Single Emperor Titan vs. US Army

[NecronLord]

Even without the decoration, the Warlord is the most generic robot design imaginable.

I liked Warlords more when they had beetlebacks...

[Rahvin]

Emperor Titans are seemingly one of the largest, and most powerful war-machines in Sci-Fi, carrying absolutely devastating weaponry.

Unicron of the Transformers franchise is described as planet sized and destroys universes, as I recall.

Warhammer 40k has some showy stuff and lots of firepower by modern standards, but it isn't really top tier sci-fi in terms of power.

Even if you just want to stick with Transformers smaller than planet-scale (Unicron varies from "small moon" to "bigger than Uranus" depending on source, or even from scene to scene in the movie), you could go with Metroplex/Trypticon/Scorponok/Fortress Maximus. Hell, how big were the regular combiners like Devastator/Superion/Bruticus/Menasor/etc? Even normal-TF-sized Galvatron took out a small planet once.

A 40m Titan isn't that badass when you open up "all of scifi."

[lordofchange13]

One Titan loses against nearly any other army. Though the Titan possesses powerful shields and weapons, theirs only one them and his movement speed is barely better then a snails pace, as well as if enough of the Titan crew dies the Titan it's self effectively dies. the radiation and starvation will take a good many.

[weemadando]

Again, going back to WD180 era there was an awesome bit of art for the Emperor titan showing one stepping up onto a cliff where it had raised a leg and planted it on top of the clip which was about level with the bottom of its head. Clearly they've got some amount of mobility.

[Stark]

You've got to imagine there's some serious stabilisation going on; if it moved very fast, nobody in the foot drums would be in a condition to do shit.

But a Warlord is apparently quoted at a top speed of 25 whole kilometers, so you can't imagine this one is better (given it's significantly worse leg geometry).

[DarkSilver]

Emperor Titans are seemingly one of the largest, and most powerful war-machines in Sci-Fi, carrying absolutely devastating weaponry.

Unicron of the Transformers franchise is described as planet sized and destroys universes, as I recall.

Warhammer 40k has some showy stuff and lots of firepower by modern standards, but it isn't really top tier sci-fi in terms of power.

Even if you just want to stick with Transformers smaller than planet-scale (Unicron varies from "small moon" to "bigger than Uranus" depending on source, or even from scene to scene in the movie), you could go with Metroplex/Trypticon/Scorponok/Fortress Maximus. Hell, how big were the regular combiners like Devastator/Superion/Bruticus/Menasor/etc? Even normal-TF-sized Galvatron took out a small planet once.

A 40m Titan isn't that badass when you open up "all of scifi."

Because of the scaling issues...it's kinda hard to pin down how big most of the larger TF's (Combiners, Omega Sentinals, etc) were.

If we use the 1980's Scaling sheet, we can guesstimate the sizes though...at least up to Omega Supreme and Combiners. Of course, you have to take liberties on the sizes represented. Even the sheet itself doesn't give exact figures on how tall specific TF's in GenOne were, just how they match up in scale of each other.

but if you give Optimus Prime and Megatron a height of 10m, that puts Devestator being at about...20m(?) tall, roughly, as he's roughly twice the size of Prime or Megatron according to the scale sheet. Omega Supreme is a bit taller than, probably closer to 25m tall (rough estimates).

That's not giving scales for beings like Metroplex, Trypticon, Scorponok or Fortress Maximus, all which are probably larger again than what Omega Supreme is in robot mode.


Omega Supreme wouldn't be that much shorter, at least, then the Titan...if we go by those numbers anyway.

[Black Admiral]

That's the maximum on-road speed claimed for a Reaver Titan in Imperial Armour 6, but I'm disinclined to trust that (since the rest of the Titan stats therein are bullshit, to put it bluntly - among other things, the IA books claim that Titans can't recharge their energy weapons from their main reactor).

[Stark]

Well I wouldn't be surprised if it was unreliable, since nobody can agree on size either; but it seems that they're 'supposed' to be quite slow, rather than agile. An Emperor running would look pretty dumb.

[lordofchange13]

Again, going back to WD180 era there was an awesome bit of art for the Emperor titan showing one stepping up onto a cliff where it had raised a leg and planted it on top of the clip which was about level with the bottom of its head. Clearly they've got some amount of mobility.

Upward movement, but the distance it crosses is slow at least from what i remember from the table top rules for the medium titans, so i assume that it is simile in the fluff.