Logic dictates you wouldn't build them in the first place due to cost effectiveness (see: battleships)

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To be honest i`m not that sure about the Imperial Financial system, most of the fluff implies that most of the population are pretty much slave labour with a tiny minority of uber-rich (so capitalism). I always got the impression that the powers that be said make this many of these and it got done even if it meant working half a planetary system to death.

In risk of getting too serious, I'm more comparing them to the nature of large capital ships, especially Battleships, and how they actually were not effective at war for the costs inherit. Their very nature means that they're prone to become too expensive to risk in actual batter and are not expendable. There's a reason there's very few large capital ships in existence now and no battleships anywhere in service in any navy (last was the USS Missouri which spent the Gulf war I mainly launching cruise missiles). The few large ships that are around are namely carriers and are designed to be a facilitator of a completely different, generally cost effective and more importantly, expendable (in comparison to the ship itself) weapons system (fighters and aircraft / missiles). You're simply better off having a bunch of smaller vessels as they can be in more places, attack more targets, faster, more flexible, etc. Also as cold as it sounds, EXPENDABLE (GRF class carrier is what? 13Billion... each, while an Arleigh Burke Destroyer's...1.1ish?). L4, you probably know, weight in

EA actually takes this into account rather well with the activation/formation system and the inherit limitation on attacks targeting a single formation at a time. A warlord versus most other formations (outside of the equivalent counter from another faction) generally isn't as flexible and effective as other cheaper alternatives en masse. Warlords exist to counter other battle titans who are present because you've got a battle titan... yada yada yada

Yeah sure the Imperials will work a world to death, I've got no doubt about that. Still better from a logic and effectiveness standpoint to simply conscript the population and use them as cannon fodder or work them to death building 100000 times the number of tanks and APCs (and then conscript the surviving workers )

So yeah... let's not get logic involved here... I like big stompy robots and the rule of cool they represent

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mmmmmm batter

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Yes exactly. It's sticky and has a propensity to gum up the machinery.

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not to mention the practicalities of making a dry-dock into a deep fryer....

to be honest I'm surprised we won the war at all....

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I'm more surprised that this passed without comment:



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'Cause what a volcano cannon really needs is to be twin-linked with another volcano cannon. Otherwise, you might as well be pissin' in the wind

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I believe it was largely due to the actions of the 1st Battalion Transvestite Brigade Airborne Wing

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Oh, I don’t know. 40k is a return to WWI-era combat, with large war engines (ships, and to a lesser extent titans) are not very vulnerable to small weapons systems. This isn’t like WWII or Star Wars in which a small bomber can destroy a battleship or Death Star. The smaller battle titans might be comparable to WWI battlecruisers, which could be destroyed with a lucky shot, but having the scarier battleship fleet still gives you control of the seas.

Oh I agree that's what they're trying to evoke. It's rule of cool all the way

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While i can`t particularly disagree with what your saying, i still think CI should have a Ram Attack against Titans.
I`m on a big clanky tank kick at the moment-just finished making 3x leviathans with huge dozer blades and recently painted an Iron Warriors Leviathan with a ram bar and a huge almost Bolo type Mechanicus shooty thing. Also waiting for two tank kits to come in the post that will become CI.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s more than just rule of cool – when the balance between firepower and survivability tilts back towards the latter (thanks largely to void shields), WWI-style combat between ships and war engines actually makes sense.

Somewhat the Frank Herbert approach which isn't a bad one mind you. I like a reason to have guys with Chainsaw swords instead of simply destroying the enemy with a kinetic strike from orbit and moving on

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