Every Class of Imperial Warship EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

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[@majorkill]

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[@cutiepiebigbaby2499]

Best armor in the galaxy? Like from every races

[@dazofthemoo1531]

Love your work. Ever considered any Necromunda lore. ,?

[@keeganireland6464]

After watching this I really want to more imperial navy vids.

[@danielfernandoriveralizama4590]

Where is the rock ?

[@dorunafured5856]

Jobs in the Imperium Next please

[@mersenniusprime]

It's worth pointing out that in The End and the Death, Horus (admittedly not the most reliable narrator by this point) claims that the Emperor was Alexander the Great. As such, the Bucephalus would have been the Emperor's horse. There is certainly something entertaining and very, very human about naming an enormous ship after your horse that died over 30,000 years ago. Must have been one hell of a horse.

[@necfreon6259]

Speaking of Alexander the Great dudes a badass him being able to conquer the entire Persian empire in his early 20s is really god damn impressive the only reason he didn’t conquer the known world was because of desise he definitely had more in him unlike many other great generals like gengis khan which was nearing the end of there lives due to old age

[@incredibleflameboy]

Seems like something nandor the relentless would do

[@Wertsir]

Imagine how strong a horse would need to be to carry the emperor. And how fast it would need to run for the emperor to consider it worthwhile to actually ride it. Shadowfax eat your heart out.

[@taronzgaming7739]

@@incredibleflameboy They called me that because I'd never relent. They'd say "No, no, stop pillaging me" and I'd say "No, everybodies getting pillaged, you included".

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

​@@Wertsir the emperor has been insinuated to just be the size of a normal human

[@Historyfrek4ever]

I just realized: It is kind of wholesome that emperor named one of his ships Bucephalus, since Emperor was canonically Aleksander the Great. He must have genuinely really like that horse, probably more than his sons.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

His “dad” Phillip of Macedon, was named as such because of his love of horses. “Phil” love “Hip” horse. (Greek has several words for love, “Phil” is not the kind that those of dirty minds are assuming about his relationships with horses).

[@Automere]

Can you do Malcador’s relationship with each primarch? 🧙‍♂️

[@unclestoma4699]

I second this

[@eztvlight1202]

Thirded.

[@demoiselle_chris9466]

Fourthed... ? xD

[@RamonChiNangWong078]

He's known as Uncle Malcador and he used to spank Horus

[@kellerblair2952]

He hated them 🤣

[@ryanjividen3827]

I like the lore nugget that when the Mechanicus delivered The Khan his battle barge, he returned it and made them do it over because it wasn't fast enough.

[@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233]

So the painted it red ?

[@yesman866]

Fulgrim “i heard you do weird things to your ships” Jhagatai “I heard you do weird things to your men.”

[@GRAVYTRAIN-gaming]

The logical reason for melee combat in 40K is that swords don’t need ammo. People/ships can only carry so much. Think about the logistics of transporting trillions of tons of ammunition across the galaxy, now think about how much less you’d have to carry if you have everyone melee weapons. ( also it is just badass )

[@dragonstormx]

Chainswords still need fuel and replacement parts.

[@saudade7842]

The reason I always had is that a lot of armor can stop lasguns and bolters, but a powersword or chainsword can go through, provided you're close enough to use it. I'd also imagine that, for this reason, they got more popular as confrontations between astartes, and other better armored opponents got more common

[@dragonstormx]

@@saudade7842 How that in the face of tanks, artillery and air power is beyond me. Typically this setting depicts a group of master swordsmen as more effective than aircraft, even though something preforming the role of an attack helicopter should be able to wipe out some charging Marines before they get close enough to take a swing.

[@saudade7842]

@@dragonstormx Yeah, and you also get scenes like that one time some loyalist aircraft, piloted by astartes, almost killed 3 traitor primarchs (iirc, number of primarchs might be wrong)

[@krel3358]

I think an even more logical reason is that when you have power armour, teleporters, jump packs, personal force fields, and psychic barriers it seems that in certain situations the ability to attack someone with a technologically enhanced meele weapon is more powerful than shooting as once you close the distance then you cant shoot and theres the aspect that you cant really put yourself into a ranged weapon in the same manner as you can with a meele weapon.

[@chrislyne377]

Pretty sure the Invincible class is named for HMS Invincible (1907), the world's first battlecruiser which promptly blew up at the Battle of Jutland from a single hit to a turret which (mostly from poor ammunition handling rather than weak armour) set off her main magazine. Plus, there were 3 British battlecruisers which blew up at Jutland, the other two being HMS Indefatigable and HMS Queen Mary which both also suffered magazine explosions.

[@Iceisnice1]

A video about what each primarch would've done in Guilliman's place would be nice, ngl.

[@meltedgnome4999]

Hell yea

[@Persona6Blue]

FINALLY. I needed an explanation if a Gloriana class and Emperor class were the same ship or not and which is bigger. Hopefully this explains .

[@eatinganemone89]

How would each of the Primarchs react if the Emperor told them he loved them?

[@dabiggestblunder9177]

YES WARHAMMER NAVY VIDEOS, there isn't enough talked about the navy aspect of warhammer even though it's such a important part

[@saudade7842]

My sorta headcanon for the prevalence of melee weapons is that a lot of armor can stop lasguns and bolters, but a powersword or chainsword can go through, provided you're close enough to use it. I'd also imagine that, for this reason, they got more popular as confrontations between astartes, and other better armored opponents got more common

[@IamZeus1100]

Honestly the similar looking templates for ships of different names for slightly different purposes is pretty on brand for actual military

[@iovu8152]

Thank you for this video ! Since you mentioned the Abyssal class ship last video, I kept wondering about it

[@comunistdoggo8782]

with the intro thing, if you had a super human race which force is measured in tons and are some of the most agile things, and with more armor than a tank, would you have them JUST with plasma guns and bolters? besides for that there are the guardsman heavy weapons

[@jonumine6250]

I think primaris are trying to solve this problem by giving them 20+ types of weapons. What do they do? no idea, shoot in different flavors?

[@doge9813]

A video on the White Scar Targutai Yesugai and the Sagyar Mazan would be nice ngl.

[@apostleoffate2028]

A request for ship-type series for every faction like you did for the imperials. And hey, there is a game called Battlefleet Gothic Armada (1 & 2) where videos like these help for the immersion for both ingame and universe alike.

[@thecommentguy9380]

the funniest thing to do in bfga2 is getting 2 mechanicus fleets with a total of 6 cruisers carrying nova and a navy battleship, sniping the heretics and xenos from half the map away

[@patrickbo2045]

So the real question, have you played through Battlefleed Gothic Armada I & II ? Great games - and you get to respect and love some of these ship classes even more!

[@consolescrub4031]

Minor observation, most legions got one Gloriana class ship except as you pointed out the Dark angels. However if I recall correctly the alpha legion were reported to have a second and the word bearers somehow collected a bunch having three ships of approximately that tier. One of them was boarded and gifted to an ultramarine successor chapter.

[@imapopo2924]

Invincible Class battleship, being a lightly armored battleship that was noted for losing 3 in one battle... I do believe that may be a historical reference to the WWI Battle of Jutland where the British suffered the explosive loss of 3 battlecruisers, 1 of which was notably the HMS Invincible, lead ship of her class which exploded when her magazines detonated. I love finding historical references in stuff like this. Makes my inner history nerd smile.

[@ericement6568]

The John Blanche' art at 11:20 realy puts all other illustrations to shame. The level of details elevates the sense of scale and makes it feel like a whole giant city shaped in the form of a "ship". And the design is so perfect too. One of my favorite illustrations from 40k

[@Joseph-mw2rl]

Imagine dark age humanity with FLEETS of emperor class ships flying in all directions

[@wanjanechtangroeger]

When it comes to super big ships you could have given at least an honourable mention to the Speranza. Although being an ArK Mechanicus it turns out to be a capable warship - and it is huge!

[@Bananakingchad]

Dark age humanity:and that’s the smallest ships civilians can legally own

[@feralprocessor9853]

Pretty powerful ships that the Imperiam is no longer able to replicate.

[@thedayidied]

"Like a katana through a nine year old" made me giggle longer than was necessary.

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

I am kind of worried that the Phalanx is going to get destroyed fighting the bugs.

[@alesrowe822]

If one of the traitor legions were to be fully redeemed somehow, which would make the biggest impact in helping the imperium

[@nikkotan2840]

Star War: Let's Make a Battleship that is over 1.6km long and called it Star Destroyers Imperium 40L: Let's make ships smaller over 1km long and give them a proper designation of a Corvette-Class.

[@tykeorama9898]

I really enjoyed this video about Battlefleet ships.... Rumor has it, a new BFG will be released after 10th edition. Im pretty excited as that was my jam!

[@EdwardFranswar]

The admech still have the full Luna crusier STC witch is why they are so numerouse as they can be constructed with ease, it is also worth it to mention that nearly all the classes of crusier that the imperium feild are offshoots of the lunna not independent designes.

[@forgblack5222]

This makes me want to start a new campaign in Battlefleet Gothic Armada

[@MrAbraxus666]

MJK *Guarding the bridge Monty Python style* "I bet you don't know which class Big E's ship was?" Me - "Wasn't there 3?" I shall watch and find out more!

[@thekingofcarcosa6408]

This video just makes me want new Battlefleet Gothic miniatures

[@valostheroman]

The Phalanx is not the only movile fortress in the imperium, it's the biggest, Howe we also know that there are a few more of those "ships" the raptorus rex like the Phalanx is a pre imperial mobile fortress but used as a fortress monastery home to the fire hawks space marine chapter, after the Badab war it was lost in the warp after an attempted war jump in the piraeus system The ramilles class starforts are not exactly "mobile" however they can still make warpjumps and arrive in other systems as well to either battle fleets, defend positions or even bombard planets

[@DefensiveMAN]

Can you do a video on what would have happened if the imperium didn’t become ultra religious and xenophobic after the emperor’s‘’ascension’’

[@norseman423]

Read Rouge trader Era lore. That will have your answer

[@BloodyShirtMusic]

Likely an upscaled auretian technocracy or interrex. Cool idea for an AU however.

[@pentacosttb2565]

Realistically collapse and fall to predation by chaos. The religious zealotry isn't a flaw in the Imperium, it's the manifestation of mankind's spiteful refusal to lay down and die in the face of evil gods that want to consume us.

[@beckjayjohn5781]

Probably have less suicidal zealots and more "logical" people but no faith no unbreakable will in there belief to push them forward so don't know but this is a question for majorkill hel probably give a better answer lol

[@funnelingspace9268]

Weren't they always very xenophobic?

[@whitlocktherevanchist5236]

I've always thought it was a little bit of a bummer that we don't really get much story on starfighters in warhammer. I mean I get that we all love it for the melee and all that, but some of my best syfy books are about squadrons of star fighters like rogue squadron. I'd just be interested to see a 40k version of that. Dogfights in the void make some of the most interesting action packed stories I've ever read. That said I do love reading portions of books about large scale void battles with large scale ships. Instead of tight maneuver we get size and fire power.

[@Witnessmoo]

Skincare routine is the path to Slanesh

[@AngelAce90]

Didn't they explain melee weapons because demons are easier to kill with classic weapons due to human beliefs

[@xavierhugo9269]

I mean they still melee the shit out of xenos and various heretics

[@QuayNemSorr]

It's actully hard to find the size of the warships. Always wondered why that isn't revealed.

[@Necroxion]

11:56 I find the stats used for Battle Barges hilarious in Battlefleet Gothic As marines are meant for ground engagements, Barges in BFG are armed with Bombardment Cannons meant for Exterminatus and used in close range combat Thing is, this is their _least_ devastating weapon in-game. The most devastating weapon a Battle Barge uses is its cargo The Space Marines themselves EDIT: also "Know no Fear" extends to even the Chapter Serfs crewing the ship, to the point that Astartes crew are all immune to losing morale

[@rankothefiremage]

1km Destroyer, the Imperator-class Star Destroyer from Starwars clocks in at 1.6km for sci fi comparison, note the Executor-class is 17.6km

[@boarding9132]

Do titans next, it’s hard to imagine titans without references. You can be that reference for thousands

[@lazymongoose9233]

Katana through a nine year old is underrated as fuck, hope KZbin doesn't spaz out because of it.

[@waxmydolphin9894]

Awesome video. "like a katana slicing through a nine year old"😂. Ngl the art at the end looks awesome 👌

[@ace_the_race9340]

Btw, I want to know if the primarchs knew the Emperor powered the astronomicon, as horus the bald cu*t decided to kill his father and become the Emperor instead, and I really doubt he could power it.

[@dylanvodden1369]

Love these videos talking about the logistics of making the Imperium's war machine run. Keep it up majorkill!

[@Chrivs]

So happy. I was just talking about it yesterday on the last video ;D Only missing how to make and how long to make each ship (; And the crew how they are divided in upper and lower class and ranks and like how many standard crew is there and who can they just get new of fast and so on ;D And who use these kinda of ship, like what class/rank faction would use that ship And so how big is a standard battle Group Really do hope the imperium can make the good "old" ships again Or just new ships. After Guilliman has lifted the ban on making new stuff (; Just love how you say " not yet lost" ;D

[@陳怡秀-r7y]

Video idea: Tech comparison Votann vs IoM. The Votann have a bolter etc

[@davekavanagh7599]

A super deep dive on Malcador would be the business, he's a G

[@benvacco8997]

My boy really did the dark angels dirty, no mention of the Rock? For shame.

[@DoublebaseFanatic]

Very nice and informative Video! 👏FYI: In case you don't know. You are still able to play games with those beauties! BFG has a suprisingly big and active Community and even providing a free digital downloadable Starter Kit with STLs and remastered OG Rulebooks.

[@voin5371]

Honestly, my favourite fact about the Phalanx in regards to its size is that it has I believe 8 primary hanger bays with each bay able to hold 6 cruisers, making the UNSC Infinity with its Sparrows look tiny in comparison lol. Nevermind the fact this thing has so much firepower that I'm pretty sure it would take a World Engine to actually give it a challenge.

[@TheSkylaura]

I miss Battle Fleet Gothic and want it to come back

[@blacktemplar1139]

Useless fact you most likely didn't know: There are actually 22 Primarchs, one of them being the most iconic and memable ones (Omegon), and the other essentially being the Avatar of Kain but in human form, The Angel, or Proto-Primarch, or something (I forgot).

[@lurkingedge]

So, a Volkite weapon is a heatray that can heat someone up so fast that they insta-die, then turn into a white hot cinder that can cook their buddies to death just from the residual heat. Hand-held weapons. But the Emperor had one as the MAIN GUN on a 30 plus kilometer WARSHIP?! Nice fleet you've got there. It would be too bad if your flagship turned into a momentary star and... flame broiled half your fleet...

[@adammilosdubovsky6607]

Yeah. Dauntless mk.1 is absolute gold In BFGA 2

[@ehtrid7038]

Bro best way to be safe from Chaos is to sterilise it ,the more the better, with coce and its amazing for skin too!

[@princeofpokemon2934]

We should honestly see more space battles since we see way too many ground battles

[@Ghost-pq8td]

Ah boy time for a whole series on ships from every Faction

[@farright118]

7:15 not possible to fit 50k-100k people on a 3 to 5km ship. But thanks for placing the numbers in there

[@sijlp4679]

Most impressive Primach feat (each and the most impressive) video when?

[@DaisyBee11]

Phalanx, hecc yeah. Glad it made it to this list, as #1 no less

[@proudamerican183]

3:04 😭 No love for the little guys. 6:29 😭 No love for long videos.

[@etiennegarant7545]

And now I immediatly want to play Battlefleet Gothic

[@aaronjumet4445]

Does the imperium have any void going aircraft carriers, or is that basically considered redundant?

[@AnvilMAn603]

as a battlefleet gothic armada player: imperium fleets are lol

[@VoiceOfTheEmperor]

This is gonna be good.

[@michalhruska362]

To honour Rylanor the Ancient of Rites, cover thoroughly what happened between him the thousands sons and Fulgrim, what it might mean for Fulgrim, how Clonegrim might react once he is free, will he take Rylanor, Sal Tarviz and who else to reform the Emperor's children, what might be his place in this newly reformed legion, perhaps even sing it or try to.

[@FrostbiteDigital]

Wouldn't mind seeing a video on Tau ships or Eldar vessels

[@Federation_of_Mars]

Can you make a video about Eldar Weapons?

[@Gangster_God]

Time to Warship the Imperium once again

[@corporalclaystar8587]

Oh lets go, I was actually really curious about this!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

“Mortuus in anima, curam gero cutis.”

[@gc6096]

Can you do some lore videos on the Dawn of war games their expansions? Day 1

[@Reboot-vf3so]

@Majorkill Do you know that your Shark Daddy/Tyberos model is on Warhammer Combat cards?

[@DarthBane22]

Ayyyyyy he actually did it.

[@JimbobTwentySeven]

THANK YOU ❤

[@iamtoolazytoeditmyprofile]

Thankyou

[@modeus4652]

Day 5 of asking how every faction reacted to the Grey Knights

[@m.g7809]

What about the Rock?

[@leforestierdamien877]

nice thank you

[@EruCoolGuy]

Love how 40k overkills the fuck out of any SF licence for no other reason than it being funny.

[@lordderpington8021]

All this talk of "naval" combat makes me want to pester drachinifel into doing another 40k video, but not as an april fools joke.

[@MarechalHD]

wait the D.A had 3 Glorianas? every time i check is a different number

[@perishark234]

Why does the turbulent have anakin skywalker's lightsaber duct taped to the bottom...?

[@jojotheswede8444]

Remember people, it's not the size of the ship, it's how you use it.

[@damianwozniak3798]

Honorable mentions Space Hulks ??? 😃

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

Falchion (fal-chun)

[@xTheZapper]

Void war takes place in cubic kilometers, not square kilometers.

[@flerphead]

FUCK YES IM DRUNK AND I NEED SOME LORE IN MY FACE

[@grendelkrieg5742]

I think he missed the arc mechanicus unless he plans to cover it as a mechanicus ship

[@Ollaniusperrson]

Salamanders have the largest battle barges 😂js

[@mikewaterfield3599]

Bucephalus was gloriana class

[@Necroxion]

Imperial Ships Because when you don't go to church, the church goes to you...and the whole continent too.

[@michelgasquet1]

Great vid ma boah

[@yeetbirdo]

Day 16 of asking Majorkill to do BattleTech lore

[@maxwellmulford5898]

Before watching, I’m going to guess Abyssal Class.

[@tVt2000]

Day 1 of asking for a video about what characters could kill the prime Big E