Adeptus Titanicus- Titandeath- The War for Beta: Garmon

Welcome, Princeps!

We’ve been fortunate to be granted an early preview copy of the upcoming Titandeath supplement for Adeptus Titanicus.  We’re very excited to be given the opportunity to continue bringing you information about the game and we’ll dive right in.  This article will cover the basics of the book as well as the first section, which covers the lore and timeline of the Beta-Garmon warzone.

THE BOOK

The book is another hardback format that follows the same presentation style of the core rules.  It evokes the feel of the Forge World red books for the Horus Heresy, with some elements of the black books mixed in.  At just under 100 pages, this will be easy to transport to your games while still being packed with new missions, Titan Legion rules, and more.  Remember, this is also the first of the Adeptus Titanicus supplements, so there will be more coming.  However, we cannot deny that this sets a pretty high standard already.

Titandeath spoils us with:

·         Six new narrative missions.

·         Rules for eight Titan Legions, four Loyalist and four Traitor.

·         Four new maniples to be used in any game.

·         An Adeptus Titanicus campaign system.

THE LORE

Always a big sticking point for us at Titan Owners Club, the lore of the Beta-Garmon campaign is brought out.  We’re going to ding this book on the same thing that we did the core rules: there is lore…but not as much as we’d like to see.  With that said, the lore that we are given is a very nice, solid snapshot of what happened at Beta-Garmon and pairs nicely with the Titandeath novel released in late 2018.  These books operate in an almost seamless fashion when taken from the perspective of the Imperial Hunters and the Death Stalkers.

Coming in at 12 pages, the lore provides background on the Beta-Garmon cluster, which is named for the seat of power, the Beta-Garmon system.  This warzone is a vital staging ground for the Imperium because it provides a stable warp route as well as military assets that can be used to stage its campaigns.  Aside from that, it is also the gateway to Terra itself, making it a prize to both sides of the Horus Heresy.  New to this book is the map of the Beta-Garmon cluster which evokes the feel of the Imperium before its Gothic obsession.  The map gives the reader a good glimpse of the warzone itself and helps to identify key fronts of the war.

This section of the book also briefly describes the five star systems that make up the cluster, with quick blurbs given about key planets within specific star systems.  Following that, the book provides a timeline of the key battles that spanned this multi-year campaign.  Of course, the book cannot be called Titandeath without covering “The Titandeath” itself, which is an entry in the timeline.  It also makes it quite clear that many of the Titan Legions that fought in this cluster never left the system alive.

An interesting note is that maniples types (such as the Verdis) are mentioned in the lore but not presented in the book.  We can only hope that this means they’ll be covered in future supplements.