40K Fleet Tactics And Strategy! The Innumerable Might Of The God Emperors Imperial Navy!
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2022
- 40k is filled with massive fleets of space going warships! each with their own Fleet Tactics And Strategy but none come even close to matching the tremendous might of the Imperial Navy!
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According to the rogue trader players handbook, Imperial torpedoes are driven by a machine spirit "unable and unwilling to make the distinction between freind and foe". One of my favorite lines of flavor text.
"This number isn't perfect." We know. GW plays with military numbers like a drunkard playing darts.
I love the Imperial Navy. The scale of the ships is truly bananas. A Luna class Cruiser clocks in at about 5 km long. An Imperial Class Star Destroyer is only 1.6 km, which is about the size of a Sword class escort frigate.
I can imagine that most smaller xenos races probably look at an Imperial cruiser the same way you'd look at a Borg Cube or a Reaper.
Unironically one of the Imperial Navy greatest strengths is its diversity. So many active ship classes,comes in so many modifications,patterns,weapon types. Makes them really unpredictable. They would have a field day against uniformed fleets so common in Star Wars. Add in Mechanicus and Marine squadrons and they almost unstopable.
We all know that 40k space combat is a well documented and consistent topic
Despite presenting as technologically reactionary, the Imperium has to be stupidly advanced to run the logistics of galactic governance. How does it even acquire let alone transport the insane amounts of rare elements? How can it afford to burn fuel? I'm not even sure nuclear reactors could fuel the Imperium effectively. GW isn't going to care very much about details, but the mind-boggling logistics fascinate me.
I voted genestealers because GW never agreed with it's self how space fights worked. A true pity as this could have been one of the most interesting parts of the lore. Mabey if they made more games about space combat they would standardize it, but that would require trusting them to do that right or pick a good partner to do it.
The Imperial Navy is actually pretty effective, with the torpedoes followed by broadsides which is pretty good against a lot of factions. The Battlefleet Gothic videogame was pretty neat, because you just open up with waves upon waves of torpedoes and then you basically brawl the enemy to death. Chaos if it doesn't stick to long range gets destroyed, Orks suffer huge damage to torps and then you out brawl them. Eldar are the theoretically good faction which just doesn't work in the game though.
Space marines "Space is no excuse for not engaging in glorious melee combat "
"In which no ships could possibly exist, like black holes."
This is why I love the timeline where BFG Armada 2 takes place in. Given that there are megastructures in 80% of map backgrounds and the opening scene on Cadia shows swarms of uncountable thousands of ships, it shows a good sense of scale that reinforces the expected theoretical "50-75 capital ships + howevermany escorts per sector of the galaxy" that the Imperium should have.
My headcannon solution to the whole inconsistency thing in space combat can be summarize as "what range are they engaging at?". If ships are hundreds or even thousands of kilometers apart basically taking the idea of a potshot and turning it into a military doctrine, then it makes perfect sense for space battle to take forever. On the other hand, take the opening picture of the episode, that doesn't look like thousands of kilometers apart, that doesn't even look like 100 kilometers. At that range the question is no longer "Will it hit?" and becomes "How much can I shoot?". Missile salvos turn from crapshoot deterents to semi-reliable direct fire weapons, while most weapons become damn near certain to hit irregardless or how much the enemy might want to dodge. At this range, it becomes more about how much punishment in the short term a ship can take before cracking rather than long term durability. Repair crews don't mean much when you have maybe a few minutes between engagement and your ship being turned into half melted swiss cheese.
The lesson to learn from layered defense is: You always want to be at the cozy inside and not on the outside.
Imagine battlefleet gothic with nebulous fleet command mechanics. Holy fuck this would be great.
Early Ironclad warfare but with massive city sized space battleships.
To clarify, the source you're getting 50 capital ships per sector from actually states 50-75
the reason why space marines board enemy vessels is because it's usually QUICKER to just kill the bloody crew on board than it is to actually destroy the enemy vessel.
Does this mean we might be getting an "Imperial Armory" vid on different Ships in the future? Imperial, or otherwise it would be Interesting see the vessels compared to their Xeno counterparts.
Me: heartbroken, trying to get away from 40K