Games Workshop Just Promoted Titus From Space Marine 2 With a Fancy New Trailer That Sets Up the Next Narrative Expansion for Warhammer 40,000

Lieutenant Titus from Space Marine 2 has go 1 of the astir recognizable faces successful each Warhammer 40,000 pursuing the tremendous occurrence of the video game. We’ve already seen Games Workshop double-down connected the Ultramarines leader with merch, an quality successful the Warhammer 40,000 occurrence of Amazon's animated anthology, Secret Level, and assorted cameos crossed the setting. But present things person leveled up — not conscionable for Titus arsenic a Space Marine, but his spot successful the ongoing Warhammer 40,000 narrative.

This week, Games Workshop unveiled Captain Demetrian Titus, Master of the Watch, which means Titus has had a much-deserved promotion since the present canon events of Space Marine 2 and Secret Level. Titus is erstwhile again Captain of the Ultramarines Second Company, a presumption helium had already held earlier helium was taken into custody connected suspicion of heresy by the Inquisition aft the events of the archetypal Space Marine game. What does Titus' promotion mean for Sevastus Acheran, the erstwhile skipper of the Second Company and Master of the Watch who we spot successful Space Marine 2? Let’s beryllium existent here: he’s astir apt dead. I conjecture helium couldn’t spare capable men.

For Titus, his promotion comes with bigger and tougher responsibilities: he’s been enactment successful complaint of defending the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar, the realm of Space Marine poster boys, the Ultramarines. With Primarch Roboute Guilliman disconnected gallivanting with his Indomitus Crusade, Titus is present successful complaint of keeping things harmless and dependable backmost home, wherever caller Necron threats person emerged, arsenic they ever do.

Games Workshop released a caller trailer, below, to hype up this communicative expansion, and it features Titus beforehand and halfway arsenic helium accepts his caller occupation rubric and what helium calls his “impossible mission.” He’s had an eye-catching glow up since we past saw him, and helium has a chill caller exemplary for usage successful the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop crippled to boot. Titus is joined by friends his fans volition cognize well: Ancient Gadriel from Space Marine 2, and Veteran Sergeant Metaurus from Secret Level (he lives!).

500 Worlds: Titus is the sanction for the adjacent large communicative enlargement for Warhammer 40,000. According to a station connected Warhammer Community, that includes a acceptable of 4 books that volition archer the communicative of the Ultramarian Reclamation and the embattled Vespator Front, wherever Titus and the Ultramarines Second Company "are locked successful a hopeless conflict against a Necron unit rife with the Destroyer curse."

This is simply a large infinitesimal for Titus but besides the Space Marine video crippled franchise. It is grounds of the value of the quality to Warhammer 40,000, and the seismic interaction Space Marine 2 has had connected the setting.

Speaking to IGN astatine gamescom 2025, Tim Willits, improvement main astatine Saber Interactive, said Space Marine 2’s popularity had opened the doorway to the grimdark Warhammer 40,000 mounting for an service of caller fans who weren't needfully clued up astir the intricacies of the universe.

“I heard that tons of radical present deliberation that Thousand Sons are the lone Chaos faction due to the fact that that's what we had successful the game,” Willits said, reflecting connected Space Marine 2’s archetypal year.

“And truthful radical are like, ‘Oh, I conjecture Thousand Sons, they're Chaos.’ It's like, ‘Actually nary it's not.’ They're really conscionable a tiny faction. But radical are conscionable like, ‘That's the 1 I played against.’”

This presumption astir Chaos extends to the Space Marines themselves. The Ultramaines — the section utilized by Games Workshop itself erstwhile introducing newcomers to the tabletop via starter sets — are the protagonists of the Space Marine 2 campaign, though galore different factions are disposable to play arsenic successful the PvE and PvP modes.

“People person assumptions astir the Warhammer 40,000 beingness that are not correct,” Willits continued. “Like Thousand Sons being the lone Chaos faction. That is benignant of humorous. And like, ‘Oh Space Marines are lone blue!’ That has been rather humorous to beryllium honest, which is bully for us.”

One of the large questions going into the already confirmed Space Marine 3 is whether Saber volition task beyond the Ultramarines and the Thousand Sons successful presumption of the adjacent campaign. The communicative seems to acceptable up the summation of the Necrons, which astatine this constituent astir apt wouldn't travel arsenic overmuch of a astonishment for Space Marine 3. But could different Space Marine chapters besides appear? Perhaps different Chaos factions, too? We asked Willits astir Space Marine 3, but helium remained tight-lipped.

But present Titus is firmly backmost successful the fold, we person to wonder, what does the overly suspicious Chaplain Leandros think? He spent beauteous overmuch the entirety of Space Marine 2 threatening to extremity mediocre Titus astatine the archetypal motion of corruption, and adjacent aft Titus’ heroics, a commendation from Chapter Master Marneus Calgar, and what immoderate deliberation was a connection of encouragement from the Emperor himself, Leandros remained unconvinced. If Titus manages to implicit this intolerable task and support the 500 worlds, volition helium yet triumph Leandros over? Somehow I uncertainty it.

All of this astir apt feeds into Space Marine 3 successful immoderate way. Assuming Space Marine 3 picks up aft the events of 500 Worlds, we whitethorn good spot Titus pb armies into battle, alternatively than a azygous squad.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].