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The fact that the pilot can hear the voice of the previous pilots makes me imagine one poor guy having all the previous pilots before him be backseat gamers to him

Imagine strapping into your knight to go into battle and the collective consciousness of your ancestors starts bugging you about when you're going to find a nice nobleman and give them great-great-great-grandkids

Knights remind me a lot of terminator armor: they’re super advanced for the time of 40k, but in humanity’s golden age it was just construction equipment.

As an Irishman who is practically surrounded by farmers day and night, I would love to own a Knight in real life. Not for the big frick-off chainsaw hand, not for the sake of being a nerd, but so I could look my peers in the eyes and say I have the worlds biggest tractor and they can all shut the hell up about theirs. Edit: On further thought, Ireland before the English colonised us would be great inspiration for a Knight World.

I just realised that imperial knights are just bretonnia if you replaced their horse fetish with a giant robot fetish, which is clearly a massive step up.

"Since Games Workshop is a British company they view concepts like social mobility in the same way most people view intestinal parasites." subscribed.

Alright, this is going to sound really stupid but Don Quixote would make for a great Imperial Knights novel. On some far off agri world he's the only knight left, the sole remnant of a bygone era who patrols the countryside in search of one final adventure. With him is Sancho, a guardsman who accompanies the knight partly out of boredom but also out of concern, both for the old man piloting the machine and for the people who might get caught up in his "quests". Whilst their story might not be as grand or as bloody as most Warhammer novels the duo ultimately has a positive impact on the lives of the people they encounter. They accidentally solve personal disputes, they dig irrigation canals looking for buried artefacts and they clear out wildlife infestations by means of overwhelming firepower. If nothing else it'd make for an interesting change of pace.

You weren’t kidding about how badly knights can get screwed by losing a single model. I was playing against Knights with my orks about a month ago and when the Knight Paladin was destroyed his whole army literally went down like a chain of dominos. He used the Noble Sacrifice strat and explosion from the Knight wiped out the last few wounds on a couple of Armigers, one of those ended up exploding and finishing off another Armiger and the only unit my orks lost was a Battlewagon on bottom bracket, while that stratagem cost him a third of his army.

There is also this pretty cool story with the imperial knight canis rex. Long story short his pilot sir Hektor got captured and tortured and the knight spirit decided to say fuck it and on his own without a pilot charged into their base, killed everyone and saved his pilots life. Got the nickname breaker of chains from that. Pretty cool short story in my opinion and the knight and sir Hektor are both models

There's a lot of lore potential when it comes to knights, specifically for homebrewing. Considering how different knight worlds have different situations from dystopian dung-age feudal worlds to death worlds where the megafauna and other local horrors force them to actually protect and care for their citizens. And suddenly I want an Arabian Nights themed imperial knight. A world where most of the surface consists of deserts and small nomadic tribes while uber-rich sultans use family heirlooms for sport. Said heirlooms being bejeweled knights that are totally not using blades from dead Eldar.

That little shield with coat of arms is called an ailette. Knights likely wore them for decorative reasons

I actually viewed the reason the Pilots became protective and ‘knightly’ was because the Throne Mechanicum literally gets imprinted by the pilot, meaning the knight’s “machine spirit” takes on the characteristics of the person using it. And with each generation of knight, each new imprint, makes the knight more and more protective, and like how the pilot imprints on the knight, the knight imprints on them. So the knight takes on traits of everyone who uses it, and the pilot takes on traits of everyone who ever did use it

15:01 you actually don't lose any abilities by allying a knight in your army. In the knight codex, 1 chaos knight is considered an "agent of chaos" and vise-versa for imperial

I knew that you would like the Tau as a faction since your favourite franchise is Halo and your video about the Covenant surviving 40k and the Forerunners one too.

"hm, i could do a deep dive on a 40k faction that hasn't gotten a spotlight before and explain them from a nuanced perspective to help newcomers to 40k approach matters from an educated perspective" "...or I could go HUGE ROBOT. nice." this is why I subbed to you. that and the Aeldari being the best faction and you acknowledging this

Also BIG RULES CORRECTION. You are allowed to take ONE Freeblade super heavy auxiliary detachment in your army WITHOUT breaking any mono faction rules. That one unit can be a single questorus model or up to three armiger ones.

Think about the fact that the first knights were basically just tractors with guns in case of alien monster attacks and then consider what people in the Dark Age of Technology actually considered to be weapons of war

A yes, Imperial Knights, or as I like to call them: SPACE BRETONNIANS

I'd like to add to the rant on feudalism around 6:00 Feudal society is a type of social contract built on the exchange of servitude for protection on one hand and on the other hand the division of territorial administration on the basis of loyalty to a superior power and military aid to said sovereign. Feudalism established in Europe as a result of the huge power vacuum due to the dissolution of the roman empire and the evolution on a bigger scale of the warband organisation of germanic people. It's quite possible that in the context of the abandoned space colonies during the age of strife the only real power remaining was the protection offered by knights to the inhabitants of said colonies. So they became feudal as a result of th power vacuum and the knights were the only ones who could realistically offer protection from the warp fuckery going on. In those colonies then the knights could be armed and maintained exchanging military power for labour.

There are actually independant knight houses that calls themselves Freeblades. These Knights acts as mercenaries and often joins the Imperium during tough fights to assist them. Although they are limited on Imperial Knights and losing one is devistating and if not the end of the Freeblade house. But they do have options for independance lorewise.

If anyone's interested, a great insight into Knights is a book/audiobook called Assassinorum: Kingmaker. Little summary of the story (at a basic level. No spoilers) is a group of assassin's are set to infiltrate and assassinate a leader of a knight house. Shenanigans ensue and knights end up becoming a massive part of the story. It's batshit crazy and a really fun and enjoyable read!

Honestly, if I ever get into 40K with the intention of actually playing, I'm picking knights. When I first played Dawn of War as a kid, I made a custom space marine chapter called "the Blue Moon knights". Nowadays I like the Blood Ravens too much to want to play any other space marine chapter, but I'd like to make a knight house that can inherit that awesome name. And I dont know how I'd do it, but I'd absolutely love to have the leader of the house wield an over sized Moon Light Greatsword straight from Dark Souls. Also, I'm smooth brained and impatient, the least models I have worry about the better. And chivalry is cool (Bretonia is awesome and you are just salty about the power of cavalry and King Arthur if you disagree)

I would DEFINITELY make a "NobleBright" Imperial Knight inspired by a show I watched when I was a kid... "King Arthur And The Knights Of Justice." It was basically animated "Power Rangers" crossed with Arthurian myth, and it was stupid... but it was the AWESOME kind of stupid.

I'd love to see a Do and Don't for the Farsight Enclaves separate from the Tau. But thats just me and know it probably won't be very popular.

THANK YOU! The coincidence is actually crazy, because I was thinking about starting imperial knights literally today.

Those worlds must've been kaiju-level hostile if they needed Knights to serve as construction equipment and colony defense. That, or they were really into mechs and Bretonnian LARPing.

Highly unlikely, but if GW and CA make a Total War Warhammer 40k then I will hands down buy the Imperial Knights DLC pack, because there is absolutely no fucking way they make these beautiful bastards one of the standard armies. Hell, maybe something like the Ogre Mercs in TWW2 where you can pick one up if your a human faction.

For those looking to personalize their knights even further, many third party companies (like Kromlech) put out alternative parts for them. On another note, one of the annoying aspects of 9e was the degree to which GW stomped out souping two armies together. Basically every army with a 9e codex, including Knights now, have rules that stop your units benefiting from all the cool rules your army gets if they mix with any other army. While I understand why it was done, I think it greatly undercuts both tactical flexibility and the narrative of being one big Imperium. Imperial Knights suffer the most from this, as they benefited mechanically and in story from fighting alongside other forces. Thankfully for Knights, this "No Souping" policy is not total. You CAN include one(1) Knight in another army, as a Freeblade. And you only lose the Oaths, which is bad but not a complete loss. So it IS possible to run as the secret weapon in an Imperium strike force, or as the leader in charge of a company of household soldiers (Guard). The main flavor fail is that you must assign the knight as a Freeblade, even if narratively you have a house. Maybe one day 40K will stop being so difficult and anal, and just let you run your army the way you want. Not having to jump through hoops just to make things legal, because of loads of arcane bureaucratic nonsense.

Knights in lore need an STC to be built (and a forgeworld). Tabletop knights need a STL to be built (and a 3D printer). it does not apply if you are filthy rich or just like to get ripped off by GW.

The knights are a really cool part of 40k so it's great you are covering them. P.S. please do admech one day big man pancreas, thanks.

Imperial knights activate my neurons like nothing else in warhammer. I love the idea of being a servant to a chapter of space marines as a gargantuan suit of armor.

The perfect ork stompa conversion

I see the fact that knights are more for construction equipment as a testament to just how powerful pre dark age humans were!

“have at ye” he yelled, in a deep scary robot voice

"Going Monkey Mode with a 40ft tall robot"? THAT'S EXACTLY WHY I WOULD GO TAU!

Thank you for making me realize I need a knight house based on Feudal Japan.

Knights are weirdly wholesome for 40k imperium lore, and I'm all for it

Would love to see a Do or Don’t for Chaos Knights too

I swear ancient humanity and the men of iron or the most broken things in all of Warhammer. In one of the books a mechanic is ship which is secretly housing an STC AI. Fires a dark age of humanity weapon. Spanish hits a dark elder ship where it was. By this I mean it completely missed it and the blast destroyed space-time so much that the projectile traveled back in time and hit the ship anyway. That's just ridiculous

Sweet! A do or don’t to pass the time while I’m waiting for Warhammer 3 to update!

Before I started the game I was planing for a Knights army, the whole medieval but in space is very much my thing. I’m a big fan of the UC timeline of gundam and medieval history from clothing, common life and farming practices to armor, battles, smithing and architecture. The late medieval period and the early modern are my favorites in history. So imperial knights were an easy choice, I started writing lore for my custom house, I was gathering reference to make a coat of arms and a color scheme and I made the list of models and the order to buy them. Then the black Templars got reworked… that’s how I ended up playing space marines. (Edit): I still plan to get myself a nice little medieval mecha force, my love from the faction hasn’t worn out. But that will be in the future, I want to gather painting skills with my Templars and the space marines are really fun to play, so I don’t really mind waiting. Thanks for bringing light into a little bit of a “overlooked” faction. It was a great video and I hope to see more in the future!

I have a single imperial knight that I got to support my guard army. Made it a warden as this was pre hammer of the emperor so I needed some good anti >T3 infantry. He has never been to a single game, but I can safely say his model is *firmly grasping* some poor night lord I bought as corpse scatter lol.

Chaos Knights CHAOS KNIGHTS Glad they got a modernized rulses. I also do find it interesting that they are practically always sharing the space within the knight with basically warp bats

I buy all of my models used, pirated, or unofficial. As a result I can easily get an entire army for under $100. It does take me a while with a lot of comparing prices, but the effort is worth not spending thousands of dollars.

I love the Knights, it's a blessing from the Emperor, that WebKnight made a mod for ArmA 3 in which he adds a lot of knight houses, even chaos knights.

Assasinorum Kingmaker Is a really good book to read if you like nights. It follows and assassin kill team sense to kill the king of a night world, and does a great job of portraying both faction. In particular, there is a Callidus Assassin who has to impersonate a member of the royal family and even pilots a night, so it gives a great sense of The experience of piloting these things I would highly recommend.

A friend of mine has a knight attached to his Guard. It's heavily modified and looks much more Titanfall or battletech than a normal knight, then painted up like someone gave a sentinel steroids. Very boxy, no shield etc. His head cannon is that a knight heard of the fall of cadia and was inspired by their stand so sort of adopted a cadian regiment, and was adopted by them.

I love my knights, thunderstrike gauntlet-ing a tank and throwing the wreckage at his friend, armager helvarins casually eradicating 3 wound heavy infantry, and the BIG MELTA GUNS.

I'm so glad I've been wanting to see the Stewart don't I've been glad to see you back keep making content and you eventually make a space marine do or don't

"What better way to sneak in undetected than having metal eren yeager causing a scene on the other side of the base" Subcribing immediately after that joke

Personally I'm sad that there aren't any renaissance and enlightenment themed knights in the canon. They can still have the chivalry and huge ritual stuff, but it provides more variety in flavour for their homeworlds.

For the guys who wants to play BattleTech but your friends are all playing 40k I love it.

Yes! I’ve been waiting for this one And yes, Pacific Rim is glorious

Big stompie robots who can be used with custodes to gain more obsec like only 3 units in my golden boy army have obsec what they hell. Plus knights look so good in gold

Finally big boy robot knights

If you wanna bully a knight with necrons, take a shard of the nightbringer

I really liked it when all the Titans looked really different as though each class was developed on its own world and in its own age. I LIKED the big blocky Warlord Titan that looked like it was directly stolen from BattleTech. Now everything is just a different sized Knight.

Imperial Knights: Bretonnia but actually cool

I really like the Imperial Knights for their lore A lot of the Imperium's weapons and equipment from fragments of the dark age of technology were not supposed to be used for that purpose at all, like terminator armour being for asteroid mining or something like that and i'm pretty sure one of the tank types was meant to be a tractor and even the technology that was intended as a weapon is often incomplete, unstable and irreplaceable The Knights though? Fully intended as weapons, fully understood with intact STC data, and completely practical, able to engage in RANGED combat like people with brains would have intended, even designing them to serve other functions because they won't be in combat for long periods as well As completely insane and unhinged as the 40k universe is and I love it for that, I adore seeing glimpses of that old sane practicality to contrast it to, like that one time a fully intact human AI encountered the Imperium inside the hull of its ship and utterly floored all of them spirutally mentally and physically before saying "fuck this place" and leaving imperial space to find something better to do

Alright, you've now convinced me to make the planet my Imperial Guard regiment got marooned on be populated by refugees of a knight world, along with their one surviving Knight

Love me some knights, but for now I'm stuck building vehicles for my Blood Angels.

Finally good YT recommendation. What a gem of a channel. Keep up the good work.

The way that new players react to Imperial Knights reminds me of back in the day when I'd show up to a 600pt game with a overly kitted out flying demon prince, a bastion and a handful of cultists. So many people just did not know what to do

imperial knights are great, if youre into the lore, there is a lot of time to be spent perfecting the history of one.

So these Bretonnians ride mechs? 😏

great video! You should talk about armies of renown! I think you would really like them alot since they combine lore and rules in really fun ways to make fluffy lists!

I love how they have one with a Graviton cannon, yes we can liquefy your organs but we also use it for mining and dislodging ore

Pacific Rim is a masterpiece? Clearly this man is one of my people!

I would kill, whenever the hell Henry Cavill's 40K show comes out, for there to be an Imperial Knight that is voiced by Peter Cullen. That'd be the tightest shit.

This is turning out to be one of my favourite channels with how many correct opinions you have. Pacific Rim deserved better.

I have a almost fully painted knight army, I was lucky to find a collection box at a hobby store that had a knight with 4 armigers, for only 200 dollars. My total army count is 2 knights and 6 armigers, along with my company strength imperial guard mechanised unit

Gotrek & Felix is obviously your best vid and I would enjoy more vids about badasses of WH. Brunner the Bounty Hunter Mathias Thullmann the Witch Hunter Wulfric Florin & Lorenzo Blackhearts Genevieve And any other Dwarven stories.

If I was a mech pilot I would create a heraldry, start preaching the knightly virtues to my contemporaries, wear a hauberk everywhere, and live by the chivalric code.

Johnny bravo voice: "hey baby can I emperial your knight?"

Damn the Notification was right on point this time

That was honestly one of the best, if not the best Raid ad I've ever seen, you actually got me to consider the lore of the game. I do love me some elves

I never had an issue in game that crisis suits couldn’t handle (well, except for those dark times from the beginning of 8th to the release of their 9th edition codex) Now it’s like “armor of contempt eh? I still wound you on 2s and instant kill your marines”

Wow, after hearing the specifics of why Imperial Knight houses developed on different planets during the Long Night, I can say with certainty that this shit is so embarrassingly contrived, it would legitimately be better if they just said "...then somehow, imperial knight houses developed on different planets..."

They missed such a chance to call the mini knight a 'Squire' :))

I'd love to see Pancreas get involved in an Adeptus Ridiculous episode

Adding some serfs as chaff units would fit the theme very nicely in my opinion and would make them work as independent armies. Historically knights obles had to also show up with the retinue when mustered, it would be quite reasonable to expect a knight house in the 40k to show up with some peasants armed with lasguns and a few low-tech artillery peaces. Make it a shittier version of Imperial Guard. It would also allow knights to actually contest objectives.

“Does this [an Imperial Knight] sound like something you could get behind? No? Then by all means, step in front of it….”

I am not here for friends, I am here to standby for medieval Titanfall.

Ironically, I think the most Pacific Rim think in the game is actually the Wraith Knight.

When I got back into the game in late 8th edition I thought the Knights were goofy as hell and one of the worst additions to 40k. Then I bought, assembled and painted a Knight Abominant and realized just how wrong I was. Knights are the coolest shit ever I now have 4 that I run as a 2000 point goon squad.

Tau are my favorite 40k faction. Love me some gundam good guys

A Warlord Battle Titan with supporting Knight Castellans. That’s the way I play.

Happy birthday to me, Imperial Knights are the exact army I've been considering playing.

Maidens dig Giant Robots.

On the tabletop these guys work best as the muscle for another army like the guard or Mechanicus. Having an entire army of them may look awesome but if your opponent has ant-armour you are going to be in a world of hurt.

I love how you called them knightmare frames.

I've never been a 40K player of any kind but these videos that explain that maxed out crazy universe are strangely interesting to me. It's a kind of escapism where there's no question whether or not cynicism is the right way to look at the world. While the real world seems kinda shit sometimes there's always that tiresome ambiguity to it.

Another good thing. The knights are the easiest thing to magnetize. Just 1 knight kit can be used to make all it's varients

12:13 > What does a CAT say to an Atlas? > SPLAT !

"I do say good sir, thou must stand still and wait for mine attack. Then if thou art still of the living it shall be thine turn to attack me. Any deviation is unchivalrous."

They Always seemed really cool though the point cost and the army costing a kidney stopped me from using them! Good vid though

A Don Quijote apreciator. Nice

I love the Gypsy Danger picture at 4:10.

He says "Cain, Cain, Cain", and i'm thinking "Why would Ciaphas fight a knight?"