Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Apocalypse (section)

====Warlord Titan====
First choice: Mori Quake Cannon, and by extention, the most powerful gun in the entire game (in terms of average output,take a moment to let that truly sink in), it out performs all other weapons against all targets (except the twin mega bolter against infantry) and forces all units hit by it to half their movement ranges for their next turn, allowing you to keep calm and keep on shooting. So if you have a warlord titan and need to give it a gun, make the right choice, choose the quake cannon.

Second choice: Sunfury Plasma Annihilator, although its not as good as the quake cannon (or the as yet to be discussed volcano cannon) it has the ability to (on a 4+ after dealing damage) to deal D3 hits to nearby units, and there is nothing that says that these hits cannot create addition hits, and so on, and so on. So if you fire this at an eg ork horde, you could potentially hit every unit in your opponents army, and as it stands there's no rule that says that these extra hits cannot propagate back and re-hit the original units, so while the quake cannon is the most powerful weapon on average, the plasma annihilator has the potential to destroy ('''LITERALLY''') your opponents army, you may not do it in 99 of your games, but on the 100th you might just pull it off...

Second choice (melee): Saturnyne Lascutter, although its technically of lower strength than the fist, its re-rolls to wound make it by far more dangerous, even against the heaviest of opponents and any weaknesses it has against infantry or certain other targets are made up by its greater titanic strides. However, things are complicated by two matters, firstly there's the fists throwing its dead enemy ability (although its identical to the reaver power fist ability), an ability which should not be overlooked as (as previously mentioned) it can target characters with this ability, and sceondly, the lascutter and fist both come with inbuilt ranged weapons, of which the fists inbuilt bolter is on '''AVERAGE''' (if the lascutter makes more than 6-8 hits it surpasses the bolter but this is unlikely) better, especially in overwatch. However, if your in a situation where you want a melee weapon, it's because you know your going to be in melee with some big monsters, and as such you should still take the lascutter over the fist.

First carapace choice: Incinerator missile bank, for the same reasons as previously stated for the reaver Titan.

Second carapace choice: Twin Titan Vulcan mega bolter, there really isn’t any competition once you’ve chosen a missile launcher to fill your long range infantry busting, this gun out shoots all the other carapace options when it comes to annihilating infantry, and it’s high rate of fire makes it almost as good as the flamer when it comes to overwatch defence (and any weaknesses there are plugged up by your ardex weapons). Take this weapon, and combined with the incinerator missile bank there is no amount of infantry which your opponent can throw at you without going for the smallest squad sizes possible.

Third choice (wildcard): Warlord Gatling Blaster, for the same reasons as why the Reaver Gatling Blaster is the wildcard for the reaver, it is exceptionally good at dealing with infantry.

Third carapace choice (wildcard): Reaver Laser Blaster, although not the best gun we've seen so far it is the best super heavy killer you can fit on your carapace, and although it won't out shoot (not by a long shot) any of your main guns, it will more than happily wipe out a knight with 7 wounds to spare, making it idea for taking out small things which you wouldn't normally bother shooting at, baneblades, land raiders, you know, small things by comparison to what your main guns are firing at. It also makes the Warlord the only titan which is really capable of dealing with every possible threat, as the reaver and warhound just don't have the number of hard points required to take such a large variety of guns.

Other option: Ardex-Defensor Maulers, although the lascannon and maulers do better against ceratin targets over the other, the maulers higher rate of fire is of greater use, especially as these weapons are meant to be part of your overwatch defence, and eve if your lascannon will hit on a 5+ in overwatch, it still only has two shots, meaning you only have a 66.66% chance of one of them actually hitting something.

Last place (the don’t bother option): Belicosa Volcano Cannon, despite looking excellent on paper, its low rate of fire and excessively high strength but not high enough to wound a warlord on a 2+ make this a rather mediocre weapon, which is far out classed by the other weapons available, its even only slightly better than the sunfire cannon, and that weapons not even trying to be a true titan killer, and it at least causes additional hits to all nearby units. So unless this weapon gets some kind of buff just don't take it.