Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141214213749/@comment-91.58.225.43-20180217165320

Storm Trooper vs. Imperial Guard

"The Galactic Empire's territory at its peak consisted of some one and a half million member and conquered worlds, as well as sixty-nine million colonies, protectorates and puppet states spread throughout the entire galaxy" Wokiepedia Legends

The Empire is larger than the IoM (1+ million worlds). Even if it only has 5% of its 400 Quadrillion Population is in the military that is enough to give them equal footing in numbers with the IoM. So the Imperial Guard cannot just throw numbers at Storm troopers. Especially since the better space transportation of GE would often see the Storm Troopers outnumber the Guard. Still some of the toys of Imperial Guard and its allies have (like Titans) should give the Guard an edge in equal number engagements. (Note there are at max 4 Million Space Marines and that is already stretching everything in favour for this number, throwing a billion military personal at each space marine would those use up 4 Quadrillion of it 20 Quadrillion.)

ISD 2 vs Dauntless-Class light cruiser

The Dauntles Class has 22 Megatons and 2.5 G max Acceleration (Warhammer 40k wiki). So saying it has more mass than an Imperial Star Destroyer which should range in 13.5 – 57 Mega Tons is unlikely. http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWvolumetrics.html#mozTocId967234

Corvettes in Star Wars are around 150 meters long and Warhammer torpedoes are 50-60 meters and are supposed to be way bigger than your typical macro cannon ordnance. So, No the shells are not that big. Your average Macro Cannon is also supposed to do kilo ton damage, it would take whole batteries on auto fire (it is strange. the way they are supposed to be loaded does not fit well with being a auto cannon, guess they use some kind of magazine to store bursts) to get into the Mega Ton Range that Heavy Turbo Lasers are supposed to be at. The ISD has 60 Heavy Turbo Laser Batteries, so the only chance the Dauntless Class has to draw equal is the strength of their Lances in their prow. I doubt it would be enough.

With 2.5 G max acceleration the Dauntless Class trying to ram a Star Destroyer is like a truck trying to ram a fighter jet (only works if your bruce willis).