Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141214213749/@comment-91.58.225.43-20180223122901

@ Stormtrooper,

I have to correct myself. According to the Essential Atlas there are 100 Quadrillion.Sentinents in Galaxy with more than half in the Empire. So 50+ Quadrillion of which around 5% were in the Military.

Now to your claim that the Planets would be impossible to patrol and maintain: Hyperspace travel is extremely fast as far as Space travel goes. A Patrol could Visit one Star System with X planets every 15 minutes ( 10 minutes calculating a jump and 5 jumping).The Empire most likely had at least 25 Million ships that would be able to patrol, them having 25.000+ Battle Ships. Most Planets had their own security forces and indeed there were still many Pirates, Slavers and Rebels in the Galaxy. (The Rebel Alliance was not they only group of rebels, in fact it was an alliance of groups of rebels but likely only made up a small fraction of a all rebel groups because many rebel groups were local, dealing with local issues, they had a self interest in).

I would certainly say that the IoM ground forces are superior to those of star wars with their equipment. (Note AT-ATs are troop transports not battle tanks.) But the idea of every Guardsman being the insanely brave and trailed by fire veteran is wrong. First of Imperial Guards run very often both in the games and in the books. Yes we are occasionally get treated to a stand to last man or a commissar reinforcing order by shooting someone. But those are noteworthy occasions because they are not the norm. Not all regiments are battle hardened and even those that are generally have to replace so many casualties after a campaign that calling them green would not be wrong. Commissars (like psykers) are more of one per regiment stock than each squad gets it own.

Did I miss were i said that the Dauntless were not 4,5 Kilometers long? Length and even size does not equal Mass. A balloon can be larger than me, but can easily be only a fraction of my mass. And the Mass commonly given for Imperium ships should allow them to float on water.

The Dauntless might be described as common, but its a light cruiser. Greatly limiting its numbers. And by Size yes a Star Destroyer is a large Frigate just one or two steps below the Cruiser Class, but in terms of manoeuvrability it would be in the starfighter class and terms of destructive force in the cruiser class.

Your calcs are wrong from the get go. If an ordnance is given at a kiloton then your calc ends right there, because kiloton is the yield/force you get at hit location, impact point, explosion point etc and not the weight of the Ordnance. Now looking into the different Macro Canons, I would put the larger Macro Canons on board of a Dauntless in the Gigaton range. With a whole broadside having about 100 gigatons. But that is my personal taste (so subjective that I would not even call it an estimate). I put a salvo of a ISD at 400 gigatons. Because i don´t adhere to the 200 Gigatons per Turbolaser faction.

I don´t know what Gravites means and neither could Google tell me. Most likely it was referring to the G´s of acceleration the ship could pull. But then the source I have says 2.5 g, while yours is 4.3. It matters not if its 2.5 g or 4.3 g and it does not matter if gravites is a speed or acceleration. Because even if the Dauntless Class was faster than the Star Destroyer the acceleration is just terrible. In Space whenever you move in a direction different than your current one or if you want go faster or slower you change speed, and how fast you can do so is measured in you maximum acceleration. While 2,5 g - 4,3 g is okay/good for today’s ships in space, for a sci-fi Space Battle at significant fractions of C speeds it is not. That is where the truck part comes from. You are perhaps moving at 0,3 C speed, but only in one direction and trajectory and you will be at that speed in that general direction for the next days. Because it will take weeks if not months to even change that by so much that rounding up or down does not keep you at 0.30 c or 0 degrees course change. Perhaps Train would have been a better comparison than truck.