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I want. I will have two regular Knights, two Armiger Knights, and one of these big guys. That will make for a pretty nice Knight army.

Yeah, too many guns. However, the Machine Spirit of the suit of armour helps the noble with everything, plus nobles are pretty much trained for this.

That said, getting one for completion sake, though I shudder to think just how expensive this one will be points wise. Knights as is right now are already overpriced for what they dish out on the table, so this one will probably be priced well into the realms of "cool model for the cabinet, waste of points for the table"

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
I want. I will have two regular Knights, two Armiger Knights, and one of these big guys. That will make for a pretty nice Knight army.

Make it three Armigers and you net yourself 6 CPs.

So two twin stubbers, a (maybe) RFBC, a new Plasma Cannon, two oversized Hunter Killers, two twin autocannons?

The Autocannons look like turrets, so maybe they are manned by Servitors or Serfs?

Will be interesting to see the rules and fluff.

I'd like to see one of these next to a Paladin for scale purposes.

Looks like my Knight household will be growing by a few models.

I think those are multi-meltas mounted under the shoulders and I hope it's a pair of Hellstrike missiles on the carapace up top, or Skystrike missiles to give it some fly swatting capabilities.

The left arm is an energy weapon, not a battle cannon, so probably a throwback to the old magma(?) cannon or whatever is was called back then.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Cross-posting the Nipple Gun pattern knight from the Adeptacon thread.

Bonus points for the name, Kid_Kyoto.

Until it confirmed Codex: IK, I was actually wondering if this was meant to be a redesign of an Epic Warlord...

The thing that bothers me the most about the model is that the icon on top of the carapace is Mechanicus aligned and not Imperial, as House Terryn is.

The left arm looks rather similar to the Volcano Cannon, particularly the muzzle, I highly doubt it's actually a VC but some weaker variant possibly.

I love it, although personally I'm hoping for a points drop across the board. I've already got 3 Knights at 1500pts, if I could fit 2 of these bad boys into 2k I'd be very happy indeed.

 insaniak wrote:
There's such a thing as 'too many guns'. Given that Knights have a single crewman, that even manages to exceed Repulsor levels of silliness.

More Dakka!

(Sorry - couldn't help myself)

I'd be happy with cheaper weapons myself, as is the rapid-fire battle cannon is horrendously overpriced for what it does.

did no one bothered to notice the similarity of the leg section to the current IK ... this could mean interchangeable legs!!!! ... no more single leg pose IK!!!

pd: ... if only broadsides had this ;(

You'd have to swap out the hip section as well to swap legs, but they look about the same size and hopefully the armoured plates have the same attachment points as the original Knight kit.

So, this Knight looks exactly how i imagine a lone Freeblade would look.

A lone Knight of nothing but pure destruction, wandering the Imperium bringing hell to all of its enemies!

My only concern is that it'll probably be pushing 650 points plus.

'Tis beauty!

I love it.

With a little luck the unique weapon options may already be baked into the cost of the suit itself, like some Guard tanks out there paying 0 points for their main weapon.

I'm hopeful we'll see some points drops in the new codex, I would not be happy if the new Knight is similar points to the Porphyrion @ 856 points.

That said I still plan on picking up 3 or 4 of the bigger Knight and seemingly the variants for the smaller Knight are confirmed I'll be getting another 4 of the new variant to go with the 4 I already have on order. Should take my Knight household up to 30 knights.

I wonder if we will see Knight Houses with their own special rules like the SM chapters? This approach is pretty standard for the known/released codexes so far.

Shoulder turrets are a little too Warmachine for my liking. They don't look like they'd work (I know I know, 40k is known for such daftness from a strictly technical point of view), instead appearing to be 'barrels on a bin'.

Perhaps that bit will grow on me. I certainly really like the rest of it!

 Looky Likey wrote:
I wonder if we will see Knight Houses with their own special rules like the SM chapters? This approach is pretty standard for the known/released codexes so far.

To quote the article again:

Codex: Imperial Knights features the rules for the new Knight units alongside rules for Knightly Households, Freeblades, Stratagems and all the great stuff you’ve come to expect from a modern codex.

So, yes!

 BrookM wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
I wonder if we will see Knight Houses with their own special rules like the SM chapters? This approach is pretty standard for the known/released codexes so far.

To quote the article again:

Codex: Imperial Knights features the rules for the new Knight units alongside rules for Knightly Households, Freeblades, Stratagems and all the great stuff you’ve come to expect from a modern codex.

So, yes!

Ta, I missed that bit! I was focusing on the pictures/video too much.

As for the Houses that will be getting them, my guess is:

House Terryn
House Hawkshroud
House Cadmus
House Griffith
House Raven
House Taranis
House Krast

Those at the very least.

 BrookM wrote:
With a little luck the unique weapon options may already be baked into the cost of the suit itself, like some Guard tanks out there paying 0 points for their main weapon.

That never made any sense to me. If you're going to make everything pay for their weapons, then why make 0 cost weapons?

 BrookM wrote:
As for the Houses that will be getting them, my guess is:

House Terryn
House Hawkshroud
House Cadmus
House Griffith
House Raven
House Taranis
House Krast

Those at the very least.

I’d be VERY surprised if they ended up with 7 Household traits in addition to Freeblade and “standard” options.

Personally, I’m expecting 4 Households and 1 Freeblade set for 5 in total.

I believe the theory is that they can go back and tweak them.

Now, why all compulsory/non optional weapons aren't 0 points, I dunno!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I believe the theory is that they can go back and tweak them.

None of that makes any sense. They could tweak them if they weren't 0 points.

It's just weird to create a system where everything has to pay points for equipment, but then you make some equipment 0. Why create a system and then add things into that system that defeat the purpose of that system.

I would have thought that if a weapon has a non-0 cost, then it must be an optional upgrade for someone in that Codex. Am I wrong? I don't bother with points values, so it's not an area I've studied.

Usually yes, but then why bother with the zero cost items at all? Why even list them?

A Marine comes with a Bolter and Frag Grenades. These cost 0 points because... we had page space to fill?

Too many guns! Looks like a flippin' Great Gargant festooned with that many guns.

Kdash wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
As for the Houses that will be getting them, my guess is:

House Terryn
House Hawkshroud
House Cadmus
House Griffith
House Raven
House Taranis
House Krast

Those at the very least.

I’d be VERY surprised if they ended up with 7 Household traits in addition to Freeblade and “standard” options.

Personally, I’m expecting 4 Households and 1 Freeblade set for 5 in total.

Theres typically been about 7 factions per book, so i would expect three Questor Imperialis, three Mechanicus. and a generic Freeblade one.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Usually yes, but then why bother with the zero cost items at all? Why even list them?

A Marine comes with a Bolter and Frag Grenades. These cost 0 points because... we had page space to fill?

Sake of completeness would be my guess there.