Editing Ordinatus

[[File:Ordinatus.jpg|400px|thumbnail|right| Yes, the little things on the bottom are buildings. '''It's that big'''. It is also [[Looted|looted,]] [[Emprah]] [[Rape|help us.]] ]]
{{topquote|A weapon the size of a [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)|Titan]]. A near-perfect expression of the [[Omnissiah]]'s grandeur and, of course, his puissance. Armies are thrown to the wind by its glorious song, and mountains themselves skitter aside at its demand. Nothing stands before a sacred Machine Spirit so mighty without its consent.|Tech-Priest Garrulon Vyme}}

In the rare event that even the Titan Legions just can't get the job done, the [[Imperium of Man]] brings in the specialized war-machines known as the '''Ordinati'''.  These are basically unintelligent (so far as we know) Bolos built with Imperial technology, and are the angry black matriarchs of the AdMech's arsenals.

==Overview==
Unlike the standardized Titans, each Ordinatus is custom-built by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] for a specific objective and named after the world it was constructed on. A special branch of the Admech called the Centurio Ordinatus is responsible for their creation, use, and maintenance, similar to the Collegia Titanica. The Ordinati themselves vary widely in armaments, size, shape, and role - some are armed with guns that would make an [[Imperator Battle Titan]] jealous, others are designed to carry entire battalions of troops, but all are more than capable of winning a war on their own. Most of them are only used for one battle and then get mothballed. 
[[File:OrdinatusFirepowah.jpg|300px|thumb|left|The Ordinatus Mars, making [[Emperor Battle Titan|Emperor Battle Titans]] feel insecure since the 31st millennium.]]
Using each one for only a single fight seems kind of wasteful given how stupidly powerful they're supposed to be, but you must first realize how the Mechanicum sees them. To the AdMech, innovation is one of the most dangerous things in the galaxy - if they invent a new Ordinatus it is only out of extremely dire need, and even then only the Centurio Ordinatus Magi are entrusted to do so. After it fulfills its purpose, the new Ordinatus should by all means be left alone unless it needs to perform its specialized role again. After all, it's a new technology not based at all on any pre-existing STC, and as such using it without a very, very good reason is seen as sacrilege if not outright tech-heresy, and if you push the wrong button you might vaporize somebody's favorite mountain by accident.

In light of that, actually deploying one at all is a very rare event compared to that of their Titan counterparts. Most of them were either destroyed, lost, damaged beyond repair, or just plain forgotten during the [[Horus Heresy]]. They're typically deployed separately from any Titan Legions or [[Skitarii]], and are used only when [[Imperial Guard|any]] [[Space Marines|other]] [[Exterminatus|options]] have failed. One was constructed in the middle of the First battle for Ullanor in [[the war of the beast]], and fired PLASMA DRIVES (famous for powering BATTLE BARGES on their own). This was so effective, it could one shot a column of Ork [[Gargant|Gargants]]. Unfortunately it met a sticky end when the Beast's PERSONAL TEMPLE-GARGANT fired all its weaponry (and there's a lot) at it, and still only just managed to cripple it. WOW.

Ordinatus engines are absolutely massive land crawlers that can run over and squash Baneblades, and are protected by a specialized energy field called a Dispersion Field on par with a Titan's void shields. Unlike the Titans, Ordinati are usually not meant to directly assault enemy positions, but tend to be better suited as really big back-line artillery.  They are (very relatively) squishy for their size and firepower - and fairly indiscriminate at unleashing said firepower - so they need support armies to keep enemies at distance as they blow everything within several hundred miles of them to pieces. 
	
Speaking about firepower... While Titans and huge ass super heavy tanks tend to have multiple guns on them, Ordinatus engines always mount only one ridiculously OP weapon system which can be as large as an actual ''Titan''. Most (if not all) of those systems were once specifically designed to solve one particularly difficult problem. Let me reiterate this: The Mechanicum, the guys who see innovation as one of the most perilous things in the galaxy, actually ''invented'' these things. Not just "in the distant past before much knowledge had being lost" but right the fuck NOW - some of the famous Ordinatus weapons were invented in M41 to fight off Waaagh! Ghazghkull. It's no surprise to anyone that the cogboys consider them the most sacred "relics" that they possess. 

===Ordinati Minoris===
The "small" Ordinati, which are still each the size of three [[Leman Russ]] tanks lined up end-to-end, are typically armed with weaponry normally seen on Titans. They're easily recognized in silhouette by the two pairs of tracks they possess: two at the front and two at the rear. All of the big, "regular" Ordinati have three pairs of treads.  Granted, each of those treads could wholly crush an Ordinatus Minoris, but that is besides the point.

They're also the only Ordinati which have rules for them available and they can be taken in both 30k and <s>40k</s> (40k rules awaiting the release of Fires of Cyraxus) Admech lists. Both of the available Ordinati Minoris are Super-Heavy Vehicles with AV14/13/13, 14 Hull points, Blessed Autosimalcrum, Armored Ceramite, Anbaric Claws, an Ordinatus Dispersion Field (an improved Flare Shield that's most effective early in the game: initially it grants a -3 S to all shooting attacks and rolls on the D chart, which goes down by one until the third turn, where it remains at a -1 penalty to all incoming shooting attacks and strength D hits), three turret-mounted Volkite Culverins, and a built in 6++ save. The catch is that they also have their own Catastrophic Damage table in which the closest range is always Strength D no matter what gets rolled, so if it ever does go down it's guaranteed to fuck over anyone nearby.

Currently, three Ordinatus Minoris variants have their own rules:

*'''Ordinatus Sagittar''': Did you ever say to yourself "Hey, I wish I could mount a Titan-grade Volcano Cannon on something other than a Shadowsword"? Well, you're in luck- for "only" 700 points, the Ordinatus Sagittar can fire off a blast of Strength D Apocalyptic Blast goodness from '''180'''' away, allowing you to snipe enemy vehicles and everything vaguely close to them from the other side of the table. The Machine Destroyer rule on it is a little overkill, but very nice against Titans.

*'''Ordinatus Ulator''': 1075 points nets you the Ordinatus Mars' little brother, armed with its own Sonic Destructor. At first glance, its rules are nasty as hell- 72' range, AP1, Armorbane, Instant Death, Pinning, and Ignores Cover in one package. However, the meat of its effectiveness comes from its "Ulator Sonic Wave" rule. Instead of measuring the shot normally, you place a Massive Blast marker so it touches the Ordinatus' hull, and move it forward in any direction from its firing arc (so long as the first model hit by it is an enemy; mind you, friendly units can be hit afterwards) until it either reaches the max range or it leaves the table. Everything that the template passes over even partially is automatically hit, with squads taking a number of hits equal to the number of models that the template covered as it moved. Yes, this includes fliers too. From there, its strength changes depending on what got hit- it acts like S5 on infantry/bikes/beasts/jetbikes/cavalry, S8 on MCs and non-tank vehicles, S10 on tanks, and the almighty D to super-heavies, buildings, and GCs. Between its ability to tear apart an entire army in one shot regardless of what's being fielded and the fact that it ''literally'' cannot miss, it says a lot that this is still one of the "small" Ordinati. In addition, it sounds something like [https://youtu.be/P0DUsylJw9E this.]

*'''Ordinatus Aktaeus''': The Adeptus Mechanicus of Forge World AcM3 have done it again, after vigorous field tests in catching the elusive 'road runner' they've finally cleared their giant novelty rocket for use as a war machine, right after they repurposed it into a drill. It's better known as the [[Tunneling Transport Vehicles|Mole]]. Presumably they did so after playing a few too many games of [[FATAL]] and they wanted to make something so huge, no roll for [[Anal Circumference]] could possibly save you.

===Ordinatus Mars===
[[File:Imperial_Battlefleet_&_Imperial_Landship_size_scale_(2).png|600px|right|thumb|A size scale between the maximum to minimum possible size of the Ordinatus Armageddon. Makes you feel small eh?]]
During the Schism of Mars, one traitor Magos holed himself up in a mountain citadel, sending his armies to harass Loyalist factories. Four companies of [[Imperial Fists]] led by [[Sigismund]] were sent to stop him, but discovered that the Magos possessed a [[C'tan|peculiar xeno artifact]] that caused any ship that got too close to it to be blown up or thrown into the Warp. A ground attack was decided to be a more viable approach...if it weren't for the half-mile thick walls made of the toughest materials known to the Imperium. 

The Mechanicum responded by creating the Ordinatus Mars, armed with a [[Sonic Weaponry|Sonic Disruptor]] that caused the citadel to shake itself apart with the force of its sound waves. As the walls of the fortress crumpled the Loyalist Tech-Guard was able to storm the citadel and execute the traitor Magos with no difficulty. Probably being used by the Fabricator-General for fuck all, as no-one knows what happened to it after that.

===Ordinatus Golgotha===
After [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]] fled Armageddon, [[Yarrick]] managed to track him down to the planet Golgotha. Some time after his capture by the greenskins and later escape, he returned with a punitive force of Titans and Skitarii. The sheer size of the Ork WAAAGH! made it impossible for them to gain an advantage, warranting the creation of an Ordinatus made specifically to deal with overwhelmingly massive hordes. 

The Golgotha's Hellfire Missiles were perfect for the job, and routed the Orks within a week. Since then it's been deployed in any battle where the enemies of the Imperium outnumber even the Imperial Guard. To this day, no one knows how the great weapon is reloaded.

===Ordinatus Armageddon===
The Ordinatus Armageddon was designed during the First War for Armageddon to defend against a particularly dangerous horde of [[Daemon Engine]]s. The plasma-based cannon gives it the ability to melt Titans in one shot and disintegrate entire tank battalions with a salvo. Supposedly, it was inspired by an old [[Squat]] anti-Titan vehicle. The book ''Helsreach'' speculates that the Ordinatus Armageddon's main gun was basically a Nova Cannon (a weapon typically used only on [[Imperial Navy]] warships) modified to use an auto-loading system instead of a crew of thousands of slave workers. 

It is the only 'large' Ordinatus that can be properly estimated based on size. While not official, it can assumed that its maximum size puts it in the same weight category as Imperial Destroyers or Frigates. We got this size by estimating its Nova Cannon with that of Imperial Battleships and scaling it with the Armageddon. Of course do note that this is just taking into the presumption that the Nova Cannon on the Armageddon is the same size as those found on Battleships and that changes in its size can fluctuate.  This is unlikely to be true because a titan is a hell of a lot smaller than a ship and requiring a "salvo" to destroy a tank battalion implies (relatively) rapid fire capability so the shots must be far smaller than those of a true nova cannon.  A nova cannon in the Navy can wipe out an entire squadron of escorts with one shot and those presumably are flying thousands of kilometers apart from each other.  Besides, a novel is not necessarily canon (pun?) and a plasma-based weapon is probably exactly that, a plasma weapon.  So, we have no real knowledge of how big it is or what it shoots except that it is likely no smaller than a Capital Imperialis.

Anyway, during the battle of Helsreach the ranking Space Marine commander, Chaplain Grimaldus, ordered his Techmarine to go find the Ordinatus and reactivate it. This took about five straight weeks of hacking, just to get in the hangar bay's door. And when the Titan Legions found out the Marines had done this they threatened to ''destroy the Ordinatus and kill all the Space Marines'', that's how big a deal these machines and the "never use, ever" doctrines are to the Mechanicus. Luckily basic logic prevailed ("if you don't let us use this the Ork gargants are going to kill us and loot all our Titans) and the Mechanicus Titans stood aside to let the Ordinatus start shooting. The battle changed from an imminent Imperial defeat to a decisive victory shortly thereafter.

===Ordinatus Priam===
Essentially the [[Hades Breaching Drill]]'s big brother, the Priam was designed during the Siege of Priam to bypass the defenses of an occupied city by drilling directly through a planet's crust, traveling through the mantle underneath, and then reemerging behind enemy lines. It was successful at deploying four companies of Imperial Guard to break the aforementioned siege without incinerating them in the process, but was rendered inoperable afterwards due to its shielding partially failing during the attack. Since most Ordinati are only intended for one battle anyway, this wasn't an issue.

===Ordinatus Gehenna===
The Gehenna was armed with an Apocalypse Cannon strong enough to shoot straight through a planet's crust hard enough to trigger magma flows. It was fought over by the Imperium and [[Chaos]] during the 13th [[Black Crusade]]. I'm not sure what an Apocalypse Cannon is but i'ma go out on a limb and say that it's a beefier version of a Volcano Gun that can destabilize the geological activity of the planet it's sitting on.

===Ordinatus Volcanis Ultor===
A rare example of a Traitor Ordinatus, made by the Dark Mechanicum of Volcanis Ultor to wipe out an advancing force of [[Grey Knights]]. Its exact armament was never described, but judging by the description of it being able to fire pinpoint salvos of multiple warheads it may have been capable of firing missiles or shells of some kind. However, it was never actually used- the wreckage of a Grey Knight Strike Cruiser that had just been destroyed by the traitors' warships crashed on top of the war machine, [[fail|obliterating its cannon barrel and ammunition loading systems by accident]].

===Ordinatus Ullanor===
A destroyed [[Capitol Imperialis]] command vehicle and a ship-based [[Plasma Annihilator]] taken from a downed Ark Mechanicus, the Ordinatus Ullanor lived a brief life during the battle against WAAAAGH! Beast during the events of the ''Beast Arises'' series. It showed up, killed a few [[Gargant|Gargants,]] then got nuked by the beast's mountain sized Gargant in one shot.

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Image:99560108149_MechanicumOrdinatusSagittar01.jpg|The Ordinatus Sagittar, the Ordinatus Gehenna's rotten stepchild.
Image:99560108145_MechanicumOrdinatusUlator_08.jpg|The Ordinatus Ulator, the little brother of the Ordinatus Mars.
Image:OrdinatusAktaeus.jpg| This fell out from between an Imperator's legs, so they attached treads to it.
Image:OrdinatusArmageddon.jpg| The Ordinatus Armageddon, for when you really need a continent bathed in plasma.
Image:OrdinatusGolgotha.jpg| The Ordinatus Golgotha. How do they reload those missiles, anyway?
Image:OrdinatusMars.jpg| The Ordinatus Mars. Suck on it, [[Noise Marines]].
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