Warlord-class Titan

The ***Warlord*-class Titan** is a large and powerful type of Battle Titan, armed with much more firepower than its counterpart, the smaller *Reaver*-class Titan.

## Overview

The *Warlord* appears to be the most common class of Battle Titan in use by the Titan Legions of the Imperium of Man, and many Adeptus Mechanicus Forge Worlds field their own patterns of this class.

Due to their immense size, standing nearly 33 metres tall, *Warlord* Titans are not nearly as fast or agile as the *Reaver*-class Titans or the *Warhound* Scout Titans, but they more than make up for this failing with their sheer firepower and heavily armoured bulks.

The *Warlord* Titan's colossal size, incalculable power and superior design make it both extremely difficult to harm from ground level, with its vital systems elevated far above the heads and hulls of those upon the battlefield below it, while its legs are plated with metres-thick armour to prevent it from being assailed by infantry or laid low by explosive charges.

Accounts differ as to the exact number of crew required to operate a *Warlord*-class Titan. Most agree that a *Warlord* has one princeps and several moderati, although the exact number and function of the latter differ. Early sources indicated all four moderati were responsible for each controlling one of the Titan's four primary weapons.

More recent sources indicate that each Moderati serves a specific role. One serves as second-in-command and is charged with overseeing the general welfare of the Titan and its commanding Princeps, with the rest of the command crew consists of a Sensori tasked with controlling the god-engine's auspex sensors and a Steersman charged with controlling its movements.

Still other sources indicate that in addition to the command crew the *Warlord* has other crewmen aboard numbering over one hundred, from numerous Servitors and Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-priests to gunnery crews and press-ganged ratings.

## Armament

The *Warlord*-class Titan is outfitted with potent defensive Void Shields and has four Battle Titan weaponry hardpoints on its shoulders and arms, allowing for a greater variety of weapon configurations. While Scout Titan weapon batteries can be mounted, *Warlords* usually mount Battle Titan-scale weaponry.

There is even a specialist class of Imperial combat walker based on the *Warlord* design, the rare Psi-Titans, where psychic weaponry is substituted for conventional Titan weapons for use against the largest and most powerful daemonic entities.

The most common Mars-Alpha Pattern *Warlord* mounts two Turbo-Laser Destructors on its carapace, with a Volcano Cannon and Gatling Blaster on the arms.

A special variant of the Mars Pattern *Warlord* Titan carries a close-combat Arioch Power Claw and Gatling Blaster on its arms, plus Vortex Missile and Rocket Launchers on the carapace.

### Arm-Mounted Primary Weapons

A *Warlord*-class Titan can carry two of the following on its arm hardpoints:

* **2 arm-mounted Belicosa Pattern Volcano Cannons**
* **2 Ardex-Defensor Mauler Bolt Cannon turrets**
* **2 rear-mounted Ardex-Defensor Twin-linked Lascannon turrets**

### Optional Arm-Mounted Weapons

One or both of the arm-mounted Belicosa Pattern Volcano Cannons may be exchanged for the following weapons:

* **Sunfury Plasma Annihilator**
* **Mori Quake Cannon**
* **Saturnyne Lascutter**
* **Arioch Power Claw**
* **Macro-Gatling Blaster**
* **Laser Blaster**
* **Plasma Destructor**

### Carapace-Mounted Secondary Weapons

A *Warlord*-class Titan can carry two of the following on its carapace shoulder hardpoints:

* **2 Apocalypse Missile Launchers**
* **2 double-barrelled Turbo-Laser Destructors**
* **2 Titan Plasma Blastguns**
* **2 Reaver Laser Blasters**
* **2 Reaver Melta Cannons**
* **2 Reaver Gatling Blasters**
* **2 Vortex Missile Banks**
* **2 Incinerator Missile Banks**