The Imperial Navy - Angry Broken Cathedrals in Space

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“You’re piloting a gun brick that’s the size of a freeway, and it’s probably called something like the litany of litany’s litany” - Mandaloregaming

As a carrier fan, counterpoint: Carriers are just ships built around one super-gun that fires giant bullets that have their own guns.

Aliens: HA! YOUR AIM SUCKS! Imperium: Your right thats why i have more guns than sense.

"Hey Ministorum priest, what are we building ?" "A cathedral" "Oh cool, is it the type that becomes a mech and walks off to smite the enemies of the Emperor ?" "No" "Does it fly into the air and traverse the sea of stars ?" "No, its just a cathedral" "Man, you are lame !"

Big ship with big gun > massive ship with small plan

Folks arguing about Battleships vs Carriers, my inconceivable ass loving Battlecarriers despite how useless they were.

BFG is such a fun game. GW abandoned it, but that has a benefit. They don't vigorously protect the IP from 3D printers.

Naval combat in 40k is the one place I will never impose realism or hard sci fi rules on: it is not here to be Horatio Hornbkower or Honor Harrington, it is there to look at Star Wars ship battles, say "hold my beer" and never stop being stupid fun.

I just love how Warhammer's ships are literally just ships of the line (HMS Victory for example) fused with a gothic cathedral in space and the Warp travel resembles old seafaring. Just ingenious.

One of my favourite things about the Imperial Navy is that it's such a legacy force. It's a common wisdom in shipbuilding that warships take so long to build that they you basically cannot make any more during a war, if you want a navy you need to start building it 20 years before the war breaks out. The Imperial Navy, despite constant deployment, has been gradually building up its forces for 10,000 years, and clearly they've been doing well because they haven't been worn down to nothing despite 10 millennia of constant attrition. Most of the truly large ships in the Navy are THOUSANDS of years old, veritable relics, effectively small spacefaring civilisations in their own right. They can have their own culture, heck, the crewmen might well be the distant descendants of the first people to serve as crew. The Imperium would never be able to replace something like that, and so much of the Navy is made up of ships like these. It's even a general trend in Battlefleet Gothic that Chaos warships tend to be frailer because they're usually made up of Navy vessels that defected in the ancient past and are thus more primitive and poorly-maintained.

0:09. My least favorite line is "Dreadnought isn't even a real class of ship and they're so impractical." Right before I glass their planet from orbit with my fleet dreadnoughts. It still hurts my feelings but they will never live to know that.

fully agree on the manually loaded cannons, even the godforsaken mechanicum would look at that and be like "thats a needless waste of human life"

Lord High Admiral is an actual military rank. The Lord High Admiral was the head of the English and later British Royal Navy, but that position is now purely ceremonial and the last Lord High Admiral to actually go into battle did so in the 17th century.

In summation: the imperial navy is one of the few imperial organizations that functions well. Because it has to in order for there to be an imperium. Enough guardsmen can kill a Space Marine: enough tanks can hurt the god machine. But theres no alternative to the void

mucho cannons=mucho damage -recovered extract from an old terran country's naval doctrine, Holy Terra, c.M1-M2

Bad guys be talkin' mad shit until the cathedral space boat throws a 2006 honda civic while blaring the helldivers theme.

Types of 19th century Ironclad... 1: Broadside Ironclad: basically an Age of Sail warship with sails and gun-decks, but upgraded with armour plating and a Steam Engine (Example: HMS Warrior) 2: Monitor: An ironclad built low to the water but with a big gun, hard to hit but can't go far to sea (Example: USS Monitor) 3: Casemate Ironclad: Has a bunch of broadside guns in a big central box on top the ship (Example: CSS Virginia) 4: Center Battery Ironclad: Has the guns in an armoured box in the middle of the ship (Example: HMS Alexandria) 5: Barbette Ironclad: Has the guns on the deck in open air armoured circles. (example: French ironclad Vauban) 6: Turret Ironclad: Has the guns in armored turrets (example HMS Devastation)

Virgin Tech Priest: Admiral Spire You can't solve all your problems by ramming your ships against the enemy Chad Admiral Spir: hehe battleship go chonch!

12:56 i think in some cases, having a primarch on the bridge could probably be seen as a hindrance. Ik there was no way ANGRON was adept in void warfare, or that he would even be bothered to help if he was