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I have two freeblade knights and I have tried to research it but the search functions give me rather irrelevant results.
My question: can a knight deep-strike? If so, how?
If not, how do they appear out of reserves? (I know you roll dice, but what would the narrative be?)

So far the results I get are "you can deep strike near a knight cyz they're big but killable..." duh dude.

1. No. Read the rules.
2. Entering your table edge from reserves, exactly as every other unit enters the board from reserves. Again, please read the rules. Dakka is not a substitute for a rulebook.

You'd need a scenario special rule or (maybe) a psychic power in order to get an Imperial Knight to deep-strike.

I believe the heavy duty drop stratagem in planetstrike games would allow it too...

Mjkramer8003 wrote:
I have two freeblade knights and I have tried to research it but the search functions give me rather irrelevant results.
My question: can a knight deep-strike? If so, how?
If not, how do they appear out of reserves? (I know you roll dice, but what would the narrative be?)

So far the results I get are "you can deep strike near a knight cyz they're big but killable..." duh dude.

Outside of a special scenario, no, they can't.
As to how they come on from reserves, they walk on from your table edge (or a randomly rolled side edge if you got the outflank trait from the Knight table) - The Narrative being that they just finished killing some other chumps elsewhere or that they just finished powering up and wandered out of their hanger/dropship/fortress and started firing. There are relatively few scenarios where you actually want your IK in reserve however, so I wouldn't expect it to come up that often, much the same way that I can't quite fathom why you'd want one to deepstrike.

Fluffwise, Knights deploy with specially built drop ships from orbital transport(just like Titans). As for why they wouldn't deep strike this way,

Their transport ships would be vulnerable to being shot down(and losing the knight along with it), and the knight is likely vulnerable while its being unloaded. So dropping straight into a hot landing zone is not a smart idea. So they're not going to perform an "amphibious" assault with Knights. They'll follow along after a beachhead has been established by the real assault troops.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Fluffwise, Knights deploy with specially built drop ships from orbital transport(just like Titans). As for why they wouldn't deep strike this way,

Their transport ships would be vulnerable to being shot down(and losing the knight along with it), and the knight is likely vulnerable while its being unloaded. So dropping straight into a hot landing zone is not a smart idea. So they're not going to perform an "amphibious" assault with Knights. They'll follow along after a beachhead has been established by the real assault troops.

in the mobile game Freeblade, The Knight you paly that tags along with the Dark Angles gets Transported in the Vehicle transport Variant Thunderhawk.

But really there is no reason not to have your Knight no the board T1

Video games take liberties with their representations, and that game is no different. Just because it happens in a video game doesn't mean it actually happens.

...Given that the vehicle-transport Thunderhawk in 40k carries two Rhino-chassis tanks or one Land Raider trying to make it haul a Knight seems like a bit of a stretch...

Yeah. Knights are easily twice as massive as a Land Raider, no way is a Thunderhawk carrying one.

The new novel has a Household of Knights arriving into combat in a "Drop Keep", an armed citadel sized drop pod for Knights.

Still means they walk on from the edge.

SJ

 Verviedi wrote:
1. No. Read the rules.
2. Entering your table edge from reserves, exactly as every other unit enters the board from reserves. Again, please read the rules. Dakka is not a substitute for a rulebook.

This.

Strangely, the Knight from Dawn of War 3 seems to Deep Strike into combat at least in one of the trailers.



roughly 0:50 the big knight plummets from the sky in a giant fire ball.

Go figure.

 Engine of War wrote:
Strangely, the Knight from Dawn of War 3 seems to Deep Strike into combat at least in one of the trailers.

Go figure.

But as I said before in another game they have Thunderhawks dropping off knights (where the scale wouldn't work)

I would take EVERYTHING coming from DWIII with a massive grain of salt. We also have backfliping terminators in that game as well, which goes against everything in the lore for them.

 jeffersonian000 wrote:
The new novel has a Household of Knights arriving into combat in a "Drop Keep", an armed citadel sized drop pod for Knights.

Still means they walk on from the edge.

SJ

At least until they release the rules and model for that pod.

 n0t_u wrote:

 jeffersonian000 wrote:
The new novel has a Household of Knights arriving into combat in a "Drop Keep", an armed citadel sized drop pod for Knights.

Still means they walk on from the edge.

SJ

At least until they release the rules and model for that pod.

Well technically speaking an emperor titan also arrives via drop pod as well. I want rules for that. Every flyer takes a grounding test, every non skimmer must roll as if they failed a dangerous terrain check, and all models must act is if they went to ground even if they have rules that state they cant for the next turn.

 Backspacehacker wrote:

 n0t_u wrote:

 jeffersonian000 wrote:
The new novel has a Household of Knights arriving into combat in a "Drop Keep", an armed citadel sized drop pod for Knights.

Still means they walk on from the edge.

SJ

At least until they release the rules and model for that pod.

Well technically speaking an emperor titan also arrives via drop pod as well. I want rules for that. Every flyer takes a grounding test, every non skimmer must roll as if they failed a dangerous terrain check, and all models must act is if they went to ground even if they have rules that state they cant for the next turn.

New RoB tile; an open titan pod in a crater.

It looks like DOW3 has the Knights teleporting into combat. Which I guess is definitely possible, but it wouldn't be the norm.

So... "deepstrike" not the best way to describe it then.

I think the falling from the sky thing is great but I'll stick to doing so at the edge of the table the way reserves enter.
So far this has been a helpful insight.

"The Titans of the Legio Astorum, known as the Warp Runners, are the only god-machines sophisticated enough to teleport straight into battle."
-Skitarii Codex, Crucibles of War, under Lucius.

Knights are smaller than titans, so maybe you can make an argument that they might be more easily teleported into battle?

That would certainly be the base. However teleportation technology on such a scale would still be quite rare. Likely limited to only a few Knight households out of the thousands that exist.

The Legio Astorum titans have likely had modifications built into their designs that facilitate teleportation, so you'd have to have specifically modified Knights to do that.