TITAN TYPES: TO FIGHT MONSTERS, WE CREATED MONSTERS OF OUR OWN | Warhammer 40k lore 

In response to Kirioth wanting to put a titan weapon on the side of a baneblade, I propose a titan with baneblades for hands.

Normal universes: "This giant robot has advanced artillery systems so it can destroy everything from range, because melee combat would be ridiculous." Warhammer 40K: *"GET OUT OF MY WAY, I WANT TO PUNCH THAT TANK WITH MY TITAN-SIZED FIST!"* God bless. God fucking bless.

Buyer: "Do I need 18 void shields?" Titan Salesman after slapping the titan: "You see that? My hand literally shattered and the paint is still intact."

Guardsmen: " Emperor-dammit, we cant make it to church from the front line." Ad-Mech: "Dont worry, we got you fam... the church is coming to you!"

AUUUUGH, AEUGH. Titans Note: The Ordo Sinster was deployed to a craftworld that predominantly fielded Eldar Titans. Upon deployment, the entire craftworld shrieked in fear and anguish at the presence of the wrongness of these psi-titans.

Tonite on Ridiculous Gear: DK wants to learn more about those Titan toes, Kirioth gets his nuts quaking with the Mori quake cannon, Shy tries to fight back against the sweating horde of Warframe fans with her trusty Warhound turbo-laser destructor and Bricky lusts after that Erebussy

DK is correct on Nuceria, one of the Audax titan drivers kept getting ping'd from his machine with "let's go that way, i wanna kill what's over there...NO FUCKING REALLY, WE GOTTA GO THIS WAY." and the driver finally relents but gives the order to "BRING EVERYTHING... NO REALLY, ALL. OF. IT.". when asked by his crew "WTF do you think we're about to tangle with??!!" he said it was The Corinthian, a Legio Oberon Imperator class titan.

You want some extra lore? I got extra lore Ordo Sinister was commissioned by the Emperor himself, who basically went to Mars, asked for a bunch of Titans and brought them to Terra. They seemed to vanish after the Heresy however One notable instance was when one Psi-Titan simply walked across a rebelling planet; without firing a single shot it brought madness, nightmares and eventually compliance

Fun fact: The Vatican City has a population of 883 (at the time of this writing), so an Imperator titan likely has more crew than a sovereign nation does people

Eric’s Hobby Workshop is working on a 7’ tall Emperor Titan with a playable Kill Team board on its back.

Additional Facts about Titans and their weapons: -The Gatling Blaster fires literal Tank Shells at such a rate that the "BRRRRRRRRT" reaches a decibel that nearly rips reality each time is fired -When Warlord Titans are deployed, those who bear witness to it usually stop and stare and fall to their knees. Psi-Titans eminate such a Psychic Presence that it causes EVERYONE to run in fear. They're known as "Lords of Dread." -The Psi-Cannon is basically an exposed and directed warp core that fires *darkness and silence.* If you stand too close to the weapon when its fired, your soul is pulled into the beam. You don't scream in agony or wither away. You just fall over and die. -Whereas the Emperor class Titan is known as a "Battle Titan," there is one Imperator class subvariant thats even rarer than the Emperor: the Warmonger. Whereas the Emperor wears a cathedral, the Warmonger is a dedicated weapons/artillery platform. The Warmongers are used for sheer annihilation of an enemy force from one continent over. -The Hellstorm Cannon is basically five Volcano Cannon's strapped together, that can either fire in five-round bursts or all at once. -The Warmonger get access to the Vengeance Cannon, a massive double barrel Las-Weapon that has been known to shoot down starships from orbit, AS WELL AS the Doomstrike Missile Battery: Eight massive ICBM's strapped to its arm, for when you REALLY want to tell the Tyranids to fuck off. Hopefully this doesn't seem too "ackchually" or anything. I look forward to my Wednesdays because of you guys, so great work!

Some of my favorite Titan (and Titan-adjacent) facts: - The Quake Cannon is named because it literally causes localized seismic activity. The Quake Shells are made from the core chunks of planets that have undergone Exterminatus. Guardsmen say you can hear them screaming as they fly, which… yeah, that tracks. - There’s a melee variant of the Warmaster Titan called the Warmaster Iconoclast. It has a desolator chainsword mounted on one arm, and either a siege drill or grav imploder on the other. The latter weapon (and I quote) “can crumple a knight like an empty tin of corpse starch”. And yes, it still has the knee gun. - The mechanism that powers the Psi-Titan, the Ciricrux Anima, was actually invented the Emperor himself. This means that not only did he tolerate the use of giant psychic robots powered by human suffering and piloted by someone without a soul, *he actively approved of it*. Nice going, Emps. Also, how unbelievably rare do you think a princeps with the Blank gene is?

With the cost of Forge World Titans, and the scope of a Titan battles, might as well make them actual walking robots VR control.

Talking about titans being destroyed IRL, the GW shop that I grew up with here in town burned down back in like... '08? '09? And several titans and so many many other pieces and armies stored there went up in flames too, building was a total loss. Every single person who used to play there always laments the lost titans, THEN laments the loss of the store. It's so weird and yet very 40k fan.

Final mission in dawn of war winter assault happens on top of a partially buried emperor Class titan. As the imperial guard you take control of a handful thermo plasma generators and bring its side arms online. The small Guns of the titan. They almost oneshot necron monoliths.

How has no one mentioned the Castigator Titan yet? The ‘father of all titans’ needed to be talked about.

I want a 40k game where you're in a cathedral and you fight wave after wave of demons or orks or whatever, all the while it has a bar showing "reactor power level" slowly going up and at the end of it, the screen zooms out and you just get to pilot an Imperator class titan and mow down hundreds of thousands of enemies.

Remember: Tau though Titans were Human Propaganda. They didn't think humans would really have them. Until they saw an Emperor-Class Titan for the first time. They shit their pants.

Fun fact; They fixed it so the shells dont Rain down and crush friendly units. The rerouted the empty shells back into the magazine.

The one thing that *bothers* me is the official scaling of Titans. On the one hand, you have imagery with Imperial Titans that appear to be literally half a kilometer tall, with a massive cathedral on their back, which on it's own would be at LEAST 60 meters tall, and then you have official records, which state that a chaos Imperial Titan (Imperator Class) called the Dias Irae _(awesome fucking name btw)_ is only 55.5 meters tall. Like, yeah, that's tall... _But god damnit, _*_that thing should be at least a half a kilometer / 1000ft tall._* For reference, when Kirioth said "tiny titans" when referring to Jaegers, _Jaegers are all around 70-80 meters tall. TALLER THAN AN IMPERATOR TITAN, OFICIALLY._ WH40K, i love you, but fix the scaling issues.

On the subject of size: Gazgul's WAAGGHHH! had a Gargant that "towered over" the Titan of Princeps Majoris: an Imperator-class. Imperator-class is a variant of the Emperor-class along side the Warmonger-class. I'm not sure how they vary from one another but most, like 9 out of every 10 pieces of art work or illustrations, depict the Imperator. So picture a literal mountain of scrap metal, with a piggish looking face, moving forward as the top of its head scrapes the atmosphere. Also it's being maned (so to speak) by Orks.

Worth pointing out that the lower leg of the Imperator is explicitly designed to carry a company of infantry for transport and defence of the titan

I hear an Ordo Sinister quote incoming... Is it a sign that we'll get to hear about the god-engine that wears fear like armor, wields a gun of darkness, and is powered by space wizards- all the while being piloted by a soulees commander? Dang Psi-Titans are evil. Peak-dark technology. Proper grimdark. Dang, is the Emperor an *accidental* Lych-God?

Scout could refer to being used to coordinate fire support. Example warhounds can probably run into an entire tank battalion and there like huh that's not good big titan kill this here.

There's a story from the Battle of Armageddon that features an Imperator Titan. So you need an Armageddon level threat to bring one out.

Maybe the punisher class is some sort of artillery titan, and that third leg is for stability to maximize accuracy.

Love the Pacific Rim reference! But you said that the Jaegers are the size of small Titans or large Knights, but they're actually taller than most Titans, rivaling even the Imperator.

"It looks like a Transformer." "Don't cross the streams!" There are titan-class Transformers, such as Metroplex or Trypticon. They turn into entire cities/bases.

As far as what you would deploy an Emperor-class Titan for, you were pretty close. It'd be a situation where the only other option is Exterminatus, but they really can't afford to push that button (*STRATEGIC VALUE: ABSOLUTE*). It's also a situation where AdMech *really* don't want to depliy them unless there's no other choice because they can't make more of them. If an Emperor Titan gets destroyed, that's it.

So on the point you brought up in the beginning of the video. In Betrayer there was an Emperor Class Titan that was on the loyalist side. The World Eater Warhounds worked together to bring it down with their special harpoons.

Yall forgot to mention that the Warlord Powerfist has a Vulcan Mega Bolter on the back of it. So, you COULD dual wield Mega Mister Fisters and lay down incredulous amounts of Dakka.

Kiritoh proving once again that he is the resident techmarine.

Sunfury Plasma Annihilator and Belicosa Volcano Cannon are easily the coolest weapon names in 40k.

So my local store growing up had an Imperator Titan display and the damn thing was larger than I was but it looked so god damn cool.

Therapist: Direchicken isn't real, it can't hurt you Direchicken: 23:14

I'm surprised you didn't mention the castigator class titan. It was the single largest man made titan and had a machine spirit so powerful, it could piolet itself. However it was destroyed by the grey knights and had its blueprints burned after it started firing greater daemons from its main cannon.

The Dies Irae is a famous titan of the Legio Mortis! Attached to the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet under the command of the Warmaster Horus, its princeps cheerfully joined with Horus in treason with the entire legio following him into heresy. Mortis still maintains its unity in the era of 40K.

The Dies Irae (Dee us - E ray) is mentioned occasionally during the first 3-4 Horus Heresy books if I recall correctly. Also, Dies Irae means "Day of Wrath" and is a funeral hymn.

Tonite on Ridiculous gear:Bricky the scion of the forehead, the mentor for the curious and the Lord of the Lil guys smashes a Carnifex, DK the Lord of the unwise, the blissfully ignorant and the herald of the Lil guys trips over a chimera and dies and Shy, mistress of the warp, the destroyer of the Lil guys and the queen of Rage burns a hive tyrant to ash and Kirioth of the land of bad tooth hygiene and the occupant of my walls steals every tank he can find.

I really want you guys to do an episode on older Warhammer 40k and Rouge Trader models. Like the old ArmorCast titans.

I could listen to Kirioth say the word "guns" for hours.

My favorite fact about Titans is when they first heard about them, the Tau assumed they were just propoganda. Not because of fear or thinking no one can build them, but rather thinking "no way anyone would be that stupid to waste that many resources to make something so impractical"

"nothing could get bigger than an Imperator" *LAUGHS IN CASTIGATOR*

Thank you Shy, for the end 😂 I was waiting to hear DK react to the Castigator Titan

Because pacific rim was mentioned Jaegers aren't ''very small titans'' most of them are considerably taller than imperator class titans. Imperator titan is about 56 meters tall, Gipsy Danger is about 87 meters tall. Jaegers range from 30 meters tall to 150 meters tall and all of the ones we saw in the film were more than 70 meters in height. Some of them are three times the size of an imperator titan.

I’m so upset that they didn’t talk about the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. Cause shooting bolts of Warp stuff to kill things is way interesting.

When discussing the Warmaster Titan: Kirioth: "For some reason, they have guns in the knees" Me, thinking back to Bricky's 'So you wanna main Urgot?' vid: (inhales), *SHOTGUN KNEES* Keep up the great content

Them talking about when you field an emperator synopsis. “Strategic value absolute.”

Every time the Imperator titan takes a step, the tectonic plates of a planet are forever altered...

Today I learned that most Gundam suits are either as tall or taller than a Warhound titan. That's...wow. really puts the two series into perspective against each other.

On the idea of deploying Imperator class titans, I imagine they're used like actual portable Ordinatus weapons, since Ordinatus typically can't be moved and are one offs. Imperators are a bit more "standard", so they're are probably ships designed and configured to move them. They could also be used a mobile command fortresses for a warmaster, playing into the actual walking city aspect

I wish they would bring out a "classic" version of the Warlord, the boxy looking one with the skull. Not to replace the current model, just as an alternative.

Funny that we always term Gundam as "real robot" in anime, when they are actually around 40K Warhound size, and the warship in the show often carries 4 to 6 of them... Because I often term 40K to be in the equivalent of "Super Robot", maybe we need to move Gundam to semi-Super instead

I saw an Imperator at Games Day one year. Presumably there was steel structure inside for stability, but most of the outside was kitbashed from existing plastic kits. I remember the Cities of Death buildings being used heavily, in particular the big one with the eagle in the calves.

Apparently one of my friends faced down a Imperator class (he said that the one at 1:05:53 was basically it) at a Warhammer event. This is back in the days of blast templates, so pre 8th. He rocked up with his (now recalculated) ~3.5K of models including his RESIN Shadowsword (yes apparently they used to be resin) and as he lined up his army the guy controlling the Imperator said something along the lines of "For this weekend this Titan is going to be fighting its battles sequentially, it will not be repairing any health or voids it looses in between people attacking it. You are one of the first, you have one shot at doing as much damage as possible before it guts your army, good luck." He barely scratches off a void shield.... the Imperator then proceeds to fire a DINNER PLATE SIZED BLAST TEMPLATE at his forces, in one shot it destroyed about 2/3 of the army Soooo, yeeeeeeaaah, Imperators

On the subject of the Ordo Sinister, it was called that because it was the "Left Hand of the Emperor". Sinister has a history of meaning the left side, especially in regards to heraldry. It's also the origin of the term Ambisinister, the opposite of Ambidextrous. One who is ambisinister is clumsy with both hands, having "two left hands".

I always love the kirioth episodes because he embraces the ridiculous

Could you do demon engines? I think the reaction would be fun.

13:36 "Set building on fire" MFW that weapon can set an entire Neighborhood ablaze in one burst

The more I think about it, Forgeworld Titans would be a decent money reserve. They would hold their value.

I can confirm the titanwalk thing. We've talked about them over in the Imperial Knights & Titans discord

The safe distance from an emperator class titan is the same a nuke. If your thumb is bigger than it, you're at a safer distance

Psy Titans work like: >show up to a doomed battle unannounced >no one knows who you they are or where they came from >wreck the shit out of a bunch of wraithlords >refuses to elaborate >leaves

It’s worth noting that there’s an actual game for his called adeptus titanicus. In it an imperial knight is about the size of an ork or firstborn space marine. A warmaster titan is the size of a normal imperial knight. A knight is an unimportant to a titan as a space marine is to a knight. The surrounding battle does not matter. When titans walk the field, they dominate everything else.

I love that opening every time. Wish I knew where it was from.

I think that the punisher class titan might have an extendable leg at the back, kinda like a tail, to brace before firing the main armaments.

Though they were wrong about deploying them alongside an army. Titans are almost always deployed alongside skitarii legions because one of the ‘easiest’ ways to take down a large titan is laying traps like in the second war for Armageddon when orks collapsed hive spires onto an imperator which immobilized it. So they use the skitarii to scout and protect against traps and ambushes that could lead to the titans being boarded.

Adeptus Ridiculous, the only podcast im always down to listen to, wether im at school or work, hanging out or trying to sleep, they always fit the mood. but hey maybe its just cause their little guys

My head canon is the Apocalypse Class is an Emperor Class but with more guns and no citadel. Just a giant fortress.

Just got done reading a thousand sons and in the finale psy titan perils and goes nuclear its pretty awesome.

When you guys hit $40k on Patreon you four should build Legio Ridiculous. 4 Titans of your choices kitbash how you want(if you want), agree on a paint scheme and get a Titan banner made

With the Warbringer, it’s arm weapons are called ‘reaver’ weapons because they are the same ones used on a reaver Titan. For example, a reaver’s Gatling blaster is smaller than a warlord’s. The big gun on it’s back is warlord-sized, however.

That art with the three of you fighting is great, make another one with Kirioth commanding a leman russ or rogal dorn

Probably been said but I would love to see a follow up to cover the other titan like equivalents of the other races both xenos, chaos etc. the storytelling and explanation is top notch in this. Would just love more

"Look Mom, it's a visualization of my 401K" - lost it. Holy damn.

Introducing Imperial Titans: For when reducing your enemies to dust is no longer sufficient; they much be ERASED

The Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan is basically the Titan version of the Grey Knights(secretive, fully psyker variant). Also seems unpopular but I actually like the way the Reaver's head looks. Idk it just looks cool to me and honestly I don't think it's similar to Stewie's head at all.

Thank goodness for 3D printers. You can buy a nice printer for less than a Warhound and then make as many titans as you want. It’s a lot cheaper to be a Titan collector these days.

The Imperiator class titan he’s think of is the Corinthian. It gets completely swarmed by the Warhounds allied to the 12th. Harpooned and then boarded by World Eaters and Word Bearers 😮

One of my favorite possibly misquoted or even right up false bits of Titan lore is just how much friendly fire happens even with Warhounds when they let off with their laser weapons, just the heat from the beam just absolutely melts all the Guard and Skitari underfoot.

*foghorn intensifies*

The Imperator and Emperor Class Titans' shell casings falling on your allies below the titan is a real concern. It often endangers the leman russ tanks and chimeras that might attempt to provide support/prevent boarding actions!

Imperator Titans used to / maybe still do have giant doors in their shins and could hold a company of guardsmen inside them for close support against assaults.

Just remembered, Kirioth forgot the Imperator-class titan that got possessed by a greater daemon of Khorne, and is STILL out there

A bit of a shame they didn't talk about the Secutarii a little bit.

fr love the pacific rim reference

i love how Kirioth always goes: "its silly and i really like it" its every episode and thats great

when the imperator titan first came out in the adeptus titanicus epic box you could put a division (6 companies if I remember correctly) of infantry squads in it and spill them out from the legs. don't know if they updated that.

General: "Titan. Do you see that army there?" Princip: "I do." General: "I don't want to." Princip: "Gladly."

I do believe there was a larger titan than the Imperator, i forgot the name of it but if i recalled was from the Dark age , it was unique as it had a far more Humanistic shape with its head being above the shoulders but it was operated by an AI that went chaos and the Grey Knights took it out. Might be wrong but i believe i heard that some time ago

fun fact- the warhound carries 14,000rnds of ammo for the vulcan mega bolter. as such, it will run dry in 46.6min of sustained fire.

11:24 Apparently there's a similar joke among the Battletech community, where Steiner Scout Squads operate exclusively in Atlas mechs (which are these giant 100-ton "assault" class mechs with skull-heads for the cockpits) and _somehow_ are still legitimately good at being sneaky.

Imperial Titans are the most accurate representation of the sheer unapologetic absurdity of Warhammer 40k that peoople love so much.

Awesome vid on one of my favorite vids so far! Specially anything with Kirioth in it.

Order sinister: There are to wolves inside me. The one I perceive myself as and the one I have to stop myself from becoming

So on the Warbringer-Nemesis, it's weapons are called "Reaver-X" because they are the weapons designed for the Reaver Titan, but it uses those to bring that Quake Cannon into range. They're Reaver weapons being used by a platform that bridges the gap between Reaver and Warlord.

IIRC the Imperator has two things more that realy makes them stand out. Each lower leg is a fortification with a battlecannon and several heavy bolters for close defense, they also house several squads of infantry for defense and to sally out to take objectives. The cathedral also has the ability to launch and recover a Lightning Strike Fighter aeroplane for use as a spotter/recon or target of opportunity strikes.

There is a map in the Warhammer RTS Soulstorm..... which is entirely based around one of the Imperator canons, with it spliting the map in half and the factions fighting around it

Love all these Iron Hands videos you guys keep pushing out!

Kirioth is just the unofficial fourth member at this point and I love it