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It feels hard to make decent lists at 1K with all the objectives. Any tips?

It's easier to give advice based on what you have available rather than potentially telling you to go out and buy (currently out of stock) Forgeworld models.

SC on bike Auric Aquilis, Superior Creation, Indomitable Constitution

2x 5 man CG squad with 3 shield, 2 spear, Misericordias to fill points

Telemon w/ Iliastus and fist

At 1,000 points the secondaries choices are difficult but I think I prefer Domination & While we Stand we Fight. The third secondary is really down to the mission and your opponents list.

Try to only give your opponent one really good target a turn so you can use all your defensive stratagems and waste their shooting.

Disclaimer... I'm not super competitive but I like how this plays.

my advice for knights is dont bring knights to 1k games. Guaranteed nobody will have fun. Maybe if it's one knight and like 3 armiger class, maybe.

For custodes at 1k, I'd go a patrol with 1 squad of guard, a character on bike and a squad of bikes and see if I can get that in 1k.

the_scotsman wrote:
my advice for knights is dont bring knights to 1k games. Guaranteed nobody will have fun. Maybe if it's one knight and like 3 armiger class, maybe.

This is a consequence of the Lanchester square law.
At small pt level, its hard to remove tough units.

Ironically you can't actually win at 1k with Pure big knights anyway not to mention they not making a legal army.

Knight's even pure are still more fun than playing New codex marines for most armies.

Esentially to conpete on objectives you'll need mostly Armiger, not a massive fan of the Helverin personally.
1 big knight probably Preceptor or crusader at most and the rest in warglaives or Moriax is the best Knight's can bring but you need the board presence the armigers give badly.

That fundamentally doesn't change much even at 2k due to the need to cover multiple objectives, you're rarely going to have more than 2 maybe 3 large knights in the current missions.