<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Titan transport/Imperial Navy"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Titan transport/Imperial Navy HH series I seem to remember the largest titan classes being aboard the largest battleships and being dropped planetside individually with thrusters etc not via a transport craft. If you wanted to transport a warhound for example what would be the minimum starhship class needed? How would it then get transported planetside?

Interested in everyones thoughts.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893482.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893482.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893576.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893576.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy
The Titans are not the property or possessions of the Departmento Munitorum, they are owned by the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Navy is not responsible (or even frequently tasked) with ferrying a Titan Legion around.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893657.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893657.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy HH. What your saying makes sense since the Mechanicus is independant. On the 40K lexicanum wiki it says the Mechanicus have access to the same warships as the Imperium with the addition of other "unique" vessels.

Would be interested if there is any specific info on what specific vessels transport titans.


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 Psienesis wrote:
Yep. The AdMech transport them to and from the planet's surface with massive bulk-lifter vehicles. The AdMech also has massive inter-stellar transport craft for moving Titans from Point A to B.

The Titans are not the property or possessions of the Departmento Munitorum, they are owned by the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Navy is not responsible (or even frequently tasked) with ferrying a Titan Legion around.


Any idea what class of ships they use for intersteller transport? (just a shot in the dark )]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893659.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893659.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy

As for how they are taken to the surface,

Emperor and Warlord titans will be taken down in a lander which is little more than a shell with thrusters around the titan itself.

Reavers and Warhounds will be fully enclosed and be taken down in groups.


The actual transports are most likely a specially made Universe class Mass Conveyor, or other class of transport ship. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Universe_Class_Mass_Conveyor#.Ufaefpz_dPs]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893682.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893682.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893694.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893694.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy
 Grey Templar wrote:
The Heresy was a different time. There was much more cooperation. Plus Horus's flagship was a unique vessel and could have had Titan storage. he was the Warmaster after all. A personal Titan legion wouldn't have been out of the question.


As for how they are taken to the surface,

Emperor and Warlord titans will be taken down in a lander which is little more than a shell with thrusters around the titan itself.

Reavers and Warhounds will be fully enclosed and be taken down in groups.


The actual transports are most likely a specially made Universe class Mass Conveyor, or other class of transport ship. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Universe_Class_Mass_Conveyor#.Ufaefpz_dPs




I'm not sure the class is ever named anywhere, though the Oberon-class cruisers and a modified Goliath-class vessel seem the most likely candidates.





thanks to you both most helpful! ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893702.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5893702.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy
 Psienesis wrote:
I'm not sure the class is ever named anywhere, though the Oberon-class cruisers and a modified Goliath-class vessel seem the most likely candidates.

Are there two Oberon-class vessels? It was a Battleship in Gothic, not a Cruiser.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894078.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894078.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy
There's also that Universe-class bulk transporter that is just gargantuan, even amongst Imperial naval vessels.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Universe_Class_Mass_Conveyor#.UfbUBqyYv_Y]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894446.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894446.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy
I imagine the Ad Mech has some pretty stringent containment guidelines and maintenance facility requirements. Plus you have to have the open space for the Titans and their drop ships to actually fit.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894461.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894461.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy
Like I said previously, I don't know if the class of vessel that hauls the Titans around is ever explicitly named, so I provided the names of some ships that are capable of doing so. Almost any Imperial vessel of Light Cruiser or larger size is, with the proper outfitting, capable of hauling a Titan and its transport craft. Titans are big, but they're not *that* big, compared to a vessel that's a kilometer and a half long and 350 meters abeam and tall.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894601.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5894601.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy
It describes bulk transporters that carry the titans in "void-storage", which I assume to be unheated bays that are not pressurized, as one of the Titans' bridges was still at freezing temp when entered. They are transported down to the planet in gigantic lifter ships (so big they blot the sun out to huge areas of the ground) that actually hover over the landing site and lower the Titans down with cranes, rather then have them walk out on their own.

Now, I'm not sure if that was something semi-unique because they had a prepared and loyal Adeptus Mechanicus-held forgeworld to arrive to. On planets without an infrastructure, they might actually land the ships on the planet and then walk out under their own power, though the former fits with the monolithic, brute-force nature of the Imperium's militaries.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5895191.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5895191.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5895221.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5895221.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5895867.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5895867.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy



... it's basically a big, flying box.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898025.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898025.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy
As Dan Abnett wrote it, the lander ships were so big that it was speculated they would disrupt weather patterns. One part describes crane ships shuttling titans down from one as it hovered at 1000 meters over the surface, and it was so big that another one like it could be seen over 40 kilometers away by people. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898116.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898116.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy
I mean, I like Abnett's books, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't write for general 40K, he writes for the "Daniverse", which is his interpretation of 40K, which he is completely entitled to have and create.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898125.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898125.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898141.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898141.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898246.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898246.page GMT Re:Titan transport/Imperial Navy
Hundreds of landing craft do though. Like the planetary invasion in the GG series. Trillions of tons of steel being dropped into the atmosphere causing hurricane force winds for example.

A single ship won't do much more than a single ripple, but hundreds will cause massive problems.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898847.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5898847.page GMT Titan transport/Imperial Navy SM battle novel Wrath of Iron when the titan legion arrives on describes the titan carriers as being 'twice as tall as it was wide and deep'. The sides are covered in 'baroque bronze imagery - angels, demigos, mythical beasts, arcane machinery of long forgotten providence'. One side is taken up with a 'single immense load-bay'. The titans are mounted on kept on tracked units 'many metres across and clad in thick blast armour' that wheel them out of the bulk carrier until they can walk off under their own power. Hope that gives you some further understanding.
Chaos titans are probably moved in weird ways, in the Storm of Iron book, Dies Irae (Traitor Emperor Class) is moved by what sounded like a captured and corrupted tyranid ship or daemonic vessel]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5901188.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/542848/5901188.page GMT