Another option is to switch to Canis Rex who will do truly horrendous things to enemy centerpieces in multiple phases. The caution is that doubling down on efficiency can leave you deprived of abilities to play the mission. Griffith: Is not the most optimal choice but their stratagem Dragonslayer is solid for a Helverin. +1 to wound means you will be wounding most 10 wound+ targets on 3’s instead of 4’s which makes you far more reliable in taking them out. As it stands you’ll have plenty of use for both and there’s not a clear winning on which is better. They’ll both do excellent work. They’re however not invulnerable, and they have some key weaknesses. You’ll see pinning and morale matter a lot more here, and even massed bolter fire can take one down eventually. They’re also a lot more vulnerable to weapons like Missile Launchers, because ap3 is a lot more common than ap2. If you like big stompy robots there are all kinds of mechs of one sort or another available to Imperial, Xenos and even the hated Chaos Knights, which we will not sully this article by discussing (but which we’ll definitely cover elsewhere). Of course, the only honourable option is to ignore all of that nonsense, strap yourself into the Throne Mechanicum of an Imperial Knight and charge it at something. To carry all your friends you can take a Triaros Armoured Conveyor, a front armour 14 tank with a capacity of twenty two and a whopping five Hull Points. Oh, and a freakin’ flare shield in case it wasn’t tough enough. This is all balanced out by the tank being AV 12 on the side and about as long as the Tour De France. These are remarkably heavily armed for a dedicated transport, and it’s certainly plausible to run these as an armoured fist.

armaments of the Knight Warglaive, Helverins are equipped with a pair of Helverin Autocannons which can lay down hundreds of shells per minute. This lets the Knight Helverin widdle down infantry ranks or shred lightly armored vehicles. With Helverins Myrmidax let you take Myrmidon Secutors and Destructors as Troops (but not Line). Your Archmagos gains Bulky (3) and 5 wounds. Finally, you gain Hatred (Everything) and can take a Thanatar Calix as an Avatar of Destruction, giving nearby Myrmidons Line and +1 Wound when determining combat resolution. Knight Baron: The leader of a contingent of Knights with razor-sharp warrior skills. As a sign of status every Baron has a custom-made Knight suit. Most Barons' suits are armed with power lances and rapid-fire battlecannons. [2] Members of the Exalted Court also gain specific abilities according to their station within your household. Let’s take the High Monarch – the loftiest position for any QUESTOR IMPERIALIS WARLORD to hold. Knight Seneschal: A ceremonial role (rather than a specific model of Knight armor) that works closely alongside the ruling Lord of a Knightly House. [7c]The fact that these abilities now affect Questoris Knights makes quite a difference. It’s a simple upgrade to their power, for starters. It means that an efficient build probably brings at least as many Armigers as Questoris Knights, so you can keep these abilities “up”. And it makes Questoris Knights feel more individual. Rather than basically the same hull with only the guns to tell them apart, they will now be good at different stuff. I’ll discuss these abilities when I look at a few datasheets later on. You’ve learned how best to move in heavy armor. When wearing heavy armor, if you meet the Strength requirement, instead of reducing the movement penalty by 5 feet, you reduce the penalty by 10 feet (typically reducing the penalty to 0). If you are a dwarf with the Unburdened Iron feat, increase your Speed by 5 feet.

Bondsman abilities are deadly enough when used by a regular Noble – but they become truly devastating when an Exalted Court marches to war. Battle-forged armies may promote any QUESTORIS-CLASS or DOMINUS-CLASS CHARACTER into a member of an Exalted Court, granting it an array of game-changing abilities to bring to bear on the battlefield.**Knight Castellan: Designed for destroying enemies at long range. Armed with a Volcano Lance and Plasma Decimator on each arm. Its carapace is armed with two Shieldbreaker Missiles or Siegebreaker Cannons as well as two twin- Melta Guns. Even as the Knights Preceptor are conditioning the Armiger pilots, they are also busy assessing their abilities. Most Bondsmen begin piloting from the helm of a Warglaive, for its weapons and role are both relatively straightforward. Those who demonstrate a cool nerve and a marksman's eye are soon recommended by the Knight Preceptor for promotion from the Armiger Warglaive to an Armiger Helverin.

Armiger Warglaives are built for one thing – hunting and destroying vehicles, monsters and any other large target foolish enough to get in their way. Key to this is the thermal spear, a melta weapon that boasts both terrifying range and damage. Points did drop on Canis but they went up on Armiger Chassis making them all an even 150 which is honestly salt in the wound.

Armiger Mastery Guide

I want to do my Knights up like Mortal Kombat characters (so the Valiant would be Scorpion, the Castellan Sub-Zero, etc.), so learning how to paint those should be fun... Bondsman Synergies were broken in this data slate by limiting the effect of the Bondsman ability to only the Armigers and not the Questoris Knight handing it out. This not only reduced efficiency and return on investment but it also crippled Knights that were designed with their Bondsman effect in mind like the Warden or Errant and especially the Castigator You are welcome. Well, assembling Mechs in 40K and painting them is an ordeal. I have to know because I did just that for three IKs and one Ork Stompa. I bought two IKR boxes when they were first available and completed just one model after having bought the box set. Then it took special encouragement to complete the other two in form of the two Pacific Rim movies.

Domination: Score 3 points at the end of your turn if you control more than half the objectives. With most of the missions being 5/6 objectives, this means typically you will need to hold 3 or 4 objectives at the end of your turn. This seems like it is potentially doable in early turns of the game, but will get progressively harder as the game goes on. If you soup in some objective grabbing units, this becomes a lot more feasible. This objective also gives you end-of-turn scoring, which can help mitigate going second. (Good.)

What do they do?

From there, the things you likely want to consider are either a third Questoris Knight, That Dominus we mentioned or one of the Cerastus Knights that isn’t the Archeon. The stand out as of this writing being the Atropos who is an amazing all rounder and has significant advantage over most Questoris Knights. Hawkshroud: Largely ignoring the damage table to keep firing at full effect is incredibly useful. You have to go down all the way to 3 wounds before you degrade the first time and then to your last wound for the bottom tier. If you do decide to make a Helverin your Warlord, their Warlord Trait is also solid, giving you +1 to hit vs. a specific target all game long. Krios are the other main kind of tank the Mechanicum can take and they come in two flavours, vanilla and venator. Both are fast but quite light tanks but they sport different main weapons. The standard version has a lightning cannon which is a nasty big blast weapon with Rending (4+). That makes it able to punch above it’s weight in terms of armour penetration, even though it’s strength 7 and is nice for hitting 2+ save models with wounds. The venator instead mounts a pulsar-fusil which is basically a viciously effective terminator and veteran killer that also inflicts pinning. It would be nice if it had brutal though. Altogether this is a pretty decent unit, with the vanilla choice seeming the stronger one.