Warhammer 40K: Best Chaos Knight Dreadblade Combos for Your Other Chaos Armies
Goatboy here with three lean & mean Dreadblade combos to add some chocolate Chaos Knights into your peanut butter Chaos armies – YUMMY!
Chaos Knights are always an interesting add-on for Chaos players, especially if you look at ways to maximize certain aspects of how you want your army to play. They can also easily shore up some issues your play style might have as well as just give you a giant fat monsters that sits pretty on your backfield objective.
Aggressive Triple Stalker – World Eaters & Emperor’s Children
The first one I think that needs to be looked at is the 3 X Stalker combo that gives you a powerful aggressive front of War Dogs to utilize. The new Stalker build gives you the 3 War Dogs that now gain a 6″ scout and the ability to add a 1 to the wound roll if they are shooting at something that is over 6″ away from any other unit. I really like the idea of having three more bodies to scout in front and give you some powerful anti vehicle option with the Daemonbreath Spear that wrecks things with Melta 4. You are going to get 18″ towards the enemy and say you mix it with the scout heavy options from a World Eaters army (3 Eightbound, 3 Chaos Spawn) and you start to have a pretty mean first wave followed by whatever backfield pile of nonsense that is coming at your enemy.
I do wonder at times if this would be helpful for the Emperor’s Children builds that are lacking in some “anti” vehicle firepower and mixing in a few of these could easily pop that pesky Rhino or Impulsor. Really it depends on how many points we are looking at for these guys as the back book points are ok but if they try to push them a bit we could see easily throwing three into your aggressive Chaos Cult builds and seeing how many times you oops – murder something with your daemon Melta.
Backfield Despoiler – Emperor’s Children
The second thought I had would be to look at a true backfield protection unit in a Despoiler build running either Double Thermal Cannons or going hot with massed Battle Cannons. It gives you some a lot of firepower and should be something to think about with Emperor’s Children. Yes you are going to be losing some points but just having something very powerful that can easily “burn” through armor will be helpful. It also is one of the few things that can easily just sit in the back and guard your backfield while the rest of your army yolo’s into your enemy and hopes the Coterie points rack up enough to have all your MSU units go nuts.
Knight Tyrant – CSM & Shadow Legion
Finally the Knight Tyrant is a very interesting choice as its back book points are still pretty low and it has one of the interesting can’t deploy within 12″ bubble that Chaos books do not have a ton of. You are also throwing that on a big base which pushes out the bubble to a huge area and might be one of the few ways to keep your table safe and sound. It also shoots pretty dang hard which could be very good. I do wonder with some of the Possessed pressure builds we see out there utilizing this to create a “board” half that is very hard to chew thru. Heck you could even mix it in with the Shadow Legion to create a true sort of Super Friends list with the Tyrant, Be’lakor, Fade Thirster, and then bunch of utility to keep things spicy.
Right now we just have to wait and see what the final points are going to work out and how much of a help these Dreadblades will actually add to armies. I could see a lot just being used to grant some “anti” vehicle weapons or just go hog wild on the aggression. I think the first thing I would test is the three Stalkers with my current go to aggressive World Eaters list and think some of these, some Helbrutes, and some janky stuff might lead me to victory.
For the Warmaster!
