The Warhound may be the smallest class of Titan but it is not the weakest. Let’s see why these titans are the first into the fight.
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As in other Titans a Warhound’s crew consists of devout members of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Titan’s commander is known as a Princeps, charged with overseeing all aspects of the war engine’s functions through a Mind Impulse Unit. The MIU link also allows the Princeps to commune with the Titan’s “Machine Spirit,” an intelligence which guides and assists in operations. Such spirits, as old as the veteran war engines themselves, are often surely and cantankerous, resentful at being woken and forwards in following commands. These qualities, likened by some to having to bring to heel a ferocious dog, are also what make Warhounds so murderously effective. As in other Titans a Warhound Princeps comprehends their war engines and realize the surrounding environment through the Manifold, an immerse and interactive sensory space and the hard-plug equivalent of the Noosphere.
It also results in the princeps unconsciously aping the posture of the Warhound in action, while damage taken by the Titan can appear as psychosomatic welts on their body. A wealth of sensory data is viewed through the Manifold, normally paired down the the four essentials of detecting heat, motion, mass, and code activity, and can be data-streamed back to the Legion. For example, a Warhound can pick out the heat signature and power source of a Land Raider anywhere within one kilometer of its position. The Princeps sits in the forward cockpit along with two Moderati who assist in piloting the Titan: the first functions as the driver and navigator while the other commands the weapons and sensors. In turn each one controls the Warhound’s remote servitor-slaves, which are hardwired into the war engine’s weapons, void shield generators and engineering system. The final crewmember is the Techpriest situated in the engine room behind the main cockpit, tasked with overseeing the smooth running of the Warhound’s plasma reactor. All are hard-plugged into the Titan and make use of hard-switches, as subtle haptics and noospheric links are considered too easily compromised or damaged for controlling the Titan in the midst of combat.
Two Warhound Scout Titans have also guarded for thousands of years the Eternity Gate, the sole and final entrance to the Sanctum Imperialis, the Emperor‘s resting place.The Warhound has two weapon mount hardpoints. The multi-configuration nature of these mounts means armament can be tailored on a mission specific basis. However, most Titan crews will develop their own particular style of combat and so tend to stick to certain configurations. In addition, each pattern of Titan is built with a Standard Weapon Configuration, which in the case of a Mars-pattern Warhound is a Plasma Blastgun and Vulcan Mega-Bolter. In total there are four different weapons a Warhound can mount in either arm:
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