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ReDquinox wrote:

It took three Turbolasers to make a blast you can see from high orbit. I think that should say enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNc242mbiUs

This is the power of a single two-stage torpedo. It is standard amongst the Imperial Navy. Although only a Mechanicus Adept can fire it. Though they are about as common as engineers on any ship.

Also in the book: Rynn's World an fortress was destroyed by a surface to air torpedo. This is probably the weakest of those torpedoes, considering the fact the are just used as AA. This happens again in the Book Hydra Cordatus. A fortress that was built to withstand orbital bombardment was also destroyed by a surface to air torpedo.

And then another book, Vengeful Spirit, explains how traitors hijacked Orbital defence platforms and used these torpedo launchers to kill off an entire planet and its huge garrison.

These torpedoes can be fired off from another end of a system. I believe it explains that in the Battle of the Phall when the Imperials get ambushed by Petruabo as both sides fired back.

Vessels in this universe are also as fast of about 3/4s of lightspeed. This is shown in the Book.... Scars is it? Its the first one in the Horus Heresy book that really includes the White Scars Legion. Its shown when the entire white scars fleet of about 400 ships was it? The biggest ships being about 12 kilometers long and the entire fleet scattered, suddenly TURNING ABOUT in FORMATION running STRAIGHT thru a fleet of thier own size which were in full formation themselves. This happened in seconds. And I think it explains this when the Human admiral exclaims to the Primarch.

Also in this same book Spacemarines are about as "faster then the naked human eye could see" and the Primarchs (Basically what these Space Marines are based off of) are faster then what the eyes of the Space Marines could see.

Also the maximum range of any ship-to ship weapon besides lances are about 500,000 kilometers. I think Lances have the same "infinite" range of torpedoes but I'll have to check on that.