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Greetings and salutations fellow Nobles. I've yet to play my Knights, but I've got almost my whole collection bought and just over half of it built. I've still got one Knight left to buy and I'm wondering if I can lean on some more veteran experience here to find out how some units are doing in game. Currently, I'm looking at using three Questoris and six Armigers. A Crusader, Paladin, and Gallant backed up by three each Helverins and Warglaives. There's room for the pennant of silvered fury on my Gallant in a Questoris Companions detachment. Weapons will be magnetized, and I've got the battleforce box Knight and the new Defender box so far with intent to get the Preceptor box last to round out weapon options. I also have Vindicare and Callidus assassin models, and could drop an Armiger to free up points to swap Knight classes and/or take more enhancements. What I'm wondering is if it's worth dropping one of the Questoris for either a Dominus (magnets, but likely most often a Castellan), or a Cerastus Lancer. The Castellan would add some always agreeable anti-tank, but I'm not entirely sure the Lancer would be better than the Gallant. It would look a heck of a lot cooler though, and both options mean one less set of static Questoris legs Has anyone used either of these Knight options, and how has it been going?

The newer kits are really a lot nicer made than the older ones, and a WHOLE lot nicer made than the really old ones. Glad to hear you're making progress

While I may not have a video for you to follow, I can at least describe the process. My recommendation would be to get some round brushes and paint that's designed for drybrushing, though neither are essential. Here's pictures of the style of brush (the three white ones, mine were cheap from Amazon) and silver drybrush paint I use. These pics look huge, I'll attempt to hide them behind spoiler tags. Step 1: Basecoat black. You could also basecoat silver, wash black, then do the next steps. Step 2: load up your brush with paint, then almost completely wipe the paint off the bristles onto a paper towel. You don't want much left at all, and if you prime a few bits of sprue/extra bits you can practice on them to get it right. Less is more. Step 3: pick a direction that goes over edges instead of into them, and start working the brush across the area as if you were Dr. Alan Grant brushing the dirt of a velociraptor fossil. Go slowly, since it's a lot easier to add more than start over. Once you've done that you're pretty much finished. Optionally, Step 4: you could then wash with black, or any accent colour that pleases you Step 5: repeat drybrushing with the same silver as before. This time aiming more for the uppermost areas of the model to create more of a gradient Step 6: get a brighter silver and very sparingly drybrush around the edges of the model you want to pick out further. This isn't very Necron of me, but I didn't drybrush the silver on my Necrons. Just a lick of silver and a black wash. On my budding Imperial Knight collection I switched gears due to the size of the models. Here's a picture of the silver I got using the process above through to step 6. The brighter silver was from the same product line as the darker one.

Here I thought the price increase was the "about 4%" GW posted about recently. Hopefully they don't go up again when the price bump happens.

Combi-melta and xeno blade are both 300 of the new currency. I played a normal difficulty stratagem operation yesterday and got 5 of the new currency. Guess I'll be dialing up the difficulty for this grind.

I was disappointed that Silent King didn't continue or conclude the plot threads from the end of Hand of Abaddon. On the other hand, it was glorious seeing how absolutely crushing the Necron fleets were. Have you read Hand of Abaddon? There's content there you may find of interest. Silent King is about Guilliman diverting to the Nephilim Anomaly and finding out that the Necrons are a full on real threat to the Imperium.

I've maxed all classes, weapons, and prestige ranks, but there's always room for growth I think my main problem is that I'm too used to the way the SM1 packs work. Apparently it's a lot of muscle memory to overcome. I can't say I've noticed the difference from the campaign, but I do remember having a blast running through it. Either way I'm looking forward to checking out the updates this weekend. Stratagems looks ridiculous but might be a lot of fun.

I'm loving the continued content for this game. It's all a hit for me. The only two quality of life changes l that nag on me are the jump pack and the game matchmaker not putting human players into Siege mode games past wave 5. The jump pack is insanely frustrating. Why it's so limited where SM1's was wide open I don't think I'll ever truly understand. For example, having jumps blocked by going up or down stairs/a slight drop, getting snagged mid air by rubble on the ground, and the sluggish response for perfect dodges come to mind immediately. I can somewhat understand not wanting to drop people in without requisition in later waves of Siege mode, but it also makes crushing wave 25 (or 20 on hard) quite difficult around server disconnects and people leaving for whatever other reason.

Oof. I was considering that some people may only be able to use one Detachment depending on their Knight:Armiger ratio. I'll be gunning for this combo at least once or twice

I'm glad I stopped building while the book was released, otherwise I'd have four Warglaives. Of all the things I was expecting this change wasn't one of them given that IK have 2 options to CK's 5. Ah well. The rules and points change so frequently it's nothing to get caught up with. Over all it looks interesting so far.

Oof that would be a good reason for the (presumed) delay. That could be a very long delay if repackaging needs to happen, even longer if it has to do with the mold. Shame there will still be a split between getting the Preceptor sprue and the Defender sprue. It'd be cool if the Defender sprue came with a generic pilot to fill up the space, though two unique weapons may just do it.

Doomsday Arks are excellent for anti tank. In my experiences, next in line are Lokhust Heavy Destroyers and the Nightbringer or Void Dragon. There was a guy in a league I played in recently who used three DDAs. Not much stood up to his shooting.

This was part of the driving force behind my own budding Knight collection. I don't think having a Codex really impacts building an army though, so long as you're magnetizing weapons on your Questoris. Armigers I'm not bothering to magnetize, though at times swapping between the two options seems to be the only way to move 10-30 points around in a list. There's also a hope that Codices aren't replaced with 11th. It's not unprecedented for a Codex to bridge editions, though we'll have to wait and see what GW decides to do.

Just tossing it out there, Questoris Knights have been removed from the GW store for almost a week now. It was mentioned that there would be a repack with the Preceptor/Canis sprue in one box and the new Knight one in the other. Last preorder was 30k, I figure this coming preorder will be AoS. Fingers crossed we see Knights released mid August.

Oof, confirmed last in line for the release schedule. Next week's preorder article.