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Legio Excruciatus - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Excruciatus are red with decorations in gold.
Legio Excruciatus - Legion Badge: The Legio Excruciatus' badge is a horned skull with its jaws wide open centred on a black, eight-pointed star of Chaos on a field of red. Alternatively, the Legion sometimes utilises a black banner displaying a black Eye of Horus over a red hexagon.
Legio Ferocastrum - Legio Ferocastrum: The Legio Ferocastrum ("The Holdfasts") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Legio is based on the Forge World of Sigma-Ulstari, the only Imperial Warden Planet which is located in the Cordon Impenetra in the Octarius Sector, bordering the Ork Empire of Octarius.
Legio Ferocastrum - Notable Campaigns: Octarius War (Unknown Date.M42) -  During the invasion of the Pankallis Sub-sector by the Orks of the Octarius Empire and Hive Fleet Leviathan in the Octarius War, the Legio Ferocastrum helped to defend its home Forge World of Sigma-Ulstari from  the innumerable assaults of the Greenskins and Tyranids.
Legio Ferocastrum - Notable Personnel: Princeps Majoris Batiator Akropolit — At the time of the Octarius War, Batiator Akropolit was a princeps majoris of the Legio Ferocastrum.
Legio Ferocastrum - Legion Colours: The Legio Ferocastrum' colours are unknown.
Legio Ferocastrum - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Ferocastrum is unknown.
Legio Ferrax - Legio Ferrax: The Legio Ferrax ("Iron Wolves") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.Their homeworld is the Forge World of Columnus on the western fringe of the Segmentum Solar.
Legio Ferrax - Legion History: The Legio Ferrax is best known for its involvement in the Battle of Columnus where they successfully repelled a xenos assault on their homeworld.
Legio Ferrax - Notable Campaigns: Battle of Columnus (249.M41) - When their homeworld is invaded by the Orks of WAAAGH! Zagdakka, the Iron Wolves muster their entire strength -- some 30 god-engines of varying classes -- in defence of Columnus' principal forge-fanes. With the tacit approval of Columnus' ruling Magi, the Titans operated in close cooperation with a large contingent of Iron Hands Space Marines from Clan Raukaan who favoured the strict defence of Columnus' three principal cities: Kemlos, Urdri and Slartar. Faced with the unprecedented greenskin coordination and psychic might of the WeirdWAAAGH!, the Iron Hands do not deviate from their early battle-plan and refuse to support the fighting retreat mounted by Shadow Captain Stenn and his company of Raven Guard. Disobeying orders, two of the Legion's god-engines, Dictat Ferrum and Sanctus Absolom, joined the offensive and were subsequently lost when Zagdakka's Weirdboyz unleashed their psychic abilities. Even when Urdri's walls fell the Iron Hands did not engage the oncoming Orks before the last Raven Guard Astartes had been slain, using their fellow Astartes to blunt the enemy's assault before unleashing their own devastating and precise firepower. Zagdakka and his retinue were annihilated by the Iron Hands' assault. With Zagdakka's death, the cohesion of his WAAAGH! was broken and the remaining Orks were exterminated by the combined efforts of the Iron Hands, the Legio Ferrax and Columnus' vast armies of Skitarii. Wounded but ultimately victorious, the Legio Ferrax nevertheless shared the shame of Iron Father Kristos' questionable decisions.
Legio Ferrax - Notable Titans: Dictat Ferrum - One of the two Reaver-class Titans that followed Shadow Captain Stenn in carrying out delaying actions against the horde of Orks that invaded the Forge World of Colomnus. While covering the retreat of several Imperial tanks and troop-carriers, the Dictat Ferrum was brought low by a powerful sorcerous blast of green psychic energy attributed to one of the WAAAGH!'s many Weirdboyz.Sanctus Absolum - Twin to the Dictat Ferrum, the Sanctus Absolum was also lost covering the retreat of Shadow Captain Stenn when the destroyed Dictat Ferrum toppled its fellow Reaver and caused both God-engines to fall from the raised macro-highways of Columnus onto the plain below.
Legio Ferrax - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Ferrax are currently unknown.
Legio Ferrax - Legion Badge: The Legio Ferrax's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Ferroxus - Legio Ferroxus: The Legio Ferroxus is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Legio Ferroxus - Legion History: Titans of the Legio Ferroxus served with the military forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus of Stygies VIII that deployed to defend the continent of Megaborealis and the Bore-Hive of Scelerus on the world of Vigilus during the War of Beasts in the Era Indomitus.During that conflict, hybrids of the Writhing Wyrm gene-sect of the Pauper Princes Genestealer Cult managed to steal a Vortex Missile and detonate it near the Warlord-class Titan Dominus Rex of the Legio Ferroxus. The explosion of the Battle Titan was so great that a chain reaction was triggered that destroyed all of the other Legio Ferroxus Titans berthed alongside the Dominus Rex.It is unknown if this explosion destroyed the entirety of the Legio's Titan complement or if it had Titans serving elsewhere in the galaxy.
Legio Ferroxus - Notable Titans: Dominus Rex (Warlord-class Titan) — The Dominus Rex was a Warlord Battle Titan of the Legio Ferroxus that was destroyed on Vigilus during the War of Beasts. Its destruction by the Writhing Wyrm gene-sect of the Pauper Princes Genestealer Cult using a stolen Vortex Missile set off a chain reaction that also destroyed all of the other Titans of the Legio berthed near to it.
Legio Ferroxus - Legion Colours: The Legio Ferroxus' colours are unknown.
Legio Ferroxus - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Ferroxus is unknown.
Legio Fortidus - Legio Fortidus: Legio FortidusThe DauntlessTitan LegionCollegia TitanicaAge of the ImperiumAge of StrifeMechanicumMarsLegio FortidusEven those of the Legio who had never laid eyes upon the red sands of their homeworld stood firm in the face of danger, the glory of Mars theirs to uphold.Unfortunately, they were among the first Legios to be targeted during the event remembered as the Death of Innocence when the Martian Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal first made his deal with the Warmaster Horus to turn against the Emperor, and initiated the Schism of Mars between the Loyalist Mechanicum rump and its treacherous Dark Mechanicum counterparts.At the time, the Legio Fortidus was generally believed to have perished in the opening days of that Martian civil war, but those outposts of the Legio still fighting on the fringes of the Great Crusade continued to endure.They forged a fearless reputation on dozens of worlds across the galaxy, bringing the Emperor's wrath to the Traitor forces of the Arch-heretic Horus, driven by the treachery committed against them and their need for revenge, despite their long, slow decline to extinction.
Legio Fortidus - Death of Innocence: 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, for Horus' coming rebellion against the Emperor.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 from the Age of Technology 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 stored within.Soon the corruption spread throughout the forge-cities and temples across the Red Planet as scrapcode -- Chaos-contaminated digital source code that was infected with an arcane computer virus -- infected 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. Thus, the Dauntless' vision of newfound unity was to be broken in the cruellest of manners, for as the princeps of the Legio Fortidus gathered on Mars, the treachery of the fabricator-general was revealed.In a single moment, the Legio Fortidus and their fellow Titan Legion of the Legio Agravides were dealt a seemingly mortal blow. The reactors of each Titan assembled within the fortress of both Titan Legions were overloaded by bursts of viral scrapcode, reducing the fortification to rubble and slaying all of personnel of the Legio Fortidus upon the Red Planet with it.Both these once-proud Titan Legions were effectively eliminated from the roster of the Loyalist forces. Thus was the Legio Fortidus condemned to a slow extinction. In later years, this night would become known in Adeptus Mechanicus legends as the "Death of Innocence" -- and the start of the terrible Mechanicum civil war known as the "Schism of Mars."
Legio Fortidus - Horus Heresy: Though the civil war on Mars claimed the majority of their god-engines and the oldest of their princeps, outposts of the Legio Fortidus and those still fighting on the fringes of the Great Crusade endured out among the stars.When news reached the distant outposts of the Legio Fortidus of the fall of their most seasoned commanders and the destruction of the Titan Legion's most ancient god-engines, it is said that only rage could fill the void such a loss left behind.Devoid of aid from both Mars and other Dauntless battlegroups, each pocket of the Legio Fortidus became, in its own eyes, the sole survivors of the Titan Legion. Reliant on small outposts, well-developed as they were, few such battlegroups were capable of sustaining the losses the Horus Heresy would bring, yet retreat and isolation was not a notion entertained by any amongst the Titan Legion.On a dozen worlds across the galaxy, the god-engines of the Legio Fortidus forged a fearsome name for themselves, displaying a distinct lack of care for their own well-being, as if death, be it the Traitors' or their own, was the sole goal of the Titan Legion's princeps.
Legio Fortidus - 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 Molech (009.M31) - Molech was a Knight World ruled over by House Devine ever since the Emperor Himself led an expedition to bring it into the fledgling Imperium and left a significant garrison there. The planet thrived under the rule of Devine, the populace of its capital city of Lupercalia never knowing the true reason why the Emperor had taken it upon Himself to lead the force that claimed it. Unfortunately for the citizens of Molech, the Traitor Horus knew exactly what lay beneath the city that had been named in his honour -- a Warp Gate which, it was said, had allowed the Emperor to convene with the Ruinous Powers themselves. When Loyalist forces became aware of the Traitor fleet's approach, they mustered at Molech. As well as a trio of Titan Legions -- the Legio Gryphonicus, Legio Crucius, and the Legio Fortidus -- there were elements of each of the Imperium's fighting forces, including nearly a dozen Knight houses which owed fealty to Devine. The Traitor force was equally impressive, featuring no fewer than four Titan Legions: the Legio Vulpa, Legio Interfector, Legio Vulcanum II, and the infamous Legio Mortis. Maniples of god-engines began their march against Avadon, their orders to lay the city to waste. Refugees streamed from it, desperate to get ahead of the Traitors' advance. From Zanark Deeps, closest of the Legio fortresses, the salvation of the refugees came. Titans of the Legio Fortidus, orphaned by the Martian civil war, made their stand against the far greater numbers arrayed against them. For solar hours, the two sides duelled in the outer districts of Avadon, setting the city ablaze with their apocalyptic weaponry. And though in the end the Legio Fortidus was broken, they had bloodied the Traitor Titan Legions and bought precious time for the citizens of Avadon to flee.
Legio Fortidus - Notable Titans: Bastion of Sorrow (Warlord-class Titan) - Scattered across the galaxy and heavily depleted after the opening moves of the Traitors in the Schism of Mars, many Legio Fortidus battlegroups firmly believed that they were the only survivors of their ancient Titan Order. Many princeps underwent marked changes because of this. The princeps of Bastion of Sorrow, depicted above during the later years of the Great Crusade, became so focused on avenging the wrongs dealt to their Titan Legion they altered their god-engine's name from its old title Defender of Dawn and sacrificed some of its long-range firepower in favour of weapons better suited to deliver its vengeance directly in close combat.Bloodgeld (Warlord-class Titan) - Titan of Princeps Utu-Lerna.Red Vengeance (Warlord-class Titan) - Titan of Princeps Uta-Dagon.Valour of Mars (Warhound-class Titan) - Originally conceived as scouts and skirmishers, catastrophic losses for the Legio Fortidus saw many Warhound Scout Titans pushed into roles normally reserved for their larger brethren. During the defence of Lupercalia at the Battle of Molech, the Valour of Mars, depicted above during the Horus Heresy, was noted for utilising tactics deemed hazardous by many observers. Leading a squadron of Warhounds similarly armed with weapons that taxed the smaller reactor of the Titan, the Valour of Mars led numerous sorties through the ruins of Lupercalia that proved instrumental in driving the Traitors from the world.
Legio Fortidus - Notable Personnel: Princeps Uta-Dagon - Uta-Dagon was a princeps of the Red Vengeance, the Warlord Titan he had piloted for eighty Terran years and whose name he had changed after a vivid waking dream in its MIU manifold. He fought and eventually died during the Battle of Molech.Princeps Utu-Lerna - Utu-Lerna was a princeps of the Bloodgeld and sister of Uta-Dagon. She died alongside her brother at Molech.Warmonger Urnammu - Urnammu was an executor fetial of the Legio Fortidus. Such a high rank allowed her to move between the Legions freely, but she decided to die with her beloved masters.
Legio Fortidus - Legion Stratagems: With the majority of their Legion destroyed on Mars, the surviving princeps seniores of the Dauntless were forced to become more flexible in their tactics and use whatever Titan assets they could call upon to aid them.Conviction in their cause drove the princeps of the Legio Fortidus with new determination, and they were able to throw off the distracting pains of the MIU and force their Titans to respond to their commands no matter the damage they might suffer.Such was the wound inflicted on the Dauntless by the Traitors that their princeps were often more than willing to sacrifice themselves if it meant grievous injury could be dealt to the followers of Horus.
Legio Fortidus - Fortis Battle Maniple: Titans are mobile fortresses as formidable to bring down as any redoubt of steel and stone. The Fortis Battle Maniple was a defensive formation, allowing Titans to resist assaults from numerically superior foes or the massed firepower of enemy war engines.Standing shoulder to shoulder, the Titans of a Fortis Battle maniple shrugs off devastating hits with overlapping void shields and locked armoured plates.
Legio Fortidus - Required Titans: 1 Warlord-class Battle Titan2 Reaver-class Battle Titans
Legio Fortidus - Optional Additional Titans: 1 Warlord-class Battle Titan1 Reaver-class Battle Titan
Legio Fortidus - Knight Houses: House Devine (Loyalists)House DonarHouse IdraHouse KaskaHouse KaushikHouse MamaragonHouse TaranisHouse TazkharHouse Zavora
Legio Fortidus - Space Marines: Blood AngelsUltramarines
Legio Fortidus - Legion Strength: Before betrayal dealt it a grievous blow during the Schism of Mars, the strength of the Legio Fortidus was well-recorded, with data collated from the numerous outposts of the Titan Legion noting 127 active god-engines of varying classes and sizes in service to the Legio Fortidus, which marked it as a Secundus-grade Legio.Of these, over a third were Warlord-class Battle Titans, with the remaining god-engines made up of other Warhound Scout and Reaver Battle Titans, as well as several Imperator and Nemesis Titans within their ranks.The outbreak of the Horus Heresy saw this number vastly diminished, and the true cost of betrayal may never be known. What is clear is that the Death of Innocence, the name given to the event that resulted in the revelation of treachery upon Mars, destroyed 53 god-engines and claimed the lives of the majority of the Titan Legion's greatest Titans.The catastrophe upon Mars was not the only act of betrayal to bring disaster to the Legio Fortidus, for two recorded instances tell of Mechanicum fleets ferrying Dauntless Titans laid to waste when the guns of presumed allies were turned upon the vessels.Following such losses, the Legio Fortidus could call upon an estimated 40 god-engines though these numbers were located across the galaxy in separate battlegroups and incapable of joining together. Furthermore, there proved a lack of consistent supply in order to arm the Dauntless battlegroups and replenish their numbers, resulting in significant deviations from standard tactical patterns laid down within the Collegia Titanica's charters.The most notable adaptation forced upon the Legio Fortidus was the abandonment of the conventional Titan warfare role, with the varying battlegroups forced to deploy certain Titan classes in roles they were not designed for, such as utilising Reavers and Warlords as vanguards in the absence of Warhounds or other Scout Titans.
Legio Fortidus - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Fortidus are primarily red and white trimmed in brass. The primary colour red indicates their origins and allegiance to the Martian Mechanicum homeworld of Mars.
Legio Fortidus - Legion Badge: The Legion badge of the Legio Fortidus is a black skull wearing a Roman-style helmet. A longitudinal crest in the form of a half-cog sits atop the skull's head, reminiscent of the crests worn by the Praetors of the ancient Legiones Astartes.These symbols are centred within a larger white cog on a field of red.
Legio Fortidus - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), "Selected Notable Engine-Wars of the Age of Darkness," "Fortidus' Last Stand: Delaying Action at Avadon," "Battle of Molech: Treachery & Deceit," pg. 15, 64-65, 72-73Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Doom of Molech (Specialty Game), pp. 7, 12, 20-22, 30, 64-65Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Loyalist Legios (Specialty Game), pp. 108-113Mechanicum (Novel) by Graham McNeillVengeful Spirit (Novel) by Graham McNeill, Chs. 7, 11, 14Warhammer Community - Frequently Asked Questiosn and Errata V1.2 (19 April 2021)Warhammer Community - Adeptus Titanicus: The Latest FAQs!" (28 Feb 2020)Warhammer Community - Doom of Molech: What's in the Book (16 Apr 2019)Warhammer Community - Adeptus Titanicus: Frequently Asked Questions and Errata V 1.1 (PDF)
Legio Fortis - Legio Fortis: The Legio Fortis is a Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.
Legio Fortis - Notable Campaigns: Plague Wars (ca. 111.M42) - The Legio Fortis was counted among the Imperial forces dedicated to defending the Realm of Ultramar during the Plague Wars from the forces of Chaos in service to the Plague God Nurgle.
Legio Fortis - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Fortis - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Fortis - Legion Colours: This Titan Legion's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Fortis - Legion Badge: This Titan Legion's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Fortitudis - Legio Fortitudis: The Legio Fortitudis is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Legio Fortitudis - Legion History: The Legio Fortitudis was deployed as part of the Imperial force led by the Ultramarines Master of Sanctity Ortan Cassius and the Cadian General Arka of the Astra Militarum that defended the Agri-world of Styxia Prime in the Eastern Fringe from an assault by the Tyranid Hive Fleet Gorgon in the late 41st Millennium.
Legio Fortitudis - Notable Titans: Dominatus Rex (Warlord-class Titan) - The Dominatus Rex, commanded by Princeps Perthion, fought during the defence of Styxia Prime from Hive Fleet Gorgon.Victorix (Warlord-class Titan) - The Victorix, commanded by Princeps Perthion, fought during the defence of Styxia Prime from Hive Fleet Gorgon.
Legio Fortitudis - Notable Personnel: Princeps Perthion - Perthion commanded the Warlord-class Titan Dominatus Rex during the defence of Styxia Prime from Hive Fleet Gorgon.Princeps Jasyn - Jasyn commanded the Warlord-class Titan Victorix during the defence of Styxia Prime from Hive Fleet Gorgon.
Legio Fortitudis - Legion Colours: The Legio Fortitudis' colours are unknown.
Legio Fortitudis - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Fortitudis is unknown.
Legio Frostreaver - Legio Frostreaver: The Legio Frostreaver 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.
Legio Frostreaver - Notable Campaigns: Assault on the Crythe Cluster (Unknown Date.M41) - The Legio Frostreaver participated in an assault of the Black Legion under the command of Abaddon the Despoiler and elements from several Night Lords warbands on the Crythe Cluster. Over two thousand Astartes and more than a million Human soldiers marched at the behest of the Despoiler to conquer these worlds and to create a beachhead on a Forge World of the Adeptus Mechanicus able to outfit and service Titans. The forces of Chaos overwhelmed the orbital defences of several worlds in the cluster but their assault on Crythe Prime was met with an attack from an Imperial fleet led by several companies of the Blood Angels, Flesh Tearers and Sons of Guilliman Chapters.
Legio Frostreaver - Legion Organisation: The Legio Frostreaver numbered a dozen Titans of various classes prior to the campaign in the Crythe Cluster. It is unknown whether any were lost during this campaign.
Legio Frostreaver - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Frostreaver - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Frostreaver - Legion Colours: The colours of this Titan Legion are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Frostreaver - Legion Badge: The Legion badge of the Legio Frostreaver is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Fulminari - Legio Fulminari: The Legio Fulminari is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Legio Fulminari - Legion History: The Legio Fulminari came to the defence of the Realm of Ultramar during the Ultramar Campaign of the 13th Black Crusade in ca. 999.M41 when the forces of Abaddon the Despoiler sought unsuccessfully to prevent the resurrection of the Primarch Roboute Guilliman.Following Guilliman's awakening and his renewed command over Imperial forces in Ultramar, he ordered the Legio Fulminari and elements of the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines to liberate the Ultramaran Civilised World of Ischara from the forces of Chaos.
Legio Fulminari - Legion Colours: The Legio Fulminari's colours are unknown.
Legio Fulminari - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Fulminari is unknown.
Legio Fureans - Legio Fureans: Legio FureansTiger EyesTraitor Titan LegionDark MechanicumEmperor of MankindWarmasterHorusRuinous PowersHorus HeresyThe Legio Fureans was a Titan Legion with a well-earned reputation for ferocity and unpredictability, nevertheless they amassed a war record of the highest distinction in the battles of the Great Crusade.It was this triumphant history and many martial plaudits that caused the more disquieting rumours that surrounded the Legio and its practices to be overlooked and ignored.Many of these unpursued reports pointed to occult and shamanistic beliefs held by the Legio's members which, if accurately portrayed, would be contrary to both the Imperial Truth and the orthodoxy of the Machine Cult of Mars.With the clarity of hindsight, it can now be judged just what corruption such hidden rites and twisted mores left the Legio Fureans open to, and what darkness had always festered in its heart.At the end of the Heresy during the Great Scouring, the Tiger Eyes Legion was driven towards the Eye of Terror along with the rest of the forces of Chaos. There they remained, trapped in eternal servitude to the Chaos Gods, fighting the Long War against the Corpse Emperor that began ten millennia ago.
Legio Fureans - Legion Beliefs: Tiger Eyes crews originally saw the presence of the Omnissiah in every aspect of the machine, from the thrumming power cables of the command throne, to the clanking chains of the autoloaders.However, as they became corrupted by Chaos, the Omnissiah was supplanted by the Ruinous Powers. Each is venerated in its own right, and crews often beseeched them for their beneficence at the start of a battle.
Legio Fureans - Legion Combat Doctrine: The tribal minds of the Tiger Eyes princeps had accumulated within the spirits of their god-machines over the millennia. This mingling of predatory instincts and plasma-fuelled fury makes Tiger Eyes Titans more prone to rage, but more focused on their prey when their Machine Spirits are awakened.Attack is the very nature of the Legio Fureans, whose princeps seniores teach that the striking blade triumphs over all. In Titan warfare, this doctrine was expressed as an offensive surge by a Tiger Eyes maniple, hammering their foes with a storm of weapons fire.
Legio Fureans - Legion Specific Wargear: Hunting Auspex - The forges of Incaladion created many unique systems for their Titan Legions during the world's long isolation from Terra. Though most had been lost to history, some remained within the ranks of the Legio Fureans, such as the Hunting Auspex. A Titan equipped with this arcane device is better able to pick its enemies out from the tangled wreckage of the battlefield, especially at longer ranges where it can isolate targets.
Legio Fureans - Notable Personnel: Blood Princeps Nistru - Nistru was a commander of a Legio Fureans sub-legion during the First Battle of Paramar.Princeps Majoris Anjana - Anjana was the princeps majoris and pilot of the Reaver-class Titan Leyaka Varr, as well as the commander of War Maniple IX during the First Battle of Paramar V.
Legio Fureans - Vassal Knight Houses: House Perdaxia
Legio Fureans - Knight Houses: House ÆrthegnHouse HyborasHouse MordredHouse Rajha
Legio Fureans - Space Marines: Alpha LegionEmperor's ChildrenSons of HorusWord BearersWorld Eaters
Legio Fureans - Legion Strength: Imperial Divisio Militaris records extant for the latter years of the Great Crusade rated the Legio Fureans as a fully operational Titan Legion of the Secundus-grade.The Legio was rated with an estimated 110-140 god-machines in active service at the time of the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. However, this may have underestimated the number of Titans in service with the Legio, which may have ranked as high as 170 various classes and types.This estimation has since been brought into question, as strategic Loyalist strikes against Incaladion following the events of Paramar V were thrown back by a steadfast defence led by two dozen Tiger Eyes Titans whose existence was absent from Imperial records, including the presence of a Warmaster Titan that stood sentinel on the Forge World in the years that followed.The principal strength of the Tiger Eyes was split between two divergent classes: the Mars Pattern Warlord and the Mars Pattern Warhound, both of which, given sufficient time and resources, the Titan-forges of Incaladion were capable of independently producing.The Titan god-engines of the Legio Fureans, perhaps because of the unique arts of the magi of Incaladion, were always regarded as possessing strangely bestial Machine Spirits, alien from those of other Legios, but still within the sanctified rites of the Mechanicum.During the later Great Crusade, the mid-range Battle Titans such as the Reaver and Carnivore were added in small numbers to expand the Legio's order of battle and strategic reach while it was also known to favour the use of an idiosyncratic light-intermediate sub-pattern developed locally on Incaladion known as the Reviler. This pattern was designed to operate principally as a mobile Inferno Cannon platform and replaced the use of the heavier Knight classes in the Legio's core of retainers.In terms of the heaviest Titan units, it is not believed the Legio Fureans possessed any Imperator-class Titans or their analogues, although it did utilise at least five adapted Death Bringer Warlords, which served as the Legio's heaviest assault units.
Legio Fureans - Legion Appearance: Many Titans of the Legio Fureans retained the symbols of the Collegia Titanica even after they turned Traitor. This was because they simply viewed the Warmaster Horus as the eightful successor to the Emperor's Imperium, and the new overall commander of the Titan Legions.In time, the Titan Legions would fully adopt the Eye of Horus, and then even affect icons of the Chaos Gods as their princeps fell to dark worship, but at least in the first years of the Horus Heresy they were often indistinguishable from their Loyalist enemies.
Legio Fureans - Legion Colours: The colours of the Tiger Eyes Legion are orange and black, and their Titans are often decorated with black flames.Black banding was once prevalent in the heraldry of the Legio Fureans. Its origins appear to lie in recorded instances of a melancholic mien in certain Machine Spirits within the Titan Legion. It was theorised by the Tech-priests of Incaladion that such aberrations stemmed from the continual losses Legio Fureans suffered during its frequent conflicts in the Age of Strife.Legio records note that alterations to a god-engine's heraldry appeared to alter the mien of such Titans from melancholy to barely restrained rage; though little explanation is given for such a shift, the aggressive tactics of the Legio Fureans favoured incandescent Machine Spirits, leading to widespread adoption of the practice.With the coming of the Imperium and the increased prosperity of the Legio Fureans, there seemed little need to focus on the darker moments of the Titan Legion's past. Nevertheless, many of the more ancient god-engines retained the black banding in recognition of the sacrifice and legacy of the Tiger Eyes.
Legio Fureans - Legion Badge: The Tiger Eyes Legion badge is a tiger's eye with an orange iris and eyeball, centred on an orange lozenge, on top of a decorative circle, located within the symbol of the Opus Machina, on a field of black. The baleful eye central to the war banners of the Legio Fureans is both a reminder of the Omnissiah's favour, but also His wrath.As the Horus Heresy progressed, and the Legio's worship of the Machine God was distorted by Horus' cult of personality, their own pantheon of gods and the influence of the Dark Gods themselves, the eye took on another, darker meaning. Enemies of the Legio would come to see in that staring orb the cruelty of Horus and the Ruinous Powers he followed, while the Tiger Eyes' allies saw it as a beacon of their gods come to lead them to victory.So pervasive was the Legio's symbol to become, many of their allies would daub it on their tanks and Knights, or tattoo it on their faces to show their devotion.
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Legio Gigantes - Legio Gigantes: The Legio Gigantes was a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.The Legio Gigantes remained loyal during the Horus Heresy, but tragically, while in transit through the Scellis-Trevelya System, Warp Storms unleashed by the Tenebrae Pylon Array caused the Legion to be lost to the Warp, and presumably destroyed.
Legio Gigantes - Notable Campaigns: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gigantes - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gigantes - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gigantes - Legion Coulours: Not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gigantes - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Gigantes is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gladius - Legio Gladius: The Legio Gladius is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.It hails from the Forge World of Diamat, located in the Tanagra System. There is very little information in Imperial records about this obscure Titan Legion.
Legio Gladius - Legion History: During the Great Crusade the Legio Gladius was deployed in support of the 27th Expeditionary Fleet, under the command of the Raven Guard Legion, far to the galactic south.Most likely, this Legion was deployed from its homeworld by the corrupted Warmaster Horus so that the Traitor Legions could more easily conquer Diamat and secure military materiel required to reinforce their position on the world of Istvaan V before the Drop Site Massacre.
Legio Gladius - Notable Campaigns: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gladius - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gladius - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gladius - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Gladius are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gladius - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Gladius is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Gryphonicus - Legio Gryphonicus: The Legio Gryphonicus ("War Griffons") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.Regarded by many as one of the greatest of all Titan Legions and an exemplar of its kind, the Legio Gryphonicus or "War Griffons" to give them their more common appellation, suffered a trial by fire during the dark days of the Horus Heresy and remained true to their oaths to the Imperium of Man and unwavering in battle against the Traitor Legions.Millennia later, in 997.M41, the homeworld of the Legio Gryphonicus suffered the devastation wrought upon it by the Tyranids of Hive Fleet Leviathan.
Legio Gryphonicus - Horus Heresy: Key also to their character was a fanatical loyalty to the Emperor and the ideals of the Imperium, beyond that even to their ties to the Mechanicum. It was this loyalty that was to count them among the Warmaster's foes without question when he turned traitor.As the Great Crusade progressed into its later phases, the success of the Legio Gryphonicus on campaign, in conjunction with its size, led to it being assigned feudal rights as garrison-warders of a number of Mechanicum outposts and stations dispersed across the Imperium.This served to both extend the Legio Gryphonicus' range and striking distance from its home base on Gryphonne IV (with which it always retained close ties) and finally to splinter its fighting forces into several sub-groups rather than the "sledgehammer" concentration of might it had been used to operating as.At that time, it remained unclear in retrospect whether this was a mere happenstance of fate or perhaps whether it was part of the Warmaster's overall plan to scatter major forces he could not directly control prior to his revolt.Regardless of this, when the Horus Heresy bloodily erupted, this powerful Titan Legion was a scattered force against the rebellion.The tides of war would ensure that it would be the dark years of the Great Scouring before the surviving Titans of the Legio Gryphonicus would gather together again upon their ancient mustering grounds at the Plain of Achemados on the Forge World of their founding.Nevertheless, the scattered battlegroups of the Legio Gryphonicus participated in many of the bloodiest battles of the Horus Heresy, including the Battle of Tallarn where they arrived as part of the first wave of reinforcments.
Legio Gryphonicus - Hive Fleet Leviathan: When Gryphonne IV was threatened by the approach of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan in 997.M41, the Adeptus Mechanicus refused to abandon this important Forge World to Exterminatus. Isolated and alone, and left for dead in an abandoned star system, the Legio prepared for war. Before the arrival of the hive fleet, Gryphonne IV boasted some of the finest defences of any Imperial world within the southern reaches of the galaxy.Gryphonne IV's War Griffons Titan Legion was feared for its world-breaking firepower and its Skitarii Legions, whom were envied across the Adeptus Mechanicus for their discipline and precision.Yet, it was not enough to halt the Tyranid onslaught. The Skitarii were annihilated and devoured by waves of inexhaustible Hormagaunts and their Titan Legions torn asunder by Tyrannofexes and Tyranid Bio-Titans.Gryphonne IV was ever after a Dead World -- a grim testament to the folly of hubris and pride. The Legio Gryphonicus was presumed to be destroyed in the conflict, but later appeared during the 13th Black Crusade to help augment Imperial forces by deploying the entire Legion in defence of the Fortress World of Cadia.
Legio Gryphonicus - Legion Specific Wargear: Enhanced Auspex Relays - The Warhound Titans of any Titan Legion are at their best when ranging ahead of their battlegroup, and those of the Legio Gryphonicus exemplify this more than any other. In keeping with their Titan Legion's tradition of staunch individuality, Legio Gryphonius Warhound Princeps tend not to hunt in packs, preferring to strike out alone and bait the enemy at close range. The tech-adepts of Gryphonne IV have worked long and hard to capitalise on this fearless behaviour, and have developed enhanced auspex relays which transfer close range target data back to the rest of the battlegroup.Gravatus Plating - Where a Reaver Titan of the Legio Gryphonicus is to be fielded in place of a larger Battle Titan, its hull is often fitted with heavier armour plating to reflect its enhanced frontline role.Motive Sub-Reactors - Although Reaver Titans are not designed to act as scouts, Legio Gryphonicus has them in such great numbers that it is sometimes necessary for them to be adapted to the role. The most effective method involves the installation of a secondary plasma reactor at the top of each leg, allowing the Titan to operate at full locomotive capacity without drawing on the main reactor.
Legio Gryphonicus - Notable Personnel: Princeps Ephraim - Ephraim is the princeps of the Reaver-class Titan Invictus Nova and overall commander of the Legio Gryphonicus battlegroup deployed to Betalis III.
Legio Gryphonicus - Axiom Battleline Maniple: The Axiom maniple is one of the most sacred of Collegia Titanicus maniple configurations. It is both numerologically and strategically balanced, capable of dealing with almost any threat.
Legio Gryphonicus - Mandatory Component: One Warlord Battle TitanOne Reaver Battle TitanOne Warhound Scout Titan
Legio Gryphonicus - Optional Components: One Reaver Battle TitanOne Warhound Scout Titan
Legio Gryphonicus - Legion Strength: As a Primus-grade Titan Legion, the War Griffons were one of the most powerful military formations in the Adeptus Titanicus, and therefore the Great Crusade itself. The Legio Gryphonicus was roughly on par with other Primus-grade Legions such as the Legio Crucius (Warmongers) and the Legio Magna (Flaming Skulls), and was surpassed in size only by the giants of the Legio Mortis (Death's Heads) and the Legio Destructor (Beasts of Steel).The Legio Gryphonicuss operational strength at the time of the Horus Heresy's outbreak was attested to stand at 176 god-engines of various classes and patterns, with roughly half of these being of the Reaver-class Battle Titan.The remainder were split between various Scout Titans and larger Warlord Pattern Battle Titans, as well as several of the most powerful Nemesis and Imperator types.The War Griffons Auxillia was also noted for its size and power, comprising six dedicated Legio Cybernetica cohorts and four battalions of specialised Skitarii support regiments.These regiments were noted for the use of standard formation STC pattern armour and vehicles rather than the more specialised and unique war machines commonly favoured by Tech-Guard militia forces -- this unusual feature of their panoply being accounted for by direct supply of these battalions from Gryphonne IV's mass-manufactora, and also by the traditions of the Gryphonne Octad's defence forces.The Legio Gryphonicus also possessed a noteworthy and unusually high number of Titan-Barques and Mass-Conveyors operating under its own fealty and allegiance. This substantial transport fleet rendered it largely independent of operation when the need arose, and would serve it well during the Heresy, enabling a degree of vital mobility and speed of action so it could both survive and engage the foe on its own terms.The allied Knight houses whose Knights often serve alongside the Legio Gryphonicus include House Coldshroud, House Fvaber and House Cadmus. During the Battle of Beta-Garmon, the Legio Gryphonicus was supported by House Klaze and House Vyronii.
Legio Gryphonicus - Vassal Knight House: House Coldshroud
Legio Gryphonicus - Knight Houses: House CadmusHouse CanisHouse Devine (Loyalist)House DonarHouse FvaberHouse IdraHouse KaskaHouse KaushikHouse KlazeHouse MamaragonHouse MegronHouse TazkharHouse Vyronii
Legio Gryphonicus - Space Marines: Blood AngelsImperial FistsIron HandsIron Warriors (Loyalist)Space WolvesUltramarinesWhite Scars
Legio Gryphonicus - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Gryphonicus are a dappled grey camouflage pattern with yellow or gold. Each Titan of the Legio Gryphonicus is a visual testament to the god-engine's own history of war, as well as the distinctions and battle honours earned by its crew.When the War Griffons stride to war, thunderous sirens howling and bedecked in heraldic banners proclaiming their might, it is taken as a sign to rejoice by allied forces, who hold the Legio's arrival as an avatar of victory or salvation in the midst of battle.Like most of the Titan Legions, the War Griffons maintain two distinct styles of war banner. The first is borne into the scorching fires of combat and commonly carries a simplified rendering of the Order's sigil. The second, bears the accounting of the full honours of the Titan and its crew, and to the practised eye speaks volumes of the god-engine's deeds and its place within the overall structure of the Order.The honour banners of the War Griffons are widely acknowledged as examples of the very height of the heraldic arts in the Imperium, each one bearing full witness to the principles of duty and honour to which the Titan Legion is so utterly dedicated.
Legio Gryphonicus - Legion Badge: The Legion badge of the Legio Gryphonicus is a rampant winged griffon on a field of yellow.
Legio Honorum - Legio Honorum: The Legio Honorum ("Death Bolts") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica.The home of the Legio Honorum lies within the Vulcanis System upon the Forge World of Stygies VIII in the Ultima Segmentum, a large moon orbiting a massive ringed gas giant on the outer fringes of the star system.
Legio Honorum - Notable Titans: Custos Honoris (Warlord-class Titan) - For much of the Great Crusade, the Legio Honorum worked in conjunction with Mechanicum Explorator fleets, venturing beyond the edges of the known Imperium in order to secure the interests of Mars upon newly-discovered worlds. This role saw many Death Bolts Titans, Custos Honoris amongst them as depicted above, avoid the carnage that heralded the beginning of the Horus Heresy, though their most experienced leaders were slain upon Mars during the opening salvos. Devoid of both supplies from Mars and a centralised leadership, the disparate elements of the Legio Honorum found themselves in need of new allies to ensure their survival. For Battlegroup Pradaius, consisting of 11 Legio Honorum Titans commanded by the Warlord-class Titan Custos Honoris, their new path led them to Ryza, serving as protectors to that Forge World as compensation for supplies and god-engines to bolster the Death Bolts' numbers.Resonare Mortis (Warbringer Nemesis-class Titan) - Though originally designed to act as a designated fire support platform adept at destroying Titan-class targets, some Titan Legions, the Legio Honorum amongst them, often placed their Nemesis-class Warbringers on the front line, trusting in their survivability to march alongside the Legio's Battle Titans. Depicted above during the Siege of Vrardi in 974.M30, Resonare Mortis bears a loadout commonly seen on Legio Honorum Warbringer Nemesis Titans, balancing the destructive potential that made it especially dangerous to both fortifications and enemy Titans with the need for close-ranged defence. Legio Honorum Warbringer Nemesis Titans became infamous for leading maniples of Reaver Titans in punishing assaults capable of breaking the back of all but the most determined of defences.
Legio Honorum - Notable Personnel: Maxen Vledig - Vledig was the founding grand master of the Legio Honorum and was present on Mars during the opening days of the Horus Heresy when the Schism of Mars began.Thordun Ranxey - Thordun Ranxey was a Legio Honorum grand master.