Examples of the destructive power of a Titan

[Whitelion]

 

 

You have mixed the fever of the Titans, admiring your modeling works I ended up giving in to this disease. Now I am inquiring about the various titan classes ... by the way the new Nemesis that I saw on forgeworld is wonderful, but what prices.

 

Returning On Topic, for the classes of ships there are many quotations that report the destruction of entire continents and planets by spears and macrocannons. I was wondering if there were even for the weapons of the Titans, I would like to get a practical idea of ​​the maximum destructive power of every single weapon. The weapons I'd like to know more about are:

 

Plasma Annihilator

Vortex Missile

Titan Warp Missile Launcher

Belicosa Volcano Cannon

Volcano cannon

Hellstorm Cannon

 

I'd also like to know if in the 40k story there were unique titans on which particular weapons were mounted, such as Hellfire missiles or a nova cannon.

 

I thank you in advance to everyone for the info, this passion has taken me a lot but on the net I can find little about it, I should read the novels but until I find those that deal with the titans I am dry-mouthed.

[Black Knight]

The game Titanicus has all the data with regards to the sizes of titans and weapon strength in its rule book. Most Titan weapons can take out city blocks in a single shot and a single titan given enough time could take out an entire city.

 

Sizes of Titan: Imperator > Warlord > Warbringer > Reiver > Warhound > Knights

 

Weapons wise a Belicosa Volcano Cannon is a laser weapon and the bigger brother of the Volcano cannon and is on the Warlord, you can find Volcano cannons on Reivers and the Warbringers? The Plasma Annihilator is found on Warlords(It is named the Sunfury) and can also be seen on the Imperator-class.

 

A warp missile bypasses the shields of a Titan by moving through the warp and re-appearing into normal space as it hits the armour of the Titan.

 

Books wise I would suggest The Horus Heresy: Mechanicum, Warlord/Imperator and Titandeath. The Titanicus rule book is also full of information.

[Lord Lorne Walkier]

Best titan story by far, for me is Honor to the Dead, Horus Heresy audio.

 

I now own a 3d printer made Warhound. Because of this story it is called Deathrunner armed with duel Vulcan Mega-Bolters. Legio Praesagius. The True Messengers.

[Whitelion]

@ Black Knight: thank you very much for the info, the warp missile is spectacular, they should make it a naval version, it would be a terrible weapon, bypassing the shields and shooting it directly into the reactor or in the ammunition stores would destroy any ship in one shot.

Thank you also for the titles, I'm already looking for the material :)

 

@Lord Lorne Walkier: I guess, I don't own a 3d printer, I saw that the prices on forgeworld are a bit high. Fortunately where I work there is a 3D printer, as soon as I can find some time I would like to print a Titan myself

To stay on topic, does anyone remember any incident where a titan destroys something big? I do not know what a palace, a ship, a fortification, or in the case of an Imperator a city?

[Black Knight]

Forgeworld is like the bucket list of purchases, one day I hope I would have the money to purchase a full scale titan, hopefully by then it will be plastic :) But if you really want a Titan and can't afford the full size one the Titanicus game has some lovely smaller scale versions and they are in plastic and not resin.

 

The problem with a warp missile for ships is that they can survive even without shields, especially Imperial ships which are now in current 40k "Brawlers", they are meant to get in close take a complete beating but deal tremendous overwhelming damage to the enemy, so the missiles would simply tickle.

 

I haven't read many Titan books so far, just the Knight books, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Primarchs Series, currently on the 11th book of the Beast series and I will then continue the Horus Heresy with Fulgrim. I recommend the Titanicus rule book and the expansion books if you really are into Titans.

[Whitelion]

Got it. Thank you. But from what I've read a warp missile can even get into the target, at least lexicanum and wikia say so.

 

Among the books you've read, does anyone talk about the Imperator or Warlord Sinister classes?

[Black Knight]

It would make sense to be able to go through matter too but to a ship of the size and armour it would do nothing. They have multiple separate Engine compartments, weapon batteries and shield projectors. They survive hundreds of Nuclear warheads and keep on smiling, this is why Imperial ships have ramming prows, sometimes it is simply easier to use your ship to cut another in half than simply fire at it. Also a surprising amount of ships destroyed in battle are salvaged by the mechanicum and refitted, the crew and electronic systems might be blown away but the frame of the ship rarely gets destroyed and can easily be refitted for future combat, that is how demonstrably versatile that Imperial ships are.

 

Some ships core frames are from the Crusades and before yet they are newly built with present technology after being salvaged. Usually, the older the ship the more interesting weapons and technology can be found on-board even if the Mechanicum cannot operate it.

 

From what I remember the Warlord Sinister is only mentioned in passing like a lot of Warhammer 40k lore. 

 

From 4Chan, not the best place in the world but I do find their 40k information quite useful as its a mash up of opinions and you can make your own mind up with the data.

 

 

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
Have you ever wanted your Warlord to be capable of psychic cheese on top of all its other cheese? You're in luck, because Forge World has introduced the Warlord-Sinister Pattern Psi-Titan. Making its mundane cousin look cheap at 3250 points base, it gains the following new tricks:

Psychic Pilot, with ML3 and the following powers:
A 6 bolter-shot equivalent Nova with Soulblaze and Ignores Cover.
A blessing that allows it to regenerate Hull Points on a 5+, because it wasn't hard enough to kill already.
A witchfire which hits all units within 24" of a point with a Haywire hit (for vehicles-EVEN FLYERS) or d6 Heavy Bolter shots (PER 5 MODELS) if it's infantry.
Forces Ld checks for all units within 12" of it.
Anyone insane enough to try and charge it takes the test with a -3 penalty.
Swaps one of its default Volcano Cannons for a new weapon, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. It's an absurdly long-ranged apocalyptic mega-blast that's Strength D, with Fleshbane on its middle circle and Poison 4+ on its outer circle, and AP 1/2/3 for its respective ranges. Oh, and the innermost circle is a Vortex so a lucky roll on the Destroyer table probably won't save you.
Its death explosion has a 50/50 chance of being Strength D, so there's an even better chance that it'll over anyone nearby if it goes down.

[Whitelion]

Interesting, sorry for my ignorance but what does Forza D mean? They use it to define the damage inflicted by Warlord Sinister's weapons.

 

Being a Warp weapon it should carry the target in the Warp, from what I know the warp torpedoes on the ships do not completely destroy the ships but only part of them because the vortex of the torpedoes is not wide enough, while in this case it is very extensive, in should theory also transport an imperator class into the warp if it hit it directly?

[Black Knight]

I am unsure about the warp missile I just thought that it bypassed shields by entering the warp and reappearing before impact?

 

From 4-Chan

 

 

Warp Missile
A much bigger Vortex Missile that works on a completely different nature. This is mounted only on the Warp Missile Rack on top the specially designed and modified carapace of the Reaver Battle Titan. The Warp Missile is unlike the WMD that is the Vortex Missile.

 

Whereas the Vortex is used in situations deemed messed up even by the standards of the Imperium, the Warp Missiles are far more precise and far more specialized. In this case, the Warp Missile is specialized in killing Titans rather than sucking an entire town into the Warp. Due to its specialization, the Warp Missile itself is one of the rarest and most powerful munitions available to Reaver Titan Princeps. Mounted atop the god-machine’s carapace, the Warp Missile can be fired just once. However, once is enough as the Warp Missile could phase through shields and attack the Titan directly causing severe and catastrophic damage. Like a giant C'tan Phase Weapon. This is not surprising given that Warp Missiles come automatically equipped with a miniature warp engine like those on starships, which when fired, briefly enters the warp and emerges within an enemy Titan’s shields. The gigantic missile penetrator ain't housing anything special, its just a solid piece of :cuss YOU needed to pierce through the thickest armor of any Titan.

 

D was the short-hand of "Destroyer" and was used in earlier editions to signify very high weapon strengths that also did extra things to vehicles. They involved extra vehicle damage charts when we had them. In 8th edition all that is gone and you either have a hit or not. In 7th edition most weapons did 1 damage and vehicles when hit would use a chart to decide if the hit was normal, shook the crew or immobilised the vehicle. It could even outright destroyed it in one hit. In 8th we have multiple damage on weapons to signify how devastating a vehicle hit is but we lost the shook/immobilised states.

 

D was just the thing you wanted to take out tanks and titans.

[Whitelion]

Ah ok, so force D means eliminating the target in one shot. Well this clarifies the power of the weapon.

 

The warp missile I read a bit around, the 4chan link you posted, lexicanum and wikia, in practice is not a vortex weapon, it has a warp engine that allows it to enter the warp and reappear where it wants, bypassing shields. armor, it is mentioned that it is able to appear even inside the lens.

[DanPesci]

Another series id recommend is the priests of mars ones by gav thorpe. The titans dont play a central role, and they don't so much go into the destructive power of titans (although it does on occasion), but it gives some pretty interesting insights into how titan crews/houses operate (or at least this one in particular).

[Black Knight]

Definitely what DanPesci said. It is not front and centre but there's quite a bit of story on them.