Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-24510587-20160920001821


 * cough* I think you folks are going to want to take a look at how powerful the starships in Star Wars really are. Sure, they might be smaller than the ships in Warhammer, but size is not all that matters. You see, the Heavy Turbolaser, a Star Wars ship's main weapon, has an output of single to triple digit, get this, Teratons, with a probable average being 50 Teratons. Now, to put that into perspective, the most powerful explosive ever detonated by mankind, Tsar Bomba, had an output of roughly 50 Megatons, meaning that a single Heavy Turbolaser blast is literally a billion times more powerful than that. This planet-shattering amount of power could, if it was an explosion, quite literally shatter small planets, and completely scorch larger planets clean of all life. It is the power of an Exterminatus, condensed down into a single bolt of energy. Needless to say, finding a Void Shield capable of repelling such amounts of power is quite difficult, and then take into account that thse cannons can be fired every five or so seconds. And then take into account that the basic Imperial-I Star Destroyer bears a total of twenty Heavy Turbolaser barrels.

And then take into account that Star Wars actually does have a truly large starship classification, the Star Dreadnought, with its prime example being the 19km long Executor-class Star Dreadnought. These massive ships, which even eclipse the largest ships the Imperium has access to, bear no less than two thousand Heavy Turbolasers. Two thousand cannons, each one of them capable of wreaking havoc on even the largest of the Imperium's ships, while the Executor itself is capable of reflecting broadsides of Turbolaser shots without so much as a flicker in the shielding.

Of course, this nigh-invincibility in space is countered by the relative uselessness of the ground forces in Star Wars. Stormtroopers and such, while they might individually be better-equipped and more powerful than Guardsmen, have numbers that are so tiny in comparison that they can just be wiped away in moments. The most powerful asset the Star Wars universe has is the Force-sensitives. Powerful Force users such as Darth Vader or Vitiate might actually be capable of defeating Emps (pre-Heresy, of course) in one-on-one combat, seeing as they could crush his body inside of his armour by merely thinking about it. This is somewhat countered by Emps' own powers, which are also very powerful, of course, but he can't negate a Force user's attacks through the Warp like he would be able to with a Psyker, as the Force doesn't rely on the Warp (obviously).

At the height of its time, during the time of the Old Republic (so around the time of the events of KotOR and SWtOR), the Star Wars universe counted a great amount of both Jedi and Sith, which, if merged together, might be an army capable of taking on the full one million Space Marines, what with the Force and Lightsabers and such.

Then again, Warhammer does have Kaldor Draigo, so Star Wars doesn't really stand a chance on the ground anyway.

Anyway, that's just my two cents. Star Wars could stomp Warhammer in space battles, but is greatly outmatched on the ground. Thanks for reading this little ramble :3