I would have loved for him to cover the warships of Warhammer 40K in this and what he thinks of their absurd scale and design
@NonsenseFabricator
13 күн бұрын
Is there any information on their internal layout?
@sulphuric_glue4468
13 күн бұрын
@@NonsenseFabricator Canonical sources generally agree what things are inside your average Imperial warship but not where they are and what the layout is. You can make some educated guesses - i.e. the really important stuff is on the inside, as much as possible - but there is no detailed schematic we can point to. In part, this is because in-universe Imperial ships won't follow the same pattern; not only would the original design be different, but many of them are thousands of years old and have changed a lot since their initial construction. I think we can also dispense with some of the grimderp stuff that is of dubious canonicity anyway - I'm mainly thinking here of loading munitions using slaves rather than mechanical auto-loaders, some canonical sources say this happens but it's just so unimaginably stupid (to the point where other GW authors have not-so-subtly mocked it in their own writings) that we should assume it doesn't take place. The main point of interest in 40K Imperial ship design is the stuff on the outside, anyway. It looks pretty dumb and rule-of-cool at first glance but the more you think about it, the more it actually makes sense that these ships are designed as big arrows with gigantic rams on the front, and they do in fact follow the design principle Bret was talking about of designing spacecraft around their main armament. In this case, the main armament is the ram. Void shields in 40K (what spaceships and super-heavy land vehicles use) work a bit like the shields from Dune, in that objects moving slowly can pass through them, so ramming an enemy ship might well be a more effective way of inflicting damage than trying to bombard them from afar, as the colossal mass of the ship means it can carry immense force even when moving relatively slowly - or, even if it isn't moving slowly, it has enough force to break through anyway. This justifies the most powerful engines being at the rear, as "forwards" will always be the direction you want to go fastest in. The guns being on the side also add to this - once you've broken through the enemy's defences with the ram, the broadside guns can then fire off at the vulnerable insides of the enemy ship (assuming you have hit it in the middle and split it open). Ideally, there should actually be heavy broadside guns on the top and bottom of the ship as well (there are guns here, but not as many as the ones on the sides), but you could argue it doesn't have heavy armaments here for the same reason why every real-world military vehicle doesn't have every ideal feature - cost. (In reality, we know this is because they were designed for a tabletop game that inherently can only work in two dimensions). A smaller craft can get through a void shield on the same principle, but they just cannot carry enough firepower to meaningfully damage the armour of a larger warship, and of course they can't carry much on board. Imperial warships in 40K are so large partly because of an implied ramming arms race (where larger ships have more force when ramming, creating a continuous feedback loop of sizing up ships to make them both more effective when ramming and more resistant to being rammed) but also because they need to be big enough to esentially serve as mobile miniature planets, capable of supporting armies big enough that just a few warships together can conquer a moderately-populated world. Concentrating all this firepower and manpower into large ships also significantly simplifies travel through the Warp, which we musn't forget. It's not meaningfully different for a Navigator to pilot a small ship versus a gigantic ship through the Warp, and Navigators are not a common resource, so it makes way more sense to have a few Navigators piloting a few massive ships vs many piloting many small ships. Being so large also offers more protection should the ship attract the attention of daemons whilst in the Warp (though, admittedly, it also makes you more likely to attract their attention in the first place).
@isaacdierckx2056
Жыл бұрын
I was wondering, how much cooperation/communication with Bret have you for these things?
@AGreatDivorce
Жыл бұрын
He approved the creation of these and every time I do an upload I send him the latest recordings so he's aware of what's out there and how it sounds.
@Maceman1990
Жыл бұрын
Bret also links to your channel, that's how I ended up here. Either way, thank you!
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