Instead, a compromise was reached which limited the Space Marines to vessels whose primary role was that of transport, delivery and suppression designed to facilitate planetary assault. Corax, amonst others, protested strongly that in fact had the Space Marines been better equipped with fleets of their own his own Legion might not have been so horrendously decimated when trapped o Istvann V by Horus and the newly revealed traitors. Of the most extreme options of offer, it was ventured by some that the Space Marines should be denied any vessels at all, varying intra-system transports for movement between homeworlds and attendant moons. For an Imperium still reeling from internecine Heresy that almost tore it apart, the division of power was vitally important consideration. When Gullliman set about the long and arduous task of preparing Codex Asartes, the role of space vessels amongst the Adeptus Astartes proved a particular sticking.
Space Marine Fleets in Battlefleet Gothic
For example, the crew required to man these ships must consist of hundreds and thousands of servitors, but are their human equivalents? I doubt the Imperial Navy or Tech priest of Mars have too much to do with Space Marine transport, so are these massive ships controlled mostly by servitors?Īt least the Warp pilots have to be from the Navigator class right?
The Space Marines remain pretty independent of other organizations as much as possible. And with the theoretical chapter compliment existing around 1000 marines, it makes sens that their fleet would consist at 2-3 Battle Barges at the most.
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Small missions with 2-10 marines can be dispatched on the faster lighter escort class than on the larger more logistically challenging cruisers.Ī company detachment requires the capabilities of a cruiser and a full planetary assault requires the resources of a three company (with the ability to deploy all three compaines to landfall at once!) stacked Battle Barge. That ship is the length of 5 aircraft carriers and it only holds 10 Marines?īut if you break them down into roles it makes a bit more sense. They certainly are huge, the notion that only a squad of Marines would detach with and escort class cruiser is what blows my mind. I would love to do a technical drawing cut away for the 40K Space Marine fleet, maybe I should work on my drawing skills. I have some sketches I will upload with some more postulations about ship layout (and the little bit of technical data from the BFG book)Īny input into this discussion by anyone will be appreciated. I cannot find specifics regarding size, I now don't even remember where I got the numbers I'm using (but they seem reasonable consider specification of other ships). I figure that a ship breaks into 5 major sections according to function I am trying to understand the size discrepancy between the various classes of ships (escort, light cruiser, and battle). I'm a pretty technical minded person and I served on military warships in real life. I'm not aware of armament differences other than Space marine compliment.Īnd that is where I get a bit confused. I'm not sure if there has been anything that canonically establishes details such at if the things on the side of the battle barge is weapons or communication? I know there has been some stuff from the various video game (if anybody has links to said footage that would be great). I found the sizes cited from various places around the net. As far as I've encountered, I haven't seen really any technical data on them. I'm trying to make sense of the technical details concerning these ships. Given this scaled reference I made that shows various ships relative to one another.
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