Goatboy’s Grimdark Armylist: Chaos Knight Forge World Infernal Lance
Goatboy here with an Infernal Lance armylist for the new Chaos Knight Codex, with a pinch of Forge World to spice things up.
While the Lords of Dread appear better on paper for the actual gameplay aspects of the army the Infernal Lance might be a decent choice. The ability to Malefic Surge your way to a powerful rule seems good especially with one giving the unit a 5+ Invulnerable save and a 6+ Feel No Pain. The Save is ok but I really can see the Feel No Pain being annoying to deal with – especially if the ForgeWorld Knights look to be decent.
In fact let’s talk about how the Forge World Knights kept their points in the new update? That is pretty wild and means we Knight players have a ton more options for the army – especially models with what looks like to be more wounds, faster movement, and interesting weapon load outs. This has me looking at things like the Aratapos and the Lancer as two bullies to wreck the tabletop.
Currently the Lancer is a very fast Knight that hits pretty hard and gives Assault to the weapon load out of War Dogs. As the army feels like it is going to be extremely aggressive I would think only the Karnivores will show up so getting assault on the No LOS missile launcher could be fun. The Atrapos is a very weird Knight with 2 very high powered shooting attacks following by a really mean flat 4 damage attack as well as a decent sweep that both have Sustained Hits 1. Of course this is all me thinking the Knights stay the same just like the Custodes FW models stayed mostly the same.
The Lancer keeps a 4+ invulnerable save and the Atrapos has a 5+ invulnerable options to play with. This is pretty good as again we are using these guys as faster bullies designed to be close and throw out some damage. The Atrapos also gets a +1 to hit versus Monsters or Vehicles and then a +1 to wound if the target is Towering or Titanic. Both of these could be really good in the upcoming Imperial Knights summer.
Let’s build an Infernal Lance with the FW points listed and hope the rules mostly stay the same. Heck let’s hope the rules get better and we are all on the FW Choo Choo train of doom as we prepare to wreck all those Imperial Knight armies incoming. Or at the very least get to play with our skinny legged knights. Also we could hope the Atrapos becomes a plastic kit too.
Goatboy’s Chaos Knights Forge World Infernal Lance Army – Revenge of Your Dead Wallet!
Chaos Knights – Detachment – Infernal Lance
-Characters-
Chaos Cerastus Knight Lancer – Enhancement – Bestial Aspect – 375pts
Chaos Cerastus Knight Atrapos – Enhancement – Blasphemous Engine – 390pts
Chaos Knight Despoiler – Double Gatling Cannons – 335pts
Chaos Knight Tyrant – Brimstone Volcano Lance, Ectoplasma Decimator – Warlord – Enhancement – Fleshmetal Infusion – 430pts
-Non Character-
Karnivore – 14opts
Karnivore – 14opts
Karnivore – 14opts
Pts: 1950
Goatboy’s Chaos Knights Forge World Infernal Lance Army Tactics
Here you have the Tyrant keeping the backfield safe, the Karnivores can stalk around the middle using the speed boost power, and then two FW knights can become bullies in the middle. The Despoiler with the Double Gatling Cannons can push for Lethal Malefic surges to push thru damage as needed and just try to pile it on as you play the mid table bully. We’ll see if the FW options stay the same and we get to figure out cool ways to “corrupt” an Atrapos in the future.
For the Warmaster!
