It is important to remember the Titans rule of thumb: if you hold out your hand at arms length and put your thumb up centered on the titan and your thumb covers the titan, you are at a safe distance; if you can see the carapace weapons and arms, you have time to run; if you can see any more than that you have time to pray.
To be fair most of that things guns are easily capable of firing over the horizon. That's just artillery for ya. The plasma annihilator will probably be able to target things at the horizon, so likely 8 miles
There is something so true about that phrase, I don’t know what, but it’s heavy. Maybe cause people see the church as peace and love? And when it decided enough is enough and demolishes you with its faith beam...
@@azariel6669 Although you may have been close enough to still have all your skin burnt off by the immense heat of a Volcano Cannon shooting in your general vicinity. So you could still hear your own screams of agony whilst a kindly Commissar gives you ten seconds to get up or receive the Emporer's mercy. Gotta love 40K.
It's utterly terrifying how the return fire increases only when the titan's canon is powering up, because they know if they can't stop it now they have almost no chance of surviving the blast
@@bigblackjay900 it's likely fighting another titan in which case if the void shields are up it could survive, especially if it's just a grazing shot. I believe the big weapon we heard was a volcano canon or plasma canon.
@@bigblackjay900 Well, I mean... It could miss. Maybe their aim is slightly too high and the shot goes over their heads just far enough to leave them outside of the blast radius. Other than that, they are fucked.
Princeps: Weapons Moderati, do you see the enemy? Moderati: Aye Sir? Princeps: I don't want to! Moderati: Aye sir! *(Deep Bass Thrumming of Plasma Annihilator Warming Up)*
My favorite part about titans is some Tech-Priest decided "Hey guys, you know that really big mech we made for dad and his friends?" "Yeah, what about it?" "Make a flamethrower for it" "w h a t" "I have the most legs, make the fucking flamethrower" "fine fine geez"
@@kriegmusikkorps8768 would rather just send the ultramarines and cadian regiments then let nemeroth open a chaos portal while the forces meant to stop it commit suicide via enemy combatant
Funfact: the titan horns are not engaged by the pilots. The titans make that noise on their own. It is the angry bellow of an incredibly fucking pissed machine spirit.
@@thebighurt2495[Correction]: {Imperium of Man} does not have {Abominable Intelligence}(s). ++ Mechanicus utilize {Machine Spirit}(s). {Machine Spirit} ≠ {Abominable Intelligence}. ++ Please report to {Nearest Servitor Manufactory} if [Proof] of otherwise is [Found].
@janxd813 Imperial vehicles (including Knights, Land Raiders and Titans) have sometimes moved and fired without any crew aboard. The main gun on a Hydra Flak Tank swivels around and fires all by itself. Apparently the "Machine Spirit" inside just hates anything with wings on a *personal* level. "Machine Spirits" are definitely an actual thing. Whether they're just AI (and the AdMech have gaslighted themselves into thinking they're not), the influence of a dormant *actual* Machine God (the Void Dragon buried under Mars) or just straight *actual* ghosts in the Machine is debatable.
Friend of mine was telling me about a lore tidbit for 40k one day... Something about the Tau and their first military campaign against the Imperium of Man. They're successfully taking world after world and even fighting off space marines with their advanced battle suits. So, ya know, pretty successful campaign so far, all things considered. Then at some point they intercept some Imperial communications about Titans and they legit think its just some psyop. They do *not* believe that Titans could physically exist. Then, some months later, the Imperium giggles at the Tau with "you call _that_ thing a mech? THIS is a mech!" and they drop a Warlord Titan (which, evidently, *isn't even the biggest titan* somehow). And the Tau get BTFO'd so hard that they have to do intense research to develop anti-titan tactics. Titans singlehandedly broke the Tau's battle-hardened military because before the Tau were like "yeah, mankind is mostly poor factory workers with flashlights, tanks, and a handful of competent space marines" and then a fughuge warmachine the size of skyscrapers and the firepower/shields of an orbital destroyer drops from atmosphere to ensure that they have a very bad day.
Apparantly the Tau have taken out a few titans before with one of there most powerful tanks if I'm not mistaken. But commanding a Titan takes a huge toll on the driver I'm pretty certain most end up dying trying to maintain control of its machine spirit after to long.
I would fear the titan in close proximity more than the enemy if I was within close enough distance...fuck that...friendly fire casualties surely must be a thing when a titan let's loose.
I though Tau already have experience dealing with giant mech given they were fighting Orks for long times there's a chance they fought Stompa or Gargant Orks equivalent of Titans
That is a special type of black humor there, the thought of a princeps saying, "Helmsman, honk the horn at the Heretics, please." before proceeding to turn several companies of infantry, dozens of armored vehicles, and an entire section of a Hive into meer dust
@@herbderbler1585 The guardsman then wave at the titan. The princeps absent-mindedly "waves" back, inadvertently shooting down an orbiting enemy Battleship
The thing is, he could easily have destroyed the heretics with a "regular" shot from his Plasma Annihilator, but he went for a fully charged "fuck this entire battlefield" shot anyways. While they likely didn't even tickle one of his 12 capital ship grade Void Shields with the sum of their artillery fire.
I love how at 0:16 when that horn sounds to signal that the cannon is charging, you can hear that whoever is shooting at it starts to fire frantically in a vain attempt to stop it.
The increasingly frantic sounds of the field guns as they all start firing at will trying to stop the inevitable, the tearing roar of the Titan’s Inferno weapons, and the utter _silence_ in its wake followed by the triumphantly grim war-horn gives me chills every single time. I wish there was an animation that did these impossible monstrosities justice. They are the closest thing you’ll get in 40k to seeing an Imperial starship traversing a planet’s surface. And yes, that includes the Ordinati.
You know those cannons are strong when apparently every 1000 shots it has to be changed over even tho the metal it's made of is apparently indestructible. Goddamn scorched earth is all that's gonna remain...wonder how loud it is ..prob burst your air drums from 100km away.
And being the driver is a death sentence pretty much...fighting the machine spirit that strong takes its toll after awhile....not many can pilot Titans if I'm not mistaken.
Titans in Universe: Gods of the Battlefield. Titans on the Tabletop: "I just dressed my 3-year-old up. As it was cheap than buying the plastic model and painting it. Timmy put that down. That Guardsman is on your side. Pick up the ugly green one over there."
No, Tim, you died in a hail of Doomweaver fire, you can't go over there. Lie down by that Manufactorum and try to get that Predator detachment a 3+ cover save.
@@2bnot178 yeah,definently along those lines. This in a movie,just to show the devastation a titan can unleash would be glorious and soul rending visceral in the horror it could produce
I'd probably have a Mechadendrite with a density higher than that of Adamantium. EDIT: And when I say adamantium, I mean Dark Age of Technology quality adamantium, as in the individual crystals are like Lincoln Logs.
titans have advanced and ancient reality warping technologies built into them that literally allow them to ignore the square-cube law - to an extent. Gravitic weaponry and psykana have nasty effects on titans.
@@Jeff-zf6zz *Meanwhile inside the literal mobile Church Titan that'll demolish them like ants* *Currently using binocular to watch at the Taus running away* "Oi, brother, they're running away now, it's gonna be tiresome to hunt them down one by one, well, atleast tis feels like a good day today to purge."
This is the most beautiful music I ever heard. _''Cause the aliens could never be... as good as human kind. A more delightful race than us you'll never ever find...''_
from 0:13 onwards you can hear all the flak being fired at the Titan like the banging of a drum, the traitors desperately try to destroy this war machine as it's main gun charges up. How fucking terrifying,
@@johndickson377 Nova Cannon is what the Imperial Navy uses to ruin someone's day at extreme stand off range, I think what we are talking about here is a weapon called the Plasma Annihilator, which basically hurls a small sun down range. They are extremely rare weapons, mounted on Emperor class titans and I believe the technical knowledge for their construction is long lost, so when a Titan carrying one is deployed, you KNOW this is serious
"The Tau Empire has a response to everything the Imperium can throw at us" *First encounter with Titan Legion* "The Tau Empire needs to entirely re-write its tactics, also we need to build big robots"
@@TacoSallust idk if you consider how many guardsmen are normally within a army at any given time, chances are you could get them all to fire at the air and hit something vital with all that dakka
@@TacoSallust >Imperium has no air defenses. The Warmonger Titan Its the second known class of Emperor titan. Its main role is long range fire support, and instead of the Cathedral thats on the back of the Imperator, it has 2 giant Anti Air Gattling guns, along with several smaller anti Air batteries (enough that it only has 4 backup weapons instead of 6 like the Imperator) Hell technically we've never seen them, but an emperor Titan class of basically aircraft cruisers holding Lightnings and other Imperium Air Support was plained to exist, and considering we have shit like Apocalypse Titans (which may be bigger than Emperor Titans) thats not beyond the pale of having priorly existed (possibly in the DAOT) or could still possibly exist. I hate he plot armor the Tau have
@@TacoSallust >no air defenses During a battle the imperial guard deploys, like armour, thousands upon thousands of fighters and bombers to fight. So much, that the sky is obstructed
Sometimes I feel bad for the imperium, hearing about monstrous bio titans, hideously destructive ork gargants, or massive horrific demons all eager to devour/kill/slaughter humans. Then I remember they have titans.
A kicker in the gut is the fact most imperium techs are degrading, slow but surely and they have little to now way of rediscovering them back not to mention the Emperor's corpse is decaying more than ever, they would be at some point where Imperium would ultimately be nothing but food to the xenos. Hm? Someone's knocking my door and I kinda hear something about Inquisit- Oh fuc
@M.Rifki That condemned throne is keeping him from using his Perpetual genes to resurrect into at least a usable body. Blasted tech priests and BDSM elves...
@@TemplarBlonic To be fair though we don't actually know how long it would take for the Emp's Perpetual genes to kick in and actually ressurect into a body, even an hour delay would cause tremendous problems for the entire Imperium. As it is, until they can find a way to minimise extreme losses during the time the astronomicon is down and the daemons start pouring en masse on Terra, turning off the Golden Throne so the Emperor can self-revive is a really bad idea.
So apparently emperor class titans have drop pods and one was even deployed on istvaan I believe Edit: “Temeter saw a huge shadow dropping towards the horizon on pillars of retro-rocket fire, and then felt the earth tremble like a struck bell. Every Astartes in the bunker left the floor for a split second, and he heard the ferrocrete roof crack with the shockwave. The captain peered out and saw a massive cylinder standing upright in a shroud of steam, some distance beyond the zone where the drop-pods had put down. It was easily the size of a hive-city habitat block, guidance fins still glowing cherry-red with the heat of re-entry. There came the mighty moan of stressed metals and the sides of the cylinder fell away, trailing flexible pipes and streams of white vapour. From inside the monstrous drop-capsule came the hooting call of battle-horn, and then planes of steel and iron emerged from the smoke to become a colossus bristling with armour and guns. The ground resonated with each thunderous footfall as the Imperator-class Titan strode towards the Choral City.” Flight of the Eisenstein, page 166
Y’know I already thought that emperor class titans were the single most badass thing I’ve yet to see out of 40k and then you go and tell me the imperium DROPS THEM FROM ORBIT Damn Titanfall 40,000 sounds awesome! When is it coming out?
Btw, the same titan that dropped out of the sky was able to survive an explosion that set the planet's atmosphere on fire. Some of the most badass weapons in the 40k universe. XD
I love how these sounds tell a story: an enemy firing at the Titan, giving away their position. Then the Titan turns to them, bellows out a blast from its war horn, and begins charging its plasma annihilator. When the enemies hear the capacitors spooling up, they desperately fire everything they have at the Titan, hoping in vain to stop what’s coming. The capacitors reach their full charge and their devastation is unleashed in the form of a miniature sun pouring forth onto the battlefield, wiping from existence any trace of the traitors. Their guns fall silent, reduced to atoms, as the Titan pauses for a moment, its princeps surveying the vast swathe of glowing glass and ash he just created. Relative quiet falls across the battlefield, broken only by the sound of dancing flames, the blaring of a far-away siren, and distant sounds of a never-ending battle stretching beyond the horizon.
And as the Princeps surveyed the carnage that he had bestowed upon those foul traitors, as he observed what the heretics had brought upon themselves, he said only one thing. *"The Emperor Protects."*
I know in the ultimate apocalypse mod there is a titan quote that is announced over their intercom that goes along the lines of "IMPERATOR CLASS TITAN IS NOW IN MOTION. ALL UNITS - STAND ASIDE." Yeah I would get the hell out of the way too.
@@mt4592 I mean... the Tripods would've still evaporated humanoid beings by their essential heat-ray rapidly, the shields are kinda unstoppable unless the biogenic diseases infected the martians
I read somewhere once an account from a guardsmen who had a mental breakdown upon waking to the sound of a Plasma Annihilator ripping apart a whole army. They look up and see the Titan, a god engine that until that point they thought were only a myth and notices a swarm of aircraft circling it desperately like wasps pestering a gorilla. They see the thing charge its cannon again to destroy a cruiser in low orbit and are driven insane by the sheer size, the scale and the animalistic Roar of the titan that seems to bring a new sense of fear to the heretics staring down the barrel of thousands of metric tons of divine wrath.
Man, I really want a game where you play as Secutarii, the Titan-guard. They are specific form of Skitarii, bound in service to the titan legions. They form the foot soldiers of the Collegia Titanica, keeping enemy infantry from over running the god-engines as they focus on bigger prey. Additionally the are tasked with guarding off-duty titans and penetrating deep into battlefields, often behind enemy lines, to recover the Moderati and Princeps of fallen titans, living or dead. Princeps are exceedingly rare individuals, barely 1 in 10 million are able to even begin training and few of them will ever complete it, as such the titan legions will expend countless Secutarii if there is even the slightest hope of recovering one after the fall of their titan. One of the cooler things that's mention in one of the Imperial Armour books is that they magnets built into their hands and feet, allowing them to ride the feet and legs of the titans as they take a colossal step.
This is actually my alarm clock now. Nothing beats waking up to the imagined smells of toxic levels of lingering ozone after a Plasma Annihilator has erased everything in a 30km+ cone in front of you.
Imagine the last thing you ever saw and heard was a walking church shooting a beam of light at a target that was 50 kilometers away from you with a literal miniature sun and you were stupid enough to not be in cover so you are deaf and your eyes have been burned out of your sockets, your military clothes catch fire while everyone around you is praying and crying and commiting suicide from what you all just witnessed. And then it charges up again. Ladies and gentlemen, we call that a tuesday in the 40k universe.
Actually, the deployment of Titans is still a pretty big deal, even for WH40k. Mostly because the threshold that needs to be reached to justify their deployment is pretty high; like, a Company of Astartes and several Armoured Regiments of Guardsmen can't succeed at an objective. In the WH40k-verse, this is a Monday. Slightly suckier than most days, but still fairly standard.
@@Bill.Papadakis As far as the Adepta Mechanicus are concerned, that's not their problem. The Ordo Exterminatus on the other hand... _they_ get the un-fun job of deciding whether destroying a world and the resources thereon is a viable solution.
To be fair I think the ranking is more like: armored guard, astartes company, heavy astartes battalion, imperial knight detachment, then titans. So a titan engagement is the monthly manager meeting. 🤣
I like to think that all the gunfire and artillery being fired after the horn being honked is all the enemies force's directing their attention to the Titan and as they hear it's weapon charge up, the increase in rate of fire is their desperation trying to stop it before they become vaporized. The silence becomes deafening after they fail
Yeah after I read your comment and relistened to it that's definitely my headcanon because if you listen to it, it's just regular gunfire until the Tripo...um Volcano Cannon starts to wind up and then the gunfire goes berzerk as if everyone's like "SHIT SHOOT IT!" and all that's left afterwards are the alarms and stomping. I don't know if it was the creators intention but I can 100% see how you heard that.
I imagined the titan walking into combat range; the artillery going off are its cannons, providing covering fire for the ground troops. The horn declares its entrance to the fight - and a warning to friendlies. Duck. Bury your face into the ground, the sunfury is about to fire, don't look up, or you'll go blind. The weapon charges up, the guardsmen stop fighting to take cover where they can. Marines keep fighting. Weapon discharges and the guardsmen sees nothing but the purest white light, even though he's buried himself in his arms and cover. The titan keeps firing and takes another step forward. Guardsmen gets up to charge.
The tau empire: our ingenuity is proven to repel anything from the imperium’s arsenal *a titan pulls up* The tau empire: our ingenuity is proven to repel SOME things from the imperium’s arsenal
Tau after creating something to counter Imperators: Now nothing there is the Imperium can throw at us that we can't counter Imperium calling the navy: Admiral, do you see that Tau planet? I don't want to see it anymore.
Fun fact, Titans can roar at people: a pure animalistic release of a Titan's machine spirit's desire to fight and destroy anything that dares stand in its path. And remember that the STCs that contain Titan designs were made back during the dark age of technology. While the style of their fortress battlements might have changed with time, their core technology wouldn't have; because that would be blasphemous. Which means that way back when, long before the cult mechanica or any of the culture and trappings of 40k existed, some engineer decided that what the sixty meter tall war machines really needed to be able to do, was ROAR at people. And everyone else immediately agreed with that guy too and worked the feature into every Titan design in existence.
Some Titans could even become sentient and there have been instances, where a Titan continued to operate independently after its entire crew are killed
The only downside to these walking war machines is that when entering into an urban hive city. The crew must have to use nearly all of their ammunition and carefully traverse through the destroyed buildings. But hey, like that one Baneblade tank commander once said “Driver, you see that wall over there?” “Yes, Commander.” “I don’t want it.” “Yes, Commander.”
They also need to watch out for the troops below, you dont want an entire platoon of space marines to go crunch because you got just a little too close
@@therealbubble4696 If you know anything about warhammer. Is that they do not care about you. Unless they have confirmed space marines or any other high value units. Guardsmen are stomp worthy to them.
First time I heard about Warhammer: "So you tell me... There are walking churches with fucking LAZER DEATH BEAMS?" My friend: "Yeps, and that's not even the most crazy part." Me: "Say no more, I am sold already."
"No weapon in the arsenal of the Imperium or the Traitor equals the Titan on the battlefield, and a Legion of such vast war machines can bring any world to its knees. In truth, a Titan has only three enemies: folly, hubris, and another of its own kind." - Grand Master Volkus, Ordo Sinister of the Divisio Militaris
Grand Master Volkus is somewhat an insanely powerful individual, even when compared to the high lords of Terra. This man single-handedly commands the Ordo Sinister; a titan legion that is super OP even in titan legion standards considering their warlord classes are literally walking nightmares and they have a total of 12 imperator class titans ready for deployment. Even then, he doesn't have the kind of arrogance you'd typically find in someone who controls other titan legions.
Haha orbital lance batteries go shhhwooodoink... Also with a reasonably small chance - "shdow blade" super-heavy tank if it's piloted by tank aces and has a terrain advantage.
@@Vladimir_Fedorov27 pretty sure a Titan’s void shields are capable of shrugging off an orbital bombardment. They’ll definitely overload as a result, but voidships don’t tend to have a very fast reload.
@@retroknightnotlive6929 when it comes to 40k, the Tau are sort of like your 'standard' sci fi empire. They're for the most part reasonable and logic oriented, so when they heard reports of 'starship sized giant walkers' they originally dismissed titans as propaganda/etc. Then the first walking cathedral with starship guns showed up planetside and things got tense. Until the tau realized most titans can't shoot up.
I don't think it's possible for the human brain to imagine or rationalize just how incredible and shocking the battles between titan legions that the Horus Heresy sparked were. But I truly wish I could
Imagine a fuck ton of this guys trembling the battlefields as you stood their below them at trench like ants. Yeah that's you guardsman and front of you are heretical space lunar wolves marine
Tau generals : Titans aren't real, they are just propaganda to scare us, pfff our mechs are better and more real! *Titan sirens and loud walking* Tau general : I reckon this is it, we are fucked.
People like to ignore in that stupid story it was a war hound titan that got taken down which going off lore and specs only has a 90mm thick hull which isn’t really strong for modern standards and it’s the smallest class of titan
"We fought for decades to protect our hive sect. The once silver sky was now blacker than the carapaces of those Tyranid abominations. The ironclad blue marine stood, as stoic as he was ferocious in battle, the roar of his weapon was nearly deafening as it turned the enemy front lines into viscera- But that was nothing compared to what I can only imagine was the very fist of the Emperor himself. Ripping into the materium, a hulking mass of machinery simply was among us. This city sized behemoth began to rain fire upon our enemies with a conchophony of planet cracking force. Unbreakable and unyielding torrent of bolter shells, missiles and promethium. When I felt the quake of the first shell hit the ground, I dropped to my knees in prayer, knowing that the level of devastating that humanity can create is a terrible thing, and I wished for nothing more than this memory to be ripped from my mind."
Jeez, the deep noise the cannon emits as it powers up, a death sentence to anyone in the cannon's general direction, it made me almost feel bad for the heretics as they desperately tried to take down the titan
0:14 when Titan scans the whole Battlefield in a second and deems you as an aggressor so, starts to charge up his obliterator cannon to send the whole battlefield to oblivion.
Have you read the Gaunts Ghost story "The Armour of Contempt"? That's exactly how I imagine the frontal assault on Gereon by Dalin Criid and the RIP troops would be like
Well, boarding actions against Titans are a thing, which is why some very big Titans like the Imperitor subclass of the Emperor class, actually have troops garrisoned onboard and point defense weapons in the knees and lower legs
in 5th Edition i Had Kharn the Betrayer charge a Warhound and dealing enough 6's on its damages that the Warhound had lost his Structure points and had a Catastrophic Meldown... The Titan Exploded, hitting everything in a 18" radius, wich was part of a Dark Angels Ravewing( half of it) and 1/4 of an Imperial Fist defense Line and some of my own units... Oblitirating EVERYTHING!!!!, and Kharn somehow survived this ( rolled a 1 on the roll for the explosion to Wound him) and then proceeded to go and engage another unit after that... Kharn is an Absolute madlad.
0:23 the charging up of the laser is haunting, imagine a giant laser being pointed at you that is the size of 4 schoolbusses, not much you can do there
different people interpret it differently but i dont think the guns you hear at the start are the titan. As the description implies: defense guns attack the titan. That gets the titan's attention and it starts charging its massive plasma cannon. The defenses start frantically shooting everything they have at titan hoping to take it down before it has charged its weapon, but they fail and the titan blows them away leaving only silence and the sound of fire.
"Despise infantry if you must. Crush them underfoot, by all means. But do not ignore them. Battlefields are littered with the wreckage of Titans whose crews ignored infantry." *一Grand Master Ferromort, Ordo Sinister, Divisio Militaris*
@@gigachad9016 There are worse jobs in the 40k universe. At least a guardsman is likely to die relatively quickly. A psycher is basically living candy for demons and xenos abominations who will not only kill you slowly and horrifically, but then torment your soul for potentially an eternity.
Look at it like Luke taking down an AT-AT with a grappling hook, a lightsaber and a grenade. Sure, they aren't a severe threat, unless they possess something that could have an effect on the Titan. They can walk straight through the Void Shields protecting the Titan and access its feet, so if it's stationary and the infantry go undetected, they could set off explosives that, even if they can't pierce the armour of the Titan, they could definitely blast out the ground from under its feet, causing it to fall. Imagine it, being in this giant war machine, and suddenly the ground beneath the feet of your behemoth machine is blasted away, dropping the entire thing into the ground. Sure, it could maybe climb out again, but it would definitely distract it and halt it's fire, meaning whatever it was shooting at when it was so distracted would have free time to do something.
I mean you're not wrong, Warhammer 40K has like all the most destructive and absolutely bonkers arsenal in the sci fi genre like for example a Necron Dynasty(forgot their name) literally have an orb that depicts every star and planet in the entire galaxy and when they just touch a star or a planet in the orb the real star or planet just explodes and all its inhabitants die but luckily this Necron Dynasty actually cares about life and they only ever use the orb in the most extreme cases.
@@NinthRomance Compared to the Culture though, even the necrons are adorably quaint. The Culture's preferred way of war, when it must be done, is to scour planets clean using antimatter contained in an effector-manipulated grid controlled by a sentient starship from several hundred lightyears away. ... and the Culture is a mid-tier power at best in their series.
@@SerLagsalot eh, Chaos just unleashes a Warpstorm over an entire System that can last for thousands of years, just to have fun a bit. What WH40k lacks in Tech to be Top Tier in Sci Fi, they compensate it with Magic, Space Hell and the Power of Imagination.
Titans... built in the image of a church because everywhere they go is a funeral.
Damn. That’s clever lol
Patrick Brown I like the way you think
This. Needs. More. Likes.
Patrick is fucking cool.
Grimly accurate.
Other Sci-Fi: Well, we want things to look cool, but we should make it seem like they are plausible.
40k: MECHA CHURCH WITH BIG GUNS!
Well, in 40K Immaterium makes such factors as faith and coolness convert into firepower B) . So, the design choices make sense B)
Wh40k is not science fiction. This is a fantasy in a space setting.
Kind of hard to argue about realism in a universe full of daemons.
@@robertnelson9599 and heretics
With fitting circumstances, all possibilities are plausible.
"Yo derrick"
"Yeah andy?"
"Honk the horn at them again, the shit themselves lmao"
god dammit this got me cracking up way more than I think I would
"honk at them"
It is important to remember the Titans rule of thumb: if you hold out your hand at arms length and put your thumb up centered on the titan and your thumb covers the titan, you are at a safe distance; if you can see the carapace weapons and arms, you have time to run; if you can see any more than that you have time to pray.
If your thumb can't cover space between titan's legs, congrats: it appears it is allied titan.
To be fair most of that things guns are easily capable of firing over the horizon. That's just artillery for ya.
The plasma annihilator will probably be able to target things at the horizon, so likely 8 miles
Correction, if you see it, you have time to pray
@@Galdenberry_Lamphuck
The plasma annihilate just targets the horizon.
@@sizzle_x1305 Correction-Correction: You see it, accept you're fate.
Everybody gangsta til the church starts walking
And everybody prays after the church charging up the laser
There is something so true about that phrase, I don’t know what, but it’s heavy. Maybe cause people see the church as peace and love? And when it decided enough is enough and demolishes you with its faith beam...
Nah I’d say that’s a Monastery
@@JohnSmith13334 nah it's more like the whole damn Vatican
Best comment I've seen in my life
If you hear these sounds on the battlefield, it means the titan wasn't pointing its guns at you.
It also means you were far enough away to keep your hearing
@@azariel6669 So true!
@@azariel6669 Although you may have been close enough to still have all your skin burnt off by the immense heat of a Volcano Cannon shooting in your general vicinity. So you could still hear your own screams of agony whilst a kindly Commissar gives you ten seconds to get up or receive the Emporer's mercy. Gotta love 40K.
Coincidentally, the official name for this war machine is the "Fairchild Republic A-10 Titan II."
The emperor protects!
It's utterly terrifying how the return fire increases only when the titan's canon is powering up, because they know if they can't stop it now they have almost no chance of surviving the blast
Almost?????????!!!!!!!!!
@@bigblackjay900 it's likely fighting another titan in which case if the void shields are up it could survive, especially if it's just a grazing shot. I believe the big weapon we heard was a volcano canon or plasma canon.
@@bigblackjay900 Well, I mean... It could miss. Maybe their aim is slightly too high and the shot goes over their heads just far enough to leave them outside of the blast radius.
Other than that, they are fucked.
Always gives me goosebumps
@@monsterhunter310 Something with that charge up would more likely be a Plasma Annihilator, or a Hellstorm Cannon Spinning up
"Have you seen me today?"
"It is impossible not to see you, princeps."
"It's impossible to kill me, as well. Remember that, Grimaldus."
That titan's revival and second, final death were such powerful scenes.
@@user-co3uc8vt7e
"I stood until the end"
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
IT IS THE TRUTH!
THEN THE TRUTH...IS UNACCEPTABLE.
If only the plasma cannon held for a bit longer…. My StormHerald
dies to a trashcan
Don't wanna go to church? No problem.
*THE CHURCH WILL FIND YOU.*
I don't know why but that sounds like something that would happen in russia
Princeps: "Excuse us, fellows, do you all have a minute to talk about our Lord and Savior, the God-Emperor of Mankind?"
@@vishnu79 You mean the Man-Manperor of Mankind? The Big E?
@@vishnu79*Omnissiah
@@arnantphongsatha7906 *The Void Dragon
Titan: Exist
Enemy: *Doesn't*
Princeps: Weapons Moderati, do you see the enemy?
Moderati: Aye Sir?
Princeps: I don't want to!
Moderati: Aye sir!
*(Deep Bass Thrumming of Plasma Annihilator Warming Up)*
Underappreciated comment
Inb4 the Enemy (whoever that may be) has deployed their own titan(s) as well.
@@theinquisitor8112
*Necrons aeonic orb shows up*
that is the best description of an imperial titan i've read
My favorite part about titans is some Tech-Priest decided
"Hey guys, you know that really big mech we made for dad and his friends?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Make a flamethrower for it"
"w h a t"
"I have the most legs, make the fucking flamethrower"
"fine fine geez"
LOL "I have the most legs"
I’m dying, this is hilarious.
actual question. would that not mean some tech priest invented something? are you implying they had a case of... heresy?
@@eccomi21 Hmm, good question! I'm just a scribe, but you can probably ask them yourself.
@@eccomi21 make something brand new, yes heresy.
Changing something that already exists, no heresy
I love how no matter what and which era of civilization youre in,Siren sounds are still soundly scary to hear
Their design is frightening by human nature. They are a universal constant
Brother in christ is not wearing the NMR logo as a pfp
As a swede I would like to hear your explination
It mimics screaming and panic. There's no sound better to warn humans than a siren like this
@@unitone6851 I am so confused too. I hope it's a misunderstanding
why do you have the nordic resistance movement flag as your pfp
Strategic Value: Absolute
Exterminatus?
@@dkilgu82 Negative, Strategic Value Absolute
@@retrowave762 what about a fast war of 20 or so years, we send the Korps of Krieg.
@@kriegmusikkorps8768 would rather just send the ultramarines and cadian regiments then let nemeroth open a chaos portal while the forces meant to stop it commit suicide via enemy combatant
@@retrowave762 For the Emperor!
You hear that?
That sounds like... THE GLORY OF MANKIND
"Ah Love the smell of Plasma In the Mornin'... Smells Like, THE EMPEROR!"
PRAISE THE EMPORER!
I imagined this being spoken in VOX
CADIA STANDS
Bruh
Funfact: the titan horns are not engaged by the pilots. The titans make that noise on their own.
It is the angry bellow of an incredibly fucking pissed machine spirit.
This is the kind of stuff that bugs me when Tau players go on about having AI
The Imperium effectively does, too, it's just angry
@@thebighurt2495[Correction]: {Imperium of Man} does not have {Abominable Intelligence}(s). ++ Mechanicus utilize {Machine Spirit}(s). {Machine Spirit} ≠ {Abominable Intelligence}. ++ Please report to {Nearest Servitor Manufactory} if [Proof] of otherwise is [Found].
The primary difference between Tau and imperial artificial intelligence is imperial AI feels only hate
So the machine spirit is a thing? I always thought it was some mechanicum nonsense
@janxd813 Imperial vehicles (including Knights, Land Raiders and Titans) have sometimes moved and fired without any crew aboard.
The main gun on a Hydra Flak Tank swivels around and fires all by itself. Apparently the "Machine Spirit" inside just hates anything with wings on a *personal* level.
"Machine Spirits" are definitely an actual thing. Whether they're just AI (and the AdMech have gaslighted themselves into thinking they're not), the influence of a dormant *actual* Machine God (the Void Dragon buried under Mars) or just straight *actual* ghosts in the Machine is debatable.
Friend of mine was telling me about a lore tidbit for 40k one day...
Something about the Tau and their first military campaign against the Imperium of Man. They're successfully taking world after world and even fighting off space marines with their advanced battle suits. So, ya know, pretty successful campaign so far, all things considered. Then at some point they intercept some Imperial communications about Titans and they legit think its just some psyop.
They do *not* believe that Titans could physically exist.
Then, some months later, the Imperium giggles at the Tau with "you call _that_ thing a mech? THIS is a mech!" and they drop a Warlord Titan (which, evidently, *isn't even the biggest titan* somehow). And the Tau get BTFO'd so hard that they have to do intense research to develop anti-titan tactics.
Titans singlehandedly broke the Tau's battle-hardened military because before the Tau were like "yeah, mankind is mostly poor factory workers with flashlights, tanks, and a handful of competent space marines" and then a fughuge warmachine the size of skyscrapers and the firepower/shields of an orbital destroyer drops from atmosphere to ensure that they have a very bad day.
Apparantly the Tau have taken out a few titans before with one of there most powerful tanks if I'm not mistaken.
But commanding a Titan takes a huge toll on the driver I'm pretty certain most end up dying trying to maintain control of its machine spirit after to long.
I would fear the titan in close proximity more than the enemy if I was within close enough distance...fuck that...friendly fire casualties surely must be a thing when a titan let's loose.
The Tau still have to learn a lot about the hell they exist in.
I though Tau already have experience dealing with giant mech given they were fighting Orks for long times there's a chance they fought Stompa or Gargant Orks equivalent of Titans
@Morgan Sutherland a warhound in indomnitus II crusade got a leg blown off by a manta rail gun after its shields were battered by missile strikes
I love that the "BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" is just some ultimate chad titan pilot telling his crew to "honk the horn at them".
That is a special type of black humor there, the thought of a princeps saying, "Helmsman, honk the horn at the Heretics, please." before proceeding to turn several companies of infantry, dozens of armored vehicles, and an entire section of a Hive into meer dust
IM DYING !!! XDDDDD
Now I imagine a bunch of guardsmen on a hilltop safely out of the Titan's path, doing the pull-down gesture kids do to trucks on the freeway.
@@herbderbler1585 The guardsman then wave at the titan. The princeps absent-mindedly "waves" back, inadvertently shooting down an orbiting enemy Battleship
The way I think of it is the rage of the titan's machine spirit causing it to roar at the heretics.
40k lives were sacrificed to retrieve this audio log.
A small price to pay.
Knowing the AdMech and the Ministorum’s stagnancy, I believe that.
Are we talking civilians or guardsmen? I always confuse the two
@@emilioblanco2803This, "civilian" creature does not exist in the Imperium of Mankind, guardsman.
Now get back to your post.
@@generalirons9789 Yes Comissar! At once!
The thing is, he could easily have destroyed the heretics with a "regular" shot from his Plasma Annihilator, but he went for a fully charged "fuck this entire battlefield" shot anyways. While they likely didn't even tickle one of his 12 capital ship grade Void Shields with the sum of their artillery fire.
"Fuck these particular heretics"
"fck these heretics in particular"
I love how at 0:16 when that horn sounds to signal that the cannon is charging, you can hear that whoever is shooting at it starts to fire frantically in a vain attempt to stop it.
"Buildings are the most useless pieces in a game"
The Rook:
You dork, go back to the chess club
@In the halls of madness, dwells a mad philosopher. Todd
@@Pandaoniman exactly lol
Holy terra My entire perspective of chess has changed for the better
Clearly the Titan was based off the Rook from a popular board game named „Chess”
2020: Rebels attack the city.
40k: The city attacks the rebels.
Underrated 😂
In our timeline people attack city's
In Soviet Imperium of Mankind city's attack people.
By rebels you mean HERITICS!!!!
@@skimpadimp6373 more like degenerates.
We are talking about all the BLM and antifa rioters right ?
@@danialyousaf6456 Heretics, degenerates whats the difference here?
The increasingly frantic sounds of the field guns as they all start firing at will trying to stop the inevitable, the tearing roar of the Titan’s Inferno weapons, and the utter _silence_ in its wake followed by the triumphantly grim war-horn gives me chills every single time.
I wish there was an animation that did these impossible monstrosities justice. They are the closest thing you’ll get in 40k to seeing an Imperial starship traversing a planet’s surface.
And yes, that includes the Ordinati.
You know those cannons are strong when apparently every 1000 shots it has to be changed over even tho the metal it's made of is apparently indestructible.
Goddamn scorched earth is all that's gonna remain...wonder how loud it is ..prob burst your air drums from 100km away.
And being the driver is a death sentence pretty much...fighting the machine spirit that strong takes its toll after awhile....not many can pilot Titans if I'm not mistaken.
Titans in Universe: Gods of the Battlefield.
Titans on the Tabletop: "I just dressed my 3-year-old up. As it was cheap than buying the plastic model and painting it. Timmy put that down. That Guardsman is on your side. Pick up the ugly green one over there."
i can see that happen with a baby titain.
That's honestly not a bad idea.
Cheaper to have the three year old too...
Making a baby and rising it is cheaper than purscase a titan model.
No, Tim, you died in a hail of Doomweaver fire, you can't go over there. Lie down by that Manufactorum and try to get that Predator detachment a 3+ cover save.
"Hooray, it's the Catholic Church!"
*Titan shows up*
"Oh no, it's the Catholic Church..."
Jampolo
Everyone gangsta until The Church starts walking
i think alucard would this toy
We are here to save you... from yourselves
It's a Titan dedicated to the God Emperor of Man, not some "katolik" thing! Your heresy has been reported to the inquisition.
Seras? Add that to my christmas list, hope the bitch reads it this time...
-The Crimson Fucker
I can imagine a scripture on the Titan's forehead reading "If you can read this, you're fucked".
Lol, sounds like that Titan drops with the Angry Marines.
@@jacobcoleman4216 Angry Marine Titan... now I'll never get rid of the nightmares..
Memento Mori
@@Eisen_Jaeger In the Angry Marine lore they do actually, no joke, they have their own Titan legion of angry Titans
@@King-jp8sx well there goes the neighborhood :P
The eerie part isn't even the Titan, it's the thought something so horrible has come that it's necessitated a Titan to be there firing off rounds.
Could also have been deployed as a show of force, both the imperium and the mechanicus have done this before
POV: You're an ork armed with a choppa and a shoota
DAZ A GOOD FOIGHT!!!
WAAAGH! *proceeds to charge towards the titan*
And ya' can't get any bettah dhan dat! _WAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!_
Alright but can you imagine this in a movie theater
No, but hoping it would be close to describing it as "cosmic horror"
Yes!
Humans verses titans
@@2bnot178 yeah,definently along those lines. This in a movie,just to show the devastation a titan can unleash would be glorious and soul rending visceral in the horror it could produce
I'd probably have a Mechadendrite with a density higher than that of Adamantium.
EDIT: And when I say adamantium, I mean Dark Age of Technology quality adamantium, as in the individual crystals are like Lincoln Logs.
"Gunners, do you see those heretics before us?"
"Yes my Princeps."
"I don't want to anymore"
"Yes my Princeps."
"Charging the Nova cannon now."
" Engine Kill"
"Engaging onboard void shield generators."
"Do you see those xeno cowards?"
"Affirmative"
"Fix that"
Do you see those Orks now make them into a paint
Blessed by Priests of Steel!
Forged in the fires of zeal!
Immortal armor of the Emperor's will!
None shall oppose as they fulfill!
Damn you can just feel the desperation when you hear all those big guns started to increase the rate of fire on the titan
They know they have only moments. Why bother saving ammo? It'll either waisted fighting, or glassed with them. >XD
Hit the dirt and suddenly find religion.
“Square cube law? Bitch I am the law”
-The Titan probably
Titan don't give a shit
Praise the Machine Spirit!
The titans say “fuck your physics״
@@yanivgalmor1747 necrons: what is physics?
titans have advanced and ancient reality warping technologies built into them that literally allow them to ignore the square-cube law - to an extent. Gravitic weaponry and psykana have nasty effects on titans.
Ethereal: "Oh, don't worry about it, not even the Imperium would waste resources like that."
Fire warrior: "Hey is that church getting closer?"
Yes, pay attention to the Titan, xeno... pay attention to the Titan.
"What church? We don't have churches in this pla- Oh fuck we don't have churches in this planet....
.... EVERYTAU RUN!!!!!"
@@Jeff-zf6zz Don't run. You'll only die tired.
@@Jeff-zf6zz *Meanwhile inside the literal mobile Church Titan that'll demolish them like ants*
*Currently using binocular to watch at the Taus running away*
"Oi, brother, they're running away now, it's gonna be tiresome to hunt them down one by one, well, atleast tis feels like a good day today to purge."
Would be really bad until a light flyer with a railcannon trashes the titan's legs
This is the most beautiful music I ever heard.
_''Cause the aliens could never be... as good as human kind. A more delightful race than us you'll never ever find...''_
2022: A church.
40K: Super hyper-reinforced metallic composite ultra-energy dense beam spitting chaos spirit of all Mankind.
from 0:13 onwards you can hear all the flak being fired at the Titan like the banging of a drum, the traitors desperately try to destroy this war machine as it's main gun charges up. How fucking terrifying,
Sent chills down my spine. Imagine looking down the barrel of that thing, no Chaos God is gonna save you.
Who's to say it's not a Chaos Titan? lol
@@joseresendez7802 maybe man. either way it's terrifying.
And the "firing" portion of it sounded like a space bound rocket during take off.
It's only terrifying if you're a heretic
0:19 wait is that the sound of a solar cannon charging up?
oh no ._.
It sounds like Godzilla 2014's atomic breathe charging up.
@Abaddon The Despoiler plasma cannon
Nova cannon
@@johndickson377 Nova Cannon is what the Imperial Navy uses to ruin someone's day at extreme stand off range, I think what we are talking about here is a weapon called the Plasma Annihilator, which basically hurls a small sun down range. They are extremely rare weapons, mounted on Emperor class titans and I believe the technical knowledge for their construction is long lost, so when a Titan carrying one is deployed, you KNOW this is serious
Plasma Annihilator
“Sir we have good news”
“What is it”
“The enemy are retreating”
“What do you mean that’s terrible news, MORE FIREPOWER LEAVE NOBODY ALIVE”
"Do not let them slip away!"
-last orders given to a Jetbike Squadron in any White Scar victory
"No sir, you are mistaken, they have retreated from our troops... and now are in optimal range"
"Oh. Well, start with that next time. Fire at will."
First time hearing any of this war hammer stuff and all I gotta say is this fucks HARD
Welcome brother, the Emperor protects
"The Tau Empire has a response to everything the Imperium can throw at us"
*First encounter with Titan Legion*
"The Tau Empire needs to entirely re-write its tactics, also we need to build big robots"
Plot armor had them using Mantas to kill Titans during the Damocles Crusade. Imperium has no air defenses, after all.
@@TacoSallust idk if you consider how many guardsmen are normally within a army at any given time, chances are you could get them all to fire at the air and hit something vital with all that dakka
@@TacoSallust >Imperium has no air defenses.
The Warmonger Titan
Its the second known class of Emperor titan. Its main role is long range fire support, and instead of the Cathedral thats on the back of the Imperator, it has 2 giant Anti Air Gattling guns, along with several smaller anti Air batteries (enough that it only has 4 backup weapons instead of 6 like the Imperator)
Hell technically we've never seen them, but an emperor Titan class of basically aircraft cruisers holding Lightnings and other Imperium Air Support was plained to exist, and considering we have shit like Apocalypse Titans (which may be bigger than Emperor Titans) thats not beyond the pale of having priorly existed (possibly in the DAOT) or could still possibly exist.
I hate he plot armor the Tau have
TacoSallust Hydra Flak Tanks
@@TacoSallust >no air defenses
During a battle the imperial guard deploys, like armour, thousands upon thousands of fighters and bombers to fight. So much, that the sky is obstructed
Sometimes I feel bad for the imperium, hearing about monstrous bio titans, hideously destructive ork gargants, or massive horrific demons all eager to devour/kill/slaughter humans. Then I remember they have titans.
Death to the the enemies of man! Glory to the Emperor! Glory to the Omnissiah!
A kicker in the gut is the fact most imperium techs are degrading, slow but surely and they have little to now way of rediscovering them back not to mention the Emperor's corpse is decaying more than ever, they would be at some point where Imperium would ultimately be nothing but food to the xenos.
Hm? Someone's knocking my door and I kinda hear something about Inquisit- Oh fuc
@M.Rifki
That condemned throne is keeping him from using his Perpetual genes to resurrect into at least a usable body. Blasted tech priests and BDSM elves...
@@TemplarBlonic To be fair though we don't actually know how long it would take for the Emp's Perpetual genes to kick in and actually ressurect into a body, even an hour delay would cause tremendous problems for the entire Imperium.
As it is, until they can find a way to minimise extreme losses during the time the astronomicon is down and the daemons start pouring en masse on Terra, turning off the Golden Throne so the Emperor can self-revive is a really bad idea.
@@TemplarBlonic if he got off the throne a warp tear would engulf terra
Tripod: *toots horn*
Warlord Princeps: That's cute, let me show you mine.
So apparently emperor class titans have drop pods and one was even deployed on istvaan I believe
Edit: “Temeter saw a huge shadow dropping towards the horizon on pillars of retro-rocket fire, and then felt the earth tremble like a struck bell. Every Astartes in the bunker left the floor for a split second, and he heard the ferrocrete roof crack with the shockwave. The captain peered out and saw a massive cylinder standing upright in a shroud of steam, some distance beyond the zone where the drop-pods had put down. It was easily the size of a hive-city habitat block, guidance fins still glowing cherry-red with the heat of re-entry. There came the mighty moan of stressed metals and the sides of the cylinder fell away, trailing flexible pipes and streams of white vapour. From inside the monstrous drop-capsule came the hooting call of battle-horn, and then planes of steel and iron emerged from the smoke to become a colossus bristling with armour and guns. The ground resonated with each thunderous footfall as the Imperator-class Titan strode towards the Choral City.”
Flight of the Eisenstein, page 166
Y’know I already thought that emperor class titans were the single most badass thing I’ve yet to see out of 40k and then you go and tell me the imperium DROPS THEM FROM ORBIT
Damn Titanfall 40,000 sounds awesome! When is it coming out?
@@halenranville5847 that titanfall would flatten everyone else in the immediate area, winning the game instantly for the one who gets to drop first 😂
Btw, the same titan that dropped out of the sky was able to survive an explosion that set the planet's atmosphere on fire. Some of the most badass weapons in the 40k universe. XD
So that's how they deploy a mech that big
@@0liver_Clothesoff they also use giant drop ships too
POV: You're a planet that decided to skip prayer day
Knock knock
That and/or decided not to pay there taxes
Been a while since I last saw you chief, how u been?
Hello
oh my god i haven’t seen you in years and just started getting into 40k lmao
I love how these sounds tell a story: an enemy firing at the Titan, giving away their position. Then the Titan turns to them, bellows out a blast from its war horn, and begins charging its plasma annihilator. When the enemies hear the capacitors spooling up, they desperately fire everything they have at the Titan, hoping in vain to stop what’s coming. The capacitors reach their full charge and their devastation is unleashed in the form of a miniature sun pouring forth onto the battlefield, wiping from existence any trace of the traitors. Their guns fall silent, reduced to atoms, as the Titan pauses for a moment, its princeps surveying the vast swathe of glowing glass and ash he just created. Relative quiet falls across the battlefield, broken only by the sound of dancing flames, the blaring of a far-away siren, and distant sounds of a never-ending battle stretching beyond the horizon.
And as the Princeps surveyed the carnage that he had bestowed upon those foul traitors, as he observed what the heretics had brought upon themselves, he said only one thing.
*"The Emperor Protects."*
It was not a war horn. It was the machine spirit getting angry.
This the war poetry I crave, thank you
Dude, I read this while listening to the video, fucking goosebumps.
Perfect! Awesome dude!
I know in the ultimate apocalypse mod there is a titan quote that is announced over their intercom that goes along the lines of "IMPERATOR CLASS TITAN IS NOW IN MOTION. ALL UNITS - STAND ASIDE." Yeah I would get the hell out of the way too.
Awesome quote. I remember reaver class titan quote from Apoc mod "I. AM. APOCALYPSE" when it's finished building.
Strategic Value: Euphoric.
War of The Worlds Tripod upon seeing Titan: “You know, guys, Mars ain’t so bad.”
The irony being that so many Titans are built on Mars
@@weldonwin basically all of them right:D
@@mt4592 I mean... the Tripods would've still evaporated humanoid beings by their essential heat-ray rapidly, the shields are kinda unstoppable unless the biogenic diseases infected the martians
@@WindiChilliwack i know:) i replied to weldonwin about where the titans are built mate:)
Mars is a freaking desert warzone covered in rogue automatons and runaway weapon projects in WH40k.
I read somewhere once an account from a guardsmen who had a mental breakdown upon waking to the sound of a Plasma Annihilator ripping apart a whole army. They look up and see the Titan, a god engine that until that point they thought were only a myth and notices a swarm of aircraft circling it desperately like wasps pestering a gorilla. They see the thing charge its cannon again to destroy a cruiser in low orbit and are driven insane by the sheer size, the scale and the animalistic Roar of the titan that seems to bring a new sense of fear to the heretics staring down the barrel of thousands of metric tons of divine wrath.
What's interesting is that there was likely a guardsman next to him that got an erection instead
@@slimey630 There are two types of people.
@@darinae34 if ever there was a moment for this meme... it was this one.
Do you by chance remember the source for that?
@@ArchAngel119 i do actually. Its from this Video ua-cam.com/video/_Vu2nlAZm1U/v-deo.html
Man, I really want a game where you play as Secutarii, the Titan-guard. They are specific form of Skitarii, bound in service to the titan legions. They form the foot soldiers of the Collegia Titanica, keeping enemy infantry from over running the god-engines as they focus on bigger prey. Additionally the are tasked with guarding off-duty titans and penetrating deep into battlefields, often behind enemy lines, to recover the Moderati and Princeps of fallen titans, living or dead. Princeps are exceedingly rare individuals, barely 1 in 10 million are able to even begin training and few of them will ever complete it, as such the titan legions will expend countless Secutarii if there is even the slightest hope of recovering one after the fall of their titan.
One of the cooler things that's mention in one of the Imperial Armour books is that they magnets built into their hands and feet, allowing them to ride the feet and legs of the titans as they take a colossal step.
I'd love to play a game where you play as a Titan, like in the Force unleashed where you basically feel like a god.
Sometimes you go to church. Sometimes, church goes to you.
the machine spirit after it fired its main cannon
"I AM ANNIHILATION. I AM A GOOD BOY"
Who’s a good Emperor class titan yes you are
SCP reference Is Good. Cyanic Is a Good boy.
That eerie silence after the Titan’s main cannon is as beautiful as it is terrifying.
You just know everybody stopped what they were doing and stared.
@@monicajewinsky corpses cant stare
@@Yuuker implying that anything is left from that blast
Blast pressure does this.
@@H33t3Speaks more like the things that were attacking the Titan no longer exist
Ayo the charging of its canons sound like legendary godzilla charging his atomic breath
This is actually my alarm clock now. Nothing beats waking up to the imagined smells of toxic levels of lingering ozone after a Plasma Annihilator has erased everything in a 30km+ cone in front of you.
Imagine the last thing you ever saw and heard was a walking church shooting a beam of light at a target that was 50 kilometers away from you with a literal miniature sun and you were stupid enough to not be in cover so you are deaf and your eyes have been burned out of your sockets, your military clothes catch fire while everyone around you is praying and crying and commiting suicide from what you all just witnessed.
And then it charges up again.
Ladies and gentlemen, we call that a tuesday in the 40k universe.
Actually, the deployment of Titans is still a pretty big deal, even for WH40k. Mostly because the threshold that needs to be reached to justify their deployment is pretty high; like, a Company of Astartes and several Armoured Regiments of Guardsmen can't succeed at an objective.
In the WH40k-verse, this is a Monday. Slightly suckier than most days, but still fairly standard.
@@anthonylamonica8301 not to mention that the world needs to be deemed worthy enough to avoid a full on exterminatus
@@Bill.Papadakis As far as the Adepta Mechanicus are concerned, that's not their problem. The Ordo Exterminatus on the other hand... _they_ get the un-fun job of deciding whether destroying a world and the resources thereon is a viable solution.
To be fair I think the ranking is more like: armored guard, astartes company, heavy astartes battalion, imperial knight detachment, then titans. So a titan engagement is the monthly manager meeting. 🤣
@@PrincepsImperator So...the second and third War for Armageddon.
I like to think that all the gunfire and artillery being fired after the horn being honked is all the enemies force's directing their attention to the Titan and as they hear it's weapon charge up, the increase in rate of fire is their desperation trying to stop it before they become vaporized. The silence becomes deafening after they fail
Yeah after I read your comment and relistened to it that's definitely my headcanon because if you listen to it, it's just regular gunfire until the Tripo...um Volcano Cannon starts to wind up and then the gunfire goes berzerk as if everyone's like "SHIT SHOOT IT!" and all that's left afterwards are the alarms and stomping. I don't know if it was the creators intention but I can 100% see how you heard that.
H O N K
@Derick Howard are you a fuckin heretic!? We don’t feel bad for killing heretics
I imagined the titan walking into combat range; the artillery going off are its cannons, providing covering fire for the ground troops. The horn declares its entrance to the fight - and a warning to friendlies. Duck. Bury your face into the ground, the sunfury is about to fire, don't look up, or you'll go blind. The weapon charges up, the guardsmen stop fighting to take cover where they can. Marines keep fighting. Weapon discharges and the guardsmen sees nothing but the purest white light, even though he's buried himself in his arms and cover. The titan keeps firing and takes another step forward. Guardsmen gets up to charge.
@@yeoboshong As someone with no experience with WH40K what's a sunfury?
I'm imagining a squad of guardsmen doing the "blow the horn" motion at the titan like they're a trucker and going crazy when the princeps obliges.
War of the Worlds tripod ...*sounds horn* . Humanity: "oh yeah???" 0:13
One cannot imagine the pure terror of seeing one of these on the battlefield
Even friendly guardsmen cannot comprehend the power of these titanic war machines
chaos lmao dont feel terror
@@anxietydisorders5917 they will when they feel the wrath of the emperors holy God machines
@@anxietydisorders5917 Actually, a great many chaos Marines do.
They know if they fail their soul.goes off to be devoured by their patron god.
Imagine a Lord of Change breaking apart a Titan...
The tau empire: our ingenuity is proven to repel anything from the imperium’s arsenal
*a titan pulls up*
The tau empire: our ingenuity is proven to repel SOME things from the imperium’s arsenal
Tau after creating something to counter Imperators: Now nothing there is the Imperium can throw at us that we can't counter
Imperium calling the navy: Admiral, do you see that Tau planet? I don't want to see it anymore.
I hear Godzilla's atomic blast charging up
0:39 subtitles "happy titan noises :3"
Fun fact, Titans can roar at people: a pure animalistic release of a Titan's machine spirit's desire to fight and destroy anything that dares stand in its path.
And remember that the STCs that contain Titan designs were made back during the dark age of technology. While the style of their fortress battlements might have changed with time, their core technology wouldn't have; because that would be blasphemous. Which means that way back when, long before the cult mechanica or any of the culture and trappings of 40k existed, some engineer decided that what the sixty meter tall war machines really needed to be able to do, was ROAR at people.
And everyone else immediately agreed with that guy too and worked the feature into every Titan design in existence.
A man after my own heart.
Some Titans could even become sentient and there have been instances, where a Titan continued to operate independently after its entire crew are killed
@@weldonwin there was the castigator titan whith an AI inside too no ?
Nothing wrong with a good roar. The stuka dive bombers had that dive siren that freaked people out.
You gotta love nerds, right? Only a nerd engineer or someone that's drunk would think of something like that.
The only downside to these walking war machines is that when entering into an urban hive city.
The crew must have to use nearly all of their ammunition and carefully traverse through the destroyed buildings.
But hey, like that one Baneblade tank commander once said “Driver, you see that wall over there?”
“Yes, Commander.”
“I don’t want it.”
“Yes, Commander.”
They also need to watch out for the troops below, you dont want an entire platoon of space marines to go crunch because you got just a little too close
@@therealbubble4696 If you know anything about warhammer. Is that they do not care about you. Unless they have confirmed space marines or any other high value units. Guardsmen are stomp worthy to them.
@@bigfella9034 Guardsman, yeah, for one that dies 50 stand but there may be valuable units under you too, so there's still the factor
@@therealbubble4696 They might pull them out before the arrival of the titans. And replace them with guardsmen.
@@bigfella9034 Depends on the heat of battle, sometimes an evac is too risky
First time I heard about Warhammer:
"So you tell me... There are walking churches with fucking LAZER DEATH BEAMS?"
My friend:
"Yeps, and that's not even the most crazy part."
Me:
"Say no more, I am sold already."
When your dad sneezes 😂😩😫😵
"No weapon in the arsenal of the Imperium or the Traitor equals the Titan on the battlefield, and a Legion of such vast war machines can bring any world to its knees. In truth, a Titan has only three enemies: folly, hubris, and another of its own kind."
- Grand Master Volkus, Ordo Sinister of the Divisio Militaris
Grand Master Volkus is somewhat an insanely powerful individual, even when compared to the high lords of Terra. This man single-handedly commands the Ordo Sinister; a titan legion that is super OP even in titan legion standards considering their warlord classes are literally walking nightmares and they have a total of 12 imperator class titans ready for deployment. Even then, he doesn't have the kind of arrogance you'd typically find in someone who controls other titan legions.
Haha orbital lance batteries go shhhwooodoink... Also with a reasonably small chance - "shdow blade" super-heavy tank if it's piloted by tank aces and has a terrain advantage.
@@Vladimir_Fedorov27 pretty sure a Titan’s void shields are capable of shrugging off an orbital bombardment. They’ll definitely overload as a result, but voidships don’t tend to have a very fast reload.
Well lorgar survived confrontation with a titan like that, and angron lifted the leg to prevent it from mushing them. Primarchs are insane
@@philippek96 to be fair, that was a Warhound, the smallest of Titans. Still impressive, not gonna lie.
tau therapist: “imperial titans aren’t real, they can’t hurt you”
imperial titans:
"Big talk for someone in plasma annihilator range."
With how the tau advanced their tech in such a long time, we might see tau titans being created too
I don't get this meme, do the Tau heavily fear Imperial Titans? I don't know a lot about the Tau, so don't mind my ignorance.
@@retroknightnotlive6929 when it comes to 40k, the Tau are sort of like your 'standard' sci fi empire. They're for the most part reasonable and logic oriented, so when they heard reports of 'starship sized giant walkers' they originally dismissed titans as propaganda/etc. Then the first walking cathedral with starship guns showed up planetside and things got tense. Until the tau realized most titans can't shoot up.
@@finnheisenheim8274 Don't they have anti-Titan battlesuits already? Stormsurge I think was the name.
Keep in mind kids, that horn is beyond deafening
When you found a spider in your closet:
-Yes, princeps, this city over here.
Underrated
I think WH40K is the most badass fictional universe ever created
Its every corner is absolute, unadulterated death metal.
It is. And it's 30+ years old now, so it is also old as Emperor himself. Which means it's very detailed, and it is.
It is
You are correct sir.
You think that because it factually is.
The sheer desperation of the gun fire towards it is what makes this so great!
Everybody was harmed in the making of this audio
I don't think it's possible for the human brain to imagine or rationalize just how incredible and shocking the battles between titan legions that the Horus Heresy sparked were. But I truly wish I could
One day we'll see it on the big screen in all its glory. I have no doubt of that.
horus heresy best warhammer, you cant change my mind
Imagine a fuck ton of this guys trembling the battlefields as you stood their below them at trench like ants. Yeah that's you guardsman and front of you are heretical space lunar wolves marine
@@torpenhigalak5909 woud be better to be a tempestus skitarii in magmacity
I once heard that Titans within Like 5 km of each other Is basically knife fighting range. Really give some scale to this beasts
Tau generals : Titans aren't real, they are just propaganda to scare us, pfff our mechs are better and more real!
*Titan sirens and loud walking*
Tau general : I reckon this is it, we are fucked.
Tau: *Brings out Tiger Shark AX-1-0's*
@@slinkerdeer Space Marines : *yow, bring out the Battle Barge*
@@slinkerdeer *racks exitus rilfe* yeah yeah whatever *splatters the gunner with a turbo penetrator* Aight princeps, go wild.
Tau general: ah, it appears that bluff was in fact, not a bluff.
People like to ignore in that stupid story it was a war hound titan that got taken down which going off lore and specs only has a 90mm thick hull which isn’t really strong for modern standards and it’s the smallest class of titan
The path to Terra will be paved with broken worlds - Dies Irae, Legio Mortis
"Fuck everything in that general direction"
Understood. Eliminating that general direction.
Understood. Emperor's children will fuсk everything there.
"We fought for decades to protect our hive sect. The once silver sky was now blacker than the carapaces of those Tyranid abominations. The ironclad blue marine stood, as stoic as he was ferocious in battle, the roar of his weapon was nearly deafening as it turned the enemy front lines into viscera-
But that was nothing compared to what I can only imagine was the very fist of the Emperor himself.
Ripping into the materium, a hulking mass of machinery simply was among us. This city sized behemoth began to rain fire upon our enemies with a conchophony of planet cracking force. Unbreakable and unyielding torrent of bolter shells, missiles and promethium. When I felt the quake of the first shell hit the ground, I dropped to my knees in prayer, knowing that the level of devastating that humanity can create is a terrible thing, and I wished for nothing more than this memory to be ripped from my mind."
Amongus
@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 Understandable, have a great day.
Hello there!
The Silent King: that's cute.
There is an imperator titan among us.
Jeez, the deep noise the cannon emits as it powers up, a death sentence to anyone in the cannon's general direction, it made me almost feel bad for the heretics as they desperately tried to take down the titan
I dont know man that sounds pretty heretical to me
Imagine how people felt when the titan could rapid fire back then...
keyword: "almost"
@@Reignor99 exactly
That sound effect is used in Godzilla 2014 and Godzilla King of The Monsters 2018
0:14 when Titan scans the whole Battlefield in a second and deems you as an aggressor so, starts to charge up his obliterator cannon to send the whole battlefield to oblivion.
Everybody a gangsta, till the church starts walkin
Imagine, saving private ryan style cinematography but with warhammer level chaos.
Just inject it directly into my bloodstream
If they can get it right the first place .
Youd end up getting ptsd by just watching it lmao
A cosmic wetdream
Have you read the Gaunts Ghost story "The Armour of Contempt"? That's exactly how I imagine the frontal assault on Gereon by Dalin Criid and the RIP troops would be like
That one Chaos marine... “HIT THE TITAN WITH YOUR BLADES!!”
Well, boarding actions against Titans are a thing, which is why some very big Titans like the Imperitor subclass of the Emperor class, actually have troops garrisoned onboard and point defense weapons in the knees and lower legs
in 5th Edition i Had Kharn the Betrayer charge a Warhound and dealing enough 6's on its damages that the Warhound had lost his Structure points and had a Catastrophic Meldown...
The Titan Exploded, hitting everything in a 18" radius, wich was part of a Dark Angels Ravewing( half of it) and 1/4 of an Imperial Fist defense Line and some of my own units...
Oblitirating EVERYTHING!!!!, and Kharn somehow survived this ( rolled a 1 on the roll for the explosion to Wound him) and then proceeded to go and engage another unit after that...
Kharn is an Absolute madlad.
IT DIDNT WORK SIR! HALF THE COLUMN JUST GOT STEPPED ON BY IT!
weldonwin they also have hundreds of anti personell weapons on the titan itself
weldonwin that things which stationed inside their knees can destroy small army or very Heavy class tank easily
0:23 the charging up of the laser is haunting, imagine a giant laser being pointed at you that is the size of 4 schoolbusses, not much you can do there
That’s one small titan.
I could pray.
I love the sound difference from the two different guns because of the sheer width of a titan.
different people interpret it differently but i dont think the guns you hear at the start are the titan.
As the description implies: defense guns attack the titan. That gets the titan's attention and it starts charging its massive plasma cannon. The defenses start frantically shooting everything they have at titan hoping to take it down before it has charged its weapon, but they fail and the titan blows them away leaving only silence and the sound of fire.
"Despise infantry if you must. Crush them underfoot, by all means. But do not ignore them. Battlefields are littered with the wreckage of Titans whose crews ignored infantry."
*一Grand Master Ferromort, Ordo Sinister, Divisio Militaris*
Guardsman is the worst job in any fictional universe ever
@@gigachad9016 There are worse jobs in the 40k universe. At least a guardsman is likely to die relatively quickly. A psycher is basically living candy for demons and xenos abominations who will not only kill you slowly and horrifically, but then torment your soul for potentially an eternity.
Look at it like Luke taking down an AT-AT with a grappling hook, a lightsaber and a grenade. Sure, they aren't a severe threat, unless they possess something that could have an effect on the Titan. They can walk straight through the Void Shields protecting the Titan and access its feet, so if it's stationary and the infantry go undetected, they could set off explosives that, even if they can't pierce the armour of the Titan, they could definitely blast out the ground from under its feet, causing it to fall. Imagine it, being in this giant war machine, and suddenly the ground beneath the feet of your behemoth machine is blasted away, dropping the entire thing into the ground.
Sure, it could maybe climb out again, but it would definitely distract it and halt it's fire, meaning whatever it was shooting at when it was so distracted would have free time to do something.
@@gigachad9016 no, that was the servitors.
Well the bigger titans got literal bunkers and strong points with skitharii to prevent bording actions and other mambo-jambo.
"We are here to save you!"
"Yay! It's the church!"
"FROM YOURSELVES!"
"Oh no, it's the church."
Wait! Did you guys bring your holy books?
"No"?
We're *fucked*
Did you just make a hellsing abridged reference
@@dragonraptor9756 What's hellsing abridged?
@@Magnusfury24 My child, you must learn today of one of the greatest abridged series to ever bless current day man
Hellsing abridged, that’s what you love to see
The heat and light from the main guns tends to kill or maim allies on the ground...it's certain annihilation of the enemy.
If you won’t go to church, then by the Emperor the church will come to you!
Avengers: we have a Hulk
Star Trek: we have starfleet
Star Wars: we have Deathstar
Warhammer 40k: we got them all
I mean you're not wrong, Warhammer 40K has like all the most destructive and absolutely bonkers arsenal in the sci fi genre like for example a Necron Dynasty(forgot their name) literally have an orb that depicts every star and planet in the entire galaxy and when they just touch a star or a planet in the orb the real star or planet just explodes and all its inhabitants die but luckily this Necron Dynasty actually cares about life and they only ever use the orb in the most extreme cases.
40k: we have primarks
40k be like that's cute
@@NinthRomance Compared to the Culture though, even the necrons are adorably quaint.
The Culture's preferred way of war, when it must be done, is to scour planets clean using antimatter contained in an effector-manipulated grid controlled by a sentient starship from several hundred lightyears away.
... and the Culture is a mid-tier power at best in their series.
@@SerLagsalot
eh, Chaos just unleashes a Warpstorm over an entire System that can last for thousands of years, just to have fun a bit.
What WH40k lacks in Tech to be Top Tier in Sci Fi, they compensate it with Magic, Space Hell and the Power of Imagination.
this 1 minute long sound mix with a mere picture is giving me more goosebumps and awe than the most full length movies come out these days.
Perfect description.
This audio makes me manically happy in only a way a little child gets to be when they find a sharp stick.
They sound like Reapers from Mass Effect
I love it
everybody gangsta till Cathedral starts to walk
The Combination of a Mass Effect Reaper horn and Godzilla charging blast is a tad absolutely terrifying.
the sound effects at 0:13 and 0:38 make me feel something good
It's the hatred for heretics burning in your heart. It always feels good.
Godzilla eat your fucking heart out!
Eargasm
Sounds like the reapers from mass effect
The only thing a fear is the emperor class titans
Knowing the lore, just hearing these sounds is scary, because if a titan landed on the planet, then you are most likely already dead
Everybody Gangsta Till the Church starts Walking
0:39 "Engine kill. Omnissiah be praised."