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While I'm not the most experienced of EA players, I've enjoyed Chaos and Evil's AMTL list, but I can't help but think of the need for Chaos to have its own Titan legions take the field of Battle - as of the moment we do have plenty of Titans lying around as Warmachine Detatchments for the major Chaos lists but I feel the urge to work on generating a list of the Fallen members of the Adeptus Titanicus - and the Dark Mechanicus as a whole,though at the moment this is in the brainstorming stage I have a few ideas for the list thus far, at the moment the plan is somewhat to use C&E's list as a model to evolve from,currently brainstormed stuff as follows:
Core Formations:
Emperor-class Battle Titan - this is one I'm not sure on, I'm deathly certain that a Chaos Emperor should be in the list given the precident of Dies Irae, but I'm not to sure on how to impliment it, my feeling as it stands is to only allow them in limited numbers or compensate for the rarity and age of such things with increased points cost - like I said though not sure as of yet.
Daemontitan/Titan-Champion/Daemon Machine of the Primordial Destructor - a bit of a departure from traditions perhaps but I feel there is something of a need to differentiate between Chaos Warlord/Reavers, and the Banelord/Ravager and their Nurgle/Tzeentch/Slaneesh equivilents - the idea would be very much to limit the numbers of these units available (and prevent cooperation between rival gods), while providing a variety of upstats to make them significantly different from those fallen Titans that haven't been possesed/been in the warp for an extended period - these should accuratley represent Titans that have been elevated to Champions of the Chaos Gods. Within the limitations there would be no undivided Warlords of this nature, only Daemon's with the sponsorship of one of the four Chaos Gods would have the power to defeat all the competition to claim possesion of one of the God-Machines they've taken from the Imperium. These would likely be non-Modular units to compensate for superiority in certain areas.
Traitor Warlord - Likely similar to the Warlord from C&E's list, though I believe for sake of ballance some alteration might need to be made to ballance the list and stop it becoming like the Chaos Space Marine lists of 40k which used to come off as 'Space Marines, but with extra toys' - perhaps pruning some of the more 'advanced' weapons types from the C&E list in exchange for Marks of Chaos - I'm personally inclined to suggest that these would be 'Mortal' Units, with their corrupted crews still alive.
Traitor Reaver - As above the Traitor Reaver would be similar to the standard C&E AMTL Reaver, though there is the possibility for the need again for account for A) its increased rarity from the normal Titan legions, B) Allowing for use of Marks of Chaos without making it just 'a Reaver with better options'.
The Alternative of course, is to change things so that the Traitor Warlord and the Traitor Reaver can be upgraded to their Daemonic 'Champion' types, and limit the increased strength of these by forcing weapons limitation options upon upgraded units so that they better reflect their gods - the aim is to emulate the AMTL but not build upon it, the units have to be significantly ballanced in the sense that they should NOT be AMTL but with more options - so a methodology of limitation needs to be implicated - possibly by upping the cost of Chaos units, or restricting their numbers.
Support Formations
Feral Titan/Feral Titan Pack - Wether Daemonpossesed or not, the Warhound in a chaos list likely prowls around on the edge and ahead of the formation looking to claim vulnerable kills before their larger bretheren beat them to it - I don't see much reason to change anything between the Feral and the Warhound as I feel daemon-possesion won't really change how they behave.
Shockroaches/Weaponised Servitors - Replacing Sentinels, these units would serve the purpose they did in the Titanicus novel, which appeared to be 'roaming kill teams' it might be possible to vary these from just forming a replacement unit by giving them small arms and CC weaponry...again, not to sure how to handle these units at the moment.
Dark Mechanicus Skitarii - possibly, if one limits the number of Titans a Fallen Legion can take, it might be possible to grant them a horde of Minions to skitter around their feet - if not, these can be 0-1 per transport-slot in an appropriate transport Titan.
Swiftdeath/Helltalon - I don't see much reason to do much alteration to these, they provide an Airforce compliment to the warmachines on the ground.
Orbital Support - As Black Legion list, after all, the DM uses the same ships.
Just some early brainstorming I've been up to...thoughts?
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