KS0048 - House Taydon, Vassal House of Legio Phasma

Banner Name: Interdiction Screen Hφαιστος 
Banner Lead: Knight Preceptor Dijiana Andreeva

Knight Preceptor: Questoris Knight Errant Hφαιστος-4; Thermal Cannon, Melta gun, & Reaper Chainsword.
Armiger Squire: Armiger Warglaive Λύκαστος-103; Melta Lance, Meltagun, & Reaper Chainblade.

Armiger Squire: Armiger Warglaive Παρράσιος-95; Melta Lance, Meltagun, & Reaper Chainblade.

Knight House: House Taydon, Vassal House of Legio Phasma 
Titan Allies: Warlord (1912); Mars Warhound (767)
Owner: Chris W.
Location: Belgium 

Comments: As a Legio Vassal, the Knight Suits of House Taydon are considered little more than expendable assets. The number after the "Grekian" name represents the current iteration of that name; close ties to the Forge World of Ulan Hûda ensure the House and Legio never want for additional armour suits.

 

Interdiction Screen Hφαιστος move ahead of Scout Class Titans, ensuring lesser threats to the God-Machines are neutralised. The Armigers of such Interdiction Screens vie for glory, seeking the most dangerous prey to hunt. The reasons for this are twofold: firstly they seem to demonstrate their loyalty to House and Legio, but secondly any such action that draws the notice of Legio Princeps offers a chance of promotion to full Knight Pilot status. However, the majority of these Armiger Squires end up dead before their time; their Legio masters unaware and uncaring as long as the God-Machines remain unharmed.

Photos:

The House Taydon Engines

Fantastic icons

Terrified Guardsman!

Very chaotic protrusions

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Imperial Armour Compendium - Knights

Welcome, Scions, as we continue our coverage of the new Imperial Armour Compendium coming out soon from Forge World.  Having hit the Titans of the Imperium of Makind and the forces of Chaos, followed by the Eldar, we’re going to a smaller chassis of war engine today: the Knights.

We’ll get an easy one out of the way first.  Imperial Knights and Chaos Knights are exactly the same in profile, weapon stats, and options.  No god dedications, no inspirational attributes, nothing different but the relevant keywords.  With that said, we’ll look at the Knights in general and point out things of particular note.

Stats

The first thing that jumps out is that the wounds counts have not changed from 8^th edition and are very much in line with the standard GW Knights (which are in the 24-28 wound range depending on class).  We can take this as a sign that Knights won’t be receiving any kind of wounds boost when their new codex drops since the Imperial Armour Knights stayed at their current levels.

In terms of the general stat line, nothing has really changed on these guys other than some small tweaks (like the Cerastus chassis losing a single wound).  As far as your Forge World Knights go, it’s almost completely business as usual.

However, it would seem that the changes to points and Power Levels were somewhat mixed.  A few Knights received a minor drop while many remained the same.  A few, notably in the Cerastus chassis (but not all), increased but not to a large degree like we saw in the later days of 8^th edition or when 9^th first came out.

Weapons

We’re going to rifle through these really quickly and hit on the high points since there are so many weapons:

• The Asterius Volkite Culverin loses its AP and has changes to how it deals extra wounds.
• Lancer and Castigator weapons remain unchanged.
• Acherons gain a new profile for their chainfist, able to keep the original attack profile or use a sweep like the Armiger Warglaives.
• Hekaton Siege Claws also gained the new Smash profile while the Crush profile retains the previous edition’s stats, while the Atrapos does the same with Focus and Sweep modes, respectively, on the Atrapos Lascutter.  We’re sensing a theme here for the melee options.
• Helios Defence Missiles on the Porphyrion now suffer a penalty against non-aircraft but gain the bonus against them.  Interestingly, the Ironstorm Missile Pod profile is missing.
• Titanic Feet as an attack profile seem to have been removed.

Final Thoughts

Realistically, all the Knights got were minor tweaks.  Those Knights with melee options generally happened to get a second profile designed to help them deal with hordes while most ranged weapons were left untouched.  Coupled with the lack of changes to almost all stats and a rollercoaster of changes to points and Power Level, this really does feel like nothing more than a rebalance for them.  However, Knights are powerful in smaller games and so we didn’t expect to see anything earth-shattering here.

KS0028 - Faces of Chaos, House Of Skulls

Banner Name: Faces of Chaos

Knight Seneschal: K´ha Ghutan, a Daemon, who took over the chassis of the Renegade Knight "Face of Chaos“
Knight Scion: Sh'o Rullat, Daemon, Renegade Knight "Blood“

*Both formerly Knights are fully magnetized, so all possible Renegade Knight loadouts are possible.

Knight Scion: Renegade Knight Dominus, Castellan loadout "Skulls"
Knight Scion: Renegade Knight Dominus, Valiant loadout "Khorne“
Knight Scion: Renegade Armiger Helverin "Addicted to Blood“, two Armiger auto cannon
Knight Scion: Renegade Armiger Helverin "Addicted to Skulls“, two Armiger auto cannon
Knight Scion: Renegade Armiger Warglaive "Slave of Khorne“, thermal spear, reaper chain cleaver
Knight Scion: Renegade Armiger Warglaive "Bloodglaive“, thermal spear, reaper chain cleaver
Knight Scion: Chaos Knight Desecrator "Kaligius the Devil“
Knight Scion: Chaos Knight Acastus Porphyrion "Kohor“
Knight Seneshal: Kha Bash - Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer
Knight Scion: Kha Shorn - Chaos Cerastus Knight Castigator
Knight Scion: Kha Mong - Chaos Cerastus Knight Archeron
Knight Scion: Chaos Knight Rampager "Moghera"
Titan Allies: Legio Sanguis, Warlord Titan (000779), Chaos Reaver Titan (0002377), Chaos Warhound Titan (005718), Chaos Warbringer Titan (000239)

Owner: Andy J.
Location: Starnberg, Germany
Comments: House of Skulls is a renegade house, who’s Knights turned to chaos within centuries. Now they are fighting for the praise of khorne. 

The house is allied to the Titan „Legio Sanguis“ which is in the building phase at the Moment.

House of Skulls and Legio Banguis are allied to a world eater warband named „Eightscarred“.

You can see more pics and making offs in my blog: www.eightscarred.de

Pics of the Knight house: 

House of Skulls got bigger and now consists of three lances now 

Skull Lance: the Firepower lance

This lance consists of the knights which will give fire for the other lance, the blood lance, which will charge into the foes.  

Face of Chaos

Skulls

Kaligus the Devil

Kohor

Addicted to Blood

Addicted to Skulls 

This lance will charge into the enemies and kill them in close combat

Blood

Khorne

Moghera

Slave of Khorne

Bloodglaive

House of Skulls and Legio Sanguis are allied to a world eater warband named „Eightscarred“. 

Cerastus Lance - Blood for the Blood God 

This Lance charges forward, while Shooting with various weapons. When they reach the enemy, the slaughter begins. 

Kha  Bash

Kha Shorn

Kha Mong

The Daemon Engine Support Unit

United with House of Skulls Legio Sanguis is a strong Legio