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I can't imagine every legion had Titan support for every battle at every stage for every Chapter / Battalion / Company - just thinking of how many marines some of them had spread across the universes.  Just not possible.

 

However, I would imagine that they were available upon requirements to every chapter accordingly.

 

An entire chapter invading a planet after finding out how impenetrable or aggressive their enemies were ?  Sure.  Dropping a Battalion into an area that is heavily fortified ?  Sure.  Invading a location on a planet when they don't have time to plan ?  Maybe there was no time to call them.  A company doing regular mop-up duty on a planet post compliance ?  Nah, they have better things to do.

 

I guess it depends - do they have time to call them as support?  Are they needed?  Is it within the logistical parameters and 'cost' relative to requirements?  Is it a viable option in relation to the mission requirements?

 

That's my take anyway.  But then, I haven't read all fluff to see if they were made available or not to specific chapters or for specific requirements.

Just to keep everyone updated with the release, there is no mention in the article about allying with the Heresy and only one set of rules is given. The way its done, it is basically a mini-codex of Super-heavy Walkers. That's right, you heard me. There a few houses named, House Raven and House Cadmus for example as well as "Freeswords". Name sounds self-explanatory but basically, roaming knights who have either been kicked out of their houses or have left for whatever personal reasons.

Re: stubbers.

 

Remember that stubbers are pretty much modern guns, and a heavy stubber is a modern machine gun. We see them in civilian rabble and IG forces, because it's basically the gun that you use if you don't have lasers and aren't Astartes/Sororitas. So, it's got some machine guns on it, but not heavy bolters... so stubbers.

The Stubbers main use is to tag what you want to assault anyway :P I kinda like it in relation to knights being part of a slightly different tech base, so the common Imperial bolter/las orthodoxy isnt present.

And the rules in Massacre let you take any Imperial Super heavies as Lords of War choices, no reason that wouldnt apply to knights!

Except that traditionally, Imperial superheavies are kind of their own thing. The Knights are part of their own Codex. The army literally is the Knights and the WD article makes sound they can only be taken as a Primary detachment of Knights, or as an allied detachment.

Not disagreeing. I'm just curious due to the nature of their relation to the game how that would transition into 30K. For example(and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) if I wanted to take a Baneblade as a superheavy, it would be part of my primary attachment.

 

But these are only primary attachment when it is within their own army. Everyone else has to ally them in. So if we take them in 40K, will they be able to be taken normally, or will they have to be taken as allies?

True, and good point Kol, though id be inclined to see it the same way as using some IG or Navy vehicle in the slot, its a Legion x/y/z now and part of the regular FOC. Of course you could also probably field them as allies, though im pretty sure ducking being a lord of war isnt going to win you friends :D Just like fielding a pure Knight army out of the blue!

I play tested it already with the rules in the white dwarf using a cybernetic Xenos that can change into a truck for a proxy. Don't let the words "super heavy" scare you. Dedicated anti tank will kill it with ease, especially in close combat where you don't get the 4++. Knights need support in order to be effective.

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