The new Adeptus Titanicus rules have been designed to be intergrated quite straight-forwardly into normal games of Epic 40,000. The following rules explain how to do it!

The normal Epic 40,000 sequence of play is modified as shown below:

When using these rules Titans cannot be given special orders, and are not effected by blast markers in any way. In other words, don’t place blast markers or order dice on Titans.

In the movement phase Titans move as described above, while other units use the rules in the Epic 40,000 rulebook. Note that Titans are moved first on an alternating basis, and then each player takes it in turn to move their remaining detachments ‘all together’ as described in the Epic 40,000 rulebook.

Detachments of vehicles and infantry can shoot at Titans in step 2 of the Shooting Phase. They shoot at Titans using the ATII rules. The AT II weapon chart shows what values Epic weapons have when using the ATII rules. All non-Titan detachments have a gunnery value of 4+.

Titans shoot at the same time as other war engines, in step 4 of the Shooting Phase. Titans shoot at other Titans using the ATII rules described above. They shoot at vehicles and infantry using the shooting rules from Epic 40,000 - that is why the weapons for ATII include a Firepower value! Future articles will incorporate other war engines into the ATII rules, but until then you shoot at them using the rules in the Epic 40,000 rule book.

Titans move and fight each other in steps 2 and 3 of the Assault Phase, using the ATII rules described above. They may ignore infantry and vehicles as they move; just push the units out of the way to make room for the Titan’s stand if necessary. Alternatively a Titan may choose to use up its improvised attacks on vehicles and infantry stands as it moves over them (i.e. the Titan moves into base contact and the vehicle or infantry are not in impassable terrain for the Titan). The attacking Titan rolls to hit using its CCS, and if a hit is scored the vehicle or stand is destroyed – STOMP! Improvised attacks used up in this way may not be used against another Titan or war engine later in the turn.

Vehicles and infantry make their assault moves after Titans have made their assault moves and attacks. Vehicles and infantry may NOT assault a Titan though they can enter into a Firefight with it. Firefights are resolved using the normal Epic 40,000 rules (the weapon chart lists the Firepower values of any Titan weapons).

Designers Note: Some players may be shocked that vehicle and infantry can no longer assault Titans. However, if you think about it makes a lot of sense. Even something as powerful as a Dreadnought is going to have about as much chance of winning a close combat against a Titan as a five-year old would against Mike Tyson. Bearing this in mind I’ve decided to make assaults a purely Titan vs Titan, or Titan vs War Engine, affair.

Future articles will incorporate other war engines into the ATII rules, but until then they close assault in the same manner as vehicles or infantry, and move and assault at the same time as them. The only exception to the vehicle and infantry rules is that war engines armed with close combat weapons may assault a Titan. Resolves the attack using the Epic 40,000 rules, and using the CCV values from the Epic 40,000 Armies book; the loser is destroyed and removed from play, the winner stays in place. Use the same method to determine the winner if a Titan decides to assault a war engine. Remember that this method of determining close combat between Titans an other war engines is a stop gap, and no longer applies once we’ve published the full ATII rules for other types of war engine.

For the time being, the points values of Titans remain the same as in the Epic 40, 000 Army book.

¹An Inferno gun inflicts an additional D3 hits if it hits its target.

²Plasma Weapons may be overloaded, add +2 strength for each point of RoF sacrificed.

³Angainst a Titan itself a Quake cannon always inflicts a minimum of an Armour cracked result.

⁴Plasma Weapons may be overloaded, add +2 strength for each point of RoF sacrificed.

⁵Roll a D6 every time you fire a rocket launcher, to determine the weapon’s RoF.

⁶Support Missile have unlimited range. always hit on a 2+ but can only be fired once per battle.

⁷Vortex missiles add 2D6 to their strength when working out damage.

⁸A Plasma missile inflists D6+2 hits if it hit its target.

⁹Haywire missiles automatically inflict D3+1 hits. each hit will automatically knock down a void shield or inflict superficial damage on a Titan with no shields left.

¹⁰Warp missile ignore shields and inflict damage on the titan itself.

¹¹If you rolla 6 to hit with a powerfist it makes a tear attack and adds +D3 to its strength.

¹²The RoF is equal to the unit’s Firepwoer value, as shown in the Epic Armies book.

¹³Remember blast markers are not placed on Titans; that’s right disrupt weapons are useless against Titans aren’t they!

¹⁴Distortion cannon ignores shields and inflicts damage on the Titan itself.

¹⁵Against a Titan itself a mega-cannon always inflicts a minimum of an Armour cracked result.