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Did they? The reason ask is this. Looking in the Codex Titanicus the rules say Gargants take the same weapons titans use. It also say regardless of what weapons they take, the cost ( or battle rating ) stays the same.
When imperial Titans buy weapons they pay for each barrel - orks don't?

Thoughts?

They had to retcon the whole idea for titan weaponry.

First edition was still within reach of the rogue trader era of 40K weaponry. Not only did everyone get weapons from a single list (e.g. orks had bolters) but only a fewer extra heavy weapons, in fact just three of them in titan scale, four it you included the various offboard missile payloads. These included the defence laser (volcano cannon), macro cannon. So between lascannon and volcano cannon there was nothing.

To make other weapons titan scale they made lower heavy weapons graded. So Warhounds carried grade 2 weaponry. Reavers and Slashers grade 3, Warlords and Great Gargants grade 4.

This meant that a warhounds 'vulcan megabolter' was back then a grade 2 autocannon. That is to say two autocannon, so in effect Heavy 4 S7 Ap4 for a titan main weapon. So a 'gatling blaster' is Heavy 6 (or 8) S7 Ap4, and a Warlord titan can have up to four mounts like that. Scary eh?

We dont think so and thankfully soon GW didnt think so either. So the whole lot was scrapped and the second edition invented a whole plethora of titan scaled weaponry. Grade 2 lascannon became turbo laser destructors etc.

It was at this point that orks had their own weaponry.

There were some exceptions, even in first edition Eldar had their own titan weaponry, though the secondary shoulder weapons were intially grade 2 lascanon and missile launchers respectively. In this we see some echos , the Reventant missile launcher is effective two Reaper launchers.

Other than that some other exceptional weapons existed such as the belly gun, which while named 'belly gun' from the outset was infact a collosal penis in the first generation gargants. This could be replaced by a Snapper, which was a templated grade 6 multimelta, the only graded weapon above grade 4 in the game, and the only graded weapon to something that actually looked like it belonged on a titan in its own right. Two autocannon as a 'megabolter' is one thing, but an oversized flamer template counting as six multi-melta hits would stand proud even amongst todays strength D weaponry.