Adeptus Titanicus; my first game

[@derekgehring2771]

First of all Im so happy you are finally breaking out the titanicus! I love this game, and it deserves a lot more coverage. Your batreps are always excellent so there is no one better to start recording. Keep it up! Now onto mistakes. its a complicated game and your new so it happens. Knights. First of all, as soon as you lose even ONE knight, you have to take a command check. If you fail the banner is shaken and you lose ANY attached order, are minus 1 to hit, and move 3 inches less. Second, when activated to attack, you use ALL your weapons- melee OR Guns- and if you are within 2 inches, you use your weapon Skill. Not just the melee. Furthermore, Ion shield saves can be taken from attacks with 2 inches, unlike voids. On a tactics note, there was no reason NOT to charge. Knights have a 360 front arc, and the whole unit DOESNT have to make it in. You both kind of just gave up free attacks for no reason. Another big issue was the damage control phase. AS SOON AS you are in the red OR orange on your reactor, you have to test as SOON as the titan is activated in the Damage Control Phase. You dont get to heal first. Your opponent has orange for his warhound and removed heat and never rolled... the reactor overload is incredibly unforgiving. He could have easily lost all his voids, taken hits to his body, etc. Its an important step. Plasma BLASTguns are BLAST. They use the small blast template, and if the hole is entirely on the base, it counts as 2. It also scatters. Mega Bolters are rapid, and get an additional hit on a 6. As you issue orders, it is I go you go just like the rest of the phases, not all at once. A roll of one ALWAYS does superficial damage, no matter the strength. No damage is ever taken on a one. i dont know where you got the firestorm ignores voids, because its not in the rules... unless you were within two inches? Keep up the good work!

[@SorcererDave]

More Titanicus please. Even if I have to paint my titans and fight you myself :P

[@andrewburn891]

I'll always give you another game mate! Not that the demo counted!

[@jordy5487]

Do it man! We need more of plastic titanic war engine crack on the interwebs! :)

[@alejandronelson8768]

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[@amosmicah6140]

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[@iragary8787]

@Alejandro Nelson Definitely, I have been using flixzone} for since november myself =)

[@winterschwartz9522]

This was a brilliant idea on GW's part; changing the perspective of the battlefield so as to be able to produce Titan models the size of regular models, like Dreadnaughts or vehicles. I can only imagine they're easier to produce than the enormous actual-scale models they have to put out for regular games. Now, they can introduce the *really massive* Titan models that're in the lore, as giant-scale models for *this*, just to really hammer home how *huge* they are. Honestly brilliant. Also, fantastic batrep Winters. Excellent video!

[@angelmaker8351]

Hi Winters, Firstly great to see you taking the plunge into AT. As always your bat reps are very entertaining and this one is no different. For your first game of AT you played pretty well with minimal rules mistakes which are bound to happen. Yes a few have been pointed out by others but there's one I wanted to bring up as with all the bat reps ive seen thus far on the tube and that is mistakes are always made with knight banners, one can easily forget rules when in the heat of battle. When it comes to combat phase with knight banners they differ slightly from titans in how they attack. A titan declares a target and fires each weapon one at a time as an "attack" and follows the combat sequence as outlined on pg33. After the first "attack" all modifiers that have been accumulated by the previous attack apply to the next attack, ie modifiers to void shields, no void shields modifiers to armour rolls if armour has been degraded, remember all hits hit one location per attack, only roll one location die per attack not per d6 in dice pool, i believe you were doing this correctly so many people get it wrong including myself in my first few games. Knight Banners are slightly different. when activated they attack pooling all dice for a selected weapon type in the banner, ie if you banner had 6 knights with the following config 3x knights with thermals, meltaguns and cc weapon 3x knights with rapid battle cannon and gatling cannon. When attacking a target you choose which weapon type in which order attacks the target. So with this banner you would get an attack with each weapon type with the following dice pool; thermal (3dice), meltgun 3hits, cc weapon (3dice), rapid fbc (6dice), gatling cannon (24dice). how you attack with each weapon type is up to the controlling player. Each weapon type is classed as a separate attack for combat sequence outlined on pg33 and any modifiers to shields or armour rolls apply to next attack. This can make armament and order of attack strategic to say the least. However remember if you lose knights in a banner you must roll a command check for banner and if failed the banner stays shaken until passed in subsequent activations where you must roll for command check or stay shaken. penalty is -3" movement and -1 to hit for banner and cant receive orders. dont worry i missed this one as well. Orders on banners, first to fire - choose a weapon type on banner and attack, so above example you would pick a weapon type and roll all allowable dice in pool. ie thermals would roll 3dice as the attack not one dice. Split fire - awesome order for multi armed knight banners as the banner can target a different target with each attack (weapon type) so you can split your dice pool attacks amongst multiple targets, remember knights have 360 degree front arc so can shoot in any direction. above example you could shoot rapid fire at range against a target on the flank and engage another target in front of you with close range weapons, remember modifiers for weapon accuracy, flank attacks and any mods to targets void shields or amour locations. can be very devastating with right armament and used at the right time. Only other one i would point out is to play warhounds as squadrons, there is no minimal coherency you just state they in a squadron and place on the tabletop. As it was your first game and probably not playing squadron rules but when you play larger games in the future if you have 2 to 3 warhounds should consider playing as squadron. They activate as one but fight separately. You choose the order in which each warhound in squadron attacks, what orders they receive and the biggy the coordinated stike ability. Receiving a +1 modifier to plasma blast guns that have been given maximal fire that are flanking a warlord titan thats lost its shields can be devastating to the warlord titan as the plasma blastgun if on side gets +1 to result, coordinated fire gives +1 to result, maximal fire gives +2strength, all of a sudden you strength 8 weapon effectively becomes strength 12 with a d6 to follow, warlord titan best armour value before any degradation is 17 so you have a 1 in 3 chance to cause a crit hit if it has no shields, 1 in 2 if you can get behind it, all of a sudden a pack of warhounds can easily bring down a warlord, if you were to take a 3rd warhound put at least two together in base to base contact and you then can combine void shields and when either titan is attacked you can strip void shields of either warhound, this ability makes them very durable. Sorry for long comment got stuck typing LOL :) Hope this helps all the AT gamers out there, if I got anything wrong would love to be clarified as still learning AT myself. Cant wait for more batreps a reaver or two would be great to see on the table top.

[@peitsaveteli4904]

Nice to see some AT action here on one of my favourite channels, winters SEO. Eagerly awaiting for more with more engines, as that's where the game's tactical action really gets going :) Now, to add to the pedagocigal choir to learn from. These all are correct, ask for page numbers if you like (got quite a few games under my belt already). - Rapid weapons cause two hits on 6s (if not hitting only on sixes). - Blast weapons fire blasts, which can hit even if they miss as they scatter on misses. Also, if the hole of the blast is entirely on the target that causes two hits. - Draining is mandatory, (Draining) is optional: turbolasers don't necessarily warm you up, only if you want their benefit. - On the Reactor die, the Awaken Machine Spirit result DOES add one heat as well. - Charge order does not require you to move in a straight line, just to move in your front arc and no to turn. Every model in the Knight banner moves individually, so they could easily have charged all day. - Reactor overheat is checked as the first thing in Damage Control, before repair rolls. Being on orange is dangerous, especially with Warhounds that easily take heat. - There are no 5+ Voids currently in the game, they all go from 3+ to 4+ to offline, though Shieldbane can of course reduce that by one. - Knights' leader, Scion, give +2 to their Command checks as long as it lives. - Knights always have their Ion Shield, even in close quarters. They also attack with all of their weapons when they activate, one type at a time for mechanical purposes (ie. all battlecannons in the banner fire as one combined weapon, all thermals fire as one weapon, all swords hit as one weapon...) like a larger titan would. This is very important when hitting shields or injured locations so that you apply bonuses or strip shield layers correctly. - When an attack causes multiple Armour rolls, ALWAYS resolve the damage beginning from the LOWEST dice first. This sometimes saves a few Criticals from your engines and contributes to their resilience. - While Repairing, you only need a 5+ to improve your Shield level if they are on, the 6+ is only required for igniting them after they've fallen completely. - Inferno Cannon does NOT ignore Shields. Were you within 2" to ignore them or what happened? Losing that left Warhound seemed weird. - The Warhound that shot Knights directly in front of it could also have used a Smash attack in addition. Tactically, it is almost always preferential to aim for injured parts as titans can take a lot of punishment, if it gets spread around. Warhounds are light enough that they cannot hold under targeted fire. Also, especially with only a couple of titans it is a very good idea to concentrate on singular targets and take them out as fast as you can. First Fire in someone's face is also pretty risky, as they can take that one hit and sidestep your guns. All in all, nice to see you adding this great game to the show and hope to see more soon!

[@peitsaveteli4904]

Though regarding Knights' Ion Shields, strictly speaking they only work against shooting attacks, even if within 2". Punt them cold :P

[@jasparbupre8944]

I look forward to seeing SMASH used more often. No one seems to be doing it in battle reports, but maybe that will come soon. If anyone can, please make vids of your games. Even if more fun than report.

[@peterworwood6483]

Some corrections, hope I'm not coming across as a pedant! I've learned something I've been doing wrong pretty much every time I've played this :D Knight Banners get +2 to their command rolls if their leader is alive (the Lord Scion, it's mentioned on the command console). Avenger Gatling Cannons and the Vulcan Megabolters have the "Rapid" trait: you score two hits for each unmodified hit roll of a 6 . Remember to make sure your weapons are in-arc before you fire them - some of the Warhounds shots looked a bit borderline to me. Technically orders and repairs alternate like movement and combat do, although I think in a game this small it doesn't make too much difference. if you're behind cover to get a minus to hit, you're not necessarily going to suffer from the same penalties as the enemy is, since line of sight is measured from the weapon. You could be obscured behind cover but if your weapons have free sight then they'll be shooting at full accuracy unless the target is obscured by something else too. The Turbolaser Destructor isn't Draining, it's (Draining) - this is something that confused me for a while. If you fire a (Draining) weapon, you can either shoot it normally without pushing the reactor, or you can push the reactor in order to get the trait that appears after (Draining) - in the case of this weapon it's Shieldbane, which gives the enemy a -1 modifier to their shield save against that weapon. If your reactor is in an amber hole when your Damage Control phase *begins* you have to roll D6 on the Reactor Overload table - if it's in the red then you can't push it anymore and you have to roll a D10 on that table in the Damage Control phase. Plasma Blastguns are Blast 3" weapons, so they'd have potentially got way more hits in. All that said - please do more of these! It's a great game to watch and to play :)

[@andrewburn891]

This is really useful! The complexity of the game is what makes it great but it's easy for these things to slip through. I'll be taking note of the above!

[@peterworwood6483]

@@andrewburn891 No worries - again I really enjoyed the video :)

[@ikonis]

Also. Blast weapons that miss scatter

[@andrewarmstrong3868]

Also they did an extra damage control phase before turn 2’s movement phase unless I’m mistaken

[@matthewhogg5861]

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[@lordofchromium1534]

I’m more concerned at how inefficiently the city is designed. The whole city is just a couple scattered buildings in a whole city block without any roads, houses or even factorums In what could be a few miles (or whatever the kilometer equivalent would be ) no wonder the imperium has to resort to 14+ hr workdays without pay if a hive world worth sending titans to is this barren

[@MothmanTomdraws]

Just a few tips, Knight banners get a commander for free which gives +2 to command rolls making them 4+ for orders, id also recommend not using knights to fight knights (unless they are CC knights) they are more suited for getting into rear of titans, just keep clear of blast weapons with them. The game really comes into its own at 1750-2000 point battles which hopefully you build towards. Our group has been loving the game.

[@Adam-md6td]

I like that you are doing Adeptus Titanicus. Very cool, I hope you do more especially because AT could have awesome narrative style games.

[@skywatcheradept]

So happy to see Titanicus! Please add Reaver Titans in the future. Nobody on youtube did a batrep with a Reaver Titan so far.

[@jasparbupre8944]

Good battle report. We all need to use SMASH more often when close with a titan! Great to see players getting familiar with Adeptus Titanicus from the first game really helpful to either learn the rules or to see if you like the game. (many 40k batreps explain NOTHING of the rules and just become an endless drone of 3,4,5,6s etc: understandably though, because the channel posting the report has usually covered rules in previous vids). Please make more AT vids soon.

[@AviadMD]

Nooooo Winters doing Titanicus batreps! Held up from buying it but I can feel my will power draining away...

[@tompayne4945]

do it do it do it...

[@PMMagro]

Close your eyes, click that confirm buy button and enjoy.

[@gier]

Awesome! I'd love to see GS01 in a Kill Team game... hint

[@DoctorKalkyl]

I would like seeing him kill titans in Adeptus Titanicus XD

[@innsmouthharbour]

@crocodactyl.....hell yeah! I'd love to see a Winters Kill Team batrep and GS01 is a must include :)

[@-Markus-]

18:41 Yes, the reactor goes up one step when the machine spirit is rolled, it also counts as a "single reactor symbol". Aside from potentially messing up movement plans, and the added reactor heat, waking the machine spirit isnt all that bad. Often it can work out in the players favour :) Excellent batrep anyways, Im in love with Titanicus and am hard at work painting up my first maniple! More please, moore!

[@MrFukushim]

Good stuff, it's gonna be hard to get anyone I know to play this (40k takes the lead in my community), but at least I get to watch how you guys are having fun with it :)

[@MrFukushim]

One thing to note though: Doesn't it feel a bit lacking when it comes to managing resources and combinations like 40k has it's command point mechanic and stratagems?

[@jasparbupre8944]

Marcin Sobanda there are many more nuances to rules in optional advanced mode, more again in the new titandeath supplement rule book. And i imagine more to come in the future. 30k is looking bright. Ten thousand years to enjoy before squads of infantry flood the field.

[@Maulyr]

NICE. Only played one game but I absolutely loved it. More, please and keep up the good work :D

[@stevefelten1197]

It's battle tech with Titans, looks fun..

[@awdsaef]

Favorit warhammer youtuber playing the game im thinking about starting, how much better can it get? :D

[@Robo-kz3nr]

Turbo lasers are only draining if you want to use sheild bane

[@SigfridSWE]

This was awesome 🤘🏻 🤯 Really liked to watch this! ☺

[@Trazynn]

Battlemats should make a Titanicus mat.

[@tompayne4945]

I absolutely agree!

[@AmentiVZ]

That's a fresh upload

[@Themustangturtledude]

I always thought that now we have mini knights and Titans there should be a psyker ability that shrinks down normal sized ones into the titanicus sized ones so they are easier to kill or whatever.

[@selby2180]

I hope you filmed the second game as well :)

[@timo-d4672]

That was great, looking forward to the second game. Any planned for DZ? On a side note I'm not sure if that made me want to play Titanicus or buy a 40k scale Titan!

[@simonknibbs5867]

I would totally go after the knights with one of my titans. They are evenly matched, so if I can pop one, I should have the upper hand. With the amount of cover, missing one shooting turn for a titan against another titan is not a huge thing. 51:06 Did the vulcan mega bolter get repaired? I think I missed that.

[@Robo-kz3nr]

Was waiting for you to play Wallet killing Rock'em Sock'em robots

[@Spekd]

Hahahaha .... 😧 my wallet weeps.

[@alexray1222]

You should play it with the big knight and big titan models you have

[@Themustangturtledude]

Good luck lol.

[@projectbiology5726]

They should just remake epic

[@zumerset8739]

Project Biology yes yes yes and YES!

[@PMMagro]

that is what we are seeing is it not, Epic 2.0? Unless it is not popular enough but it will be. Epic is without any support..

[@theminiaturepaintingtutor7885]

Yes to epic again

[@CommanderDread]

I bought two of the big boxes and still have no idea how to play this game...and no one I know knows how or wants to play either.

[@jasparbupre8944]

Korn Bread Live in Australia?

[@lucadavidson3936]

Wehay, new vid!

[@echoforever9056]

awesome!

[@drose5718]

Early morning upload

[@paulgibbons2320]

Knights Vs knights is painful. Roll 100 dice. Not one kill lol. Been there done that lol Why do GW dice always roll low ?

[@TheSpongebobe1]

More please 💪

[@Captain_Centos]

Thankyou for the upload as it's the first AT game I've seen! Forgive me for saying but unfortunately it's not for me.. 40k takes up all my hobby time & prefer my "true scale" imperial knight army 😅

[@hansyolo8277]

where do people get all these cool dice? I've heard of Chessex but their site is...... yeah.....

[@mikew3758]

These come with the Titanicus Boxset.

[@jasparbupre8944]

And the seperate rules pack

[@DaraM73]

Nice

[@SQW0]

Should play Battletech. =)

[@adamcondon5120]

The old epic Space Marine and then Titian Legions is what got me into the grimedark. I would have rather seen a redo of the combined arms aspect with this game. As it stands I'm not planning on spending any money on this.

[@saor4340]

first time seeing a game of titanicus , cant say im a fan , give me 40k any day

[@phillyb4588]

more titan games that aren't making peeps $$ please

[@paulgibbons2320]

I'm not sure anyone knows how to play this game. The rule book is terrible. If you get rid of the knights it seems to be much more intuitive. I don't like the knights banner rules personally.

[@Vuntermonkey]

This game is boring and dumb, made for rules mongers who hate actually playing games.

[@фыва-н7щ]

Boring game...zzzzz