Do you feel that? The trembling earth means Codex: Imperial Knights and Codex: Chaos Knights are only just around the corner, and they’re exciting books even if you don’t have a Knight Lance of your own waiting in the wings. That’s because you can take their dark psychic powers and upgraded weapons on tour with your Imperium and Chaos armies using the new Wandering Hero and Fallen Hero abilities.
Freeblades and Dreadblades have a tendency to turn up unannounced, tearing across the battlefield according to their own whims before departing just as suddenly. Luckily, they’re so used to going it alone that they don’t interrupt the rest of your army-wide abilities.
Many of these abilities, such as the Space Marines’ Combat Doctrines and Adeptus Mechanicus’ Canticles of the Omnissiah, are only active when your entire force is picked from the same faction. However, AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM or AGENTS OF CHAOS can often sidestep this restriction, so your Knight can join the fun.
This gives many factions the option of taking a giant armoured killing machine alongside their regular units. We’ve pulled together some of our favourite ways of using Knights in other armies.
The Big Hitter
Few factions have as much raw damage output as Knights, be it with colossal cannons or earth-shattering close combat weapons. If the enemy deploys voracious space monsters or shards of an angry god, respond in kind with the Damage 6 chainswords their mothers warned them about.
The Psychic Storm
Many Imperial armies know the value of bringing a psychic Inquisitor along for the ride, but now Chaos warbands can opt for something much bigger. You can even add the Knight Abominant to your Khornate forces, which would probably send them into a frothing rage, but then what doesn’t?
A Pack of Dogs
Did you know that Armigers and War Dogs get the Objective Secured ability in all-Knights Detachments? A unit of three even counts as a single Freeblade, so you can add the new, immensely versatile War Dogs or chain-cleaver-toting Warglaives and muscle your opponent off critical objectives.
Codex: Imperial Knights and Codex: Chaos Knights are nearly here, along with the awesome Chaos Knights Army Set. Stay tuned to Warhammer Community to find out when you can pre-order yours, and sign up to the newsletter for an express delivery of the latest news and reveals.
* These Knights have, for reasons of their own, left their Noble House and struck out into the galaxy as wandering mercenaries.