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Afternoon, all!

My mate and I have access to old Epic models along with newer Heresy Era tanks set in 8-10mm, and we both recently acquired several Baneblades, Fellblades, Macharius, and their variants. We decided to also come up with some fun rules for them to be used in Titanicus, alongside our God-Engines, which are attached below. I hope others enjoy these as well! If you have thoughts or constructive criticism, please comment below and I will make corrections. Enjoy, and praise the Omnissiah!

Nice, I've been wondering how to incorporate super heavies into Adeptus Titanicus. Looks like you've saved me a job. Fire up the Baneblades!

Thanks, zedmeister! Let me know how ya feel they play, every bit of feedback is helpful to fine-tuning them to be fun but fair!

Nice work on the Superheavy companies. I'll give them a try.

Zed - are those 6mm tanks or re-scaled prints?

Do you have a template of the blank terminals you used?

I love the creativity that's gone into them (such as the Armoured Wall rule), but I think some some of the ranges are a bit too short, such as the Demolisher Cannon.

Nice work there, these seem pretty reasonable additions. Wall of Iron seems pretty strong at a glance, should probably test it out to get a better idea on it, though without shields they still die to big guns all the same.

Why doesn't the Falchion Volcano have a blast or some sort of Draining mechanic like those plasma weapons do?

 Sherrypie wrote:
Nice work there, these seem pretty reasonable additions. Wall of Iron seems pretty strong at a glance, should probably test it out to get a better idea on it, though without shields they still die to big guns all the same.

Why doesn't the Falchion Volcano have a blast or some sort of Draining mechanic like those plasma weapons do?

We wanted to give the same kind of mechanic Knights have without relying on saves. Basically the same rule applies - it takes a big shot to outright kill a Knight/Baneblade, but one you do so, the rest are easier to deal with (reduced saves/Armour). This does make Split Fire a more vital order when fighting against little things like this, instead of focusing all your guns on the enemy Titans. It offers a hard decision sometimes, which we like in our games. So far, we’ve run them twice, and they played very similar to Knights, but focused less on melee/ignoring void shields by getting close as Knights do, and more on stripping shields from Titans to allow others to take advantage on that fact. Our last game was quite impressive, as my squadron of 3 tanks (2x Baneblades, 1x Stormblade) took off 2SP off a Knight Banner, and cut a Warhounds legs out from under it! (Granted, said Warhounds had been shot by 2 other Warhounds and a Reaver as well, but we like to give credit to the little guys if possible!) They then promptly died to a Melta Cannon shot at short range.

As for the Falchion Volcano Cannon, we looked at the current stats that GW used for estimation purposes, and found that the Volcano cannons on the Super Heavy tanks were all inferior to the Reaver’s and Warlord’s versions. Since the scale is Warlord = S12, 5” Blast and Reaver = S10, 3” Blast, this seemed to make the most sense.

Seems reasonable. I like the way you handle armour here while making it distinct from the shielded engines.

I do have a couple of Epic Baneblades lying around somewhere, perhaps I'll test these one day

Any way we could get the template you used for your rules? Also have you considered looking into rules for other epic models or Xenos titans? There’s some good epic 3D printed models like Sicarans and the like on eBay that is like to find a way to use if you’d be interested in working on them or sending the template so I could do it

I dont play AT but these are really nicely done
One minor point perhaps on the volcano cannon. Lore-wise this thing was built almost specifically to hunt enemy titans. Perhaps give it a sub-rule to represent that?

I wish my 3d printer at work could reliably handle those models. I might try again without running them through Tinkercad to rescale and just use Cura with supports.

 schoon wrote:
Nice work on the Superheavy companies. I'll give them a try.

Zed - are those 6mm tanks or re-scaled prints?

Those are the original Forgeworld Epic superheavies they made way back when