The fall of the first Titan war engine marked the official beginning of this war. The Warhound-class Titans of the Tiger Eyes Titan Legion moved with astonishing speed, like a true wolf pack closing in on the Standing Ones Legion's war machines from the flanks.
Though Warhound-class Titans were the smallest category of Titan, designed to target infantry and light vehicles rather than larger Titans, that did not mean they posed no threat.
In fact, when Warhound Titans employed wolf-pack tactics, they could even use the adamantium grappling hooks they fired to drag down larger brethren. The World Eaters Legion's Warhound Titans were particularly skilled at this.
Within the Standing Ones Titan Legion, the pilot of a Warlord-class Titan named Rupert, accompanied by the prayers of his crew, directed the Machine Spirit of the god-machine in a charge against the enemy.
"Ring the bell once! Pull the lever, start the pistons and pumps!
Ring the bell twice! Press the button, ignite the engine, light the turbines, infuse it with life!
Ring the bell thrice! Sing as one, praise the God of All Machines!"
The Servitors and slave laborers sang in unison, while the Adeptus Mechanicus technicians recited prayers in binary.
The Warlord-class Titan's Machine Spirit roared. Belligerence had never belonged solely to the god-machines of the Tiger Eyes Titan Legion; no Titan's Machine Spirit would submit to the tyranny of another of its kind.
They all understood that the ones before them were no longer brethren. These loathsome things had bent the knee to the Warp's slavery. The enemy were servants of darkness, not extensions of the Omnissiah's power.
The Titans charged their respective enemies without fear of death. Every roar of a volcano cannon swept away the enemy's surface troops, and fragile organic bodies were instantly incinerated beneath the