When the Imperium must break an enemy that no army can, it looses the Titans. These are the god-engines of the Adeptus Mechanicus, war-machines that tower over the battlefield like walking cathedrals, their tread shaking the earth and their guns capable of levelling cities. Each is a sacred relic of the Machine God, tended by legions of priests and crew, and marshalled to war only for the gravest of conflicts. To behold a Titan striding through the smoke of battle, void shields flaring, is to witness the wrath of the Omnissiah given terrible form.
The Titans are gathered into the Collegia Titanica, an order of the Adeptus Mechanicus divided into many Titan Legions, the Legios, each with its own traditions, heraldry and honoured battle-history stretching back to the Age of Strife. Some Legios can field scores of god-engines; others, worn down by ten thousand years of war, muster only a precious few. Wherever they march, they are worshipped and feared, for they are among the mightiest weapons the Imperium possesses.
The Collegia Titanica[edit]
Each Titan Legion is bound to a forge world that builds and maintains its god-engines, and the relationship between Legio and forge is one of profound reverence. The construction of a single Titan is the work of decades and the labour of thousands, and each completed war-engine is regarded as a holy artefact, its machine-spirit ancient and proud. The Legios answer to the Fabricator-General of Mars and march to war alongside the Skitarii legions, the Knight households, and the armies of the Imperium at large, lending their world-breaking strength wherever it is needed most.
Princeps and Crew[edit]
A Titan is commanded by its Princeps, a warrior of iron will who plugs directly into the god-engine's Manifold, wedding mind and machine until the two think as one. Through the Mind Impulse Unit the Princeps feels the Titan's guns as his own hands, its armour as his own skin, its wounds as his own pain. Beneath the Princeps serve the Moderati, who lay the weapons and steer the war-engine, and a host of tech-priests who tend its reactor and its rites. The bond is perilous, for the machine-spirits of the greatest Titans are ancient and wilful, and a weak Princeps can be overwhelmed and lost within the god-engine's soul.
The God-Engines[edit]
Titans range from the swift Scout-class engines that range ahead of the battle-line to the towering Emperor-class behemoths that decide the fate of whole campaigns. All are girded in void shields that flare and collapse beneath incoming fire, and armed with weapons that can gut fortresses and slay other god-engines, plasma annihilators, volcano cannons, gatling blasters and titanic close-combat fists. When the Titan Legions walk to war, the ground trembles, the sky darkens, and the enemies of Mankind learn why the Imperium calls its greatest machines gods.
Units
Cerastus Knight-LancerLords of War · KnightA swift Cerastus-pattern Knight that escorts the god-engines, charging home with a shock lance to shatter the enemy line.
Dire Wolf Heavy Scout TitanLords of War · Scout TitanA Heavy Scout-class god-engine built to hunt and destroy enemy Titans with long-ranged, armour-piercing weaponry.
Imperator TitanLords of War · Emperor TitanA walking cathedral of war, the largest of the Emperor-class god-engines, crowned with a fortress-temple and armed to level cities.
OrdinatusLords of War · OrdinatusA colossal tracked siege-engine of the Adeptus Mechanicus, mounting a single planet-shaking weapon too vast for any Titan to bear.
Reaver TitanLords of War · Battle TitanThe versatile mainstay of the Titan Legions, a Battle-class god-engine equally suited to sieges, open battle and duels with enemy war-engines, whose every stride is a hammerblow.
Warbringer Nemesis TitanLords of War · Battle TitanA specialised Battle Titan built around a colossal carapace-mounted Quake or Volcano Cannon, a siege engine and slayer of god-engines that rains death across the battlefield.
Warhound TitanLords of War · Scout TitanThe smallest and swiftest of the god-engines, a Scout-class Titan that lopes ahead of the battle-line to hunt in pairs, terrorising enemy armour and infantry alike.
Warlord TitanLords of War · Battle TitanThe mightiest of the Imperium's common Battle Titans, a walking fortress bristling with apocalyptic weapons whose coming is enough to break the courage of the boldest foe.
Warlord-Sinister TitanLords of War · Psi-TitanA Psi-Titan of the secretive Ordo Sinister, its machine-spirit fused with a bound and tortured psyker so that it assails the minds and souls of the foe as readily as their flesh.
Warmaster Iconoclast TitanLords of War · Emperor TitanA gun-heavy variant of the Warmaster, an Emperor-class Titan configured to shatter enemy war-engines and fortifications at range.
Warmaster TitanLords of War · Emperor TitanAn Emperor-class god-engine, a walking bastion crewed by a small army of tech-priests whose deployment is a matter of grave ceremony and whose coming decides whole campaigns.
Warmonger TitanLords of War · Emperor TitanThe war-hungry cousin of the Imperator, an Emperor-class god-engine that trades cathedral spires for yet more guns.
Characters
Esca VornhastThe Griffon LordThe Princeps Maximus of the War Griffons, wedded so long to the Warlord Titan Ferrum Ira that the boundary between man and god-engine has worn perilously thin.
Kariya ThornThe Iron WidowAn implacable Princeps of the Iron Skulls who walked alone from a siege that claimed her entire maniple, forging her grief into cold, industrial resolve.
Vorlic KaanThe Storm-BoundA Princeps Senioris of the Warp Runners renowned for arriving at the decisive hour, whose instinct for the perfect moment has salvaged more lost causes than any of his generation.
Subfactions
Legio AstorumThe Warp Runners, a proud and ancient Legio renowned for the swiftness of its deployments and an uncanny record of arriving upon the battlefield at the decisive hour.
Legio GryphonicusThe War Griffons, among the most storied of all Titan Legions, famed for the ferocity of their advance and battle-honours stretching back to the earliest days of the Imperium.
Legio MetalicaThe Iron Skulls, hailing from the smoke-choked forge world of Metalica, an industrial and unyielding Legio that grinds its foes to ruin with tireless, methodical attrition.
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