005-006.M31: Schism of Mars 2. If you’re going to take this, you probably don’t need more than one. Your choice in legion and maniple will define how your battlegroup approaches engagements with other Titans, so think carefully before you choose. It also lets you turn a roll of 17 with a melta cannon into a 20, which is basically irrelevant anyway as the highest critical target in the game as of this writing is already 17. removes the +2 bonus the Princeps would normally get to their own command checks. B, Cruel increases the strength of attacks against targets of scale 5 or less by 2. If you’re going to take this, you probably don’t need more than one. Titans within 3”, not just enemies. Note that this only applies to Smash Attacks and not to attacks made with Melee Weapons – you won’t be able to sidestep that chainfist so easily. When firing against a target with voids, hit rolls of a 5 or a 6 now count as two hits (providing a 5 would have hit taking into account penalties). A neat trick that can really throw a wrench in your opponent’s plans if you think they need an order to go off to execute their plan this turn, but held back by the fact it only applies to one Titan at once. We’ll be discussing stratagems in a later article, but some prime candidates for 1CP are things like Blind Barrage which can be used offensively or defensively or a bonus tertiary objective to pip victory from your opponent A. Dauntless are a great legion due to their ability to fundamentally break the rules of army construction. This is the auto-include. is expensive at 3 points, but lets you just flat-out ignore a hit that would cause you to roll on the Catastrophic Damage table. Any models take a hit that ignores void or ion shields (Titans take it to the legs), and terrain takes a hit and catches fire, causing it to suffer additional hits in each successive phase until it’s destroyed. Their second trait, Lust for Glory, is a bit more interesting, as well as slightly more complicated. This is something of an odd one – typically, you’ll want to fire bolters and missiles early to take advantage of their high shot-count to pound voids. lets you count any result on a d10 you rolled of 9 as a 6, or vice versa, within your battlegroup. However, this could be useful on Titans equipping laser blasters or turbo laser destructors – being able to use their Shieldbane trait without having to push your reactor will let those weapons strip shields faster than usual at no risk, and if you happen to have a belicosa or volcano cannon on the same Titan, being able to fire that for free after stripping a target’s voids is a nice bonus. Not an auto-take, but not an indefensible choice either. Given the heavy armour on the head location, this is of dubious utility. You’ll also get the re-roll separately for each weapon the Titan fires, since each weapon attacks separately. Two options for doing so come to mind: Collegia Lord – When your Princeps is issued an order, on a roll of a 9+ on the command check you may issue this to all other titans in the maniple without a command check. If you want to get cute, you can even blind-fire an apocalypse missile launcher at a target over 30” away and hit on 3+. You would have to be pushing your reactor very hard and be rolling poorly for this to be worth it. Fortis Motivators cost 20 points and let you discard any repair die in the Damage Control phase to repair one point of Critical Damage to that Titan’s legs.