STARTING A TITAN LEGIONS ARMY IN 11TH EDITION: GOD-ENGINES AND HARD TRUTHS
Titan Legions are god-engines: the Warhound, the Reaver and the Warlord are Forge World resin kits, enormous, expensive and a serious modelling commitment. This page covers which engine to start with, what "second purchase" means here, and which hobby you are buying.
Hard truths before spending
True Titans involve pinning, washing release agent off resin, and structural engineering your shelf was never designed for. Most collectors who love the Titan fantasy field Imperial Knights instead, or build their engines at Adeptus Titanicus scale, where a whole maniple fits in one carry case. If you are still reading, you might be a Princeps.
The Warhound
There is no starter box for god-engines. The entry point is the Warhound Scout Titan, the smallest of the true Titans and still bigger than most armies' centrepieces. Treat it as a modelling project first and an army second: months of work, sub-assemblies everywhere, and a result that outshines anything else you ever build. Wash the resin, dry-fit everything twice, pin the legs, and decide the pose before glue touches plastic. A Warhound mid-stride is a magnificent thing, and unfixable if you rush it.
Reaver, or an airbrush
If the Warhound did not cure you, the Reaver Battle Titan is the classic middleweight, and a Warhound pair flanking a Reaver is the iconic maniple. "Second purchase" means something different here than in any other faction: the correct second purchase is often paint, an airbrush, or storage, the infrastructure a project this size runs on.
The Warlord
Every model in a Titan Legion is a centrepiece, and the Warlord Battle Titan is the summit, a kit priced like a holiday and sized like furniture. Nobody should buy one as their first resin model. As a crowning achievement after a finished Warhound and Reaver, it is the single most imposing thing you can put on a table.
Which hobby you are buying
Datasheets and points get refreshed each edition, and super-heavy units are where the ground shifts most. Before you commit this kind of money, check the current points and how such engines are fielded in ordinary games. Many Titan owners play them in narrative and Apocalypse-style events rather than weekly pickup games, and it pays to know which of those you want before the first box ships.
You do not need a second Reaver
- The Warlord, until a finished Warhound stands on your shelf as proof of character.
- A second Reaver. You know this.
- Any Titan bought before checking you can transport and store the first one.
- Resin terrain to match. Your god-engine does not need a resin house to knock down.
Maintenance logs
Every Titan has a name, a history and a maintenance log stretching back millennia. Keep yours the same way: log each kit as boxed, built or finished, and with projects this long record the honest state. A Titan can sit at "built" for a year, and seeing that in writing is what gets it painted. The full catalogue of god-engines, with their histories, is on the Titan Legions faction page under Data.