Warhammer 40k Lore - Imperial Navy, Tyrant, Dictator & Ambition Cruisers 

The Dictator class would be my choice, closest to a modern day air craft carrier that I've heard about. Cool video 👍

Hi GMD, wanted to say Thank you for the Ambition cruiser lore. It is one of my favourite, because it is one of a FEW ships, that may be build EXACTLY according specifications of Rouge trader, instead of retrofitted after their salvage. Also, the idea of having enslaved engineseers to tend to the hidden alien tech onboard is very interesting, because it allows this cruiser to go quite FAR beyond its specs, especially, when the (hidden) spaces for the alien tech prepared upfornt and according the needs of alien tech. - eldar solar sails to help conserve and harvest fuel behind the borders of imperium? Eldar fighterbays, or lance batery? Hidden Eldar booster engines, or some of their much more arcane guns? What eldar version of Gellar field to provide MUCH safer travels in the immaterium? - Tau railgun, plasma or grav batery? Or some of their long range sensors and SAFE generators to back-up the bulky, unsafe and little less reliant imperial counterparts? Hidden engines capable of speeding much over the imperium capablities in realspace, or even some of their smal, non long-FTL capable leached voidships and voidfighters in a fighterbay? Or even factory and launchbay for the tau (void) interceptor drones, to booster and compliment ships organic complement of fighters (if build as such and with the fihterbays). What about their worker version to enact efficient self-repairs in space and miner version to strip-mine the essential materials for any repairs and build of spare parts in the darkspace far from ports? - Necron gun batery with self-repairing (/slefhealing) ability? - Salvaged or looted Demiurg prow shield? Automated mining and refining factory, to prolong the operations witouth ports and docks, and even giving the ship ability to logistically support a small (20-50k men) orbital atack army? What about ability to build and replace destroyed fightercraft with new one? - Some crazy Ork tech/gun, with living, but incapabled orks shackled to it, to provide their "waagh" faith, to keep the gun working and supplied with ammo? - Something completly unknown, salvaged from spacehulk? When the rouge trader at the begining knows exactly what he wants from his future ship (optimaly has the alien parts prepared somewhere already including practical manuals in ghotic to "train" the human enginseers, or even have the enginseers trained and shackeled to it), and he/she focuses on one or a FEW traits, the ship is supposed to excell at (or have enough space inside to boost all of the traits significantly enough), the ship wich will come out of the shipyard finalizing the build and "upgrades" as an unstopable behemoth, capable to outmatch "one on one" even astartes or (maybe) even grey-knights strike-cruiser, run circles around the battlebarge, or (potentialy) gun it down from afar. Also, this marvelous design allows the rouge-trader incorporate imperial system and devices he/she deems ussefull. Want keen sensors of arbites cruiser to avoid dangers, traps and ambushes and sniff out the easy loot? Want hull of the same alloy, the space-marine battlebarges are made-of, to enhance the durability? Want a trading cargoship with guns, fabrication capable self-defending cruiser akin to mechanicus(es), carrier with self-defensive batteries, pure carrier or pure gun-cruiser? Want barracks and training facilities for ground-army (for them to be at the peek of their combat abilites when needed, regardles the state you recruited them in)? Want teleprort even, for deep-strikes and Kirk-ish escapes? Want attached dock for one of the the escort-ship compliment of your fleet, to prolong the "out of the port and dock" operations of your entire fleet, and even add a salvaging capability to your cruiser? Or adding the boarding torpedoes and tractor beams, to expand your fleet occasionaly? Most of it may be quite possible to incorporate, (only not all at once). Me myself have actually na idea for unique rouge-trader ship (or even an independent flotilla of another ship tipes with "Universe" as a flagship and central hub of operations) out of gigantic universe-class carrier, mostly utilizing its imnense internal space cargo-bays for a "conteiner"ish way to equip, arm and enhance the ship. Also possible to actually BUILD (or when regarding stolen/looted xenotech hide inside) a new "container", and use it for the ships benefit, or equip it on another big enough ship (with big enough cargospace to slide inside the new "container") of the "universes" support fleet. With a LOTS of tau tech upgrades, inbuild in exchange for informations regarding all other xeno-threats in their vicinity, small and dormant eldar webway portal and a drop of navigators blood. The upgrades are as follows: - Upgraded sublight engine to many times surpas the original sluggish top speed of Universe trasport ship to the speed of a slower light cruiser, if the need arises and hold it as long as the fuel is provided. - Upgraded "launchbays" (one or several of "containers") with a compliment of few original human spacecraft decoys, but filled to brim with tau engeneered and build human-tech version of Mantas, Baracudas and space drones - space-fighter + space-miner/worker. Regarding the "human manta", this design is build with flexibility and modularity in mind too - the cargobay with anti-G chairs and clamps for holding the cargo and the drop-compliment, can be slid out of the hull and replaced with "void combat module", wich includes additional generators for the lances (on human versions utilized instead of railguns), drives and shields of the ship, few gigantic anti-capital ship torpedoes or racks of long range uttilized, anti-fighter sized ammunition (rockets?), or dockingbay, launchbay and control stations for void drones (this utilized mostly in "space patrol and control", or long range attack variant, instead of direct dogfight). Including controll stations for drones and space-combat simulators for the pilots to hone their skills to perfection, when offduty, or train a planned attacks upfront the real mission. - Dock/shipyard clamps to dock one cruiser-sized or smaller ship, and conduct repairs, upgrades, rearmament, salvaging operations, or even to build a new ship from the beggining to enlarge your fleet. This is usually carried extended and turned 90degrees, therefore looking like underslung under the hull of the ship, but when packed, can be turned back and slid inside the container space. - A handfull of smaller cradles inside the hull, for human-tech version of FTL-non capable escort-sized vessels, hugely oriented on firepower, speed and resilience, with minimal crew needed. Inspired by tau escorts, little less oriented on speed than the tau are and MUCH MORE oriented on resilience and survivability in combat - hidden additional gun batteries with respective energy generation/ammo storages. Gives the ship unexpected punch of a "Q-ship" and allows it to pose as a (more helpless and defenceless than in reality) bait for enemy, when in the maintime, the whole ships compliment is in hiding and waiting for the ambush to be sprung. Or, when needed, unexpectadly one-shot a charging unknowing enemy into oblivion. - mining and fabrication capabilities "container". Intent of adding this container(s) is to cover as good as possible the material needs of the ship, its spacecraft compliment, its army + crew and its support fleet, including spare-parts, ammuntion and fabrication of new ships. - greenhouse "container". ment for suplying the crew and the support fleets crews with new and fresh food, including some vat-grown meat and few stocks of real cattle (groxes?). Also to some degree backing up the ships lifesupport systems. - simulator "container". Tau originated technology mentioned in the second "lastchancers" book. Able to mimic to a high degree almost all planetary environment, be it a dense jungle, desert, step, mountain, swamp, forest, ice-clad tundra, deep ocean, zen garden or tropical island beach. Ment for practical training in personal combat abilities of EVERY man and woman on the ship and serve as great off-duty amenity. A "must have" for prolonged expeditions, for the combat preparedness and crew morale reasons. Backed with a fact, that prolonged deployments were taken into consideration when upgrading the interior hallways of the ship, therefore interiors are "sunny", with human-pleasant temperature and in many places utilizing the ship hallways as another place to grow the plants, in automated and mostly self-sufficient grow-systems. The simulator contains the artificial "enemies" ie drones, able to mimick known species apperance, abilities and capabilities, as an opposing force to the trainees. The simulator does have the connection to the ground vehicle simulators and drones pose in scenarious as such. - At the end (and not "container" based entirely), i wanted to add a looted eldar solar sail for energy colection and looted/researched and developed 6 gun "nova canon rotary gun". Not as quick as simple rotary canon, but MUCH quicker than simple nova canon, its guns are attached to the hull pointing forward and always ony one of them is firing, the rest is reloading and heating its coils before the shot.

My Battlefleet Gothic Cardinal Boras (Retribution-class Battleship) Flame of Purity (Overlord-class Battlecruiser) Sword of Retribution (Overlord-class Battlecruiser) Agrippa (Lunar-class Cruiser) Righteous Fury (Gothic-class Cruiser) Dominion (Tyrant-class Cruiser) Abdiel (Dauntless-class Light Cruiser) Baron Surtur (Dauntless-class Light Cruiser) Guardian (Dauntless-class Light Cruiser) Havock (Dauntless-class Light Cruiser) I wanted to make my fleet lore friendly, wish you could have bigger fleet instead of 1 BS,2 BC,3 C,4 LC

Wouldn't using salvaged Chaos weaponry on the Tyrants be seen as an offense to the Omnissiah? How the hell did they convince the tech priests to go along with this?

This made me feel like playing battlefleet gothic again =)

Awesome!

nice vid

when will there be a battleship video?

I don't know if you covered it or not but there is the fleets of the adeptus mechanicus Space Marines are going do them ?

I would have to say out of these The dictator

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Hello RU-vid algorithm. Sit back relax learn about the ships about the Imperial Navy.

2:33 did thay say salvaged from "caoss" ships?

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