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A DEPTUS TITANICU S

The following rules were written by Gav Thorpe, and restore Imperial Titans to their rightful place

as the kings of the Epic battlefield. They have a debt to my own venerable Adeptus Titanicus rules

(thus the title), but I have to say they are much better than my earlier effort. Truly the student now

exceeds the master… But I digress. Gav’s rules make Titans a much more formidable foe, and

makes them much more interesting to use as well. You’ll find that you can now have perfectly

enjoyable games just using Titans, without any vehicles or infantry taking part, and such ‘Titan vs

Titan’ games provide great introduction to Epic for new players. Future issues of Epic magazine

will expand these rules so that they cover all of the different kinds of war engines found in Epic.

Until we do that, however, other war engines carry on using the normal Epic rules. In the fullness of

time we will combine all of the Adeptus Titanicus II rules together into an official supplement for

the Epic 40,000 game system.

Before going onto the rules proper, it’s important for me to note that these rules are not optional.

They are ‘new rules’ for Epic 40,000 and replace those for Titans in the Epic 40,000 rulebook. This

said, springing them on an opponent without prior warning is completely out of order and not at

all the kind of conduct we expect from Epic players – so just don’t do it, OK! However, assuming

both you and your opponent know of the rules, then you really should use them. If your opponent

doesn’t have a copy of the rules, then the ‘Firepower’ section later on in this magazine lists how he

(or she!) can get hold of them at minimal cost.

But enough of my ramblings and conjunctions. I’ll now hand you over to Gav Thorpe…

27 June 2000

INTRODUCTION

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 thousands of

colonised 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. The wars 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.

Titans are the supreme fighting machines of the

Imperium. They are giants with skins of

adamantium, protected by fields of almost

impenetrable energy, crewed by devoted warriors

and armed with the mightiest weapons Imperial

tech-priests can devise. Through the Imperium

and beyond nothing inspires the same kind of

awe and fear.

Using the rules below you can re-create some of

the greatest Titan battles of Imperial history. The

rules update and expand the rules for Titans in

the Epic 40,000 rulebook. In order to use them

you will need a copy of the Epic rules, and at least

two Imperial Titan models (one for each player).

Read the rules through carefully, and then have a

practice game just using one Titan per side. After

playing a couple games like this you will be ready

to expand your force and field a Titan battle

group on each side, or add supporting

detachments of vehicles and infantry. The

important thing is to build up slowly rather than

diving in the deep end. With time and practice the

rules will become second nature and you will

easily be able to incorporate them into any size of

Epic game that you play.

Except where modified below the normal Epic

40,000 game rules apply.

VERY IMPORTANT: The following rules are

written assuming that games will pit Titan’s

against Titan’s, without any other types of unit

being involved. At the end of the rules you will

find a section that explains how Titans ‘interact’

with (i.e. shoot and stomp!) other types of Epic

unit. We’ve lumped all these rules together like

this for the sake of simplicity and to avoid

repetition, as otherwise the main rules would be

littered with ‘ifs, buts and maybes’.

TITAN GUNS

TITAN

CHARACTERISTICS

The galaxy of the 41st millennium has evolved

many different and deadly weapons, from rapid-

firing cannon that hurl a torrent of shells, to

sophisticated laser weapons that punch through

armour like a knife through butter, to plasma

weapons that unleash barely controlled energies.

Like the Titan itself, a weapon's effectiveness is

determined by a number of different

characteristics which make up its profile:

RANGE (RGE)

The distance, in centimetres, that a weapon can

fire and still hit its target with reasonable accuracy

or with sufficient force to cause damage.

Obviously, the higher a weapon's Range, the

better.

FIREPOWER (FP)

The weapons firepower value as described in the

Epic 40,000 rules. This value is used when firing

at vehicles, infantry or war machines that still use

the rules from the Epic 40,000 rulebook (see the

section for incorporating such units into ATII at

the end of these rules).

ACCURACY (ACC)

Some guns are inherently more or less accurate to

fire, and the Accuracy value modifies the Titan's

Gunnery value when firing that weapon. A

positive Accuracy (e.g. +2) is good, while a

weapon with a negative accuracy (e.g. -1) is not as

easy to hit with. Most weapons have a '-' which

means they do not modify the Titan's Gunnery.

RATE OF FIRE (ROF)

Some guns fire only a single shot while others

hurl a salvo of fire at the enemy. The Rate of Fire

of a weapon determines how many shots you get

with it every time it fires.

STRENGTH (STR)

This shows how powerful the weapon is, and

therefore how likely it is to inflict damage if it hits.

The higher a weapon's Strength, the more likely it

is to punch through a target's armour.

There are two aspects to a Titan – the Titan itself,

and its weapons. Each Titan has some basic

characteristics which show how fast,

manoeuvrable and durable it is. Combined

together, the characteristics are called the Titan's

profile. The characteristics on a Titan's profile are:

SPEED (SP)

This shows how fast the Titan can move over

open ground. Speed is given in centimetres, and

ranges from 10cm for very large, ponderous

Titans to 30cm for small agile Scout Titans.

MANOEUVRE (MAN)

This shows how quickly the Titan can change

direction, and react to certain situations. The

Manoeuvre characteristic shows how many turns

a Titan can make during its movement, and is also

used in some other situations, such as avoiding

difficult terrain.

ARMOUR (ARM) AND DAMAGE TABLES

Each Titan has three Damage Tables, one for the

Front, one for the Side and another for the Rear.

These are used to determine what damage is

suffered when the Titan is hit by a weapon. The

higher a Titan's Armour value, the better able it is

to withstand attack.

WEAPONS

A Titan has a number of hardpoints which can

carry a weapon, varying in number from one or

two weapons for a small Titan, to four or more

weapon systems for larger Titans. This shows

where the weapons are mounted and therefore

what their 'fire arc' is (see below).

GUNNERY (GUN)

This is a representation of how accurate the

Titan's crews are at shooting with their weapons,

written as the score you need to equal or beat on

a roll of a D6 to score a hit. For example, a Titan

with a Gunnery score of 4+ will hit its target with

its guns on a D6 roll of 4, 5 or 6.

CLOSE COMBAT SKILL (CCS)

This shows how skilled the Titan crew is when

fighting other Titans, trying to batter one another

with their close combat weapons. CCS is given as

a score you need to equal or beat on a roll of a D6

to score a hit. For example, a Titan with a CCS of

5 will hit in close combat on a D6 roll of 5 or 6.

TITAN CLOSE

COMBAT WEAPONS

While massive lasers and barrages of missiles can

pound an enemy from a distance, many Titan

battles are resolved in the vicious conflict of close

combat. Huge powered fists, laser-burners and

swinging wrecking balls can cause horrendous

damage to an enemy Titan.

Like guns, close combat weapons also have a

profile of characteristics.

SWIFTNESS (SW)

Some weapons are faster than others and can be

used to strike more quickly. A weapon with a

higher swiftness value gets a chance to hit before

close combat weapons with a lower value.

ACCURACY (ACC)

Close combat weapons vary in their effectiveness.

Some are deft and agile to use, while others are

cumbersome and unwieldy. A close combat

weapon's accuracy modifies the CCS of the Titan

using it. A positive Accuracy (e.g. +2) is good,

while a weapon with a negative accuracy (e.g. -1)

is not as easy to hit with. Most weapons have a '-'

which means they do not modify the Titan's Close

Combat Skill.

ATTACKS (ATT)

Like a gun's Rate of Fire, a close combat weapon

might inflict one blow or hit several times. The

higher a close combat weapon's number of

attacks, the more times it can strike in close

combat.

STRENGTH (STR)

This shows how powerful the weapon is, and

therefore how likely it is to inflict damage if it hits.

The higher a weapon's Strength, the more likely it

is to punch through a target's armour.

a single Titan each until they have moved their

Titans to their satisfaction. No Titan can move

more than once in the movement phase.

Example: Player A has three Titans and Player B

has two Titans. Player B wins the initiative and

forces player A to move first. Player A moves their

first Titan, Player B moves their first Titan. Player

A then moves their second Titan followed by

player B's second Titan. Finally, Player A moves his

last Titan.

A player must move their Titans with the lowest

Manoeuvre first - that is, Man 1 Titans must be

moved before Man 2 Titans and so on. If you start

moving a Titan then any Titans with a lower Man

you have not yet moved cannot move that phase.

EXAMPLE

Player A has a Warlord Titan (Man 1) and two

Reaver Titans (Man 2). Player A must move their

Warlord Titan before they can move their Warrior

Titans.

MOVING

A Titan can move up to its Speed in centimetres.

At any point during its movement a Titan can

make one turn up to 45° for each point of

Manoeuvre it has. If a Titan has a Man of 2 or

more, these turns can be combined into a single

SEQUENCE OF PLAY

Adeptus Titanicus II uses the same sequence of

play as Epic 40,000:

I. Movement Phase.

II. Shooting Phase.

III. Assault Phase.

IV. Rally Phase (Repairs).

MOVEMENT

In the Movement phase, a player may move one

or more of their Titans around the battlefield, as

determined by their Speed and Manoeuvre. A

player can move none, some or all of their Titans

as they wish, unless they have been damaged or

there is some other factor which will prevent a

Titan from moving.

ORDER OF MOVEMENT

Determine initiative as described in the Epic

40,000 rule book. The player with the initiative

decides whether he wishes to move first or

second. The players then take it in turns to move

turn of up to 90° or more, so that it could turn on

the spot, for example, before moving off.

DANGEROUS TERRAIN

Some types of terrain are called ‘dangerous’ – a

Titan moving through them will be considerably

slowed down. If a Titan starts its movement in

dangerous terrain or enters dangerous terrain as

part of its move, then roll 1D6 per point of Man

the Titan has. The total score is the distance the

Titan can move through the dangerous terrain.

If a Titan starts in open terrain and moves into

dangerous terrain, roll a D6 for each point of Man

it has not spent that phase. This is the total

distance it can move through the dangerous

terrain, though it cannot move further than its

total Speed, even if the dice roll would allow this.

Similarly, if you roll enough for a Titan to leave

the dangerous terrain then the distance rolled is

taken off its Speed, and any movement left after

this may be taken as normal movement. If there is

in sufficient Speed left after this deduction to

move any further, the Titan stops moving just

outside the dangerous terrain.

If a Titan moves from one type of dangerous

terrain to another type (from rubble into a river,

for example), there is no need to roll separately

for each type of terrain – you just have to roll for

moving through any kind of dangerous terrain.

If a Titan wishes to turn whilst in dangerous

terrain, it must give up a point of Man for each

turn it will make, and not roll a D6 for it when

determinng the distance travelled.

EXAMPLE 1

An Eldar Revenant Scout Titan (Man 4) is moving

through a wood. It wishes to make a single turn

and so only rolls 3D6 for its total Speed for the

turn. The dice score 11 so the Titan can move up

to 11cm through the wood, making a single turn

up to 45°.

EXAMPLE 2

A Reaver Titan (Man 2 and Speed 20cm) moves

10cm before entering a wood. The player uses

both remaining points of Man to negotiate the

dangerous terrain and rolls 2D6, luckily scoring

an 11. However, the Titan may only move up to

10cm, as this was the amount of Speed left before

entering the dangerous terrain.

EXAMPLE 3

A Warhound Titan (Man 3 and Speed 25cm),

starts in an area of rubble. It uses 2 points of

Man to move through the rubble, rolling an 8.

After moving 5cm it is in the open, so can move

up to 17cm more, making one turn if it wishes.

Note that the Warhound deducts the amount

rolled for the dangerous terrain movement

(8cm) rather than amount actually moved

(5cm).

Refer to the terrain table on page 14 of the Epic

40,000 rules for a list of dangerous terrain. In

addition the following are all types of dangerous

terrain:

Woods, jungle, rubble, rivers, rocks and scree,

lakes, swamps, marshes, tar pits, boiling mud,

crevasses, ash or sand dunes, ice, snow drifts,

blizzards, dust/sandstorms, craters, high magnetic

fields, acid clouds, crossing a pipeline, stepping

over low fortifications, very steep inclines (going

down as well as up is difficult) and so on…

IMPASSABLE TERRAIN

There are some types of terrain a Titan simply

cannot enter. A Titan cannot move through

impassable terrain under any circumstances, the

Titan stops moving before it enters the terrain.

Refer to the terrain table on page 14 of the Epic

40,000 rules for a list of impassable terrain. In

addition the following are all types of impassable

terrain:

Cliffs, deep lakes, lava flows, buildings.

MOVING BACKWARDS

A Titan may move backwards during its turn. Each

cm of backwards movement reduces the Titan's

remaining movement by 3cm. A Titan cannot

move backwards in dangerous terrain.

TITANS IN CLOSE COMBAT

A Titan that starts the movement phase in close

combat may move away from the enemy as

normal. A Titan may not move within 10cm of an

enemy Titan in the movement phase.

REAR (R)

The weapon can fire in a 90° arc directly behind

the Titan.

REAR FULL (RF)

The weapon can fire in a 180° arc to the rear of

the Titan.

SHOOTING

AHEAD 90 o

FORWARD 180 o

Use the rules in the Epic 40,000 rulebook to

determine who has the initiative and then take it

in turns to pick a Titan and shoot with it. Titans

which are in close combat with other Titans

cannot fire ranged weapons. Titans which are in

close combat with other Titans cannot be targeted

by ranged attacks.

TITANS SHOOTING AT TITANS

Each ranged weapon on a Titan can be fired at a

single enemy Titan, as long as it is within its fire

arc and line of fire (see below). Different weapons

can be, and often will have to be, directed against

different targets. Note, however, that weapons

with a RoF of 2 or more must still direct all their

shots at a single target, they cannot split their fire.

FIRE ARCS

Each weapon mount on a Titan determines the

direction a weapon can be pointed. Obviously, a

weapon on one side of a Titan cannot swivel

around to shoot over the opposite side, for

example. This is called a weapon's 'fire arc' and

only enemy Titans within the weapon's fire arc

can be targeted. There are several different fire

arcs as listed below and all fire arcs are worked

out from the centre of the Titan model:

ALL ROUND (AR)

The weapon has a 360° fire arc.

AHEAD (A)

The weapon can fire in a 90° arc in front of the

Titan.

FORWARD (F)

The weapon can be fired in a 180° arc to the front

of the Titan

LEFT/ RIGHT AHEAD (LA/RA)

The weapon can fire in a 90° arc from straight

ahead to a right angle to the appropriate side.

LEFT/ RIGHT FULL (LF/RF)

The weapon can fire in 180° arc from straight

ahead to directly behind.

ALL ROUND 360 o

REAR FULL180 o

LEFT

AHEAD 90 o

RIGHT

AHEAD 90 o

REAR

90 o

LINE OF SIGHT

As well as being able to physically turn towards a

target, a weapon must be able to see it! This is

called having a 'line of sight'. If a Titan does not

have a line of sight (LOS) to an enemy, then it

cannot fire at it! Line of sight is fairly simple to

work out – draw an imaginary line from the

weapon mount to the target. If there's anything

blocking this line, then the target cannot be seen!

Most of the time it will be obvious if a target can

be seen, though sometimes it'll be necessary to

get down and have a 'model's eye' view to see if it

has a line of sight. If you can see only a small part

of the enemy, such as the tip of a flag pole or

weapon, or a foot poking around a building, then

this isn't really enough for a line of sight. If you

can see up to about half of the target then this has

line of sight, but the target will be harder to hit

(see Cover below) and if you can see more than

half of the target then you've got a clear shot.

NOMINATE TARGETS

Once you have established which enemies are in

line of sight an fire arc for each of your Titan's

weapons, you must declare which weapons are

firing at which targets. You cannot fire one

weapon and see how it does before firing the next

- you must declare your targets before you start

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