10 Advantages IMPERIAL NAVY Warhammer 40K | BEST SPACE NAVY SERIES

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Today we continue our series comparing the best space navies in science fiction. Last time committed heresy by talking about the flaws of the Imperial Navy from Warhammer 40K, so this time, we try to amend our wrongs by speaking of their glorious advantages.

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[GenerationFilms]

How does one stop at only 10 flaws for the Imperial Navy? Still, better to have this problem than to be a heretic. Anyway, thanks to Philo for sponsoring this video, any love you show to them helps the channel.

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[TheIfifi]

Only 10? That is mildly heretical you know...

[weldonwin]

*(Resets safety on Bolt Pistol)* Alright American Ben, you may live for now, but just know that the Departmento Munitorum and the Inquisition will be watching you

[vindicare]

You forgot one of the greatest thing that makes warhammer ships really good:The captain, the gunner and chief officers are linked up directly via neural link with the ship systems , same like imperial titans or knights, making the ship reaction time really quick, and lowering the chance of individual error.Also the ship captains, thanks to advanced medicines can be hundreds of years old, with huge combat experience.

[jamesmortimer]

YOu forgot the crew. While freshly shanghaied men and women are practically worthless, over the years they become better, and seeing that they will probably never leave the ship, they have a hole lot of time to become better... And to teach their offspring their duties. Entire families exist on imperial warships, working the same weapon or subsystem over generations. The crew of a thousand year old vessel has a almost symbiotic relationship with their ship. They will keep it alive and probably even combat efficient, till they have inhaled the last bit of oxygen available

[GenerationFilms]

Re: Battlefleet Solar vs. Obscurus. I know many of you are thinking how could you choose the Obscurus fleets over the fleet that guards Holy Terra? Well, I think it was a pretty easy choice. On paper, Solar is the elite fleet, the pretty boys, but to me that means very little. The Bastion Fleets live on the edge of hell. They are conditioned to rain down fire on mass amounts of xenos on a whim without discrimination. They hit me as the kind of fleet that doesn't even know how powerful they truly are. All respects to the guardians of the Throne but the Bastion Fleets are a juggernaut.

[hansyolo]

Don't forget the Exterminatus weaponry. If that counts

[CollinBuckman]

Imperial Warships actually *can* do small warp jumps without a Navigator (relying on the ships computers), but said jumps are only really safe for a journey of up to 4-5 light years. Meanwhile, a piloted jump can reach up to 5, 000 light years.

[Burninator]

One other advantage is that even in close range fights some Imperial Navy ships are built to ram enemy vessels. A 3-5 kilometer long ship hitting you is gonna ruin your day.

[CheemsofRegret]

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[FrogiMen]

the biggest advantage of Imperium of Man is simply that they stood the test of time, and boy have this test been going for ass time

[jimsparro]

Several major advantages were left out such as the armour which is often dozens of meters thick. Most imperial ships are also easily able to eradicate all life on a planet in a short time (if their captain is deemed worthy of the honor) the escorts are often over a mile long and a lot of the ships are built so that they can ram and survive being rammed by ships of simmilar size with heavily armoured prows and even massive energized battering rams

[Daniel.Liddicoat]

I like the idea that gun crews on Imperial Navy vessels can be intergenerational. The families grow up on the ship and learn to operate the equipment they are tasked to use. If the whole family/crew of the weapon is wiped out the use of that weapon may be as well. The knowledge being lost to history.

[humanitysreject]

Nova cannons are so powerful that when fired ships have to increase the thrust of their engines to counteract the recoil

[casbot]

The big factor influencing the Imperium Navy is the "physics" of the universe they are in. Because technology can become corrupted they have to be stagnant and distrustful of innovation, which means they lose designs over time and are slightly regressing, old stuff is better than new stuff.

Put another factions Navy in the 40k universe and their ships would be overrun by Chaos in moments. Put them in another factions universe and they would not be able to adopt new technologies or very their methods, and against an innovative and technologically adaptive foe that would be an issue. And Faith wouldn't affect the surroundings like in 40k ("red makes it faster gummit")

So basically the Adeptus Mechanicus are holding them back, but with 'goodish' reasons. Although better bookkeeping would help.

[patricklioneljonson]

By the God Emperor... 85% for 5 star.

[kriegofficergary]

FIX BAYONETS MEN, WE TAKE THE BATTLE TO THEM

[Richard-Espanol]

I'll say it again, I'd love vids on just warhammer lore by you guys. Explaining each faction and going in depth like you are now about technology and their societies.

[arielnir]

Not to be *that
the imperial navy generaly look down on the planetary air forces, because they are almost seen as imperial guard/ Astra millitarum/
And the term ”that Guy” is from the table top side of warhammer 40k.
Its basicly a term for one who cheats, play unfaire and destroys the fun for others.

[ashleypleschourt]

A major area we are missing I think is in the realm of point defenses and boarding crews, which was totally ignored in this. The Imperial navy's (40k) ability to overwhelm the shields of enemy ships in localized area's and then punch through their defenses with boarding torpedoes is very worthy of note. And if it is an Astartes boarding crew that you are dealing with, then your ship is as good as captured. The point defenses on 40k ships is also so ridiculous that I doubt any small ships from other universes would even be capable of getting close let alone doing any significant damage, and in retrospect, such torpedoes used by the Imperial navy are specifically designed to overcome such defenses.

It's pretty difficult to stay in a fight when your ship is being sabotaged from within, and boarding vessels filled with regular Imperial guard would be formidable. And I haven't even begun talking about short-medium range deep strike teleportation of troops such as terminators, or other such attacks.