40K RUMORS: Knight Households & Rules
There’s a new set of rumored Knight Household rules about the upcoming Imperial Knights Codex. Let’s get right to it:
We’ve had quite a bit of rumors percolating around the web these past few days. Here’s the big points, combined with what we know for sure:
Current Info & Rumors
Known:
Codex is coming after Harlequins (exact date unknown, but it won’t be long)
New Knight Castellan
New Knight Armiger Warglaive
Sub-faction Rules for Knight Households/Freeblades
Previous Rumors:
Armiger dual variant combo kit is introduced with new weapon options.
New Armiger variant is upgunned for more firepower.
10 Knight Datasheets included in the codex.
A new kit “Preceptor”/Knight Character combo kit is introduced.
Character kit included a detailed cockpit.
Massive Castellan is a dual combo kit that also builds a “Valiant” option.
Freeblade rules have a benefit-limitation trade-off element that can be chosen by the player.
A piece of Imperial Terrain is included – said to be focussed on rearming, improving firepower and repairing Knights.
The New Stuff
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“9 houses for the knights, Questor Imperialis- Terryn, Griffith, Hawdhrous, Cadmus and Mortan. Questor Mechanicus- Raven, Krast, Taranis, Vulker.
Griffith +1A on change, when charged or HI, ya lots of ways to heroiclly intervene with all knights. Raven advance & shoot with no penaly, heavy weap become assault type. Vulker Reroll 1’s to hit if shooing closest target
A new class desg of Knight for the Valiant / Casteallan DOMINUS”
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Breaking it Down
Ok let’s clean these up:
Imperial Aligned Houses
These are all houses with color plates in the previous Knight Codex:
Griffith: Grants +1A when charging, charged, or via Heroic Intervention.
Hawkshroud: (Hawdhrous)
Mechanicus Aligned Houses
These are all existing houses with color plates in the previous Knight publications:
Raven: When they make Advance moves, treat Heavy weapons as Assault weapons.
Vulker: Rerolls 1’s when targeting the closent enemy unit during the shooting phase.
Misc Rules:
Knights gain a way to use the Heroic Intervention rule.
~ Let the arguing over the best house – BEGIN!
