Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Chaos Knights: War Dogs

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The base is a even coat of Vallejo Grey Sand, once it has dried I go over it with Baneblade Brown before a wash of Darkoath Flesh and a final drybrush with Rakarth. Then on Round 2 you get to choose how you’ll proceed, and this will vary by enemy. I’m not going to go through all 9 options here, but I’ll give you a general idea of one path I might take. On Round 2 I really want to provide cover for my melee War Dogs so I activate Gheist Storm, which makes it so that any time a unit within Dread Range wants to shoot, they have to take a Dread Test. If they fail, they can only shoot the closest eligible Chaos Knights unit and if they charge any Chaos Knights units, those results are halved. Given that War Dog Karnivores move 14” and can push Dread Range from 12” away, this is a powerful deterrent, especially if I can make it work from behind a wall.

LOW: Knight Desecrator, Warlord: Infernal Quest, Diamonas, warpstrike talon, Tzeentch: Cursed Rune of Fate – 435pts

I found that the Herpetrax extra wounds were really good, significantly outperforming how they looked on paper, especially as they don’t change the break points for stat changes – it really helped keep the hated Drukhari under pressure throughout the game. The Iconoclast trait is also as strong as ever, and great fun with the improved statlines on a lot of melee weapons. Wrap Up Painting Chaos Knights isn’t incredibly different from painting Imperial Knights; the models are the same size and scale with similar components. Chaos Knights will be a bit more complicated from a painting standpoint owing to having more infernal/chaos details on them, while Imperial Knights will require more flat surfaces. Chaos Knights will also require more conversion work, particularly if you’re painting and modeling War Dogs and Tyrants. More on those in a bit. WhiteOutMouse’s Method LOW: 3x War Dog Stalker, 2x Havocs/Chaincannon, 1x Melta/Stubber, Tzeentch: Mirror of Fates on one of the Chaincannons – 460pts There’s a few spots of skin for the birds and fleshy pipes, for that I start with Kislev, wash it with Reikland, before glazing the highlights in with Kislev, Flayed One and finally Screaming Skull. The wood the birds stand on starts with a coat of dryad bark washed wyldwood then highlighted with streaks and whirls that are blends of Dryad and Ushabti.

You can build any combinations of War Dog-class Knights you want! Including, War Dog Karnivores, War Dog Stalkers or War Dog Brigands. The choice is totally yours. The War Dog Karnivores are a monstrous ‘Lords of War’ choice for providing deadly melee support to your Chaos Knights army! Armed with an infantry-shredding reaper chaintalon and an armour breaking slaughterclaw, they can also be further customised with varities and choices of articulated poses, armour plating and unique faceplates as well as accessories! Harbingers of Dread, a powerful new ability for Chaos Knights armies that allows them to sow fear and dread into their enemies, leaving terror in their wake.The short answer is: Because knights are rad, but the Imperium is lame. The longer answer is that Chaos Knights now have a ton of variety and options for play, and are the most fun army in the game to model, convert, and paint. The kits are huge and wildly customizable, and the rules in the new Codex give you a ton of options, including the ability to dedicate your knights to the Dark Gods of Chaos. The rules are also a huge step up, giving Chaos Knights players lots of great options with some real power behind them. Finally, the new Dreadblade rules make it easy to include a single knight or trio of War Dogs in any Chaos army, which is a great way to improve a force. What’s in this Book? Well, kinda everything does well at this. Every knight platform has access to a weapon over strength 10 except for the Executioner, and that one can often punch up reliably due to volume. What you’ll be using most often is the Daemonsbreath Thermal Spear (yup another brigand weapon). On its own it’s not very reliable at 2 Shots of S 12 Ap 4 D D6, but with Melta 4 and being able to be taken en masse you’ll be popping vehicles no problem. What Combos Should You Build Around? A Helm Mechanicum also forcefully subserviates the Fallen Noble who dons it, leashing their conscious and subconscious thoughts to those of their bond-liege. The personal desires of the War Dog pilot can be replaced at any time by those of their master. It is this technology that allows the smaller Knights to serve as utterly loyal squires.