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So, I think I should divide my AdMech WIP thread and the Knight House I'm working on. I should take some pics later of the first Knight, but I'm kind of stuck on a name for the house right now. The House was ancient, and headquartered somewhere in the Obsidious system, but died out during the Old Night and only remained as legends until several centuries ago. Through dubious means, a Forge Lord acquired a Knight chassis (maybe more than one, not sure yet) and spent decades repairing and rebuilding it. As he got it ready, he sought out active Freeblades and pilots who had survived losing their Knights, and bribed those he could to come to Obsidious and join him, and used them and the rebuilt Knight(s) to restart the House. He claimed he had discovered the deactivated Knights and so sought out distant descendants of the old house, and hoped for political advancement due to his find. However, it backfired, because the Knights were determined not to dishonor the name they had falsely taken as their own (being ashamed of their secret). So, for a name, I have a few ideas. First, I could twist the name of an actual extinct noble house into something that sounds 40k appropriate. For example, House Mannoth (taken from house Monmouth) or House Hexetus (house Exeter) or house Khandos (house Chandos). The other option is making one up, which I find harder. I thought up a few sort of generic names that sound like Knight Houses, but I am not that excited about them since they are generic (stuff like Coldshroud, Hawkwood, Winterveil from the canon Houses). I had a few name ideas I like more but they don't sound that much like noble houses. One I have lingered on is House Fulkanith (derived from 'volcanic,' with the idea being that in ancient texts the word is used to describe their corporate personality as well as their headquarters, and it is mistakenly attributed to be the name of the house). But I'm not entirely sold on that, and I think something like Mannoth might be better. I'm open to any thoughts, if anyone has them!

So I'm thinking about going down the rabbit hole and ordering a Cerastus Knight as the leader of my Knight House (which hasn't been created yet ). I've got the three PDFs for each variant - barring the purely AdMech one - and have decided that either the Knight Castigator or Knight Lancer would be great in this role. But, like many people, I have questions to ask of you who have gone down this road before. Build Difficulty - How hard are Cerastus Knights to build? Will I need to pin the arms and whatnot or are the sockets (?) a pretty good fit? I figure the feed on the Knight Castigator's Bolter Arm of Doom will need to be heated and moulded to fit but is that the worst I can expect? Attack Profile - The PDFs say the Cerastus Knights as a whole get one extra attack versus the regular Questoris Knights. Have I missed something or is this accurate? Formations - I figure that I can place a Cerastus Knight into any of the Formations without hassle (as long as they don't exceed the number of other Knights in the Formation or whatever). I don't have the Codex to hand so this is just lazy confirmation. Thank you for any help you can give me !