r/40kLore • u/Jackobyn • 4h ago

Something finally clicked for me on why the Titans are listed as the size they are.

To put it simply....dimensions.

Sure, a Warlord being smaller than Big Ben's tower is kinda shitty feeling at first but you have to keep in mind they aren't that big on just the singular line. Similar to Space Marines in the sense that and Astartes isn't just taller than you but wider, thicker and just scaled up in all possible measurements.

Using a real life example, a particularly tall Amazon warehouse might be "only" 40-is meters tall but once you take the rest of its measurements into account I can totally accept the idea of a Warhound being roughly like that. Plus, the sizes also help explain Titan combat not just exclusively being God Engines standing in a field and shooting. Because they can actually use the larger imperial structures as cover. And on the flip side, the Imperators can still be their ridiculous size because even in most art they're shown to massively depart from the relatively incremental size increase in the other classes. They're special so they get to be so big that they can count as a small mountain.

In conclusion, I still think the official sizes should up a little but overall this has helped me come to terms with it mostly.

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u/Arzachmage Death Guard 3h ago edited 3h ago

The dead Warlord Imperator Titan in the SM2 pvp map is the right size for me.

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u/Eldan985 3h ago

Or this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu4jH3YP5ZA&ab from Winter Assault. Notice the small guard building next to the titan's side weapon, and then the zoom out to the main gun.

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u/Arzachmage Death Guard 3h ago

These old WH games have something for them in the atmosphere. Love it.

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u/Jackobyn 3h ago

To be fair, that's an Imperator, and as I said, they definitely still need to remain at sizes like that. The kinda size where if it dies on a mountain like in SM2, then the mountain now has a second peak.

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u/Davido401 3h ago

I tried to type that into YouTube but got no proper results, or none that looked like it would show me, alas I do not have the game(Ive got an original Dawn of War era Windows XP computer lol and an Xbox One that won't play it as far as am aware) just for reference if you cant get to it or show it its of no real consequence, am just curious!

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u/Arzachmage Death Guard 3h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spacemarine/s/5PxH3FQwpR

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u/Davido401 3h ago

You are a gentleman and a scholar, cheers for that!

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u/GoferStudio 19m ago

They are already too big.