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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus  Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:31 pm |
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Now THAT'S a titan!
I really like the color scheme, and are those windows on his legs? Looks sharp!
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:19 pm |
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Very Well Done!
I agree, the windows on the legs just bring out the size very well.
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:56 pm |
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One of the best Emperor class titans I've seen, awesome work.
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:14 am |
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:49 am |
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Hi!
Awesome titan!
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:20 am |
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:05 am |
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I finally like an Imperator - never thought that would happen!
What's this about Legio Gryphonicus being eaien by 'nids? I must have missed it. Anyone got a reference?
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:48 am |
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It's in the latest Tyranid Book for 40K, in the background piece for - as mentioned - Hive Fleet Leviathan. ?Let me just find it...
Here we are. ?The reader's digest version is that Imperial forces were overstretched (what with Orks being a nuisance etc.) and there was little they could do to stem the Hive Fleet's advance. ?So Inquisitor Kryptmann ordered a cordon of evacuated worlds in the Hive Fleet's path, denying the Nids those worlds as sustenance. ?This included ordering Exterminatus on any worlds already under invasion. ?To quote: "To this day it remains the single largest act of genocide ever inflicted upon (by?) the Imperium upon its own since the Horus Heresy."
But I'm getting sidetracked.
Tesla Prime and Gryphonne IV fell under this cordon; but while the AdMech reluctantly abandoned the first, they felt they could, or must, hold out on the latter. ?They mustered all their forces before the first mycetic spores impacted.
"Within days, the world was scoured, and Hive Fleet Leviathan had moved on."
I'm not so fond of it, myself. ?It smells of the usual GW 'we must make them seem invincible!' practise for each army book. ?But that didn't affect my choice of Legio, and I wouldn't expect it to affect anyone else's choice.
Especially as it doesn't say anything about Titan Battlegroups tht weren't on Gryphonne IV at the time. 
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:46 pm |
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:09 pm |
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Well, the idea is that the Titans of the legion were fighting basically unsupported. And while they may be awesome god-machines, the Tyranids have their own super-heavies, and can fill in the rank and file armies much better then an unsupported Titan Legion and Skitarii. Also remember the Tyranid 'style' of combat: Throw things away as easily as bullets, after all you'll get their bio mass back when you absorb the planet anyway. I'd imagine the AMTL would get worn down, one machine at a time, by an almost endless wave of tyranids with the combind bio-mass of a dozen worlds behind them. Probably taking a horrible tole for each Titan which falls.. But the Titans won't be replaced, and the Tyranids will. They're fighting a war of attrition against the best army in the galaxy to win such a conflict.
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Post subject: Legio Gryphonicus Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:43 pm |
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C'est magnifique! Outstanding job, Hojyn. I really like the color scheme. 
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That is a fantastic Titan... [wipes drool from lower lip]
if the Ad Mech won! 