The Legio Krytos (God Breakers) is a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicum that repudiated its oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and followed the Warmaster Horus into the service of the Ruinous Powers during the Horus Heresy.
The Legio Krytos is known to have participated in both the infamous Battle of Tallarn and the Battle of Beta-Garmon. Even before the outbreak of the Heresy, this notorious Titan Legion were known to be excessive in their pursuit of achieving Imperial Compliance and possessed a love for overkill.
The God Breakers were also known for making extensive use of Earthbreaker Missiles -- specialised weapons that were designed to burrow into the ground before detonating, tearing the terrain apart in showers of broken earth. These weapons were used extensively by the Legio Krytos to bring down fortifications, but they also proved effective in slowing the advance of enemy maniples.
Perhaps as a result of these preferences in waging war, they tended to work closely with the siege-breaking Iron Warriors Legion.
Legion History
Legio Krytos Titan Legion colour scheme as displayed on a Warlord-class Titan
Notable Campaigns
- Battle of Tallarn (010-011.M31) - Tallarn, an Imperial muster world of almost unparalleled size and importance, came under direct attack by the Iron Warriors Legion. Here the Traitors unleashed a virus bombardment that rendered the surface of the once-verdant world of Tallarn to poisoned slime and the air unbreathable. The invasion that followed, including the Traitor Titans of the Legio Krytos, developed into the largest armoured battle of the Imperium's history, a war fought under the most hellish conditions imaginable. As the war ground on, it drew in Loyalist and Traitor forces from hundreds of worlds across the entire Segmentum Tempestus before its cataclysmic conclusion.
- Beneath a Blood Red Star (361.012.M31) - The God Breakers came to Alpha-Garmon IX with the order to level the world and rob the Beta-Garmon Cluster of its harvested energy in preparation for the wider Battle of Beta-Garmon. Anticipating the arrival of the Traitor Titans, the planet's Martian Domini called out to the Legio Atarus and Legio Astorum for aid, while massing their own regiments of Mechanicum Knight Houses. The resulting conflict turned the black plains of Alpha-Garmon IX to glass with the fury of battle, while Dark Mechanicum War Servitor clades and mutant levies clashed in the tunnels below with the defenders. During the battle, many of the world's tesla-spines are felled -- their kilometres-long spires crashing down among the fighting Titans.
- Battle of Beta-Garmon (The "Titandeath") (013.M31) - The Beta-Garmon Cluster, also known as the gateway to the Throneworld of Terra, was the last hurdle that the Warmaster Horus' forces had to overcome before they reached the Imperium's capital world. Heavily fortified by the Loyalists, Beta-Garmon would become one of the greatest and bloodiest battles of the Horus Heresy, as well as one of the longest lasting. Even as the fires of Isstvan III were cooling, Alpha Legion attack cruisers entered the cluster. A campaign of assassination and sabotage unleashed by the XX Legion paved the way for an assault by an Emperor's Children Millennial, seeking to win back the favour of Fulgrim by bringing the Garmonite lords of Beta-Garmon II to heel. Meanwhile, the Traitor Titans of the Legio Mortis "Reaper" Titan maniples swept away the Loyalist Nemesis brigades defending Nyrcon City in a matter of solar days. After Beta-Garmon II's capital city of Nyrcon and the orbiting star fort known as The Anvil were taken, forces across the cluster declared for or against the Warmaster and many of the cluster's worlds descended into civil war.
Notable Titans
- Hammer of Tyrants (Warlord-class Titan)
- Black Arrow (Reaver-class Titan)
- Apostate of Days (Warhound-class Titan)
- Curse of Iron (Warhound-class Titan)
- Grateful Punishment (Warhound-class Titan)
- Havoc (Warhound-class Titan)
- Manus Infernum (Warhound-class Titan)
- Night's Hunter (Warhound-class Titan)
- Oedium Aelemium (Warhound-class Titan)
- Tyrant's Torment (Warhound-class Titan)
- Wolf Scythe (Warhound-class Titan)
Notable Personnel
- Yavar the Pitiless - Yavar the Pitiless was a Princeps of the Warhound-class Titan Grateful Punishment during the Horus Heresy.
Legion Appearance
Legion Colours
The god-engines of the Legio Krytos march in gray-green and white with gold trim.
Legion Badge
This Traitor Titan Legion's badge is a stylised winged-warhammer, also known as the Hammer of Krytos, centred upon a livery shield containing the Legion's heraldic colours of white, green and red.
Sources
- The Horus Heresy - Adeptus Titanicus: Titandeath (Specialty Game)
- Tallarn: Ironclad (Novel) by John French
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