Way again within the early 1988 Games Workshop invented the primary Warhammer titans. Let’s head again three a long time and have a look.

Adeptus Titanicus kicked off EPIC scale gaming and introduced us the principle courses of Imperial (and later Eldar and Ork) titans method again in.  It was an superior recreation that opened up new worlds just like the Horus Heresy and illuminated huge new areas of the grimdark beforehand unseen.

The authentic recreation got here with styrofoam buildings by no means seen since and 6 plastic warlord titans! Let’s have a look again on the teensy warhammer titans that began all of it.

Warlord Titans

The authentic “beetle-back”  Warlord had extra weapon choices than precise components of its hull to assemble.  It might be bought in units of 6 within the beneath “Battle Titans” plastic field.

Here’s the Warlord weapon sprues, designed to come back on and off to the weapon hardpoints, so you may swap them out from recreation to recreation.

Here’s a single Warlord titan sprue. The base was two components with an inner column to suit a plastic disk round to trace your present void shields. It was just like the present X-Wing maneuver dials, and the present shield-count was seen by means of the small gap atop the bottom in between the Warlord’s ft. There had been two totally different head selections.

Here’s a pattern fellow with twin missiles up prime and two volcano cannons down beneath. A gradual Nemesis gunship, meant for standoff engagements.

Here you may see the assorted sub-categories of Death Bringer, Nightgaunt, Eclipse and Nemesis. You will notice the extra closely armed variations are considerably slower, but higher protected. The sooner ones had been very maneuverable and meant to get in quick and kill at level clean vary. How many do you acknowledge from the fashionable incarnation?

Reaver Titans

The Reaver medium titan was launched in brief order and was additionally a modular design.  It nevertheless was all steel and misplaced the simple mix-and matching weapons of the Warlord.

There had been a few head variants, and the choice of mounting the banner pole atop the chassis for a higher-speed choice.

Warhound Titans

The Warhound scout titans arrived with the Reavers and introduced unimaginable pace to the titan legions.

From the start, Warhounds had been described as being utilized in pairs.

They solely mounted two weapon hardpoints, however had the pace to flank and get into the weak rear of their bigger lumbering brothers. Many a Warlord was introduced down by a point-blank plasma blastgun to to it’s plasma reactor from straight behind. Good searching little Warhounds!

Warhammer Titan Accessories

In later years, GW would introduce a big set of uncommon weapons and titan hardpoint equipment, in addition to bits for making mutated Traitor Titans. Notable examples included the Carapace Landing Pad (above) which included a spotter Land Speeder for drawing elevated line of sight. The uncommon however feared Corvus Assault Pod got here with 4 squads of Terminators inside able to pour into and seize no matter you punched. The Fire Control Tower used up a valuable carapace weapons slot, however elevated accuracy on your different ranged weapons. All of those added a number of spice to these old-school titan battles.

Fast Forward to Now

Time to time warp ahead to now and WHEW! It’s beautiful to have a look at a 30 yr distinction in plastic know-how aspect by aspect. Adeptus Titanicus dropped a complete slew of Warhammer titans for the tabletop. All the previous classics are round, in addition to new wonders. While the traditional varieties have nods to the earlier variations, they’ve additionally made some severe leaps in sculpting and manufacturing.

We’ve come a good distance in 30 years.I’ve these on my desk!

On the hunt!

~Who nonetheless has a few of these steel veterans?

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