Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: t2m.io/Baldermort_Aug23 and get a special starter pack with an Epic champion ⚡Tallia⚡ Available only for new players! 🎁 Use the promo code JTSKIN to get the Epic champion Stag Knight and a Skin for Stag Knight designed by JonTron! Don't miss your chance, the promo code is valid until October 7th, only for new players. 📱 If you are an iOS user, enter the promo code here: plarium.com/en/redeem/raid-shadow-legends/ THE IMPERIAL NAVY IN WARHAMMER 40000 The ships of the Imperium of Man. These goliath vessels plough the void of the 41st Millennium. But why do they do it? How do they do it? This is an introduction to this subject. Alas, I still have my third bout of the Ick beginning with C. So please forgive me if this is less focused than normal. I thought it better to put something up rather than nothing. My humble and sincere apologies if this decision was misguided.

Me- having kind of a shitty day Baldermort- "you matter" Me-😀

If we used seconds to determine how long a trillion is, it equals out to 31,709 years.

I've been hoping you would make a video on the navy for a while now. It's a really fascinating part of the 40k verse that many people tend to gloss over. I'm glad you decided to cover it!

It's Friday, it's raining outside, and Baldermort just dropped a tasty lore compilation? That settles it. I'm putting the kettle on.

The Imperial Navy is absolutely vital for the continue survival of both Mankind and the Imperium, and it’s their bravery of every captain and his crew that allow humanity to fight all across the Galaxy in blackness of the void. There is no mistake that without the Imperial Navy every planet within the Imperium will fall prey to the foul forces of heretics, traitors, and aliens, but like all the forces within the Imperium they will fight to protect the domain of the Emperor.

One thing that I find kind of funny is that people use these to fall asleep… I use them when I work graveyard shift to stay awake, especially the story compilations

So glad you’re here Baldemort! I play blood angels and love them because of you - you have made this world real and accessible! I love introducing new people to your videos - here’s to another 4!

In the imperial navy they do alot of naval gazing at their naval base.

Balders I wish you well and a strong recovery! Thank you for another amazing episode. I do wish the Navy got more love but due to its lack on the table top, it doesn’t get the love it deserves

Oh no not a imperial navy video now I am going to be stuck wishing that Battle Fleet Gothic would return

One of the things I like most about 40K is the sense of scale. It comes closests in terms of Sci-Fi franchises but its still orders of magnitude off. You could give every citizen of the imperium a habitat the size of Ireland and still have most of our solar system left as free space.

Finally someone has given the navy its due thanks bald

I love the Imperial Navy! Anytime we need to go someplace and fight, they're always happy to give us a ride.

The best description of the Imperial Navy's size is from Skalgrim (the guy who made the famous BFGA 2 mod), who said "Unknown, but several billion larger ships probably and possibly absolutely insane numbers of smaller ships. I mean, the Imperium has 1 million inhabited planets. Then it probably have something like 100 million inhabited moons, several billion inhabited stations, asteroid or other void based permanent habitations. Say only 1 million of those can build 1 ship or more each decade - (the larger forge worlds churn out 1 capital ship a week and are building thousands at any given time.) Even with such low numbers the Imperium would pump out 100 000 ships every year. And that's most likely not even close to the real number. Just looking at the dedicated forge worlds and nothing else its probably several tens of thousands of ships - every week. Writers usually don't even comprehend the massive scale of 40k. Battles are written like they have a handful of ships, and whole system wide battles have a few million soldiers fighting. When everything should be scaled up by a factor of 1000. Some sources say the Macragge's Honour is the largest of the Glorianas. Data is conflicting .A SSD would probably be around a standard Titan size, but have far less mass. There are alot if size-charts out there that shows the difference in size, and 40K is on the upper scale in most cases. The Imperium probably have at least several hundred thousand, or even millions, of BS ships close in size to a SSD. And a hundred times that in cruisers, and a thousand times that in LC and hundreds of thousands of times that in Escorts, and everything LC class and upwards is larger than SD's in Star Wars/ Then again, the Imperium of Man has around 1 million inhabited planets, 10 of millions of inhabited moons, 100s of millions of inhabited space stations, asteroids and other such habitats. A single hive world could easily produce several BS and cruisers a year. A Industrial world many times that. Scale in 40k is immense. But none of the authors writing lore seems to grasp this. Largest battle descried still has fewer combatants than our world wars. Yeah. Just no. Makes no sense. Imperial invasions and crusades would not be in the millions strong, as described, but in the billions. The Imperium of Man only has a slight idea of how many worlds and habitations it actually control, with it founding, finding, losing, etc several hundreds or thousands every year. Its so vast, and old, yet haven't even found the majority of the old human owned worlds. Its still growing - rapidly, each sector with the only exception being Sol (which is mostly discovered) is filled with huge blank spots that humanity have yet to send explorer fleets to. If humanity really really wants a region of space the only thing stopping them are massive warpstorms and perhaps a fully awakened Necron dynasty thats fortified its region. Perhaps. Imagine the terror of the Tau, sending out everything they have to stop what the Imperium considers to be a pitiful fighting force barely allowed to be called a crusade - loosing billions of lives in the process and having their military might crippled - only to get word through intelligence gathering that somewhere way of, at a world named Terra, someone called a "High Lord" have just found out you exist - despite your massive fighting and deathtoll in the billions on both sides - and this "High Lord" have looked over the numbers and decided that your race actually warrants a proper response not from a "region within a subsector" but from a whole "subsector". Then you notice that instead of a few hundred of the massive ships that invaded your sector and brought with them hundreds of millions of enemy troops - they are bringing tens of thousands of such ships and several hundred billion troops. And this is still not considered "full scale war" by the Imperium. To be fair, the writers behind most the lore and stories about the void battles (well all battles really in 40k) are REALLY bad at scale. They speak about whole fleets having a few hundred ships while it should rather be hundreds of thousands to match the scale of the Imperium and setting. The Imperium should be able to build millions of capital ships and billions of other ships - each year. And I'm not even exaggerating that part." -From the Skalgrim mod Discord

I want to imagine there is a Imperial Sea Navy and there life is actually kind of fun.

Gather Brothers, the Emperor has blessed us yet again with tales from his faithful servant.

"Expanding into what?" is actually a fascinating question. A growing body of scientific evidence strongly suggests that our own universe is essentially a "bubble" inside a much larger expanse -- in fact, the going theory is that we essentially exist inside a black hole, that the big bang (which we now know happened *after* early spatial expansion, interestingly enough!) was likely a burst of proto-matter and energy that our cosmos gobbled up from the encompassing one. Ruminate on that... universes inside of black holes. It would mean our own universe contains lesser universes, and that our cosmic expansion may one distant day open our reality up to the "parent universe". If true, existence is essentially endless and self-renewing. Comforting thought, that.

I faked an illness at work so I could feast fully on the magnificent glory that is this channel. Thank you. Not only to the voice talent, though his skill far surpasses any other I've ever heard, but gratitude must also be expressed to the hand that writes and the eyes who research. I know not how many minds comprise the glory that is Baldermort, but I salute you all. May He continue to smile on your work till the very stars sing your praises.

'lay the smackdown with your homies' said with a English accent is just plain funny

Happy anniversary my friend. 4 great years behind and many, many more to come. Cheers from the heart of Texas 🤠

Damn, i was playing BFGA 1 and 2 last month, and was searching for good videos on the lore of the navy, and couldnt find any. Might have to go back and play some more of them after i listen to this

Get well soon. 4 years damn time does fly. Keep creating please.

Dear Gentle orator, as one of your biggest fans (and one who you alone got into warhammer) I want you to know your videos are art and the passion is so deeply felt and appreciated. Though I am struggling from meal to meal, Lord willing I have the pennies to spare, you’ll be the first patreon I subscribe to and in the most I can. Cheers brother and I hope no matter what you do in the days to come, that you do find fun!

Ah, the Navy, gets em there and back, with only a 70% fatality rate! Awesome Brother B! I hope you feel better soon, and that the move is safe and brief. Manly hugs Sir!

"Follicaly challenged" that one got a giggle out of me

Oh, goodie! Another wonderfully informative video to learn from with that blessed vocal timbre from Baldermort! The emperor smiles on us once again!

Everybody talks about Space Marines here, Guardsmen there, but they only get deployed if the Imperial Navy didn't manage to crush yet another group of foul heretics or xenos in the void. For all the emphasis on the Astates, it is the Navis Imperialis who keeps the Imperium alive. Without them, the Imperium would be a million small island in the void, separated and ready to be picked off, one by one. Without the Imperial Navy, foul xenos like the Orks or Tyranids would have been able to destroy far more productive world after productive world, denying its resources to the Imperium of Man. So praise be to the Imperial Navy, the shield of the Imperium of Man.

The hardest thing to comprehend in warhammer 40k is the absolutely titanic scale. From the armies to the size of everything

I feel like GW would be best served by reasoning out the canon usage of every piece of equipment that makes up void warfare, from there determine what void warfare actually looks like, outline it in a writer's bible, and enforce that. It's one of the more noticeable failings in the fiction that void engagements seldom resemble each other.

I am a giant history nerd. Naval history makes up one of the two major/basic aspects of history I am most interested in (the other being the classical world). The naval aspect of 40k plays to my taste in history in a way that not much else does and I absolutely adore it. It never seems to get enough love from 40k fans in general. Though the BFG games seem to have gotten a lot of people to take a closer look at this aspect of the setting. I'm perfectly fine with the main focus of 40k being land warfare, but it seems sad that so many people just gloss over the fleets. This video does a good job at emphasizing the scale required by the setting. At the least, people should respect this part of the lore even if they don't focus on it. Since it is a necessary part of the setup required for whatever it is that they do truly love.

Hey Navy representation! Thanks for such a long video on the Imperium's silent service!

Normally I skip the advert. But here it was so entertaing I watched it twice. Just hearing Baldemort saying "Lay the smack down with your Homies" was priceless. I may watch it again for the entertainment value.

One thing about the lack of innovation is that some innovation in ship design continued throughout the setting. There are multiple Imperial ship classes which are new designs at least in context of the setting being first created during the 40th or 41st millennium.

It's wild to think about, but eventually the Milky Way will consume the other galaxies that are nearby, Andromeda and Triangulum as well as the smaller satellite galaxies, and together they'll be even more unimaginably vast than they already are.

Thank you for this glorious treat Balders, always love hearing about rhe Imperial Navy. I definitely have more of an "age of sail" view, as you do, and adore the mental image of these colossal ships pounding away at each other with broadside while boarding parties invade and the smaller ships dart in and out hitting where they can. The navy is a buffet of rich imagination food and you, dear Narrator, are the 5 star chef

I find it somewhat funny that my primary motivation for enjoying your videos was to help me sleep (don't get me wrong, if Luetin was the one to get me into 40k lore, you were right beside him to make me truly fall in love with it), yet now I've realized they utterly fail me in that regard. I just get excited and carried away, sleep be damned, you utter devil. Yes, I'm accusing you of being too damn good, haha. Jokes aside, thank you brother, your narrations feel more vivid than most movies and I'm forever grateful to you for blessing us with this incredible content. Be well!

Just like a water navy I fear a space born navy just as much... To much everything to "drown" in.

Hope you’re doing well Baldemort. Your videos were my first exposure to warhammer and one year later I just finished putting together my first army the World Eaters led by Angron himself. I haven’t painted them yet, but I feel confident I’ll be playing this game and reading the books the rest of my life

Folically challenged one, PLEASE. Continue the dark systems theory! I loved it!

Horrah for baldermort! Good luck with the move.

This has to be the best Raid advert i have ever heard.

Happy anniversary! And wishing you a speedy recovery.

"...don't use this as a mere sleeping prop" caught me and...no can do. Lore videos in general and 40k lore videos are legit my most consistent sleep aid and I mean that in the best way possible! I'll pick up a few snippets of lore here and there but for the most part it's all soothing white noise.

I thought the Abundance Tertious saga was gone and forgotten. Don't make me hope again in vain, Lore Master.

We have to remember ships vary from the Invincible Reason which is built with DAOT stuff and the Imperium's height of tech and power where 99% of everything is Quantum computing and advanced automation as well as most Astartes ships using mostly automation. To Navy ships that vary widely from semi automated to ones built by a single planet over a generation with just one Magos directing it all. Thus it requires manual loading with crews and work gangs. The massive amount of variety is why its such a cool part of space warfare in 40K.

I would honestly love to see you cover the old ironclad class when you cover the ships of the line

Your intro was exactly what I needed to hear, of course right when I need to hear it. Synchronicity - I’d say it’s a B but it is an angel and only when I dislike it is it karma lol

Void warfare passages are some of my favorite parts in the Heresy books. Just so cool - thank you for posting a video about the Navy!

As a Gothic fan and ex sailor I've always wondered when someone will do an Imperial Navy lore video. Cheers!

Always amazing. Also, you never need to feel the need to apologize for having a sponsor! They're part of what keeps your amazing work for us to enjoy!

4:32 - Brother Baldermort trying to BLOW OUR MINDS. lol, love it :) Always enjoy your videos Brother.

CONGRATULATIONS, BALDIE🙌❣️🙌 MAY THE EMPEROR'S LIGHT SHINE UPON YOU AND YOUR KIN, MAY GORK AND MORK BLESS YOUR TRIBE, MAY THE FORCES OF CHAOS NEVER TOUCH OR TEMPT YOUR MIND, AND MAY THE CHANNEL ASCEND TO THE TOP OF WH40K LORE CHANNELS, WHERE IT DESERVES!!! your deliveries, your storys and these records of the galaxy....i wish i could help more with the channel, but some day i will, asap! I am ever greatfull, BaldeLord❣️ (Don't ever forget the great Kronan, lol)

The yo-ho-ho killed me 33:10

Every other person describing the individual compared to the universe: "YOU ARE A MEAN LITTLE QUARK." Bald doing the same: "Don't worry, gentle listener; you are unique, even in all that vastness." Love you, Bald. Thanks.

Thank you for this Warhammer 40,000 tribute, this your weekly Warhammer 40,000 tribute. Your work is always appreciated by this gentle listener.

A happy 4th anniversary to Baldermort! I love this channel even though I have never played 40k, I find the lore fascinating and Baldermort's delivery and story telling compelling.

It's easy to forget how freaking huge these ships are. Even an escort is as larger, or larger, than most battleship-type vessels from other settings. IIRC, a battlestar can range between 1.5km and 2.2km, and those things are huge. These ships are ridiculous. I love it

congratulations on 4 years introducing us to the grimdark!

It was the Gamemovie for Battlefleet Gothic 2 that got me into Warhammer 40k. The 9th edition Cinematic was the clincher

Always a pleasure to see a new video on this dark and grand setting. Get well soon and enjoy your new home.

I've been holding off for eleven days , now it's time to enjoy this fifty minute masterpiece thank you so much Lore Master I like everything you do before I've even watched because I know it's going to be outstanding !

Happy Anniversary Sir! Your work never disappoints. Thank you for the quality videos! I hope you feel better soon. Please keep up the good work.

Glad to hear you are doing better & please give us more onnthe Imperial Navy including tactics!

As someone that had their first true taste of 40k via. "Ramming speed!" Aka Battlefleet Gothic, know that I will close my eyes and appreciate the majesty of the Emperor's space faring Cathedrals in all their shapes and sizes.

Just the beginning ❤ It reminded me a bit of this end of a poem: "In the solitude of a billion lightyears/ all of a sudden, I sneezed". Hope you got well again fast and thoroughly and are remaining well. The universe needs a Baldermort.

Happy anniversary Baldy! Love your work and look forward to many more years of it.

18:55 my favorite exception to this is the Invincible-class Fast Battleship The guy who ordered them just did a Jaghatai and went "I want speed", as the Mechanicus argued but eventually made them They were _perfect_ for the role they were intended for - pirate hunting, but a lot of captains saw these big battleship-looking things and just stupidly went for broadside brawls in ships designed for speed rather than durability The things became universally shunned as deathtraps and only 5 were ever made, most of which got destroyed due to the above reasons Also the Mercury-class Battlecruiser is an example of an almost-same ship made for exactly the same role (pirate hunting), but was used by people who actually played by its strengths (Battlefleet Bakka), and so the Mercury-class became a beloved Battlecruiser while the Invincible-class was condemned

Awesome! A whole new area to explore - spaceships! A deepdive/story on the Gloriana ships would be great eventually . . .

I am actually super glad there was an add in the beginning. Not just a standard KZfaq add, but a whole integration:) Thank you for your passionate work ❤

We are grateful for the Biscuit, Uncle Lord Baldy!

I was a freelance game developer for bfg back in the day. I got a number of gw publications. As said it greatly depends on the author what necessitates a crew complement, speed, range etc. In the game, the scale was 1cm to 1000km. And a turn was one hour in universe. This gave you a rough combat speed of 20,000km per hour for an imperial cruiser. And a weapons range of 30,000km for common weapons with other standard type weapons getting to 60,000km. And of course the nova cannon reaching up to 150,000km (the blast template was over scaled for game purposes as otherwise it'd be the size of a sizeable moon. Similar for ship explosions; they could be the size of large rocky planets if taken at game value). For crew we assumed each hit was 1000 crew or more (not including slaves, hidden cults etc). So a cruiser would vary between 6,000 to 10,000 crew, but once again this was not including slave labour etc. Also carriers would have a larger crew (but possibly less slave labour). For other factions crew complement would vary per hit. Orks is an interesting example as they had extra hits that represented disposable shields which lined up with having extra boys for the size. It must be remembered that the ships of the line carried an awful lot of supplies. Usually enough to be self sufficient for 6months. In addition to this they would also have redundancies many of which abandoned. Entire sections of capital ships could be sealed off for centuries before being rediscovered during repairs. The various different types of power generators and fuel will take up a collosal percentage of the ships volume, not to mention non combat related infrastructure.

I doubt you will read this comment but I just wanted to say thank you for making these vids. I’ve been struggling with depression recently and your vids really help they always brighten my day. Thank you so much and keep up the good work!!

Happy 4th anniversary Brother Baldermort! Congratulations and hope you feel better soon! Thank you for all your hard work!

Yes! I've been waiting for more Imperial Navy videos for a minute now. Thanx B! Looking forward to more!

Kind of interesting: The Milky Way is right now absorbing at least 2 other small galaxies.. maybe 4... Some small ones might have gone completely through our galaxy and not interacted with it in any real way. They figure this out by looking at odd formations and cluster of stars in our own Milky Way and work backwards to find out that these groups of stars got near us and got sucked in. Some areas are spinning at odd angles to our own. Even in our own system Sol, there are bodies that have been captured by our solar system from other places.

45:25 I think this quote paints a nice picture A Thousand Sons, pg. 383: "When the time came to leave Terra, it was a great moment. Not even the triumph at Ullanor can compare with the moment of grief as an entire world wept to see the architect of Unification depart. The alliance of Terra and Mars was complete, and the Mechanicum had outdone itself, building fleets of ships to allow the Emperor to take to the stars and complete his Great Crusade of Unity. The skies over Terra were thick with starships, hundreds of thousands of them organised into more than seven thousand fleets, reserve groups and secondary, follow-on forces. It was an armada designed to conquer the galaxy and that was exactly what we set out to do.”

The Imperial Navy, where even the smallest gunboat wields weapons the size of buildings and larger ships in turn mount weapons that are so large and powerful a single shot can destabilize or destroy a planet or planetary body. -Out of all the aspects of 40k the navies of this universe are by far my favorite part. -I forgot the book this is described in (maybe one of the first heritic books). The Space Marine is looking for someone and has to go into the bowls of his capital ship, and he talks about entire DECKS that no one has been to for hundreds of years to the point where they have actually forgotten what even resides in parts of their own ship.

Thank you itterator primus . You make this new age of the imperial truth that much more palatable Happy anniversary. Ave Imperator . May the Emperor protect you.

Happy anniversary man, i hope you know you're one of the best!

At last the revaluation’s of the imperium’s void logistics. Something about the scale and logistics of warhammer has always fascinated me

That 4th wall brake was amazing. I didn’t expect the story to speak directly to me.

Probably one of my favourite videos you've made thus far. Well done good sir!

Oh, follicley challenged one!!! That had laugh almost as much as I enjoyed hearing the rest of this. Yet I still nodded into slumber as you unfolded the scope of all that is around us.

Fantastic video. im glad you mentioned how space warfare in 40K has numerous interpretations and styles people prefer, as the setting is big enough to have many facets to it. Even on the table top BFG can feel like naval battle anywhere from WW2 carrier battles, Sub hunts, Space Jutland WW1, Pre-dreadnoughts, Ironclads or age of sail Line battles depending on which fleets are used or their composition

Baldermort is like the grandfather that tells you stories every time you go there for Christmas.

Dear gentle Storyteller, your faithful redering of the lore brings the universe of the hobby to life.

I absolutely love the honesty and apology for the ad. Your the best Baldermort.

I love your channel and am happy to be a subscriber, but this one was above and beyond your normal work. Very engaging!

Sweet! New video. Great timin too. I have somethin to listen to for over time at work. Keep em comin boss!

Just finding your channel - a decade and a half of KZfaq - and Im just finding you (albeit your 4th anniversary) Congrats to that by the way. Just wanted to say as a 40k fan and player since 3rd edition - that your content is incredible - your voice the stuff of Voice Acting legend - and hi as your newest subscriber - as of this comment anyway. Kudos and Thank you for your what you do - I will be digging through your vast library for quite some time. *For the Emperor!!!

Ah, I regret time taking me away from this channel. But it always brings me a smile to hear with how much enthusiasm Baldermort makes his oration. Of course he will always deny it, but it is my belief that he has earned his place amongst the Greats. Never change Baldermort, for communities take its form from its creator, and this is truly one of the warmest communities in all of 40K. Thank you for doing this, and for the time it takes.

I love the imperial navy, i hope in the futur we will have an entire saga on some captaine or rogue trader very navy oriented ! we lack lore and there is so much to tell !

Your voice is liquid gold, even with the ‘vid. Glory together house of Baldermort

It was a shithouse day for me today Balders me old salt, but nothing 50 mins of Imperial navy lore wont remedy! Thanks for that. Really elevated my mood something fierce!

I think that given the numbers in the navy, it is very arguable that in the world of 30k humanity was a fleet based species, not much unlike the tyranids. But possibly due to the machine rebellion we had to rely more upon planets once again, rather than being able to rely purely on the fleet

9:08 Ah, the HMS Baldermort. Overlord Class, 27 Kghtjillion tons of spacebourne Imperial iron. One of Battlefleet Gothic's finest vessels.

Yeeessss! Another epic story time by Ser Balder! Glorious! 😋

Every time you give us a new upload, I get a happy feeling. From thousands of miles away, I hope you feel better soon!

Happy anniversary baldy love your amazing work 👍