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The guys a my local gaming store got into a debate of what the titans for the races that dont have them would look like. I would love to hear what your ideas are. So far the only one we can 100% agree on is that DE would have a huge twisted hemi looking beast for theirs. One of the BA players wants to use a wing zero model from gudam wing for his BA army.

XXV-61 "Great White" Superheavy. Name from me, Model from Chapterhouse Studios.

Space Marines, as a matter of doctrine, would not be allowed Titans. Or any Imperial Force that matter. They only Titans are from the Titan Legions. There is a reason why they are seperate, so that if one force is turned the treachery won't spread far.

A Dark Eldar titan sounds like a thing of beauty though.

Yes totally agree with you on this one. I love this model.

I would imagine a Necron Titan to be some sort of Megalith, like the one that Beasts of War made as a joke.

Fail that, a Giant Tomb Stalker like monster.

necron titan would be like that gaint thing from the end of mass effect 2, or one of the space pyramids from stargate sg-1

I see necrons as have a giant verson of the command barge but with more weapons and lots of armor.

Isn't the Tau's titan technically the Manta? The Great White looks pretty cool tough.

I think the Necrons should have a massive monolith. Makes sense. Or maybe a giant C'tan shard.

bmoleski wrote:Isn't the Tau's titan technically the Manta?

The Manta is more of a Super Heavy Devilfish, not really a Titan.

Tau - I always thought a big 4 or 6 legged walker would be good with similar lines to the broadsides with big nasty turreted weapons, verticle launch missles and lots and lots of smaller high ROF guns all over.

DE- Back in the 90's CJ33 came out with a guys montrosity called a "Shadow" that was later put in WD after the VDR came out. I actually built one, it was a montrosity of two or three old style raiders/ragagers and parts of a falcon. It was basicly an extra large ravager with shields and a big main gun, but it it was menacing and felt like it fit. looking at the new DE, it could have been made to look even better now with some of the extra bits. It wasn't a titan, but still cool and gave an idea of what DE super heavys might look like.

I like your Hemi beast idea, I could see howdahs hanging off/melded in with weapons platforms. I could also see something modeled off the talos, upscaled. Nice thing with DE on something like that though is, you never know what those crazy's might come up with. In practicality though, its unlikely DE would have anything more then a few structure points just from the web way stand point.

Nids are kind of the same way, anything within a certain style is pretty easy to imagine. I like their current biotitan, but man, are their some wicked bugs that could be done, i'd be impressed by another snake like montrosity.

*sigh* i wish

Chowderhead wrote:

bmoleski wrote:Isn't the Tau's titan technically the Manta?

The Manta is more of a Super Heavy Devilfish, not really a Titan.

No, Bmoleski is correct. Mantas are the Tau equivalent of a Titan.

The Tau do not use Titans. Everything within the Tau's way of war has a purpose and synergy with something else. Mantas are their landing craft, which are heavily armed enough to clear the landing zones of any significant threat--which is a byproduct of the Manta being used as an attack craft in space combat.

What wrong with the DE using a normal Eldar titan and making it look more like a giant Kabalite with nice spikey armour?

I dunno, that's exactly what I would do for my Dark Eldar. Just like how the razorwing is essentially a DE version of the Eldar "Nightwing" Interceptor.

Back in 4th edition when I could use VDR rules, I used an 8" action figure of Iron Monger as a Necron version of an Imperial Knight. Looks awesome as it's basically a gigantic Necron warrior.

wolf13 wrote:

DE- Back in the 90's CJ33 came out with a guys montrosity called a "Shadow" that was later put in WD after the VDR came out. I actually built one, it was a montrosity of two or three old style raiders/ragagers and parts of a falcon. It was basicly an extra large ravager with shields and a big main gun, but it it was menacing and felt like it fit. looking at the new DE, it could have been made to look even better now with some of the extra bits. It wasn't a titan, but still cool and gave an idea of what DE super heavys might look like.

Got a pic?

And yeah, Tau wouldn't use walkers. It doesn't fit their style. The manta fulfills the role of a a titan I think

DE would prolly get some massive abomination of nature, like an oversized talos, or at least a spikey revenant titan

Chaos Daemons would get a very big greater demon

Necrons already have a titan equivalent called the abbatoir. However, there is no model for it, and I am not sure if it exists in the new fluff

I'm going with tomb stalker for Necrons

Kanluwen wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:

bmoleski wrote:Isn't the Tau's titan technically the Manta?

The Manta is more of a Super Heavy Devilfish, not really a Titan.

No, Bmoleski is correct. Mantas are the Tau equivalent of a Titan.

The Tau do not use Titans. Everything within the Tau's way of war has a purpose and synergy with something else. Mantas are their landing craft, which are heavily armed enough to clear the landing zones of any significant threat--which is a byproduct of the Manta being used as an attack craft in space combat.

Yeah pretty much, the tau actually thought the titans were a myth, because they just seemed so Silly to them that they thought it was Imperial Propaganda, their response upon actually seeing them was to make big ships with bigger railguns to take them down.

Titans, by the very definition, are the Titans of the Ad Mech.

The Eldar have their own Titan sized vehicles. The Dark Eldar would simply have spiky versions.

However the Dark Eldar don't really have a style of warfare that would require a Titan. They don't conduct frontal assaults except in the rarest of circumstances. They are content to simply raid for the rest of eternity.

The Tau wouldn't have Titans because it is against their style of warfare. Far too large and not mobile enough for their tastes. They have Mantas and Tiger Sharks for super heavy duty.

The Orks have their Gargants and Stompas(which are made in mockery of the Imperium's Titans)

Nids have their Biotitans.

Space Marines don't have Titans because it doesn't fit their style of warfare.

Kanluwen wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:

bmoleski wrote:Isn't the Tau's titan technically the Manta?

The Manta is more of a Super Heavy Devilfish, not really a Titan.

No, Bmoleski is correct. Mantas are the Tau equivalent of a Titan.

The Tau do not use Titans. Everything within the Tau's way of war has a purpose and synergy with something else. Mantas are their landing craft, which are heavily armed enough to clear the landing zones of any significant threat--which is a byproduct of the Manta being used as an attack craft in space combat.

And if you where making a tau titan you would start out by making it a flyer because that makes the most sense for a big supper weapon. Add a few rail-guns, maybe some automatic weapons placed around it. Finally it only makes sense to include some transport ability because your not going to deploy something that big alone. Basically you end up with a manta.

Chowderhead wrote:XXV-61 "Great White" Superheavy. Name from me, Model from Chapterhouse Studios.

Oh look, it's a Storm Strider.

Emerett wrote:

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Chowderhead wrote:XXV-61 "Great White" Superheavy. Name from me, Model from Chapterhouse Studios.

Oh look, it's a Storm Strider.

...? Because they both have 4 legs? They resemble each other like a space marine resembles a fire warrior.

what about IG, i think a giant tank with a 2 deathstrikes in the back, some maniticore launchers, punisher gatling cannon, and a s#@t load of lascannons for side sponcers, and 3 inferno cannons on the front. It can also hold 5 chimeras or 2 chimeras and 2 leman russ tanks, or 2 baneblades. Pretty sweet huh?

People seem to be confused about terminology... a Titan is a bipedal humanoid mech and only a bipedal humanoid mech. A Manta is not a titan. A tomb stalker is not a titan. A giant command barge is not a titan. A giant Haemy is not a titan.

Tau do not use Titans.
Nor do Necrons (thus far) their superheavy weapons of war come in the form of giant structures (Abottoires, etc.) along the lines of Monoliths, as well as the Tomb Stalker (Canoptek Stalker?)
Dark Eldar are all about fast raids and hit and run attacks, they wouldn't use titans, because titans and superheavies are slow and not at all suited to their method of attack. They avoid outright warfare, so there is no point.
Space Marines (of any sort) do not have Titans, because all Imperial Titans are under the control of the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Titan Legions.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

wolf13 wrote:
DE Shadow

Got a pic?

I am kicking myself because I think I deleted them after I sold it, I wish I still did have pictures of my Shadow.

Breotan on here also built a Shadow on the CJ33 template I see so here is his:



The new kits aren't as conducive to the project, but all the new accessories would make the final result better.

Grey Templar wrote:
The Tau wouldn't have Titans because it is against their style of warfare. Far too large and not mobile enough for their tastes. They have Mantas and Tiger Sharks for super heavy duty.

I would still like to see a Tau Heavy/Super Heavy tank, probably goes against their doctrine largely, but could be something they would make to fight Imperial Super Heavies and titans. Perhaps an upsized hammerhead with a massive strength D railgun with higher strength, better AP, and larger blast submunition.

Buttons wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:
The Tau wouldn't have Titans because it is against their style of warfare. Far too large and not mobile enough for their tastes. They have Mantas and Tiger Sharks for super heavy duty.

I would still like to see a Tau Heavy/Super Heavy tank, probably goes against their doctrine largely, but could be something they would make to fight Imperial Super Heavies and titans. Perhaps an upsized hammerhead with a massive strength D railgun with higher strength, better AP, and larger blast submunition.

They have Tiger Sharks and Barracuddas.