Legio Tempestus Epic Titan Legion

[Saul Tarvitz]

As a big fan of the Horus Heresy series of novels I was very pleased to find that the latest in the series 'Mechanicum' was a return to form. After having read the book I knew it was impossible to not build a Legio Tempestus Titan Force, and not being a billionaire I set out to do so on a vaguely sensible level - using the Epic Titans.

The idea is to amass a large force of Titans, which will in turn be supported by auxilliaries from House Tanaris - the Knights of Tanaris.

Its been too cold here in Aberdeen to spray prime anything of late, and my lack of a garage or suitabel spraying area means I'm going to have to wait for it to get aboving freezing at the very least before I can think about painting these guys. At any rate let's proceed onwards and sideways...

First up we have what will become the Knights of Tanaris, though I'm hoping to get some of the more Titan-esque ones soon. They're fairly dumpy little models but I like the little buggers, they're rather characterful and very 'old' GW.



Next up is the beginnings of my Warhound Pack, I prefer the older model to the newer one, its much sturdier looking. I have a second old style Warhound, but unfortunately no weaponry for him. If anyone happens to have any lying about please let me know.



Then a fairly bog standard Reaver, though with differing epaulettes as he arrived thusly.



Followed swiftly by a Warlord, this will be the penultimate Warlord, as I want one of the modern ones to join the others I already have. I prefer the look of these blockier Warlords, but this guy has a mishmash of weapons from his own kit and the plastic Warlord kit.



Then comes Addo Verum, Warlord Titan of the Legio Tempestus, armed with a Las Burner, a Laser Blaster and a Gatling Blaster. As you can see I had some trouble opening up the lower barrel of the Las Burner, but I've never had to cut out a squared gun barrel before so I think its allowed.



Next we have Ares Irae, Warlord Titan of the Legio Tempestus armed with a Melta Cannon, Power Fist and a Vortex Missile. Anyone who remembers Epic will remember the Vortex Missile well I'm sure... I've not done anything to the barrel of the Melta Cannon as I don't want it to end up like the Las Burner barrel, so it will most likely be painted in.



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[Saul Tarvitz]

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Then we have the muscle of the battle group, Opus Imperator, Warlord Titan of the Legio Tempestus armed with a Volcano Cannon, a Titan Multipile Rocket Launcher, a Chain Fist and a Plasma Destructor.



Finally we have....

IMPERATOR!!!



I'd forgotten how big this beast is, his legs are taller than a standard Space Marine. The data card that came with him is tupping huge.

The next planned additions to the force are some Forgeworld Epic Warhounds and Reavers as they offer some more options for weaponry. That and the fact that the Forgeworld Epic Warhounds look amazing.

Unfortunately the majority of the weapons on these guys are obsolete these days as their rules don't exist anymore, but I'm sure if I do field these in a friendly game of Epic that I'll be able to use the older rules for them using some of the older weapons.

Until next time, GLORIAM IMPERATOR!

[actiondan]

Great to see an epic log at last! I was looking at all my epic stuff the other day and thinking about doing the same, especially since I have 8 unmade Titans and I think you have just given me the push I need.
Where did you get the Imperator from? Ebay? For the Knights there were quite a few of the plastic Paladins being sold on Ebay the other day although they were on the pricey side. Good luck and I look forward to seeing these beauties painted

[Saul Tarvitz]

Great to see an epic log at last! I was looking at all my epic stuff the other day and thinking about doing the same, especially since I have 8 unmade Titans and I think you have just given me the push I need.
Where did you get the Imperator from? Ebay? For the Knights there were quite a few of the plastic Paladins being sold on Ebay the other day although they were on the pricey side. Good luck and I look forward to seeing these beauties painted

Thanks mate, I'm really excited about these guys.

The Imperator was garnered through a trade with a gentleman on these here boards, and a very pleasant trade it was too. I saw those Knight Paladins on eBay but they were too pricey.

I now have a Space Marine Legion from Space Marine en route, as well as a pair of Epic Warhounds and an Epic Reaver coming from Forgeworld too.

[OutOfContext]

I really love epic stuff, and this looks promising.
Little Titans rule

[daemonkin]

Little giant fighting robots! FTW! Have you got any background info for Tempestus apart from what was mentioned in Mechanicum. Their main colour iirc was blue (dark or light, cant remember between knights of tanaris and tempestus).

D.

[Arador]

Unfortunately the majority of the weapons on these guys are obsolete these days as their rules don't exist anymore, but I'm sure if I do field these in a friendly game of Epic that I'll be able to use the older rules for them using some of the older weapons.

Until next time, GLORIAM IMPERATOR!

Have you checked out the Legio Victorum armylists for Epic Armageddon. I thought they were pretty comprehensive. IIRC there are two lists, one titan-based and one Skitarii-based. Knights had a Knight World list of their own, IIRC.

[daemonkin]

The latest versions of Legio Gryphonicus and Skitarii has been released on Tac Comms

D.

[Alsharoth]

I like epic models but I feel I need to add my two cents.

Machinicum is set during the herasy so the betal back MKI warlords should be the only ones used.
The MKII (the metal one) is post herasy (M30) and the MKIII is during Titanicus (M40K)
They didn't have an imperator, legio mortis did !

Anyway can't wait to see more.

[Ganymene]

Those mini-titans are really cool, especially the Imperator.

Could we get a scale shot of the Reaver, Warlord, and Imperator standing near each other?

[Chris_Lancaster]

The Nights of Taranis were dark blue IIRC, Legio Tempestus, cobalt blue (google cobalt blue and you get some pretty vivid dark-ish blues).
I'm also a fan of Tempestus, I'm half tempted to assemble the machines featured in Mechanicum.
But I'm broke :P

[Arador]

The latest versions of Legio Gryphonicus and Skitarii has been released on Tac Comms

Doh, wrong legion. I wonder where that Legio Victorium came from?

[daemonkin]

Legio Victorum (Foe Slayers) was a legio in blue with gold/yellow edging. Maybe you are confusing them with Tempestus?

D.

[Chris_Lancaster]

Apparantly the blue and gold warhound and reaver on the Forgeworld site are Warp Runners, which is even more confusing.

[Saul Tarvitz]

The Warp Runners are the Legio Astorum according to the Forgeworld Siege of Vraks poster, and I shall definitely have to check out that Legio Gryphonicus thing.

I've popped an Ork into the scale shot to allow you to see how they go compare to something you'll recognise.



Hopefully it'll be above freezing for more than ten minutes tomorrow when I get back from class so I should be able to get at least one Titan primed to begin playing about with some colour on.

[Chris_Lancaster]

All this is very true, and all serves to make the Legio very definitely not Pre-Heresy, especially the Warlords and Warhounds as you've said. However, I like to see this as a speculative force - what could have become of Tempestus were they not wiped out on Mars, as far as I can tell. There's no mention of them anywhere other than 'Mechanicum' is there?

There is - Tempestus feature in the novel Titanicus by Dan Abnett. Just like Mortis was not wiped out on Mars (in Mechanicum, all of their titans were destroyed, as far as I know), there were dozens of Titans off world, those on Mars were there to maintain a force in the fortress or for refit. EDIT: It's also quite possible people were watching the final battles via orbital picts so I like to think someone witnessed the Stormlords fall. Would be a shame for a guy with so cool a name to die heroically with no-one watching :lol:

[Alsharoth]

As far as my fractured memory maintains Tempestus was off world.
They were not wiped out by mortis, mortis ignored them after the warlord went into meltdown.

[daemonkin]

You need to be careful because Legio Tempestor aka Stormlords is a traitor legion in the service of Slaanesh along with House Devine daemon knights.

And yes, much of their legio strength were active in the crusade and therefore had a base to rebuild after the Heresy.

D.

[Saul Tarvitz]

That's excellent then as it allows me to build the force as I like more or less.

I failed to get anything primered today, as anyone familiar with northern Scotland will know its famous for being cold, wet and windy and today has been no exception - just there was some snow in that mix to make it more interesting.

If the weather continues like this I will have to make some sort of spray booth so I can spray indoors else these are going to be naked for quite some time.

[Alsharoth]

Do you run the primer tins under a hot tap before spraying?
Shaking and running under hot water (careful not to get it to hot to handle) does help on cold days.

You need to be careful because Legio Tempestor aka Stormlords is a traitor legion in the service of Slaanesh along with House Devine daemon knights.

Why? we all know tempestor are trators and tempestus is loyal.