Imperial Armour! Baneblade Super Heavy Tank - Fortress Of Steel And Arrogance. Warhammer 40k Lore
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2023
- The mighty Baneblade is 316 tons of super heavy tank with twin main weapons in excess of 550 millimeters! It's a super siege gun on tracks and the God Emperor's wrath made manifest! All enemy's of humanity shall tremble as the very earth does beneath it's treads
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Ah yes, the baneblade. The most common armored vehicle deployed by the Blood Ravens.
They've probably stolen enough.
@@user-zv2vm8bd8hThey probably recovered the one hundred bane blades that were sent off by a random commisar to....Emperor knows where.
@@user-zv2vm8bd8h i believe you mean "borrowed"
@user-zv2vm8bd8h Hey! Slow down there.
They where not "Stolen"!!
No one was using them when they where "Found" in a Regimental Storage Depot.
IT IS THE BAAAAAANEBLAAAAADE!
Newbies reading the Baneblade's armaments: "Wow that's so overkill"
40K veterans reading the Baneblade's armaments: "That... MAY be sufficient."
Edit: Very impressive and comprehensive explanation for a lot of tank-combat terminology. Respect! Came for Warhammer lore, stayed for the knowledge.
seconds that , loved how he touched on the standard different armour structures used to reduce anti armour munitions effects.. its like when someone presenting trivia of a hydro dam project touches on the basics for the generators ...helps keeps peoples minds fresh with trivia both of general society function way as much as the physics behind it.. or in this armour presentation of arch case counters , counter counters , and offensive use of the thing ^^
Orks: Need more Dakkkaaa Waaaargghhhhh!!!!
So true. Just tried a couple of test runs in epic, the presence of other super heavy tanks, Knights and titans makes the baneblade feel like a main battle tank at best.
Newbies reading about the Baneblade: "That's a crazy gun and crazy armor compared to an M1 Abrams!!'
40K IG player: "The armor and firepower on this "land-ship" is a little light, doncha think?"
Tau Player: "Why hello there" *fires hammerhead railguns*
It need more firepower
For that rare circumstance where Titans just aren't subtle enough.
Creed sends his regards.
Someone looked at a titan that fell over looked at a tank that lost its turret and said:
"Ya I think I can weld that gun onto that hull....."
And the reason we now only have 360° makes alot of sense all other directions have been removed
@@WarriorVirtue Stealth... Titans...
@@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 CREEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Standing by to unleash eleven barrels of hell!"
--The commander of a Baneblade
Mine have 25. I think.
IT IS THE BANEBLADE!!!
The ultimate expression of Imperial Tanks! The truest example of Imperial might made manifest. An armored fortress with just as much guns to allow it annihilate anything the 41st millennium can throw at it save for Titans.
Actually if i recall right there is a variant of the Baneblade called Shadowsword designed to kill titans. They have to work as a group of course, but even titans arent safe to ignore a Baneblade.
There currently are 4 patterns of Baneblade that are designed specifically to be a Titan killer, the Banesword, Fellsword, Shadowsword and Stormsword. The keyword “Sword” in a Baneblade pattern itself is more of a categorisation, Baneblade pattern with the prefix “Sword” are described to be a self-propelled artillery, or more commonly known as Titan killers, whereas other category pattern of Baneblade like the “Blade” in the Baneblade that prioritises balanced speed, armour and firepower to be more of a main battle tank role in the battlefield, the “Sword” pattern entirely commit to focusing on an overwhelming single-focused firepower, they carry the heaviest of the heaviest of weapon available at the expense of every other factor, like the Shadowsword that carry the Volcano Canon that was only known to be carried by the Warlord, Reaver and Imperator class Titan.
Baneblade is probably the most versatile super heavy armament the Imperium have, and the best part it, there’s plenty of them to go around when compared to the Titans where each and every single one of them are unexpendable and irreplaceable, losing even a single Titan would be a huge loss for the Imperium, while at the time it took to lose a single Baneblade, 5 of them are already remade in the nearest Forge world, there are billions of them and hundreds of thousands of them are produced each day, except for the special few rarity like the Ordinatus Minoris class.
Who needs to manifest living saints into existence, when you can build an avatar of imperium itself
and to thing Yarik survived being run over by one of these...
A 280mm cannon would be large enough to put your head into it, while the Sturmtiger's 380mm mortar for example was large enough to be used as an emergency exit.
I have seen a photo of a WW1 German artilleryman sitting inside the barrel of a 38cm railway gun with his head sticking out the muzzle. It looked cramped and I suspect he was a little fellow, but even so... 38cm is seriously wide!
I think he mistook diameter for circumference.
You can never go wrong with tanks, and by the standards of the Dark Tech Age humans, this is the appropriate amount of firepower for any scout vehicle.
I've always wondered what sort of performance they'd have had back then. They're kinda slow to be scouts in the 40k timeline but they're canonically described as scout vehicles for the dark age.
@@thomascranor2668 well their scouts in the sense that you might as well just destroy as much of the enemies shit as you can while you are over there
@@epicassassin8502so it's 40k's answer to the legendary Steiner Scout Lance.
@@thomascranor2668canonically? Source? I'm genuinely curious.
As funny as this meme is, I'm pretty sure it's not actually true. I've never seen any actual source for the claim that the Baneblade was meant to be a Scout Vehicle. Realistically, a Dark Age scout vehicle should be some kind of super-fast stealth jetbike with super-powered sensors. Now, the idea that it was supposed to be a mass-produced regular main battle tank of the Dark Age sounds more plausible while also still being ridiculously over-the-top.
The only downside to a fortress is that it is immobile.
Attach some tracks and you get a Baneblade.
GW used to make an actual fortress with tracks. It would be pretty damn cool if they revamped it and brought it back.
@@michaelhowell2326 I've been around since 4th, and I don't remember that.
@@shanehudson3995 I can't remember if it was Rogue Trader, 1st ed or 2nd ed, but it's one of them.
Didn’t Arch do a video on such a mobile fortress? I clearly remember some of the comments saying stuff like “if one of those was on Cadia, the black stone ship would’ve broken instead of the planet”.
@@UGNAvalon No clue. Haven't seen all his stuff, even after all these years.
For some idea of the explosive force of the baseline Baneblade's gun, a standard Leman Russ battle canon has a 3" blast radius in tabletop. The one on the Baneblade drops a 10" pie plate on the enemy.
Leman Russ has a 5" blast, not a 3" one
Man I miss templates!
4:00
55 cm is the CIRCUMFERANCE. The DIAMETER is 55/3.14 = 17.5 cm Of course that's the low end.
There was actually an experimental tank with a cannon this diameter considered for use by the brittish after ww2. It was called Project Minotaur and used a 183mm rifled gun. It was fitted into a vehicled called FV4005 and was primarily intended to use HESH-rounds that weighed 73 kg.
Even when these monstrous rounds didn't impact the base armor directly, (HESH is easily countered by spaced armor) the kinetic impact from the explosive and the round sheared off bolts, cracked the armor welds, shattered the external optics and jammed the gunmount. A tank with 150mm armor, spaced to specifically counter this type of munition, was comepletely disabled.
I shudder to imagine what an actual armor-piering round with better propellants and twice as long barrel would do.
Was looking for this exact comment :))
The Super Duper Mega battlecannon is effectively a WWII 7 inch naval gun. An 8 inch 50 calibres long British BL 8-inch Mk VIII. As it has a 10m barrel length. The B-L8 fired a 116kg shell with a 30kg powder charge. a BL 6-inch Mk XXIII has a barrel length of 7.6m with 51kg shell propelled by 14kg of powder.
So the Baneblade falls in the middle. HESH rounds are generally only used by the British Armed Forces. So the cannon may well be rifled as well. As real World HESH cannot be fired form a smoothbore.
Just for giggles. Four of the 8 inchs in a ship turret is 188 tones. A barrel on its own is 17.5 tons.
Yea, I was thinking of that as well because I have seen the Sturmtiger shell compared to a human and it's definitely bigger than your head in terms of diameter.
55 cm wide head would probably be ogryn's XD
To add onto this; the shells were 1.4m long.
I love how Arch strives to somewhat anchor the sheer ludicrousness if 40k in reality and logistics.
The second coolest tank in the setting right after the Malcador. Using this thing in Dawn Of War was the best part of playing Imperial Guard (besides basilisks ofc)
SHATTER THEIR SKY
READY TO UNLEASH 11 BARRELS OF HELL
Coolest tank in 40K is the Fellblade and its variants.
Playing IG in that was such a feeling, sure, the basalisk cleared their lines, the baneblade punched through, but always, you threw grunts into the meat grinder during all that. Felt right
@@connorparfrey9191 KEEP FIRING ‘TILL THEY SEE THE GLOW OF OUR BARRELS
Hey arch, as impressive as your videos always are, there is a small correction about the mega battle cannon. A 55cm head means circumference not diameter. Weapon calibre is in diameter. The Yamato’s 19 inch guns means a diameter of 19 inches, a circumference of around 60 inches.
For reference, just the turret which contained 3 of those guns weighed over 20 thousand tons. It is far beyond what a Baneblade would be equipped with.
Just to back that up, here is the curator of a battleship crawling through a 16 inch gun, ua-cam.com/video/q5YXv_MLffc/v-deo.html
Thank you! I'm too exhausted, & didn't want to have to point that out.
I think Arch just measured his own head and thought it was normal
The Guardsmen was probably wearing a helmet, so that should add an inch or two.
The Yamato had 18.1 inch guns. The entire Yamato had three three-gun turrets and displaced 71,000 tons, making it impossible for each turret to weigh over 20,000 tons. Your numbers are way off.
I have awkward memories of the banblade. I remember that being the crowning piece of the ig in dark crusade. Had to build an entire facility just to produce it. And if i wasn't careful the banblade it produced would just get stuck between the facility and some terrain and i never knew how to get it out.
Had the same issue once, but after that I was more careful and it was great to use!
I did that once, I was so pissed I had everything blast that baneblade factory to scrap
Rally point ftw
Select Factory,
Press delete,
Roll your freshly freed Baneblade over the ruins of an improperly placed Mechanicus Factorum.
Back in the day before Games Workshop became maker of stupidly expensive model's, in a White Dwarf magazine they had an article with instruction's on how to make a Baneblade yourself in 25mm scale it even had the rules for it (2nd edition), as selling the model would have been prohibitively expensive. How times have changed.
Meter-long shells and a human-head-sized barrel indicates to me that the Mega Battle Cannon is somewhere in the equivalency of an eight-inch naval gun. Quick lookup shows the USN 8"/55 was round about 11m long with a bore diameter of 20cm, so it'd fit the description, roughly.
Same, I knew this was off when Arch got the circumference and diameter mixed up. I've been here looking at 8 inches from the Interwar period and the French 203/50 is about as on the nose for a Mega Battle Cannon as one can get. Even got out a measuring tape to take the numbers of my head! XD
It would be fun to see an updated tank in 40k where it has the weird metal curtain cage on the skirt and explosive reactive armor pouches spread across the armor.
That would be a pain in the butt to paint though.
They actually do have reactive armor and ablatives it’s mentioned a few times in lore
@@suddenlythatenderman5800 never saw it on the models, and never heard anyone talk about it.
It'd be a fun Leman Russ conversion (still a pain to paint).
@@youngthinker1 Back in 2E there was a Vehicle Card called Ablative Armour that allowed a vehicle to discard the first penetrating hit. No mention of reactive armour anywhere though...
@youngthinker1 as my compatriot above points out it was specifically listed in 2rd, by 3rd & 4th it had been lumped in with the general vehicle upgrade of extra armour which covered anything from ablative plates to hung sections of tank tread in the IG codexes which came out at the time, in modelling terms Forgeworld did a ablative kit for the Chimera so it definitely exists
22:39 well a couple of points; Pasteel that's used in armor is supposed to have a rather absurd level of tensile strength for it's thicknesses and weight (it's supposededly light enough to be used in aircraft construction in some forms). Then the front armor of the Baneblade is said to have a layer of solid Adamantium armor plating mixed in, the stuff that Titans and Starships are armored with, which is so absurdly hard/dense/heavy in armor form that even Terminator Armor only uses it as it's bracing to hold the suit together rather than as it's actual plating and even melta weapons have trouble dealing with this stuff. In the Lore the front end of one of these monsters are essentially immune to Tau Railguns from Hammerheads and Broadside Battlesuits (a weapon that has a terrifying reputation in the Guard) and even side hits require multiple shots to cut through the plating.
40k lore doing its usual and not being able to keep what it does straight.
Though really what military bases fiction does
Source. i'm sure the imperium could make a way more effective killing machine with the hing
In an irony- we can actually make 3D polymers today with tensile stregth of double of steel and 2/3rds of its weigth.
Call it plasteel if you will. the 3D polymerization process is extremely expensive currently... I think just doing single infanteryman armor today, with all the required shapes and such with polymerization would likely be worth 3 Abramses right now.
@@KillerOrcahonestly theirs quite a few that can.
The answer is that 40k was made by British people and was more meant for enjoying some beer and prezeles with friends while you hang out.
@Paerigos doesn't help that when you look at that titanium alloy armor plates look before affordable and far more effective
Dark Age of Technology Terran Empire: "We made this light APC to carry troops & to provide armored support. We should give it a small AI to assist the crew, just in case"
God Emperor's Imperium of Man: "IT IS THE BANEBLADE"
Ah yes, the favored scout tank of the once mighty Terran Confederacy. Really makes you wonder what was considered a heavy assault tank back in the 20th millennium
I always figured they looked like Bolos. Fully sentient mostly automated rolling buildings the crews lived in for years
"Scout" in the Steiner Scout Lance sense.
@@CatgirlLin "SCOUT THEM INTO AN EARLY GRAVE!"
@@KillerOrca I have found an enemy fortress, it is now a parking lot.
@@KillerOrcathat's the only way it would make sense for scouting. Personally, I don't think it was ever a scout tank. Because that's ridiculous and according to 40K Theories, has no source. It's on the same page as the Bren gun being too accurate. It's a boast someone made and someone else ran with it without knowing the context. A full paragraph about the Bren.
For those that don't know, the Bren is the Brittsh LMG from world War 2, basses on a Czech model 28 or something. That one gun with the mag on top. But not the Owens. Anyway, it's said that the Bren was too accurate to be a good LMG. By who? People who don't know the name of the gun it was based off of. (Lol, literally me.) I digress. My assumption on the origin of that claim is that a British and American LMGer erte talking about their guns. The American probably said something like the BAR is too heavy. The Bren gunner responded "yeah, and mine's too accurate" as a way of "I'm better than you. And I know it." Someone overheard it and didn't get the intended slight.
My source for that is that I made it the fuck up.
Bren over. Very similar to the BBSH bring called the equivalent of a light scouting vehicle. Not that it was a scout vehicle, but armed like one. Comparing the Bane Blade to what was available at the time of the Dark Age of Technology is like comparing a scout car to a Tiger 2 or a KV-2.
The Baneblade is THE line breaker, it’s the proverbial Wild Draw Four Card in the game of Uno that is war. Flank it with some Leman Russ tanks and as much on-foot riflemen as you have, add some Basilisk and Hydra cover and you have everything you need to make that decisive punch through enemy lines.
Exactly what I do in dawn of war with the "no squad cap" mod, 3 baneblades with 9 leman russ on an Eldari stronghold is exactly the amount of
"This galaxy belongs to us, xeno"
@Arch - RE baneblade ammo: The baneblade at 20:18 visibly shows the ammo hatch(es). The hatch marked "212" would be for re-filling the turret auto-loader, while the hatch marked "2" would be for crew & the lower gun's ammo. (My favorite baneblades on the table include such details - that's the difference between a "good" model and a "great" one)
idk the 212 piece of metal looks like its riveted shut or bolted shut at the very least, theres no signs of any hinges to allow for the plate to move for reloading cause it would be extremely impractical to have to either unbolt and re-bolt it or cut the rivets and punch new rivets just to reload it.
@@danielcampbell9457 It's a pretty common role for a round headed (or countersunk) bolt & nut in modern tanks, aircraft, and naval vessels.
I agree on the impracticality, I used to spend more time unscrewing & remounting inspection panels than my pilot did inspecting the parts beneath them before & after every single flight.
The "esoteric ammunition" bit hit my funny bone in a way nothing quite has. I love when weird horror things just come out of left field and you have to take a moment to process WTF just happened.
I'd bet on it being a small human blank reduced to just a brain and a few other bits to fit in a particularly large shell. Blanks can absolutey fuck up someones day, especially if they are psychic.
After a planet has been subjected to Exterminatus, bits of its fragments are collected and transformed into special shells, still imbued with the screaming souls of the victims.
"If you knew what the ammunition was, you'd be screaming too..." lol I love the way you describe stuff
I have heard that joke about Dark Age Humanity using these as scouting vehicles, but hear me out instead of it being a light recon vehicle what if the chassis was originally a mobile base to scout ahead? In that way it would be much more lightly armed than the bigger Capitol Imperialis type vehicles whose predecessors would be considered the heavier version. The Mechanicus is likely building these things with incomplete specs on armor materials and probably some flaws in propulsion and power generation that don't allow it to operate at full capability, but have taken to adapting the design to different mission roles and profiles.
It was based on a damaged STC anyway as most are.
Fun fact about kinetic penetrators: The hit in real life is so violent, that it does kind of explode. On top of that, depleted uranium has one attribute, where it actually catches fire, through the impact. IF a Leman Russ has such ammo, it could very well deliver one hell of an unexpected „Fuck you!“
Do please continue professor
When I was in the Army I saw pictures of tanks hit with a sabot rounds. If the crew was buttoned-up, the round leaving the other side decompresses the turret and can pull parts of the crew with it. I don't know if all sabots can do it or if it's just a DU round that can.
There is a video of DU penetrator test firing on youtube, the results are wild. It's like the kind of spark showers you'd expect to see at a metal foundry, erupting out of the target.
4:00 pretty sure you meant 55 cm in circumference. A human head with the width of 55 cm would be one HECK of a noggin.
Hilariously, I have named my Star Citizen Hammerhead Gunship _Fortress of Arrogance_
Where are these humans with 50cm wide heads? That's shoulder width for some people my dude!
Something tells me Archley got circumference and diameter mixed up.
3:50
Since ww2 soldiers have been photographed fitting their entire torso through a Sturmtiger's 380 mm mortar, I don't think that the mega battle can be anywhere near 550 mm
This has to be my favorite tank in the astra militarum. I saw a bane blade in box at my local comic book store the next town over and was surprised to see that it was bigger than even the box of an ajoining chaos knight. 😮
Yep, because you not only get the Baneblade in that box, but every. single. variant and it's so cool. You can build and magnetise every super heavy with one box.
55cm wide human head makes no sense, that would be the circumference, a human head is more like 20cm of diameter.
That's still a pretty ridiculous gun, but yeah anywhere between 180cm and 250mm would be more in line with that head-in-barrel reference
It is the BAAAANEBLAAAADE!
Ah, the so called dark age of technology scout tank that goes 20 miles an hour.
14:53 Arch throws in ogryn math 🪨 🤣
As @leerobson411 said, the Mega Battle Cannon caliber estimate is overblown given the actual human head size.
In my opinion the Baneblade gun would be somewhere in the region of 8 inches in diameter depending on how the 40k propellant of choice behaves. Which still leaves you with an impressive 50-caliber weapon. A bit stubby, but a gun used on WWII heavy cruisers.
And guess what! A fully autoloaded turret of that size by the USN (from the 70s) does fit into the Baneblade weight-wise! So while not as ridiculous, an 8-inch tank cannon is still quite insane.
While the Demolisher? That smells and feels like the Sturmtiger's main gun. With that short a barrel, a rocket projectile is the best way to achieve a siege effect would be a rocket-propelled shell in fact.
In regards to barrel diamater, I always assumed that quake cannons were roughly battleship gun diamater at 15" - 18", baneblade battle cannons were about equivilant to 8" naval rifles, earthshakers were about 6", and regular battle cannons ran about 4.5" - 5"
From what I've read, Battle Cannons are 120mm/4.7in. and Earthshakers are 134mm/5.25in. As for Quakes, I have no idea without estimation.
"The average human head is about 55 cm wide, or 22 inches."
What sorts of monstrosities does this guy hang out with that have nearly two foot wide heads?!
Me thinks arch need to go back to school. Just measured mine. 23 inches, 58.4 CM, around. But only around 10, 23.4 CM, across the widest point. 5'10 inches tall. 1.78 meters. That and F=M+A, I'm concerned for his health.
arch doesnt get out much .... he is norwegian and naturally shuns interactions with mere humans.
Worlds oldest "Auto Loader" system. An 18 year old with a strong arm.
Given the imperium I'd bet on it being a 15 or 16 year old.
The Mars Pattern ( the resin one) had big hatches where the sponsons are. I'd imagine they load the big shells through that.
Imagine the marketing blurb:
"Imperial Brand BaneBlade. For when you need to purge your enemy, his tanks, and the army behind him."
I'm old enough to remember when the Baneblade was the biggest, scariest thing on the tabletop. Good times!
YOU HAVE CAPTAIN DIOMEDES!
The reason I like Arch's videos is he's pleasant and informative with very useful information on this universe, but he's also very humorous and doesn't shy away from poking fun at the more silly aspects of Warhammer 40K like some people who take themselves far too seriously. It's cool to get into the lore and have fun at the same time. (:
Rocket-assisted shells mean much less recoil, aka the reason we don't have 150+mm cannons on our MBTs today. With the basic shell being super-powerful HE, the only problem would be hitting fast-moving targets, hence the lascannons
I’m glad you covered how silly some of the written stats are compared to modern armor.
That awkward moment when you realize that this ultimate expression of 40k BIG TANK. Would be turned to an oversized pipe-bomb with a modern MANPAT.
baneblades survive hits that turn regular tanks into jiggsaw pusszles what makes you think that a tiny anti tank missile of today would deal any significant damage? you think the baneblade is using rolled homogenouus steel as its armor by chance?
Yay dark age of technology light scout tank lore!
The baneblade has a gaint weakness that no one ever talks about. The top hatch. It has to be thin enough for a guardsmen to open and close. There's not gonna be much armor there otherwise no one would be able to get inside. So if you have a drone shoot anti tank missles at the top hatch the tank is gonna blow up or the missle is gonna kill the crew inside.
Your assuming the hatch doesn't have some form of assist
@@williamralston4949 the fucking Sherman tank in ww2 had an assist I think armor in the 41st millennium would have one
@@williamralston4949 still is going to happn.
It's mentioned a couple times, and it's easy enough to take Arch's point in the discussion, but Force is _not_ Mass plus Velocity.
The formula is usually described as F=ma, where m is mass and a is acceleration, or velocity squared.
So, Force is not Mass plus Velocity, but instead is Mass _times_ Velocity _squared._
In the context of tank cannons, kinetic-energy penetrators rely on that super-high velocity to vibe check enemy armor plates, and they can frakking MOVE. Modern APFSDS rounds ("Armor-Piercing, Fin-Stabilized, Discarding Sabot") zip along at roughly a mile per _second._ The faster ones are hypersonic, breaking a few hundred feet per second beyond Mach 5.
Speed kills the Emperor's enemies.
34:30 In regards to an infantryman posing a threat to armored vehicles, recall that in North Africa the Germans had to contend with Australian soldiers that were decommissioning their tanks with crowbars. The men would charge the tank and use crowbars to pop the track off the tank, forcing it to remain immobile or worse, for the crew to attempt to fix the tank during active combat.
The Aussie soldiers were quite a ballsy bunch overall, and became rightly feared by the Germans for a good reason.
If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it." -Erwin Rommel.
Ah the baneblade, for when you’re sick of just holding the line. My genestealer cult has one as well, “The Might of the Star Children”.
That's really awesome. The pride of any GSC lucky enough to get their claws on one.
A damn good name for a damn good centrepiece
"Second World kerfuffle" my new favoured name for WW2. top 3 best line from arch right next to "the tacho shits from hell" and A "discharge to stain the very porcelain of society"
32:26 I vote that The Baneblade's theme music be Tiger Battle from the Fury OST; it gets the point across nicely.
9:44 That sentence set of my physics knowledge like nothing else, so close, yet so far...
Ahaa Superhevays I take the Shadowlord thank you. 41 barrels, whith 4 spon twinheaybolters and stormbolter pint. And a Comander whith a pistol in the hatch just for fun. Oh and one deathstrike missile on the side!
BAAANEBLAAADE! Commissar Yarrick shouts while it rolls over him.
4:25 Being able to stick your head into a gun is a lot less than a WW2 battleship's main battery. One of the USS Iowa guys decided to crawl through a gun once and the Yamato's had a bigger bore.
Well its warhammer 40k universe.... reality is optional there ;P
Also tank hunters are completly unnecesary to kill that tank, coz it belong to the category "hit me with atrilery coz i can be seen from orbit and i dont move too well"
Human heads are roughly 55cm/22in in circumference, not width. Width is closer to 8-10inches depending on direction measured
Baneblade is one of THE most awesome things in 40k
It is a "scout" tank compared to Bolo City Fortresses.
A common knowledge when playing a serious match against an Imperial Guard in Dawn of War.
If he is able to get a Baneblade, YOU deserve to lose.
Sir, the ammunition is whispering my damnation and impending doom to me again!
Good, it can do that on the way to the target!
Ah the Baneblade, many new crewmen are lost inside it, or probably just hanging around in the pool next to the movie theatre near the engines. Who knows, no comissar has ever managed to climb inside and find his way back out without a map.
Ahhhh yes, what a Bolo would write a self-insert fanfic about between deployments.
Imagine a baneblade TD. No turret but a 6 barrel mega Cannon minigun in a casemate. And make sure it fires 500-600 mm nuclear rounds, cause.. why not?
Hello gargant *pulls trigger for 5 seconds* bye gargant.
And when that is done we think about mounting a nova Cannon minigun into the chassis of a titan.
Stormlord: "Bonjour :) "
The Vulcan Mega Bolter. 5x2 twin-linked cannons that fires metric tonnes of rounds/per second each one the size of a bicyle.
Used it once table-top against a group of feeble little Taus (everything including sponsons and hull weapons because xenos must die)
Tau player (friend): "Stop, stop! They are already dead! XD "
I just do friendly games so we rolled everything (even after the squad was wiped by the Mega Bolter) and just laughed at the Stormlord turning the Tau Fire Warrior squad into atoms XD
(Even Khorne himself would say "DUDE! CHILL!!!" )
Loader: "Sir? Why is the ammunition screaming?"
Tank Commander; Stares in Inquisitor. "Why wouldn't the ammunition be screaming? If you knew what the ammunition was, you'd be screaming too."
Loader: Promptly shits himself and runs for the nearest Commissar.
23:31 Arch i think we can look at all of the vehicles of 40k and know that GW writers dont have the faintists idea what they are writing about.
Ready to unleash 11 Barrels of *HELL!*
Calibers are typically discussed in terms of diameter, not circumference. Unless 40k humans are a lot bigger than we are the average diameter of a head is nowhere near 55 cm. Dividing that by pi we get 175mm. For comparison, modern MBTs use typically use shells that are 120mm in diameter and 984mm long. Given the size of the tank itself, the Baneblade's cannon isn't very impressive.
We are a bit spoiled by modern tech though... the retro-futuristic-dieselpunk style of 40k should be compared more to the tanks of 1930s and 1940s. Next to an FCM F1, with its 90mm primary gun and 47mm secondary (at 100+ tons), it is a lot more impressive.
I really hope he talks about the "light scout tank" comment.
Here is a fun Idea a Rogue Trader, bribes his way into acquiring a Baneblade, buys a Hammerhead from the Tau and gets the third son of a knight house to join his crew.
Finally, he has his pet Jokaero play with them as his non machine cult following engineers watch closely.
About a decade later he deploys an entire armored column of Antigrav, Ion Shielded, Railgun Equipped Baneblades.
To reinforce a planet under siege from Orks. Here is the question.
Would the Ordo Xenos Inquisitor in charge of the defence. Try to shoot him for Tec Heresy.
Or looking at the flaming wrecks that used to be Stompas and columns of Ork vehicles and Armor.
Ask how much is the inquisitorial discount for ten of them.
Depends on the inquisitor. But I'd be guessing several long sessions of interrogation with creative interrogators followed by a bolt round to the head and those tanks mysteriously disappearing so as to not corrupt any of the less stalwart of the imperium servants while also buffing out an inquisitors retinue
@@barryward2128 Like I said, try. After all Rogue Traders are "Technically" allowed to do what I just described. And more radical inquisitors Would gladly trade favors to hire that kind of firepower. Especially Ordo Xenos considering many of them have Jokaeros on their own retenues.
@vi6ddarkking that's why I opened with depends on the inquisitor. I imagine that radical inquisitors are probably a bit of a rarity, I could be wrong on this since I don't tend to follow inquisition lore as closely as other factions. So I think you'd be more likely to meet a real emperor botherer kind of inquisitor
@@barryward2128 Arch has a video on the types of inquisitors actually. And to paraphrase. Most inquisitors start out as emperor botherers but as their career progresses, they tend to become increasingly pragmatic and radical. As the reality that, ultimately, victory is all that matters sinks in.
@vi6ddarkking depends on where the Rogue Trader does this, how powerful the Rogue Trader is personally, & how powerful/important the Inquistor is... if the Rogue Trader did it IN the Imperium then he's going to definitely be killed as the Inquisition AND Order of the Dragon (Mechanicus have their own "Inquisition" to investigate/deal with tech-heresy) compete with each other for who gets to be the one that actually kills him. But if out in an Expanse outside the Imperium where the Rogue Trader Warrant is active... he could most likely get away with it & just be basically exiled and/or excommunicated from the Imperium (a massive problem for Rogue Trader operations) that as long as he never returns than the Inquisition and/or Order of the Dragon wouldn't invest the massive resources it would take to kill him out in the lawless Expanse that is the Rogue Trader main powerbase.
Though other Rogue Traders could be incentivized to launch Trade Wars against him to weak him or be forced to exclude him from their own operations... that way it weakens him so that after a while (possibly a generation or two) then they could finally swoop in to wipe out his him/his family.
3:50 I genuinely had to re-watch this small part several times to make sure I didn't mishear you.
55cm is the circumference of the average human head. The average depth of a human head (front to back since that's greater than side to side width) is 17.6cm. Given that there would need to be space around the head: We're probably looking at the equivalent of a 9-12 inch naval gun. Which while that is still an enormous gun; it is nowhere near the 18 inch Yamato, or 16 inch Iowa class' main guns.
how arch describes the shadowswords munition in a godly god way its awsome =D salute from germany my friend !
Only 300 tonnes?? For a vehicle that gigantic? With all the ammo it needs?? Its armour must be paper thin. Like when they did the math on the Ratte from WW2.
A long time ago, there was a looted Baneblade that a Ork warleader who's name escapes me now used in the defiling of a Shrine world once.
It was finaling put to rest by the brave and self sacrificing actions of a 5 man squad of Blood Angel jumppack equipped assault marines outflanking the behemoth and the Ork infantry to deliver a teleport beacon behind it which allowed a Terminator squad armed with a Multimelta to materialize behind it and cleansed it of the Xeno filth. A sad and proud day in equal measure. Many brave soldiers of the Imperium laid down their lives on that world, but the Orks learned never to set foot on it also.
BROTHER
IT IS THE BAAAAAAAAANEBLADE
*stolen by Bloody Magpies*
Fool! Have you forgotten my invincible *BANEBLADE* power? No mere *BANEBLADE* can stop me!
1 - shaped charges dont "melt" metal they squeeze it hard enough to turn it into a liquid, and it just doesnt have enough time to solidify. Yes, this is one of those "engineer was bored made a glider plane out of concrete" and in this case there was a point to it.
2 - Rockets can be SIGNIFICANTLY faster than anything fired from tube based weaponry (for example the UK's starstreak system is such a thing - thats a manpad with a small size) Issue is that rockets take time to accelerate. As such they dont offer much kinetic penetration at short distances, as thr rocket is still in the process of reaching the extreme speeds needed for penetration.
If you go for multi stage rockets they can reach speeds 1 or 2 orders of magnitude larger than tube based artillery.
Firing rocket from a cannon effectively gives you a 1st rocket stage for free.
And if we ever get propellants like solid hydrogen, rocket propulasion will be leagues ahead of conventional guns.
During the Normandy invasion one extremely unlucky Panzer 4 took a direct hit from HMS Rodney's 16 Inch(406mm) High Explosive shell. Although the shell likely didn't penetrate the tank's armor the explosive force was still adequate to effectively delete the tank from existence.
random 40k fact commissar yarick was ran over by his own baneblade
4:00 - "the average human head is 22 inches wide"
No, Arch, no! That's circumference you're thinking about, no human head is half a fucking meter wide!
17:02 Theres a real tank now that does that. The griffin 120mm uses kinetic missiles as ammunition for long range targets. When conventional modern ammunition like apds (armor piercing discharging-sabot) starts losing velocity and energy. Pretty interesting and amazing!
In other words, if you have a long gun barrel, you get more BOOOOOM before your BÄÄÄÄÄÄNG! XD
Ah yes, the Baneblade heavy scout tank.
After a planet has been subjected to Exterminatus, bits of its fragments are collected and transformed into special shells, still imbued with the screaming souls of the victims.
3:55 A 55cm wide head? that's a deadly serious case of hydrocephalus, Arch.
'pretty sure the demolisher canon is here to clear structures and debris on the tank's THICC path. It makes roads out of brick walls so it sounds like a logistical thing.
I'm curious about how that many shells can fit for both guns in such a confined space though.
Thank you for all the videos you make and the effort you put in, Arch! I love your work!
Hallo Arch
I think the caliber, of the mega battle Canon is a bit off.
Yes, the head size of most humans is around 55 mm. Giv or take. But, Thatcher is the cirkumfrens, not the diameter.
Perfect for a friday evening. Thank you for all the hard work.
Ah my tank of choice for base defense in DoW.
Just couldn't get it to move anywhere else. XD
God, I wish we got some Warhammer Super Heavies in War Thunder. Slow as hell, destruction unrivaled and wonderful for meme videos!
if you are a good shot, or a crazy bastard like a spess meringue or a mushroom, you can probably pretty reliably deposit hand held explosives into the 2 main barrels.
And Daemons. And magic in general.
An 10m+ long barrel with a 550mm+ bore would dire one hell of an APFSDS round. Probably enough to punch clean through a titan with its void shields down, doing oh so much damage along the way.
"If the armor is cardboard compared to modern weapons, we can assume it gets by with shields. It usually does..."
The Shadowsword is the most 40k, and therefore the best, Baneblade variant. If you disagree you are wrong.
And old man Yarrick survived being run over by one of these things?!?!?!
Warp buggery 😶🌫️
I’ve hit the 730 likes on the last eight videos. This one deserves it the most. Good work, sir.