Top 20 Biggest & Heaviest Tanks of the Imperium (Warhammer 40k Universe)

This video presents the 20 Biggest battle tanks of the Imperium.
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[@tucansam7769]

That Ragnarok looks suspiciously KV-2 like.

[@ra_alf9467]

More like KV-1, I think

[@calvinchan8511]

@@ra_alf9467 That turret is based on the early model KV-2 turret with the sloped front.

[@DOProductionsNL]

Da komrade

[@haudium69]

More like a BT- 42.

[@minatiroy3738]

I mean the rhino and land raider is literally a tncs callena

[@schemesof40k]

chassis. All 8 are the same size! This massive kit can alternatively build a variety of other super-heavy tanks: - Banesword - with a quake cannon to punish vehicles and fortifications at extreme range - Shadowsword- armed with a tank-slagging volcano cannon - Doomhammer - armed with a titan-slaying magma cannon and troop-carrying capacity - Stormsword - armed with a bunker-busting stormsword siege cannon - Banehammer - armed with a tremor cannon to slow down aggressive opponents - Stormlord - armed with a vulcan mega-bolter and large troop-carrying capacity - Hellhammer - armed with a hellhammer cannon for close-quarters warfare

[@kelas-re4442]

My favorite has always been the Stormlord; the Baneblade-chassis armed with a twin-linked vulcan mega bolter. Driving through bolt gun barrages like it is a whale swimming through plankton ^^

[@deinbarenbruder6570]

Why a twin-linked cannon?

[@kelas-re4442]

Because I say so ? ^^ This might not be 100% correct. According to Imperial Armor Codex it's just »Vulcan mega-bolter - STR 6, AP 3, Heavy 15«. It's not twin-linked. My mistake.

[@deinbarenbruder6570]

@@kelas-re4442 I didn't even realize that. I meant rather: why such a weapon? what are the advantages of having a double-barreled weapon (or two parallel ones)?

[@kelas-re4442]

Answer to that is simple: More barrels mean more dakka. Even more barrels = even moar DAKKA.

[@almightybogza]

​@@deinbarenbruder6570 In real life ? You get more firepower but they are less accurate and require more space. They are also more complex. In 40k its just the rule of cool. To be honest the Imperium fights demons from hell spacebugs and green tides of orks.. more firepower is all you really need. Twin cannon tanks however are in general pretty dumb but they look cool so +1 from me.

[@anthonycampos7417]

It's crazy how much ship void battles and battlefield artillery like tanks have so much importance and use in the story yet we generally don't know too much about them or their differences and use cases.

[@quack9355]

I would like to suggest to put the height of a normal guard and an average Astartes at the start so that we can get a general scale on how massive these things are. Just a suggestion tho lmao You can decline this request if you like. I don't mind

[@tarektechmarine8209]

I don't know if it's intentional or not but despite the astartes vics being bigger and more advanced/better in every way their mass is quite a bit lower than the human counterpart.

[@JammesJack-td6gv]

​​@@tarektechmarine8209m guessing whatever sci fi metal they is lighter than our metals

[@jonbarnes2424]

I'd suggest that the Leviathan and Capitol Imperialis, which is far larger than anything in this list, belong here too. They're essentially tanks, having tracks, armour and armaments. Ordinatus are probably a step too far removed, though.

[@vermilion7777]

1. Capitol Imperialis (aka Behemoth) 2. Leviathan Problem with those is that they were originally Squat warmachines.

[@jakegyllenrat4443]

Bro forgot to mention the The "kratos assault tank" and the "Mastodon" 💀

[@MrKudo123]

and Leviathan and Mobile Cathedral

[@jakegyllenrat4443]

@@MrKudo123 🗿

[@Nike427]

I'm very surprised that the Mastodon Super-Heavy Assault Transport isn't on this list at all? As it is probably the biggest tank ever. (Which you can field and purchase)

[@m_akos567]

Because it s not a tank, it s a carrier, hance the name Assault Transport. Not every vehicle with track are tanks :)

[@Nike427]

@@m_akos567 The mastodon is definitely a tank. Especially if this list contains Land raider on it. which is essentially a smaller version of it. And i quote (The Mastodon was as heavily armed as it was armored, with a wide variety of weapons and technology it was fully capable of defending itself and its cargo from attack. The most important weapon of the Mastodon was its fixed forwards-firing Siege Melta Array, an array of nine melta-weapons that was used to burn through enemy walls and fortifications) The Mastodon even has this definition for it. (Mastodon: An Armoured Infantry Vehicle/Siege Tank/Air Defence Tank)

[@daebi37]

At the beginning of the video the author states he is not including transports.....

[@Nike427]

@@daebi37 But he did say just ones with the nasty cannon. And the Masadon has Siege Melta Array and 9 other melta weapons. If going by that logic same princible applies to the Land raider tank that is on this list.

[@chickenistrexlastname1331]

Mastadon SM super heavy.

[@sharkchaos5160]

Great video.

[@benbo4394]

I feel like the tank main up gun caliber is understated,like if it said it uses a 120mm, well it look like a went on a feast and gain another 80mm somewhere in the favtory

[@TheStandardBearer]

Nice video.

[@DongLick]

This moment when he picked not a mars-pattern baneblade...

[@thanhnguyentrong7508]

thank you for this good and much quality detail of video but can you make video zoom out when you introduct biger tank on the another. It make better view.

[@dohj4959]

Nice sounds like a tutorial video for a new skill. I really like the way you pronounce STC. Sounds like ecstacy.

[@Oldhammer57]

Can't tear myself away from the Stormhammer on the table with the Solar Auxilia. Definitely the reason I have a mountainous pile of shame!

[@akrillalex6810]

nice video a lot of new tanks for me 7:23 video quality improvement tip: if you dont know how the word is pronounced try google translate audio feature

[@muffinman6048]

"Land Raiders are only called that because they were named after some guy named Land" is quite possibly the single worst piece of lore in 40k history.

[@nutbug445]

But it's true 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@muffinman6048]

@@nutbug445 Fun fact, The Emperor's name is Jimmy Space, which is where the Space Marines get their name.

[@Boodoosh69]

it is true - its detailed in the HH book Master of Mankind

[@BloodyArchangelus]

He found a STC of this Importance. yes he would call it by his name. Coz it is a inheritance.

[@user-bs6mc9ec8i]

I think you have forgotten the Leviathan and Capitol Imperialis

[@GodKitty677]

Good points. The Leviathan is a super-heavy armoured transport and a Regmental HQ. The Capitol Imperialis is a mobile command base. Its still counted as a super-heavy tank under type rules (same with the Leviathan). 1600 points. Leviathan is 1400 points.

[@user-mg5ed3qk1b]

Imperial guard with their lemun riss is like....hold me beer!

[@beavis1a03]

So many variants. The logistics chain must be a nightmare...lol

[@raulalbeanu3557]

Cool presentation however where is the Kratos tank?

[@chaosreapers7763]

I really love the baneblade that a beast of a tank

[@sparhawk26]

We're taliking about big tanks and no mention of the Leviathan or the Capitol Imperialis? True, the models are quite old and come from epic format. But still, a Leviathan makes a Baneblade look very smalll (and a Capitol Imperialis is even bigger).

[@tzadkiel85]

The Levi used a starship class Macro Cannon, an Imperator class Titan's void shields have a bad day trying to stop those shells

[@sparhawk26]

@@tzadkiel85 Yeah, the Doomsday Cannon. Just the name says it all...

[@kharn-the-betrayer]

Something about the Sicaran, they look awesome

[@Xlaxsauce]

Astraeus looks like a mix of Eldar and Tau technology and aesthetics

[@Headloser]

NIce but the info should icluded the how many crews need to operate these machines.

[@Boodoosh69]

Surprised not to see a Mechanicum Ordinatus here

[@namelessentity5851]

Weird question: given their height and bulk, even sans armor, would it be correct to think it improbable an Astartes could fit inside something like a Hellhound, let alone operate it? I do not know much about tanks, but I know that they have never been known to be roomy.

[@schwarzie2k]

The Hellhound isnt operated by the Legiones Astartes, the smallest Astartes Vehicle is the Predator which is based on a Rhino Hull. also compared to real world tanks most of these vehicles are very short but ungodly tall.

[@thelion2751]

Well they could be inside of a baneblade but the bane blade is a giant

[@warlord9259]

​@@thelion2751 Увы внутренние отсеки Бейнблейда очень тесные, поэтому вряд ли Астартес поместится внутри. Внутри ведь ещё снаряды которые с огромным трудом экипаж через люк просовывает внутрь танка.

[@00pugsly48]

Great video. The more you see the tanks the more you realise how much they’ve got wrong with the primaris tanks. They look awful

[@czechcrusader6461]

I like them tbh.

[@-Miguelzim-]

Well, we all can agree that these tanks looks giant toys

[@xxbabaxx12]

Astraeus is not the largest tank the imperium have. Theres the Capitol Imperialis, Leviathan, Ordinatus (lots of them). Solid list but is far from the biggest and heaviest tanks. Also how can you forget the Mastodon, if you just using the mainstream GW/FW tanks.

[@Webby2020]

Totally agree. Not sure I'd include ordinatus, as they are more a unique weapons system that is usually mobile, but Leviathan and Capitol Imperialis are definitely at the top of the list.

[@nutbug445]

Those aren't battle tanks, they are more of mobile fortresses and command and control centers as well as troop transport

[@xxbabaxx12]

@@nutbug445 But your title just said tanks. But battle tanks sure. Also tbf leviathan is a battle tank, just a super massive one. Used by the squats rather common for them vs the greater imperium. Squats literally just use them as transport vehicles.

[@Webby2020]

@@nutbug445 got to agree with Aaron here. They are still tanks. You could equally describe any super heavy vehicle as a mobile fortress. And as for a troop transport, surely you would have to include the land raider as one, not to mention many other vehicles.

[@powerflumi]

Thats the Death Star problem for you. Technically the Death Star isnt a space station but instead a space ship, but due to its shape its sort off different catergorie. Since "station" implies stationary while "ship" implies mobile. Its difficult in these instances to decide where one thing starts and one ends. Same goes for here. I would argue that the Capitals Imperials and Ordinatii, they are all individual constructions That arent a very specific design like a Leeman Russ and its thousand variants for instance. Hell if we would go by that part the "walker" section would have to include everything from sentiels to Imperator Titans to the Chaos Titans like the Apocalypse one or the STC based versions. So you have a walker that is like 3 meters tall that can be used also as a bipedal forklift to the 150 meters tall titans. At some point a when it comes to size a destinction has to be set.

[@aninternetuser4306]

I love tanks from 40k

[@oneosix106decena]

Predator desctructor reminds me of a M1A2 bradley

[@jorgeluismolero4059]

5:27 looks like england is still in warhammer 40k

[@potatomasherr]

The new Primaris tanks sound like tau dealings

[@srknycl9188]

WH40K tanks are like Jim Carrey in Mask

[@user-ye6kc3fr8h]

cool

[@martinlanglechner9325]

Whats with the Leviathan or the Capitolis Imperialis?

[@Wolfen443]

I see a lot of WWI design influence in them mostly.

[@rossmelnyk1900]

What game is the video from when you talk about Fellblade tank?

[@DoDJohnson]

for me it lookes like a Dawn of War mod

[@balazsvarga1823]

Dawn of war 2, Vengeance of the Blood ravens, old placeholder model. Now it looks better.

[@b_g_c3281]

_"...Engine:: _*_KILL!!_*_ ...."_

[@AUSNotAnIdiotCommentary]

BAAAAAANEEEEEBLAAAAAAAADE!

[@definetly-not-trotzky]

Wait, the Imperial Guard has bigger Tanks than the Poster Boys? To the Drawing Board, with haste! (GW probably)

[@Palocles]

Why didn’t you keep all the pictures in scale?

[@janfrohlich8548]

Whats about Crassus and Gorgon?

[@scratthesquirrel5242]

land raiders are called land raiders because they raid on land. and nobody can tell me different.

[@supremercommonder]

Do the same for xenos

[@user-zv2vm8bd8h]

Imagine making a video using the "official" sizes of 40K vehicles that are contradicted by the very schematics of the book that provided them.

[@mlleplle4570]

How the hell can these massive hunks of space man metal only weigh so little? A US M1A2 SEP V3 Abrams tank weighs about 70-75 tons.

[@nutbug445]

Adeptus mechanicus technical specifications 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@schwarzie2k]

Paper thin armor (for example, a Baneblade has 15cm frontal armor) but made out of unobtanium space magic metal and therefore tanks everything short of shaped charge nukes.

[@HK-417-]

They literally all look the same to me, lol

[@cyrilcaron5701]

Hi, where is the Shadowsword?

[@SkyFly19853]

My favorite part is that what kind of infrastructure would support such tanks... You have a road or highway... With over 300 tons... Can it stand?

[@BloodyArchangelus]

Earth like planets are rare in universe, as Super-earth and etc. you mosly fight in low-gravity or less than Earth. so it should not be 300 tons xD

[@SkyFly19853]

@@BloodyArchangelus Let's hope so... In the universe of Warhammer... Anything is possible... So it seems... 😏

[@mindfortress105]

what about the squats?

[@Shadowbow1000]

You forgot about mastodons

[@arsyadidris6349]

And to think a modern day, fully decked Abrams would rank 14th weight wise…

[@carlcaiulo5821]

these weights are wack!

[@carlcaiulo5821]

no way is a land raider 70 tonnes

[@arsyadidris6349]

@@carlcaiulo5821 based on description, the vid did use numbers from official source… But then again, the “official source” has always been out of touch with the real world. Ie: u look at some data sheets for Star Wars weapon outputs? Willy nilly saying a heavy turbolaser shot is worth a few megatons. I mean, i dont know what megatons Star Wars was using, but im sure everyone here know what happened to Nagasaki n Hiroshima with barely 20 kiloton each. And our biggest boom, the Tsar Bomba, was rated at 50 megatons, and that thing made a mushroom cloud 60km tall.

[@Skyline__Models]

@@carlcaiulo5821 yoo. these tanks would weigh so much more then 40 ton. A real world CAT D8T weights like 42 ton. If you parked a banewolf and a d8 side by side, that tank would tower the little dozer. some one needs to fix warhammer lore.

[@arsyadidris6349]

@@carlcaiulo5821 hmm… im gonna do some number exercises. I hope u dont mind. So we know that the most heavily armored abrams available right no is almost 70 tonnes. So lets use that number: 70 tonnes. But the abrams is an MBT, not an MBT-troop carrier hybrid. It would need a far larger chassis to hold 10 standard GI,, smthing with chassis size like the German Boxer APC… so a boxer APC, with the armor n main gun like an Abrams.. i would say would weigh ~120 tonnes… BUT Ive been using weight estimations for vehicles that were carrying 6ft/1.8m tall normal humans, not 8ft/2.4m armor claded demigods. So… we apply cube law here. 2.4/1.8 = 1.333. We cube that value, we get 2.37. Round that up to 2.4. So thats the volumetric increase of the 120tonne vehicle that imagined.. now, assume that weight gain is proportionate to volume gain (which is not, btw),, that 120 tonne vehicle should now weigh 288 tonnes (120x2.4). Round that up to 290tonnes. 290 tonnes for a land raider sounds realistic?

[@kippercsg]

You're way off on the Ragnarok. It's bigger than the Leman Russ, pretty much the same dimensions as the Malcador.

[@coyotesweg3129]

Never ask a Warhammer autor where he picks his number. The weight are so off. A Bradley is 30 tones, for example.

[@wolfi270]

what about Capitol Imperialis?

[@joshuablakeney2983]

BAAAANNNE BLAAAAAAADDE

[@racspartan1]

👍

[@dannywales4931]

Where’s the leviathan and capitol imperialis??

[@killzoneisa]

Wait the Imperium now has hover tanks when did GW come out with them?

[@kevinbray3724]

With the Primaris space marines. Rawbutt Girlyman's tech guy (Cawl I think his name is) came up with it.

[@nutbug445]

Rawbutt Girlyman and Bellyserious Call

[@kevinbray3724]

@@nutbug445 Reminds me of a song. "Hey Rawbutt Girlyman, felly me banana. Chaos come and we senda dem home."

[@BloodyArchangelus]

IOM always had tech for hover tanks lol

[@Delavo100]

Where is Mastodon ?

[@rudizdobywca3228]

Przekłamane i to mocno. Baneblade nie jest aż tak ciężki. Jego klasa jest porównywalna z Land Riderem. Różnica w tym że jedno to Czołg, drugie to transporter. I brakuje tu masy innych czołgów. Jak np. Mamut

[@BobSmith-kc2gi]

These things are primitive compared to Eldar vehicles.

[@patrickaune5324]

Great and informing video, I especially like the gameplay examples. But holy hell dude, try and relax more when reading. You're skipping entire words from the script. We're not in a rush.

[@informationyes]

What bout ordinatus scale tanks? or really their more massive land vehicles than tanks

[@nutbug445]

The next video will be about them

[@tonyking4631]

Mastredon ?

[@billysidness5907]

The repulsor is bigger then the gladiator, just saying

[@stevenbigland6193]

So... A Sicaran weighs the same as a modern British Challenger? I doubt it.

[@nutbug445]

Adeptus mechanicus technical specifications 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@tarektechmarine8209]

Special 40k materials.

[@thorshammer7883]

Alot of these tanks designs have massive designing flaws in their shapes. I get that in Warhammer 40k nearly every vehicle is inspired by ww1 & ww2 designs of tanks but by some modern tank analysis doctrine these tanks fall very short in their potential and the optimization isn't brought to what it could be as the shape dimensions often gets in the way of it's weapons systems and weakens the armor and hull. Now as for seige tanks what the Imperium of Man need is something like a Bolo Tank from the Bolo Sci Fi series. This bad boy is a huge Tank armed with many guns, super efficient hull and armor, energy shielding system generators, long and short range point defense systems, missile pods, sensors radar able to pick up in coming attacks from hundreds of miles away, lasers, super large guns that fire with yields the equivalent of multiple megatons tier nukes destroying cities in single blasts and fast speed despite it's megasize easily crushing any large rocks in it's path. You want to see a different Sci Fi vehicle that could survive and thrive in the battlefields of Warhammer 40k? You get a Bolo Tank which can perform the job and get it done. It's make a Baneblade look like comparing a Turtle to a armored Elephant. And a Bolo Tank can rival and surpass even a Imperator class Titan. They are big, they are mean, and they are a fortress wrecking machine.

[@quazar5017]

Mechanicum: hm hm, can I see the STC pls?

[@thorshammer7883]

​@@quazar5017 There are not exactly STCs for it Mechanicus but there are pictures and blue prints of the Bolo M XXXIII for ya.

[@quazar5017]

​@@thorshammer7883 Hm, maybe some pices might resemble STC fragments, but this is super dodgy. We can't just cobble something togehther and expect it to work, you know?

[@thorshammer7883]

@@quazar5017 There are some descriptions of the weapons systems, hull, armorments, and the components. That should help out more in getting the conceptions more accurately.

[@dlyonthescreen2657]

A Bolo would be effectively useless to the Imperium. Imagine trying to transport that thing offworld and to the battlefield. You would need to modify one of the super rare Coffin Ships of the Collegia Titanica/an Ark Mechanicus. As well as this, the powerful AI of a Bolo would be seen as tech-heresy and decried as 'Abominable Intelligence.'

[@ajlopez3467]

no kratos?

[@killer00zz]

Gladiator is much smaller than Repulsor....

[@estuaire44]

Wait, the Capitol Imperialis is not a tank ?

[@nutbug445]

That and the leviathan are more like Mobile land fortresses, command centers and landships

[@estuaire44]

@@nutbug445 Ok ! Thank's for the amazing videos !

[@BeeWaifu]

7:09 Is that a dawn of war 2 mod?

[@balazsvarga1823]

Vengeance of the blood ravens, with 30k era marines. The tank models had been updated recently.

[@BeeWaifu]

@@balazsvarga1823 Thanks

[@kevinfield2162]

Ah yes. 40k. Ignoring physics for awesomeness which I totally approve. 300t tonk? No worries. There is a reason that battle tanks nowadays have a upper weight limit. Good luck driving a 300t tonk on almost any ground.

[@Basil_Ghothickovitch]

Thanks for the reminder of how the Horse Heresy cannibalizes Warhammer 40,000. When they say "HH models can be used in 40k" this is slyness. GW doesn't care to give HH models adequate 40k rules. GW too lazy to even repaint Kratos in 40K colors. BL 40k literature does not mention Heresy techniques NEVER. Objectively, everything that Heresy took from Warhammer 40,000 no longer exists in 40,000. Its literally different universes now.

[@Skyline__Models]

yoo. these tanks would weigh so much more then 40 ton. A real world CAT D8T weights like 42 ton. If you parked a banewolf and a d8 side by side, that tank would tower the little dozer. A single track pad would weigh like 300 pounds on any one of these tanks...... some one needs to fix warhammer lore.

[@MrSandor1968]

The sizes are totally wrong in at least 5 of the tanks! Don't do these video's untill you have done the research!

[@borisdorofeev5602]

If Germany won the war.

[@LoveStrangeDr]

Such horrible design, 80% of these tanks will get knocked out by a heavy infantry gun firing at their threads.

[@capuchinhelper]

The Primaris tanks are so stupid.

[@tarektechmarine8209]

The asterus is unique, I kinda like it and of course all the creativity got stuck with it so we got discount hover rhinos and predators that for some reason have .50cals instead of .100cal heavy bolter. I honestly hope they don't bother with making new aircraft and basically just upgrade the heresy aircraft, smoother, better powerplant, more traverse on turrets and better wing proportions and better centre of gravity, but that's asking for too much.

[@uemlolikdurnoskakov3566]

Где Капитолий?