Legions Imperialis is the place to see the largest war engines in the galaxy smash their way through squadrons of tanks and hordes of infantry, but you can currently only take a few of them in your Legiones Astartes and Solar Auxilia armies. Don’t you just want to see what an entire army of Knights and Titans could do?
The Great Slaughter is here to answer that question. It’s the first major supplement for Legions Imperialis, and focuses on the apocalyptic battles that rocked Beta-Garmon as Warmaster Horus bore down on Terra.
The book opens with 50+ pages of background lore, complete with maps and illustrations to take you through the wars for the Garmon Cluster. With a focus on Nyrcon City, the major confrontations are presented in exacting detail, from the legendary Battle for Nyrcon City to the cusp of Titandeath, with countless profiles of the Legions, regiments, and squadrons that fought in the campaign.
It’s also full of new rules to expand your games, including new Formations and Detachments for both Loyalist and Traitor forces to deploy. Vanguard Detachments add the speed and firepower of Outriders, Land Speeders, and Scimitar Jetbikes to new Sky-Hunter Phalanxes, pairing them with optional light armour and air support to harry your opponent’s flanks.
Drop Pod Assaults return in a new Formation, smashing powerful infantry detachments into the heart of battle with lethal Deathstorm Drop Pod batteries for support. The Solar Auxilia make good use of their armoured assets with new Artillery Company, Mechanised Infantry Sub-cohort, and Super-heavy Company Formations, which they’ll sorely need to face off against the towering foes Beta-Garmon will throw at them.
Now you’ll also be able to string your games of Legions Imperialis into long-running narratives with an extensive campaign system, which offers multiple different ways to link battles. Warfront campaigns pit several players against each other in a race for Campaign Points across six cycles of battle, while Conquest Campaigns draw up a map and task commanders with capturing key locations.
Campaigns can be mixed together to tell longer stories about key conflicts in the Horus Heresy, or run over the course of a weekend as a fun event.
The most seismic additions come with the new Titandeath game mode, which hurls entire maniples of Titans and Knights at each other in epic, city-levelling clashes. Players muster mighty 6,000-point forces from the Legion Support and Knight Household detachments in the Legions Imperialis Rulebook, meaning anything smaller than an Armiger has no place in Titandeath battles.
These rules bring a new experience to games of Legions Imperialis, as even the legendary Titans can be wiped from the field under a concentrated barrage, and deft tactics are needed to manoeuvre your god-engines through terrain ill-suited to protecting them.
Titandeath battles are a great way to bring existing collections of Knights and Titans from Adeptus Titanicus back into games of Legions Imperialis, or expand your roster with the breathtakingly beautiful small-scale Titan miniatures available for the game. It’s an experience you’ll rarely see anywhere else – unless you happen to have loads of friends with full-size Titans!The Great Slaughter will be available to pre-order later this month, so keep an eye out for more information here on Warhammer Community.