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[[Image:warhound9.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A '''Warhound Titan''']]
The '''Warhound Scout Titan''' is the smallest class of [[Imperial Titan]]. With the deployment of a full [[Titan Legion]], Warhounds are commonly deployed to reconnoiter ahead of the Battle Titans and draw enemy war machines towards them. Despite its designation as a scout, the class is formidably armed.
Warhounds are also consummate ambush predators. Where most Titan combat might take place at a range of five kilometers of greater, Warhounds can lay in wait for their prey to come closer and engage at point-blank range.{{Fn|3}} This potentially allows them to defeat larger foes on their own; a [[Reaver Battle Titan]] might tonne for tonne outclass a single Warhound, but if caught by surprised the smaller engine is more than capable of killing its larger foe.{{Fn|3}} The Warhound's ability to go from idle, with main drive and systems shut down and the powerplant almost asphyxiated, to full sprint in less than twenty seconds and crash through stone walls three times its height helps in this regard.{{Fn|3}}
As in other Titans a Warhound's crew consists of devout members of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. The compact dimensions Titan's commander is known as [[Princeps]], charged with overseeing all aspect's of the Warhound war engine's functions through a [[Mind Impulse Unit]].{{Fn|2}} The MIU link also allows the princeps to commune with the Titan makes it the only design really suitable for urban combat 's "[[Machine Spirit]]," an intelligence which guides and assists in operations. In such confined areas Such spirits, as old as the firepower veteran war engines themselves, are often surely and cantankerous, resentful at being woken and forwards in following commands. These qualities, likened by some to having to bring to heel a ferocious dog, are also what make Warhounds so murderously effective.{{Fn|3}} Princeps comprehend their war engines and realise the surrounding environment through the Manifold, an immerse and interactive sensory space and the hard-plug equivalent of the class becomes truly terrifying[[Noosphere]]. Within the Manifold princeps essentially become one with the Titan, feeling the patter of rain on their Titan's hull as if it were their own skin and the enemy dull throb of the plasma reactor within their own belly. The world outside is perceived in a full 360° view through a wealth of sensory data, though during combat these are often lack weaponry capable paired down to the four essentials of damaging detecting heat, motion, mass and code activity, all of which is data-streamed back to the Titansmain host.{{Fn|3}}
Two Warhound Scout Titans have also guarded for thousands of years the [[Eternity Gate]], the sole and final entrance to the [[Sanctum Imperialis]], the [[Emperor]]'s resting place.
===Sub-classes===
====Wolf====
The '''Wolf Class Titan''' configurations always operate in packs of two, specializing in finding and hunting down enemy forces.{{Fn|38}}
====Mastiff====
The '''Mastiff Class Titan''' pattern of Warhounds are not as nimble or as well-protected as the Wolf, being equipped and configured to act as solitary vanguards. Mastiffs specialize in flanking enemy positions to sow confusion with well-planned hit-and-run attacks.{{Fn|38}}
====Jackal====
The '''Jackal Class Titan''' pattern of Warhounds are similar to the Mastiff, being used in the same role but having heavier [[Void Shield]]s so that it may better engage foes at a closer range. Because of this the favored weapons of Jackal [[Princeps]] are the [[Inferno Gun]] and [[Vulcan Mega-bolter]].{{Fn|38}}
==Armaments==
==Technical Specifications==
{{Imperial Vehicles
|Vehicle Name=Warhound Titan<sup>1-p252</sup>{{Fn|2}}|Forge World of Origin=[[Mars]]
|Known Patterns=III-XXI
|Crew=PrincepsPrefect, 2 x Moderati, 2 Techpriests, 3 ServitorsTechpriest
|Powerplant=Type XIV Plasma Reactor
|Weight=410 Tonnes
|Main Armament=Plasma Blaster
|Secondary Armament=Vulcan Mega-Bolter
|Gun Traverse=100 Degrees°|Gun Elevation=From -33 Deg ° to +36 Deg°
|Main Ammunition=Unlimited from reactor
|Secondary Ammunition=14000 Rounds
*[[List of Titan Legions]]
*[[Imperial and Chaos Titans (List)|List of known individual Imperial and Chaos Titans]]
==Trivia==
'''''Forge World's''''' W40K-scale Warhound model, 250mm tall, would stand around 15 meters (45 feet) in real life.
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Adeptus Codex Titanicus (Game2nd Edition)]], pg. 18*<sup>1</sup>{{Endn|2}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Three - The Taros Campaign]], pg. 251*<sup>2</sup>{{Endn|3}}: [[Titanicus]], p*{{Endn|4}}: [[Storm of Iron (Novel)]] by [[Graham McNeill]], pg. 175107*{{Endn|35}}: [[Dark Adeptus (Novel)]] by [[Ben Counter]], pg. 251*{{Endn|6}}: [[Helsreach (Novel)]] by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]], pg. 353*{{Endn|7}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Six - The Siege of Vraks - Part Two]]**{{Endn|7a}}: pg. 48**{{Endn|7b}}: pg. 84*{{Endn|8}}: [[Adeptus Titanicus Rulebook]] Rulebook - ''Warhound Class Scout Titan''
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