r/ChaosKnights

Custodes leaked points puts them at over 200 points for a 3 man squad of basic custodians. Yes, that does represent their lore well, but we're knights. We're even more elite than some banana boys. I'm afraid what that'll mean for our numbers.

Lore accurate knights would be absolutely fearsome on the battlefield, but they'd have to be a stupidly high number of points. Wouldn't be surprised at 700-800 points for a big knight and 200-300 for a war dog if they have the substantial power increase to match the lore of what a knight is supposed to be.

At that point, your army could literally be 3 or 4 models. That's absolutely insane. Our mechanics would have to be changed massively to even allow us to play missions in the first place or we'd have to get a huge amount of access to chaff units to run around our feet and do the mission while knights spend their time murdering and never getting a scratch on them.

I'm not sure how GW is going to pull this off for knights if we're going to be so focused on the lore. It'd be really cool for us to actually be a giant walking engine of destruction, but I feel that'll be super hard to balance on the tabletop, especially with the 11th edition missions.

So, I play at a small local game shop, and I’m the only player in town who doesn’t play Space Marines or Custodes.

I can usually handle the Space Marine players, but I have a much harder time against Custodes. I’m wondering whether I’m just bad at the matchup or if Chaos Knights inherently struggle against them.

So I would like to ask for y'all's opinion on what is a good detachment and models against Custodes and how to approach the matchup.

Was recently playing a game against my buddy who ran orks. Kinda felt like he intentionally brought a tailored list.

He ran

2×8 squighog riders with a pain boss in each

1x mozrog skragbad

1x nazdreg with 6 meganoz with twin kill saws

2x Gretchen

1xbeastboss on squigasaur

1x kommandos

He had a few other things but this was the majority of his roster.

This was the list I had against him.

He pretty badly whooped my ass. Was this just a skill issue thing?

slaves to the masters (1995 points)

Chaos Knights

Houndpack Lance and Iconoclast Fiefdom (3 Detachment Points)

Reconnaissance

Strike Force (2000 points)

Attached Units

Attached Unit 1

Traitor Enforcer (70 points)

• Attached as: Leader

• 1x Traitor Enforcer

• 1x Bolt pistol

1x Power fist

• 1x Traitor Ogryn

• 1x Ogryn weapons

Traitor Guardsmen Squad (65 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Traitor Sergeant

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Corrupted pistol

• 9x Traitor Guardsmen

• 9x Close combat weapon

9x Lasgun

CHARACTERS

War Dog Executioner (130 points)

• Houndpack Lance Keyword: Character

• 1x Armoured feet

1x Diabolus heavy stubber

2x War Dog autocannon

War Dog Karnivore (145 points)

• Houndpack Lance Keyword: Character

• 1x Havoc multi-launcher

1x Reaper chaintalon

1x Slaughterclaw

War Dog Stalker (135 points)

• Houndpack Lance Keyword: Character

• Warlord

• 1x Avenger chaincannon

1x Diabolus heavy stubber

1x Slaughterclaw

BATTLELINE

War Dog Brigand (135 points)

• 1x Armoured feet

1x Avenger chaincannon

1x Daemonbreath spear

1x Diabolus heavy stubber

War Dog Executioner (130 points)

• 1x Armoured feet

1x Diabolus heavy stubber

2x War Dog autocannon

War Dog Executioner (130 points)

• 1x Armoured feet

1x Daemonbreath meltagun

2x War Dog autocannon

War Dog Huntsman (135 points)

• 1x Daemonbreath meltagun

1x Daemonbreath spear

1x Reaper chaintalon

War Dog Karnivore (145 points)

• 1x Havoc multi-launcher

1x Reaper chaintalon

1x Slaughterclaw

War Dog Karnivore (145 points)

• 1x Diabolus heavy stubber

1x Reaper chaintalon

1x Slaughterclaw

War Dog Stalker (135 points)

• 1x Avenger chaincannon

1x Diabolus heavy stubber

1x Reaper chaintalon

War Dog Stalker (135 points)

• 1x Avenger chaincannon

1x Havoc multi-launcher

1x Reaper chaintalon

War Dog Stalker (135 points)

• 1x Daemonbreath spear

1x Havoc multi-launcher

1x Slaughterclaw

War Dog Stalker (135 points)

• 1x Avenger chaincannon

1x Diabolus heavy stubber

1x Slaughterclaw

ALLIED UNITS

Accursed Cultists (90 points)

• 5x Mutant

• 5x Blasphemous appendages

• 3x Torment

• 3x Hideous mutations

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