Lombard Class Reaver Titan (help me with fluff)

[depthcharge12]

So as you may know...I'm in the process of building my Reaver Titan (sorry Raktra no pics yet, I have finals next week). Now the pattern I'm building is a bit different than anything I've seen that others do. My Titan is armed with a Volcano cannon and power claw (the Titan fist but with chaos claws). I'm doing the claw as a counts as chainfist since the larger warlord Titan has an Arioch power claw with the machine destroyer rule. My Titan will look similar to this:

 

http://i911.photobucket.com/albums/ac316/treacyjohn2/18F9BE29-54F3-41D4-8077-95795C42457F_zps2vx5xlfp.png

 

But be in the colors of the Legio Crucius - the Warmongers.

 

Now I've seen three sub classes of reaver Titans that are the Hun, the Goth, and the Vandal pattern. However, my loadout is way different than any of those classes. The Stare Decises or my Titan I am creating, is designed for other engine kills. Hence I picked the pre Carolingian Germanic tribe of the Lombards as a pattern.

 

Now my question is, what kind of precedence would there be to create a specific pattern such as this before the heresy kicks off? Could it be a stop gap measure/experimental design by Ryza and unapproved of by Mars? Or was it made to deal with other Titans in the event of an unruly forge world in the process of reclamation? Or even darker yet, a possible war between Mars and Ryza due to being the largest forge worlds?

 

Also any thoughts you have would be awesome!!!

[Supe robot gangster #1]

Could have been designed in response to Ork or elder Titans. Would make perfect sense to me. And I'm sure there would be some human civs out there with Titan equivalents that would be less than friendly towards the crusade fleets.

[Hesh Kadesh]

Used to kill Knightly houses which wouldn't rejoin the Imperium?

[depthcharge12]

Could have been designed in response to Ork or elder Titans. Would make perfect sense to me. And I'm sure there would be some human civs out there with Titan equivalents that would be less than friendly towards the crusade fleets.

That sounds pretty likely to me. The issue with Reaver's is that they're not fast like warhounds to run away or hit side armor, but they're not as armored and armed as a Warlord...they're in a weird spot.

 

 

Used to kill Knightly houses which wouldn't rejoin the Imperium?

 

That does seem a bit overkill...but completely legitimate as an applicable military strategy.

[rendingon1+]

On 40k wikia I found this:

Many warring factions vied for power on Mars and waged a brutal civil conflict using arcane and unimaginably destructive weaponry, including psychic abilities. The carefully constructed atmosphere of Mars was burned away, and once more the rusty surface of the planet was exposed to the deadly radiations of the Sun. The terraformed Martian environment, which had teemed with Terran life for centuries, was rendered a barren crimson desert again. The Martian combatants now fought in the same blood-hued wastelands that the first human colonists from Terra had found millennia before. Much of the Martian population retreated underground, as any who were not equipped with a radiation and life support suit could not long survive on the Red Planet's harsh surface.

 

So you can always go with something like: "Rare variant dating to the civil wars on Mars during the Age of Strife , Lombard configurtion has only one purpose - annihilation of enemy's super heavy engines."

[depthcharge12]

On 40k wikia I found this:

 

Many warring factions vied for power on Mars and waged a brutal civil conflict using arcane and unimaginably destructive weaponry, including psychic abilities. The carefully constructed atmosphere of Mars was burned away, and once more the rusty surface of the planet was exposed to the deadly radiations of the Sun. The terraformed Martian environment, which had teemed with Terran life for centuries, was rendered a barren crimson desert again. The Martian combatants now fought in the same blood-hued wastelands that the first human colonists from Terra had found millennia before. Much of the Martian population retreated underground, as any who were not equipped with a radiation and life support suit could not long survive on the Red Planet's harsh surface.

 

So you can always go with something like: "Rare variant dating to the civil wars on Mars during the Age of Strife , Lombard configurtion has only one purpose - annihilation of enemy's super heavy engines."

 

I plan to have my Legio from Ryza, do you think that would still work?

[1ncarnadine]

On 40k wikia I found this:

Many warring factions vied for power on Mars and waged a brutal civil conflict using arcane and unimaginably destructive weaponry, including psychic abilities. The carefully constructed atmosphere of Mars was burned away, and once more the rusty surface of the planet was exposed to the deadly radiations of the Sun. The terraformed Martian environment, which had teemed with Terran life for centuries, was rendered a barren crimson desert again. The Martian combatants now fought in the same blood-hued wastelands that the first human colonists from Terra had found millennia before. Much of the Martian population retreated underground, as any who were not equipped with a radiation and life support suit could not long survive on the Red Planet's harsh surface.

So you can always go with something like: "Rare variant dating to the civil wars on Mars during the Age of Strife , Lombard configurtion has only one purpose - annihilation of enemy's super heavy engines."

I plan to have my Legio from Ryza, do you think that would still work?

The Legio Crucius and its relationship to Ryza predates the Great Crusade apparently, so do whatever man Who knows what kind of threats they dealt with but you can justify it however. Ork Mega-Gargants, Eldar Titan Spirit-hosts, rogue Knight Houses, giant Xenoforms... whatevs

[depthcharge12]

Sweet. I was trying to figure out a class for so long, and I was happy to land on the Lombards in keeping with all the Germanic tribe name classifications.

 

For my fluff for the names of the crewmen, I'm doing a mix of eastern Slavic first names (in keeping with what we've seen of Legio Crucius) and last names from Lombardian legend.

 

F'rex:

 

Princeps Piotyr Godan

 

His first name is the eastern version of Peter and the last is the name for Odin in Lombardian myth.

 

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