Titans Deep Dive. Humanity's Ultimate Weapon? Warhammer 40k Lore

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The titan legions of warhammer 40k are the most devastatingly powerful, land based war engines ever crafted. each is an ancient holy relic that has seen countless battles in the grim darkness of the far future. kinda puts my black templar space marine army to shame… but what exactly is a titan? is it true that they are all sentient? and what’s the deal with the giant walking battle churches? in this warhammer 40k lore deep dive, all of these questions will be answerd. lets take a dive into the grim dark!

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Time Stamps
0:00 intro
3:33 What are titans?
7:45 Types of Titans
8:43 Warhounds Class
10:53 Reavers Class
12:08 Warlord Class
14:54 Emperor class
18:19 How are Titans made?
20:44 Titan Pilots
24:58 Titan Weapons
29:56 Collegia Titanica
34:05 Psi-Titans
37:04 Legio Mortis
40:00 Legio Ignatum
43:57 Legio Tempestus
47:48 Titan History Part 1. Mars
51:52 Titan History Part 2. The Dark Mechanicum
59:06 Closing

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46 thoughts on “Titans Deep Dive. Humanity's Ultimate Weapon? Warhammer 40k Lore”

  1. I've been heavy into 40k since I was 10, which was over 2 decades ago now, and I absolutely refuse to accept GW's new lore about Titan sizes, 55 meters for a Imperator is frankly just WAYYY too small, for perspective that's just 16 stories tall, an average apartment flat, in the scale of 40k warfare that's barley even a noticeable presence in a large battle… These things are supposed to be able to level hive cities on their own, and even crack the crust of planets, literally destroying the world they stand on if there's enough of them firing at once, now they're not much more than a Knight…

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  3. Actually really disappointed that the sinistratum tenebrae is just an imperial d-cannon. In my head cannon I thought it was more like a culexus assassins animus speculum.

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  8. 4th Edition was pretty good overall. I started way back in 2nd Edition, aka Herohammer 40k. The scale of the battles was generally much smaller, and the models were smaller too – but even back then it was clear there was so much room for expansion. Back then we had Epic 40k being released around the same time, and we got to see Titans and just how massive they were compared to the largest regular 40k models were. The single largest model at that time was the Thunderhawk Gunship – which was immense, fully made of metal (you can imagine how inconvenient that was…) and cost a sensational £400 (aka, 40,000 UK pence) and was limited edition to boot.

    If my young teenage mind could foresee 40k as it is now, my mind would have been blown.

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  10. Knights and Titans are my favs. I got into wh40k back when it was just Rogue Trader days. 1e. When Space marine came out I got that. 6mm scale infantry and tanks, then I grabbed Adeptus Titanicus 1e. Way better than standard 40k, then Epic (2e) came out. Got that. Even better. Epic is, to this day, the best game that GW ever put out. Eldar Titans are by far the best with the Eldar knights being the true origin of the Knight models. The Eldar Bright Stallion Knights being the single most effective unit that should ever be on the table top. It's a knight scale mini titan with a full power titan scale pulsar weapon. Titans should be the gods of the battlefield in 40k, but GW never can seem to get it right. marine and similar scale infantry shouldn't be able to do anything but surface damage to a titan.

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  17. the newest size estimates of the Imperator Titans is just disappointing and way too low. We have machines far bigger on earth already (The Bagger 288 being 96m tall and hundreds of meters long) which do not take anywhere near as long to construct as a titan. They should have kept the warlord titans atleast 50 meters tall and the Imperator Titans should be at least a hundred meters tall.

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  21. 55 meters isn’t that tall, like a 20 level building, why would it take a lot of resources to build a 55 meter tall machine when they have entire resource planets, none of the lore makes any logical sense lol

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  33. My headcanon on the size of the titans is that the Titans described in the old lore were a mixed bag of Imperial propaganda and actual hundreds-of-meters tall titans whose construction blueprints/STCs were either lost or destroyed. Also, the Imperium is barely even a shadow of its former self, so perhaps even acquiring the resources needed to make a 100+ meter tall Titan is rendered virtually impossible.

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  37. I really appreciate this side of youtube so much. I've been working on my own universe since I was a kid, I've never shared anything but I hope to have fans as into the lore as you are to Warhammer. I love worldbuilding and personally Warhammer is my favorite of the universes. Dune comes 2cnd. Lovecraft mythos 3rd.

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