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The '''Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan''' is among the largest classes of Imperial Battle [[Titan]]s.{{Fn|1}} The '''Warmaster Iconoclast Heavy Battle Titan''' is its melee-focused variant.{{Fn|6}} 

Secret records attest to the Warmaster Titan being in use millennia before the advent of the [[Imperium of Man]], for instance in the wars against the [[Cy-Carnivora]].{{fnFn|5d}} Its existence was a closely guarded secret by the [[Mechanicum]] until the late [[Horus Heresy]]{{fnFn|2a}}, with even the highest echelons of the [[Cult Mechanicus]] not openly speaking of it.{{fnFn|2b}} They were covertly seeded on certain [[Forge World]]s, kept slumbering and shrouded until a day its home planets very existence was at stake. On that day the Warmaster would stride out, annihilating all in its wake.{{Fn|5a}}

The first open use of Warmaster Titans came during the Heresy in the [[Schism of Mars]]{{fnFn|2c}}, when word spread of the forge-fanes of Phoenicis falling in a day to a wrathful god-engine, or of entire maniples destroyed by a single, towering giant of battle.{{fnFn|5a}} In the opening phases of the battle the traitorous [[Legio Mortis]] revealed its hidden stock of Warmaster Titans, causing devastation to loyalist forces. The Legio Mortis had acquired a number of Warmasters due to its alliance with [[Kelbor-Hal]], the treacherous [[Fabricator-General]] of [[Mars]]. However the Legio Mortis victory was so complete that word of the new Titan would not reach loyalist forces until the [[Siege of Terra]].{{Fn|2c}}

The exact number of Warmaster Titans that existed prior to the Horus Heresy is unknown, but even the most prominent legions were only able to field less than a half-dozen, with only three confirmed to belong to the [[Legio Gryphonicus]]{{Fn|5e}}, and two to the [[Legio Crucius]].{{Fn|5g}}. On [[Travo’anor]], it took the combined assets of four different Legios to field a handful of the war-engines against the [[Siege of Travo'anor|Traitor besiegers of Novavistra]].{{fnFn|2d}} Likewise, the Iconoclast (a melee-focussed variant of the Warmaster) was a rare sight, the [[Legio Krytos]] counting three (including one permanently stationed on [[Krytos]]).{{fnFn|8d}}

The Warmaster Titan bristles with heavy armament, requiring a secondary reactor to power its many weapons systems.{{Fn|1}} The ancillary reactor can accommodate different systems, such as '''Plasmatic Locomotors''' to increase its moving speed or '''Infusive Supercoolant''' to facilitate reactor venting.{{Fn|3}} For protection, the God-Engine is equipped with seven [[Void Shield]] generators. Six [[servitor]] clades also mean that repairing damage is easier for the Warmaster’s [[princeps]].{{Fn|3}}

Its weapons systems include two Suzerain-Class [[Plasma Destructor]]s and [[Revelator Missile Battery]] for primary weapons{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|3}}, as well as four twin-linked Ardex-Defensor [[Autocannon]]s, [[Missile Launcher]]s, and twin-linked [[Lascannon]] mounts for lighter foes and aircraft. Its shoulders can also sport two support weapons including [[Melta Cannon (Titan)|Melta Cannon]]s, [[Plasma Blastgun]]s, [[Inferno Gun]]s, [[Vulcan Mega-Bolter]]s, [[Apocalypse Missile Launcher]]s, or [[Turbo-Laser Destructor]]s.{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|5i}}

The '''Warmaster Iconoclast Heavy Battle Titan''' is a melee-focused variant of the Warmaster.{{Fn|6}} Despite being first mistaken as a retrofit of the Warmaster, the Iconoclast differed in the nature of its [[machine-spirit]], whose blood lust bloodlust and savagery required the strongest of princeps to keep in check. Designed as a counter-measure to conventional siege fortifications, it would stride through [[void shields shield]]s and unleash its fury in apocalyptic close-quarter combat.{{fnFn|8a}}

The Warmaster Iconoclast Titans Titan is armed with a [[Desolator Chainsword]]s and either a set of [[Krius Siege Drill]]s or [[Krius Grav Imploder]]s. Its secondary weapons include [[Cruciator Gatling Array]]s, shoulder-mounted [[Apocalypse Missile Launcher]]s, [[Plasma blastgunBlastgun]]s, or [[Melta Cannon]]s.{{Fn|6}} Its ancillary reactor is modified to accommodate '''Void Shunts''' that increase its resistance to enemy firepower, or [[Kinetic Transducer]]s that use the Titan’s very motions to power its armament.{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|8b}}{{Fn|8f}}

*The Warmaster Titan was based upon an old concept sketch by [[Jes Goodwin]] for [[Adeptus Titanicus (game)|Adeptus Titanicus]].{{fnFn|9}}

*{{endnEndn|9}}: [[The Gothic and the Eldritch]], {{cite thisCME}}