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I really don''t see that many classes of titan coming out, I could see something smaller than the warhound or something bigger than the warlord but other than that I fuger we'd just see traitor or corrupted or daemonicly possesed titan kits. And even then the worry would be fw resin ugprade kits for existing titans.

Rapier seems most likely. Hopefully there's a lot going on behind the scenes

Dissapointing but i fully expected it.

Well, there’s still the Titans based off the Slaanesh Questor and Subjugator Titans from 2nd edition epic. They could be the between Warhound and Reaver Titan class.

 Prometheum5 wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:

 Prometheum5 wrote:
Ugh, Mechanicus Knights being FW kits is a gigantic disappointment.

I don't know, it seems rather apt to me.

They look great for sure but they'll be four times as expensive and fiddly little kits.

*watches the joke sail overhead*

Anyway, do people think we'll see a plastic Imperator at some stage?

 Dysartes wrote:

Anyway, do people think we'll see a plastic Imperator at some stage?

Don’t see why not, though probably not plastic. It’ll be a big seller. Slow as buggery in game with firepower enough to flatten a Warlord. Hope they reintroduce plasma management like in 2nd edition but somewhat simplified a bit.

I dunno, the warlord is already about as slow and unwieldly as I feel meaningful in game, I'd rather see daemon/possessed warlord equiv to the psi titan before anything bigger gets put out. Even AT's designer in the AMA basically said they never planned to do anything that big, I mean even 4 warlords is about 2000pts so I don't know what good like a 1000pt titan would be for the game. It'd be a sick model, I hope they make it, but game wise, AT doesn't scale up very well because of the alternating activations.

I know, but it's such an iconic machine that they can't not do it!

 Dysartes wrote:
Anyway, do people think we'll see a plastic Imperator at some stage?

Hopefully (I suspect resin would be more likely, but fingers crossed), plus I've got £3000 on standby for the 28mm version!

 gorgon wrote:

 schoon wrote:

 gorgon wrote:
They have multiple Imperial Titan chassis in development...

What's your source on this? Just curious.

Looks like you're the one who wrote this up:

LOL! I guess I was hoping for a newer information source.

I was honestly expecting some of that to be out by now, and the never ending Knight releases have surprised me given their older plans. Well, I guess we can continue to hope!

Yeah, I too would have thought we'd have more than one new chassis by now, given that we're two years past the launch. Pandemic was probably a huge monkey wrench to be fair. Stuff undoubtedly dropped off the manufacturing schedule in order for GW to get their big releases out this year...and keep up with pent-up demand.

While obviously not in the short term, the Imperator titan will be released at some point in the future.

If we have Titans in 40K - especially one that costs more than £1,000 - then an Imperator in Titanicus is a very realistic proposition.

For the short term, I'm wondering if a small titan is going to be announced shortly...

I'm all for a modern Imperator kit, it'd be a gorgeous centerpiece. I sort of feel like they would have the same gameplay issues as titans in 40k, the scale is just not right for them. Imperator/Warbringer should have crazy devastating weapons able to reach across multiple table lengths. Is that actually fun to play with?

Imperators need 3mm scale? Seems a bit drastic to me, surely an update of the current system (not unlikely, given the various iterations of the other modern specialist games) could accommodate an Imperator? Incidentally, this would also be an ideal time to release such a kit.

I think they could be toned down with plasma management. A bit like orders but with a lot more give and take. Want to fire at full strength with the Imperator Plasma Annihilator? You ain't moving or doing much repairing. Need to active your close range defences? You'll need to sacrifice your long range firepower. That kind of thing.

Yeah, I reckon Imperators should be no slower in a straight line than Warlords but have a boosted manoeuvre of 1
That said, I also want them to have D6 bonus reactor charges/turn to represent their insanely overpowered reactor. Bad things happen if the roll is more than the remaining pips on the stress track though.
Also, a reserve Void array for the castle (main voids down? Roll location as normal, hits on the castle (special location) get to roll void saves on their separate track) and maybe head.

But mostly I don’t want them in-game until there are infantry for it to transport/be boarded by.

To me the Imperator is the same as a knight in 40K. Yes it can fit on the table and look awesome; but it needs a bigger style of battles to really work well. So I can't see them being present until later in the games development; when there are larger collections out there and people can envision putting 5 warlords down to counter an Imperator etc....

It'll be a waste of time and resource for an already snail pace release game. The release of AI massively slow down progress on AT, in the near future when another game come out it'll be even slower for both AT and AI.

 Prometheum5 wrote:
I'm all for a modern Imperator kit, it'd be a gorgeous centerpiece. I sort of feel like they would have the same gameplay issues as titans in 40k, the scale is just not right for them. Imperator/Warbringer should have crazy devastating weapons able to reach across multiple table lengths. Is that actually fun to play with?

This. It also turns my victory options into “can I knack the Imperator or not”.

However, I think it would better suit Full Epic battles.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Yeah, I reckon Imperators should be no slower in a straight line than Warlords but have a boosted manoeuvre of 1
That said, I also want them to have D6 bonus reactor charges/turn to represent their insanely overpowered reactor. Bad things happen if the roll is more than the remaining pips on the stress track though.
Also, a reserve Void array for the castle (main voids down? Roll location as normal, hits on the castle (special location) get to roll void saves on their separate track) and maybe head.

But mostly I don’t want them in-game until there are infantry for it to transport/be boarded by.

Infantry are already in the game, molech has them "titan hunter infantry". They're really good too.

At least in past interviews, they've said that an Imperator is not in the cards. They have concerns about it breaking the game.

That said, the continued demand to have one - even as a display piece, if not a game piece - might eventually break them down.

Do a search for "Emperor Titanicus" on Thingiverse and you'll find someone's excellent effort on this.

I think the team is just being very careful to not get people's hopes up. Same as how whenever Epic is mentioned they say no its not coming.

Right now its a 30K era game and that's all they will market it as. Even though with its general success we would expect to see Chaos and Xenos appear at some stage.



I'd wager we might see an Imperator once Xenos start landing since the Xenos have their own Imperator equivalents through things like mega gargants and such. Granted I recall the old TL rules one Imperator was worth around 2 mega gargants or thereabouts. Thing is once you step the game up at that level I'm sure an Imperator will work; esp since by then the Imperium will have legions of knights

Ordered Defence of Ryza and will leave it there for the time being.

Hopefully the game will pick up over christmas and the new year...

SamusDrake wrote:
Ordered Defence of Ryza and will leave it there for the time being.

Hopefully the game will pick up over christmas and the new year...

Push the starter set locally/with friends, it's been slowly working here, my sales pitch is "it's 280$ worth of models for 180$, and only 6 models to paint, you may actually play this game". My buddy's almost got his starter painted, playing on sunday. Hardcore pragmatism works, not a lot of people can paint a whole 40k or aos army but actually can make the time for 5-10 models.

Unfortunately the gaming tables are closed in my area due to the covid situation. Been surviving on the odd game with my brother for the last few months and with little variation in the game its grown stale.

The starter set is definitely the best release so far for Titanicus and Its always tempting, but its sadly more of what we already own. We've thought long and hard about either the Warlord and Warbringer but they are a bit outside our budget for the game, although hopefully a discount set at christmas will put that to rights.

SamusDrake wrote:
Unfortunately the gaming tables are closed in my area due to the covid situation. Been surviving on the odd game with my brother for the last few months and with little variation in the game its grown stale.

The starter set is definitely the best release so far for Titanicus and Its always tempting, but its sadly more of what we already own. We've thought long and hard about either the Warlord and Warbringer but they are a bit outside our budget for the game, although hopefully a discount set at christmas will put that to rights.

Well if you have the chance to game with your brother, give our AT scenario a try and lemme know what ya think https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/787202.page#10920502 We're working on V3, should be out soon, just waiting on crucible of retribution to make sure we're not adding stuff that's redundant. Hopefully the book arrives next week.

Warbringer I'm liking over warlord if you guys had to choose. I like that it's that extra little bit faster and with a bit of conversion can swap weapons with reavers. I like my warlord but it is cumbersome and expensive, tends to get relegated to bigger games.

Starter set plus whatever box of knights/other titans you want is a great value and allows you to fill out as you want depending on maniple/legio.

still GW's best game....ever!!!!!!!


more so everytime I play. 2 more locals are getting starter boxes so I'm excited. one is really intrested in the new "unaligned" legions.

Racerguy180 wrote:
Starter set plus whatever box of knights/other titans you want is a great value and allows you to fill out as you want depending on maniple/legio.

still GW's best game....ever!!!!!!!


more so everytime I play. 2 more locals are getting starter boxes so I'm excited. one is really intrested in the new "unaligned" legions.

Nice!

It really is their best game


Ya dark tide look awesome. Blackshields sound really cool.

 Crablezworth wrote:


Well if you have the chance to game with your brother, give our AT scenario a try and lemme know what ya think https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/787202.page#10920502 We're working on V3, should be out soon, just waiting on crucible of retribution to make sure we're not adding stuff that's redundant. Hopefully the book arrives next week.

Warbringer I'm liking over warlord if you guys had to choose. I like that it's that extra little bit faster and with a bit of conversion can swap weapons with reavers. I like my warlord but it is cumbersome and expensive, tends to get relegated to bigger games.

That I shall look forward to.

Speaking of which, we came up with a homebrew which took AT to the micro-scale; knights act independently and a single Scion, Warhound or Reaver would take command of them. Should get off my lazy ass and make a similar effort. I guess a new thread wouldn't hurt...

Yes, the Warbringer is certainly the better candidate. We love the look of the Warlord better - especially the Sunfury variant - but as you say he's really a titan for larger games.

Tried to come up with suitable scenerarios for a solitaire-coop mission, but nothing springs to mind yet. At best we envision a lone warhound running a gauntlet to regroup with its battle group.

I wonder if we ever see a Hardcover Rulebook, "second" Edition maybe?

 Overread wrote:
I think the team is just being very careful to not get people's hopes up. Same as how whenever Epic is mentioned they say no its not coming.

I already changed to the point, that I don't believe what ever they confirm, or deny...