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Third, possibly final, Warlord ordered.

Went with the Plasma for the extra weapons (already got two sets of Lasers). And going to tap up a friend that works near WW, see if I can get the new dakka.

Those sprues are finally back in stock, I just ordered three of them!

Oh I'm talking the resin ones

Get some proper flexibility into the Big Boys!


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Particularly looking forward to knocking Titan's off their arc of fire.

Sure, there's an element of luck there (2/3 chance of turning them is no guarantee, natch) - but man, the right shot to the right target at the right time, and it could be game winning. Spesh if I've got other Titans creeping up for the kill shots. Or indeed Knights.

Well I bought four warlords before the sprues came out, I 3D printed my own quake cannons and converted my macro Gatlings from 40k bits. $25 plus shipping for titan guns my ass...

So I’m totally consumed with doing a knight household list and I’m getting bogged down with trying to make them all individual. I’m the slowest hobbyist on earth.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Well I bought four warlords before the sprues came out, I 3D printed my own quake cannons and converted my macro Gatlings from 40k bits. $25 plus shipping for titan guns my ass...

So I’m totally consumed with doing a knight household list and I’m getting bogged down with trying to make them all individual. I’m the slowest hobbyist on earth.

yea but that is a good thing, cuz it gives you time to reflect on your ideas.
a few times i had an idea, but lacked materials/paint to go true it, woke up next day and in doubt of the idea i had last evning.

you need to find that right balance of not over complicating your knight conversions, and you are IMO on the right path with what you showed off last page. simple wep/head swap is usualy enugh to make your stuff stand out.


i dont own a 3d printer nor do i know any1 that does, nor do i have a bit box, so sadly i have to bite the FW bullet for that quake cannon eventualy...

All these people with their gorgeous paintjobs and 3D printed conversions. And tosspot here can’t even pick a sodding Legio!

Defo traitor. That much I know!

Maybe that’s the trouble with having deepish pockets. Don’t need to pick a Legio to maximise a stricter budget. I just keep on buying!

Silly me!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
All these people with their gorgeous paintjobs and 3D printed conversions. And tosspot here can’t even pick a sodding Legio!

Defo traitor. That much I know!

Maybe that’s the trouble with having deepish pockets. Don’t need to pick a Legio to maximise a stricter budget. I just keep on buying!

Silly me!

Give it time. Moust likely many books to come, and somwhere there, is your legio. I dident find mine until Molech, Legio Crucius, even found my future maniple in there, Fortis.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Well I bought four warlords before the sprues came out, I 3D printed my own quake cannons and converted my macro Gatlings from 40k bits. $25 plus shipping for titan guns my ass...

So I’m totally consumed with doing a knight household list and I’m getting bogged down with trying to make them all individual. I’m the slowest hobbyist on earth.

What did you use to convert the macro gatling? I've been throwing ideas around but haven't come up with anything satisfying yet. And sadly i'm too poor for a 3d printer

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
All these people with their gorgeous paintjobs and 3D printed conversions. And tosspot here can’t even pick a sodding Legio!

Defo traitor. That much I know!

Maybe that’s the trouble with having deepish pockets. Don’t need to pick a Legio to maximise a stricter budget. I just keep on buying!

Silly me!

I know what you mean. (Well, not the deep pockets bit... ) I got stuck on which Legio to choose for a long while. It didn't help that there's barely any fluff for them. I had high hopes for Solaria, but we got about a teaspoonful...

Eventually I decided to go the following route:

Loyalists - Paint 'em all up to match my existing Epic Imperial Guard army and Titans. That means hive world camouflage, i.e. dark red. (Sssh. It makes perfect sense.) Even the Knights will get the same treatment. I shall use whatever Legio rules seem fun at the time and call them Legio Generica.

Traitors - A mix 'n' match of different Legios, on the assumption that they're all renegades and sole survivors that have banded together. That way I can paint each Titan in a unique scheme and hint at Chaotic-aligned colour schemes into the bargain. For instance, the Reaver with the chainfist will be Legio Vulpa, 'cos they look and sound kinda sorta proto-Khornate. I'll try to put a unifying colour on each model, probably on the Traitor-eye shoulder pad, to tie the whole force together. If I want to use a particular Legio ruleset, I can just nominate the Titan with that particular colour scheme as the leader of the force. It should work... in theory.

In other news, I recently picked up a Cerastus Knights box and really like the models--much more than I expected to. They're tall, all right, but that makes it much easier to believe that they could take on a Titan in melee. With the Questoris I'm always tempted to house-rule that they can't hit anything above a Titan's kneecaps. The Cerastus Lancers, though? I could see them skewering a Warlord under the jaw like brave hunters taking on a mammoth.

As for scratch-built Titan weapons, I managed to make a couple for my Reavers: a passable multiple-rocket-launchery thing out of a 40K drop pod's missile pack (will probably count as a mega-bolter), and a poor man's Warp missile out of an old 2nd ed hunter-killer tank missile box (the oblong one). I'm quite happy to play counts-as with Titan guns rather than WYSIWYG, though. Especially since I made the mistake of gluing the Apoc Launcher to the carapace of my first Reaver. D'oh.

For Solaria, there's always the Titandeath novel. A light read, but gives them some character.

I'm just a bit miffed their special missiles guided by volunteer martyrs' brains didn't make it into their rules. That's proper grimdark.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
All these people with their gorgeous paintjobs and 3D printed conversions. And tosspot here can’t even pick a sodding Legio!

Defo traitor. That much I know!

Maybe that’s the trouble with having deepish pockets. Don’t need to pick a Legio to maximise a stricter budget. I just keep on buying!

Silly me!

They say there will soon be a White Dwarf article for creating your own Legio. Maybe you are in conflict between colour scheme and rules?

Cpt. Icanus wrote:

 Fajita Fan wrote:
Well I bought four warlords before the sprues came out, I 3D printed my own quake cannons and converted my macro Gatlings from 40k bits. $25 plus shipping for titan guns my ass...

So I’m totally consumed with doing a knight household list and I’m getting bogged down with trying to make them all individual. I’m the slowest hobbyist on earth.

What did you use to convert the macro gatling? I've been throwing ideas around but haven't come up with anything satisfying yet. And sadly i'm too poor for a 3d printer

First where are you? Check your local public library, I work in one and we have 3d printers available to the public - people just have to submit the file online. No guarantee that it's super detailed but it'll be close enough if you keep the color scheme simple.

For the body of my macro gatlings I used a 3d printed piece that was meant for a Questoris Knight conversion which I found online and scaled down. The barrels are from plastic Contemptor assault cannons that work really well at this scale, I also salvaged the arms and ammo boxes. I found models of laserblasters, megabolters, and plasma cannons last fall to 3d print as well, they came out pretty decent but still have the obvious groves from an FDM printer.

I did a bunch of conversions for my Reavers too including scratchbuilt meltas made from Contemptor meltas and IG heavy flamers. The warp missile is an IG hunter killer missile and my carapace turbolasers were Sentinel exhaust bits.

I just ordered my Warlord and Reaver weapons sprues now that they're back in stock so I have fully detailed weapons that match the rest of the models. I'm still keeping my custom 3d printed quake cannons and macro gatlings from months ago because $25 each plus shipping for Forgeworld resin I'm mostly likely going to have to straighten out in hot water is a little steep. If they had squeezed them into the weapon sprue instead of extra armor panels I don't want I'd be much happier.

Sadly local libraries here in the UK don't seem to do 3D printing. It would be nice if they did though!

Got some work done on the household Seneschal.

SamusDrake wrote:
Sadly local libraries here in the UK don't seem to do 3D printing. It would be nice if they did though!

Same here in Germany afaik, but i'll check around

Crikey blimey cripes o’blimey!

Ordered me the FW Dakka last night, when both were in stock. Quake Cannon is since out of stock already!

Guess peeps really want some ranged Concussive. And I can very much understand why.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Crikey blimey cripes o’blimey!

Ordered me the FW Dakka last night, when both were in stock. Quake Cannon is since out of stock already!

Guess peeps really want some ranged Concussive. And I can very much understand why.

if thats the case then they are quite litteraly flying out of the shop.
i checked it 2 days ago, not in stock. now, not in stock. if you found them in stock yesterday then they sold out in under 24H.

they need to up the production!

They may be making 5 a day for all we know.

I’m wondering if the ones I snaffled were stock left over from Warhammerfest.

Was told a couple of years ago that stock for shows and stuff is assigned and picked some time in advance. Info from a FW staffer at Salute 2017. It came up because they had Legion Dice on sale, which had been out of stock for a couple of months. And yes, I did loot them, and get them to deserving peeps


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And now ordered a Civitas Administratum set.

Can’t play without suitable terrain

Some effort this afternoon. I’m still not happy yet but I need to get the rest of the lances done soon before it’s too hot to spray.

Before I go any further... Can I ask what the group's thoughts on this color scheme? I'm really pleased with how the individual colors have come out but am not sure about how they work together!

For some reason the only Legio I can find with orange as the predominant color is Legio Magma about whom nobody seems to have written anything other than they are damn heretics...

Is there something about orange that just doesn't work with Titanicus? I keep looking at it and cannot make up my mind!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

hard to say, could be the brightness and that it is a bit hard to find a 2nd colour that matches that is the reason to why you dont see any "official" orange artwork yet.
bright coloured titan allso realy stand out (i have a hound in red/silver, it looks like a flashlight)

as for your example, perhaps adding some hazard stripes over the orange would help?


@Fajita

looks ok to me, perhaps try and make one with a flail weapon if you are going to continue the "knight" style?
and how many knighs are you planning to have??

Orange can look nice when paired with white or black. You may not find a lot of AT scale titans painted orange as a reference but look for 40k scale knights painted orange - there are a ton out there to give you an idea of how they’ll look.


I’ve got some flail bits ready to go. I have enough sprues to do a whole household list:

1995pts:

Lance One:
4 Cerastus Knights (Senechal's banner)
3 Lancers, 1 chainfist/flamer
Battle Standard
2 Cerastus Knights
Lances/shields
2 Cerastus Knights
Lances/shields

Lance Two:
3 Cerastus Knights
Lances/shields
3 Questoris Knights
Dual melee weapons
3 Questoris Knights
Thermal cannons/melee

Lance Three:
2 Cerastus Knights
Swords/Gatling
3 Questoris Knights
Thermal cannons/melee
3 Questoris Knights
Battlecannons/melee

4 Freeblade Questoris Knights
The Last Highlander of Caledonia (Gatling/melee)
The Shadow Thief (Dual melee)
The Iron Butterfly (Battlecannon/gatling)
The Emerald Lancer (Thermal cannon/melee)

I’m thinking of moving some stuff around and adding in some more Gatling guns for shield breaking to prepare for the dedicated ranged Acastus knights where ever they’re released.

Fajita Fan, I notice you have four banners in your Senechal Lance. Does this mean the "3 banners in a lance" is a minimum rather than a hard rule?

SamusDrake wrote:
Fajita Fan, I notice you have four banners in your Senechal Lance. Does this mean the "3 banners in a lance" is a minimum rather than a hard rule?

It means their list has an error in it, as three Banners a Lance is a hard rule.

EDIT: never mind, I read wrong. There are only three Banners in there, the way Seneschal's banner is written open just made it look like a fourth one. All correct there.

I’m ditching the Gatling on one of the freeblades for a thermal or battle cannon. I’ve also made one dual Gatling gun for a Cerastus Knight in the last banner but I’m not convinced it’s worth it over the shields.

This is largely a modeling project anyway so it’s all good until the Acastus knights are released and they’ll displace some Questoris Knights. I also have a few ideas for Cerastus freeblades.

Have started a FB group chat for AT players in the Royal Tunbridge Wells area.

Long shot I know, but if anyone on here is localish, and fancies a game now and again, and you use FB, let me know.

Yes. Yes it is called Tunbridge Wells Adeptus Titanicus. Because of course it is!

Looking at what Questoris I currently have( two packs, six Knights ), I might just get another pack of Qs and have the following "Traitor" battlegroup...

3x Battle cannon( contains the main-man, Senechal or High Scion )
3x Avenger cannon
3x Thermal cannon
1 Warhound( 2x flame cannons, support )

...although the two banners are different colour schemes( black & gold, dark-grey & silver ), I'm thinking of using the ones from the first banner as Lord Scions and the rest as Martials.

In hindsight, it would have been better if they had released a discounted "Lance" set of 3 Questoris and 1 Cerastus sprues to coincide with the release of Doom Of Molech. That way, out of the box, we would have had a Questoris Lance with Cerastus Freeblades. Not only could we have saved a little money, but also the guess work of what( and how many ) knights we actually needed. All we got was "with the release of Doom of Molech around the corner, make sure to stock up on your Knights!".

Anyway, whinging aside, I've only got to spend £16 to finish the Lance and Its worked out well.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Have started a FB group chat for AT players in the Royal Tunbridge Wells area.

Long shot I know, but if anyone on here is localish, and fancies a game now and again, and you use FB, let me know.

Yes. Yes it is called Tunbridge Wells Adeptus Titanicus. Because of course it is!

Good lord - I used to live in Sevenoaks many moons ago. Used to frequent the Odeon on the Tunny-wells business park...very fond memories!

Shame I moved to Suffolk as I would have taken you up on your offer.

I used to work at the Odeon in T-Wells business park.

Absolutely no fond memories!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I used to work at the Odeon in T-Wells business park.

Absolutely no fond memories!

Ah, thats a shame. Being more than a decade ago, the staff at the Odeon were always nice and helpful. If you were working back then, then I must thank you for good service.

The Cineworld at Bury St Edmunds is nice enough but I do miss that Odeon. Last visit was to see Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino and...ah, I miss Kent.