At the forefront of the Legio Mortis forces strode newly awakened Warmaster Titans, their presence marking the new era of bloodshed that had fallen upon the galaxy. With brutal efficiency, battlegroups of the Death's Heads Titans fell upon those forge-fanes guarded by the Fire Wasps in an effort to exterminate all pockets of potential resistance on the red planet. Indeed, Legio Mortis, ever-loyal enforcers of the fabricator-general's will, proved eager to lay low their erstwhile allies. Rivalry between the Legio Ignatum, the Legio Tempestus and the Legio Mortis was all too common and quickly escalated into bloodshed during the Horus Heresy. Of those Titan Legions stationed on the Red Planet, of which nearly two dozen were present when conflict gripped Mars, the most prominent were those of the Triad Ferrum Morgulus, the first three Titan Legions ever raised. Even the leader of the ancient Mechanicum - Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal - had been lured down treasonous paths, plunging the Red Planet into war after receiving promises of access to technologies the Emperor had long deemed forbidden. Nine Space Marine Legions turned against the Emperor, and across the galaxy, innumerable worlds cast aside their oaths to the Imperium in favor of His once favored son. Schism of Mars (005-006.M31) - In the opening solar months of the Horus Heresy, the true depth of the Warmaster Horus' treachery was revealed.Its existence was a protected secret within the highest echelons of the Mechanicum, and it was never spoken of openly to peers nor outsiders, a secret kept even from the Emperor Himself.Ī Warmaster-class Titan in combat against the foe. On that day, the Warmaster Titan would stride to war, leaving naught but blood and ash in its wake.
Yet the Warmaster Titan was not a tool of political power nor a pillar of strength but a weapon of apocalyptic death and destruction, shrouded and slumbering until a Mechanicum Forge World stood at the precipice of extinction. With the virtue of hindsight, it is perhaps unsurprising that the Mechanicum kept knowledge of this mighty god-engine from the rest of Mankind, for ever was the Cult Mechanicus built upon a foundation of secrets. It took a conflict on the scale of the Horus Heresy - a war that resulted in the nascent Imperium being torn apart and the Space Marine Legions turning against one another - for the ancient Mechanicum to unleash the Warmaster-class Heavy Battle Titan.Ĭloser details of a Warmaster-class Titan's construction, its Suzerain-class Plasma Destructors and its Revelator Missile Launcher. Among their number was the Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan. The darkest depths of the Collegia Titanica's Titan Legion vaults were opened and the deadliest and most destructive god-engines deployed. Entire Titan Legions turned upon each other to bring wrack and ruin to countless worlds. Yet during the dark days of the Horus Heresy, oaths were broken and allegiances betrayed. These war machines are knowns as Titans, and they tower over the armies that fight alongside them - a terrifying sight to their foes and a portent of certain victory for their allies.Ī schematic of a post- Great Crusade Mars Pattern Warmaster-class Heavy Battle Titan The Collegia Titanica boasts some of the most powerful and destructive war machines in the galaxy - colossal god-engines that can obliterate entire battlegroups of infantry in a single salvo and annihilate armored vehicles with impunity using their vast arsenal of earth-shattering weapons. Size comparison chart of Imperial Titans, including the Warmaster, which is 40.91 metres tall (approx.
Six servitor clades also mean that repairing damage is easier for the Heavy Battle Titan's commanding princeps. Looming over even a Warlord-class Titan at 40.91 metres (approximately 134 feet) in height, the Warmaster is equipped with a pair of Suzerain-class Plasma Destructors that turn anything they hit into molten slag, a Titan-sized Revelator Missile Launcher and a pair of Turbo-Laser Destructors (or similarly destructive weapons) mounted under the carapace.įor protection the Warmaster is equipped with seven void shield generators. This god-engine is one of several classes of massive, crewed, robotic combat walkers fielded by the Titan Legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus' Collegia Titanica. The Warmaster-class Titan is a Heavy Battle Titan that makes it amongst the most powerful classes of Titans in the Imperium of Man.
The Warmaster-class Heavy Battle Titan Doloris Dominus of the Legio Metalica
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