Adeptus Titanicus not on the new site

[Kastor Krieg]

As per title, when you click "explore our games", they all are there, Aeronautica is there, but not the Titanicus. Is that end of support or just an omission?

[Fire Golem]

Those games have always been under the 'explore our games' on the WarCom site, its not just for the new 40k site. AT never got a fancy website for whatever reason, but it doesn't mean anything for the future of the game as its been this way since it came out.

[klisof]

30k is missing as well, as they are both heresy era is just looks like the team responsible for then have not invested in a website like the 40k one for them

[Canadian_F_H]

yeah.  titanicus is 30k, not 40k.  so that might be the reason.  early days yet, no panic.  and they have invested WAY to much money into titanicus to just drop it.  those molds are infants compared to most of their other ranges.

[m0nolith]

FW has said in the past that 30k is their domain, so anything related to that will be strictly under their purview.

Edited May 23, 2020 by m0nolith

[Matcap86]

Would be VERY surprising if this means the end of AT. They still have units and at least one more book to release. 

[Noserenda]

Its nothing to do with 30k :D  like Fire Golem said AT does not have a fancy website for those links to point at like the other systems. 

More a symptom of GWs documented elsewhere low expectations for AT that got blown out of the water :) 

[Marshal Loss]

Wouldn't leap to any conclusions here

[Fajita Fan]

*sees reasonable responses*

 

*puts down axe and torch*

[Interrogator Stobz]

Whilst I don't read anything into the omission, if support for AT18 stopped today the range is sufficient as a stand alone game.

 

OFC I want more too; heck corrupted Titans, Mechanicum units and Cerastus options will be awesome!!!

 

But Titan vs. Titan is what it's about and we have that.

Edited May 23, 2020 by Interrogator Stobz

[Interrogator Stobz]

Anyway, enough interaction; I need to paint my Contemptor so I can get back to work on this AT stuff.

[schoon]

AT products continue to sell out and require reprints, so it's on sound financial footing thus far.

 

Suspect it's just a GW/FW division of labor thing.

[Interrogator Stobz]

That^

[Dulahan]

That said, I'm a little more concerned about no Engine Kill in May.

[1ncarnadine]

On the bright side, it could just imply that Defence of Ryza would have released already if it weren't for delays. Hopefully it's not too far away.

It was previewed at GAMA in early March alongside the Escher House of Chains stuff for Necromunda, some AoS Lumineth, and a peak at Fabulous Bill, so this stuff was probably supposed to occupy the release window between PA: Engine War and PA: War of the Spider. Fingers crossed that that hasn't changed.

[Mandragola]

30k isn't on there either. I guess it's because it's a different setting or something. There's no sign of them dropping the game, but this is weird.

 

We have reached/are reaching a slightly tricky moment for AT. They've kind of exhausted all the 28mm designs they have for titans, and most knights. So there's less stuff they can release  in future without designing new titan classes from scratch, which is kind of a different job to what they've done so far. They can carry on for a bit with things like add on kits and extra weapons, but really I think we'd all like to see new titans - things like the Rapier, Nightgaunt and so on.

 

I expect we'll see things like corrupted titans before we get new titan classes. But that's honestly what I'm excited to see.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

I'm not concerned about reaching the end of 28mm designs. An interview James Hewitt gave to the Full Stride Podcast in the last week or so revealed that the Warbringer was in fact designed primarily with AT in mind. GW wanted to do a new titan, and the titan designer for FW asked James Hewitt what he thought AT would benefit from in terms of a new type of titan. James suggested an artillery titan, and that is what they made.

[Mandragola]

Interesting. I'd kind of wondered about that. Now I wonder if we'll see new stuff in 28mm first, or AT. A rapier in 40k might be a cool thing to have.

[Sword Brother Adelard]

Interesting. I'd kind of wondered about that. Now I wonder if we'll see new stuff in 28mm first, or AT. A rapier in 40k might be a cool thing to have.

The impression I got from what he said is that the guy who designs the titans is THE titan guru. He probably designs them nowadays CAD in 28mm first, then scales down. (I imagine it being easier to remove detail when scaling down, than trying to add in detail scaling up.)

[Mandragola]

You'd probably do at least some of the work together. you want to create something that makes sense at both scales.

 

AT titans aren't made as simply as shrinking the 28mm versions. They have to be quite a lot thicker in places like the armour plates or else they'd be too fragile at the small scale. If designing one of these things from scratch you'd want to go back and forth between both versions, to make sure they both looked good.

[Fajita Fan]

I would think it would be easier to design the AT scale titans, rescale them 4x, and add details rather than shrink them down and eliminate detail. That’s from my limited experience setting things up for 3D printing.

[schoon]

I'm not concerned about reaching the end of 28mm designs. An interview James Hewitt gave to the Full Stride Podcast in the last week or so revealed that the Warbringer was in fact designed primarily with AT in mind. GW wanted to do a new titan, and the titan designer for FW asked James Hewitt what he thought AT would benefit from in terms of a new type of titan. James suggested an artillery titan, and that is what they made.

It's a very interesting interview - well worth the time to listen...