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The Orders of the Adeptus Titanicus are the iron fists of the Emperor’s rule. A velvet glove would serve no

purpose.

- Grand Master Augrim, Divisio Militaris Order of Imperial Eagles

For ten thousand years the Imperium has warred on its enemies.

War is the universal state of Man; peace is only a brief time of

preparation for further fighting.

Alien races strike at the Imperium's frontier systems. Rebellion and

treachery are commonplace on millions of colonized worlds. The

Traitor Legions, confined for millennia in the desolate Eye of

Terror, chafe and probe at the Imperium. And in the eddies and

storms of warp space, forces and creatures of darkness are stirring.

Titans are supreme fighting machines of the Imperium, giants with

skins of adamantium. They are created by devoted warriors; armed

with the mightiest weapons Imperial priest-scientists can devise;

and armored by Void Shields, barriers of almost impenetrable

energy. Through the Imperium and beyond, nothing inspires the

same kind of awe.

Using the rules in this text you will be able to re-create some of the

greatest Titan battles of Imperial history: the campaigns of the

Horus Heresy and the Great Scouring of the Imperium which

followed. By adding one or more of the Adeptus Titanicus

expansion games you will be able to introduce infantry, Imperial

Space Marines, Dreadnoughts, Rhino and Land Raider armored

vehicles and huge alien fighting machines. This set is only the

beginning of Epic warfare in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

The wars can have no end, for that would be the end of Man. In its

perils Mankind has one guide: the Emperor. In his care rests the

fate of humanity. At his right and left hands are the weapon and

shield of Mankind, the forces of the Imperium- the mighty Titans

of the Adeptus Titanicus.

CONTENTS

THE IMPERIUM

THE MOVEMENT PHASE

The Galaxy(3); Warp Space(3); Titans(4); The

Collegia Titanica(5); The Imperial Hierarchy(6);The

Horus Heresy(7);Alien Races and External Threats(8)

THE REPAIR PHASE

COMPONENTS

THE COMBAT PHASE

Starting the Game(12)

STANDARD GAME SCENARIOS

THE BASIC GAME

TITAN BATTLE COLORS

SEQUENCE OF PLAY

THE ADVANCED GAME

The First Player(13)

THE ORDER PHASE

THE CAMPAIGN GAME

PAINTING YOUR TITANS

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THE IMPERIUM

For ten thousand years the Imperium has ordered the lives of men.

For ten thousand years Mankind has been protected against threats

that abound in the hostile universe.

For ten thousand years the Emperor has guided, ruled, guarded and

dominated.

For ten thousand years this immortal being has sacrificed himself,

becoming the altar of humanity's hope for the future.

For ten thousand years the Imperium has endured; established out of

strife and discord, a bastion in the darkness.

For ten thousand years Kenneth Peters typed out these texts.

The Dark Age of Technology ended with the Final War between the

remnants of the human empires. The Age of Strife was born.

For more then five thousand years warfare tore humanity apart.

Alien and human, all enemies were as one. The loose confederation

of human space was shattered by local wars on every scale: nation

battled nation, planet fought planet, system laid waste system. Only

the devastation from the Final War prevented the wars from taking

on an even greater scale.

Pirates and aliens plundered the ruined worlds. Abandoned or cut off

by warp storms, human colonies fell victim to local conditions.

Terraformed worlds reverted to their natural condition, and as they

did so humanity suffered. Other colonies simply reverted to savagery

under the combined pressure of alien raids, ecological disaster,

psychic madness and technological failure.

More than 25 millennia ago, humanity first looked to the stars and

began the great exploration of nearby space. Limited at first to

sublight travel, colonization and conquest proceeded at a snail's pace.

Generations could live and die on the great interstellar voyages

without ever seeing their destinations. Colonies were forced into

independence; aid took centuries to arrive, if it came at all.

Only the worlds where psykers were rigorously suppressed survived

intact. The strange fact that ignorance had saved these planets was

lost upon the survivors of Man's once-great empire. As the years and

decades went on the retrenchment of Man became almost total.

With the discovery of the warp drive came the Great Push. Mankind

was freed from the need to spend generations travelling between the

stars. The subsequent discovery and refinement of the navigator

gene , which allowed pilots to make longer and more accurate warp

jumps, merely confirmed the trend. Within centuries, rather then the

millennia that had been assumed necessary, humanity burst from its

confining systems, spreading out into the galaxy.

At last, as so often happens, a single man, a conqueror, emerged

from the darkness. The Age of Strife and its bloody wars were

brought to an end. The Imperium of Man was founded as human

systems were re-conquered and returned to the mainstream of

humanity. The second Great Push of humanity had begun.

And with expansion came alien contact. And with grim historic

inevitability, the first Alien Wars. The pattern was set.

The Emperor united humanity under his banner. For teen thousand

years this immortal being has ruled the Imperium.

As humanity moved into the galaxy, the Dark Age of Technology

brought seemingly unstoppable progress. Humanity's machines

achieved incredible levels of sophistication. There seemed nothing

that Man could not do, even as humanity began to splinter into

smaller groups. Some were cut off in remote parts of the galaxy.

Others deliberately isolated themselves, using their power and

knowledge to make war on their enemies, human and alien alike.

His rule is harsh and uncompromising, but it is only under his

guidance that humanity has survived. The specter of a new and more

terrible Age of Strife is ever present; the threat of the enemy within

is only matched by the aggression of the enemy without. The

Emperor stands between humanity and extinction.

It was at this time that the psykers- humans capable of using psionic

powers such as telekinesis and telepathy- first arose in the midst of

humanity. The trigger for this emergence has never been determined,

but psykers were recorded on almost every planet known to man,

Untrained and unprotected, many went mad or fell prey to non-

psychic men. Uncounted millions were burned as witches; destroyed

by ignorance. More fell prey to creatures- Daemons - from warp

space, beings which fed upon their minds and bodies. Civilization

crumbled as ignorance and madness replaced enlightenment and

technology. Wars flared throughout human space, hastening the end.

Only when the Imperium was still new, during the Horus Heresy,

was the Emperor's supremacy seriously challenged. In the 31st

Millennium the forces of the Imperium turned against the Emperor,

and humanity tottered on the brink of disaster.

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THE GALAXY OF THE IMPERIUM

Although only modest in size, the galaxy contains around four

hundred thousand million stars. Of these, only fractions are orbited

by planets that are habitable or within human tolerances. And of

these few, still fewer have been investigated and settled by

humanity. This ‘few’ however, numbers millions of worlds and

systems; the exact number is unknown.

WARP SPACE

The navigation of warp space is the power that binds the Imperium

into a single political unit. But what is warp space?

Warp space is a separate and complete universe that exists besides

our own reality. For every point in real space, there is a

corresponding location in warp space. The two universes re

intimately connected but by no means follow the same laws. Simply

because two locations are separated by tens of light years in reality

the same does not hold true for the common points in warp space,

which effectively might be only a few miles apart. It is therefore

possible to jump into warp space, move a short distance, and then

emerge into reality many light years from the starting point.

It is simply impossible to count the systems where humanity or one

of its sub-species can be found. New worlds are constantly being

discovered and added to the Imperium. But even so, no end is in

sight. It is doubtful that humanity will ever manage to explore its

home galaxy, let alone any others.

The vast size of the galaxy and the Imperium means that much of

what has been explored is itself remote and unknown. Distance alone

can defeat even faster-then-light warp drive spacecraft. This limits

the rule of the Imperium to no more than a fraction of the galaxy.

Spacecraft and their guiding Navigator find their way across warp

space using the Astronomicon, the psychic beacon of the Imperium.

Maintained by the Emperor’s will, the Astronomicon shines across

reality and warp space. It gives Navigators an accurate fix on Terra,

enabling them to steer spacecraft safely through the currents of warp

space.

Without the warp drive the Imperium and its civilization could not

exist. Spacecraft equipped with warp drives can, under the guidance

of a specially gifted Navigator, move into, across, and out of warp

space. By doing so, a spacecraft can move hundreds of thousands of

light years in only a few hours. And the power to move such

distances is also a power that wins battles and maintains empires.

In warp space however, nothing is ever straightforward. It is a

universe filled with crosscurrents, eddies, and whirlpools of power.

Warp storms can flare up in seconds, blocking travel through huge

reaches of the warp. These storms can last for millennia or be gone

in seconds. But while they exist travel to some parts of the real

universe is impossible.

Warp space is also linked to psychic phenomena. Within the Adeptus

Astra Telepathica and the Adeptus Mechanicus there are scholars

and theorists who argue that all psychic power derives from the

warp. Certainly the relationship between warp space and real space

is a complex one, and not fully understood by research theologians

of the Imperium.

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TITANS

Titans are immense fighting machines, mechanical humanoid

warriors up to 100 feet tall. They instill terror by their mere

presence, and little can equal their armament. Few enemies, apart

from another Titan, can stand against one.

TITAN TYPES

Titans are divided into a number of broad types , depending on their

size and function. Battle Titans are among the most numerous, but

there are lesser types such as the fast, lightly-armed Scout Titans and

the gargantuan Emperor Titans .

Titans are powered by comparatively old-fashioned plasma reactors.

Although rarely used in the Imperium since the Dark Age of

Technology, nothing else can provide the power needed by a Titan.

The Titan’s Void Shield Generators alone require such huge amounts

of energy that nothing else will suffice. Even the tight operating

margins of a Titan’s plasma reactor – and the consequences of a

melt-down or runaway reaction – are a small price to pay for the

energy needed.

Battle Titans stand between 40 and 80 feet tall. Each Battle Titan is

protected by up to six Void Shield Generators and armed with a

variety of weapons. Thus armed and armored, these powerful

fighting machines are the workhorses of the Military Orders of the

Collegia Titanica.

The Void Shields are the Titan’s main line of defense. A shield

absorbs damage until its Void Shield Generator (VSG) becomes

overloaded. Cut-offs prevent the Generator burning out when this

happens, but the shield sill collapses. However, once the excess

power has been drained off, the Generator can be restarted, raising

the Void Shield once more. Where possible, Titans carry a

sufficiently number of generators so that, in theory, some of its

shields will be operable at all time. In practice this may not always

be the case, and once a Titan has lost its Shields it is vulnerable. In

emergencies the Princeps can override the VSG cut-offs, pushing the

Shields to their limits. If it works, this risky tactic can defeat almost

any tactic. If it fails (as is most likely), the Princeps will reduce his

Titan’s defenses to pools of useless, molten slag.

Emperor Titans are taller – some 70 to 100 feet tall – and

considerably bulkier. They can carry even more Very Heavy

Weapons then a Battle Titan, making them fearsomely destructive

machines. These massive Titans are among the most powerful forces

deployable on a planetary surface. Emperor Titans have another,

equally important function: they are huge, mobile temples of the

Imperial Cult. The Executive Orders use them to bring the words of

the Imperium and the pax Imperia to isolated worlds.

All Titans are split into a number of classes according to their basic

design. By far the most common class of Battle Titan is the Warlord ,

and this is the type usually represented on the battlefield. For longer

then there has been an Imperium there have been Warlord Class

Battle Titans, their design history stretches back to the Final War

period. It is popular with all the Military Orders of the Collegia

Titanica and millions have been built to the design over the

millennia. Its well-known handling characteristics and capabilities

also make it an ideal test-bed for the new devices of the Research

Oders of the Divisio Investigatus.

The plasma generators also provide the power for many of the

weapons; power transmission is via hydroplastics coupled to

actuators. These operate the weapon systems and other facilities

throughout the machine. A Titan’s limbs are moved by electrically-

motivated fiber-bundles which function very much like muscles.

Finally, each class has a certain number of variants . The variant type

of a Titan is determined by its armament pattern. There are, for

example, four main variants of the Warlord Class Battle Titan: the

Night Gaunt, Eclipse, Death Bringer and Nemesis

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TITAN CREWS

Crews are also allowed a certain amount of license in their

behaviors; minor infractions of rules by Titan moderati are often

ignored. The Military Orders in particular see themselves as elite,

who are not bound by the same petty rules and regulations as lesser

warrior. The bounds of what is acceptable are well understood by

each Princeps, and while the behaviors of his crew can be as

idiosyncratic as desired, its loyalty must never be in doubt.

Finally, the best Titan crews who have survived several campaigns

and several hundred hours in combat are eventually taken out of Line

units. They are given supposedly easier, but more prestigious duties

with the Divisio Telepathica or as the personal crew of the Grand

Master for those few exceptionally skilled individuals.

Each Titan is operated by a crew of three to five, all of whom are

linked to their machine through mind-impulse units.

A Titan crew is commanded by a Princeps . It is he who controls the

movement of the Titan. The Princeps need only think that he is

walking, running, or whatever: the mind impulse system and the

fiber-bundle muscles do the rest, translating his thoughts into

movement by the Titan. He is also in charge of all the Titans

defensive systems, deciding when (if at all) to overload the Void

Shield Generators.

He also coordinates the actions of the Moderati , the ordinary

crewmen who control the Titans weapon systems. It is the task of the

Princeps to direct the awesome firepower of the Titan; each

Moderatus must make sure that his assigned weapon is functioning

correctly and accurately.

The crew are protected within individual support bubbles that can be

ejected from the Titan in an emergency. Each support machine

includes data and view screens that display weapons readouts,

outside views and target information. Manual controls for use in the

event of a mind-impulse failure are also provided.

The mind-impulse units links the crew and the Titan on the most

intimate level. Thoughts become the actions of the Titan; a

crewmember need only imagine a weapon firing or the entire Titan

moving for the systems to carry out his mental orders, The Titan

becomes the crew’s body while they are linked to it. For the most

part, feedback dampers prevent the crew from feeling damage

suffered by the Titan. Failure in these systems is fortunately rare, for

the crew then suffer terrible pseudo-injuries and pain as the Titan is

damaged.

Casualties among inexperienced Titan crews are high, but if a crew

can survive one or two battles its combat life expectancy increases

by several order of magnitude. These facts make Titan crews

fatalistic, slightly paranoid and utterly savage towards the enemies of

the Emperor.

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