Good day all, Zak here from Cape Town with another lore post! We have covered 3 out of the 4 Chaos Gods and things look quite grim in the 41st millenium! We also covered what the warp is and what Librarians are... And though these officials/HQs/Champions are good at what they do... they are not without occasional failure.
So now it is time to look at an army that specializes in killing Daemons - The Grey Knights!
Grey Knights are Space Marines, but they differ from other Space Marines in two big ways:
One - Their geneseed does not come from a Primarch and was instead engineered by the Emperor himself. Shortly after the Horus Heresy, the Emperor commanded that a Chapter of Anti-Chaos Space Marines be created.
Two - ALL of the Grey Knights are psykers! The entire army, including its transport drivers and Dreadnoughts are Psykers, many or most of them are the equivalents to Space Marine Librarians in power and skill.
Despite the fact that each and every Grey Knight that has fought and died for their Chapter in around 10,000 years, not one of them have fallen to Chaos or corruption.
So in the rules, generally individuals are able to do psychic abilities on their own while squads have a "brotherhood of psykers" rule (at least they did in my day). Generally the tanks and transports use their psychic abilities to make them tougher while the rest of the army focuses on boosting their power!
Those force weapons only the Librarians have? Grey Knights have Nemisis Force Weapons on their entire foot troopers.
Look how awesome they look!
This is Castellan Crowe. I did not see this model coming out! Back in my day we could play with Crowe but there was no model!
This is the Nemesis Dreadknight. It is massive, fast and powerful. The gaming community in the area have given the Dreadnight the nickname of being Baby Carriers! 🤣🤣🤣
That's your brief into to this facetion. More deep dives coming later on. Tomorrow we will look again towards the Warp.
Until then...
