It's also worth remembering which enemies are also defined as daemons, such as Ork Squiggoths and Eldar Avatar.Īgainst armies that lack these blood-happy entities, Grey Knights still have their uses. If they stay back you can be sure that if and when a Bloodthirster drops down in the midst of your troops, they are in the right spot at the right time, for they are the ultimate close-combat tool for taking down this foul spawn of the warp. Their ranged damage is quite good, especially for a melee unit, allowing them to effectively operate on Ranged stance while watching over other units until needed.

Since Grey Knights cannot withstand the punishment of several squads firing on them at once, they are better used in a reserve role, staying behind your main lines until they are needed to plug any major gaps, or backing up a unit that has been assaulted in cases of crisis. The Force Commander provides the greatest brute strength, but still doesn't improve the front line squad's survivability. The Librarian can be attached to create a powerful caster squad, but at the expense of making the squad significantly less useful for general combat. His strong healing aura keeps the expensive troops alive, making it difficult to gradually pick them off. Unfortunately they lack the protection and numbers required for the larger slug-fest that occurs between close-combat orientated units, like Khorne Berzerker Squads, Ork Nobz Squads, any type of Dreadnought (shudder!) and Ogryns (under the effect of a Priest's Fanaticism) which simply seem to overpower these elite infantry-men.Īttaching the Chaplain to your Grey Knights is generally the best option. Grey Knights are a specialised unit that usually work best against daemons (obviously) and primarily ranged armies such as Tau and Imperial Guard, but can also pull their weight when confronted with the average troop of most armies. The Grey Knights have the proudest boast of all the chapters never, in ten thousand years, has any one of their number turned to Chaos. To this end, they are trained more rigorously than any other chapter, and are imbued with a faith so powerful that their mere presence hurts their daemonic foes. Such is the nature of their foes that the ordinary citizens of the Imperium must never know of their sacrifice, for they face a threat so dire that if they ever fail, whole worlds could burn under the shadow of Chaos. Theirs is the unsung saga, for under Titan, their Chapter's homeworld, lie many of the Imperium's greatest heroes. Endowed with the authority of the Inquisition, Grey Knights are tasked by the Emperor to hunt down and destroy daemonic taint wherever it may be found. Skilled warriors of the Ordo Malleus, the strength of the Grey Knights surpasses that of even their fellow Space Marines. 'The warriors of the inquisition are yours to command.'

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