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Question regarding the Titan Legions, is there any background or fluff that says anything about which titan legion, or members of, supported the World Eaters expeditionary fleets during the great crusade? Or any other Legion for that matter, I know the Legio Mortis primarily supported the Luna Wolves, but I can't find any other specific mentions of which Titan Legions supported which Astartes Legions.


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Seriously? No one in the vastness of Dakka?

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Traitor_Titan_Legions

Here is the Lexi entry. Just look through all the Legion entries and it may say who they were supporting.

Grey Templar wrote:http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Traitor_Titan_Legions

Here is the Lexi entry. Just look through all the Legion entries and it may say who they were supporting.

Already did, it just gives broad strokes of what major battles they fought in, no particular listing of which crusade fleet they served with.

You may just have to wait for a world eaters HH book. Perhaps try looking for the old 1st war of armageddon (spelling, I know) army write up (if they had one, I know they did for the 3rd...) and it may list some titan legion? Or maybe not, if Angron rocked up with just daemons (I can't quite remember). Anyway, apart from a book telling you the answer (which doesn't exist yet), and a forces list (which may not exist either) I have no real ideas. Sorry

motyak wrote:You may just have to wait for a world eaters HH book. Perhaps try looking for the old 1st war of armageddon (spelling, I know) army write up (if they had one, I know they did for the 3rd...) and it may list some titan legion? Or maybe not, if Angron rocked up with just daemons (I can't quite remember). Anyway, apart from a book telling you the answer (which doesn't exist yet), and a forces list (which may not exist either) I have no real ideas. Sorry

Just read the whole article and hilariously the World Eaters and Angron seem to be a footnote compared to the amount of text dealing with the Space Wolves openly warring against the Inquisition and Grey Knights. Which on a completely OT subject, still blows my mind how much the Sons of Russ get away with.

The traitor titans at the 1st Armageddon were, according to the old GW boardgame, the Death's Heads - theirs was the only 'undivided' piece which could stack any power. Sadly, the titan legions have received comparably little exploration in the fluff (unsurprisingly, since GW aren't especially interested in selling titan models), and the traitors from their ranks even less.

Fantasy Flight's Horus Heresy game assigns one of the four titan units available to the traitor player to Khorne, but fails to name them. This may, of course, be a gameplay convenience, but it could be taken to mean that the game was written in the assumption that one of either the Flaming Skulls, Fire Masters, Storm Lords or Death's Heads (not named in the game itself, but placed by other sources at the siege) were followers of Khorne, and might thus be presumed to have been the legion who fought alongside the World Eaters in the crusade.

This is, however, exceedingly tenuous...

Legio Mortis supported Horus when he virus bombed Istvann III. They also supported him when he attacked Earth. They also supported him before the Heresy and had been loyal to him long before the Heresy started. I'm sure they were in many fleets because they fought in hundreds of battles before the Heresy began.

English Assassin wrote:The traitor titans at the 1st Armageddon were, according to the old GW boardgame, the Death's Heads - theirs was the only 'undivided' piece which could stack any power. Sadly, the titan legions have received comparably little exploration in the fluff (unsurprisingly, since GW aren't especially interested in selling titan models), and the traitors from their ranks even less.

Fantasy Flight's Horus Heresy game assigns one of the four titan units available to the traitor player to Khorne, but fails to name them. This may, of course, be a gameplay convenience, but it could be taken to mean that the game was written in the assumption that one of either the Flaming Skulls, Fire Masters, Storm Lords or Death's Heads (not named in the game itself, but placed by other sources at the siege) were followers of Khorne, and might thus be presumed to have been the legion who fought alongside the World Eaters in the crusade.

This is, however, exceedingly tenuous...

Thanks for this, I suppose this is the best lead I can go off

Yes, they are lacking in Traitor Titan legion info... My friend is trying to look for Traitior titans that fought in the Badab wars agains the "warmongers" or Legio Curicus(sp).

Anyone have more info on that, I would appreciate a link!

J99Pwrangler wrote:Yes, they are lacking in Traitor Titan legion info... My friend is trying to look for Traitior titans that fought in the Badab wars agains the "warmongers" or Legio Curicus(sp).

Anyone have more info on that, I would appreciate a link!

From IA 9 and 10 it's very clear that no titans fought in the Badab War at all until the very last battle. Even then they were only on the loyalist side. Huron never had access to titan support.

As an aside: Huron had not yet turned to Chaos until after the Badab War ended so even he had Titan Support, it would not have been one of the Traitior Legions.

From IA 9 and 10 it's very clear that no titans fought in the Badab War at all until the very last battle. Even then they were only on the loyalist side. Huron never had access to titan support.

As an aside: Huron had not yet turned to Chaos until after the Badab War ended so even he had Titan Support, it would not have been one of the Traitior Legions.

Thank you Veldrain. I did not know this at all. I do not own either books. Ill still have to come up with some fluff then where a traitior titan, and a imperial titan face off. Maybe ill look in to "Titanicus" book again, and get the titan legions out of there for my friend.

J99Pwrangler wrote:

From IA 9 and 10 it's very clear that no titans fought in the Badab War at all until the very last battle. Even then they were only on the loyalist side. Huron never had access to titan support.

As an aside: Huron had not yet turned to Chaos until after the Badab War ended so even he had Titan Support, it would not have been one of the Traitior Legions.

Thank you Veldrain. I did not know this at all. I do not own either books. Ill still have to come up with some fluff then where a traitior titan, and a imperial titan face off. Maybe ill look in to "Titanicus" book again, and get the titan legions out of there for my friend.

I'll flip through but I don't remember Titanicus actually naming the traitor legion either. The Siege of Vraks (IA 5, 6, and 7) might name the traitor legion present but it's been a while since I read those. Of those, IA 7 would be your best bet since again the titans showed up mid-late siege.

I'll flip through but I don't remember Titanicus actually naming the traitor legion either. The Siege of Vraks (IA 5, 6, and 7) might name the traitor legion present but it's been a while since I read those. Of those, IA 7 would be your best bet since again the titans showed up mid-late siege.

Yeah, you make a good point. I am not sure if they named a Traitor Titan legion in that....

I know there was 2 Imperial legions. The Temptest... and, Invicta, I think. I have to talk to my friend to see what he wants done with them. He is going to enter 2 titan in to a painting/ modeling competition to see if he can take top prize. I think he is nuts... but he had the money, the good painting skills, and me to say "go for it". Basically he is going to the the Imperial Reaver titan with a power fist, and give the Chaos rever titan an upper cut to the face/cockpit.