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While reading Grey Knights, I was surprised when the Allking's army charged the Grey Knights and Alaric thought something about GKs being brought down by sheer numbers. When last I looked, Astartes in Power armour is worth at least a thousand guardsmen each. Shouldn't the force of GKs be able to slaughter a pre-gunpowder army without breaking a sweat, let alone getting worried?

WARORK93 wrote:a SM may be worth a thousand guardsmen, but 10,000 at one time all charging and chaos pumped?

A bolter only goes so fast.....

They weren't guardsmen, they were medieval knights, spearmen, archers and swordsmen, with a small amount of them riding giant lizards. Furthermore, this was the "normal" army, so they weren't chaos pumped. While I can agree that the lizards could be dangerous to the GKs, I just can't see how swords and spears are supposed to pierce power armour, let alone TDA.

wizard12 wrote:

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

WARORK93 wrote:a SM may be worth a thousand guardsmen, but 10,000 at one time all charging and chaos pumped?

A bolter only goes so fast.....

They weren't guardsmen, they were medieval knights, spearmen, archers and swordsmen, with a small amount of them riding giant lizards. Furthermore, this was the "normal" army, so they weren't chaos pumped. While I can agree that the lizards could be dangerous to the GKs, I just can't see how swords and spears are supposed to pierce power armour, let alone TDA.

I think its just because the GK's and Alaric have some seriously bad luck.

Also, I'm pretty sure the enemy was tainted with chaos considering their temple had just blown up into a massive warp rift (IIRC)

IIRC, as I've been in a reading frenzy, only the Allking's household guard were directly tainted by chaos, giving them useful additions such as eyes in their stomachs, extra limbs etc.

Meh, I find worrying about everyone getting killed while you have 5 terminators a bit too much (not to mention the Thunderhawks, WTF were they doing staying on the ground?).

On to my next question:

How can a Canoness of the Adepta Sororita NOT know that the Grey Knights work for the Inquisition? Sure, they're super-secret and all that stuff, but you'd imagine that someone as high as a Canoness should know that they're on the same side...

Not reading through your posts, but yes, those are the problems I see, as I haven't read the rest yet!