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[jotarokujo]

That being said using a titan as the landscape for a game sounds absurdley cool

[pugmastrstrange]

“You got me f*cked up if you think I’m breaking down and transporting a 7-foot tall thick ass titan boy and transporting that big bastard to the store”
-Wes, 2024

[treyhamner]

I'm sorry, but when I heard "It's 22 dudes long." My brain just responded with, "Us Americans really will use anything but the metric system."

[parkerstange]

13:53 counter argument. Forgeworls released the Tau Manta, which is the size of a small table. Its so big you can play Killteam on it. They could easily come out with an Emperor Titan. It'll probably cost an arm, a leg, and the soul of my firstborn, but they totally could, and personally, i think they should

[Luminousreign]

People always talk about the titan size variation, but the huge disparity in Legion size when they are in an actual fight vs in the background is also super hilarious.

[LordCrate-duzm]

I like to think that the inconsistent sizes has to do with the different Forge Worlds producing titans to their own specifications. Canonically, the Lucifer Class Warlord Titan model from Epic 40k is in scale with the Mars Pattern Warlord Titan from Epic 30k because, while both are supposed to be the same machine, due to different design philosophies and resource availabilities, they won't end up being the same size.

So, a rich Forge World like Mars could ABSOLUTELY produce kilometer tall Imperators. But they're certainly few and far between.

[ColCoal]

Joe Ogryn: “Don’t mattah! BIG IS BIG!”

[irefusetogiveuptos]

to me, the sizes of Titans follow this:
Warhound: 30-35 Meters
Reavers: 40-45 Meters
Warbringer Nemesis: 60-70 Meters
Warlord Titan: 100-150 Meters
Warmaster Titan: 200-250 Meters
Emperor Titans: 1, 0-1, 5 Kilometers

[sheldongoodfellow]

The Statue of Liberty trounces an Imperator in height, clocking in at 93 meters compared to the Titan's pitiful 40 meters. I simply refuse to acknowledge this. Imperators can leap frog over the Statue of Liberty, cry about it.

[Serenity_Dee]

"a tasteful amount of descriptive adjectives"

that is a degree of understatement worthy of an Englishman

[Tiberium]

I like my Titans big and I cannot lie.

[theravenousrabbit]

There is likely a wide variety of heights for different types of titans, and also, a lot of the lore does just show you the titans from the perspective of some individual who will not have an objective perspective on their size. However, if you actually take realism into account on size, and how space marines are capable of being inside of one, we are looking at an emperor class being at least being 100m's.

[GunRunner]

i distinctively remember reading how emperor titans were big enough to house multiple companies worth of soldiers in their legs, as garrisons, as they walked into battle.
and iirc its like roughly 100~250 ppl per company...

[JohnnyReborn]

Make the Emperor Titan have 300 metres in height, so it can act like a space marine chapter-house.

[DaniMol]

The TLDR answer, as with everything in 40K, Titans are as large as the story needs them to be. That's the key difference between Warhammer and any other Sci-Fi universe, does a lasgun have recoil? It does if the story needs them to have recoil. How many Space Marines died at Cadia? As many as the story required. How many people escaped Cadia? As many as the story requires. How many Eldar are left in the galaxy? As many as the story requires. How poweful is the Emperor?
As powerful as the story requires Him to be.

[somebodysomeone]

I agree with you with regard to the table game scale influence on the scale of titans. However, as a lore nerd and as a mech addict - in my mind an emperor titan is the kind of scale where astartes can easily traverse the internal corridors and ladders of its legs without being noticed. With a city block of a citadel on its back. Massive. Gigantic. Head in the clouds and all. The tread of it shaking the earth and breaking the minds of even combat hardened astra militarum

[Wordweaver]

I like the more "realistic" scale for Titans. That being said, just imagining the smaller ones like a Reaver walking past your house and looking down at you on the third floor would be quite an awe-inspiring sight.

[Vyndemark]

My gead cannon goes like this:
Emperor class: 100-150m (sky scraper size but believable enough for something called a god machine and the strongest ground based imperial weapon)
Warlord:60-80 (smaller then the emperor class but still big enough to demolish buildings)
Reaver:40-50(maybe even smaller but believable enough
Warhound: 10-20 or so (the whole idea of a scout titan is a bit ridiculous but 20 m is small enough to be hidden in an urban environment or behind hills)

[tagada]

Personnaly I prefer to just think of them as being hundreds of meters tall and that GW did this in the lore just for the scale to be managable for table game. It makes no sense to me that peak humanity could build things not even the size of today warships... The Yamato (WW2) ship had 20 meters long artillery pieces... Also trying to apply today material knowledge and physics to a fictionnal humanity that conquered the galaxy is just strange when anti gravity things would be needed for everything. I would prefer if GW had stick with unbelievable sized warmachines and just applied a reduced scale to them for the table game...

[floriannarratio]

You briefly losing your shit over the agony of transporting your miniatures was so funny and relatable.