I know Terminator Armor was originally just an armored space

>>54578837
>I know Terminator Armor was originally just an armored space suit designed to protect civilians from hazardous environments and Leman Russes were just armored tractors, but what do you guys think the land-based military equipment of the Dark Age of Technology look like?
FTFY

Also Cataphractii Armour is designed for combat.

>>54578837
>I know Terminator Armor was originally just an armored space suit designed to protect civilians from hazardous environments and Land Raiders were just armored tractors

You're partially correct - they are not re-purposed civilian equipment, but rather a very heavily modified design based on pre-existing technology. They took designs and concepts from existing tech, and then re-worked them to maximize military

Calling Tactical Dreadnought armor a re-purposed civilian suit would be like calling a Challenger II a re-purposed tractor.

>land-based military equipment of the Dark Age of Technology

It'd look like Men of Iron.

Rhinos are allegedly Mars Rover sorta all purpose utility vehicles. Makes sense since a metal box is kinda useful in general.

So during the Dark Age of technology terminator armor was basically like a hazmat suit and Leman Russes were tractors. What were spaceships and titans like during the DOaT?

>>54578926
>Leman Russes were just armored tractors
Pls stop propagating this untruth

>>54579197
>spaceships and titans like during the DOaT?
Probably like Starfleet vessels in Star Trek in terms of tech, A.I., automation, comfort and weaponry.

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>>54578837

>>54579197
One of the Ark Mechanicus(I believe this was its name) moved an enemy ship backwards in time so it didnt miss.

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>>54578837
>I know Terminator Armor was originally just an armored space suit designed to protect civilians from hazardous environments
No it's not

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>>54578837
I hate to quote this as fact when I couldn't find the source, but 1d4chan notes that in the original Epic background, the Baneblade was considered a medium sized tank

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>>54578837
Yeah but only in the sense a car originally was a carriage or dreadnoughts (the ship) were originally sailboats.

It was allways built with war in mind.

>>54579546
>what were the spaceships and titans like during the DOaT?
>Probably like Starfleet vessels in Star Trek in terms of tech, A.I., automation, comfort and weaponry.

Yeah from what we've heard. However it probably was just as "heavy metal" in design and look. Probably more Noble Bright then grim dark actually.

It's reasonable to think the Dark Of Technology was basically the Federation in Star Trek, and the Imperium only slid into it's Mediaeval Space Gothic Chic over the time after things went to shit.

But from their brief descriptions we have of the era apparently things were still as over the top despite being way more technologically advanced. People were already going into battle with swords and armour. It was just more likely to be power armour and power swords.

The 1930s film serial "Ray Gun Gothic" look is my personal head cannon.

>>54578837
>Land Raiders were just armored tractors

The predator was a main battle tank during the DAoT.

This actually brings up one thing I thought. The HH-era was supposed to be a sort of brave golden age. Different from the degenerate religious wreck that is 40k.

Yet everything looks so fucking grimdark and has slightly different churches. IT should have been a different style, like Art Deco warships that got encrusted with towers and stuff over the centuries. The Dark Age of Technology should look like the Culture, before it went to hell.

>>54580716
>The HH-era was supposed to be a sort of brave golden age. Different from the degenerate religious wreck that is 40k.
>Yet everything looks so fucking grimdark and has slightly different churches.

Yeah that would explain a lot, but it's not really supported by the cannon.

Apparently things have always been more or less the same as there ever were. like how in the Star Wars prequels Obi-Wan Kenobi still went around cutting off people arms in bars in even in a "more civilised age".

The Imperium was always a xenophobic feudalistic society run by a totallantrain quasi-religious government, it didn't used to be *as bad* and had shinier toys apparently.

>>54578837
This is very old rogue trader era fluff that went out with 3e, anon.

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>>54578837
>I know that <Unrelated shitty controversial claim that's going to stir shit> but what about <Trivial thing>

Wow haha good bread upvote :^)

>>54580491
Yup! I remember reading this when I first played Epic. The Baneblade was 'just' an MBT, as opposed to how the Leman Russ has been upgraded to that role now.

My favourite lost-tech was from one of the Grey Knights novel where they find a Castigator-class Titan, the primogenitor of modern titans and godlike in comparison to even the Imperator-class. The Castigator was meant to brawl with starships in orbit, and win. Fuck your orbital superiority.