by the Inquisition because of them being a possible chaos infiltrate.
If anyone needs more scale, Godzilla is 400ft tall in New Empire, so that Rare Imperator is truly a beast.
You forgot the Castigator Class Titan, or Father of Titans.
okay okay okay okay. not an ork fan, but the garguants have a massive size range, from imperators to reavers. i dont think you re doing them quite the justice they deserve. Still a great video btw!
edit: rly sry i only commented this before watching 2:48.... very sorry!
You forgot the psi-titan. It's a modified Warlord, meaning it's a little bigger.
The Sinister Pattern Psi Titan is still the same size of a regular Warlord its just a specialized Sub-class
Isint there a Imperial AI Titan from the Dark Age of Technology which was Taller than the Imperator Titan but moved like the Elder Wraith Titan?
So found this on Wiki.
The Castigator-class Titan, also known as the "Father of Titans," was a highly-advanced relic of the Dark Age of Technology discovered upon the Forge World of Chaeronia in the 41st Millennium by the Grey Knights. It was a completely autonomous Titan, controlled by an artificial general intelligence, and it claimed to be the very first Titan ever built, from which all the patterns of Imperial Titans built by the Adeptus Mechanicus were derived, albeit far more crudely. Discovered upon the lost Forge World of Chaeronia, the artificially intelligent Castigator-class Titan was a completely autonomous bipedal weapons platform, the first and only one of its kind ever built. Called the "Father of Titans," the Castigator claimed to be the "original" Titan, as it was first designed during the Dark Age of Technology, and that all subsequent Titan designs were but crude, incomplete copies of it poorly understood and recreated by the ancient Mechanicum of Mars.
i always thought the "emperor class" and "Imperator class" titans are one and the same, just diff "naming" since its the same word just in diff languages... tbh the 60m/150m i thought was just some good old case of lore discrepancy due to alot authors having their hands in it XD
Rip the ground that the titan is walking at
At number 4 and up, how many crews does it take to run of these MOUNTAIN machine? I doubt one person can do it all.