With the exception of the Warp Runners, the titans of the Legio Astorum

I think they are warped into the battlefield.

@@cndenterprise1662 Only the "Warp Runners" seem to have that ability, they are a rapid reaction force of titans, but the vast majority have to be transported

I tought that The Titans just appear

@@charluu1929 they are move via mass conveyor ships and must be mustered before deployment, I recommend reading Titanicus it’s a good read and explains how they get moved around, how they operate and the scale of that type of warfare 👍

Walking War Churchills ?

@@Firebrand6610 where did you get that?

The world needs more walking war churches tbh

@@janemf Fr

Someone was visiting St. Peter’s Basilica and just thought hey we could give this legs and massive planet destroying cannons. So they did and we love them for it

Didn't go to church? In 40k, church comes to you. Also, you WILL have time to talk about our Lord and Savior, the God Emperor

*Stealth is optional*

​@@Yayaloy9it's still stealth, nobody will witness you if there's nobody left to witness you

You can also find mentions of thousands of meters tall titans in the lore (Hammer and Bolter series) or even 1 km long weapons mounted on them. Lol.

I remember one map in DoW where is one Titan class multi-melta canon across the whole map. This video Doesn't show us true scale of Titans...

Yeah these things seem too small for how they’re described. 400 feet is tall, but titans are supposed to be so large it defies all logic, guardsmen are left in absolute awe at the sight of them.

Lol Castigor was the father of titans but wasn't even close to the size you described, at that size what is the point of a titan it would be so heavy it would sink into the earth, battleships exist for a reason and even a battleship in warhammer couldn't fit a Titan the size of a reaper in it's berth, unless it was the size of the smaller type of reaper.

@@JackJohnson-bw4pu its a fantasy universe for a reason lolol

The Castigator is really just a bit of fluff.

@@Wintershot sure, but it was an STC titan that outranked anything in 40k.

@@ShimrraJamaane What?

@@Wintershot The Castigator outranks any other titan-class walker in the 41st millennium. It was more massive and possessed both vastly superior defenses (regenerative, liquid-metal armor) and vastly superior offensive weapons (the thing had a a more powerful cannon and the power claw/fist was nuts). It was the original titan of Man, from which all existing titans are recursively devolving copies of. There is only one titan that outclasses the Castigator, and only in the area of weaponry: the Warlord-Sinister-class psi-titan's psi-cannon, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. Though, that is because the EoM basically used his techno-hax, as usual, to have them constructed. Still, though, if the STC had been recovered, and the Mechanicum/Inquisition didn't destroy it because it was AI, then the Imperium would have never had to worry about ground combat again. Then the book would have ended with "The End" as the Imperium deployed to the Eye, wiped out the traitors and demons, and all that would be left is "how do we resurrect the EoM?" But, I digress. The Castigator would have been tickled by an Imperator before the Castigator plucked the Imperator's cockpit from its torso, crushed it, and then fired a shot directly into the reactor of the Imperator's corpse.

@@ShimrraJamaane Yes but the Castigator is just fluff from a single novel. It's not canon.

U talkin about individual mega gargants which were like peak of their kind, like the godbreaker

those were probably mentioned in some novels where writer throw way to big size number...

The castigator titan wasn't a demon engine manufactured by dark mechanicum or chaos forces, it was an actual castigator class titan that was corrupted because of it using an Ai to run

@@lucasstr5653 It wasn't corrupted and they all use AI to a degree, just the Mechanicus has no true understanding of what AI is anymore. The Castigator (not really a class, it's a prototype) made its own decision as a thinking being with presumably some form of soul. It chose the Dark Forces, sadly.

@@Kayriel after the grey knights free it from the deamonic possession it gave them the STC to build castigator but they where worried it would fall in the hand of chaos and thus destroyed it... Yes grey knights commited heresy acts, however some people think the inquisition keeps the STC because they don't trust the mechanicus and the destruction is a lie and knowing the inquisition and their means, they might have one

I would be fine with the current titan size if only Emperor Titan was absolutely enormous

It isn't a standard titan so yeah

Wtf that’s crazy lol Warhammer is insane

yes but consider this there is 31 of them closing in on your location what do you do?

@@kamilmaster125 order every explosive in the base be rigged to blow as soon as they are apon us. Emperor be with us.

@@kamilmaster125 now if I was on my own instead of with other guard? Shoot myself in the head.

Also they have bio ships that are living creatures, and are the size of most of the larger ships in the imperium. Literally tyranids that are kilometres in length.

@@silkydarkling9433 well yeah those are ships not planetary forces.

Imperial knights are like battletech battlemech/omnimech in size and mass.Walking tanks .

A mekboy gargant is a bit smaller than a gargant and still considered titan class unit.... Eldar had a scout titan which name i cant remember. Tech guard knights and ork stompas are too small to be considered titans, they are in the super heavy tanks class.

Barely anyone knew that castegator existed before the shorts.

I thought it was ai

​@@hisnotsolonely2961 Yes the castegator was a titan but was controlled by an ai that was corrupted.

I was about to say that

I was going to mention the Castigstor too.

The castigator Titan is actually the largest of all titans.

@@gundamcollector77 I was merely commenting tht the OP was wrong is placing an "imperator" titan bigger than the emperor and warmonger, Imperator and Wamronger being the names of the two types of Emperor class titans. The Castigator is indeed bigger but there was ony one and it was piloted by an AI, and it got destroyed, I don't know if it has a place in that video.

The Apocalypse class

Seen that at forgeworld.

Haven't kept up with the lore to tell what's up with Necrons but Tau famously can't build titans. They haven't reached that tech capability yet and they thought Titans were a myth at first because it seemed impossible to them. That's why people enjoy the interaction between the Tau and older races. Because the Tau are the only race in rapid ascent whilst every other race bar Nids are long in descent, but the old races fell from such heights that they've forgotten more than the Tau ever knew, so you get these really jarring match ups.

It is worth mentioning "mounted on spaceships" should be followed with "as secondary, tertiary or anti-fighter batteries". Basically no titan weapon has yet come even close to the power of a lance cannon mounted on anything larger than a cruiser (but then those lance cannons are bigger than Emperor class titans).

_"as secondary, tertiary or anti-fighter batteries"._ It's not always the case: "A weapon of terrifying and indiscriminate power, the Sunfury Plasma Annihilator is capable of incinerating entire cityscapes and rendering the strongest armour into steaming vapour. Developed from designs intended for the *broadside batteries of void warships,* plasma annihilators such as the Sunfury are able to be mounted only on the largest of the Imperium's war machines, such as Battle Titans, as both the reactor-strength required to charge them and the motive power to wield them demand nothing less." *-Forge World: Warlord Titan Sunfury Pattern Plasma Annihilator* Even though such batteries normally hold dozens of such cannons with stronger reactors, titans still have some percentage of starship firepower. _"Basically no titan weapon has yet come even close to the power of a lance cannon"_ It's a funny coincidence that lore already drew such comparison for Imperial knights: "The Knight Castellan's dual plasma core fuels a frightening array of weapon systems, sufficient to make it a mobile artillery battery. Its awesome plasma decimator gouges the heart out of an enemy army, while the firepower of its volcano lance is comparable to *an Imperial Navy warship."* *-Games Workshop: Knight Castellan* "The Castellan’s other armament is the volcano lance. Possessing massive range and stopping power, this laser cannon is the bane of super-heavy war engines and beasts. It can core out a lumbering Squiggoth or behead an enemy Titan, and when several Knights Castellan open fire at once, the effect is commensurate with the *lance batteries of an Imperial Navy warship."* *-Codex: Imperial Knights (8th Edition)* Which is not a big suprise: Imperial Knights are known for their apocalyptic battles that can destabilize the planet's crust: "A cloud of Ork Roks plummets to the surface of the Infernal Knight world Cobbran, home of House Qiln. Before the dust of impact has settled, dozens of Stompas bearing the mark of the Deathskulls emerge from the crude landing vessels and begin a lumbering march toward the nearest keep. Filled with outrage, the Chaos Knights stride out in mass to meet the invaders, forming a lance of over five hundred roaring war engines with which to charge head-on into their foe. *Such is the scale of the ensuing battle, so heavy the metallic footfalls and so destructive the barrages, that the tectonic crust of Cobbran shifts, leading to explosive volcanic activity.* Those Knights that are falled are quickly hacked to scrap by wide-eyed Big Meks. Meanwhile every Stompa that is toppled is dragged into the open lava flows by cults of Idolators loyal to House Qiln, and in profane rituals new, fully formed Chaos Knights are summoned into being from the bubbling slag." *-Codex: Chaos Knights (8th Edition)* And chaos cultist engineers can summon knights from the slag 💀 _"mounted on anything larger than a cruiser"_ At least titans can do this: "There are very few enemies who can hope to stand against Myrimidon Maniple. Comprising of the mightiest battle titans, it boasts sufficient firepower to damage cruisers in low orbit" *-Adeptus Titanicus Rulebook (2018)*

@@user-py6wo6ri7q those are broadside weapons on cruisers, not battleships (battleships can mount them as part of its broadside, but usually find something larger). On battleships they are a secondary weapon at best, hence my original statement stands. Even on cruisers the broadside weapons can be argued to be secondary weapons, their primary weapon is often a prow mounted weapon of some sort. Also consider this, a titan mounts 1 of them as its heaviest primary weapon. A line warship (cruisers and above) broadside is often a few dozen turrets, I some cases a few hundred (the larger battleships). Remember the largest of titans are smaller than most fleet escorts (frigates and the like) and have generally comparable firepower to them (small escorts often only have a handful of broadside weapons). But considering a single light cruiser can given suitable time (hours, days at most) effectively render a planet lifeless, even fitting one of their secondary weapons on a ground vehicle is overkill. As for damaging cruisers in low orbit, naturally, they are using the same weapons as you find mounted on a cruiser to do it, cruisers can kill cruisers, so it's only fair a titan armed with a cruiser weapon can damage a cruiser (notice how they say damage, not cripple, not incapacitate, and definatly not destroy). The issue is what happens when the cruiser chooses to return fire.

That's because GW and BlackLibrary have a terrible track record of keeping power scales consistent. At that point they could have called the mobile moons they built and called it a day.

I mean, it developed its own AI first, then made a pact with one of the gods, and one of its guns shoots daemons.

@@themightyalpaca313 well yeah, its been a while since i heard anything about it

That's because it's a bit silly, really.

@@Wintershot Well... yeah...

@@leafy126.5 Good, old Alaric and his Smurfism 😉

Read Titanicus, even Warhounds crush entire city blocks after they've been fighting for a while. If you like Titans it's a very good story and really helps illustrate the power and size of them.

It should be noted, that the scale of Warhammer Titans is very conflicting with itself. There is source material ranging from the (conservative) estimates from this video, all the way to Warlord being multiple Kilometers high, dwarfing hive citys.

For every emperor titan there are a billion Bio Titan