Editing Titan (Warhammer 40,000) (section)

==Imperial Titan Classes==
[[Image:Warhound9.jpg|thumb|right|'''Where are your Dark Gods now?''']]
Traditionally, there had been four sizes of Titan (not including knights); increasing in size, they are Warhound, Reaver, Warlord, and Imperator, and are fairly easy to understand in terms of size difference and power. But as of more recent updates, Forge World has introduced a large number of in-between size classes where a smaller Titan chassis carries a single weapon from the chassis size above it. This allows one to field more large weapons without having to build a full-sized chassis to carry it. A number of rarer, specialist Titan classes that use the chassis of an existing class have also been introduced.

===[[Warhound Scout Titan]]===
The smallest traditional Titan class the Imperium has, but it's still massive. To put things into perspective, the Warhound is around 17 meters tall at rest. [http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Metal_Gear_REX Metal Gear REX] (which is a pretty good candidate for representing the first foray into creating Titans) from the MGS series is around 13 meters high, just 4m (12 feet) short of a standard Warhound. It looks like a dinosaur with no tail. It carries smaller weapons such as a massive megabolter which is like a minigun that fires off tank shells, or a Huge ass [[meme|LAZAR]] that rips your tanks a new one like they were made of cardboard. Or maybe throw a really big flamethrower on it. Being quite fast, Warhounds are used as skirmishers, flankers, and scouts for the larger Titans of their Legion.

The traitorous Legio Audax were known for fielding nothing ''but'' Warhounds, using pack tactics to take down much larger opponents (such as, on one notable occasion, a fuck-mothering Warmonger Titan). [[Awesome|Fire the Ursus Claws!]]

===[[Dire Wolf Heavy Scout Titan]]===
<s>Taking a page from [[Clan Wolf]],</s>{{BLAM}} The Dire Wolf is essentially the Warhound's chunkier brother, trading out some speed and maneuverability for added [[Dakka]] and armor, allowing it to go toe to toe with other Titans when the need arises.

===[[Reaver Battle Titan]]===
Bigger than the Warhound (just over 25m at rest), so therefore causes more RAPE, this titan can wield an absolutely HUGE powerfist for fucking Wraithlords, Defilers, etc. It can also carry a massive hellfire missile launcher, a triple Laser Blaster, a fucking Gatling Blaster, and several other weapon options.
They don't tend to get depicted or given much time in fluff compared to the other Warhound, Warlord, and Imperator, possibly as the pack tactics of the Warhounds and supersized death machine vibe of Warlord and Imperators tend to seem more impressive.

It's worth nothing that in the Great Crusade, the Iron Hands took down an empire that used war engines which were basically AT-ATs, which were described as equal in size to Reaver Titans. Let that sink in: the Star Wars universe's longtime definition of a Huge War Machine is on par with the second out of five tiers in the 40K universe.

===[[Warlord Battle Titan]]=== 
It's really REALLY fucking big, almost 33m tall without its carapace weapons. This is the Imperium's most common "large" Titan. Warlords carry more firepower than is really possible to imagine, including everything from megabolters to huge lasers and devastator cannons that should've been mounted on some kind of battleship. The Imperium seems to have almost as many of these as it has Reavers. For those of you who are truly insane, the Warlord now has an awesome new model which costs more than some used cars.

===[[Warbringer Nemesis Titan|Nemesis Warbringer]]===

The first all-new Titan Model that is not either a Warlord, Reaver or Warhound, the Warbringer is a medium Battle Titan halfway between a Warlord and a Reaver. The Nemesis configuration refers to it mounting a Warlord-class Quake Cannon as its primary weapon, allowing it to be used as a dedicated siege platform and Anti-Titan weapon. Expect a non-Nemesis Warbringer sometime in the future.

===[[Warmaster Titan]]===

The new big boy on the block; bigger than a Warlord and pretty close to an Imperator. Armed with a huge Revelator Missile battery, dual Suzerain class plasma destructors, two optional shoulder-mounted Titan weapons of choice and backed up with numerous carapace point defense weapons and seven void-shields.

===[[Imperator Battle Titan]]=== 
HOLY SHIT IT WEARS CASTLES! [[Meme|Over 9000]] times bigger and heavier than a Warlord Titan and too many massive fucking guns to count. It needs a whole ship for itself to get around. Unfortunately the Imperium doesn't have many of these left after the Heresy. It's the largest thing to walk on land, because anything larger would produce its own gravity well. Oddly enough, it mounts a Ryza-pattern Plasma Annihilator, yet most of these things were supposedly made on Mars. This suggests that at one time there might have been a greater partnership between Ryza and Mars than there is in the present timeline.

If you feel compelled to represent one of these monsters in a game, the best way to do so is to have your 10-year-old cousin stand on top of the gaming board while wearing a sign around his neck that says, "I am an Imperator Titan".

===Other Imperial Titan Classes===
[[File:Warlord-Sinister-class Psi-Titan.jpg|thumb|The Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan. [[Grimdark|Uses so many Alpha-grade Psykers to power itself that it has to be controlled by a Blank]].]]
While the Warhound, Reaver and Warlord are the most common Titan classes seen in the Imperium, at the time of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy there were others. Some, such as the Eclipse and Nightgaunt were once just Warlord variants that FW decided to make new types. Others like the Carnivore and Komodo are entirely unique designs never before seen in fluff. A few are particularly noteworthy:

First is the Apocalypse Class, which is to the Imperator what the Imperator is to the Warlord and is the biggest Titan of all. Though there are no images of it, it would most likely be a skyscraper-sized monster that would make anything that saw it shit their pants. Eisenhorn once described seeing one at a triumph on a hive world, saying that it looked like whole sections of the hive moving. The second is the three-legged Punisher-class Titan, which was used during the War of the Beast. Third is the Warlord Sinister Class, of which only 25 were made during the Great Crusade. While the Eldar make ''exclusive'' use of psychic Titans, this is the only known ''Imperial'' giant psychic death machine ([https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Adeptus-Titanicus-Warlord-Sinister-Psi-Titan-2020 And it has a model now too]! <s>Suck it, Eldar</s> No don't. We weep for you Eldar players). The Legio Xestobiax, who appropriately were allies of the Thousand Sons, made Titans that had psionic control mechanisms along with other modifications. Many of them are still deeply buried under the surface of Zhao-Arkad, where they attempt to suck all forms of energy (souls included) to power themselves back up. The Mechanicus sensibly reburied them.

The Rapier class Scout Titan was even smaller and faster than a Warhound, mounting only one weapon and comparatively minimal armour and shielding. They were already a rarity in the closing days of the Heresy and the design seems to have been discontinued.

The Legio Fureans came up with the Reviler class, somewhere between a Warhound and Reaver.

Whilst not technically a titan, the Donjon class siege engine operated much like one. Quadrupedal, it was effectively a walking battleship/aircraft carrier. A small number were built for the Great Crusade but their narrow tactical utility, relative fragility, and difficulty of maintenance led to their limited use. 3 modified ones were used as a huge distraction carnifex by the traitors during the siege of Terra. At least 1 was modified into a huge stage for Noise Marines, which is AWESOME.

===Castigator Titan===
{{Topquote|By the Fell Gods and the destiny of warp, by the death of the False Emperor and the dying of the stars, we bring to you, Warmaster Abaddon, Beloved of Chaos, Despised of Man, this tribute. For now these last days are the final fires burning, the black flames that consume a galaxy, the storms of the warp that drown out life, the End Times and the dawn of a galaxy of Chaos. We swear fealty to the Gods of Chaos and their herald, Abaddon the Despoiler, with this tribute that it might strike fear into the followers of the Corpse-Emperor and that through it they may see the true face of death...|The Castigator Titan, on itself}}

The '''Castigator-Class Autonomous Bipedal Weapons Platform''' is an [[Standard Template Construct|STC]] Titan believed to be the design all Imperial Titans are derived from (a claim supported by the Titan itself, which derisively referred to all other Imperial Titans as "pale shadows made by ignorant children"), and like everything else made during of the [[Dark Age of Technology]], it is to all other Titans what the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] is to a [[Space Marine]] by comparison (the Father of all human Titans). It was a towering giant of white and silver, with a featureless head except for its green eyes (which seemed to be constantly venting cold fire into the air around it) and an unusually smooth, almost biological design, quite unlike the 'walking castles' motif of the Imperial Titans.

Despite being far larger than any other Titan in existence (save the [[Gargant#Temple_Gargant|Temple Gargant]]) it proved to be far faster and more agile (standing completely upright instead of hunched over like 40k titans) than its bulk would suggest thanks to its unique locomotion system, which featured [[Battletech|synthetic muscles]] supplemented by an automatic repair system (so, it's basically giant autonomous power armour, Mechanicus take notes). Its weapons were no less advanced, consisting of a Titan Power Fist and a heavily modified rotary cannon of uncertain origin (it fired [[Daemons]]). Unlike any of the other Titans, it has no crew and is instead operated solely through the action of an [[Machine Spirit|artificial intelligence]].

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This turned out to be a very big problem for the Imperium, as the AI in question was advanced enough to fall to Chaos and went so far as to make a pact with the Ruinous Powers, although the book is a bit ambiguous about that too as [[Grey Knights|Justicar Alaric]] claimed that it was a daemon that had found itself trapped inside the STC during the time the planet it was buried in was lost in the warp, and that it was in there so long it actually started to believe it was the AI. It's probably good idea to trust the highly trained daemon expert's judgment on daemons. Only the efforts of an expeditionary force of Tech Guard and a single squad of Grey Knights were enough to destroy it, though fragments of its STC database was collected and stored by the Mechanicus shortly afterward to be reviewed at a later time.

No matter how much you may want to see this metal beast side with the Big E, it's most likely not gonna happen. 'Cause you know, Chaos. On the other hand, with the daemon purged perhaps the AI will survive and be grateful and realize the rebellious Men of Iron had been stooges. In 40K, that wouldn't be surprising any more than the AI being dead (or surviving and hating humanity even more for ending it's ascension or whatever).