WARMASTER ICONOCLAST HEAVY BATTLE TITAN

Thoughthe Warmaster Heavy Battle Titans were originally hidden from the sight of the Emperor and the wider Imperium, they did not simply rest idle within the war vaults of their Titan Legions. Long had the Mechanicum laboured to produce a god- engine intended to safeguard a Forge World in times of great peril and, in doing so, the Warmaster Titan was born. Yet, Titan Legions of more aggressive mien sought not simply to stave off extinction but to strike back against any aggressor who dared bring their Forge World to the precipice. To this end, a new pattern was born, based upon the Warmaster Titan yet different in armament and purpose, a tool of vengeful eradication aimed directly at the heart of the foe. Thisvariant class of Titan bore the name ‘Iconoclast’.

When reports of the Iconoclast first emerged during the Horus Heresy, many on both sides of the war presumed it simply a retrofit of the Warmaster Titan. Indeed, in appearance the two Titans are similar, based as they are upon the same chassis and possessed of similar defensive and offensive capabilities. Yet, it is the beating heart of the Iconoclast that sets it apart, for within each one dwells a machine spirit of noticeable ferocity, its lust for war and bellicose demeanour far more akin to that of a frenzied animal than that of the anima housed within other god-engines. When awakened, the machine spirit of an Iconoclast desires nothing more than to march into the thickest fighting, lay waste to the edifices of its foe, and slake its anger on any who would defy it. Thesheer potency of the Iconoclast ensures only the most self-assured of Princeps have the strength of will necessary to tame the beast within it.

In battle, the Iconoclast serves as the Omnissiah’s vanguard, often the first god-engine to march when the enemy cowers within seemingly impenetrable strongholds. While the apocalyptic might of each god-engine can lay waste to swathes of enemy territory, the Iconoclast is specifically equipped to face fortresses prepared for more conventional methods of siege warfare. Layers of void shields surrounding a fortification offer little protection, for the god-engine simply strides into the teeth of the enemy guns and through the shields. It is in close-quarters warfare that the Iconoclast excels, for face to face with the enemy is where it can unleash its barely-restrained wrath, raking entrenched foes with flamers, melta cannon and sustained gatling bursts. What little remains is brought low by close-quarters weapons specifically engineered for the Iconoclast, its Krius siege drill tearing through thickened armour plating with ease and wide sweeps of its Desolator chainsword eradicating entire squadrons of armoured vehicles. Once all within reach have fallen, the Iconoclast marches forth once more, never to rest until only the true servants of the Omnissiah remain.

TheIconoclast is a god-engine designed with singular purpose, a tool created for nothing short of obliteration. Even its reactors feature modifications intended for engaging the foe up close, with dedicated void shunts designed to weather the fiercest firepower and kinetic transducers that utilise the Titan’s movement to empower its weapons. Thosefew who know of the Iconoclast’s existence fear its arrival upon the battlefield, for the march of such a god-engine renders the impenetrable into little more than an inconvenience. Where the Warmaster is feared for its destructive prowess, fear of the Iconoclast echoes forwards, for where it treads civilisations fall, nought but rubble left behind to mark their passing.