Adam: The Vindicare Assassin ’s ability to target Characters is invaluable, especially when considering the nature of many of the Purge the Enemy secondary objectives. They’re arguably the best of the four for taking advantage of the free Priority Threat Neutralised Stratagem (which earns you a Command point for assassinating a Character, or two in the case of a Warlord). But even should you feel that he’s the wrong Assassin for the job once you’ve seen your opponent’s army, you can simply switch him out for a better fit with the Shadow Assignment Stratagem. There’s some extent to which building around these puts quite a few eggs into one basket, but the amount of force multiplication they provide when you’re using them to the full means that these should prove to be a key part of any high end strategies emerging from this book. As mentioned at the start, if you’re playing with the Imperial Knights rather than Chaos the big draw is the combo potential, and Exalted Court is one of the dynamos that drive the book. They definitely aren’t as outright, up front flashy as some of the Chaos Blessing upgrades, and are going to take more experimentation to really nail the correct use of, but do feel very impactful overall. Knightly Teachings Before we begin we’d like to thank Games Workshop for providing us with a review copy of the Index for review purposes. Army Rule: Assigned Agents Imperialis enhances aggressive, melee focused strategies with +1” to Advance and Charge rolls, immunity to any penalties on those rolls, and an extra inch of consolidation. When you deploy an INQUISITION unit (excluding DAEMONHOST units) in an Entry Zone, you can deploy a friendly JOKAERO WEAPONSMITH unit in that Entry Zone as well.

Mechanicus ups the durability of your knights, helping you play a more calculating, long game. It provides one extra wound to Armigers, two to TITANIC knights, and allows each model to heal one wound each turn. That’s one of two additional options Freeblades get. If you want to build an entire army of storied heroes, united under a single banner, you can use the Freeblade Lance Army of Renown, which we’ll take a look at later. Alternatively, if you play another Imperial faction and think a gigantic robot would improve your chances of victory, you can use the new Wandering Hero rule. This applies to a Super Heavy Auxiliary detachment containing a single FREEBLADE unit, and grants them the AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM keyword, which generally means they won’t break access to army-wide abilities or Secondary objectives. While you’re obviously still going to sacrifice some amount of synergy to do this, there definitely are builds out there that would benefit from a gigantic robot (or three smaller, ObSec ones, this rule is Unit not Model, so an Armiger trio counts), so keep this in mind. Army-wide Rules Code Chivalric Are you a big fan of tales of glorious chivalry, where brave heroes face impossible odds to achieve noble quests? Do you think those tales would be better if the heroes were fifty-foot tall robots? If so, then we’ve got good news for you – the bold champions of the Imperial Knights are mustering for battle once more, ready to face down foes both worthy and unworthy alike with the tools from their new and improved Codex. Swearing portentous oaths under the Code Chivalric, augmenting the capabilities of their Armiger squires with new Bondsmen abilities, and bearing weaponry that’s more lethal than ever, the Imperial Knights are ready for war, and in our review we’ll lay out what to expect. Freeblades: The Freeblade Lance looks like it should be fun to use, and the option to bring a Knight alongside other armies without compromising on their special rules opens up plenty of options across the Imperium. Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of an empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of humanity, to save a hundred times as many. He died centuries ago, but they reactivate his recorded personality whenever a new threat appears. When the crisis is over, they expect he will meekly return to oblivion.Rules for nine different Noble Households, plus the first in-codex Army of Renown in the form of the Freeblade Lance. Rule 2. Millions of lives depend on your actions; you may need to spend some of them in the process. A dominion as vast as the Imperium requires all kinds of agencies to keep it running, from the fastidious scribes and accountants of the Adeptus Administratum to the void-faring Imperial Navy. Most of these organisations maintain their own cadres of professional troops for when things get dicey on their own patch. These are the Imperial Agents, a disparate collection of house troops, irregulars, and specialist operatives sometimes seconded to other parts of the Imperial war machine when their expertise may prove useful. The Agents of the Imperium datasheets cover a diverse range of specialists; everything from Assassins and Inquisitors to Rogue Traders and the Adeptus Arbites,” explains Robin from the Warhammer Design Studio.

You can include INQUISITION units, even though they do not have the AGENTS OF THE IMPERIUM keyword. Will Knights overcome the general challenges of running them in 9th? We’ll see – the Secondaries being good helps massively, and Bondsman‘s damage reduction is the real deal. I think this book does a good job overall, and I would definitely encourage anyone who’s disappointed on a first read-through (especially coming straight from Chaos Knights) to give it a second pass and really dig in to how it all comes together Army Lists Adam: Inquisitor Greyfax can ignore the Look Out, Sir rule when targeting enemy Psykers or Daemons, and her condemnor boltgun can even inflict extra Damage against her quarry – she’s called a Witch Hunter for a reason! Her ability to attempt to deny two psychic powers per turn is also very helpful when against a Psyker-heavy army.TO SAVE THE GALAXY, A DEAD HERO MUST RISE AGAIN! NEWLY REVISED AND EXPANDED NOVEL SET IN THE TRAVELLER UNIVERSE FROM LEGENDARY GAME DESIGNER MARC MILLER