#DreadTober Adeptus Titanicus - Warhound Titans

Afternoon #WarhammerCommunity it's the first of #DreadTober2026 and I need to crack on with my Adeptus Titanicus Warhound Titans pledge. Having recently finished my Cerastus Knights I'm somewhat burnt out hobby-wise. So 2 Warhounds may seem like a relatively small pledge, compared to 2 AT Warlord Titans for DreadTober 2025 but I'm still not sure it's doable with my current level of hobby mojo. Hopefully, the community spirit will provide the fuel to get me going. 

Even so, I know my hobby pace and I'd already built and [mostly] primed the titans months ago, ready to be picked back up in October. Firstly I wanted to adjust the pose, so I started with one leg.

I cut off the top thigh and used flower arranging wire to extend the piston behind the knee.

I then drilled a hole through the hip sockets and waist. This was to allow the wire to pass between legs and waist and provide a solid structure for it all to be glued to. I will then fill the gap with some modelling material. I think I just went with tile adhesive/grout rather than kneed some green stuff or Milliput together.

I constructed a base with cork. Smoothed it was tile adhesive and added crackle paint for the titan impact.

I like doing these sorts of bases but they do delay things a bit - extra construction work. But it was months ago so doesn't really matter now . Sorry about the blurred pic.

Anyway, they both got done

And I was not surprised when I noticed that I'd done similar poses to my recent [? it was 2 years ago!] Armigers.

But, as it was last Hobby Season I get a belated Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' Stamp of Approval.

But the bases had not been painted, so my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 got done. I had mistakenly done a lot of the AP Rough Iron, which has been caught by the drybrushing.

Hopefully that'll be covered up by further metallic highlights but we'll see.

What worries me though is I have not primed the missing armour plates or heads. I have the sprue and could just do it but I know I have some already primed, basecoated and with the metallics done. 

I did them at the same time as my last Warhounds because they were spare, just in the off chance I ever did some more. Now that situation has come up and I'm not entirely sure where those bits are! Typical! 

In the mean time though I get my first  Great Big Amber 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval  of the season.

I also have a stretch goal of 2 Adeptus Titanicus Acastus Knight Porphyrions. Again these were secret squirrel projects that I was saving for DreadTober.

And the last of my Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' Stamps of Approval.

Built and primed in March for completion in DreadTober 🤞 I did realise that keeping the guns separate would be easier, but only after I glued one set on.

I think when I was doing the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 on my Cerastus Knights I also did these at the same time.

Obviously there are still bits to do. I want to try and do the marble effect on these similar to my Red Marble Display Board 🔴.

There is so much detail on these knights, I have certain amount of dread [pun unintended but I'm embracing it now I spotted it] in painting them.

As stretch goal go they seem easy as they're not that big. And I've been surprised how quickly epic scale knights come together. But something about these worry me. 

So, despite all the planning and headstart in getting both the Warhounds and knights to a point I think is achievable...

For now I'm still giving myself my last belated Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval. And I'll give them a  Great Big Amber  one too when I do the marble bit, because I can 😝

Battle Record - Adeptus Titanicus 02/04/26

Afternoon and I'm back at Otty's shed and we're finishing our game of Adeptus Titanicus. Sadly Liam took poorly and ended up in A&E and an Easter stay on the ward - send best wishes. Good friends as we are we played on regardless! It's what he would have wanted.

I think I had quite the plan on how to fight back this turn but the Gatling Reaver was pulverised. It stumbled into the Warhound and then flew backwards - Engine KILL! 

I'm finding how far a titan can fall somewhat disproportionate based on it's 'scale', when these things can't move that distance normally. We decided to First Fire with the Warlord and destroy the building in front to get a clear shot of the advancing Titan.

We were down to just the Reaver, Warlord and Warhound. At this stage the nearest Warlord seemed the biggest threat so we focused on that.

With the Warhound trying to get into its table quarter. But it got shot with a Quake Cannon by the Warlord on the right, not only were its legs damaged but movement and turns were halved. I think the Reaver had similar too. But the Warlord got a good bead on the Chaos Warlord and although we couldn't aim with its Quake Cannon 

We got double 6's for damage on the Head - critical hits, enough to take it down.

The Concussive hits spinning it into the buildings - Engine KILL!

The Reaver took damage but Ben was unhappy because he'd targeted one area and if he'd chosen the legs it would have gone down. As the game had intensified we weren't overly keen on charity at this stage so we carried on, much to his annoyance. 

As the dust settled the other Warlord headed for our deployment zone, pushing reactors to move and turn and just getting it's toe in. We were going to lose our VPs now.

Another Engine KILL! on the Warhound, probably from the backfield camper. The Reaver was damaged, so couldn't contest that table quarter.

But our Warlord had turned and the Quake Cannon's Concussive shells just managed to spin it back out of our DZ. That one dice roll took the game out of Ben's reach. I'm not sure what the final score was but having extended the game for a turn it ended after this.

As we had time we se tup another smaller game. Similar lists but Ben getting to use his Orks. Terrain was less spread out, instead cutting down the fields of fire between units. We had to save our Titan crew up and right of the centre of the board.

Having got to the middle of the board Ben was able to surprise us with his Cerastus [equivalent] Knights charging the Reaver. But we got in with Questoris Knights first. We struggled a bit with the rules at this point, but the outcome was the Ork Knights took damage, but not enough.

In retaliation Ben went for the Reaver and with a new game we were a little more charitable suggesting which order his weapons should hit. The game can be so complex I didn't blame him for disagreeing with us but eventually he took the hint and Engine KILL!, spinning it around.

Where it smashed into the building and collapsed.

Wiping out half the Questoris in the process.

So, we're a bit scuppered at this stage, who knows how it will end...

Battle Record - Adeptus Titanicus 26/03/26

Afternoon and after a couple of weeks where I couldn't attend Otty's shed I'm back! And we're starting a new game of Adeptus Titanicus - we're masochists! 🤣

Liam decided to field 3 Warlords, whereas I wanted more titanic feet on the ground with 2 Warhounds, 2 Reavers and a Warlord with Quake Cannon and Conversion Beam Extirpator. It did mean that I ended up with a lot of weapons suitable for stripping shields, but only a few that could deliver the killing blow

Knowing how Liam usually plays [at the back of the board] I was overjoyed to get the Hold the Line mission that meant I get more points depending on how close he is to my board edge. He and Ben had pulled table quarters, so he was also at a disadvantage as he could only score 3 out of 4. I decided to fire a Concealment Barrage which forced Liam to move a bit so his titans could still shoot. 

But it turned out their chaos 'blessed' titans were a little more grumpy than expected and one decided to just charge through the city in the middle of the board. Giving it lots of cover, to my annoyance. 

Otty and I sent the Warhounds forward, pushing the reactor, which promptly went into the orange, which caused a shutdown of its void shields. With no protection left the Warlord pounded it until it fell silent. In return we sent a tracer cloud toward the advancing Warlord, but any benefit for shooting through the cover was lost as Quake Cannon fire spun it out of the tracer cloud. At least it's approach had been stalled.

Further shots slammed into it I think taking out most of its weapons and putting a few structure points on the body and head. I think a lot of our other Titans were doing OK, but the unnecessary loss of that Warhound was really frustrating. 

We'd held onto first player for the three turns we managed to play. Liam and and Ben's advance had put them in a  good position. 

But if we could take out one or both of their Warlords that had pushed forward and contest each of the quarters with our own Titans we may well tip the scales in our favour.

I think we were starting to grasp things a lot more this time around. The game was much quicker and easier to follow. However, coming to the conclusion that Void Shield Relays are massively OP. I mean we both had them but Liam and Ben barely took a void sheild of our Warlord. Every time they suggested targeting it was followed by 'what's the point?'. We may well house rule them out of use in future. The game feels a little unproductive with them in it and getting all the void shields down makes it more tactical to avoid this and the game quicker if you don't.

We should finish it off next week.