Knight Destrier

[Lord Marshal]

Warjack? I hardly know him!

 

 

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The Knight Destrier is a pattern of Bellatus class Imperial Knight prized for its incredible speed and grace, achieved by slimming down the chassis and mounting two large rocket boosters to the back of its carapace. So great is the added thrust of these boosters that large counterweights must be added to the Knight’s legs to help it maintain balance.

 

 

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The Knight Destrier’s Bellatus class chassis is slightly shorter than the Questoris class, but still significantly larger than the Armigers assigned to lesser bondsmen. They are favoured by aggressive nobles who long for the cut-and-thrust brutality of melee combat, where they can rapidly seek out enemy behemoths and earn glory with a single rocket-boosted thrust of a colossal power blade.

 

 

Eye of Terror book reveal next week probably, according to the article.

Edited 8 hours ago by Lord Marshal

[The Lost Son]

If it's in anyway posable it could be cool to model, I don't not like it but I don't know if I like it either. Seems a lot of effort to remake and shrink the cerastus instead of just letting people use them. 

[Mogger351]

Meeehhhhhhh

 

It just looks like a 3d print artists "not a knight" on odd scaling settings.

[Schrödingers Primarch]

No mention of Heresy compatibility, it'll be interesting if it gets a 30k data sheet. Fingers crossed it does, to maintain Knight chassis across both game systems. 

[Mogger351]

Just now, Schrödingers Primarch said:

No mention of Heresy compatibility, it'll be interesting if it gets a 30k data sheet. Fingers crossed it does, to maintain Knight chassis across both game systems. 

Dominus doesn't exist in 30k already.

[Lord Marshal]

3 minutes ago, Schrödingers Primarch said:

No mention of Heresy compatibility, it'll be interesting if it gets a 30k data sheet. Fingers crossed it does, to maintain Knight chassis across both game systems. 

 

Wouldn't hold my breath.

[Flaherty]

I love the pennant! The design is great – I hope they add more chivalric bits to future releases! 

[Bouargh]

The global silhouette of the machine is a nice balance between agility and bulky reinforced shield on the Pilot casing. Even if the ranged weapons look a bit bulky.

 

I wonder if this type of knight will be a HtH alternative that will contribute leaving the Gallant Knight configuration at home (but I am biased - I lack appetit for the Gallant)? I guess it will depend on the rules for that spear or the alternate chainsaw. It may eventually be another hit in (de)favor of the Cerastus chassis too - mostly only the Lancer was bringing something genuine not already brought to us by any Questoris platform. And it might be that this Destrier would also condemn the Lancer to be a HH era thing only...

For the shooty part, I really wonder what we could expect in terms of profile. Specifically for the huge frag cannon, which is not that handsome if you ask for my opinion...

[Lord Marshal]

4 minutes ago, The Lost Son said:

If it's in anyway posable it could be cool to model, I don't not like it but I don't know if I like it either. Seems a lot of effort to remake and shrink the cerastus instead of just letting people use them. 

 

For me it's the faceplate throwing it off. It's a bit on the nose as a 'knight helmet' even by the standards of the existing faceplates but ultimately a nitpick.

 

If the homework was 'come up with the lovechild of the Armiger and Questoris' I feel like it completes the assignment to specifications and not much else. I like it, but I'm not in love with it. As you say it's essentially a shrunken Cerastus.

 

At least it's something more for 40k Knight players to chew on than a few extra Questoris pieces like the Defender was I suppose.

[darkhorse0607]

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"mounting two large rocket boosters to the back of its carapace. So great is the added thrust of these boosters that large counterweights must be added to the Knight’s legs to help it maintain balance."

 

Would've been nice if they had shown them. I assume it's the small cylinder under the exhaust but it's kind of weird to me to make such an emphasis in the text, but then not highlight them in the photo

Edited 8 hours ago by darkhorse0607
to make it nicer, I'm just in a bad mood this morning. The knight is fine, not my thing but it's fine

[Marshal Reinhard]

Oh dear. I thought Imperial knights was a closed chapter behind me... The alternate loadout a while back with the plasma and shield generator etc didn't really sway me... this looks rather nice though.

[Commander Dawnstar]

It's okay. Not blown away but I don't dislike it either.

 

The one thing I'd consider a miss is that the "large rocket boosters" are actually quite small and hidden away rather than being a dominant part of its visual identity. They're easily missed if you're not actively looking for them.

Edited 8 hours ago by Commander Dawnstar

[NorthernUltramarines]

Absolutely love it! Was never a massive fan of armigers, but these are right up my street. Love the helmet options too, will be picking up a pair to joint my little knight detachment.

[Nephaston]

Hmm, a nice medium to the Armigers small and the Questoris' large (and the Dominus' Extra Large). Will be ever so slightly more maneuverable thanks to not having a base the size of Luxembourg.

 

Already looking forward to the half a dozen variants this will spawn.

[Mogger351]

Chaos, yay or nay is the important question now.

[Indy Techwisp]

5 minutes ago, Lord Marshal said:

If the homework was 'come up with the lovechild of the Armiger and Questoris' I feel like it completes the assignment to specifications and not much else.

 

This is the middle stage evolution in the Imperial Knights Pokémon line.

[DeadFingers]

Apparently past me tapped into the future while making my first Chaos Knight.

 

 

It's a very nice middle ground between the Armiger and the Questoris. It's got the sleeker profile and digitigrade legs of one while keeping the overall bulk and armour of the other. Really like both face plates as well. It's not particularly blowing me away or anything, but it's still rather nice, and I'm biased by the general lack of spikes and chains and other gribbly bits.

Edited 8 hours ago by DeadFingers

[sitnam]

2 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

Meeehhhhhhh

 

It just looks like a 3d print artists "not a knight" on odd scaling settings.

 

I wouldn't go that far, most 3d prints I've seen are far too over designed.

 

But I can't say I love it.  As @The Lost Son said, definitely seems like the not!Cerastus for 40k. Rocket boosters are cool though.

 

I'm hoping that Chaos Knights don't get this chassis and get their own unique medium sized Knight to differentiate the factions

 

[Evil Eye]

Eh, it's alright. Could be better but could be a hell of a lot worse. I like the second head, a bit on the nose but it's cool. My big gripe is the rocket boosters; not aesthetically but thematically. An Imperial Knight pulling a rocket-assisted charge straight out of a particularly cool 80s mecha anime OVA* just doesn't seem very on-brand. For the Eldar, sure, and on the Imperial side I actually really like the 30K Blood Angels Contemptor with the jump pack, but to me at least even the swiftest of Imperial Knights/Titans should be fairly ponderous- being charged by one at full tilt is still going to be terrifying given the sheer SIZE of the lad, it's hard to imagine the rocket boosters as doing much other than sending it sprawling into the ground.

 

*For what it's worth I love me some anime goodness, I just feel like a Knight should be more The Big O than Mobile Suit Gundam in terms of speed and fighting style.

[Brother Anderson]

6 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

Chaos, yay or nay is the important question now.

 

I'd love chaos knights rules for it, but we've got unique datasheets for things the loyalists don't have so I'll be sanguine if this is just for the imperial folks.

[Mr Farson]

21 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

Dominus doesn't exist in 30k already.

Outrageous behaviour considering it had rules in 1.0

[DuskRaider]

3 minutes ago, Brother Anderson said:

 

I'd love chaos knights rules for it, but we've got unique datasheets for things the loyalists don't have so I'll be sanguine if this is just for the imperial folks.

I don’t think making a Loyalist-only chassis is very lucrative, and I can’t see why Chaos wouldn’t have access to it. Hope they do. 

[Marshal Rohr]

Where is Valrak, has he done his victory lap yet 

[Mogger351]

12 minutes ago, Brother Anderson said:

 

I'd love chaos knights rules for it, but we've got unique datasheets for things the loyalists don't have so I'll be sanguine if this is just for the imperial folks.

I don't consider 2 whole extra armiger arms a fair exchange for a 33% increase in available stat blocks.

[Matcap86]

Wait the description says it has rocket boosters on the back, for sprinting, but also extra heavy feet for balance. So it'll just faceplant everytime it tries to go fast? 

 

Got to say looks wise again a hard miss for me. What is the 40k studio doing? Designs that aren't situated in already exisiting designs (like the maelstorm reavers) are just... not very warhammer in their vibe. If you'd told me this was a Hasbro product I'd have believed you.