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Robert Wood
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My various thoughts and brain-farts, including ongoing promotion of a game I made I'm calling #Titanomachina, currently available on the Steam Workshop at: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2091149334
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What if Eurybia was pointing all of Her weapons in the same direction? And had bigger feet and knees? Hopefully more stable when printed at the least #Titanomachina
The Titan Eurybia in a three-quarters fighting stance, left foot forward, pointing Her weapons (right arm vulcan gun, left arm laser blade, left shoulder rocket pod) all in the same direction. She is set against a pink-on-black grid.
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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#Titanomachina can end in one of three ways, time-out, knock-out, and ring-out, making the outer three squares something of a danger-zone.
The Titan Tethys scores a ring-out victory over the Titan Eos at Hal-con 2025, having gotten Eos caught up in a corner of the board long enough to execute a double body-slam.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Sunday capped #Halcon2025 and it was a great finish to the weekend! Here's the boards we had set up for #Titanomachina
The latest and greatest prototype version featuring production board, cards, and tokens. Also the latest stickers on wooden cube habitats, and Titan STLs. The pugnacious pass card matches the personality card, and the card backs are marked with lightning bolts to match them to icons on card fronts indicating cost of activation. My plan is that in retail copies the habitats would be tokens, and the Titans would be standees, with a line in the rule book linking to STLs and sticker sheets players can download, depending on preference for printed habitats or cubes. Slightly older prototype, with Titan deck cards missing the lightning bolt implemented to clarify card costs, and the pass card features a chibi version of Adherent Crew 1 instead of Initiate Crew 4. The board uses my original prototype board with the board-tiles I tried a couple of years ago. I think the tiles would make set-up interesting for veteran players, but aren't user friendly for new players. This let me put the latest boards into prototype copies I can sell. There's also two prototype copies of the rulebook, the latest reference cards and a sheet with a QR code linking to the Tabletop Simulator version.
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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These new stormcast eternal dragon riders are something eh?
A GW Stormcast Eternal model on top of a pokemon equipped with a beard and a miniature frisbee. They're on a table and there's one of those mini-monolith things full of stars on the left, and a paper back behind. A table is involved somewhere.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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#Halcon2025 Day 2! Ichorplasma engines are green, drive-trains are engaged, let's go!
Two Titanomachina demo sets ready for play in the Board Games Room at Hal-con 2025. Also pictures are a demo presenter and Hal-con board games room volunteer. In the far background bind them is a hat, and a cup of coffee in front of a conspicuously empty chair.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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One last thing to print before #Halcon2025 for the #Titanomachina demo gamesp
The Titanomachina cover art depicting a gold version of the Titan Rhea being ambushed by a blue version of the Titan Rhea with a Titanomachina logo and a large, invasive QR code linking to the Tabletop Simulator version in the bottom left corner. Artwork by Loïc Billiau, defaced by me adding a QR code.
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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By the grace of Styxx, that'll buff right out. #Titanomachina #BoardGames
A Titanomachina damage diagram card, showing damage to the Titan Styxx's secondary configuration with the following damage: claw (destroyed), left arm (destroyed), left sensor (light damage), front armour (destroyed), front sensor (heavy damage), gun battery (light damage), right arm (light damage), left armour (destroyed), left leg (destroyed), master crew (destroyed), adherent crew (light damage), right armour (destroyed), right leg (heavy damage), left deflector array (destroyed), initiate crew (light damage), right deflector array (heavy damage). Light damage is one bubble, heavy damage is two bubbles, and destroyed is all three bubbles.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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#Halcon2025 is just around the corner and the Titans are ready to walk! #Titanomachina
Twenty Titan models on the top of a laptop, from left files to the right is four copies of Tethys, four copies of Styxx, four copies of Rhea, and four copies of Eos. In the top right are four copies of Eurybia. Tethys, Styxx, Rhea, and Eos were sculpted by Jason Miller.
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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A fourth configuration for Eurybia, as well as an exhortation to optimize Her cogs! #Titanomachina
The Titan Eurybia in Her fourth configuration of a plasma howitzer, buzz saw, and a gun battery. She's decorated in blue armour with silver edging, pictured from the hips up. There is text stating "It's GO time." All of it against a pink-on-black grid.
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Speaking of #Halcon2025, swing on by and enjoy some giant robot brawling goodness!
A screenshot of the Hal-con 2025 app, detailing the schedule for demonstration games of Titanomachina running 12:00-7:00pm on Friday, 11:00-6:00pm on Saturday, and 11:00-4:00pm on Sunday.
October 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The board set-up for #Halcon2025 demo game, for reference purposes.
The current Titanomachina default set up on Tabletop Simulator, showing buildings evenly distributed in eight lines two habitats high around the board and then excess set up on the board edges around the central roadways.
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A tertiary configuration for Eurybia. #Titanomachina #BoardGames
The Titan Eurybia in blue, silver, and titanium, seen from the hips up in Her third configuration of gun batter, laser battery, and a hand. She is raising her hand, balled in a fist, as if to challenge the viewer. There is text in the top left reading: "Get in loser, we're going rampaging." This is all set against a pink-on-black grid background.
October 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Shields up! Green means go! #Titanomachina
The Titan Eurybia in Her primary configuration in blue and silver armour, with shields raised to cover Her front, arms, and legs. The shields are green, transparent bubbles. Eurybia is set against a pink-on-black background.
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Once more with feeling... #Titanomachina
Two grey, printed copies of the Titan Eurybia, with the left one armed according to the primary configuration of vulcan gun, rocket pod, and laser blade, and the right one armed according to the secondary configuration of claw, vulcan gun, and laser blade. They are on a kitchen counter with a bag of carrots.
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Sowing the seeds of Titanomachy. #Titanomachina
The Titan Tethys amidst some buildings, in Her primary configuration. Some white lettering says "I just want you to stop saying odd shit," referencing Woody Harrelson delivering the line in season one of True Detective. Tethys and buildings were sculpted by Jason Miller.
October 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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When life hands you lemons, crush them under your hooves of hot iron. #Titanomachina #BoardGames
The Titan Eurybia, seen from slightly above, as She turns left and points with Her laser blade and rocket pod, while laying Her vulcan gun on another target. She is set against a pink-on-black background.
October 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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A single-player mission I'm calling "Pruning" whereby you choose a Titan and attempt to get a high score in clearing non-friendly habitats from the board. #Titanomachina
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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What Eurybia lacks in subtlety, She makes up for in displacement tonnage... #Titanomachina
The Titan Eurybia in Her secondary configuration, armed with a claw, vulcan gun, and rocket pod, with red armour trimmed with yellow and blue details. Eurybia is set against a pink-on-black grid background.
October 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I finally figured out how to upload Eurybia's primary configuration to Tabletop Simulator. The secondary configuration is still in progress, but Eurybia walks! #Titanomachina #BoardGames
The Titan Eurybia on Tabletop Simulator, white except for an orange rocket pod over Her left shoulder, and in Her primary configuration with a vulcan gun and laser blade point in the same direction as the rocket pod. The background is a wooden table and sunlit trees.
October 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I've put the different habitat shapes back into the Tabletop Simulator version of #Titanomachina and I'm trying out a default set-up for #halcon2025
The default Titanomachina table on Tabletop Simulator. There are 2 or 3 Titan configurations for each Titan, figurine, dashboard card, and Titan deck one for 2-4 players. Each Titan also has 25 habitat blocks (yellow cylinder, pink octagon, green cross, and blue cube), 10 shield tokens, a shield diagram card, a damage diagram card, and standee alternatives to figurines. The table also has a board, rule book, tech manual, two reference cards, four personality cards, and four pass cards. There are a further 13 Titan configurations available in the top-right corner of the picture. The table has a pink-on-black grid.
October 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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One of the things Warhammer 40,000 got right, back when Dan Abnett wrote the novel Titanicus, was that Titans weren't created for practical concerns, but for religious concerns, a testament to union with the Machine-God. That's why I commissioned the Damnatio Memoriae from iraganaart.bsky.social
A Warlord Titan from Warhammer 40k with curved, corinthian-inspired armour. By iraganaart.bsky.social A Warlord Titan from Warhammer 40k with curved, corinthian-inspired armour. By iraganaart.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Right, got the dashboard worked up, and it looks like Styxx gains a habitat to set up. #Titanomachina
A dashboard for the Titan Styxx taking the primary configuration and swapping out the laser blade and plasma shotgun for two gun batteries mounted on the arms and leaving the rocket pod on the turret. The dashboard also has 19 habit blocks to set up on the board, and a three-quarters profile picture. Styxx was sculpted by Jason Miller.
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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There was some discussion of the ideal build for Styxx, and it might be this one with two gun batteries and a rocket pod. #Titanomachina
The Titan Styxx armed with two gun batteries and a rocket pod, coloured green with purple trim, and light blue/red details. Styxx is seen in three-quarters profile against a pink-on-black background. Styxx was sculpted by Jason Miller.
September 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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The thing to remember on Bisexual Visibility Day is that line-of-sight is mutual.
The Titan Tethys in the colours of the Bisexual flag, and arrayed in Her quaternary configuration of two rocket pods and two laser blades. Tethys is set against a pink-on-black gridded background. Tethys was sculpted by Jason Miller.
September 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Uh oh, Styxx is in a fix! #Titanomachina
A photograph of a Titanomachina board filled with buildings of mixed colours with the Titan Rhea's secondary configuration (plasma howitzer, buzz saw, vulcan gun) at the center, turned 45 degrees to present Her vulcan gun and buzz saw. The Titan Styxx is in the foreground, at the edge of the board and turned 45 degrees so the viewer on sees Her rocket pod and plasma shotgun. Styxx is boxed in by several buildings. Rhea and Styxx were sculpted by Jason Miller.
September 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM