Princeps: Hephastus Von Laar
Titan Legio: Legio Astorum
Battle Maniple Composition: The Emperors Halo: Warlord (10); Warlord (88); Warlord (104); Warlord (258); Warbringer (547); Reaver (9); Reaver (10); Reaver (2576); Reaver (3516); Warhound (10); Warhound (2974); Warhound (3615); Warhound (4189); Warhound (4562);
Warhound (4633); Warhound (6261); Lucius Warhound (745)
Owner: Princeps Seniores Siph (TOC's own Admin Staff)
Location: Hampshire, UK
Comments: This will be a 'DakkaLord', a Warlord armed with multi-barrelled Macro-Gatling Blasters and carapace Gatling Blasters, great for punishing Voids and smaller lighter Engines. But the close range nature of the weapons means it needs to close the enemy, meaning
'DakkaLord' Princeps and their Engine Spirits tend to be head-strong and impetuous. Just transferred to Legio Astorum in the Hampshire Battlezone and is undergoing the Rites of Colour and Rites of Re-Armament.
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Certificate Number: 2372
Titan Name: Iron Spartan
Pattern: Mars pattern Warlord Battle Titan
Primary Armament: Right arm: Metalica Pattern Conversion Beam Extirpator / Left arm: Zeus pattern Warlord Laser Lance, Carapace: Apocalypse Missile Launcher Array
Princeps: Hephastus Kreel
Titan Legio: Legio Metalica
Battle Maniple Composition: Currently attached to Battlegroup Merrik Alpha consisting of: Imperator (1); Warlord (2372); Reaver (1693), Warhound (3651); Warhound (3653)
Owner: Princeps Goddenzilla (Lee G.)
Location: South Yorkshire, UK
Comments: Iron Spartan was my personal reward for completing my Ira Metallum – I saved for my Warlord while working on my Imperator and once it was completed, I pushed the button! I wanted to give my Warlord titan a specific battlefield role to help define its armaments and eventually settled on an honour guard for my Imperator titan.
As huge and powerful as Ira Metallum is, she is also vulnerable to being outmanoeuvred by faster engines. To this end, I decided that while my other engines and knights would range off into the mid-field, my Warlord would hang back to guard Ira creating an extremely powerful firebase.
Guarding a giant like Ira Metallum meant that Iron Spartan would spend a lot of time at long range, so was armed with an Apocalypse Missile Launcher Array to strip shields from enemy engines and a Conversion Bean Cannon to deliver the killing blow. I could have filled the remaining hardpoint with another long range weapon, but I decided to equip Iron Spartan with a close combat weapon (a gigantic upscaled laser lance) so that it could easily intercept any enemies which came to close to Ira.
And thus, with my decisions made, I went about constructing the two new weapon arms for my Warlord from scratch. You’ll notice that there are quite a few other conversions on my Warlord as I really wanted to go to town on it! I’m super happy with the final result and hope you like it too!
You can follow me on Instagram @goddenzilla or read about my projects in more detail over on my hobby blog: Kaiju Country
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