dk is a bit quiet in this one, and we don't want to blame anyone for this error, but it was totally dks fault i fixed audio in the sound only version on the podcast services but on YT i cant do anything so you will have to crank up that volume sorry (for overlooking dks mistake) -shy

"how strong was golden age humanity?" Apparently, they got the Orks to agree to a Non-Agression Pact . . . and stick to it.

"The fewer words an imperial knight's name has, the more dangerous it is. You don’t want to be on the wrong end of Dark King Grûtmore’s Edge of Annihilation, don’t get me wrong, but you FOR SURE don’t want to be on the wrong end of something called The Throngler."

My favorite piece of lore from the 8th ed timeline. Lone Guardian "Sir Yannil of House Derthos swears an oath to stand guard over the beset mining colonies on the moon of Tandosa. Enthroned within Tower of Strength, his Knight Castellan, Yannil sees off repeated attacks by Drukhari pirates. Outraged at the intervention by Yannil and his ironclad behemoth, the leaders of the Drukhari raiding parties send a force of swift gunships and agile fighter-craft to eliminate the impediment once and for all. Engaging his airborne tormentors as best he can, Yannil sends a missive to House Derthos for aid, then digs in and vows to hold his ground until he is relieved. It is a week later that Knights of House Derthos reach Tandosa. They find Tower of Strength still standing, ravaged by energy blasts and explosives, its pilot clinging to life by a thread. Around him are scattered the wrecks of the Drukhari vessels, eliminated to the last."

DK: "How do they afford all this?" Me: "They're called the MeCANicus not the MeCAN'Ticus."

Pacific Rim 40k Step 1: redirect a Tyranid Hive Fleet to a Knight World Step 2: unleash a bioweapon that kills smaller Tyranid lifeforms Step 3: let them fight.

"Regret your mistakes!..." "...And accept your punishment!" - Warcry of the freelancer couple 'Repentance' and 'Atonement' (respectively)

It always puts a smile on my face hearing/reading about “old humanity” having and using “necron level bullshit”.

These warriors carry the might and faith of a well reinforced wall. An essential part of any defensive line, one of my personal favorites.

To put into persepective how powerful humanity was in its prime. They signed a non-agression pact with ORKS. They were so OP that orks didn't see any fun in fighting them so they left them alone.

Bricky: "The most knightly you can get, except for dark angles" Me(a *black templar* player): sad *crusading* noises

To emphasize how far back the Imperium has regressed, the Leman Russ Battle Tank is in fact, derived from a tractor. It may be a nod to tank history, but it’s hilarious that one of mankind’s commonplace and mainstay war machines is in fact, supposed to be a tractor

Next series for Bricky. Bricky learns Battletech Pros: Giant Robots & Noble Houses Cons: Not as ridiculous as 40K

I want a knight to run in every army. Custodes, Astartes, Heretics, everything. They're so cool. Can't wait until I can afford one.

RE: Knights with warhorns. There's a short story called The Binary Succession and the audiobook version fucks because as the Mechanicus Titan starts stomping toward the Imperial Lord parliament it keeps blaring its horn, and it gets louder and louder as it stomps closer and everyone in the palace is losing their minds while the Mechanicus just sit there like 'lol, lmao'

Bricky's freeblade couple would be hella fun to see. Big knight petting lil knight and all that, throw in a laugh

Can we actually get fanart of the Imperial Knight Couple that Bricky was thinking about? Like unironically that sounds both badass and sweet, and if 40K is gonna have sweet, it oughta be badass and sweet I would do it myself but I lack the talent required, so I beseech the artists in the community

The idea that stuff like Terminator armor, knights and other insane tech was used for labor might sound insane. But if we take a look at some of the insane machinery we in the real world have made for mining, logging, excavation, etc and then imagine these monsters dropped into the medieval age then you basically have a super weapon or mobile fortress. The bagger 288 excavator is the closest thing we have to an imperial knight or even Titan right now. The Caterpillar mining truck is basically an unstoppable fortress on wheels and they have literally made real life walkers for logging machine.

If you ever seen that anime "Vision of Escaflowne", you've seen a knight world. Hell, at one point in the story they even call down spaceship to repair the titular mech, filled with guys who bear a striking resemblance to the mechanicus, and pay them in agricultural goods.

Now I can't help but imagine all Knights as all having just Gaston as the pilot

Imperial Knights should be in a dawn of War game being it's own fraction.

Bricky definitely needs to make that Freeblade couple the centerpiece of an army. ...Actually, go one step further. Make two Chaos Knights with similar heraldry, but paint them up as two different Chaos factions so you can take them in separate armies, and joke about how the couple is spending time apart whenever you can only bring one to a game.

An idea I had recently was basically the Imperial Knight equivalent to the Legion of the Damned (because if it's warp ghosts, why should the Space Marines have all the fun?). They'd be Knights and their pilots who were lost in the warp, and arrive when the situation is most dire. Human forces look up to see a giant burning robot with a skull for a faceplate, shooting literal hellfire at their enemies. I'd call them House Goetia, with each robot being named for a different demon. The Stolas, the Belith, the Andrealphus. Three Armigers would be called the Cerebus Squad, named Right Head, Left Head, and Center Head. Paint stylized images of the relevant demon on their carapace, and their shields would be emblazoned with the demon's sigil. None of this is Chaos, I must remind. It would just be rad as heck. Even when damned to hell, they continue to serve the Emperor.

The ion shields doesn’t cover the Knight in its entirety but can be moved around like a virtual shield to deflect shots. The ion shields main ability is to deflect attacks or slow down shots to lessen damage. The void shield on the other hand, covers the entire machine or structure and absorbs attacks. Titans and ships use void shields while Knights use ion shields.

I look forward to Bricky trying to explain the 30 different variants of questoris-class and what the difference is.

My favorite moments of knights I think was during "Titan Death" the biggest Titan battle and the Titans wanted to retreat but the hordes of knights were like CHARGE and got vaporized by the thousands cuz they refused to retreat so the Titans changed their minds to help.

I like the idea of Bricky's knight couple concept. Maybe they could be a Romeo and Juliet type situation, the children of two rival houses who managed to get knights and eloped together to become freeblades.

Since they came up again, I wanted to mention my favourite theory about machine spirits I read somewhere online that machine spirits might be the remnants of AI that the techpriests couldn't eliminate. The theory says that all technology had AI, and thought the Mechanicus tries they couldn't get rid of it all. So for smaller machines the AI is more basic and needs just a little bit of adoration to work, but for titans or other massive machine spirits theres a lot more AI left and they want more worship to work, so the AdMech praying and offering things and burning incense actually has a purpose.

The most 'Standard' type of money that the Imperium uses on a Interstellar level, aka not used by commoners but used by Noble Houses, Interstellar Trading Merchants, and other high level players is a credit system called 'Thrones'. But even these aren't used everywhere.

Cool things I don't think Bricky touched on but I am so soy infused that I know way to much about this shit. >It's kinda implied that, during the ritual of becoming, the knight has to CHOOSE you and basically the type of knight you get is based on your personality. If you're a boisterous, combative, angry guy you get the gallant, if you're quiet and reserved you get the crusader, etc. >The Iron Warrior Obliterator virus works on Knights and that's how chaos knights are made. >Knights have machine spirits so strong they can basically act without a pilot. When Sir Hektur was captured by the Iron Warriors, his knight "Canis Rex" blew through like half the ship to save him. >Knights are named like boats used to be, things like "Fist of Iron" >Knights frequently swear Oaths, which they carry out to a tee. One time a Knight Castellan stood vigil over a planet for like 200 years and fought off a Drukhari raid all by himself. >The knight Preceptor is basically in charge of training new knights and watching after the Armigers, which are essentially squires. >Armigers don't go through the Ritual of Becoming because they don't have a Throne Mechanicum. They wear something called a Helm Dominatus, which allows them to control the knight but they can be overridden by their superiors and basically mind-controlled like Skitarii. I know the Questor Mechanicus does this alot, but I think the Questor Imperialis kinda doesn't as much? >The knight valiant is cool and you cannot convince me otherwise. >I think House Raven has the STC for one of their knights like the warden or something and someone's job is just to spam that mf like no tomorrow. >Freeblades are cool because they leave their house to go on a world tour for their own sake and sometimes they come back and their house takes them back because they did something dope. >The Obisidian Knight spends his free time fucking up Tau and is (maybe) a perpetual because his knight dies like twice but always comes back and a knight that is a perpetual with his suit is fucking dope. >The leader of a knight house is called the High King lol. >During the Damocles Crusade, a knight named Montagne fell off a cliff but the High King Tybalt used his thunderstrike gauntlet to catch him and pull him back up. He later said "You're supposed to save my life, Montagne, not the other way around!" >Also death grip is really funny because it's basically an extra attack so if there's like one guardsman in a squad left and you need the objective he's on you can like pick him up and chuck him into space with the little Smash Bros *wink* into the distance lol >the thundercoil harpoon is the only weapon in the tabletop with a native AP -6 god I love knights dude they're so cool.

Now I'm just imagining a medieval battlefield but one side shows up with priests that are ritualisticly turning on a backhoe, then an elite warrior gets in and drives it at the enemy and starts squishing people.

Titans and princepts are represented extremely well in the Hellsreach fan-made movie on KZfaq - especially towards the end of the movie where the animation improves

i hope we might get like a miscellaneous marines episode like chapters that are interisting but not enough written for it to be like a full episode, maybe come with like extra parts and such i hope they cover the legion of the damned chapter

My experience with knights: “Wow, these look cool. Oh, $140 for one.” And that was the end.

16:35 thats from Forge of Mars. It was a chronoweapon that destroyed the eldar vessels solar sail dooming it to a slow death. And yes, it was a self defense mechanism. It brought out the big guns at the end of the book to crack a planet and destroy some necron thing i presume was a shard.

If Bricky does his Freeblade Couple, he should have 1-2 armigers as their kid or kids, so he can field them as a knight Lance.

1:10:55 One of the funniest things I've ever heard was one of my buddies was fighting gardsman (in table top) and they had killed all the tanks and armor. He still had the harpoon so he just said "fuck this one gard in particular" and shot the one gardaman with the harpoon just because he could.

Praise to the Emperor and The Machine God for blessing us with the glory of the Imperial Knights

Bricky, The Couples Knight idea with perhaps even a couple warglaives as adopted siblings would be a cool idea. Do it. Make your dreams a reality! I'm trying to make a fallen T'au Sept that works with orks. Anything is possible!

HONOUR THY FORGE, HONOUR THE PRIMUS ORDINUS. -Motto of House Taranis, guardians of Mars, the first knights to greet the Emperor of Man and the bane of arch-traitor Kelbor-Hal

The Council has awarded this video one singular pogger.

The "Battletech was popular" faction. Noble houses, old-ass few stories tall mechas, big guns and fists, groups of 3 to 5... that's just an Inner Sphere Assault Lance, isn't it? That there are often a group of smaller ones around (AKA a Recon or Skirmish Lance) is just the cherry on the cake. Good ol' 40K. Never noticed how much that part of the setting was copied over until now.

[Looks at my unpainted Knight Castellan in shame] I'm just afraid of ruining it 😭

Thought I'd share the description of a knight desecrator from the 8th ed chaos Knight codex "Bow waves of horror and despair roll before the advance of the Knights Desecrator. With every ground-shaking footfall the enemy know that their doom draws closer, for these malefic war engines hunt their prey with a spite-fuelled efficiency that is monstrous to behold. No living thing is spared, no victim considered too mighty or too meagre to escape the notice of the Knights. With methodical ruthlessness they crack open every strongpoint, lay bare every scrap of cover and scour their enemies from the battlefield down to the last hapless victim. Obsession is common amongst the servants of Chaos; amongst the Fallen Nobles who pilot Knights Desecrator it finds expression in a desire to relentlessly annihilate every trace of their enemies. For such murderous butchers it is not enough to simply defeat the foe. They must fell every opposing war engine, blasting and crushing their mechanical targets until nothing but smouldering scrap remains. They must level every fortification and trample its ruins to rubble, massacre every last warrior who stands against them or flees before their wrath, then tear down every temple, monument, dwelling and structure, every trace that their enemies ever existed. Only once their foes' holdings are reduced to blasted wastelands and their enemies lie piled in corpse-mountains high enough to blot out the stars do the Knights Desecrator know even a moment's satisfaction. Even then it is fleeting, for until the entire Imperium is reduced to ruin, these Fallen Nobles will know no peace. Knights Desecrator possess potent mid-to close range armaments that lend themselves towards duelling enemy war engines or monstrous beasts, or tearing down the foe's fortifications. One limb typically ends in a taloned thunderstrike gauntlet that can be used to crush, pulverise and rake their enemies, or even to heft the crumpled wreckage of a battle tank and hurl it bouncing and rolling through the foe to lethal effect. The Desecrator's other primary armament is the fearsome laser destructor. Boasting considerable range for a focused beam weapon, the laser destructor packs a tremendous punch. Each shot is preceded by a rising banshee wail as energy flickers about the weapon's muzzle, before it discharges with a crack like mountains splitting Where the laser destructor's actinic blast strikes home, armour vaporises and flesh sublimates to steam in a heartbeat. The weapon is capable of coring a foot-wide hole through solid adamantine from a thousand yards away, and the irregular overpulses that race down its beam can blast apart even the heaviest targets with sudden and unpredictable eruptions of energy. Those Fallen Nobles who pilot Knights Desecrator are all cruel despots, well disposed to imposing their tyrannical will upon others. They often hold the metaphysical leashes of allied War Dogs. With their thralls' Helms Mechanicum slaved to their warped Thrones, the Fallen Nobles coordinate vicious flanking manoeuvres and volleys of enfilading fire from the War Dogs that drive their enemies from cover. So are even the best dug-in foes flushed out to be crushed beneath the Knights Desecrator's trampling feet or mowed down by their chattering point defence stubbers. After all, none can be permitted to survive the Chaos Knights' wrath; only death can remain in their wake."

I hear that House Griffith have a tendency to go _Berserk_ while House Hawkshround tend to _band_ together. I also want to point out one of the best 40k games is a mobile game (PUT DOWN THE PITCHFORKS!) called Freeblade where you play as the last survivor of a Knight Household that is indebted to the Dark Angels who saved them after their homeworld fell to the forces of Khorne. For a mobile game it's absolutely fucking amazing and I wish there was a pc port. It's basically a rail shooter where you get to stomp through a city or whatever mowing down plebs until something big comes along like a Deff Dread or a Brass Scorpion, the perspective changes and you _charge_ the thing like a knight on horseback complete with a skill based minigame of aiming for a one shot kill. It's _so_ cool.

Imperial Knights is just Titanfall in 40k, and I fucking love it.

I honestly think that Knight Oc’s are some of the coolest 40k oc’s out there. My main two: A Freeblade who drives the old fashion Cerastus Knight Lancer, named Horizon’s Lance, Sir Gathel Morrus, of the fallen house Morrus. The other is a chaos knight, named Lord Ruthal, who is a devotee to Khorne. He drives a Knight Rampager (a chaos gallant), he named his Knight “The Bloody Tyrant,” and he’s the self proclaimed “Gladiator of Khorne.” He has been known to work with World Eaters as well.

Thrones, the imperial currency as I best recall is thrones. Not always accepted, can't always convert them, but they are the general currency of the Empire. *I think.

Hearing Bricky's excitement over the harpoon having -6 AP makes me wonder how he'd feel about how Tyrannids can get AP -8 using a Carnifex Acid Maw with Monsterous size, Focal Essence, and Aggressive adaptation (even if it is as far from a smart thing to do as things get)

I now demand a forge world model of Bricky's idea for the freeblade couple and a painting stream for them

Techpriest: Your big robot is cool. I like big robots. Knight Pilot: Yeah. Wanna hold hands? Techpriest: ...'K.

Because it didn't really come up: The Armigers are the "young" Knights. They're basically squires. They train beside the bigger Knights and if you are a good enough Armiger pilot, you get the chance to pilot one of the bigger Knights. That's also the reason the Armigers often are kind of aggressive and overconfident, always willing to show their skill and courage so they get the bigger toys quicker. This is represented pretty well in the new Knights Codex.

*WHY ARE YOU BUYING KNIGHTS AT THE SOUP STORE?!?*

I cannot believe I missed such a fucking bomb-ass quote from bricky, the Death Grips connoisseur due to homework. Amazing video as always guys.

Damnit DK, there's more to AdMec than the mechanicus and way more deep things and stories I wanna hear about.

"Why are you buying imperial nights at the soup store!?" "f* you!"

I love knight their just cool. Gaint knight mechs chain saw sword fighting other gaint knight mechs.

imagine a mecha game were you customize your knight and fight big ol tyrannids and stomp orks and be all big and stuff.... man thatd be cool...

I cant wait for these two to do a Iron Hands Podcast The Flesh Is Weak

Women in knights is incredibly common , house Devine had many female knights. I think 🤔 the book was called mechanicum , in the horus heresy books 📚 as most knight houses are literally family it would be crazy 🤪 not to have women pilot the knights. Also being bonded with a knight is not a certainty , some family members can't be bonded. One of house devine could not be bonded and he was effectively shunned by the family

I hope we get a Malcadort he Sigillite episode

Bricky, as someone who’s been making a bunch of 40k characters for my fan chapter, love that concept for the knights, it’s really cool

There was this one 40k mobile game called freeblade where you are the last knight of a household that was destroyed by chaos forces. With the help of the dark angels, you get revenge for your fallen brethren. Also you get to fight orks too.

Can you Chad's cover some regiments of renown for the Imperial Guard? Like the mordant acid dogs? Or the Armageddon Ork Hunters?

Now this is a sentry worth protecting from sappers

Seriously though, becoming a imperial knight pilot it's like trying to get a lucid dream with sleep paralysis.

*Staring in Cerastus and Acastus Knight patterns* *My Porphyrion's "The Venator" Magna Lascannons are charging up*

I know it's not canon, but at some point you gotta do the Angry Marines! Great example of the fandom coming up with their own stuff...

Brickys OC but its a romeo and juliet story where they come from two warring houses and eventually go freeblade fighting together.

It should be noted that despite a chainsword working for logging knights during the dark age of technology would have been outfitted with dedicated logging equipment or dedicated mining equipment so they might have had something adjacent to a plasma. Lance, but it's not meant for melting armor. It's going to be meant for digging through rock and they will accompany that with some sort of arm or some sort of shovel and same thing with a logging ax. They would have a large basically a normal chainsaw and a large grabbing hand for moving logs around. Also, on the topic of shielding a void shield shunts incoming kinetic energy into the warp, an ion shield tries to transfer that energy into light, so they're too slightly different mechanisms. The ion shield is going to generally be weaker and is not going to be able to absorb as much punishment before falling and it also may not be able to encompass as big of a area as a void shield

After a month of binging episodes while I’m at work I have now reached roughly the halfway mark. I owe these guys almost 90% of the credit for getting me into 40k

7:45 My Librarian putting Might of Heroes on a Landraider: "Im gonna end this mans whole career"

A great representative of two imperial knights is the fan amination a gentlemen's duel, its steampunk not 40k but it works

It be cool if dark age of technology factions served and formed it own army like it just out in space some where . Or video on the dark age

Been waiting for this episode! Love the Giant Robots.

Honestly, I do love the Freeblade couple idea. At the head of an Army of Renown Freeblade Lance, that could be a lot of fun to play with. Especially as a Crusade force.

I can imagine if the imperium ran into Klingons Either the astartes or the imperial knights would probably get into a war with them over who is more honorable

My introduction to knights was in the Inquisitor - Martyr game its the most fun sections of the game

1:06:10 Even better, get a pair of Armigers that are the couples children, you could potentially have a full 2000 point army that is just this Freeblade family

I knew they wouldn’t cover the forge world knights, but I was really hoping they would. Wanted to see them talk about my big tall boys & my huge chunky gun man.

I think we just filled in a really big gap in dk's knowledge

This just makes me want to make an army (if possible) of Guards with Mechanicus and a Mechanicus Knight. Maybe a diorama to show em off.

Bricky: *mentions the Knight Crusader* *POWERWOLF AND SABATON INTENSIFIES*

Bricky's idea makes me want to build a family of Knights. Mom and Dad in corresponding Knights. Bunch of kids in the little ones. And Grandma handling the monster sized one. 🤣

I am a simple man, I see adeptus ridiculous come out with a new episode, i click and am happy

I don't own any models but I'm a massive fan of the lore

If I recall right I vaguely remember reading something concerning the economy of the Imperium and they mentioned the word 'thrones' when talking of money.

I tried to skim through comments and I couldn't spot anyone saying this...so Um actually... T8 isn't highest toughness. There are at least two vehicles with T9 Warlord titan and Mastodon(that space marine super heavy transport). Of course I'll have to admit that this is bit of a moot point since Warlord is 5.5k points and who would take 800 point transport.

Great episode as always, hope to see another in-depth on the houses, and any chaos Knightholds as well

"How do they pay for it?" The considering how fascist the Imperium is even at the best of times, I'd imagine the economy is probably corporatist (or mercantalist or otherwise syndicalist) in nature, meaning so long as you make a request of the Administratum for stuff and they approve of it, you'll get that thing regardless of how many slaves, serfs, peasants, hivescum, or ecosystems need to die in order to get it. This is also partly why the inequality between the classes on many worlds is so massive. Because if you're a corrupt noble who's practically enslaved the entire planetary population in the name of producing some kind of good or item the Imperium wants, and you have a corrupt administratum clerk in your pocket who can get you whatever you want, then you can live in complete unbridled opulance with little to no concern or opposition. Markets? Capitalism? Competition? That's for peasants and hivers who have to actually work for a living (and even then, depending on the way the planet is managed, that would only be a secondary economy since chances are everyone would just have their appointed rations and housing and that's it and would be shot by enforcers or arbites should they complain about it). Meanwhile if you're born into the nobility of the planetary elites or governorship with an aurumite spoon in your mouth, you don't have to worry about that stuff. You just ask for that stuff from your Administratum clerk while reminding him about the horrible things you'll do to him and/or his family should he fail to get you the 800 gem-crusted space-flamingo tongues that you plan to scarf down singlehandedly for next week's noble ball/feast/orgy to celebrate the inauguration of your 50th coliseum/execution ground/blood-orgy hall that you just had built because you got bored of the last 49 and decided to gift some of them to some lesser nobles that are in your favour because of the weird thing they did during the last orgy. So no DK, I don't think the knight houses have to pay much for building and maintanance for the Knights, especailly since they'd be on the high priority waiting lists for most forge worlds.

yo shy's memeage is always on point especially the head empty one XD

I love how Bricky didn't want to talk about the Freeblades and it ends up being the best part of the episode! lol

I wanna see an interaction between some Imperial Knights and a Custodian Dreadnought, like a Galatus or something

Pretty good episode, lots and lots of details about my favourite faction. I did notice that you side stepped a lot of the forgeworld Knight units. Stuff like the Mechanicum versions of knights (Moirax, Styrix, Magaera) and the other two Knight chassis, the Cerastus and the Acastus. Would have loved to see the reaction to stuff like the Atropos and Porphyrion (the literal black hole gun and the sheer size and armament respectively). Hopefully we can get a follow up at some point.

Everytime they make a video. I change my favorite part of 40k. Its now freeblades.

if i ever run/play a 40k tabletop rpg a Freeblade Armiger from a fallen knight world would be my go-to player character/major NPC

See how the enemies struggle and thread soon we will burn piles of their dead

A quick question have you done or will you do The Titans

As I listen to this Im building my own knight valiant

the freeblades knight couple is an AWESOME Idea! and tactically actually useful