Imperial Knights: Custom Bases

Hi all, another quick update. Been busy on several fronts but my Knight army is slowly moving along. 3 built, 1 under construction. Base-coating nearly complete on two.  As the Knight army will receive a high level paint job I definitely did not want to neglect their bases either. I've been a fan of Dragonforge bases over the years and my guard army will soon be 100% based on those. I was really happy to see that they started offering knight-sized bases as well.  I've gotten these primed but will hold off until the first two knights are ready for their detail work. In the meantime, I will have to order two more of these to finish up the army. I can highly recommend these.

Knights: Paladin and Errant ready to rumble

Hey all, I've been working on my knight assembly and here is the first pair. I decided on going with the Knight Errant for the second kit. This will be it for now until I see if GW will bother adding the various variants (Lancer, Baron, Castellan, etc.) as additions to this codex or if the variants will be ForgeWorld produced. I have to again remark at how much fun these kits are to assemble! The movable arms and weapons are a great touch to these already impressive kits.

Next step is to get these guys primed up and then to start the painting process. I believe these guys will belong to House Raven.

What have your experiences with the Knights been so far? Have you played with/against them?

Knights: First one assembled!

Slick here again after a bit more work on the Knight. I just completed the build and I have to say I'm very happy with the entire assembly and the quality and detail of the kit. The movable arms and other parts are a great step up and one can only hope GW continues to add these extra levels to their big kits.

I decided to go with the battle cannon variant for this first one. I will probably go with the Knight Errant (melta) version for the second kit. I will post up some comparison pics so people can get an idea of where this guy fits in with all the other recent big kits. That new base is huge.  All the excitement over these Knights has me brewing up a few lists which I'll post up in my next article. Stay tuned!

40K: Knights Rules Update

(Pic from Apocalypse 40K)

Games Workshop is adding a bit more info on top of that found in this week's White Dwarf (via BoLS):


via Jes Bickham (White Dwarf editor)

Some clarification on the rules we presented in White Dwarf today for some folks here: the Imperial Knights don't occupy any force organisation slots, they are not Lords of War, they are an army unto themselves. Something we forgot to say is that all Imperial Knights are scoring units, and if you're playing 3-6 as a primary detachment, pick one as your Warlord.

If this proves true we are looking at an army that fundamentally rebalances 40K and firmly brings superheavies into the regular game. Note, they are NOT Lords of War and what we see here seemingly solves any other issues they would have with being able to compete on the table top as for finishing missions. It'll be really interesting to see what Warlord traits the knights will have access to. Anyone care to speculate?

What do you guys think about knights being firmly in regular 40K? Are we set for another round of internet rage? This will be a very interesting week or two for 40K!

GW Knight Teaser Video

GW posted another of their teaser videos for the upcoming Knights. There really isn't much to see, but we will have to tune in on Feb. 22 to see more: