Knights of House Ulysses

[Khulu]

I decided I needed a place to keep all my Knights, so here we are.  I originally bought my first Knight in 7th ed to use as an ally to my AdMech.  My AdMech are long gone, so my Knights sat around unused for a long time.  I eventually started using them as Chaos Knights with my CSM and TS... both of which are also long gone.  Finally started working on Knights again to take a break from Drukhari and Necrons, and found a scheme I like that I can consistently do well, so I have been making decent progress on them.  I finally played Knights as an army this year for the first time, though I am still getting the hang of them. 

 

I still need to decide on a house sigil of some kind and apply transfers (for the most part) and I keep finding bits I need to touch up or repaint but the following are basically done.  As I finish more knights, I intend to update this post to keep them all together here.

 

Sonus Furor, Cerastus Acheron.  Piloted by Duchess Laffayat Wynn von Ulysses

 

 

 


 

 

 

Sanctum Irae, Cerastus Castigator.  Piloted by Duke Aughustis Bartlitt von Ulysses

 

 

 


 

 

 

Mortuus Stans, Dominus Castellan.  Piloted by King Hiyram Bayard vy Ulysses

 

 

 


 

 

 

Militus Mercus, Questoris Preceptor (counts as Canis Rex).  Piloted by Cyrus Buirnside ny Ulysses, outcast

 

 

 


 

 

 

Armigers.  Not sure if I am gonna name them all or not.  I might do something like Wolf 1-4, Hawk 1-4.  Need to think about it

 

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 01:32 AM by Khulu

[Focslain]

Nice clean work there. 

 

As for the armigar names. It kind of depends on how you use them. 

 

Personally since they used to be in squads of 1-3 I did the greek alphabet, Alpha, beta, gamma, etc (I'm up to 7 squadrons in my main house) with 1-3. I have a few named, but they are either seasoned veteran (parts of my theme lances) or in my main house I have a character one that held the Bastard helm in 9th. 

 

Really it depends on how your house uses/treats Armigars. If they have a lot and use them like foot troops, squardoning them makes more sense. If they are 'rarer' in your house, then giving them each a name would make more sense.

[Khulu]

Yeah, that's a good point.  I probably should have at least pilot call signs for the armigers, if not names.  My thinking is the heir (my Canis Rex counts as) let his pride get the better of him, and got embroiled in a foolish war that got enough pilots killed that it endangered the house (hence him being outcast).  Now they're promoting distant relatives and marrying new people in just to keep the house afloat.  Basically anyone they can find capable of piloting a Knight has a real chance of getting one.

[librisrouge]

I name my armigers but change them up from the knight visually.

 

House Pelletier's colors are:

Blue - Loyalty

Silver - Purity

Gold - Generosity

 

Armigers are forbidden from having gold. They're either watchmen (and thus, peasants) or squires (and thus, servants). What they have is given by the house, so they have nothing of their own to be generous with until they ascend to full knighthood.

 

Perhaps some visual marker could work for your house to justify the naming of the smaller machines.