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Hi Folks, After a long time wondering if I might add a knight to my AdMech as a Freebalde in order to boost my armoured support, I succumbed to the charm of a Styrix knight some times ago. But the latter, even if it is a nice center piece, tends in some case to be under scoring and with a rather low Return on Investment. I might play it in the wrong way. Or it is a too obvious bullet catcher. Or a single Freeblade is not an optimum set up. Or everything at the same time. The diagnosis I set led me to seek for a different way of freeblading the armored support, moving toward a cadre of 3 Armigers. But which ones? Helverin and Warglaives are OK and the fact that the kits are now merged in a single box allows getting AdMech styled pauldrons even for Helverins. Yet I have decided moving toward Moiraxes instead. The lighting lock weapon type and the skull heads were to be accounted into my decision. I have indeed decided to get these for the look they have. Rule of Kool again. The 3 kits I bought were split into one Moirax with 2 LasLocks and a pair of Volkite with Claw chassis. Their advantages are that these are not Legendary units, but FW, which may account to their eligibility in some games easier than not updated Legends. And that they are Battleline too. So, in case of extending my gathering of Knights in the coming months, it might be a circumstantial benefit – for what it worths and for what it stays. Yet, as the base case for Freeblades is 1 big knight or up to 3 Armiger chassis, this addition opens the option for getting these 3 lads distributed at various places in the battleline with a potential survivability superior to a single knight. Firepower will be distributed and if I loose one or two in a turn, the third one will still have the possibility to do something. It is like getting the eggs out of the single basket. A kind of balanced approach that might be interesting to get in some cases (such as bright/dark lances heavy armies or when facing other knights for example). Initial steps after getting the models were cleaning and priming before starting sub-assemblies. Legs were quite OK to build, even if the instruction leaflet has at least one error for the pelvic area of the battle robots. But it was easily corrected. The upper body and pilot block was more or less smooth to assemble. Yet the usual suspects that are deformations for the resin parts due to demolding conditions were observed. How to solve this? One could have been treated by mean of gap filling, but this is really an option for small defects and bubbles or damages IMHO. In that case, the solution is hot bending just as for the more major deformation. A small bath in hot water (60°C approx.), plus a smooth bending in position, et voilà! A perfect result. When working with resin, hot pot is your friend! Rest of the job was rather straight forward, and the main sub-assemblies were done promptly. Next step will be weapons, and then I will be able to shift to paint job. Scheme will have to be decided first, even if I will try to stay aligned with my Styrix big brother and its color pallet inspired by House Korvax. See you for next steps probably after Seasons’ greetings.

Some WIP actualization of my styrix knight, to be used as a Freeblade in my Skitarii force. The colour scheme is inspired from Korvax Infernal household, turned loyalist. Iconography will disappear, letting room to.. I do not know yet. At the moment, upper part is almost complete and legs miss armour plates and scenic base. But I see the end. I should have enlisted it in 12 Months of Hobby, but I did not though when I started that I could do it in 1 month... Anyway, more pics in my blog as usual:

Hi there. A small (or not so small as we talk of towering war machines) question regarding Freeblades and/or Knight of the Cog associated to other Imperium forces. How do you recommend selecting the Knight type and its tooling up? Do you foresee a Knight configurated to compensate some weaknesses of the army - for example a HtH oriented Knight into a gunline AdMech? Do you rather foresee a Knight configurated in order to amplify a strong feature of the army - for example a big firing platform supporting an Adeptus Militarum armoured fist company? Something else, like an odd configuration developped to work on its own and do its business independantly of the rest of your main force/cool factor/Unit with a specific purpose-preferred enemy type? I am planning to include a Knight in an AdMech army (or at least I was until I decided to wait and see how it would end up with the 10thEd rules...). I am really hesitating between something like a Warden (Case 1. with gauntler) vs. a Castellan (Case 2.). I see Errant (with missile pod) as a potential mid run between the two. Other option would be a Styrix based on the Category 3. (Others - cool factor, which is by the way how I designed my AdMech force so far). As I also own a qite significan First born SW force, any mutualization option could be great although non mandatory. But seen that I have almost 20k Pts I can literally tool up any game type wity these SW, from Heavy armoured to deep strike only force. So any type of combination would probably fit, even if I play rather Gunline with counter attack in general. Any opinion, clue or advise? Thanks