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Hi there, so the new knight codex came out and since i dislike the look of the gw knights ive got hold of a forgeworld Knight lancer. Im aware that many rules in the new code are excluding the forgeworld knights , and since i mainly play with a relaxed gaming group who dont mind, will treat it as being able to benefit from household traditions, stratagems, warlord traits and relics. I am therefore looking for advice on what relics, stratagems household etc to give it, and how to use it effectively on the table. I will be running it with Mechanicus lead by cawl. Thanks

Make it a freeblade. I'd personally go with rolling for the burden and pick either last of their line or peerless warrior. Spend a CP on Exalted Court to give it a WL trait. Seneschal and Landstrider are great for the Lancer. If you have a bunch of CP to burn on a relic too then Mark of Omnissiah or Armour of Sainted Ion. Just make sure to set the allegiance to Questor Mechanicus so it can benefit from that "everyone gets canticles" stratagem.

Knight House Terryn.

Give it the warlord trait of advance and charge +2 inches.

Advance with its 3d6 +2", dropping the lowest because Terryn.

Use the charge after advancing strategem,

declare a charge on multiple units with 3d6+2" drop the lowest.

Use the House Terryn fight twice strategem.

First Turn multi-charge win.

To qualify it will be my warlord and run with 2 armigers to get the character benefit

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
Knight House Terryn.

Give it the warlord trait of advance and charge +2 inches.

Advance with its 3d6 +2", dropping the lowest because Terryn.

Use the charge after advancing strategem,

declare a charge on multiple units with 3d6+2" drop the lowest.

Use the House Terryn fight twice strategem.

First Turn multi-charge win.

Pretty much this. When I saw the house Terryn household rule and the strat for charging after advancing, the cerastus knights were literally the first things that came to my mind. If you really don't want it to be killed on the first turn in case you don't go first, see below for my alternate take.

The +2 to advance and charge rolls may be overkill when it already has a base move of 14" and is rolling 3d6 and dropping the lowest for charges and advances using house Terryn rule. I would personally take ion bulwark so that it has a base 4+ invul in both melee and shooting, with the shooting invul save buffable to 3+ with ion bulwark. For Extra lulz, throw on the armor of the sainted ion so he has a 2+/3++ (with strat) against shooting, and a 2+/4++ in melee. That will be ONE TOUGH knight to kill without spamming tons of mortal wounds.

"I would personally take ion bulwark so that it has a base 4+ invul in both melee and shooting, with the shooting invul save buffable to 3+ with ion bulwark." - Absolutely 100% this. 3++ is evil, and far outweighs a few extra inches in most games.