The Titan Legions

Titans are immense fighting machines, towering monstrosities up to two hundred feet tall. They instil terror by their mere presence and little can equal their bristling arsenals of weaponry. Few enemies, apart from other Titans, can stand against them.

Created during the founding of the lmperium, the Titan Legions have crushed the Emperor's foes in countless battles and wars. Protected by banks of void shield generators, Titans can soak up damage that would smash apart tank companies and infantry regiments. They march into the thick of battle with their guns blazing, gouging great holes in the enemy with a fusillade of rockets, shells and plasma, paying little heed to the troops advancing in their wake.

The Titan Legions are maintained by the might of the Adeptus Mechanicus and are sent into battle only with the blessings of Mars itself. Each Legion is based on a forge world, and the forge worlds are spread throughout the lmperium so that at any given time at least one Titan Legion can respond to the call to arms. The Legions are an immensely powerful force in their own right, and the presence of Titans has decided the outcome of many campaigns during the long history of the lmperium.

The Centurio Ordinatus

Alongside the Titan Legions, the Adeptus Mechanicus also commands the might of the Centurio Ordinatus. This organisation controls immense war engines, which are specialised to fulfil very particular roles.

Some, like Ordinatus Armageddon, mount a single huge cannon capable of blasting apart enemy war engines and fortifications. Others carry rack upon rack of huge missiles designed to spread wholesale devastation, as was amply demonstrated by Ordinatus Golgotha against the Ork horde of Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka. Some even mount experimental weapons such as the Sonic cannon put to use by Ordinatus Mars during the Horus Heresy, which shatter an enemy attack and leave the foe vulnerable to a counter-attack by other Imperial forces.

These Ordinatus are deployed only sparingly, and many of them date back to the Great Crusade and have been meticulously maintained for millennia. They are seen as living icons of the Machine-God and the Cult Mechanicus reveres them as such.