Editing Emperor Battle Titan (section)

==Origins==
[[File:Titanicus Battle Horus Heresy.jpg|right|thumb|550px|Back in the [[Great Crusade|good ol' days]] when the Imperial Army could [[Cheese|field entire battalions of these guys and call it a Tuesday.]] [[Horus Heresy|But then ''someone'' had to fuck everything up.]]]]
The Imperator was one of the two showcase Titans for the [[Epic]] expansion ''Titan Legions'', which aimed to take the system back to its ''Adeptus Titanicus'' roots of having small numbers of really expensive models battle it out rather than large numbers of dirt-cheap plastic infantry and tanks. Coming in the heyday of the ''Second Edition'' "moar rules = bettar" design philosophy, the Imperator came in a box with roughly half a dead forest's worth of cards, counters and rules and featured an insidiously complicated double-sided datacard for the player to perpetrate accountancy on every turn with plasma tokens and garrison troops and a whole load of other shit that made firing a [[Conversion Beamer]] in ''Second Edition'' seem simple by comparison.

As usual for [[Titans_40k|Titans]], the Imperator was roughly 1/700 scale in a system that was largely around 1/350, meaning that it would be hard for even a single Epic-scale Terminator to fit inside the model's head. Since most 40K-scale Imperators are based on scaling up the ''Epic'' model without realizing it's half the size it should be, they tend to replicate this. Needless to say, the ''price'' was [[Games Workshop|correctly scaled to the Imperator's size in the fluff]].

Some neckbeards have tried to kitbash a true 1/48 Imperator titan, and found that at 6'10"/2.1m tall, it would just be easier to make a titan ''costume'' and stand on the table.

Above assumes you consider Imperator titans on the higher end of the fluff massive scale, the kind of which you see in things like [[Dawn of War]] where humans are mere ants crawling around over the top of it. Games Workshop back in the original incarnation of [[Apocalypse]] did a 4000 point datasheet for the Imperator Titan which included a scale comparison with a Warhound and a guardsman, where if you built it, it would be almost three feet tall, so on the smaller end.

The size differences given in the fluff are often to do with varying levels of artistic license, as in the older Titan comic books a normal Warlord Titan was absolutely MASSIVE (despite saying it stood over 100 '''feet'''/30 meters tall), but when depicted in the Space Marine video game and running around on a slightly smaller Warlord Titan's shoulders it certainly never gave that impression at all. Though that might have been done to make the game actually run without turning your computer into a ball of chaos daemon hellfire that eats your face with burning teeth before setting your entire city ablaze. Also, different authors can't make up their minds as to how tall Titans really are, with one Imperator Class Titan ''(the Dies Irae)'' being described as both 43 meters tall and 140 meters tall in different novels. (43m is 141' 1" so maybe that's what they meant...)