Adeptus Ridiculous - IMPERIAL KNIGHTS: HONOUR AND FURY, COURAGE AND STRENGTH | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: November 24, 2021

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club coming up in the beginning of December. Oh, let's go. Let's go. All right, D.K., you know the drill. You ready for a quote? I, I guess, I guess so. It's kind of hit or miss.

Last week was an absolute shit show. Week before that, I got it. Before that was a shit show. So I'm hoping to nail this one out of the park. If we're following a pattern, this is the nailing one. Okay. Awkward way to say it, but okay. I'm gonna nail you, D.K.

This is the nailing one. Like, geez, all right. The dark forces that assail humanity will never cease their attack, and so neither shall I. The traitors, the heretics, the aliens, they began this fight, but we shall be the ones to finish it.

The emperor expects no less. Our enemies wield terror and cruelty as their weapons, thinking they can cow us into submission. I wield a crushing gauntlet and a damned enormous laser as mine and I shall never submit. Were I a betting man

my lord, I know where I put my coin. Sir Hector the chain breaker to Governor Dosselin. That definitely sounds like a, this sounds like a hume. A hume.

This sounds like it sounds like a blooming hume. It's scary much. I just, I don't know what hume were. talking about, or if we're talking about a faction, or, um, it's definitely Imperium. You got that right. That was a pretty obvious one. Pretty obvious that it's Imperium because they want to kill everything else.

Um, and I heard something about a big gauntlet. Um, it, it almost makes me think, Imperial, is it Imperial Fist? No. Is it a period of this? Rogel Dorn? Yes, that's Rogel Dorn. Oh, that would have been perfect, too, because then we could have talked

about our illiterate baby boy. Baby boy. I'll read you another quote. This one might be a little easier. Okay. Awaken, O plasma generator, and pump thine blood of fire. Awaken, oh, cannons, oh rockets, oh blades and fists,

and prepare to smite the foe. Awaken, oh, ion shield, and muster thine bashed. of light. Awaken, O throne, Mechanicum, the time for war has come. The Sacristin's chant of awakening.

Oh, boy. I'm sure there's a telltale thing in here that everybody's just like, how do you not know this? How do you not know this? Yeah. Yeah, it... I'm almost getting... Plasma generator.

Plasma generator? I don't know. Ion shield. I on shield. I'm trying to think of who, like, who I said? Oh, cannons, oh, rockets, oh, blades, and fists. You're just repeating the quote. That's not helping me. I'm helping remind you of the thing I just said. Yeah, I know. I don't know. Like, I'm, I'm, now.

Oh, my God. All right. It's the Imperial Knights. The big robots. The giant robots. They have plasma generators and cannons and rockets. Oh, Blades, O'Bletes. they have an ion shield. I didn't know they had ion shields. I didn't even know. I don't even know.

On shields were a thing. I thought that was going to be like an actual... You read about it in Bruttle Cunning. their weapons as they're building them. Imagine thinking forge is closer to Salamanders than Mechanicum with their Forge worlds. Well, we've already done Mechanicum though. Like, we've already done the, um, I've already done an episode on the Robot Boys, so it couldn't have been them. Well, now we're doing the episode of the Big Robot Boys. We're doing Imperial Knights, big robots, big bots. Well, that's cool.

Imperial Knights are very cool. So I'm happy about it. They're super dope. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. I mean, there are some knights that are definitely Mechanicum adjacent. There's the Quester Mechanicus, no doubt. But anyway, okay, Imperial Knights, we're doing Knights, Big Robot.

Yeah, all of the knights in the Bruton were all Adeptus Mechanicus, weren't they? I mean, they were part of the Mechanicus Forge World, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They are still knights, so to speak. Oh, okay. So the Imperial Knights, these are also known as the Quester Imperialis. They are gigantic war machines that serve the Imperium. However, there are chaos and knights as well.

There are knights that have turned traitors. So if I'm not mistaken on the tabletop, it's like the exact same models for both sides, except they're just called something different, and they have different upgrades and benefits. How exactly does a knight turn traitor, is it more that the pilots of the knight turn traitor, or is it like the Princeps turn traitor, and then the whole? thing just goes chaotic or how does that work? So knights are piloted by a single

human. Oh, okay. So there is one, every night is around 9 to 12 meters tall. I don't know, like 4 to 5 stories. They're enormous. So they're about like 40 feet, give a plus or minus a couple feet.

So they're these and they're piloted by one particular guy in this very like aristocratic like feudal culture when we talk imperial knights I want you to think like knights like go back like nights

each each knight comes from a household a house a nightly house right like medieval nights yeah like literally medieval nights this is probably the most medieval knights that you can get in 40k with the exception of like the dark angels

Okay So So each night There are these Obviously these enormous walkers Ion shields You may have remembered Just shields

And real kind of There's ion shields And there's void shields I think void shields Are a slightly more powerful version of ion shields But ion shields Are also like a directional thing

Often on the knights And then they are bristling Of course With two gigantic weapons in both arms, and then generally some carapace mounted weapons to go along with it. Okay. So the Knights in Brutal Cunin, I remember, like, the one that we actually, like, get to go inside had, like, a whole team, and it had a bunch of preencepts.

Is that different? Because these ones that are turned by... That is not a knight. Oh, what was that? That is a Titan. You're right. That was a Titan. God, I thought that was...

Damn it. Right before we fought the titan, they had a whole bunch of mini gargents, quote unquote, with big chopas. Yes. Look up in that picture. That's the big chopper in the left or his left hand. So they had a nice group of knights they fought originally, which I think got blasted up by like shock jump dragsters and stuff. Right. And then the Titans arrived.

after that to fight the Mecca Gargant. I was mixing up Titans and Knights. I thought they were kind of like one and the same, but they are very different. Okay, gotcha. Knights are piloted by one person, kind of bounded with the knight. Think of it a little like Pacific Rimmy

where you kind of bind your mind to the knight. Gotcha. A little bit. But you can leave and do that kind of stuff. Like the Warlord Titan we saw was, had a preencepts, like, in floating, like, anabolic, fucking, like a tank.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was, like, his mind was controlling it. That's why I was so confused about the chaos thing. I was like, wait a minute, there's so many people piloting this thing. It's a fucking Titan. Okay, got it. Well, even so, the warlord Titans are like,

how tall are, is a warlord titan? Warlord Titan. Because I'm pretty sure the Warlord titans are just gigantic. Yes, they're huge, right? They are enormous. I'm not entirely sure how big they are compared. Oh, they are 33 meters tall, so about triple the height. That's a big boy.

That is a very large lag. That's a big boy, yeah. Holy shit. But the knights, where the warlord Titans will generally go on out, and then they'll have maybe a couple war hounds along with them, like one or two. The knights kind of go out in a more... They kind of hunt like a pack. Generally they have a couple of little mini knights,

and then they got the big knights, and they hunt in like squads of three to five, maybe give or take, maybe some more, maybe some less. Okay. And that's kind of how you'd run them in the tabletop as well. You generally would take maybe two to three of the big knights, and then you'd roll around with maybe four to five of like the small knights, and they kind of hunt as a pack.

Are knights fairly big minis? Yes, they're very. large. Okay. Also, don't you literally have a night? Yeah, you do have some knights. You have the mini knights, the armagers or whatever they're called. Oh, armagers are considered knights?

They're the mini knights. Oh, okay. I didn't realize they were considered knights. I thought they were kind of, I knew they were like walkers, but I didn't think they were like classified as like a knight. Man literally owns knights. Yeah, man literally owns knights. Doesn't know.

Yeah. Okay. So those are the mini knights. Those are the armagers Or I think Are they called war dogs For chaos Um

I don't know I just bought armagers I don't know what they're called for chaos I mean I caused it up By painting it Thousand Sunsy But yeah I think the Chaos Night Varian

Is called a war dog And then the Imperial Varian Is called an armager Um Regardless though Going back Knights originally Like where they came from

So Way back in the day let's say during the age of technology, the great expansion, not the Great Crusade, the one before that, where everyone had STCs and they had big colony ships to send them across the stars, right? Right. Now, some of these were known as the Long March fleets,

and these were ones that were going out to really, really distant worlds, like a two-decade-long travel all the way out. That's a trip. It is quite a trip. And when those colony ships would land on these worlds super far away, the ship would immediately be cannibalized. Like they would immediately break it down and use it for parts because they're not coming back.

That's kind of the, it's a one-way trip and they kind of know it. Now STCs, or now during these periods of time, often they would end up having problems. They would fight local fauna, local flora maybe, if there's catch in. Other alien species, like lesser aliens, would kind of see them as prey. or encroaching upon their territory sometimes. Okay. Lots of different things that would kind of occur in that realm.

But because of that, these STCs had made or had large amounts of soup constructs to help deal with these problems because STCs had everything at the time. Yeah. So you say soups? Suits, like a suit. Oh, suits. I thought you said soups. I was like, wait, like soup.

I'm at soup. I was like tomato soup? Like, what? Okay. Suits. I mean, I'm sure there was a, I'm sure there was a thing that could use to make soup, but I can. What are you doing at the soup store? Anyway, I'm buying Imperial Knights.

Anyway, the suits. They have suits at the suit store. So these suits were in the beginning, not necessarily meant for warfare. They had some protective stuff. But they actually often, like that jar. giant reaper chainsword thing, that giant chainsword on his arm. That was used for, like, logging. Oh.

You know? Oh, so that's like a slash and burn tool. Slash a force so you can put down a foundation and build stuff? It was for logging. Like, they had giant guns, which granted were military stuff, but they were often used for, like, mining, blowing holes and rocks and excavating and stuff, you know? Wow. Shai said the Terminator armor was originally just a space suit for mining shit.

I think so. That's why it's so bulky. Wow. I mean, so not to get too off topic here, but like, what was the military like at this point? Like stuff that was actually designed to kill? Because this stuff is like beefy and super omega powerful military stuff in present time. But back then, it was just like, oh, it. Yeah, this is manual labor bullshit. Like, what was their military like?

There's two things to remember. Number one is that the age of technology also brought, this is back during like AI time. Uh-huh. And therefore you had robots to do things for you. Yeah, yeah. Which also... Like the men of iron?

The men of iron, exactly. Which also included war. Oh, so they just had like robot AIs doing all the war stuff? often, but they also, if you remember, like, we don't really know the sheer volume of power that humanity had the height, because that's kind of the point of the Imperium is it's regression. Right. It's the age of strife and all the problems that occurred with it has regressed the entire establishment down. Yeah.

Because remember, we mentioned the Bainblade was a light scout tank. That's true, yes. Which makes no fucking sense at all. None at all. It's, the concept is like, we don't quite fully know the sheer level of strength, except for the occasional glimpses we get into it. Like when an STC had to defend itself against, like, Eldar, and it created, it shot a miniature black hole that folded in the Eldar ship on itself twice to compound it

and then implode the entire thing and then it all just died. Yeah, that's, that's what you're working. When the old stuff could fire black holes and do like Necron level bullshit. Yeah. Yeah, it's quite strong. That's crazy. They had a black hole gun. And that was just like the self-defense mechanism.

That wasn't even... Yeah. It's not even the heist your shit. Imagine sending back something in time to crash into themselves with their own ship from the prior timeline. Oh, boy. That's, yeah, that's a, yeah, yeah, that's... Do you remember? When that STC

roasted the Mechanicus guy really badly? Oh yeah, because he thought they were so stupid for worshipping a machine spirit that didn't exist. Right, like he, there were a bunch of space marines there and he just turned all their armor off. He just locked

them in place, just with like a millisecond of his mind. It's like, hey, a bunch of space marines, tap, and they all just froze and couldn't move. Oh. Like, the level is insane. So to get back on topic here real quick. Knights, of course, were started for like mining, logging, the big, you know, exosuits.

Think of it like the alien suit, you know. The loader, it's used for picking up heavy shit, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's got some thing. Now, eventually, though, these giant suits were soon used for defense because they needed it. Like, if you're getting attacked by local fauna or aliens, perhaps the giant chainsaw and gun on your side and arms, would be useful, you know? Like the gene stealer cults make do with rock saws and mining lasers, so it makes sense.

Oh, yeah, sure. I mean, it's no black hole gun, but it'll get the job done. It'll absolutely get work. Yeah. So what would occur with this is that often these giant suits were kind of towering over these operations of the colony. And so you have these giant, like, noble machines in the corners of your village or whatever. your colony. And so they were eventually dubbed as knights because they were the giant protectors of

the people. You know, they were knights. Makes sense. And so eventually this kind of grew into a tradition. Knight, people who piloted Knights became this kind of, what's the term? They became kind of like a figure. And they grew into a society. Like the original just kind of silver machines eventually became. became ornate. They added crests. They added, they added like gold trim. They added ornaments, more ornate stuff to, like indicative of prestige, which of course pulled them back into more of an aristocracy. So they, so they went ahead and pimped their ride. They literally pimped their ride because they were high-ranking people. Cool. I heard, I heard you like fish tank. So we put a fish tank in your fish tank in your

dashboard yeah I get it what that's what they would do on pit my ride they put ridiculous stuff and you never saw that so I heard you like with the oh shit what's the rapper's name oh I know that I know you like meme back in the day but

I've never seen you've never heard this so I heard you exhibit exhibit right I have seen that meme I just have not seen Pimp my ride oh okay yeah they don't put, like, ridiculous stuff in their cars. This is stupid. Like, they would literally put fish tanks in.

They'd put an Xbox that plays an Xbox that plays in Xbox. It's, yeah. All right. Well, in that case, then they've got the fuzzy dice on the inside of the damn night then in the head. That works. There's the fuzzy dice there. Yes. But anyway, it did go back into kind of like this aristocracy thing, where these worlds eventually

were known as, like, night worlds. So the whole. world became entirely dedicated to this knightly household. And so you had like a lord or sometimes a patriarch leading over it. And then you had barons. And it became this, this big, this big aristocracy based entirely around these giant knight pilots. So knights are, if I'm being totally honest, pompous assholes.

I guess they would kind of have to be because they're like the upper echelon of society. They're like the upper echelon aristocracy. So, and whenever you get to that point, it's like, oh boy, we got a hoity-toity, holier than now, egotistical, arrogant piece of shit piloting

them because, you know, that's, fame goes to your head, I guess. It does. And particularly when it came to the knights, like some of their rituals were so dumb. It was all day, every day. They had to be, they had to be nobles. They had to be,

They had to be aristocrats. There's one particular house that every morning wakes up with them reading the deeds and the names of the people come past. But the deeds and names, it's like a nine hour long ceremony.

Oh. So every day. Every morning, because these are douchebag aristocrats. Boy. With a lot of free time on their hands, too, apparently. Who can do? Nine hours every day? Good Lord.

Maybe like a once a year's ceremony or something, but everyday Jesus. Though at the same time, because they are knights, they follow this very, like, strict code of, like, what's the term? Very, like, fealty, honor and duty. Those are the main things. It's fealty, honor, and duty. And what happened, actually, is that if you remember the good old age strife, where we, all the machines turned against us, and then Warp Storms, destroyed our method of travel. Yeah.

So because of this, Knight households being these aristocratic people, they actually were really big into the old ways. So when psychers started sprouting up in the humanity, they kind of kept them away. And they also didn't like high-level tech. So they kept away a lot of the AI as well, because they believed in the old school, you know?

Right, right. and when I say kept away in terms of psychers I mean they kind of killed them all well I mean back in those times well I mean psychers are always kind of psychers are always trouble you know they're trouble

so I there's always been sort of a prejudice against psychers justifiably so I suppose with how kooky crazy shit gets when they're around Shai said they basically witch hunted them so I'm assuming there were there were some people that

weren't psychers, but some assholes, some assholes like jealous or whatever, it was like, no, he's a psycher over, he's just ordinate. I don't know why I went into the orc voice, but whatever. And then innocent people got killed because they weren't psychers. Well, considering how the knights operate politics is a big thing they really like. And so there's a lot of political feuding across between all of them. So I'm going to make a solid assumption and say, yes, I'm sure some innocent people died. Okay. Well, it's, to be fair, it's 40K, it's the Imperium. Of course, Innocent People Dying is all the rage around here. It's the new pastime.

Innocent people dying is the new black. Instead of orange is the new black. Anyway, whatever. I know that one. I'm not that stupid. Oh, okay. Well, it's an old saying. I guess it was an old saying. I guess it got brought back with the show. But anyway, go ahead. God damn it All right So regardless They also shunned Like really high level technology So it meant their AI presence was low

So when All that kind of stuff happened They were one cutoff Because with a lack of psychers Means no communication And two They were kind of just on their own But they didn't get killed

From the inside Like a lot of other areas did but they were left alone to their own devices, which meant they probably had to deal with demons, which meant they probably had to deal with aliens. They had to deal with a lot of problems. And so this need for the knights arose even higher, and so these worlds would kind of entirely adopt this knightly regime.

The whole world came under this feudal aristocratic culture ruled by these warrior aristocrats, which I said that they're all pompous douchebags. A lot of them are. But because of that, like, duty and honor to protecting the people, a lot of them can be, like, good to the people. Like, they're not, like, Marines sometimes where they see themselves as better. Like, this is their duty to the people.

So while they are pompous pricks, they might, like, go down on one knee. It's like, and what is your name, little man? Maybe when you drink enough milk, you can become big and pile of the night like me. Ha-ha, onto my steed. Ha-ha. Oh, wow. That sounds like a real pompous asshole So I guess you could say there's some white knights

Uh uh, uh, uh, be gone from that Sleneh demoness. She is a woman. We think. We think. So knights, obviously, they went through this, this huge, like, they got their little round table with their lord, and you serve the Lord. And, but because like all these people are watched so,

so incredibly harshly because this is a game of politics. It's a game of Thrones. A game of Thrones, if you will. And they're so meticulously judged. Because you want to be born with a son as an heir to your lineage in your house. All that stuff. But I believe it's the first,

maybe the first and second sons of these noble barons are the ones who actually end up getting to pilot the knights oh and so this is actually a huge huge deal for them because they are meticulously meticulously told do this sit up properly eat properly you know uh stand straight do this this and that but the moment they get their night

they can do whatever the fuck they want all trading goes out the window no more sitting up straight you just fuck all that I'm a night pilot. What are you going to do about it? It's the idea that you've proven your worthiness in terms of duty and honor that now you may do as you see fit, which is why knights are often just, they fucking love battle because they've wanted to pilot a knight for their entire lives. Piloting a knight is the thing.

It's the end goal. And so when they get to pilot their night, they had this like this sense of freedom. Because not only are they free from the restrains of their culture, but they are now free to run into the battlefield and blaze away at people, like the freedom of battle. Okay. I mean, it sounds like a very sort of typical, I don't know if I want to say hierarchy, but it's kind of a, you know, where the prince is getting raised,

and he thinks his life is miserable because, oh my God, there's so many rules, there's so many regulations, so many things I have to follow. but once you become the king, once you become a knight, you're the one doing the deciding. Now you get to, you know, it's an incredibly, incredibly generic, classic knight style of stuff. The only major difference is you need to add the 40K Gothic section of it a little heavier, and then you need to mix in the fact that instead of knights, it's gigantic robots,

which is dope. That is very dope. Knights are very dope. Um, I was, dude, when they're, like, training them, is it like, I mean, it's 40K, so I would assume the training is a little more brutal than just, oh, yes, make sure that when you're eating supper, you go for, you know, you, you use the utensils from outside in, mm-hmm, prim and it's kind of be, like, more hardcore than that, right? Great question. Let me tell you about the ritual of becoming. Whoop, whoop, let's go. So before they actually get to go into the knight, they had to do something called the ritual of becoming. And it is a bonding process that has the young noble implant,

implant their minds into the Imperial Knight's suits. So it takes place in a room known as the Chamber of Echoes, which is the heart of every knightly castle or stronghold. It is a singular gigantic building where this is where the night armor is store when not in use and there is a throne there called the Thrones Mechanicum

or the throne Mechanicum What they do is they end up leading into this area where it's just lit very lightly by torchlight and there's tons and tons of these chairs and the Sacritans which I believe are like a servant

No, servitor, but like a... What would you, Sacriton be like a person that, like, helps you, like a menial or whatever, I guess, or maybe... Like an aide. Yeah, I believe it's like an aid, but it's a politically powered aid or something. I don't remember. They help you out, though. Sure. And these hooded saccharids bring you to the throne of your household.

And when you sit in the throne, the ancient device, like whispers to life. and then they blow out all the torches and leave them in entirely pitch darkness. Oh, okay. And during this thing on their, it has on their head, they have to attempt to bond successfully with the night. And unfortunately, this opens them up to all of the old visions and bonding of prior night pilots. Oh.

So because of that, they have the digital echoes of the prior pilots. and their psyches in this throne. So what happens during this one night is they induce or have induced hallucinations, waking nightmares, fugue states, like nerve impulses where they start to moan, twitch and convulse. They'll have like high-pitched and terrified laughter and then immediately like sob, like in like completely into sobs

and sobbing of like tears of misery. There's like grow, grunts, and then occasional like just chilling screams. It's like someone's having a horrifying seizure where they're like being clockwork orange fed a bunch of memories. Oh boy, that sounds like a good way to make your noble night pilot go bat shit insane. Well, one, so only one out of 10 die,

which is not super high. Yeah, for 40K Imperium, those are good odds actually. Those are pretty good odds. These are good odds, yeah. Only one out of ten of them, like, have their brains just kind of fizzle out. Like, they just can't take it anymore, and it's kind of crack. And they're not able to pull it off. But once they're good and they're done, and the next morning arrives,

they are freed from their throne. And they have now, like, mentally, what's it called, binded to their night. They are mentally bound to this night from here on out. So when they fight with said night, it is a big deal. because they are mentally. Mentally, yeah. They experienced all that trauma.

They're bound. And I'm assuming the night will now move as they move. Kind of. I don't think, I don't know if they have a particular, whatever it's called, like a particular, like a Pacific Rim style thing. I think they're sitting. I was going to say, they can't possibly sit in the night.

It's like, oh, here's your Xbox 360 control. It's like, really? All that imprinting? Just the joystick? Really? Like it's kind of be some sort of imprinting thing where like it moves as they do because like why would you why would you bother doing all that binding if you could just grab a couple of you know joysticks and just err-er-d-r-r-r-d-you know sure though there are two interesting side effects that shy has pointed out to me involving the actual throne itself it tends to exaggerate the dominant feelings and also like the emotions during said vigil. if the person is very scared,

it'll have kind of a nervous tendency making the suit difficult to control when they fight. If the noble is angry with somebody, they will always loathe that person, even if the person has been long and forgotten. So I think this also increases like rivalries at times between houses. Oh, I imagine it would,

yeah. But so some of these feelings, some of these traits when they die will be put into said throne. as those whispers to then fuck with the next aspirant. Oh. That's why they have this issue. Oh, okay.

That's, oh, that's creepy. That's kind of creepy, actually. That's, that's... It's kind of neat. Yeah, kind of neat. Creep creepy and neat. As is most of 40K. But, so during this age of strife,

going back to the whole age of strife and stuff, these areas became heavily into night worlds, and then eventually the Great Crusade came out. of the thousands of night worlds only a couple hundred survived because that's how all things are in the age of strife but the Great Crusade arrived to bring the night worlds

back into the Imperium I think most of them were said okay because that means they get to help people and kind of protect them on a larger scale I'm sure maybe some said no but they probably didn't say no for long because this is the Imperium's Great Crusoe I was going to say

who's going to say no to the Imperium? Like even if you're a night world Like surely like oh yeah You know no we don't need you We're we're we're good to hang out on our own Now we don't need the support of the imperial No no no no definitely not Though I bet the Imperium was real happy to find the night worlds

I bet that was like a priority for them to try and find Because that's a big deal The Mechanicus especially The Mechanicus were super hype about this And actually there's a quite a large amount of Knight Mechanicus worlds that have basically had the Mechanicum enter the Knightly regime. And by doing so, the Mechanicus really help with their, you know,

mechanic expertise to help out the Nighting Worlds. And in exchange, the Knight houses will help serve and protect the Mechanicum. Right. So they pull off a little bit less of the pompous night douchebag part when they go into Mechanicum. Imagine the pompous night part, but mixed with Mechanicus. Oh, okay. Which is an interesting dilemma and concept? Indeed.

I would almost assume the Mechanicum would sort of take like a... Maybe not a servant rule, but they'd be a little more subservient just because, like, they don't... They just want to tinker around with the fucking knights. Right? Like, they're like, oh, yeah, sure, you can be in... You can do your little medieval games over here. We're going to tinker with the knights and, you know? I think it's one of those things where both cultures kind of fed into each other.

Yeah. So the Mechanicus noble stuff has kind of fed into the Mechanicum, but the Mechanicum's technology and efforts kind of go over there. And let's be truthfully honest, I think with the strange, large amount of, of what's it called, like ceremony and stuff for the Knights, I'm sure the Mechanicus are perfectly okay with that. It's true, I guess the mechanic, yeah, a little ceremony that goes with the Mechanicum too, I suppose.

Yeah, maybe just a little bit a little bit. Often the guard, the imperial guard when they get night, because knights often will defend forge worlds. They have their nightly worlds there for the mechanic is. But often the guard get a little annoyed when they get knights. Oh, mainly because they have to deal with their stupid fucking ceremonies. So you get all these like guard guys, right? These rugged like in their shit and piss kind of dudes.

And then this night. is like this guy is walking up and he has a parade. And he's like, yes, yes, I have come to assist your world in things. We must do the ritual of awakening the night. Say the blessings, burn the candles. Yes, yes, flowers are being thrown at them in shit. And all these guard guys are like, oh, my God, fucking asshole. But then the knight actually gets into combat.

Oh, and then it's a godsend. Then it's like, oh, yeah, we all... Praise, praise! Oh, yeah, we're stoked. We're stoked because they're like shooting their las guns in their trenches and this giant warrior like runs past them and fucking slices a giant tier in half and then guns down like a whole formation of bugs.

They just start stepping on guns. They're like, oh, thank Christ, this night's fear. The ceremonies were worth it. The bullshit was worth it. Praise, praise. It's kind of like when, never Mechanicus arrive with the guard and they always kind of see the

Mechanicus as annoying because they're like, we must do it 17 rights of rituals of reawakening and they're, oh my God, just shoot the guy. So it's a humorous little stick there, but they have their big ceremonies before battle.

Their traditions, you know. It's like a priest trying to go into the slums and do a sermon. Yeah, except the priest has like 30 glocks. Yeah, except the priest is like the Terminator. Yeah. So overall, that's kind of the whole knightly concept. But let's talk about some of the notable knights out there.

So the main knight, oh, I guess there's a couple of houses we could talk about too. So if we talk about the Quester Imperialis, there are about four super notable houses out there. There is House Cadmus, House Griffith, House Hawk Shroud, and House Terran. As I said, these are very, very... Yeah, very medieval. Gee, I wonder where GW got these concepts from. So, like, for instance, House Griffith, these are, like, a proud warrior cast. They're all about courage and skill of arms, like, duels of honor.

are super commonplace. Like tons of jousting is a big part of it. That's kind of like the griffic thing. Huck shroud is all about honor. A esteem and reputation, loyalty and respect. Things of that nature. They got stuff like that. And then you go up to the Questur Mechanicus ones.

You have like House Taranus, House Raven, House Crest. Okay. And these are, they're all, they're their own thing. This is probably something we could talk about in its own episode, each kind of household, but the knights themselves. It seems like a thing that could be a completely separate episode, yeah. I mean, when you see the, when you actually see the logos, though, like, yeah, that's house of Griffith.

Oh, shit. Now, that's a coat of arms. These are, these are knights, you know. This is, they're not hiding anything here. Hock shrouds is so cool. I love the hawkshroud one. I really do like. The Mechanicus Mix

one, you know? I was going to say that Raven helmet looks real dope too. It's pretty slick. I imagine they paint that shit all over their knights in like big, bold representation on their night

to show everyone like, oh, absolutely not even a question. Like, for instance, here's the knight from House Hawk Shroud. Like, it is, oh, you might need click on the link, but it is like, it's everywhere. Yeah, it is everywhere.

And rightfully so. you got a logo that dope I mean you plaster that thing around like a Supreme sticker Yes So in terms of actual Knights themselves

The main number one night Like the most in between Night generally is the Knight Paladin The paladin is armed with I believe it's the one that Shai just posted They are armed with a rapid fire battle cannon So imagine the main turret of a Lehman Rust

Just shoots like at twice the speed and a reaper chain sword. So this is the kind of like the perfect in between for the Knight Paladin, the fantastic Swiss Army knife. They've got a great melee prowess. They can step on squishy hordes. They can stab vehicles with that giant chainsaw.

They can shoot with their cannon. You know, they take long strides. They have a nice, like, mid-range, also close-range combat. The Knight Paladin, Jack of all. trades, right. Yeah. The knight, the other one is the knight errant. The knight errant is more of a specialized purpose.

They are able to do a charge and destroy tanks and all that kind of stuff, but they tend to be a little bit more specialized, I think, in anti-tank. They have a main ornament known as the Thermal Cannon, which is, imagine a melt-a-gun that is the size of a goddamn knight. Oh. A size of a night weapon, that is. Ah, that's a, that's a big gun. It is a gigantic thermal cannon.

It sucks the, it sucks the superheated air and, like, sets the air on fire and then just, like, reduces Terminators to, to, like, molten metal. Ooh, that's, sure, that's one way to deal with, well, within anything. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Those errants are just like, if it's, are you a tank or a big bug? die. Now the night gallant is the titular I want to

go in and I want to go hard where these guys the melee character. The melee character they are aggressive and they are short-tempered. They are commonly the kind of guys that would get into brawls and the nightly like houses they'd start like

they're the ones that they got their night and the first thing you did is eat food with their mouths open and shit. or rip or rip ass in the hall Like yo what's up your boys back And they just fucking eats food These are like the bro tier guys But it's because they are not armed with any guns

They are armed with a gigantic reaper chain sword And a thunder strike gauntlet Which is an electrified fist I was about to ask I was like man that that seems so weird to not have a weapon in that second hand, but an electro fist. Sounds like a great idea.

Also, in those pictures you posted, it looks like they have, are those missile launchers on top? They can carry gigantic rocket launchers if you want them to, or like a little stubborn. Like they have some, a little bit of it,

but they're melee specialized. Okay, gotcha. Because I was going to say, if they're so keen on melee, why do they have a missile launcher? Me. Man, ma'ma, lair.

The night gallant in his own, is obviously just go and go hard. They're just what they are. The Thunder Strike Gauntlet is a dope weapon. The electrified force of it less than like punched through tanks. Then there's a story

where a knight punched through a traitor tank, grabbed the leader, pulled him out, and then held him in front of the knight. And the knights have these gigantic war horns. So when they stride into battle, you know the sound effect that the Reaper makes in mass

They buy a giant, like, they have these giant horns like that. And it's like, it's a war horn. They like start striding into combat, they just blare it. And so I think he held him in front of him, blared the warhorn to like deafen him. Oh, that's fucked up.

And they kind of held him there as like a trophy. And then he just slowly like crushed him in the gauntlet into like a paste. Damn. I thought you were going to say he impaled him on like the warhorn or something. and just use them as a decoration. Or like the sound. That's a little chaosy. That's true.

That is a little. I guess, yeah, you're right. That is a little on the chaos side. Where are you stationed? Is it the gunnery dick? That's all I'm thinking of. Yep, yep, yep, yep. How fast are these things, actually?

I was going to ask, how quick are these things? Because, like, they're obviously big and bulky. And I was wondering, like, how hard is it for, like, a Titan? to catch up to a tank or like to like, you know, if they're going to go melee, they got to get in. Like is it kind of hard for them? Like are they kind of bulky and slower? They actually kind of fast. Well, these are knights, not Titans. The Titans are the big ones.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. How fast is that knight, I guess, yeah. Well, if anything on the tabletop is to be understood, they are as fast as, like, tanks. Oh. I think they are actually pretty mobile. I think they are roughly like the same speed. They will move at, like, very fast. high speeds. Oh, damn. So they're not only

big and bulky and have like crazier, but they're fast. Like you, you kind of can't run away from them. No, they're very quick. Actually, Shai put a great cinematic from Don of War III, which is a game that sucks ass, but, uh,

um, the cinematic itself kind of shows the night's speed. Oh, shit. Yeah, they're like full sprint. They're hoffin it. Oh shit. Yeah, they are hoofing it. And I'm not talking like Tauphede, either. They are hoofing it.

Oh, God, that Eldar got fucking, oh, Jesus. Jesus, marking on your bingo card. The knights are big, and they are scary. Yeah, they move. Good Lord. They do. They are quite fast. I often, I think, like, I think in 40K game,

I think like a Lehman Russ at top speed moves to 12th, inches. I think a knight moves the same. I think some of the small ones or maybe the big ones move 10 and the small ones move like 14 but they are very, very fast. I guess they would have a big stride

yeah, it's kind of that it's also the fact that they don't really get affected by like terrain. They get a giant walking feet, you know, they move very, very quickly. They just bowl over any terrain in the way because why not, I'm a fucking knight. The next one we have is

the Knight Preceptor. This is a close range knight. They have a, they generally have some kind of mail weapon, the chain sword of the Thunder Strike Gauntlet. But they also sometimes have a giant laser cannon known as a Laz

Impulsor. So this is a very close range knight, both in terms of weaponry and melee prowess. The Las Impulsors pretty dope looking. They give it like a super

high las canad I think or I'm not quite sure what the stat line is but damn that does look super dope I'm actually gonna look that one up imperial knights let's all look up the the damn the damn weaponry on that on that bastard that was a preceptor I said right uh there it is las impulsor it looks like a sci-fi gun for sure it is super like sci-fi laser gun uh vibe to it without a doubt yeah oh yeah so this has this has this has the nice like high like short range high damage or like middle range minimal damage kind of thing so yeah it's about right so it's like a last shotgun almost because like you want to be real up close in person to get max damage and if you're mid range it kind of just fizzles out on you a little more focus the middle range has like more shots but the closer range has a higher damage gotcha um then there's the night

crusader this is when you want guns that's my boy These are the gun ones. The Night Crusader, their whole schick is to find an open field and just lay waste. They don't particularly care much about cover. They want to go into a big open area and force you to come to them. They tend to have like a gatling gun and a battle cannon and missiles on their head. This is just, I'm going to plant my feet and unload everywhere. That one has a literal turret on its head

Like could someone actually like I guess nobody would ride in the turret on top of a knight would they? I don't know That might just be like a turret Like from the user controls I don't know I can't see there's a guy up there or not But it regardless doesn't really matter It's just this is gun night

This is gun night That's my knight That's the one I would absolutely ride in Just to find a place Put my feet down and just unload. They're a fun one, no doubt. Unload, DK, unload.

I will unload all of me. There's also the night, so there's also the night armagers, which are the small knights. These are the tiny little, little boy knights. They tend to have either like thermal spears or auto cannons or maybe a chain cleaver. They have lots of different kinds of weapons on these little knights,

but these are the little knights. They just kind of, They're scouts. They move very fast. They break through people. They're good, but they're tiny. Do you have to go through the same process to be able to pilot an Armager? I don't know.

My mind says yes. Yeah, Armager's the one I have shot. Yeah, yeah. My mind says yes, but maybe it's like less painful. I don't know. Oh, okay. I was going to say, since there's so much smaller and they're just scouts, it's like, hmm, I imagine it's not as prestigious as piloting a night.

so I just kind of figured it wouldn't be as tumultuous on your brain to write a knight. I guess the tumultuousness. Yeah. Yeah, I imagine there. So Shai has it here. They're piloted by minor nobles or elevated household guards. And instead they instead apparently have a device that controls their knights but nearly bonds them to a higher-ranking noble. Which I guess is that it's like a subset of it.

they don't use the throne mechanic them. So they have a little fancy, fancy helmet instead. And it bonds them to the noble? I guess they have something kind of like, like you link with, like remember how they hunt as a pack? It's maybe it's the concept they have maybe two small knights that help bind it with the big knight, and the big knight is like helping them out.

Oh, right, right, right, right. So they couldn't do it on their own. Like, they would need to be close to the night, wouldn't they? since it's a neural bond? Like if you were out of range of ones... This is too semantical for me. I have no idea. Okay.

They're just bond. They hunt and pack. Good, good to know. They don't have to do the same thing. They don't have to do the same thing a night pilot does. It's not as strenuous. They just wear a funny helmet.

You know what? All right. Let's go with that. So, the next one we have is one of the two dominus pattern nights. These are bigger than average knights.

These are not quite Titans, but they're very large. The first one we have is something called the Knight Castellan. And the knight, or some people call it the Castellan. I don't know which is the particular correct way to pronounce it, but whatever. This is a big boy. It's a bit slower, but it's armor is stronger. It's firepower is better. And it particularly has two main guns.

It has something called its plasma decimator. Ooh, that's a name. An enormous plasma gun on its side, as you could see with the giant coil up there. Yeah. Then it also carries something known as the Volcano Lance. Oh, really? The Volcano Lance is a enormous go-fuck-yourself gun. It is...

Okay. I think it's like Strength 14. which I think is around the same strength as the Silent King's little lasers on its sides. Jeez. And it's mainly meant to just obliterate other Titanic units. It does so much damage. So I got to imagine you wouldn't roll out a Castellan knight for just any old engagement. Like you've got to think things are pretty fucking dire.

If you're like, yes, the Castellan Knight, roll that out. Like, this isn't just your everyday, oh, there's a, there's a minor disruption or there's a minor battle. Yeah, throw out the fucking gigantic giga-night with its-the-gignaut. Yeah, with its ultra-fuck-you cannons. You've got to be fighting like orcs with mega-gargans, right? It's a high-level night. You're killing, it's meant to kill, like, tanks and, like, high elite troops. It's for the big scary stuff.

Yeah, yeah. The other one is my personal favorite, the knight valiant. This is the one that carries the gigantic triple-barreled flamer and the harpoon gun. I'm assuming that's the one on the far right. I'm assuming that's an armager, a knight, and then... That's a dominant patterned knight. That's the Castellan over there. Oh, okay, got you.

The valiant is the one that... Also, I forgot to mention that the big knights, the dominus ones, have giant cannons on their shoulders and missile racks on the top. Of course they do. Because of course they do. But the Valiant carries the conflagration cannon, which is the triple barrel flamethrower, as well as the thunder coil harpoon, which is a gigantic spear of adamantium filled with grapnels. Pneumatic grapnels with thick chains to an electrogeny. generator. So it fires, takes a gigantic hole into something, electrocutes it through a giant electrical charge, and then gets chains pulled back into the

weapon to fire again. Oh boy, that's a, that's a lot. That's, uh, that's, oh boy, that's, that's spicy. It is very spicy, literally because of the, the sheer amount of, uh, of, of like, what's it called the, um, the electricity coming through it. Yeah. what do they use for currency in Fortin? Like, what is the Imperium used for currency? They have some kind of credits. I think it's just like imperial credits of some kind. Because I was also going to ask,

how expensive would these motherfuckers be to make in the 40K world? Because they've got to be trillions upon trillions of dollars, right? Yeah. To outfit one of these? But the Mechanicus are the ones who make them. And the Mechanicus make a lot of money.

It's not always about the money, Spider-Man. But, oh, Shai said there's basically no universal currency. Each planet uses something different from digital credits to gold coins. I mean, that's true. Though, whenever I hear about currency, I always assume it's credits. Because I think the Imperium tends to have like a standardized thing of some kind. But often, like, you have your own currency on your planet, but you might be able to, like, convert it maybe to like imperial currency. which, but even the imperial currency is iffy.

Sometimes it's just trade and barter. Like here's a whole bunch of adamantium and you can have this or that, like a ship. Yeah. Who knows? I was just wondering how the hell, like, because it's not free to build this shit. How the fuck would you fund something like this?

I, that's too deep into it. The mechanic is build it because the mechanicus can. Okay. But the mechanics can't get the materials for free. You gotta get the materials somehow. Yeah, well, right? They got stuff. Okay.

Through whatever means that they use, they make them. That's all that matters. That's all that matters. It's 40K. Who cares? The economy of 40K matters not to us. We care only for the ridiculous. Well, yeah, these are also night worlds.

These are the richest of the rich because they're knights. These are the fancy-pancy dudes. Sure, that's true. Also, I really enjoy the names of some of their stratagems in game. If this doesn't give you a better idea of the, concept of they are. You've got noble sacrifice, which is one of my favorite ones.

When they die, they explode in a pretty big bang. And this makes the bang even bigger. You've got valiant last stand. You've got Sally Fourth is a literal name of one of the that's really good. I like this.

Charlie Ford! There's a glory and honor, the Slayer of Shadows. One of one of my favorite ones is our darkest hour, which is when one of it dies on like a four-up, you can set it back up. There's like, oh, full tilt is a really good one. Full tilt is that you can advance in charge, which is really good on the gallants.

What is this? Oh my, there's a electro-numatic overhaul. There's like, oh, I like this one, hurled wreckage. If you have a Thunderstrike gauntlet and you kill a vehicle, you can throw it at something else within range. Oh. And it does damage to it. It's pretty great. That is fantastic, especially if their whole point is to go after the tanks anyway.

Sure, throw it. That's so, how much damage with something like that do if you threw a tank at someone? Well, in game it only does three mortal wounds, but it's a cool idea. Oh, yeah, it is a very cool idea. I was going to say, I should do some hell of damage if you're just tossing a tank around. The coolest stratagem in the entire game, not game, in the army for Imperial Knights, is something called Death Grip. Because you know what they say, D.K., responsibility's cool,

but there's greater things in life. Like getting your dick, Rod all fucking night. That's a death grip reference. That's a death grip reference. All right. Oh, I see. Is that, I mean, hey, who am I to Arbor? argue with facts.

Facts. Who am I to argue with truth like that? So the death grip is you have to have the

Thunderstrike gauntlets and after you're done fighting you can grab an enemy model and then you both roll off

adding your strength to the roll and every time they fail you do like damage to them and so you keep rolling off

back and forth to see if break free from the death grip. During this whole time, you're just squeezing whoever it is, and then you might just kill them. Damn. A part of me thought you were going to say it was like, yeah, you actually pick up the mini, and depending on your role is how hard you squeeze their poor. What the hell?

It's like, I spent years painting that. You shouldn't have fought my death grip. I've been training my death grip too. High stakes, dude. High stakes. High stakes. It's fun. It's actually a really interactive.

thing because you want to add the model's respective strength to the roll, which normally a knight has like eight. And a mini probably has four or five, maybe three even. So you're rolling off and like they might be able to roll less or higher than you if you roll poorly. But if they roll a six, they automatically escape, that's like the contained. Oh, okay, gotcha. But it's just kind of a fun thing where it's like the two of you get to interact together. It's like, it's time. I've grabbed your guard commander.

Let's see if I crush him and do it. paste. Shai said she wanted to save you from actuallys and that you forgot free blades. Oh, I guess. Free blades are like, they're like Ronan, basically. They're actually kind of cool. They are, they basically are like, they forsake their house to wander alone. And they go find their, yeah, they travel the void in their own, with their own personal

missions of honor or vengeance or, you know, they basically, they're like Ronan. They kind of go on their own and they fight their own battles because they can. Samurai without a master, night without a house. Yep, night without a house. They're actually pretty cool, but the idea of the freeblade, I think, is more of like a build your own group, you know, create your own group. Yeah. I was going to say, it'd be pretty hard to go free, like, you would, you would just

take your house as night and just, ah, fuck you, I'm not fighting for you anymore. After, after all the shit you went through to get that night and be in that house and rise to knighthood, it's like, that, that can't be too common. Yeah, but now you're a, uh, but now you're a, uh, annoying little brat because you got your knight and you can do whatever the fuck you want. It's true, you can. Yeah, it's true. Apparently this is a free blade in this picture that was posted earlier. Uh, that's a guy known as the obsidian knight. He is a, uh, he is a, uh, he is, a, like, his own Freeblade. And he's fighting town, because of course he is.

It says, though we stand tall within our knights, we are not above the laws of mem. Let every tyrant tremble in my sight, should he think himself immune. As long as I draw breath, the guilty will be punished, be they Zenos invader,

a highborn criminal, the Free Blade Diro. So they're very, they're still very, they have their own code. They just don't agree with the house. Oh, okay. So, like, if there, if there's a night,

in a house and the house is like leader i guess because the knights aren't the leaders of the house they're just like important knight defenders of it if they feel like their house leaders like a tyrant or unjust i guess that'd be a good reason to go freeblade and be like fuck you fuck you i'm taking your night there i think there's actually a really interesting there's there's a lot of freeblades out there if i'm not mistaken those there's a lot uh one of them i think i remember being really cool because i always talk about like they have their nobles but they have like their noble son and daughter kind of thing. Normally, if I'm not mistaken, in the night houses, it's mainly men

because it's the sun, the air, right? But there's no reason women can't pilot knights. That's the thing is like there are lady knights, they're just more rare. But you can, there are plenty of female pilots. And one of them, a Freeblade lady was Lady Kalenna Maxis, who's known as the Storm Walker. Cool birth name, cool nickname. And she piloted her own knight Kestellan,

which is the one with the gigantic volcano lance. Oh, damn, they have a Freeblade Kestellan? Well, I guess you could. You could be a Freeblade anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was actually, I actually had this, this might be a little bit silly, but I had this idea to get two separate knights and make them like a couple.

like a man and a woman they all both have their knights their free blades they go on their own I thought do a little bit of play around with gender rolls a little bit make the girl in a knight gallant to make her like the hardcore go hard go melee

and then have the guy be like a crusader who's the background gun guy I thought that would be a really fun idea kind of give them their own matching heraldry the left to the right the yin to the yang I thought it would be kind of fun That is a fun idea

How dare you be embarrassed about that Even slightly? You should do that The concept of romance That sounds cool The concept of romance in 40K is its own You know meme Yeah but they're They're free blades

So they can do whatever If they decide that they want to You know Be together and be together Even on the battlefield That'd be cool I know, I know It's just an idea

And shy's right Listeners can draw fan art Ooh, I gotta get started I gotta get started on my OCs Yes, yes Yes But like in free blade These freeblade names

Dude are so cool There is like at ghost the silent The blade of finality The Blood Ward The Crimson Beglaves The crucible of wrath Let's go The desolation of solitude

The scorched night, um, Hawks duty, the hour of reckoning. There's one just called justice. One is the, the,

the, the, the living litany. Um, okay. The obsidian night I mentioned earlier, the penitent blade,

uh, retribution incarnate, the white warden, uh, the truth of Mars. And then there's one that serves the red Corsairs, which I think you'll remember as Huron Blackheart.

And his name is just wrath. Ah, what an edge lord. Yo, I would want to be a freeblade just to get a dope ass name. And you get to name yourself whatever the fuck you want because it's your thing. Yeah. Oh, man, I'd much rather be a freeblade than some stuck-up hoity-toity nobility bitch. I mean, you could still be a stuck-up hoity-toity asshole,

but, you know. That's true. but you get a dope name. And you get a big fucking robot. Yes! Oh, it's my anime dreams come true! You know, there's actually... There's actually a...

There's actually a special upgrade for the Thunderstrike Gauntlet called the Paragon's Hand. Wow. And it's a special upgrade you can give it to the game. Kind of like the Traders Pire for my Conflagration Canon. Mm-hmm. And, like, the Paragon's hand, this thing is a little, it's kind of shenanigans.

I got to be honest. Just because it's like, the Paragon Gauntlet. I think it does, like, eight damage. Like, I don't think you understand. I don't think anything in the game, like the Silent King's giant lasers do six. damage. This thing just does eight and it has an ability where if you kill a vehicle or monster

you can then pick it in a unit within nine inches and roll a four up and they take damage because you're grabbing the monster and throwing it at them. Oh well that sounds like that other thing where you can throw a tank at them or something or a vehicle. That's dope. Yeah. That's super cool.

I like the fact that in the game they're acknowledging that it's a big fucking robot. and a big fucking robot should be able to rag, doll, and throw shit at will like pick up a tang and just chuck it.

I like that. I like that, because it's respecting the scope and grandeur of a knight. I like that. I agree. That's a very good, um, uh, uh, observation, BK. Yes. Yes. Yes. In fact, actually, the, the, an interesting thing that's kind of funny.

the knight valiant, the one I like the most, the harpoon. So the harpoon, let me just, I want to read the thing for the harpoon, right? Okay, so the way 40K damage or wounding works is that if you have like a toughness of four, which is a space marina's four, if you are the same toughness,

or if your strength is the same, strength for, you're equal, so on a four or higher, that's how you hurt them. 50-50 chance, right? Four, five, six. If you have a higher strength, than them, it's on a three instead, because you're stronger. And if you have double, it's on a two.

So a strength eight on a toughness four will give you winning on twos. The highest toughness in the game is eight. Lehman Russas have eight, land rares have eight, most things are eight. The Thunder Coil Harpoon is a 12-inch range weapon with one shot, just one, and it is strength 16. So it is wounding everything in the

game on twos. And it is armor penetration. Now a bolter has armor penetration zero. A Las Canaan has armor penetration

three. A melta has four. This has six. And it is a grand total of 10 damage.

Oh. 10 damage. That is a, I want that thing dead. It is going to die gun. But often vehicles have 11 or 12 wounds. And it says if you inflict any damage, they suffer an additional D3 wounds. So roll a dice, one, two, or three. And so I have, in my time, walked up, fired my flame thrower at infantry, shot my cannons at Marines,

fire at a missile at something else and then just roll the dice literally for this harpoon to one tap a vehicle

and I'm just like please please because I hit on threes but if you fire at a vehicle or a monster you get to re-roll so I'm like three re-rolling if I fail

wounds on a two don't roll one and if I do it just fucking dies it is so much fun I love it how expensive are knights on the tabletop?

Like how many points do they cost? Because they've got to be expensive. Like you can't roll like an entire squad of knights. Like it's got to be a really expensive. So a Marine has two wounds. A, like a Lehman Rust tank has 12 wounds. This knight, the one I just mentioned, the big one, has 28 wounds. and this knight is about 600 points of 2,000.

So that's that's a significant portion of points for your army. Yes. A knight gallant, which is the melee one, it has 24 wounds and it is 400 points. That's serviceable. It's workable. That's workable into an army, yeah, yeah. Knight Paladin is 450 because it has a bit more guns. A Knight Crusader is 475 because it's got more guns. But the little Armiger's, the little mini-nights, like 155, 160, give or take.

Well, that's not too bad. No, it's not terrible. The Armager Warglaves in particular, I think, are the better ones. They have like a Meltto gun and like a sword. They're about 135. Mm-hmm. That's not too bad. That's not terrible.

Yeah, I think I fought a guy in more than that's a good. one of the tournaments, he was running Chaos Nights. I think he had two, maybe three of the big knights. And I think, I think maybe two. And he had like six of the small knights. But then some people run like three, and then they have four or five of the mini knights.

And it all depends on how you want to run it. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. It's its own, it's its own schick. But it's pretty. pretty dope. So do people actually run just like all nights?

Just like, oh yeah, I'm just going to roll with like three nights and... Oh, totally. Big nights and two regular nights. That's gotta be risky, right? It's good. I mean, yeah, it's risky, but running all Imperial Knights is a common thing. I don't particularly like fighting it. It's a very one-sided nature to it because it's like you're...

It's basically, do I have enough anti-tank? And if I don't, do I have enough... models to overtake his objectives. And if I don't, then I'm fucked. But I personally enjoy running knights as a supplement to my other armies. I'll run two knights with a lot of

guard or admec, you know. So that's, yeah, it's that. So that's Knights, D.K. It's a little bit of a long episode, but a lot of people like knights, they like to know about Knights. There's a lot of great lore to do with Knights because it's just a person and their

walker. which is great because you can and with free blades you just make up whatever the fuck you want you can paint I think I think everybody should own at least one night because it's a great painting project it looks awesome it's a fun thing to mix and match into your army I really like knights and honestly ironically knights are one of the cheapest armies you can buy

really yep because if you think about it a full night army is maybe three big knights and then maybe a couple small nights. Right. So, like, they might be expensive knights, but it sure beats buying 2,000 points of, like, guard or something.

Most knights are around 160 bucks. So, three knights. Combined that with about two packs of warglaze, which is about another 150. So you've got yourself about a full army for about 160

bucks minus paint and all that stuff. or no sorry not 160 i'm sorry 600 bucks um which i mean anyone who says yeah it's cheap just pay 100 or pay six hundred dollars to get into the hobby is insane sure sure but in the grand scheme of 40k considering how deep into the hole you could go for an army that's not the worst case scenario we'll put it that way the it is not much cheaper bank breaking

scenario. It could be a lot worse. It could be a lot worse for a full 2,000 point army. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Because this is 2,000 points. And we might start lower than that. Yeah. Anyway, Imperial Knights, any questions, D.K. It's a long episode, but

I don't know. I don't think I have any questions. Knights are fucking cool. I dig that they're kind of mixing medieval and future tech with like knighthood and the nobility in the houses. but with giant fucking gundams.

Yes, sir. I love it. All right. Well, then that's it for this episode. Thank you everybody very, very much for watching and listening. My name has been Bricky. You can find me in Bricky in places. D.K., where can they find you?

You can find me D.K. Diamanties everywhere. Just Google my name and you'll find something that I used to and or still do. So, yeah. Cool. I'm not shouting out shy because she posted cringe. Please post, please put that in the video so everyone knows what. I am ending the recording.