Games Workshop really outdid themselves this time by reinventing an ‘epic’ paywall for a second rebirth of a game many were sad to see go…
One thing that will never change for this hobby is that Games Workshop givesth and Games Workshop taketh away. If you don’t want to play Legion Imperialis but want to keep playing with your Titans, the new campaign book, The Great Slaughter, will let you do it. Ironically, GW just had a game that let Titans fight one another…
Games Workshop Really Outdid Themselves With This EPIC Paywall
Here is how Games Workshop explains their latest paywall hidden inside yet another supplement book:
The most seismic additions come with the new Titandeath game mode, which hurls entire maniples of Titans and Knights at each other in epic, city-levelling clashes. Players muster mighty 6,000-point forces from the Legion Support and Knight Household detachments in the Legions Imperialis Rulebook, meaning anything smaller than an Armiger has no place in Titandeath battles.
These rules bring a new experience to games of Legions Imperialis, as even the legendary Titans can be wiped from the field under a concentrated barrage, and deft tactics are needed to manoeuvre your god-engines through terrain ill-suited to protecting them.
So, just to recap, GW killed Adeptus Titanicus when they merged the models with Legions Imperialis (different bases, rules, etc.), at least in terms of new support.
Now, it seems that GW put Titans into a new game with infantry and tanks, then in the first expansion book, took out the infantry and tanks for a game mode to play with larger superheavies (like Titans). Even worse, they are making players pay for it! If you buy the rules for Legions Imperialis and this expansion, you’ve already spent at least $100… just to play Titan battles, which they already had a whole game for in Adeptus Titanicus.
Of all the comments we saw after this announcement, this post on X/ Twitter was by far the most amusing (at least to us).
Wait wait wait…wait.
You made a game in which titans kill titans,
Then took the titans out of the titan game and into the infantry and tanks game.
Then took infantry and tanks out of the game to leave
Titans killing titans? Titan death mode? You mean Adeptus Titanicus?
— Gonders (@Gonders) January 4, 2024
If you have an entire AT army, this is good in a way, as you can get some new rules and keep playing with your Titans. However, if you have already bought all the rules and campaigns, it’s not going to feel good to buy another campaign book to play with your models that already have plenty of rules. Even though Adeptus Titianicus still has a category on the GW webstore, they have already said all future support will be through LI (Legions Imperialis).
It’s honestly just a little funny that GW already had a game to fight epic battles with the biggest war machines out there and then decided to put them in a game with infantry and tanks, only to take the tanks and infantry back out of that game at the first opportunity.
Oh, and you’ll have to buy another rulebook to be able to play those battles too. Well played, Games Workshop well played…
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at the Las Vegas Open, each of which attracts thousands of players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the 2011 Adepticon 40k Team Tournament. He was even featured for his painting in issue #304 of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf Magazine.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
