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Thanks for the images, the second one in particular has a nice feral feel to it.

I gotta agree with H.B.M.C. On this one. Even if it *were* techno-heresy to equip a knight with dual whatever, your average Imperial commander isn't going to realize it, and even in the off chance they did they probably wouldn't even care. Things like that often get overlooked if it meant saving a world/system/sector, in particular thinking of things like the LR Crusader and the Storm Raven which were both put into use before sanction was granted and no punishment was given because of said use without sanction, and that was by the Mechanicus who are the craziest of all the tech wizards!

Knight houses also probably aren't going around handing out pamphlets entitled "the laws and traditions governing our most noble household" to ensure people know when to hold them accountable. I can totally see free blades and even non-Mechanicus aligned houses doubling whatever they pleased with very, very few people being the wiser and even fewer people caring, particularly now that, you know, the sky has split in half.

I didn't see this on the previous pages (may have just missed it) but are these new datasheets REPLACING the Renegade Knight, or is that still going to be an option?
I mean, I'm not sure why you'd want to still use the Renegade Knight since all the Chaos ones appear to have the same options plus more strats and relics, but it would be weird it the Codex doesn't specifically address Renegade

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 Galef wrote:
I didn't see this on the previous pages (may have just missed it) but are these new datasheets REPLACING the Renegade Knight, or is that still going to be an option?

My copy arrived today...

The Knight Despoiler is the new Renegade Knight - the datasheet is identical.

All Renegade Knights are still valid in this codex. The only difference is the unit names have changed and there are now additional units, strats, traits, artefacts and ambition rules.

I'll be continuing to run my Renegade Knights list as Infernal Household, but my Warlord's now going to have the Tzeentchian Pyrohelm artefact and the Warp-Haunted Hull trait. Who doesn't want a psi-knight?

 Brother Castor wrote:

 Galef wrote:
I didn't see this on the previous pages (may have just missed it) but are these new datasheets REPLACING the Renegade Knight, or is that still going to be an option?

My copy arrived today...

The Knight Despoiler is the new Renegade Knight - the datasheet is identical.

All Renegade Knights are still valid in this codex. The only difference is the unit names have changed and there are now additional units, strats, traits, artefacts and ambition rules.

I'll be continuing to run my Renegade Knights list as Infernal Household, but my Warlord's now going to have the Tzeentchian Pyrohelm artefact and the Warp-Haunted Hull trait. Who doesn't want a psi-knight?

Thanx. It would still be odd if GW doesn't somehow remove the Renegade Knight since it's now redundant. It would be a way to have 4-6 of the same Knight under the Ro3 since DESPOILER and RENEGADE are not the same datasheet, even though they totally are.
Not really a big deal at all, just...odd

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 Brother Castor wrote:

 Galef wrote:
I didn't see this on the previous pages (may have just missed it) but are these new datasheets REPLACING the Renegade Knight, or is that still going to be an option?

My copy arrived today...

The Knight Despoiler is the new Renegade Knight - the datasheet is identical.

All Renegade Knights are still valid in this codex. The only difference is the unit names have changed and there are now additional units, strats, traits, artefacts and ambition rules.

I'll be continuing to run my Renegade Knights list as Infernal Household, but my Warlord's now going to have the Tzeentchian Pyrohelm artefact and the Warp-Haunted Hull trait. Who doesn't want a psi-knight?

That would be a psight to see!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
I really like the new kit, the modularity with the loyalist one is great. Just a few bits from it really help to make the Imperial Knight suitably Chaotic:

Spoiler:

And with the legs and torso swapped around

Thanks for the pics! How do they compare height-wise? Looks like the chaos one is squatter, is that true? Would it be possible to get a comparison pic?

Those Chaos Knights look great. I'm so jealous that the Chaos Knights got new legs. The monopose legs are definitely the biggest weakness of the Questoris kit.

Sorry if this has already been answered - are the new legs more poseable?

They are not:

For the folks who'd like a print of the codex cover art on their walls: https://warhammerart.com/shop/warhammer-40000/chaos-marines/chaos-knight-codex-cover-art-2019/