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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

This is the Imperial Knight Crusader Freeblade I began building before we found out about 9th. It took a while, But I'm finally finished. I scratch built his base and made some alterations to the kit removing all of the ornamental flourishes and filling armor seams. I wanted it to look different than most Imperial Knights, but not immediately obvious. I had planned to play him as an auxiliary to my Raptors Space Marines. So many CP now though.... Anyway, that's why the chapter symbol is on it's hatch with some honor badges. I painted him to look battered because in my mind this Freeblade doesn't have a vast amount of resources or a coterie of sacristans. He has to make do with what help he can scrounge from the Tech-marines of the Raptors V company he's been oath sworn to fight alongside. So repainting isn't a priority. He's called Solar Warden.