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Legio Honorum - Legion Specific Wargear: Basilius Throne - The princeps of the Legio Honorum make use of modified command thrones that allow a great passage of knowledge between those Titans under their control, so long as the princeps can filter the vast torrent of information.
Legio Honorum - Legion Strength: Definitive numbers as to the total strength of the Legio Honorum are difficult to assert, a circumstance largely derived from the disparate nature of its battlegroups, deployed as they were within multiple expeditionary fleets.It is known, within a confident margin of error, that the two principal crusading arms of the Legio Honorum contained between 15-25 god-engines each.By applying this data to the other six crusading arms of Legio Honorum, presuming lesser numbers in these, the estimated strength of the Legio Honorum can be placed at 110-120 god-engines prior to the losses inflicted upon the Death Bolts on Mars.This number is consistent with the Titan Legion's Secundus grade, as recorded within the centralised archives of the Divisio Militaris.Muster reports taken before the conquest of Stygies VIII state that 42 god-engines were gathered.
Legio Honorum - Knight Houses: House IoedenHouse Vornherr
Legio Honorum - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Honorum are red and black with gold trim.Alternating patterns of red and black chevrons are often painted on the various portions of their god-engines.
Legio Honorum - Legion Badge: The Legio Honorum badge consists of a deep red circlet with a black delta (triangle) centred upon it. A golden crossbow, formed from a ram's skull, is centred within, pointing upwards.A more elaborate version of this central icon is centred upon a cog icon, which represents the Adeptus Mechanicus.The original badge of the Legio Honorum was a crossbow bolt centred on an inverted gold triangle. The field behind it was quartered in tan and a blue and white checkered pattern. On the lower-left of the tan quartered-panel was a white skull.
Legio Honorum - Canon Conflict: In the Adeptus Titanicus: Rulebook (1st Edition), it stated that following the Horus Heresy the Legio Honorum relocated to the Forge World of Esteban VII.More recent canon from the Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy edition of the game now places the Legio Honorum on Stygies VIII.
Legio Honorum - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus (1st Edition), pp. 28, 42Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Loyalist Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 128-133Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: The Defence of Ryza (Specialty Game), pp. 11, 29-31, 72-73Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pp. 91-95Codex: Titanicus (1st Edition), pg. 18Titan Legions (2nd Edition), pg. 18Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy, pg. 8Mechanicum (Novel) by Graham McNeillWhite Dwarf 108 (UK), " 'Eavy Metal", pg. 76Warhammer Community - The Titan Legions of Ryza (20 Jul 2020)Warhammer Community - The Defence of Ryza: Your First Look (31 Mar 2020)
Legio Ignatum - Legio Ignatum: Legio IgnatumFire WaspsTitan LegionCollegia TitanicaAdeptus MechanicusIt is believed that this Legio was founded before the Age of the Imperium, during the Age of Strife. The home of the Legio Ignatum is none other than Mars in the Segmentum Solar, the centre of the Cult Mechanicus and seat of its ruling fabricator-general.This honoured Titan Legion is one of the Triad Ferrum Morgulus, the three originating Titan Legions of Mars.During the Horus Heresy it broke free from the yoke of the traitorous Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal when they chose to fight for the Emperor. Known for their ironclad loyalty, the Legio Ignatum was often tasked with guarding places of extreme significance, the greatest of which was the Imperial Palace upon Terra itself.Their motto is Inveniam viam aut faciam which translates from High Gothic as, "I will either find a way or I shall make one."
Legio Ignatum - Legion Combat Doctrine: Considering themselves the last remaining true Titans of Mars, the Fire Wasps held a deep loathing for those Titan Legions that renounced their oaths and sided with the Warmaster Horus during the Horus Heresy.Possessed of an abiding hatred for the Traitor Titan Legions, the Fire Wasps were quick to adapt their tactics to exploit the Traitors' apparent lust for blood, formulating overlapping fields of fire to punish the overeager.For the Fire Wasps' princeps, the only true defeat was to dishonour their oath and so they would never surrender, even if it led to their death. These princeps believed that their honour would be restored only when every traitorious member of the Collegia Titanica was dead, reserving a particular hatred for those of the Triad Ferrum Morgulus who had betrayed the Omnissiah.They would watch a world they vowed to defend burn when ordered to retreat, and vowed they would never yield a battlefield without a fight again.
Legio Ignatum - Notable Personnel: Fierach - Fierach was the princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Imperator Bellum that sacrificed itself to destroy the Dies Irae and many of the Legio Mortis elements that assaulted Hydra Cordatus.Daekian - Daekian was the princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Clavis Regni that finally destroyed the Dies Irae and many of the other Legio Mortis elements that assaulted Hydra Cordatus.Nishome Alvarek - Nishome was the princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Scion of the Vigilant Light, one of the very few Titans of the Loyalist Martian Mechanicum deployed to aid the Imperial Webway Project during the dark years of the Horus Heresy. A woman of impeccable standing and stature, Nishome Alvarek was a competent princeps, ill at ease with the fact that the architecture of the Aeldari Webway hindered her from marching against the foes of the Emperor. Standing true to her oaths, Alvarek nevertheless refused to back down or to abandon her command, even when it became evident that the Imperials were losing the battle for control of the Imperial Webway, especially given the fact that the Scion of the Vigilant Light would have to be abandoned, its bulk meaning the Titan was too cumbersome to navigate the rapidly narrowing passsages linking the Webway to the Imperial Dungeon beneath the Imperial Palace. Nishome Alvarek sought to obtain one last great victory before dying, a victory she achieved before being betrayed by one of her own, the daemonically-possessed Reaver-class Titan Black Sky.Enkir Morova - Enkir Morova was the princeps of the Reaver-class Titan Black Sky. A battle-hardened Princeps at the outset of the Horus Heresy, Enkir Morova succumbed to daemonic possession while fighting in the Aeldari Webway, defending the Emperor's Great Work. Wearing Morova's flesh, the powerful daemon Drach'nyen unleashed countless atrocities, forcing Morova to slay his own moderatii before turning Black Sky's guns on Morova's superior, Nishome Alvarek and the striken Scion of the Vigilant Light.
Legio Ignatum - Legion Specific Wargear: Gravitonic Sensor Array - As befitting their status as one of the Triad Ferrum Morgulus, the Fire Wasps had access to technology less illustrious Titan Legions did not. These included sensors that enabled Fire Wasp Titans to effortlessly track their targets even when obscured.
Legio Ignatum - Knight Houses: House HermetikaHouse MoritainHouse TaranisHouse Vyridion
Legio Ignatum - Space Marines: Blood AngelsImperial FistsIron HandsSpace WolvesUltramarinesWhite Scars
Legio Ignatum - Legion Strength: As one of the Triad Ferrum Morgulus, the Legio Ignatum was a Titan Legion of the first order, which marked it as a Primus (Maxis)-grade Legio. Within its ranks could be found Titans of every class and size, including Warmaster Heavy Battle Titans and several Apocalypse-class machines that rarely left the central forge-fanes of Mars.In total, they numbered almost 200 god-engines, with the greater number stationed on Mars and the remainder spread across the Segmentum Solar. Most common amongst their ranks were Warlord-class god-engines -- and Legio Ignatum were noted for their comparative lack of smaller Scout Titans.When committed to the attack they were preceded not by a wave of lighter machines as was the standard doctrine of most Titan Legions, but by a phalanx of the heaviest Battle Titans, relying on the strength of their guns to carry the day.A long-standing belief among the warriors of the Legio Ignatum stated that the fate of a battle was foretold by the first shot fired. If that shot struck a telling blow it would bring them victory, while a miss signalled a hard trial to come, and as such only the finest of marksmen would be allowed to make such a strike in the opening moments of battle.An oft re-told legend tells that in the opening moments of the Schism of Mars, the princeps of the Fire Wasps were so shocked that the first shot was fired by a neophyte princeps and hit an allied Titan in error -- an omen of the tragedy that would befall the Legio Ignatum on that day.
Legio Ignatum - Legion Colours: The Legio Ignatum's colours are red and black; decoration is done in yellow and black, usually flame patterns or stripes.
Legio Ignatum - Legion Badge: The Legio Ignatum's badge is a wasp centered on a white delta (triangle), outlined in blue. Behind it is a field of red outlined in yellow. Below the central icon are rows of skulls.
Legio Ignatum - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus (1st Edition)Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Crucible of Retribution (Specialty Game), pp. 16, 29, 40-41, 76-77Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pp. 34, 91-95Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), "Selected Notable Engine-Wars of the Age of Darkness," pg. 16Titan Legions: Codex Titanicus (2nd Edition), "The Titan Legions", "Legio Ignatum," pp. 9-16, 51Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition), pg. 16Horus Heresy: Collected Visions (Background Book), "The Siege of Terra," pp. 354-357Imperial Armour Volume One - Second Edition: Imperial Guard, "Principal Forge Worlds of the Imperium," pg. 10Space Marine (1989), "Combat Phase," pg. 45The Horus Heresy Book One: Betrayal (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 139The Horus Heresy Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, 138-143The Horus Heresy Book Five: Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 146, 258The Horus Heresy Book Six: Retribution (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 31White Dwarf (May 2019), "The Bidecennial Man"White Dwarf (December 2018), "In the Bunker - Titans March to War," pg. 144White Dwarf (October 2018), "The Ultimate Guide to the Titan Legions," pp. 94-101White Dwarf (August 2018), "In the Bunker - Titans March to War," pg. 141White Dwarf 268, "Assault on Holy Terra," pp. 354-357White Dwarf 179, "Epic: Titan Legions," pp. 29, 31White Dwarf 161, "Horus Heresy," pp. 37-42White Dward 109, Inside Cover ArtworkThe Descent of Angels (Novel) by Mitchel ScanlonMechanicum (Novel) by Graham McNeillThe Master of Mankind (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, pp. 172-175, 201, 279-283, 299-307, 312-321, 340Mortis (Novel) by John French, Ch. 11Storm of Iron (Novel) by Graham McNeillThe Binary Succession (Audio drama) by David AnnandaleGames Workshop Online Store - Legio Ignatum Transfer SheetThird War for Armageddon Worldwide Campaign - Forces Disposition, Imperial Forces: Legio IgnatumGames Workshop Online Store - Legio Ignatum Transfer SheetWarhammer Community - Lore: The Fire Wasps of the Legio Ignatum (29 Dec 2020)Warhammer Community - Crucible of Retribution: The Story (23 Oct 2020)Warhammer Community - Coming Soon: Crucible of Retribution (29 Sept 2020)Warhammer Community - Pre-Order: Titans, T'au and Tiny Collectibles (08 Feb 2020)Warhammer Community - New T'au, New Titans, and More!" (02 Feb 2020)
Legio Ignis - Legio Ignis: The Legio Ignis ("Fire Kings") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.Elements of this Titan Legion fought alongside the Salamanders Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium.
Legio Ignis - Notable Campaigns: Compliance of Kharaatan (Unknown Date.M31) - The Legio Ignis Titan Legion took part in a joint Imperial Compliance action on the world of Kharaatan under the command of the Primarch Vulkan and his Salamanders Legion. Designated 154-6, the Fire Kings and Salamanders fought alongside Primarch Konrad Curze and his Night Lords Legion as well as other Mechanicum forces and several Imperial Army regiments. During this lamentable campaign, Vulkan became infuriated with his brother Primarch and how his Legion conducted themselves in such a brutal manner. During one notable incident, the Night Lords slaughtered the inhabitants of an entire city in order to sow fear amongst the general population. After the successful conclusion of this campaign, Vulkan reported Curze's conduct to both the Warmaster Horus and his brother Primarch Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists Legion.Battle of Beta-Garmon, "The Titandeath" (006-013.M31) - The Legio Ignis took part in the long and savage Beta-Garmon campaign, which included hundreds of war zones across dozens of worlds. Even before the greater armies of the Warmaster Horus reached the star cluster, the battle lines had long since been drawn, and fighting had been going on for many Terran years. It was a cauldron of battle that would consume millions of lives before its end and see the demise of entire Titan Legions, earning this campaign the dire moniker of the "Titandeath." The Beta-Garmon Cluster, also known as the gateway to the throneworld of Terra, was the last hurdle that the Warmaster Horus' forces had to overcome before they reached the Imperium's capital world. Heavily fortified by the Loyalists, Beta-Garmon would become one of the greatest and bloodiest battles of the Horus Heresy, as well as one of the longest-lasting.The Titandeath (356.013.M31) - More than twenty Legions and hundreds of Titans converged on Beta-Garmon II as the Loyalists sought to strike a decisive blow to reclaim Nycron City and clear the system of Traitors. Shoulder to shoulder, the Loyalists met their enemies in battle like infantry formations facing off, only on a much grander scale, Knight banners racing around their feet like hunting hounds. Many Titan Legions were extinguished forever in the solar day of battle that followed, and even legendary formations such as the Legio Astorum and Legio Fureans were reduced to a fraction of their initial size. By the time the Loyalists reached the shattered walls of Nycron, both sides were staggering over fields of fallen god-machines, while the light from Beta-Garmon II's burning hive cities was visible in space.
Legio Ignis - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ignis - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ignis - Legion Colours: The Legio Ignis's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ignis - Legion Badge: The badge of the Fire Kings is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Interfector - Legio Interfector: The Legio Interfector ("Murder Lords") is a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicum in the service of Chaos. Formerly known by the cognomen "Lords of Valour," the Legio Interfector was a young Titan Legion, raised from the Forge World of Valeous II during the first years of the Great Crusade.During that most august undertaking, the Lords of Valour acquitted themselves with honour and bravery, adding numerous campaign triumphs to their war banners.All that changed on Isstvan III, when they were subverted to the will of the Warmaster Horus. After that dark day, the Legio Interfector were known by a new name: the Murder Lords.Madness has now taken root within the ranks of the Legio Interfector, whose princeps turn for guidance to the voices of the Ruinous Powers which now whisper constantly in the quiet of their minds.
Legio Interfector - Horus Heresy: When the primarch was appointed Warmaster of the Imperium, the Titan Legion rejoiced, its princeps clamouring to serve alongside him. The tides of war were to prevent the Lords of Valour from walking the same battlefield as the Warmaster until a muster was called to suppress rebellion stirring in the Isstvan System. Missives were dispatched and threescore god-engines of the Legio Interfector were sent, called to battle by the personal request of the Warmaster himself.The means through which madness took root within the Titan Legion is unknown, for none privy to such details remains loyal to the Emperor or lucid enough to give testimony. Fleet logs suggest the Legio Interfector joined the Warmaster's order of battle for three solar days and then departed once more, its numbers scattering across the galaxy. In such a short time, the personalities of its princeps were twisted and subverted, minds given over solely to the worship of the Warmaster. Were such a malady contained solely to those of the Legio Interfector that were present at Isstvan III then perhaps the legacy of the Titan Legion may have survived the turmoil of the Horus Heresy, yet the machinations of the Traitors left no room for half measures.As the Warmaster moved to eradicate the Loyalist Astartes survivors on Isstvan III, the Traitorous elements of the Legio Interfector were tasked with reuniting the Titan Legion upon Valeous II. Akin to a virulent plague, the madness inflicting the princeps who had been twisted at Isstvan III spread amongst those born of the Forge World, until both the Titan Legion and the Tech-priests of Valeous II held no passion in their hearts save a desire to bring ruin in the Warmaster's name.Madness quickly took root within the ranks of the Legio Interfector, whose princeps now heard the call of a higher power. The Dark Gods' constant sibilant whispers of glory and power infected the members of the Legio with an all-consuming lust for slaughter and bloodshed. From that day, the Lords of Valour were no more, the psyche of the Titan Legion hollowed out and replaced with insanity. When next the Legio Interfector walked the galaxy it did so at the behest of the Traitors, obliterating worlds who refused to accede to demands for subservience.War sirens perched atop the carapace of the Titan Legion's god-engines broadcasted the gibbering prayers of its crews, interspersed with pleas for blood and whispers in unknown tongues that unleashed waves of nausea on any who heard them. Gone were the precise tactical manoeuvres that were once characteristic of the Legio Interfector, replaced instead by erratic behaviour fuelled by the madness that dwelled within the heart of each Titan. From the dark day when the Legio Interfector was undone by the schemes of one they held in highest regard, a new title was worn by the Titan Legion -- the "Murder Lords."
Legio Interfector - Legion Combat Doctrine: When the Legio Interfector sided with the Arch-traitor Horus, they did not fully understand the dark powers behind the Warmaster's rebellion. As the Legio fell under the influence of the Ruinous Powers, madness took root within the ranks of the Legio Interfector.Those princeps not purged by the Warmaster during the opening years of the Horus Heresy were driven insane by the knowledge of their deeds, turning in desperation to the voices whispering in their mind.In battle, gibbering prayers of darkness and murder spill forth from the Legio's Titans, their war sirens broadcasting the insanity of the crew within. In battle, Legio Interfector Titans can scream out this stream of corrupting static from their war sirens, overwhelming their enemies with madness.The roots of Chaos have dug deep into the wreckage of the Legio Interfector's Titans. Daemonic energies coil around the Machine Spirits of their god-engines, driving them to extremes of rage and madness.
Legio Interfector - Legion Specific Wargear: Static Rounds - The forges of Valeous II were once known for their extensive use of static technologies, weapons created to disrupt and destroy energy barriers. The Legio can still call upon great stores of these weapons, though their shells are now covered in profane Chaos icons to help guide their flight.
Legio Interfector - Notable Legion Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Interfector - Legion Strength: From the moment Valeous II was granted the singular honour of its own Titan Legion, its forge-fanes laboured tirelessly to supplement the numbers of god-engines provided to the Legio Interfector by the Forge Worlds of Lucius and Graia. By the onset of the Horus Heresy, their efforts had proven successful, with the Legio Interfector having an estimated strength of 110-140 god-engines, marking it as a Secundus-grade Legio.Though the Titan Legion lacked examples of more ancient Titan classes such as the Imperator, it maintained a healthy supply of Warlord, Reaver and Warhound-class Titans, along with several examples of Warbinger Nemesis Titans constructed in the final years of the Great Crusade.Nearly all of this strength was turned against the Imperium by Horus, with few recorded Legio Interfector princeps escaping the madness that gripped the Titan Legion. Unverified reports speak of a small group of Reaver and Dire Wolf-class Titans self-proclaiming themselves as the Lords of Valour operating within the systems surrounding Valeous II. Whether such tales were a product of misinformation or an example of Loyalist Interfector princeps who evaded the malady that afflicted the remainder of this Titan Legion remains unknown.
Legio Interfector - Knight Houses: House DevineHouse Makabius
Legio Interfector - Space Marines: Death GuardEmperor's ChildrenSons of Horus
Legio Interfector - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Interfector were originally black with red trim and white flames, but after its fall to Chaos this changed to dark red with decoration in bronze.
Legio Interfector - Legion Badge: The Legio Interfector's badge is a stylised, blood-spattered circlet with a black and white-bladed Kris knife -- a short-bladed weapon with an undulating blade -- pointed downwards. A small white skull icon is situated on the sword's crossguard, centered within a red circlet.
Legio Interfector - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Traitor Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 78-83Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Doom of Molech (Specialty Game), pp. 7-11, 16, 26-28, 64-67Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pg. 95Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), pp. 15, 72-73Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (6th Edition), pp. 384-393, 399Vengeful Spirit (Novel) by Graham McNeill, Chs. 14, 20Warhammer Community - Doom of Molech: What's In The Book (16 Apr 2019)Warhammer Community - What is the Battle of Molech?
Legio Interfectra - Legio Interfectra: The Legio Interfectra was a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica that hailed from the Forge World of Satzica Secundus.
Legio Interfectra - Notable Campaigns: Velchanos Magna Castigation (Unknown Date.M41) - The Legio Interfectra, under the command of Magos Explorator Omnid Torquora, was deployed alongside Skitarii forces and Centurio Ordinatus to the Forge World of Velchanos Magna, to take it from an invading Chaos forces comprised of the dreaded Iron Warriors Traitor Legion, Dark Mechanicum and the Ironclast Traitor Titan Legion. Deploying in force, the Legio Interfectra sent multiple maniples comprised of a mix of Imperator, Reaver, and Warhound Titans. The Imperial god-engines proceeded to level the corrupted planet's hive cities and engaged the Ironclasts' Chaos-corrupted Titans. Fighting amongst the ore-depleted peaks of the Augol Mountains, during their initial engagement against the fallen Titan Legion, several Warhound and Reaver Titans were destroyed by the Ironclast. Meanwhile, the Warhound-class Titan Canis Corporalis supported Skitarii forces in their attack upon Metra-Minoria's hab-stacks, before being called upon to attack a reserve by the magos explorator. Though the Warhound killed a force of Iron Warriors Heretic Astartes, it also tragically killed several doomed Adeptus Mechanicus defenders, including Skitarii Ansis-86 Oltega and Tech-priest Dominus Theronymous Gant. The Canis Corporalis was later destroyed by the combined fire of three Ordinatii war machines that attacked it from range, outside the Warhound Titan's weapon range. Another of the Legio Interfectra's Titans was felled during an operation in the Targaria Mountains. At the epic conclusion of the campaign, Magos Explorator Torquora successfully utilised a prototype Gellar device to destroy the corrupted planet. The surviving members of the Legio Interfectra managed to make their way back aboard the orbiting Imperial vessels and departed while sustaining heavy fire from the doomed enemy forces on the planet below.
Legio Interfectra - Notable Titans: Canis Corporalis (Warhound-class Titan; Destroyed)Bellum Indomitat (Unknown Class Titan)
Legio Interfectra - Notable Personnel: Princeps Venedict - Princeps of the Warhound Titan Canis Corporalis.
Legio Interfectra - Legion Coulours: Not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Interfectra - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Interfectra is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Intrafex - Legio Intrafex: The Legio Intrafex is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.
Legio Intrafex - Notable Campaigns: War of the Beast (544.M32) - The Legio Intrafex is one of several different Imperial military factions that took part in the defence of the Imperium when it was attacked by the massive Ork WAAAGH! of the infamous Warlord known only as The Beast. When the world of Ullanor was determined to be The Beast's homeworld, the Legio Intrafex took part in the Third Invasion of Ullanor as part of an Imperial strike force. These forces invaded the Orks' capital world and finally succeeded in bringing the greenskin threat to a halt with he death of The Beast.
Legio Intrafex - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Intrafex - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Intrafex - Legion Colours: The Legio Intrafex's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Intrafex - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Intrafex is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Invicta - Legio Invicta: The Legio Invicta is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. There is very little information in Imperial records about this Titan Legion's founding, though it is known that it was raised before the Age of the Imperium began, during the Age of Strife.This Titan Legion has functioned for nearly twelve standard millennia. The Legio Invicta is based on the Forge World of Proximus, and all of its war engines are mentioned to be exclusively of the Proximus Pattern.
Legio Invicta - Notable Titans: Ajax Excelsus - Titan of an unknown class and the war engine of Princeps Levin during the defence of Orestes.Divinitus Monstrum - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of First Princeps Bohrman during the defence of Orestes.Dominatus Victrix - The Warlord-class Titan Dominatus Victrix was commanded by Princeps Skaugen at the time of the Beltran Cluster Campaign, during which the Titan was damaged and its princeps suffered injuries that ultimately proved lethal. The machine, however, was required to take part in the defence of Orestes, and to this end the Orestean Magi had agreed to repair it, and the Legio Tempestus offerred one of its princeps -- Guido Prinzhorn -- to allow it to operate.Invictus Antagonistes - Warlord-class Titan and the war engine of Princeps Maximus Pietor Gearhart.Lupus Lux - Warhound-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Leyden Krugmal.Martial Nox - Warhound-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Talentine. The Martial Nox was destroyed in the drive on Hive Argentum as a result of an ambush set up by Traitor Titans.Morbius Sire - Warhound-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Maximillian Orfuls.Philopos Manix  - Reaver-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Stent Racine.Sicarian Faero - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Vancent Kung.
Legio Invicta - Legion Colours: The Legio Invicta's colours are crimson with gold trim and green/white accents.
Legio Invicta - Legion Badge: Legio Invicta Titans bear the image of a white rook chess piece.
Legio Invicta - Canon Conflict: A certain Lord Gearhart is mentioned to have been the Legio Invicta's commander during the War of Lochrisus in 412.M35. It could not have been Princeps Maximus Pietor Gearhart, however, as he is actually mentioned to have become the princeps of the Invictus Antagonistes in 466.M41, and the Legio Invicta's princeps maximus in 496.M41, prior to that being only a famulous and a moderatus. This is most likely an error or simply a reference to another Lord Gearhart who once held the same position within the Legio.Additionally, the Legio is said on a number of occasions (including one time when viewed by the Legio's crewmen) to bear red and gold colours. However, it is also mentioned that the Legio's Titans are painted in crimson and brass, albeit only once, in a modeller's shop. For this reason, the red-and-gold scheme is accepted as the canon Legio colours until further evidence indicates otherwise.In the 2021 edition of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade background book, the Legio Invicta is depicted as having primarily red armour with gold trim and green/white accents, which should now be considered the canon colours of the Legio.
Legio Invicta - Sources: Titanicus (Novel) by Dan AbnettThe Sabbat Worlds Crusade (Background Book, 2021 Edition), pp. 181, 205-207
Legio Invigilata - Legio Invigilata: The Legio Invigilata ("Emperor's Guard") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. They were founded during the Siege of Terra by order of the Fabricator-General Zagreus Kane. The first princeps majoris of the new Legio was Esha Ani Mohana, the former second-in-command of the Legio Solaria.The Emperor's Guard hail from the Forge World of Voss Prime, located in the Segmentum Solar. This is the Forge World closest to the Armageddon System.Voss Prime's knowledge of Plasma Reactor technology is noted to have deteriorated over the millennia, though it is unknown how this development has affected its god-engines' combat readiness.
Legio Invigilata - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Invigilata are black, red, white and gold.
Legio Invigilata - Legion Badge: The Legio Invigilata 's badge is a white Iron Halo icon with a red circlet and a white eye centred within, reminiscent of the ancient symbol known as the "Eye of Terra."Two red lightning bolts protrude from the lower part of the Iron Halo icon, reminiscent of the Emperor's ancient Raptor Imperialis icon used during the Unification Wars.
Legio Kaurthos - Legio Kaurthos: The Legio Kaurthos is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. It is based on the Forge World of Avachrus in the Gilead System of the Imperium Nihilus, which was cut off from the rest of the Imperium in the Era Indomitus by the birth of the Great Rift and the myriad Warp Storms that accompanied its birth.Most of the Titans of the Legio had been dispersed to battlefields across the galaxy before the massive Warp rift tore across the heavens. As a result, little of the Legio's complement remains behind at its fortress of Kaurdar on Avachrus at present.
Legio Kaurthos - Legion History: The monolithic fortress of Kaurdar is the only structure on the surface of Avachrus, located deep within the crystalline wastelands of the planet's dark side, as the world is tidally-locked with its star. This gargantuan citadel was once the home of the Titan Legio Kaurthos, led by the Gaius Vastatio; a god-machine towering over 20 metres tall and arrayed with a panoply of devastating weaponry.The fabricator-general of Avachrus is Ultima Gol Bessor, who abdicated his position as leader of the Forge World to sail with the Legio Kaurthos's forces on a confidential assignment over a standard century ago -- some suspect to the same fate as the Absolvers Chapter's absent Chapter Command. A power vacuum erupted in Bessor's absence, with individual forge cities left to dictate their own policies. This heralded the rise of the Belaxia Foundry, and the subsequent ascension of its leader as the new regent of Avachrus, Archdomina Aexekra Vakuul.Kauradar is almost abandoned now; though void-shielded against storms and outfitted with turret defences, the Titanworks lay quiet. Those vigilant and faithful continue to defend the machinery that remains, awaiting the return of their noble fabricator-general.
Legio Kaurthos - Notable Titans: Gaius Vastatio (Unknown Class) - The Gaius Vastatio served as the command Titan of the Legio Kaurthos.
Legio Kaurthos - Legion Colours: The Legio Kauthros's colours are unknown.
Legio Kaurthos - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Kauthros is unknown.
Legio Krytos - Legio Krytos: The Legio Krytos ("God Breakers") is a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicum that repudiated its oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and followed the Warmaster Horus into the service of the Ruinous Powers during the Horus Heresy. It was based on the world of Krytos.The Legio Krytos is known to have participated in both the infamous Battle of Tallarn and the Battle of Beta-Garmon. Even before the outbreak of the Heresy, this notorious Titan Legion were known to be excessive in their pursuit of achieving Imperial Compliance and levelling cities that showed even a shred of defiance.The God Breakers were also known for making extensive use of Earthbreaker Missiles -- specialised weapons that were designed to burrow into the ground before detonating, tearing the terrain apart in showers of broken earth. These weapons were used extensively by the Legio Krytos to bring down fortifications, but they also proved effective in slowing the advance of enemy maniples.Perhaps as a result of these preferences in waging war, the Legio Krytos tended to work closely with the siege-breaking Iron Warriors Legion. The two working in concert often reduced worlds to smoldering wastelands, inhabited by guttering cities and bleached skeletons.
Legio Krytos - Legion Combat Doctrine: Legio Krytos is a hammer that knows only one way of waging war -- to crush its enemies utterly beneath the repeated blows of its Titans.While the Legion fields Warhound and Reaver Titans, its commanders favour deploying its Warlord Titans into potent battlegroups, and use their massed firepower to obliterate opponents.The God Breakers' maniples are methodical in their destruction of the battlefield, turning forests into seas of flame and buildings into clouds of dust and ash. Over the course of the Horus Heresy, their princeps mastered the means of bringing down structures, and were experts at identifying their weak points.The swirling flames of a dying world can be a hostile environment, even for a great god-machine like a Battle Titan. The God Breakers routinely endured these adverse conditions, and developed tactics to deal with them.
Legio Krytos - Notable Titans: Hammer of Tyrants (Warlord-class Titan) - Warlord Battle Titans are among the greatest war machines of the Collegia Titanica and among the God Breakers, these towering beasts are revered as deities of destruction. Hammer of Tyrants, shown above, fought in the Delta Garmon II landings and bore the scars of this battle upon its armoured plates. While other Legions busied themselves restoring the heraldry and iconography of their god-engines, the Legio Krytos allowed their enemies to see that their maniples had already tasted war and embraced the carnage they had wrought upon their foe.Black Arrow (Reaver-class Titan) - Black Arrow, shown in the gallery below, was typical of those Reaver Battle Titans that the Legio Krytos used on Beta Garmon II during the assault on Hive Caldera. In this battle, the God Breakers used their Reaver Titans as a spearhead to reach the hive city's gates before the storm closed in, while Warlord Titans provided covering fire and Warhound Titans covered the flanks. It proved to be an effective tactic, the relative speed and armour of the Reaver making it well-suited to the task of creating a breakthrough and then exploiting it fully.Apostate of Days (Warhound-class Titan)Curse of Iron (Warhound-class Titan)Grateful Punishment (Warhound-class Titan)Havoc (Warhound-class Titan)Manus Infernum (Warhound-class Titan)Night's Hunter (Warhound-class Titan)Oedium Aelemium (Warhound-class Titan)Tyrant's Torment (Warhound-class Titan)Wolf Scythe (Warhound-class Titan)
Legio Krytos - Notable Personnel: Yavar the Pitiless - Yavar the Pitiless was the Princeps of the Warhound-class Titan Grateful Punishment during the Horus Heresy. In the closing days of the Beta-Garmon campaign, Yavar led the Legio Krytos Lupercal Light Maniples. Its Princeps at first resented his role, jealous of his peers tasked to heavier Titans and siege breaking tactics. By the end of the war though, Yavar had learned the true joy of crushing the wounded and weak beneath the tread of his Warhound, ultimately earning a dark reputation for the Grateful Punishment and the Lupercal Light Maniple as a weapon of war.
Legio Krytos - Knight Houses: House CaesareanHouse Kepsydra
Legio Krytos - Space Marines: Iron Warriors
Legio Krytos - Legion Strength: Recorded as a Secundus-grade Titan Order shortly before the onset of the Horus Heresy, the principal strength of the Legio Krytos lay in its Warlord-class Battle Titans, with Reaver-class Titans their main support. In total, the operational numbers of the Legio Krytos were estimated at 115-140 when the Titan Legion sided with the cause of the Warmaster Horus, with over half this number consisting of Warlords, many constructed during the conflict with the Agrenium Convocation.Owing to its preference for siege tactics and direct action, the Legio Krytos invested significantly in the construction of Warbringer Nemesis Titans, with nearly two-dozen recorded as operational during the [[GreatCrusade]]. Three God Breakers Imperator-class Titans are also noted to have existed, of which at least one was always stationed upon the Forge World of Krytos.Lastly, the strength of the Legio Krytos during the Horus Heresy was, like many ancient Titan Legions of similar standing, augmented by the emergence of the Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan. Unsurprisingly, examples of Warmaster Titans fielded by the Legio Krytos were almost exclusively the Warmaster Iconoclast variant, its nature as a siege engine proving highly compatible with the Titan Legion's preferred medium of war.
Legio Krytos - Legion Colours: The god-engines of the Legio Krytos march in gray-green and white with gold trim.
Legio Krytos - Legion Badge: This Traitor Titan Legion's badge is a stylised winged warhammer known as the Hammer of Krytos centred upon a livery shield containing the Legion's heraldic colours of white, green and red.When the Legion turned Traitor, this seal was often hammered over icons of allegiance to the Emperor, masking the Aquila or the Cog Mechanicum symbols of Mars.The Hammer of Krytos harkens back to the Legion's origins and the mythos of its Forge World, reputably wrought from a dead rock by the Omnissiah's hook-tooth hammer.Beyond these icons of the Legio, Krytos banners bear the signum nobilis and campaign skulls of their kin, though the God Breakers like to show the scars of battle upon their maniples, and so many of their war banners show the tears and rents of recent action, with some even reduced to tattered rags bearing only a faint trace of the Legio's colours.
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Legio Kulisaetai - Legio Kulisaetai: The Legio Kulisaetai ("Gatekeepers") was a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicum. It hailed from the Forge World of Kalibrax located in the region of Imperial space called the Belt of Iron within the Segmentum Pacificus and Segmentum Tempestus.Much of the Legio Kulisaetai's history is defined by the endless battles that wracked the surface of Kalibrax during the Age of Strife, as all manner of factions strove to achieve dominance over the Forge World.After the world was liberated by the Great Crusade, the Gatekeepers brought their style of methodical destruction to dozens of worlds across the galaxy.In war, the Legio Kulisaetai was famed for their scorched earth tactics, its Titans slowly advancing over the corpses of their foes, leaving nothing standing in their wake.
Legio Kulisaetai - Origins: The world of Kalibrax was a strife-riven world that had endured endless horrors since the Age of Strife, its abundance of technologically-advanced ruins scattered across the planet's surface, evidence of a time when the might of Kalibrax may have rivalled that of Mars itself.Such a state of prosperity had ended before the world's rediscovery by the Great Crusade, its people having suffered through millennia of civil war between dozens of fanatical cults that had risen during those dark days.The most prominent of these tech-cultists, who styled themselves as the "Endeavour of Airless Purity" and sought to sterilise the galaxy by purging it of all biological life, had all but achieved total dominance over Kalibrax when contact was made with Imperial representatives.Reasoning that the beliefs of Airless Purity were opposed to those of the Imperial Truth, the Imperium offered its support to those who still opposed the tech-cultists. In a matter of solar months, the hunted became the hunters and ascended to become the rulers of a ruined world.Having been subjected to millennia of war, Kalibrax proved in dire need of transformation in order to become a productive Forge World. To aid the revival of Kalibrax, a fresh populace was seeded upon the Forge World, to be placed under the control of its ruling council, while the Legio Kulisaetai, the battered survivors of Kalibrax's original Titan Legion, was gifted a complement of Titans drawn from the Legio Mortis.In this way, the world was brought closer to Mars, which the people of Kalibrax they held in gratitude for such aid, while ensuring the Forge World quickly moved towards self-sufficiency.As a final act of respect, the Legio Kulisaetai was granted the moniker of the "Gatekeepers" in recognition of its valiant defence of Kalibrax against the countless foes who had assailed them during the Age of Strife.
Legio Kulisaetai - Horus Heresy: The transplanting of dozens of Legio Mortis personnel into the Legio Kalibrax did much to change the mien of the younger Legio.Though no overt alteration of command structure was implemented amongst the ranks of Legio Kulisaetai, many of those originally from Legio Mortis quickly ascended the ranks thanks to decades, or centuries, of experience.The unwavering loyalty those of the Legio Mortis held for the fabricator-general of Mars was mirrored by those within the Legio Kulisaetai, and it was presumed by many that Kalibrax would eagerly follow those its Titan crews so revered into treachery during the Horus Heresy.Contrary to such suspicions, the magi of Kalibrax were quick to publicly sever all ties with Mars once news reached them of the fabricator-general's betrayal of the Emperor, going so far as to order the execution of those accused of dissenting against such a move.It was noted by more sceptical observers that of those executed, none were known to hold strong ties to Mars nor could they trace their heritage back to the Legio Mortis, suggesting a different motive behind the sanctioned killings.Such suspicions proved well-founded when the Cataclysm of Iron erupted, as Kalibrax moved against the Forge World of Atar-Median, home of the Legio Atarus, hoping to turn the conquered world over to the Traitor fabricator-general as a sign of devotion.
Legio Kulisaetai - Cataclysm of Iron: Following the Drop Site Massacre at Isstvan V, the fires of war spread across the galaxy. Yet not every region was swiftly consumed. The Belt of Iron was one such place. Populated by numerous lesser Forge Worlds, it became mired in distrust and tension, with few worlds wishing to be forthcoming with their allegiance.Those that did often feared treachery and were slow to overtly move against another Forge World lest a hidden foe strike while their attention was elsewhere. What was clear to many within the Belt of Iron was that of the thousands of worlds contained within its borders, only a handful truly possessed the capacity to wage all-out war against their neighbours, with those Forge Worlds possessing Titan Legions the most prominent of such worlds.In the lead-up to the assault by the Legio Atarus upon the Findari Spoil, numerous proxy wars erupted across the Belt of Iron, with Forge Worlds using clandestine forces and allied worlds to strike out against those they perceived as foe. Such a situation proved only a temporary one.
Legio Kulisaetai - Findari Spoil Campaign: Within the Findari Spoil, a barren region of space in close proximity to the Loyalist Forge World of Atar-Median, those aligned with the Warmaster Horus toiled.Kalibrax, a planet notable for its considerable ties to the Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal of Mars, worked in secret to construct a series of fortifications across the asteroid belts and single planet within the Findari Spoil.This served as the first step towards the invasion of Atar-Median, with Kalibrax desiring to gift the Loyalist world to the fabricator-general, who had long seen the creation of Atar-Median as a direct insult against him.The efforts of Kalibrax did not go unnoticed and the forces of Atar-Median fell upon the system when news reached them of Iron Warriors allies moving to aid the construction efforts of Kalibrax. While Taghmata forces, supported by Knights of House Col'Khak, were tasked with seizing control of the system’s orbital defences, the Legio Atarus mustered for the main assault upon the sole planet within the Spoil.Upon the surface of the world, the tech-priests of Kalibrax had raised a towering fortress which held over two dozen god-engines of the Legio Kulisaetai. Leveraging the lack of orbital defences constructed around the fortress, the Legio Atarus disembarked mere kilometres from their target, falling upon the Gatekeepers with frightening speed.In doing so, the Firebrands joined battle with a foe largely unprepared, with many Traitor Titans yet to have awakened from their slumber. With the Legio Atarus came a cadre of tech-priests who had the singular task of seizing control of the fortress and turning it against the Traitors.In support of such labours, the Legio Atarus stood guard, awaiting the arrival of the Traitors who would inevitably try to stop them.Post-combat reports state that six Legio Kulisaetai Titans were destroyed after a single solar hour of brutal combat, while eight Legio Atarus Titans were damaged, three of which required extensive repairs.In turn, four additional Legio Laniaskara Titans, each still lying dormant within their cradles, were captured by the Firebrands, replenishing the losses they had suffered.In the days following their victory, the Legio Atarus moved to secure their hold upon the Findari Spoil, hunting down those Gatekeeper Titans that had escaped the fall of their fortress, while Atar-Median Taghmata, supported by House Col'Khak Knights, secured their hold upon the system's orbital defences.In a single solar week, the Loyalist forces had claimed dominion over the Findari Spoil, casting out the Traitors and claiming the first victory of the coming conflict. Looking outwards, Atar-Median issued the call to war, knowing their actions were likely to be the spark that ignited all-out war across the Belt of Iron.