While it’s nice to have the option of oaths, I think we’ll also see players build their armies to go for one oath or the other. For example I think the Dominus knights both really want to have the rerolls from Lay Low the Tyrant, for the whereas a melee-focused army with a lot of Gallants, Warglaives and so on will get more use out of Reclaim the Realm. Of course, it may turn out to be more useful to have the flexibility of both options rather than going heavily for a melee or shooting approach. Bondsman Abilities You have been trained to resist the manipulations of fiends, and your Hellknight discipline makes you difficult to influence. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saves against mental effects that specifically improve your attitude and to your Will DC against someone Coercing you, Demoralizing you, Making an Impression on you, or Making a Request of you. To carry all your friends you can take a Triaros Armoured Conveyor, a front armour 14 tank with a capacity of twenty two and a whopping five Hull Points. Oh, and a freakin’ flare shield in case it wasn’t tough enough. This is all balanced out by the tank being AV 12 on the side and about as long as the Tour De France. These are remarkably heavily armed for a dedicated transport, and it’s certainly plausible to run these as an armoured fist. These strict teachers can also expound – at length – on the importance of the Code Chivalric . A Battle-forged army will hit the table wielding the righteous power of two Oaths – with The Warrior’s Hope , you can throw a surprise test and ask students to recite a third ! These high-status Nobles gain the EXALTED COURT keyword, and the ability to use their Bondsman abilities an extra time every turn. Look to your lords!

There are two key ways to field Knights: as their own army or as freeblades (one titanic or three armigers) accompanying another Imperial army. While the Standard Template Construct databases for some classes of Knight have been lost over the millennia, several remain in widespread use. Thus, while the mainstay of most Knight houses is the Questoris-class Knight chassis, heavy fire support is offered by the hulking Dominus-class engines, while scouting and raiding duties often fall to the lighter Armiger-class Knights. Tech-Priest Auxilia is a neat little unit, a squad of 1-3 Tech-Priests accompanied by 4-10 Servo-automata (Servitors). The most annoying thing about this unit is that you can’t take Tech-Priests without the servo-automata, so you can’t just bang down a Mechanicus Enginseer as a cheap and fun option. Their primary purpose is Battlesmith, but you must upgrade the unit with one of three Techno-arcana, the baby version of what the Archmagos can have. For some reason Archmagos Draykavac and Anacharis Scoria have their profiles in the Persona Schismata section, rather than in the core list. Since they’re HQs, we’re including them here, noting that they’re both Traitors. Bondsmen abilities are a system of battlefield patronage – or “domineering neural implants”, depending on how you want to look at it – in which fully-fledged Knights command the lowlier combat walkers. Each variety of QUESTORIS-CLASS Knight has its own Bondsman ability,* allowing it to direct a nearby ARMIGER-CLASS ally toward specific tasks.

The largest and among the most destructive types of Imperial Knights, they are near the size of a Scout Titan. Among the oldest patterns of Imperial Knight. The Cerastus are faster and more heavily protected, but a far rarer sight on the battlefield.

Preceptor - Technological experts who have learned from the Sacristans. Besides having a deeper bond between man and machine, in battle they can operate complex augury and auspex equipment and serve as tactical coordination and battlefield communication specialists. [17] Ursarax sadly struggle to punch above their weight, with a less impressive Feel No Pain than you’d hope and worse Strength 4. That makes the power fists the optimum choice for smashing, and they’ll certainly do work against tough enemies with them… if they survive to get those hits in.Take the Gatekeeper – an ancient, traditional station for those who hold down the fort on a Knight World. While this doughty Knight is defending your deployment zone, attempts to wound it will always fail on an unmodified roll of 1-3 – and their Bondsman ability can increase the Toughness of any squires tasked with holding objectives, such as the Armiger Warglaives. Once you move past this into the larger titans you’re moving out of “you might bring this to a game” and into “this is for a special event or weekender” and honestly does it matter if they’re good or not? All of them are hugely tough, absurdly killy, and utterly impractical for anything approaching a normal game. If you are playing a game big enough to bring a Warlord then you probably don’t care overly about tight game balance, and just want it to be huge stompy and kill things – it’ll definitely do that. Your resin toddler will have a great time. Questoris Knight Households Engage On All Fronts: Similar to Recon for 8th ed ITC scoring. Score 2 points if you have units wholly within 3 different quarters of the battlefield (6″ away from the center) at the end of your turn, if you have units wholly within all 4 quarters score 3 points instead. Fitting a Knight wholly into a quarter is kind of a pain in the ass, but can be achieved. However again without having some souped units, being in all 4 quarters, especially for multiple turns, is going to be rough. Getting some points is easy, but maxing is going to be hard, if not impossible. (OK.)