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My blog is primarily my own personal fluff in the Warhammer 40,000 universe regarding the Draconis system such as the Knight House Yato in Ryusei, their Household Militia, the Draconian Defenders, and the Forge World of Draconis IV with its Adeptus Mechanicus priesthood, Cybernetica cohorts and Skitarii legions, and the Titan Legion, Legio Draconis, known as the Dark Dragons.

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Freeblades and Dreadblades


Have a single big Knight that you always wanted to bring with your army, but you don't because you're afraid he'll break the mono-faction bonus (like Combat Doctrines or Cabalistic Rituals or Martial Ka'tah)? Well, fear no more! Warhammer Community has confirmed that Freeblades and Dreadblades now count as Agents of the Imperium/Agents of Chaos, so you can take them without breaking your mono-faction bonus!



Why did they mention Adeptus Mechanicus's Canticles of the Omnissiah as an example when we already have Knight of the Cog? Uh, I suppose it's to alllow Adeptus Mechanicus to take an Imperialis Knight without breaking Canticles or Imperative Doctrina instead of being forced to a Mechanicus Knight? I honestly don't know. But why would you do that when you lose the Mechanicus keyword and therefore the refund of 2 Command Points when taking a super-heavy auxiliary detachment as opposed to spending just 1 Command Point on a single Mechanicus Knight? Hmm?

Oh, another interesting bit. Apparently Armigers are Objective Secured in an all-Knights Detachment. What the f does that even mean? Aren't...all detachments locked to a single faction? It's not like you can take Knights and other faction's units (Lords of War) in the same detachment - firstly, they need to share a keyword that's not Imperium or Chaos, secondly, I don't think there's many Lords of War you can take unless you're somehow souping Knights and Baneblades in the same detachment.

On the other hand, if you decide to take a Freeblade/Dreadblade unit of 3 Armigers/War Dogs, you can! Not only will you have essentially 3 small Knights running around with your armies without breaking mono-faction bonuses, they get Objective Secured too. So you don't need a pure Knight army to get Objective Secured Armigers anymore. Yay.

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