IO - Armies of the Machine God

[bluntblade]

We also have Legio Volcanicus. I think we all know who they belong with.

[Chief Captain Redd]

That sounds solid to me, not to mention Daer'dd already forced Kelbor's hand in the Demiurge treaties. It's shame Daer'dd won't live long enough to show him the true strength of Iron.

[simison]

That sounds solid to me, not to mention Daer'dd already forced Kelbor's hand in the Demiurge treaties. It's shame Daer'dd won't live long enough to show him the true strength of Iron.

 

Kelbor doesn't live long into the Insurrection, so consider Daer'dd avenged. I think.

[Chief Captain Redd]

Haha, still I'm sure Daer'dd or Niklaas would have loved to shown him what a true god of iron can do.

[bluntblade]

So who takes over the DarkMech?

[MikhalLeNoir]

If I remember right it was Xander the Scorpion King(?)

 

A0108 created him for his darkmech and he will neet Mortera on the field of battle.

[Chief Captain Redd]

That sounds about right.

[Demus Ragnok]

Doing a Titan Legio roll call.

 

I Harbingers - Legio Telesto

 

II

 

III Crimson Lions - Legio Audax

 

IV Void Eagles

 

V Halcyon Wardens - Legio Tempestus

 

VI Iron Bears - Legio Canis Rex

 

VII Bezerkers Of Uran

 

VIII Godslayers

 

IX Warbringers

 

X Fire Keepers - Legio Tonarum

 

XI

 

XII Wardens of Light - Legio Atarus and Legio Lysanda

 

XIII Eagle Warriors - Legio Starii, Legio Masla, and Legio Mexicana

 

XIV Dune Serpents

 

XV Grave Stalkers

 

XVI Drowned

 

XVII Warriors of Peace

 

XVIII Stygian Jackals

 

XIX Scions Hospitiliaer- Legio Gojira

 

XX Predators

Edited September 11, 2016 by Demus Ragnok

[Chief Captain Redd]

The Bears have a bunch during the great crusade, the only named one is the Legio Cainis Rex

[Kelborn]

Legio Gojira! :D

[MikhalLeNoir]

Legio Atarus & Lysanda

[Nomus Sardauk]

Legio Gojira! :D

The best Legio, now and forever. Think Pacific Rim meets Adeptus Titanicus, Kaiju hunters without equal from an oceanic Forge World, heraldry daubed in the bioluminescent ichor & decorated with the bones of their colossal prey. Each and every God-Machine named for a classic giant monster of Japanese cinema, such as the Reaver Triplets Ghi, Do & Rah and Gojira's lead walker, Rex Monstra, a Warlord Titan armed with twin Arioch-Power Claws, shoulder-mounted Volcano Cannons & a "mouth"-mounted rad breath weapon of ancient archaeotech design, capable of melting ceramite like wax. It's primeval war horn tuned to produce a thunderous, bone-shaking roar that has heralded the end of countless worlds.

[bluntblade]

I thought Toho were the Kaiju hunters?

[Sigismund229]

Can I take Legio Audax?

[MikhalLeNoir]

Can I take Legio Audax?

If nobody else claimed it

[AlphariusOmegon108]

Legio Starii, Masla and Mexicana

[Kelborn]

First, there were the Ke'mano on Kajio

 

Then came House Toho

 

After joining the Imperium, a nearby world known as Tanya-ba (already something you could call a forge world) was taken over by the Mechanicum and became home for a new Legio, Gojira

 

Toho and Gojira go hunting annoversarly to get some trophies in the form of Ke'mano skulls, etc.

 

Ghi, Do and Rah are Knight triplets. Rex monstra is still the most powerful Titan of Gojira. :)

[Demus Ragnok]

Ok up dated the list so far.

[~Drakzilla~]

The Forge World of Xei 'An is located in a star-system neighboring Jin, the homeworld of the Warriors of Peace. The two worlds share a similar cultural heritage, and it is speculated by Imperial scholars that they were once part of the same empire, before humanity was plunged into the darkness of the Old Night. In the latter years of the Great Crusade, the forges of Xei 'An produced the vast majority of arms, armour, and war machines for the XVII Legion. But the true measure of their alliance was their synergy on the battlefield. Both approached war like a science, and any enemies who stood before them would soon fall victim to the art of cold, calculated warfare.

 

On the Day of Revelation, it would be the Mechanicum Xei 'An and their titans of Legio Solachra who would strike the first blow against the Fire Keepers during a joint campaign with the Warriors of Peace.

 

http://i.imgur.com/vzMIMUA.jpg

[bluntblade]

Oh man, that's glorious

[Demus Ragnok]

That's beautiful.

 

And now I know who gets their face punched in.

 

By a primarch.

 

An angry primarch.

 

A very angry primarch.

[Nomus Sardauk]

Cool artwork and fluff Drak, I'm impressed how you managed to blend the traditional Mechanicus attire with Eastern styling & influences without making it look weird, stereotypical or just wrong in the 40k setting, well done indeed. 

 

 

On a completely unrelated note, I now have a visual aid with which to portray my vision of Rex Monstra's breath weapon looks when firing, straight from her namesake itself:

 

https://youtu.be/laO9wBdFHIM?t=30

 

Hail to the King baby. 

[simison]

Terror. 

 

All he could feel was blind terror. 

 

And it shamed him so. 

 

The hangar shook as artillery rounds landed near, sending another stake of fear through his heart. The fear was made all the more potent by what the attack meant.

 

They were all dead. 

 

From daring Beniaman to Lord Guyust himself. Not one of them lived.

 

"Aspirant Guyust!" 

 

The apprentice snapped from his dark thoughts and prayed that Sacristan Knesnik could not see his utter panic. In truth, the sacristan had just now breeched half a dozen etiquette precepts, but the apprentice cared not.

 

Neither did the sacristan.  Another artificial earthquake shook the hangar, both of them grabbing onto the railing to steady themselves. Guyust was struck by a vision of the walkway falling the full four stories to the floor below. 

 

"Aspirant! The rites are finished, the ammo is loaded, and it awaits you! If you are to mount, it must be now!"

 

The apprentice needed no reminder. He could hear the enemy now, just outside the hangar doors. He looked past the sacristan at the last knight of House Guyust. No desire to avenge his House came to him. No dreams of glory could restore him. The gunmetal grey of the knight seemed more a trap than a bastion of strength.

 

The terror refused to abate. 

 

Even as his instincts screamed at him to flee, Aspirant Guyust sprinted towards the titan, desperately trying to outrun his fear.  

[bluntblade]

Among canon Legios is a major Martian trifecta known as the "Triad Ferrum Morgulus", composed of Legio Mortis, Legio Ignatum, and Legio Tempestus. I'd think it neat if they took different ways, as we have three Imperiums by the latter years of the Insurrection.

I knew someone had had this idea before me. I'd like to suggest Mortis with the Warbringers, Ignatum with the Lightning Bearers.

[bluntblade]

Title: The Legio Auris Ordo Titanica

Militaris Grade: Secundus

Patent: Pre-Unity, Oamura Mechanicum

Warden Domain: Oamura

Cognomen: The Winter Wardens

Allied Knight Houses: August

Allegiance: Fidelitas Constantus

 

The Legio Auris was born far from Mars, and by the time that their erstwhile masters found them, they were much changed. For they had fallen to conquest, and answered to another authority as well as the Omnissiah. No alien subsersive or mortal despot was their overlord, however; Auris had been absorbed into the Three Fires, and hailed Daer’dd Niimkiikaa as their master. For this they became a bone of contention above all others between Huron and Mars, but their might and fervour was never in doubt. Bearing symbols of both the Mechanicum and their tribal empire, they marched beside the Iron Bears even as the new VIth Legion raised their blades in the Emperor’s service.

 

The Forge colony - never given the designation of Forge World as long as Kelbor-Hal held sway - Oamura was the hardest-fought conquest in Daer’dd’s campaign to unify the Three Fires, and by the time it rose again as a vassal planet, it was markedly changed. This was quite apparent in the Titan Legion that called it home.

 

In the Tricendia Wars, the Titans of Auris inflicted one of the first serious setbacks that Daer’dd’s mighty armour columns suffered, and immediately the young Primarch came to appreciate the value of these mighty engines. He already had the Knight House August at his back, but these walkers far surpassed the Knights in size and power. Able but unwilling to destroy them, he ordered a series of aerial assaults which, at considerable cost, took key refineries and reactors on the planet. While the Taghmata Oamura were deployed to to retake these objectives, their inherent value meant that Auris were unable to deploy against them with anything more powerful than Reaver Titans.

 

Those machines did indeed savage the Tricendian army, but without their Warlords to back them up they were vulnerable, and Daer'dd had them disabled by Knights, tanks and heavy weapons specialists. The masters of Oamura now understood the danger and deployed the rest of their Titans wholesale, desiring the invaders' defeat at all costs. However, the loss of their skirmisher Titans had robbed them of a key component in their war machine, making them much easier to outmanouevre. Daer’dd undertook a series of lightning offensives against the Skitarii and automata, scattering them and ultimately hounding the Titans into a large but steep-sided valley.

 

Into this he unleashed a great horde of vehicles, intending not to destroy the Titans but to seize them. As tanks engaged the escorting army, columns of transports forced their way through the ranks, racing for the feet of the Warlords. Equipped with jump packs - crudely powerful and designed for a few mighty leaps - Daer’dd and his warriors boarded the Titans and fought their way to the command bridges, capturing the crews and slaying any Secutarii that attempted to stop them. It was a murderous battle, the Huronians well-armed but still mere mortals, and only Daer’dd’s presence made the Titans' capture possible.

 

With this breathtaking defeat, the Magos were forced to negotiate. Quite what they expected is unknown, but it is recorded that Daer’dd provoked awe in many who should have been long disdainful of mere flesh. Daer’dd declared his esteem for their world and armies, admitting that he coveted such power, before going on to describe what Oamaru’s people might achieve at his side. This was why he had sacrificed so many lives to spare Auris, and why the planet would receive such vast tithes and privileges as he offered. The Magos and Princeps accepted, and Oamaru began to change, enmeshing into the fabric of the Three Fires. Whether military tactics or political strategy were uppermost in Daer’dd’s thoughts when he had House August fight alongside Auris, it cemented an enduring bond between the two, and Auris became a key weapon in his arsenal. It has been conjectured that their growth was slowed to prevent them from becoming ambitious and troublesome, but this can equally be put down to the limitations of a rapidly growing stellar empire. The material wealth of the nascent Three Fires domain fed the growth of the Legion, and soon their first Imperator, Gladium Auris joined the ranks of the god-machines in Daer'dd's service. Whatever the truth, Auris stood at just under a hundred engines when the Halcyon Wardens came to the borders of the Three Fires.

 

It was during the presentation of the Legio to the Emperor that Auris gained their common name. Daer’dd promised his father that in the struggle to restore unity and reason to the species, the Titans would be as the ice giants of myth who cast down false gods from their thrones. Auris found little favour in the eyes of the Martian Mechanicum, despite the treaties that recognised Daer’dd’s overlordship, and little trade or assistance was forthcoming from the Red World. The bulk of the materiel for Auris’ growth came instead from within the Three Fires and along more circuitous routes, with certain Forge Worlds keen to foster ties but wary of Martian retribution. Oaths and compacts of mutual service bound Auris to Tribe Niimkiikaa above all others, the tribe supplying warriors to fight beside the Secutarii, serfs to aid in the upkeep of the Titans and even the personnel who crewed them. So while Auris found themselves deployed across the Legion’s fleets, they were principally concentrated among those of the First Grand Wartribe. This ensured their place on many arduous battlefields, but also meant they fought beside the Primarch himself and the VIth Legion’s best-equipped warriors.

 

Over a century and a half of crusading, Auris had grown, much like the Bears, by virtue of being remarkably hard to kill. They fought with absolute loyalty to the Legion, and thus when the call to march on Kataii came, Auris dispatched a great number of Titans, never guessing at what awaited them. The awful fate suffered by so many of these brave warriors and proud engines is dealt with elsewhere, so suffice to say that Auris was savagely reduced, robbed of roughly half its war machines and scattered with the Iron Bears fleet.

Edited November 6, 2017 by bluntblade