The reality is that you are spending a big, big chunk of points on a model that can only do work in combat, and there are plenty of ways for important units, particularly infantry, to hide. This saves you big points compared to the other two main shooting platforms, and while 2d6 shots isn’t great at murdering infantry, you still have stomps. And let’s not forget to Dreadblade or not to Dreadblade. Unless the new codex changed that. What’s the downside here? Once you pay $30 + shipping for a single third-party Avenger Gatling Cannon, you realize you could have spent the same amount on Canis Rex and gotten so much more. This means if it gets killed early, you are immediately on the back foot. Each one is also Chaos themed, so they don't look weird on a Chaos Knight. Sure, you may not use the actual Canis Rex stuff, but its the same price and bitz can always be useful down the road. 2014 Las Vegas Open Warmachine and Hordes Events and Results! Check out my Photobucket Here DuskRaider's 40K Nurgle: An Experiment in Flesh and Machine (House Makabius & Dark Mechanicum WIP currently) Getting to reroll 1s on the wound against heavy targets makes those 2d6 shots just that much more efficient, and in games when you are going against hordes, Vow of Carnage helps the DubM get powered up to stomp some folk. I used a number of bits from the new Chaos kit to make him more despoiled. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Depending what all comes in the new knight boxes you might be able to use a single kit to outfit two as chaos knights. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. So, at the end of the day, what problems plague all the Despoiler variants? If you pair this with say Daemonic Vigor’s +2 movement, and Eager for the Kill Warlord trait, and hell, throw in Infernal for the extra boost to speed, you can have a melee monster that moves 16”, advances d6+3, and charges 2d6+3. Stratagems are a bit more limited but workable.
It can take Avenger Gatling Cannons, the other variants cannot. In either case, magnetize the weapons options. It is the best single Knight in the codex thanks to its customization.
This subreddit is for anything and everything related to Warhammer 40k, Press J to jump to the feed. Khornate Target is a great choice if you know you are going against Daemons, Bullgryn, or really any unit with a good invulnerable save as a Gallant is going to slaughter it once their defenses are down. It comes as advertised, no options to build a Despoiler.
So why not take this? Gallants make great Dreadblades for several options. A Knight Desecrator is a type of Questoris Pattern Chaos Knight that excels at close-to-mid-range combat, particularly hunting down other war engines and destroying fortified positions.. Abaddon can't buff a Knight, for example. It isn’t a reason to automatically take the Battle Cannon over the Gatling, but it is a factor that is worth considering for an individual Player, given the Tables, Deployment Types, and Opponents they normally see. Can a pure Chaos Knight list do it? and download the add-on to view Photobucket linked images. That said, if you are trying to fit points, it is an option, and likely worth experimenting with, but it is probably not the optimal path. The advantage that Despoilers have over their Imperial cousins is that Despoilers can create weapon combinations hitherto unknown to the Imperium, namely things like Double Battle-Cannons or Double-Melta. I'm hoping to try out the firepower goodness when I get my codex and models.
Despoiler is 285 points and each gatling cannon is 85 points. Again, because of 2d6 shots, this Knight is CP hungry as you want to make sure you are rerolling your hits to make the most of them, and you may want to save a CP to reroll the number of shots on a dice. If you want double avengers, just get a forge feind and use the autocannons, then you also got a maulerfiend as well because its the same kit.
With good rolls, he can outperform the Knight in combat.
Only one of each melee weapon so you’d have to get another chainsword/gauntlet. Corner Deployments and LoS Blockers in the center can make it harder than generalized geometry might indicate to get both range and LoS.
Wondering if anyone has experience with Chaos Knight conversion kits and what they’d recommend. If the Knight gets charged, he can Heroically Intervene.
by Danny Ruiz This means you need something else, which you might not have points for. Thanks as always for reading, and if you happen to be at SoCal Open this year, come say hi. There are a lot of other interesting ways BL+CK can work together that mostly revolve around pairing HQs with the Knight. Hey everyone, Danny from TFG Radio here, and today, this is by far the longest article that you’ll see from me, at least for now, and for good reason.