Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-203.134.114.62-20130921133556/@comment-203.134.114.86-20130927084448

Geomax wrote: Forgot the SD.net calculator gave radius instead of diameter, its more around 500 gigatons per lance.

Do take note that the explosion is still underneath the cloud area, if it was even a single Gigaton, then it would have exploded pass above said cloud area and would have lasted more then 1.5 seconds. And do note that IF the lances were 500-Gigatons then just 50 shots from a single cruiser should be enough to create the same affect as the K-T Extinction event, yet they still need a entire fleet to bombard the planet without even any noticable damage to the planet.

Furthermore Geomax, do remember that the planet Typhon is incredibly small for a planet, the fact you can still see the 7km ship after it had launched the Cyclonic Torpedo bumps down not only the power of the lance, but the Cyclonic Torpedo itself, down by several notches. So you cannot use the Earth as an example since we already know how large Typhon is.

As seen in the image below, when they dropped the Cyclonic Torpedo, you can still see the silloute of the Retribution-Class ship (7km long). If this was REALLY Earth size, then the Retribution-Class ship would be barely even worth a blimp on the image.

http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss309/InsanityLord_Madness/800px-Typhon.jpg

Also just a small comparison...

http://www.halopedia.org/images/thumb/1/16/Reach_13943058_Full.jpg/300px-Reach_13943058_Full.jpg

The explosion from the Plasma Torpedoes from Halo Reach also looks very similar to the bombarment seen from DoW 2, except the difference is that the explosion of the PT lasted more then 4-5 seconds, and since Reach is almost twice the size of Earth, we must take in the fact that the explosion must be equally as proportioned to fit the size of the tornado near the planet. And even yet, we still get the force of 550-150 Megatons from the PT.

So medium Megatons seems to most acceptable to the Orbital Bombarment of Typhon.

[Darth Grunt]