Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

New knight and datacards from Atia at B&C

Thanks, Wilson

Edit: Your first link doesnt work, this one is better

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

Sploosh.

 Kanluwen wrote:
If one of those Knights is not a Thunderstrike Gauntlet equipped Knight painted green with purple leg plating, you will not live up to your forum name Hulksmash...

That'll be a special for fun model with 2 gauntlets painted correctly and no guns. It'll be amazing

Assuming the existing two knights can take the carapace mounted weapons I foresee a booming 3rd party aftermarket for them.

The new chaingun is better than the castigator - 36", Heavy 12, S6, AP3 vs. 36" Heavy 8, S7, SP3. Hopefully FW will bring theirs in line with some updated rules.

Actually they're pretty equal since the Castigator is twin-linked. That said the Castigator doesn't have other guns so he can shoot one target and charge another so the Crusader is going to make it sad unless it's absurdly costed.

And less than half a month after the 'Holy crap, the Eldar codex had a short lifespan' a new champion was crowned!

Oh wow, that gatling cannon is boss, I am so swapping out my Cerastus for one of those, especially seeing as it has more guns on it than the FW suit.

Added pictures to OP.

Juicy. Need to get me some knights. They've been on my purchase list for a while. Slightly disappointed that there's no quake cannon. The fist makes up for it though. Now, looking at you Forgeworld - make a Knight Castellan with a Quake Cannon!

That is an amazing rule.....

Well I'm glad to see that this kit comes with at least one new faceplate for our knights. Though overall, I'm somewhat disappointed... They took the Knight Warden and Crusader, two very interesting and unique Knights in Epic, and then just turned them into slight variations of the other Quetsoris knights. I guess the Crusader will do a lot of ranged damage, but it's nothing compared to the beast that could have been.

Then again, I suppose we have Forge World who can make some new and interesting knights. Maybe they can keep giving us the variety we'd like.

Oh look, Larry Vela made up a bunch of crap for his rumors. Big surprise, no quake cannon.

The new options have me sold on getting one of these. The Pew Pew version looks badass. But... hurling... it's so awesome.

So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

Hurl reminds me of the old tractor kannon of the orks.

and on a personal note aaaaagggghhhh more b+×@#$¥ knights. (If you havent guessed i dont do imperial armys.)

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

I'm guessing there might be model specific rules for the launcher. Like 'stand still and fire at the sky'.

 pretre wrote:
Oh look, Larry Vela made up a bunch of crap for his rumors. Big surprise, no quake cannon.

What?!! You mean he made a bunch of plausible sounding guesses based on old fluff, models and whatever he pulled out of his backside?

Inconceivable!

 Azreal13 wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Oh look, Larry Vela made up a bunch of crap for his rumors. Big surprise, no quake cannon.

What?!! You mean he made a bunch of plausible sounding guesses based on old fluff, models and whatever he pulled out of his backside?

Inconceivable!

I know. At least Natfka can claim he was duped and he isn't a monger (even if he is). Vela is pretty obvious though.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

Indeed.


I can't work out GW here at all.

The CSM units in the Khorne daemonkin book don't -- IIRC -- have the option to buy flakk missiles, so you're "stuck" with FMC, 'drakes and Soulgrinders etc as AA.

One wondered if this was perhaps the start of a trend...
.. but the Eldar seem to have AA missile options still ...?

By my guess this has been planned all along by GW. In building my Knights I always wondered what that hole in the top of the carapace is...and now I know heh. Hopefully this will allow us to add some of these options to our existing Knights. I am kinda disapointed however that the Knight codex I originally got was invalidated about a month after its release and now is totally worthless about a year later...sad panda here...

I think this ones not been posted yet



via adeptus astartes on facebook

 reds8n wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

Indeed.


I can't work out GW here at all.

The CSM units in the Khorne daemonkin book don't -- IIRC -- have the option to buy flakk missiles, so you're "stuck" with FMC, 'drakes and Soulgrinders etc as AA.

One wondered if this was perhaps the start of a trend...
.. but the Eldar seem to have AA missile options still ...?

Better yet the Eldar AA missile option is -FREE- on all EMLs.

I'm seriously baffled by the decision to rerelease knights right after the Eldar gakstorm.

Hey guys, let's redo this army. That will cost a minimum of £300 to start up. And is entirely reliant on vehicles.

In a meta where we just introduced Strength D spam.

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

 reds8n wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

Indeed.


I can't work out GW here at all.

The CSM units in the Khorne daemonkin book don't -- IIRC -- have the option to but flakk missiles, so you're "stuck" with FMC, 'drakes and Soulgrinders etc as AA.

One wondered if this was perhaps the start of a trend...
.. but the Eldar seem to have AA missile options still ...?

Better yet the Eldar AA missile option is -FREE- on all EMLs.

I'm seriously baffled by the decision to rerelease knights right after the Eldar gakstorm.

Hey guys, let's redo this army. That will cost a minimum of £300 to start up. And is entirely reliant on vehicles.

In a meta where we just introduced Strength D spam.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only apocalypse 40k.

I like the new weapon load-outs and head, they all look nice. I do hope that the new kit doesn't just tack an extra sprue to the old box so they can raise the price to $175+, it would be nicer if it was like the Leman Russ and there were two kit variants (and maybe you could buy the other sprue for an upcharge).

And it looks like we'll be getting a new one-model codex at $40, which should hopefully alleviate the fact that the previous $50 one was invalidated in the fastest time ever!

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

 reds8n wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

Indeed.


I can't work out GW here at all.

The CSM units in the Khorne daemonkin book don't -- IIRC -- have the option to but flakk missiles, so you're "stuck" with FMC, 'drakes and Soulgrinders etc as AA.

One wondered if this was perhaps the start of a trend...
.. but the Eldar seem to have AA missile options still ...?

Better yet the Eldar AA missile option is -FREE- on all EMLs.

I'm seriously baffled by the decision to rerelease knights right after the Eldar gakstorm.

Hey guys, let's redo this army. That will cost a minimum of £300 to start up. And is entirely reliant on vehicles.

In a meta where we just introduced Strength D spam.

And not put a single Strength D ranged weapon to boot...

via adeptus astartes on facebook


Automatically Appended Next Post:
and I guess this is not knights, but you could use them to paint the knights (if you can't get hold of better)

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

Did you miss the Icarus?
Edit: Nvm that is the one you are referring to.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

 reds8n wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
So...an autocannon is the extent of the AA the Knights get? Not even an option for flakk missiles in that missile launcher? Seems kind of lame to me.

Indeed.


I can't work out GW here at all.

The CSM units in the Khorne daemonkin book don't -- IIRC -- have the option to but flakk missiles, so you're "stuck" with FMC, 'drakes and Soulgrinders etc as AA.

One wondered if this was perhaps the start of a trend...
.. but the Eldar seem to have AA missile options still ...?

Better yet the Eldar AA missile option is -FREE- on all EMLs.

I'm seriously baffled by the decision to rerelease knights right after the Eldar gakstorm.

Hey guys, let's redo this army. That will cost a minimum of £300 to start up. And is entirely reliant on vehicles.

In a meta where we just introduced Strength D spam.

And not put a single Strength D ranged weapon to boot...

I laughed here. I really did.

Eldar pretty much flipped the table. The codex before them? Yeah, melee I1 SD on a scary monster. Woo. It's one model and will become a fire sink.

The codex after? No SD on great big vehicles.

Eldar? A Standard CAD that can field 10 S-D packing units from the word go.

Wonder if Knights will get any sort of Anti-D defense. If not then this really is the sloppiest release pattern. Shoulda brought them out BEFORE SD spamdar.