A Chaos Knight army is one of the most difficult, yet rewarding challenges you’ll ever find painting miniatures, and nothing else in the game plays like it. We have guides to other Warhammer 40k factionsand we recommend you peruse those if you’re totally new to the hobby… but then again, arrogance and hubrisare perfect attitudes for a would-be Chaos Knight commander… Knights Desecrator possess potent mid-to-close range armaments that lend themselves towards dueling enemy war engines or monstrous beasts, or tearing down the foe’s fortifications. Their weapons typically consists of a Thunderstrike Gauntlets, Warpstrike Claws, and Reaper Chainswords alongside a fearsome Laser Destructor. [1a] [2] Chaos Knights are great if you love big, stompy robots and hate the Emperor/ love the Gods of Chaos. They are truly the most elite army, guaranteed to be outnumbered, barring allies or mirror matches. Their impressive statlines and giant weapons give the army a real chance. This happens even when they are badly outnumbered – and they always are! Strengths of the Army To put (molten, tainted) icing on the cake, the Knight Desecrator helps improve the accuracy of your War Dogs. Here’s all the latest on the all the new Chaos Knights rules updates and points changes for Warhammer 40k.

You can’t go as deep on Knights as in Imperium. You need to spend more points on other stuff so they’re not wasted. This tends to take the Knight Tyrant builds off the table. Nothing too complicated here, pretty much just a ~15% hike to anything with Towering and a gun, and slightly more on Canis Rex. That’s certainly going to force some decisions on Knight players – early play has seen a lot of three big Knight lists, but it seems pretty likely that two will now be the norm, and it’ll be interesting to see which ones. Mythic Hero presumably ends up as pretty much an auto-take with fewer Bondsman abilities to hand out, and at the other end of the spectrum it does seem plausible that just going in on one of the bigger threats like a Castellan gets more attractive now that each big Knight is a greater proportion of your army. Chaos Knights are drawn from traitorous Dread Households, each with a unique war culture and army-wide rules, relics, and tactics. In Warhammer 10th edition these don’t currently have any rules. Basically every Infernal Knight should either have an avenger gatling cannon or be a Castigator, and real play experience has generally suggested that the thermal is cheap enough that you always want it over the melee choices, so this is Infernal option 1 – the slightly cheaper one. Unless you’re very confident that there will be a lot of other Knights or T8 vehicles this is probably the safer bet, as it’s 37pts cheaper than the battle cannon option. Avenger/Battle Cannon InfernalsIon Aegis: A Knight Tyrant can grant a a 5++ in a 6″ “wholly within” bubble instead of moving. Imperial ones can do this too. They don’t. Moving on. But you’re here to learn how to magnetize the dude, not talk about how he’s thrown on a sprue. So here’s what you need to do to future-proof this bad boy. Chaos Knights Desecrator Instructions

HQ: Sorcerer in Terminator Armour with Familiar, Force Stave, Inferno Combi-Bolter (Warlord – High Magister), Relic: Dark Matter Crystal FAQ Changes. Several post-Nephilim FAQ changes tweaked the faction. The Stratagem A Long Leash can now be used in either player’s Command phase, while Aura of Corruption got cheaper on War Dogs and more expensive on Tyrant-Class models. The biggest of these however was the adjustment to Storm of Darkness. We all saw this one coming, but having to do the Storm action in your own Morale phase makes it much less brokenly good (though it’s still decent). It’s worth noting with this change you can only ever score 12 points on this secondary since you don’t score at the end of the game. Every Chaos Knight model is a massive investment of money, time and prayers to the dark powers. Start your army with a kit that you want to spend hours with, not what the internet says is the most competitive. As with any other Warhammer 40k unit, be wary: by the time you’ve built it, the meta may have shifted to favour something else. For such murderous butchers it is not enough to simply defeat the foe. They must fell every opposing war engine, blasting and crushing their mechanical targets until nothing but smouldering scrap remains.

Chaos Knight Dreadblades

Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) may take longer to reach you. After seeing this unboxing review, what do you think of how to magnetize the Chaos Knights Desecrator? You can only select the Despair ability if you selected the Despair or Doom ability in the previous battle round. As we saw in the announcement at AdeptiCon , the War Dog Karnivore is a dedicated melee monster, equipped with a reaper chaintalon for sweeping away lesser chaff and a slaughterclaw for crushing hard targets. Unburdened by ammunition stowage, the Karnivore’s impetuous spirit also gives it an extra burst of speed, so it won’t be left languishing in no man’s land. Chaos Knights saw their 9th edition Codex finally release just a month and a half prior to the Nephilim changes, and had just hit competitive play when a wave of major changes hit. As a result of being a very new release, the faction itself wasn’t changed much, but many of the game-wide changes have large impacts on the faction.

First, you’ll want to magnetize the waist and torso. This doesn’t do anything for changing wargear, but it makes your life so much easier if you’re transporting it. The magnets used here were 1/2″ diameter, but that’s only because Rob ran out of the magnets he recommends. Obsession is common amongst the servants of Chaos; amongst the Fallen Nobles who pilot Knights Desecrator it finds expression in a desire to relentlessly annihilate every trace of their enemies. I will note that they only give you the instructions for the Abominant in this box despite giving you all the bits for the other two, but I am sure you can find the instructions for the other builds online if you so desire. Stratagems: There is a lot of utility in the Chaos Knights stratagems, from giving invulnerable saves, to allowing your units to pass through walls.

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Lord of War: Knight Despoiler w/2x Avenger Gatling cannon + Heavy Flamer, Heavy stubber, Dreadblade, Iconoclast Household Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group, or our new Discord server , and make sure you enter the latest monthly giveaway for FREE today! Before the rise of the Imperium of Man, when the first human galactic civilization fell into Long Night,each and every humanworld stood alone, easy prey fordeadly xenos and more sinister things lurking in the dark between stars. Yet throughout this time of suffering, the Imperial Knight Houses stood proud. With any big changes comes a new series of Faction Focus articles and we’re doing the same for Nephilim as we did for Nachmund. In this article we’re talking about Chaos Knights, covering how the faction changed, what it means for playing them, how they’re likely to fare in the new meta. Then we’ll wrap up with a list with some thoughts on playing them. Other than the Moirax, which we’ve already discussed, there’s only really one relevant option coming out of this. The Atropos and Magaera are both sufficiently “fine” that they’ll serve you well in less serious games, but the only option for a big Knight that has top table potential is the Castigator. Infernal Cerastus Knight Castigator

TheChirurgeon: Death Guard can take seven-model Plague Marine units. Honestly, this is kind of nice for allowing them slightly more freedom to create lists and I’ll admit that sometimes 7 models is the right number (though usually it’s the number of warpflamers I want). And it does let you do the odd combo of a 5-man and a 7-man pair of units in a single Rhino with no characters, which sure is a thing you can do. Also, Plagueburst Crawlers are one of the very few sources of Indirect that don’t take a nerf, which is a nice little bit of help, though they’re also still shooting AP-1 indirect guns. It’s pretty clear some kind of balance pass was necessary after the first round of events and so it’s good to see Games Workshop taking this much-needed step. Whether it’s enough is going to be an interesting question, but we’re mostly of the mind that 10th is a pretty fun edition when you move away from some of the listbuilding extremes we’ve seen early on and anything that takes us closer to that environment is a plus. The new volkite gun is great looking, with the right balance of chaos and normal gun for my tastes, although I will mention its coils are a bit more plasma looking then I would normally associate with volkite but that might just be me. As for the other weapons, I am still not totally sold on the posing for the flail, it’s… fine. It looks weird if you have it doing anything but just hanging roughly down, they don’t really have enough force to look good pointing forward and they would have to bend up a bit for that to look natural as well. The tail is slightly following the path of the knights gait and it might be a bit subtle for some, but at least it won’t look too goofy if you build multiple Abominants. Dreadblade are Chaos Knights that walk alone, insane, dishonored, or corrupted to such an extent that even their own traitor kin shun their company. Instead they march to war alongside the other forces of Chaos. Most games will see Chaos Knights players taking Ruthless Tyranny, then supplementing that with Grind Them Down and either a kill secondary or Storm of Darkness. For lists taking an Abominant, Psychic Interrogation and Warp Ritual are also options, though whether they’re a better use of your psychic phase than Winds of the Warp or doing mortal wounds will be a gametime decision, largely based on how readily your opponent can deny your attempts and how badly you need the ability to ignore damage.This list goes hard into swarming the board in obsec bodies and taking advantage of the favor system as much as possible to provide utility to the list. While the Desecrator doesn’t have the durability of the Abominant and is going to be missing The Diamonas, it’s a nice balance of lethality and durability especially since giving it the Veil of Medrenguard means you won’t need to worry about boosting its ion save every turn. While most of the favors here exist to give the list options (like ignoring invulns with the Blood shield or teleporting with Warp Born Stalker), the two most important ones are The Pyrothrone and The Mirror of fate. The Pyrothrone enables you to take the Psychic Interrogation secondary and The Mirror of Fate enables some much needed CP generation. With everything being obsec, you’re going to want to explode out of your deployment zone and get on objective early. Lastly Herpetrax gives the entire list a nice durability boost while also giving you access to the Iconoclast buffs which are very helpful for dealing with Armor of Contempt targets. While Nephilim CP and Secondary objectives changed, the missions themselves changed very little outside of the way CP is added to the army (1 per turn instead of battle round), so strategies in that sense haven’t changed much – Chaos Knights still rely on a war dog-heavy approach to using cover to mask their advance against heavier shooting, then close in with a strong melee punch. Devastating Reach: A large number of words for “you can fight a unit on a ruin”. Fine when it’s relevant if you can remember it exists.