Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140323173912/@comment-4851119-20140411072208

It's possible.

The Empire's industrial capacity is the campfire between TA's forest fire and 40K's oil lamp. They have Dreadnoughts easily the size of 40K battleships with dozens, even hundreds, of multiple-hundred-gigaton-per-shot particle beams. Thsis probably puts them on equal footing with the the Imperium's teraton broadside batteries. Armour and shields are massively in the Imperium's favour, however the Empire's ships have much faster FTL and can be built quicker.

I'd like to see a mutually assured destruction standoff between a Death Star and Abbadon's planet killer: if one fires, the other fires; if one tries to escape, the other fires; if one tries to call for reinforcement, the other fires;

The Empire's ground troops are probably inferior (lasguns and flak armour seem superior to blasters and white plastoid armour; Baneblades are an even match for the AT-AT; The Empire doesn't have that many things that can really hurt a Battle Titan) but sheer numbers will help (trillions of Stormtroopers will beat billions of Guardsmen/PDF/Skitaari and millions of Astartes eventually). A bog-standard Astartes woulf probably kill hundreds of Stormies before dying, a Terminator or a Centurion hundreds more, a Veteran maybe even a couple thousand, but that doesn't really dent an army in the trillions at all.

The only issue I can see is that Force-users won't be much good; Grey Knights are basically Space Marines with Jedi Powers and that's not gonna end well. Hell, any Psyker worth their salt would be superior to most Force-users. And who knows what'll happen once Palpatine discovers the ways of Chaos...

Pound for Pound the Imperium runs from inferior to equal to superior. If you allow both sides all their planet-busting weapons and barely cientifcalized magicks, it's about an even match. My bets are the Imperium would win out in the end but be so broken that the next crossover battle takes it down hard.