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Legio Abhorrax - Notable Campaigns: Battle of Dysactis (Unknown Date.M42) - During the fyredust season on Dysactis, a vast Death Guard force advances through the pyroclastic storm fronts in search of the Temple of Ascension. They are met amidst the crackling maelstrom by an enormous force of Iron Warriors, supported by corrupt God-machines from the Legio Abhorrax. Continent-shattering battle ensues. Hordes of daemons are summoned from the Beyond to join the fight. Beneath the gaze of the Cyclonead Statues, Mortarion and his fellow Daemon Primarch Perturabo themselves engage in a spectacular duel that lasts for seven solar hours. It is a battle reminiscent of the incredible conflicts of the Horus Heresy, and Perturabo's sons cause terrible damage to the Death Guard force. Yet the longer the fighting rages, the more the contagions and metaliphage poxes of the Death Guard spread through the Iron Warriors ranks. Ancient Heretics sicken and collapse. Malevolent war engines seize with rust and shudder, sparking, to a halt. Machine Spirits go mad with revulsion and pain, and as the powers of entropy and decay run rampant, the battle swings in Mortarion's favour. With his forces in tatters and many of his precious war engines crippled beyond repair, even bitter Perturabo is finally forced to concede defeat. Falling back to pre-prepared defence lines, he detonates a series of explosive trenches amidst the raging storms and disengages in the ensuing mayhem. Badly mauled but triumphant, Mortarion and his Death Guard lay claim to the heathen temple they fought so hard for, and the ancient secrets that lay at its heart.
Legio Abhorrax - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Abhorrax - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Abhorrax - Legion Colours: This Traitor Titan Legion's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Abhorrax - Legion Badge: This Traitor Titan Legion's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Abominator - Legio Abominator: Legio AbominatorTraitor Titan LegionDark Mechanicum
Legio Abominator - Notable Campaigns: 13th Black Crusade (999.M41) - The Knights of Tanika march to the aid of the Iron Hands Chapter on Medusa, which has been besieged by the forces of Chaos spilling forth from the Eye of Terror. Led by the matriarchal huntresses of House Thorne, they battled against the Renegade Titans of the Legio Abominator and buy time for the Iron Hands' clan companies to rally and fight back. Forging steely chains of allegiance and loyalty, the Iron Hands and Tanikan Knights drive the Heretic invaders back.
Legio Abominator - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Abominator - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Abominator - Legion Colours: This Traitor Titan Legion's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Abominator - Legion Badge: This Traitor Titan Legion's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Absolutium - Legio Absolutium: The Legio Absolutium is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.
Legio Absolutium - Notable Campaigns: War Zone Damocles (999.M41) - After the T'au drove the Planetary Defence Forces of Agrellan from their homeworld, Segmentum Command escalated operations in War Zone Damocles. Waves of reinforcements began a desperate rearguard action to slow the T'au advance. Meanwhile, a mighty armada of Imperial warships departed for Agrellan, bearing over one thousand regiments of Cadian, Catachan, Elysian, Tallarn and Cthonol Imperial Guardsmen, several full Battle Companies of Raven Guard and White Scars Space Marines, and the Titans of the Legio Absolutium. The hammer of Imperial retribution bore inexorably down upon the attacking T'au, its wielders determined to crush the upstart xenos once and for all during the Second Agrellan Campaign.
Legio Absolutium - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Absolutium - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Absolutium - Legion Colours: The Legio Absolutium's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Absolutium - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Absolutium is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Adamantus - Legio Adamantus: Legio AdamantusTitan LegionCollegia TitanicaForge WorldGulgorahdEastern FringeThroughout the many centuries of the Age of Strife, the Legio Adamantus valiantly defended the coherent stellar empire Gulgorahd had carved for itself when Humanity first conquered the stars.The ceaseless xenos incursions and attacks upon that polity turned the Legion into a formidable defensive force, a trait which earned them the cognomen of "The Unbroken."
Legio Adamantus - Legion History: Upon reunification with the Imperium of Man, the Legion saw limited service with the armies of the Great Crusade, a service rewarded by several battle-honours that all pre-date the dark times of the Horus Heresy.Most noteworthy of these was the original Imperial Compliance campaign for the world of Istvaan III, where according to records drawn from the Raven Guard Legion, the Legio Adamantus fought with their brethren of the Legio Victorum to first bring Istvaan III into the Imperial fold.A few solar decades later, these same two Legions would bitterly clash during the Thramas Crusade as the Legio Victorum had allied itself with the Warmaster Horus while the Legio Adamantus had stayed true to its oaths to the Emperor.On the Fortress Worlds of Bastion 011 and Bastion 009, with the help of the Legio Atrox and the Legio Saevus, the Unbroken bravely held the line against the gathered might of the traitorous Legio Victorum I and Legio Victorum II, the Legio Phasma and the Night Lords Traitor Legion.Despite suffering heavy casualties, no single maniple of the Legio Adamantus fled or chose to retreat, each princeps continuing to fight as long as one of its Titan's weapon system was still operational.Despite the horrific casualties suffered in the early days of the Thramas Crusade -- the Loyalists lost nearly a hundred Titans during the defense of Bastions 011 and 009 -- the Legio Adamantus is recorded as still being active when the Dark Angels departed the region in 008.M31. However the Legio but does not appear in more recent Imperial records.Given the truly terrific devastation wrecked upon Gulgorath and its client worlds, it could well be that the Legio Adamantus is still recovering from the losses it suffered 10'000 years ago or has since been destroyed.
Legio Adamantus - Notable Campaigns: Istvaan III Compliance Campaign (994.M30) - Fighting alongside the 27th Expeditionary Fleet under Primarch Corvus Corax of the XIXth Legion, the Titans of the Legio Adamantus participated in the initial Istvaan III Compliance campaign. The military forces of the indigenous Istvaanians were highly sophisticated and disciplined, requiring even the mighty Raven Guard to ask for Titan-support. Alongside their brothers of the Legio Victorum, the Titans of the Legio Adamantus crushed enemy resistance into oblivion and were thus rewarded by a place of honour during the triumph of the Redarth Valley.
Legio Adamantus - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Adamantus - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Adamantus - Legion Colours: The Legio Adamantus' colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Adamantus - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Adamantus is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Aeris Aestus - Legio Aeris Aestus: The Legio Aeris Aestus is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.
Legio Aeris Aestus - Notable Campaigns: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Aeris Aestus - Notable Titans: Aes Domino (Warhound-class Titan) - This Warhound Titan, known as the "Brass Lord," currently serves under the command of Magos Dominus Infirmum Octo, and is the champion of Octo's Adeptus Mechanicus forces.
Legio Aeris Aestus - Notable Personnel: Magos Dominus Infirmum Octo - Infirmum Octo is a magos dominus who is widely regarded by his peers as a radical for hunting down forbidden technology. Among the fruits of his labour are a group of relic Imperial Knights from an unknown household that Octo had recovered and repaired. Now fully functional, the recovered Knights once again fight for the Omnissiah as part of Octo's Adeptus Mechanicus forces. It is rumoured, however, that due to the Knights' ancient designs, their pilots must be permanently grafted into their mechanisms for them to function. Octo also is served by the Warhound Titan Aes Domino, which has been seconded to him from the Legio Aeris Aestus.
Legio Aeris Aestus - Legion Colours: The Legio Aeris Aestus's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Aeris Aestus - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Aeris Aestus is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Agravides - Legio Agravides: The Legio Agravides ("Battle Scourges") was a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.While suspected to have been founded during the Age of Strife, it is generally believed that the Legion was destroyed in the opening days of the Schism of Mars, though elements of it are known to have fought during battles later in the Horus Heresy.
Legio Agravides - Legion History: At the outset of the Horus Heresy, the Warmaster Horus sent the Dark Mechanicum representative Regulus to Mars to secure the tentative support of the Fabricator-General of the Mechanicum, Kelbor-Hal. Regulus convinced the Fabricator-General of the Warmaster's resolve to support increased autonomy for the Mechanicum against the autocratic rule of the Emperor of Mankind.As a show of his appreciation for the Fabricator-General's support, Horus provided information to Kelbor-Hal that allowed the Tech-priest to open a repository of forbidden knowledge known as the Vaults of Moravec, which the Emperor had ordered sealed.When this repository was reopened, there was all manner of forbidden arcane knowledge and weaponry that had obviously been tainted by the corrupting influence of Chaos. Soon the corruption spread throughout the forges and temples across the Red Planet as scrap code -- Chaos-contaminated digital source code that was infected with an arcane computer virus.The scrap code infested the logi-stacks and Cogitator (computer) archives of the Mechanicum, causing literal Chaos to emerge in any Cogitator system that was networked to one of its infected counterparts. The Fabricator-General and his Dark Mechanicum allies used this disruption to marshal the strength of their forces, intent on bringing the rule of Mars firmly under their control.Infected by this vicious scrap code, the Titans of the Legio Agravides and the Legio Fortidus met their end when their Plasma Reactors went critical and exploded, destroying their fortresses and eliminating these once-proud Titan Legions from the roster of Loyalist forces. In later years, this night would become known in Adeptus Mechanicus legends as the "Death of Innocence."
Legio Agravides - Notable Campaigns: Schism of Mars (005-006.M31) - The Schism of Mars, or "Death of Innocence," was the deadly civil war that erupted on Mars between the Loyalist factions of the ancient Mechanicum and the Traitors of the Dark Mechanicum during the early days of the broader interstellar civil war in 005-006.M31 between the Imperium of Man and the forces of Chaos loyal to the Warmaster Horus. When the Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal revealed his betryal of the Emperor, he unleashed forbidden arcane knowledge and weaponry that had been corrupted by the Ruinous Powers. This corruption spread throughout the forges of the Loyalist Titan Legions in the form of Chaos-contaminated viral "scrapcode". Once it spread to the fortresses of both the Legio Agravides and Legio Fortidus, it caused the plasma reactors of both Titan Legions' god-engines to go critical and explode, destroying their fortresses. This essentially eliminated two Loyalist Titan Legions in one fell swoop. This great conflagration between opposing Mechanicum forces mirrored the larger conflict that consumed the galaxy during what became known as the Horus Heresy.Battle of Ice World Tralsak (011.M31) - The shallow, frozen oceans of Tralsak were flash-boiled to steam by the fury of god-engine war as Loyalist Titans of the Legio Atarus and Legio Agravides clashed with the Traitors of the Legio Magna and Legio Victorum even as the Loyalist Shattered Legions and Traitor World Eaters fought across the disintegrating landscape of ice floes. Ultimately, outright victory eluded both sides, and each used the cover of the world-enveloping fog thrown up by the destruction to extricate their forces and redeploy them elsewhere. Nevertheless, numerous supporting Knights of both sides remained to fight a war in which neither would concede defeat.
Legio Agravides - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Agravides - Notable Personnel: Princeps Tevera - Tevera was the Princeps of a Warmonger-class Titan. During the Horus Heresy she was instrumental in the formal establishment of the Imperial Adeptus Mechanicus, separate and distinct from the Chaos-tainted Mechanicum of Mars.
Legio Agravides - Knight Houses: House Col'Khak
Legio Agravides - Space Marines: Iron HandsSalamandersRaven Guard
Legio Agravides - Legion Colours: The colours of this Titan Legion are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Agravides - Legion Badge: The badge of this Titan Legion is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Amaranth - Legio Amaranth: The Legio Amaranth ("Night Spiders")  is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.The Night Spiders fought during the Horus Heresy at the Battle of Beta-Garmon for the Loyalists. After the Warmaster Horus' Traitor forces proved victorious in the Beta-Garmon campaign, the remnants of the Night Spiders deployed to Beta-Garmon retreated back to Terra. But with the fall of Beta-Garmon, the last obstacle preventing Horus' march on the Throneworld, the Siege of Terra began not long after.The remaining Titans of the Legio Amaranth participated in the defence of the Imperial Palace during that final campaign of the Heresy.
Legio Amaranth - Legion Colours: The Legio Amaranth's Titans are outfitted in heraldry of purple and green.
Legio Amaranth - Legion Badge: The badge of the Night Spiders is unknown.
Legio Annihilator - Legio Annihilator: The Legio Annihilator was a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.Little is known of the Legio Annihilator except its actions during the valiant defence of the Forge World of Megyre in 995.M41 from the Tyranid Hive Fleet Jormungandr.It is assumed that the Legio Annihilator was itself nearly annihilated. Its current status since this campaign is unknown.
Legio Annihilator - Notable Campaigns: Defence of Megyre (995.M41) - When the Forge World of Megyre was threatened by Hive Fleet Jormungandr in 995.M41, the Legio Annihilator was Megyre's last hope. Its mighty Titans boldly strode through the Tyranid horde, scattering the various bio-forms, but the Hive Mind was not so easily beaten. Not even able to celebrate their short-lived victory, the Legio's princeps were faced with a new threat. Resembling a Trygon, the massive Tyranid creature that assaulted the Titans was the size of a Reaver-class Titan. This vile Bio-Titan rent through the ranks of the Legio Annihilator, first ripping apart a Warhound-class Titan without effort, then tearing a hole through the remaining war engines of the Legio. Nothing could stay the Bio-Titan's savage advance, including the war engines of the Legio Annihilator. It was only the mighty ordnance of the Basilica Mechanicus that possessed the fury to bring the beast down. Even then, the death throes of the monster tore great swathes out of the Basilica's walls, allowing for swarms of Rippers to flood into the complex and seal the fate of the doomed Forge World.
Legio Annihilator - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Annihilator - Notable Personnel: Princeps Jonrah (KIA) - Jonrah was the princeps of the Legio Annihilator and died aboard his Titan during the Defence of Megyre.
Legio Annihilator - Legion Colours: The colours of this Titan Legion are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Annihilator - Legion Badge: The badge of this Titan Legion is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Arconis - Legio Arconis: The Legio Arconis ("Iron Kings") was a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.This Titan Legion was based upon the Forge World of Sareme.However, with the formation of the Great Rift at the dawn of the Era Indomitus, Sareme was enveloped within the growing Warp Storms and fell to Chaos.
Legio Arconis - Legion History: It is known that the Legion has fought for their homeworld since the Age of Strife.During the Horus Heresy, the Iron Kings Titan Legion remained loyal and fought on behalf of the Imperium. They continued to faithfully serve the Emperor after the Heresy and fought on behalf of the Imperium for ten millennia.Unfortunately, their long and glorious history has come to a tragic end.With the destruction of Fortress World of Cadia and the formation of the galaxy-wide tear in reality known as the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Iron Kings' homeworld was enveloped by the Warp and many of its Mechanicus Tech-priests were corrupted by the Ruinous Powers and became Hereteks.Now adherents of the Dark Mechanicum, the Traitors overwhelmed the few remaining Loyalist remnants of the Forge World. The planet likely fell to the service of Chaos.Despite their valiant defence, the Iron Kings were likely destroyed with their Loyalist Mechanicus brethren, though their fate remains unknown.
Legio Arconis - Notable Campaigns: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Arconis - Notable Titans: Fury of Mars (Warlord-class Titan) - The Warlord Titan Fury of Mars valiantly defended Sareme from the Heretek onslaught, but fell in glorious battle.
Legio Arconis - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Arconis - Legion Colours: The Legio Arconis's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Arconis - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Arconis is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Argentum - Legio Argentum: Legio ArgentumDread LancesTraitor Titan LegionDark MechanicusEmperor of MankindWarmasterHorusRuinous PowersHorus HeresyThe Legio Argentum participated in a number of engagements during the Horus Heresy. Its fate and current whereabouts are unknown.
Legio Argentum - Notable Campaigns: The Fall of Lesser Damantyne (Date Unknown.M31) - During the Great Crusade the Legio Argentum was attached to the 51st Expeditionary Fleet which was also home to the 14th Grand Company of the Iron Warriors Space Marine Legion. After their successful campaign to bring the world of Lesser Damantyne into Imperial Compliance, the Iron Warriors built a mighty citadel called Schadenhold and left a small detachment of Astartes under the command of the Warsmith Barabas Dantioch behind to garrison the planet. The Legio Argentum then left with the rest of the 51st Expeditionary Fleet for parts unknown. During their time away from the planet, the majority of the Iron Warriors fell under the sway of the Warmaster Horus and joined his rebellion. The Legio Argentum also threw its support to the cause of the Traitors and became one of the Titan Legions of the Dark Mechanicum. When the 51st Expeditionary Fleet under the command of Warsmith Idriss Krendl returned to Lesser Damatyne for resupply as it began the march of the Traitor Legions towards Terra, Dantioch and his garrison refused to support the Warmaster's cause. The bulk of the expeditionary fleet's forces were then brought to bear upon the recalcitrant citadel. A brutal 366-solar-day siege was initiated, with Krendl's Astartes forces also backed by Traitor Imperial Army and Centurio Ordinatus war engines that proved unable to breach Schadenhold. Eventually a massive Traitor offensive led by the Imperator-class Titan Omnia Victrum managed to take the fortress, but as it fell Dantioch teleported his forces aboard Krendl's own flagship and escaped. As the Loyalist Iron Warriors fled, they detonated Schadenhold and inflicted heavy casualties on the Traitors, destroyed the Emperor Titan, and badly wounded Krendl.The Ruin of Maedran (008.M31) - This battle of the Horus Heresy saw the Imperial colony world of Maedran on the edge of the Segmentum Solar become savagely contested between Loyalist and Traitor forces. Loyalist Titans of the Legio Gryphonicus, Legio Metalica, and Legio Destructor clashed with the Traitors of the Legio Mortis, Legio Argentum, and Legio Vulturum. One of the largest Titan battles of the early Heresy era, more than 200 god-engines clashed as Maedran was ultimately reduced to ruin. Ultimately heavy losses were incurred by both sides and neither combatant was able to claim true victory.
Legio Argentum - Notable Titans: Omnia Victrum (Imperator-class Titan) - The Omnia Victrum was an Imperator-class Titan of the Legio Argentum that was destroyed during the Fall of Lesser Damantyne, when Barabas Dantioch's Loyalists detonated the Schadenhold citadel.
Legio Argentum - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Argentum - Legion Colours: The Legio Argentum's colours are not listed in any current Imperial records.
Legio Argentum - Legion Badge: The Legio Argentum's Legion badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Astorum - Legio Astorum: The Legio Astorum ("Warp Runners") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.The Legio Astorum is an ancient and honoured Legion based upon the Forge World of Lucius, located in the Segmentum Obscurus. This Titan Legion is suspected to have been founded before the Age of the Imperium, during the Age of Strife.The Warp Runners are well-known for setting the tempo of war and marching swiftly to the sound of battle, their god-engines devouring kilometres beneath their massive stride. Astorum princeps call this the "War March," and gladly endure the rigours placed upon both machine and mind to reach the foe sooner.Over time, a princeps learns to wear their Titan like a second skin, as aware of its workings and armour plates as they are of their own bones and sinew. The Warp Runners contain many old and lauded Titans of the Great Crusade, and the skilled princeps who command them. An experienced princeps can master the Machine Spirit (artificial intelligence) of their Titan, and the Warp Runners learned many tricks for forcing the Machine Spirits of their war engines into action even as the ancient mechanisms rebelled against them.
Legio Astorum - Legion Wargear: Bounty of Mars - Honours earned by the Warp Runners during the Great Crusade included the respect of Mars. From the armouries of the Red Planet, the Legio Astorum was gifted with rare and ancient systems for their Titans, so that they might better serve the Imperium.
Legio Astorum - Notable Personnel: Rand Drauca - Ancient and venerable High Princeps of the Reaver-class Titan Praetorian, during the Siege of Vraks. He led the Legio Astorum battlegroup that fought during the Siege of Vraks, which was composed of 10 Reaver-class and 12 Warhound-class Titans.Firax Lopi - Princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Terribilis Vindicta and commander of Battlegroup Praxes that took part in the final campaign of the Purge of the Contqual Sub-Sector on the world of Shardenus.Remona - A young and talented Princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Meritus Castigatio that was a part of Battlegroup Praxes that took part in the final campaign of the Purge of the Contqual Sub-sector on the world of Shardenus.Kask - First Princeps of the Titan Fortunata Imperiatrix.Talon - Princeps of the Legion with over 100 confirmed kills.Silberman - Princeps of the Legion who was shot and killed by a sniper during the Battle of Tallarn.Marnoc (Successor of Princeps Silberman) - Princeps of the Legion during the Battle of Tallarn.Toal - Moderatus of the Legion during the Battle of Tallarn.Hazan - Moderatus of the Legion during the Battle of Tallarn.Warden - Moderatus of the Legion during the Battle of Tallarn.Kurtz - Warhound-class Titan Princeps during the Battle of Tallarn.
Legio Astorum - Legion Strength: The Titan forges of Lucius were extensive prior to the outbreak of the Horus Heresy and, though some portion of its industry was lost during the conflict due to malfunctions brought on by extended periods of overtaxing, the Forge World was well positioned to supply the needs of a Primus-grade Titan Legion like the Legio Astorum.As such, before its numbers were vastly reduced by the conflict within the Beta-Garmon star cluster, the Legio Astorum stood 162 god-engines strong. Despite the reputation for lightning assaults, the principal strength of the Legio Astorum consisted of Warlord and Reaver-class Titans, with an estimated three dozen Warhound-class god-engines and a single maniple of the Jackal-class maintained by the Titan Legion at all time.Several Nemesis and Imperator-class god-engines are also recorded in its number, of which a single Imperator would always be present on Lucius, standing guard over the entrance to the network of maintenance tunnels that allowed access to the artificial sun held within the centre of the planet.
Legio Astorum - Legion Appearance: Each Titan Legion has its own idiosyncrasies of operation and ritual, and the Warp Runners have long had the reputation of preferring to adorn their war engines with bold heraldry and striking decoration, while its Moderati and Princeps favour an austere uniform bearing no emblems or gained awards.
Legio Astorum - Legion Colours: The colours of this Titan Legion are primarily blue with gold. An older colour scheme exists, in which the Titans were blue with orange flame patterns.
Legio Astorum - Legion Badge: The symbol of the Legio Astorum (Warp Runners) is a black eclipse symbol on a field of blue. The Black Sun of Lucius is central to the heraldry of the Warp Runners, representing not just the artificial sun at the heart of the hollow Forge World, but also the isolation Lucius endured during the centuries of Old Night.Astrological precision is central to the heraldry of the Warp Runners, their logicians carefully charting the history of the Legion as solar maps and Warp routes scrawled out across each Titan's armour. Likewise, campaign honours are stamped out machine-like upon each Titan's banner, each icon coded to the great lexicon of Lucius, so that its tech-priests and Princeps might read at a glance a Titan's victories and campaigns. Alongside this accounting of the Titan's war record, the signum nobilis banner details maniple and rank.
Legio Astorum - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), pp. 16-17, 63, 78-79, 88Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pp. 19-23, 93Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Loyalist Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 38-42Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition) pp. 14, 16Codex Titanicus (1st Edition), pp. 4-7, 9-10, 14, 21, 29, 32, 34, 49, 110Imperial Armour Volume Six - The Siege of Vraks - Part Two, pp. 42-43, 46-48, 52-53, 60, 112-113, 118, 120-123, 199Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three, pp. 49, 126, 161Imperial Armour Apocalypse 2, pp. 88-89White Dwarf 108 (UK), "'Eavy Metal: Adeptus Titanicus Titans & Banners," pg. 76White Dwarf 110 (UK), "Adeptus Titanicus", pg. 41White Dwarf 111 (UK), "Adeptus Titanicus", pg. 56White Dwarf 287 (UK), "Forge World: Creators of monsters and builders of Titans (Review)," pg. 38A Thousand Sons (Novel) by Graham McNeillWrath of Iron (Novel) by Chris WraightTitandeath (Novel) by Guy HaleyGames Workshop Online Store - Legio Astorum Transfer Sheet
Legio Astraman - Legio Astraman: The Legio Astraman ("Morning Stars") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.The Legio Astraman is based on the Forge World of Graia. They guard the Belt of Iron, the name given to a region of space spanning the Segmentum Tempestus and Segmentum Pacificus that was home to many less potent Forge Worlds.
Legio Astraman - Horus Heresy: By the time of onset of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium, the Legio Astraman was perhaps one of the foremost experts in fighting other Titan Legions, thanks largely to their participation in the conquest of various Renegade Forge Worlds, marking them out as a potentially significant threat in the war to come.Presuming the loyalties of Graia would be difficult to gain, emissaries of the Warmaster Horus instead turned Valia-Maximal to their side, stoking the fires of resentment and placing the two long-antagonistic Forge Worlds in direct opposition.When the latter publicly declared for the cause of the Warmaster, Graia found itself pulled into an escalating conflict with Valia-Maximal and its Legio Laniaskara, leading to the recall of much of the Morning Stars' strength. Their numbers proved valuable following the eruption of full-scale war across the Belt of Iron.Over two-thirds of the strength of the Legio Astraman was committed to the region and the resulting conflict, known as the Cataclysm of Iron, was to see hundreds of worlds devastated, with even Graia itself feeling the tread of Traitor god-engines when the Legio Laniaskara fell upon the Forge World.What strength the Legio Astraman held elsewhere in the galaxy soon found itself drawn into the deadliest conflicts of the Horus Heresy, including the chaotic maelstrom of the Beta Garmon campaign.
Legio Astraman - Post-Heresy: In the dark days following the fall of Horus at the Siege of Terra, it was the Morning Stars that discovered Valia-Maximal abandoned, the once-prosperous Forge World left barren save for the desecrated husks of those Morning Stars Titans that had fallen during the conflict, unable to be retrieved.Since that day, the Legio Astraman has vowed to pursue the Legio Laniaskara to the end of the galaxy, until such a time as its memory has been banished.
Legio Astraman - Legion Combat Doctrine: Like all military forces drawn from Graia, the Morning Stars possess an innate tenacity and refusal to yield, never retreating, even in the face of certain death. The princeps of the Legio Astraman are trained to operate with reduced systems, pushing them to better understand the limitations of their god-engines. The iron will of their princeps are legendary and nothing can dissuade them from their chosen path.They are careful to ensure their assigned god-engine is always operational at peak condition, monitoring all systems even in the heat of battle. They also believe in facing adversity head-on and will not baulk in the face of a charging foe.
Legio Astraman - Notable Titans: Fortiter Bellator (Warlord-class Titan) - Titans were engineered to be capable of facing any threat the wider galaxy could throw at them, and loadouts such as that displayed by Fortiter Bellator, displayed above, were common when called upon to face enemy infantry. Fortiter Bellator took part in the campaign upon the Agri-world of Nariindi, one of the principal suppliers of food to the Forge World of Graia. The Agri-world was plagued by widespread rebellion during the Cataclysm of Iron, resulting in a maniple of Titans, including Fortiter Bellator, being deployed to placate the world. Contact was lost in 012.M31, and it was only upon the rediscovery of the gutted carcass of the Warlord upon the abandoned Forge World of Valia-Maximal two standard years later that its fate became known.Invictus (Warlord-class Titan) - One of the major strategic targets of interest for the Ork WAAAGH! Grimskull during its invasion of Forge World Graia was the seizure of the Warlord-class Titan Invictus that was nearing completion in the Ajakis Manufactorum. Much of the effort of the Ultramarines 2nd Company under the command of Captain Demetrian Titus that was deployed to Graia to slow down the Orks' advance until an Imperial liberation fleet could arrive was directed towards the defence of this nascent Titan from seizure by the Greenskin invaders. Invictus was later used by the Imperial forces to destroy the major focal point on Graia from which the forces of Chaos were launching their own invasion of the Forge World, by use of a Volcano Cannon supercharged with the mysterious Warp-based power source that had been developed by Inquisitor Drogan.Fulgur Magno (Warbringer-Nemesis-class Titan) - Though the Morning Stars contributed forces to conflicts throughout the Belt of Iron and the wider galaxy during the Horus Heresy, much of their efforts focused on halting the advances of the hated Legio Laniaskara into the borders of Graia's Forge Empire. Given the infamously direct tactics of the Impalers, those in command of Morning Stars forces relied heavily upon defensive strategies in response. Warbringer-Nemesis Titans, such as the Fulgur Magno depicted above, were vital elements of such tactics, often being used as anchors for a defensive line. Faster elements of the Legio Astraman would draw Impalers god-engines into carefully prepared kill zones where the Traitors' movements were slowed by the debilitating effects of the Morning Stars' Quake Cannon.
Legio Astraman - Notable Personnel: Princeps Enoch - Enoch was the princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Invictus under construction on Graia in the 41st Millennium and later commanded it in battle.
Legio Astraman - Legion Specific Wargear: Maglock Shells - Legio Astraman Titans make use of modified ordnance designed to adhere to the armour of their target before detonation, localising the damage for greater impact.
Legio Astraman - Knight Houses: House MoritainHouse Col'Khak
Legio Astraman - Space Marines: Raven Guard
Legio Astraman - Legion Strength: The strength of the Legio Astraman benefited greatly from both the manufacturing capacity of Graia and the Imperium's need to sustain their numbers in conflicts with enemy Titan Legions during the Great Crusade, such as the Legio Laniaskara and the Legio Venator.To ensure that the attrition of such conflicts did not wear down the Morning Stars' numbers, over a dozen lesser Forge Worlds in close proximity to Graia were tasked with supplying the Legio Astraman with materiel and, where possible, Titans. Through careful negotiation, this flow of resources was maintained until the outbreak of the Horus Heresy which saw the strength of the Legio Astraman stand at 156 god-engines, marking it as a Primus-grade Legio.Given the ancient status of this Titan Legion, several of these were of rarer classes including at least three Imperator Titans, of which one fell upon Urdesh and has yet to be rebuilt. Of the remaining Titans, the Morning Stars showed a preference towards the deployment of Warlord Battle Titans, with nearly half their number drawn exclusively from its ranks.The remaining god-engines utilised by the Legio Astraman were split evenly between Scout and Battle Titans, with numbers of both maintained at equivalent levels to ensure the Titan Legion could adapt to any situation.
Legio Astraman - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Astraman are green, yellow and blue; decoration is sometimes added in white and blue (usually stripes or checker-patterns).
Legio Astraman - Legion Badge: The iconography of the Legio Astraman Titan Legion is a black morning star outlined in gold, centered upon a shield which is half gold, and half blue and white chevrons.This central icon is crowned by a golden Iron Halo and centered upon a field of green.
Legio Astraman - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Loyalist Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 88-93Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Crucible of Retribution (Specialty Game), pp. 22-23, 26-27, 29-31, 72-73, 76-77Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), pg. 16Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Titandeath (Specialty Game), pg. 93Codex Titanicus (1st Edition), pg. 110Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard & Imperial Navy, pg. 8Imperial Armour Volume Eight - Raid on Kastorel-Novem, pg. 77The Horus Heresy - Book Six: Retribution (Forge World Series), pg. 31White Dwarf 108 (UK), "'Eavy Metal: Adeptus Titanicus Titans & Banners," pg. 76Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Video Game)Warhammer Community - Crucible of Retribution: The Story (23 Oct 2020)Warhammer Community - Coming Soon: Crucible of Retribution (29 Sept 2020)
Legio Atarus - Legio Atarus: Legio AtarusTitan LegionCollegia TitanicaAdeptus MechanicusYoung by the standards of many other Titan Legions, the Firebrands were formed in the latter part of the Great Crusade on the remote world of Atar-Median by exiles from the Forge World of Phaeton. Distrusted and looked down upon by many of their brethren in the Adeptus Titanicus,  the Legio Atarus had to prove themselves time and again, gaining a reputation as being independent and headstrong.Despite this reputation, the Firebrands would go on to prove their mettle where other, more lauded names, would ignominiously fall.Years of war and headstrong commanders gave the Machine Spirits (artificial intelligences) of Firebrands Titans their own distinctive personalities. When the Machine Spirit takes control of the Titan, it is even more determined than ever to close the distance with its foes.Many princeps cannot see beyond the ancient tactica doctrines laid down by the Collegia Titanica -- not so the Firebrands, who practise the theorems of adaptive warfare.This is most evident in their flexible approach to the concept of the maniple, individual princeps often changing their tactics in the midst of combat.Perhaps the Firebrands' most defining moment came during the Shedim Drifts campaign, when the Warmaster Horus callously sacrificed dozens of their Titans to attain victory -- a slight that the Legio would not soon forget, and which ultimately led the Legio to side with the Loyalists during the Horus Heresy.
Legio Atarus - Great Crusade: For much of the latter third of the Great Crusade, it was common for the Firebrands to operate several separate demi-legios as was the common case with many Secundus-grade Titan Legions, and seldom came together en masse for battle.It was commonly the case for one demi-legio to be rotated through deployment on Atar-Median for repair and refit between major engagements, with the bulk of the Legio deployed to different warzones as needed as part of the overall Imperium military reserve, and seldom stayed attached to a particular expeditionary fleet for long.Particular campaigns which saw the notable actions of the Firebrands during this period included the Liberation of Vayber and the 2nd Gehenna Campaign, the great Ullanor Crusade and the Lament of Shedim.In this last campaign, a notable incident occurred which was to have a later bearing on events of the Horus Heresy and accounted, in part, for the presence of Demi-legio Karkanos of the Firebrands at Isstvan V.During the war in the Shedim Drifts against the Craftworld Aeldari, a mighty clash occurred on the arid world of Anark Zeta between the forces of the craftworld of Mór-ríoh'i and the Great Crusade.The vast Imperial force raised to destroy the marauding craftworld included detachments from no fewer than four Titan Legions: the Legio Mortis (Death's Heads), the Legio Fureans (Tiger Eyes), the Legio Osedax (Cockatrices) and the Legio Atarus, and was under the overall direct strategic command of Horus Lupercal and his (then) Luna Wolves Space Marine Legion.During the apocalyptic battle which raged on the planet's surface, the Legio Atarus was used as part of a probing attack against the Asuryani Warp Gates. This was successful in drawing forth the ash-grey and crimson Titans of the enemy in open battle.Heavily engaged and outnumbered by the ghostly war machines of the xenos, the promised support of the Death's Heads did not materialise, while the Titans of the Tiger Eyes, holding the Firebrands' flank, crumbled under the Craftworld Aeldari assault and retreated, leaving a full demi-legio of the Firebrands to be encircled and all but destroyed, with only a single Warhound-class Scout Titan surviving the engagement still able to fight.In the aftermath it was revealed that the attack had been a ruse, a distraction planned by the Lupercal to divert the strength of the enemy away from the direct defence of their craftworld while his Space Marine Legion undertook a surprise-assault against it.The war of the Shedim Drifts was a great victory for Horus and all those of the Imperium who fought in the campaign gained glory because of it, but to attain that victory the Legio Atarus had been cruelly used without its foreknowledge or consent, and its losses worsened by the callous scorn held for it by the Legio Mortis and the Legio Fureans in their refusal to stand beside them in battle.It was an injury the Firebrands would not forget when the fires of the Horus Heresy were unleashed.
Legio Atarus - Horus Heresy: The events that occurred in the Shedim Drifts soured the opinion those of the Legio Atarus held towards the Warmaster Horus and, when news of his betrayal reached Atar-Median, alongside calls to aid the suppression of his rebellion, the Firebrands were amongst the first to answer. Whether such eagerness stemmed from a desire for vengeance for the grievances the Titan Legion held towards the Warmaster or merely out of complete loyalty to the Imperium is unknown.Regardless of the reasoning, a demi-legio of Titans was dispatched to Isstvan V only to meet their end during the Drop Site Massacre.For the remainder of the Horus Heresy, the Titans of the Legio Atarus proved eager to bring the Traitors to battle, throwing themselves into some of the most notable battles of the conflict, including the battle for the Beta-Garmon Cluster and the Cataclysm of Iron.
Legio Atarus - Legion Wargear: Infernus Missiles - Legio Atarus Titans make extensive use of incendiary missiles, weapons that are produced in vast numbers on Atar-Median and supplied almost exclusively to the Firebrands, and that are highly effective against supporting units and terrain.
Legio Atarus - Notable Personnel: Grand Master Erwin Malky - Erwin Malky served as the Grand Master of the Firebrands Legion.Grand Master Everard Mazarin - Everard Mazarin served as the Grand Master of the Firebrands Legion during the Horus Heresy.Princeps Marakaru - Commander of War Maniple Red Naga, which fought at the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V.
Legio Atarus - Vassal Knight Houses: House Col'Khak (Knight World of Atar-Planitia)
Legio Atarus - Knight Houses: House ArakonHouse Vornherr
Legio Atarus - Space Marines: Blood AngelsIron HandsRaven GuardSalamandersWhite Scars
Legio Atarus - Legion Strength: Counted by the assessors of the Divisio Militaris as a fully operational Titan Legion of the Secundus-grade, the Legio Atarus was estimated to have between 100-130 god-machines in active service at the time of the outbreak of the Horus Heresy.It was also known to possess a highly respected armoured support battalion and Skitarii Auxilia Legion as part of its retainer forces (known collectively as the "Brotherhood of Axxos.")Like many Secundus-grade rated Titan Legions, the Legio Atarus' principal strength in number ranged across the mid-classes of Titan, with Reaver, Nightgaunt and Carnivore-classes making up the majority of its ranks, with sizable contingents of the Warlord and Warhound-classes constituting the balance of their Titan forces.It is believed the Legio Atarus possessed a single Nemesis-class Titan, the Immaculata Athartus, which served as the god-engine of the Legion's Grand Master Everard Mazarin, and the primary defender of the Forge World of Atar-Median.In times of war or when the Forge World itself came under threat, the Legion could also call upon its allies of the Col'Khak Collective, a Knight House established on the nearby planet of Atar-Planitia. During the Battle of Beta-Garmon, the Legio Atarus was supported by House Arakon and House Vornherr.
Legio Atarus - Legion Colours: The colours of the Firebrands are red, white, black and gold. As each Battle Titan is a sacred weapon of the Adeptus Mechanicus, each is revered by its crew and served by an army of attendant Tech-priests.A Battle Titan's primary armaments carried to war bear the seal of the Adeptus Titanicus, a holy mark professing the sanctity of the weapons.These purity seals are intended to keep the weapons functioning in battle and bear prayers to the Omnissiah, the victories of the Legio, and the names of the magi and Tech-priests who have attended the god-machine.
Legio Atarus - Legion Badge: Upstarts and rebels in the eyes of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the heraldry of the Legio Atarus nonetheless attests to their loyalty to the Emperor with the iconography of the Imperium.Their primary symbol is a burning brand centered within the Opus Machina, the symbol which earned the Legio Atarus their more common moniker -- the "Firebrands."The cog within a cog speaks to the division between Phaeton and Mars, a dispute many within the Firebrands still considers an unnecessary act of submission, even of it did ultimately lead to the creation of their Legio and the founding of Atar-Median.Few Legions have had to fight as hard as the Firebrands to earn their place among their fellow Titan Legions, and every Legion banner contains a long list of campaign honours, each a victory for the Legion and shared by all members of the Firebrands.
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Legio Atrox - Legio Atrox: The Legio Atrox is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. It was based on the Forge World of Gulgorahd, the capital of the Gulgorahd Protectorate sector on the edge of the Ultima Segmentum.The Legio Atrox fought during the Horus Heresy in the Thramas Crusade, where they aided the Loyalist forces in resisting the advance of the Night Lords Traitor Legion.
Legio Atrox - Legion Colours: The Legio Atrox's colours are unknown.
Legio Atrox - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Atrox is unknown.
Legio Audax - Legio Audax: The Legio Audax ("Ember Wolves") 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.The Ember Wolves assisted the World Eaters Space Marine Legion throughout the Great Crusade after they were attached to the 13th Expeditionary Fleet's order of battle, and they shared this Astartes Legion's savage approach to combat.In the final days of the Great Crusade, the Legio Audax received most of its supply and maintenance services from the Redjak Mechanicum of the Forge World of Sarum, which was liberated by the World Eaters and had pledged itself to the service of the 13th Expeditionary Fleet thereafter.This alliance allowed the Titans of the Legio Audax to be equipped with scaled-down versions of Ursus Claw systems -- the great harpoons used by the World Eaters' flagship, the Conqueror, for boarding actions.Another peculiarity of the Legio Audax was that its complement consisted solely of Warhound Titan-variants that possessed more armour plating than was standard, and used pack tactics when engaging larger foes.It is known that the Ember Wolves numbered approximately 90 god-machines in the aftermath of the destruction of Armatura.