Goatboy’s 40K: Khorne Kytan Knights!
Goatboy here again – and if you’ve been reading you know I like the Chaos Knight Codex. Can you say SKULL KNIGHTS FOR THE SKULL THRONE?
In fact you can say I am enamored with the dang thing – so much so I even ignored the fact that I couldn’t Mark any of my Knights with some kind devotion to one of the Chaos Gods. This wasn’t as much of a big deal to me – but to a good friend of mine, fellow Chaos Warlord, and devotee to Khorne – Horton who Hears Your Blood for the Blood god was somewhat upset. He still loves Chaos so this lack devotion in the book was a big blow to his desire to be the best Khorne player in all the universe.
Lucky for Horton – there is a Khorne Chaos Knight available to those devoted to the Blood God. The Kytan Ravager is something I have always loved and finally got ahold of one to build and paint this past Wednesday (Paint on Wednesday’s on the BOLS Twitch – The theme is I paint the model in those pesky 2 hours). It is a dang cool model that is basically like the old skool style FW knight (shhh… it still advances 2d6). In fact I think it seems pretty dang good as it is still fairly cheap, has a decent gun, and has that pesky keyword of Heretic Astartes.
This model comes with the same amount of attacks as a Gallant/Close Combat Despoiler, has a few more points of Strength, 2 less wounds, regenerates, happens to be a Daemonic Engine (5+ save, Daemon, etc), has an ok gun, and its giant axe has two options to beat the crap out of you. This all sits on 410 points so it sits in that normal basic Chaos Knight range with a CCW and a gun. This is perfect as we basically have a Khorne Chaos Knight within the Chaos Space Marine range that gets all the options available to it from Strats, spells, and auras.
As this army list is a dumb thought for Horton it has to be all Khorne all the time. I think you can do something really funky using these guys, some psykers, and bonus Auras but today is all about the Blood God so this list is officially Mark of Khorne. I didn’t go with World Eaters as I think this army needs some Command points to burn as Daemonforge is amazing (1CP reroll hits and wounds during that phase… super good). Oh and these guys activate off those amazing Lord Discordant’s so you go from hitting on a 3’s to hitting on 2’s.
I painted this!
Enough introduction let’s introduce this dumb thing.
Khorne Knights for the Blood Gawd! Version.1
Super Heavy Detachment – +3CP
Legion: Red Corsairs
Specialist Detachment: Soulforged Pack -1CP
-LoW-
Kytan Ravager – 410pts
Kytan Ravager – 410pts
Kytan Ravager – 410pts
Chaos Space Marine Battalion – +5CP
Legion: Red Corsairs + 3CP
-HQ-
Lord Discordant – Autocannon, Mark of Khorne – 160pts
Lord Discordant – Autocannon, Mark of Khorne – 160pts
-Troops-
Chaos Space Marines X 5, Mark of Khorne – 65pts
Chaos Space Marines X 5, Mark of Khorne – 65pts
Chaos Space Marines X 5, Mark of Khorne – 65pts
Chaos Daemons Patrol
Chaos Allegiance – Khorne
-HQ-
Daemon Prince of Chaos – Wings, Daemonic Axe, Malefic Talons, Relic – Skullreaver, Warlord – Glory of Battle – 180pts
-Troops-
Bloodletters X 10 – 70pts
Points: 1995 / Command Points: 13 CP
Khorny Tactics
I went with the two Lord Discordants to be another batch of aggressive monsters and when mixed with the Daemon Prince of Chaos throwing out reroll one’s – you end up with a nice ball of death. The Kytans will be hitting on 2’s, reroll 1’s to hit, and causing a ton of damage as needed. I thought about removing the Skullreaver to get the Crown to cause more extra hits – but I don’t think that is worth it. I also thought about removing one of the Lord Discordants, going with some other HQ we can make Khorne, and then figuring out a way to have a bunch of Khorne Dogs to run around like a hunting party. The Soulforged Pact is there to let the Kytan’s have an option to advance and charge as needed.
The biggest issue is finding more Kytan’s. I just have one currently and while I love the model – the idea of getting 3 for some kind of Khorne party is nutty. Or is it genius? Let’s hope Horton likes this dumb idea as it keeps dancing in my head. This is all due to not getting a game in since May due to kids, kids birthday parties, and work being nutty.
~BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD – KILL KILL KILL!
