Imperial Knights Roundup

[Defenestratus]

I think they have. Eldar have weaponised breaches in reality.

The Imperium just fires lots of honking big shells at you.

Indeed. Its terribly cinematic. However, it will not keep the less adventurous amongst our hobby to huff and puff and scoff when I pull out an Eldar army - regardless of whether I actually take any Wraith constructs.

[Mr Mystery]

Well big floppy donkey dobbers to them, the spoilsport tosspots.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Quite.

I like these new knights, but they're not a faction I'm really that interested in.

[Kirsten]

slightly disappointed there isn't a new long range gun, like an earthshaker type weapon. still awesome to see new variants though. might have to do a knight army now that there are enough plastic varieties.

[Bigred]

via [URL="http://imgur.com/a/zVYDs"]Imgur[/URL], [URL="http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/305781-rumours-am-cult-mechanicus-knights-knight-wd/page-23"]Bolter & Chainsword[/URL], [URL="http://www.gamestrust.de/tabletop/produkt,bilder,warhammer-40-000-imperiale-ritter,id2051.html"]Gamestrust.de[/URL] 4-28-2015

Get out your German to English translators...

[Houghten]

Someone who can understand the nuances of German grammar can translate the flavour text; I'll stick to the wargear.

The Warden comes standard with the avenger gatling cannon, a heavy flamer,¹ a heavy stubber, a reaper chainsword and an ion shield, all for the same 375 points as a Paladin. Come to that, I could have said all that much faster by saying it's a Paladin that swapped its battle-cannon-and-heavy-stubber for a gatling-cannon-and-heavy-flamer, but unlike the Paladin,² the Warden has options!

It can replace the chainsword with a thunderstrike gauntlet for 10 points, replace the heavy stubber with a meltagun for 5 points,³ and / or take one carapace-mounted weapon: ironstorm rocket pod for 30 points, twin icarus autocannon for 35 points or stormspear rocket pod for 40 points.

These options can only make one of the silhouettes from the video, so there's at least one datasheet we've yet to see and probably two (one double-melee variant and one double-ranged).

¹Underslung on the cannon, but these days Co-Axial is a vestigial rule appearing only in Imperial Armour publications.
²At least, the current datasheet. Perhaps the Paladin and Errant will become more customisable too.
³Fun to have I guess, but I'd rather keep the heavy stubber; I want to have something that probably won't exploderate whatever it's aimed at so that I can charge at it.

[Houghten]

Attached: one of the more interesting images from [url=http://www.gamestrust.de/tabletop/produkt,bilder,warhammer-40-000-imperiale-ritter,id2051.html]gamestrust.de[/url].
Looks like the Crimson Reaper is a new special character, a Freeblade with a habit of carelessly trampling his own allies.

[Ravingbantha]

The Eldar have some of the most advanced weaponry in the Galaxy, the Empire is afraid of new thought, so why would they have the tools the Eldar have?

[Mr Mystery]

What, like D-Weapons?

[Kirsten]

an imperial knight could totally use a heavy d cannon.

as a club to batter a wraithknight to death.