Favoured Knight

The Dark Gods watch this war engine with interest and are not above deigning to aid its pilot in exchange for a tribute of souls.

Once per battle, if you use one of the following Stratagems to affect this model, that Stratagem costs 0 Command points: Wrathsurge; Sorcerous Ammunition; Abominable Constitution; Murderbliss; Beseech the Dark Gods.

Swift Ascension

This Fallen Noble’s zealotry pleases the Dark Gods greatly, and eases their path to glory.

• At the end of each battle, this model is treated as having destroyed 1 more unit during that battle than it actually did for the purposes of determining whether it gains a Damnation point or not.
• If this model has a Favour of the Dark Gods, the tally required to have a worthy offering is reduced by 5.

Living Hull

The Dark Gods have blessed this Knight with a living, biomechanoid hull that reknits damage like swiftly healing flesh.

At the start of each player’s Command phase, this model regains 1 lost wound.

Unholy Swiftness

Daemonic sinew and ectoplasmic blood lend this mutated Knight a speed in battle quite at odds with its enormity.

Each time this model is selected to fight, the first hit roll it makes automatically hits.

Dread Blessing

An ineffable dark power radiates from this Knight, amplifying its menacing presence upon the battlefield.

Add 1" to the range of this model’s Dreaded abilities. This is increased to 3" once this model has reached the Battle-hardened rank.

Strength of the Thrice Damned

The dark power of the warp flows through this Knight’s steel sinews.

• Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of this model.
• Add 1" to the Move characteristic of this model.

Mark of Destruction

An infernal rune blazes upon this Knight’s hull, burning with dark fire as its influence compels the pilot to hunt and slay in the Dark Gods’ names.

Each time this model makes a melee attack, add 1 to that attack’s hit roll.

The Eightfold Eye

A daemon has been bound to this Knight’s targeting sensors. The entity is forced to use its warp sight to guide the pilot’s aim along twisted skeins of fate.

Each time this model makes a ranged attack, if the target is within 24", add 1 to that attack’s hit roll.

Fury of the Warp

The Fallen Noble piloting this Knight has become a conduit for furious empyric energies that drive them ever onward in an endless, killing rage.

Add 1 to this model’s Attacks characteristic.

Echoes of Damnation

As they walk the path to glory, this pilot drinks deep of the knowledge and skills of those damned souls in whose footprints they tread.

Select one Fell Bond that no model from your army has. This model gains that Fell Bond in addition to any other Fell Bond it has. You cannot select the Infamous Heredity or Bound Vassals Fell Bonds.

Cursed Ground

Where this Knight walks, the ground cracks and the air shimmers with fell, disruptive power.

Enemy units that are set up on the battlefield as Reinforcements cannot be set up within 12" of this model.

Soul Hunger

This pilot has been blessed by the Dark Gods with a ravenous yearning to tear free and devour their enemies’ souls, and in so doing gain abhorrent empowerment.

Each time this model makes an attack, re-roll a wound roll of 1.

Protection of the Pantheon

A pall of warding power hangs about this Knight. Its pilot has done much already to pique the Dark Gods’ interests and they will not permit their new plaything to be slain before it has brought them further entertainment.

During the first battle round, this model cannot lose more than 6 wounds in the same phase. Any wounds that would be lost after that point are not lost.

Dreadlord

This Knight is the very epitome of death and despair; wherever they tread they bring darkness.

Once per battle, at the start of any battle round, you can select one Harbinger ability from those corresponding to the current battle round, any previous battle round, or the next battle round. That ability becomes active for this model, even if every unit from your army does not have the CHAOS KNIGHTS keyword. This selection is excluded when it comes to selecting which Harbinger ability will be active for your army.

Glory to Chaos

This Knight is suffused with the destructive power of its patron deities, and is nigh on unstoppable in battle.

Once per battle, at the end of the Fight phase, if this model has destroyed one or more units during this turn, it can fight again.

Fallen Noble

Gain one Battle Trait from the Fallen Noble table.

Chaos Knight Suit

Gain one Battle Trait from the Chaos Knight Suit table.

Dread Household

If this model has the ICONOCLAST HOUSEHOLD keyword, gain one Battle Trait from the Iconoclast Household table. If this model has the INFERNAL HOUSEHOLD keyword, gain one Battle Trait from the Infernal Household table.

Bestial Onslaught

This Knight pounces upon its foes like a rampaging beast.

Each time this model has finished making a charge move, you can select one enemy unit within 1" of it and roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if this model is TITANIC. On a 3+, that unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6+, that unit suffers 3 mortal wounds.

Graven Hull

Profane sigils adorn this Knight’s armour, reinforcing it.

Each time an attack with a Damage characteristic of 1 is allocated to this model, add 1 to any armour saving throws taken against that attack.

Unholy Vitality

Even the most grievous damage does not slow this Knight, and nothing seems able to kill it for good.

• This model is considered to have double the number of wounds remaining for the purposes of determining what its characteristics are. If this model has any rule that would let it double the number of wounds it has remaining for the purposes of determining what characteristics on its profile to use (e.g. the Blasphemous Engine Relic), triple the number of wounds it has remaining instead.
• You can re-roll failed Out of Action tests taken for this model.

Warding Totems

The fetishes on this Knight’s hull unravel enemy sorceries.

Once per turn, this unit can attempt to Deny the Witch as if it were a PSYKER. If this unit is already a PSYKER, or already has an ability that lets it attempt to Deny the Witch (e.g. Warp-haunted Hull), then in each enemy Psychic phase, it can attempt to Deny the Witch one additional time.

Heedless of Destruction

Firing at point-blank, this Knight cares not of its own peril.

• This model does not suffer the penalty incurred to its hit rolls for firing Heavy weapons at enemy units that are within Engagement Range of it.
• This model can make attacks with Blast weapons against units within Engagement Range of it, however, each time it does so, on an unmodified hit roll of 1, this model suffers 1 mortal wound after it has resolved all of its shooting attacks.

Idol of Annihilation

This Knight’s dark magnetism has earned them a following of loyal Idolators who serve their every need.

Once per battle, if this model is on the battlefield, when you use a Chaos Knights Wargear Stratagem, that Stratagem costs 0 Command points so long as you select this model for that Stratagem.

Warp-fire Reactor

Corrupt plasma surges in the energy veins of this Knight.

Once per battle, when this model uses its Daemonic Surge Traitoris Ambition, you can select one additional result from the Daemonic Surge table to apply to this model until the start of your next Command phase.

Engine of Spite

This Knight delights in crippling and maiming its foes.

• If a melee attack made by this model destroys an enemy unit, subtract 1 from that unit’s Out of Action test at the end of this battle.
• If this model is DAMNED, at the end of the battle, if one or more enemy units that were destroyed by this model during that battle failed an Out of Action test, this model gains 1 Damnation point.

Infernal Dread

The darkness that surrounds this Knight flares as the entities that reside within breath deeply of the warp.

Each time this model uses the Daemonic Surge Traitoris Ambition, until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to its Dread range.

Knight of Blades

This Knight revels in the thrill of destroying its foes in personal combat. None can stand before its might.

• Each time this model makes a melee attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to its Weapon Skill characteristic or hit rolls.
• Each time this model makes a melee attack, you can re-roll a hit roll of 1.

Relentless Destroyer

Striding across the battlefield without pausing, this Knight’s sole focus is on making its next kill.

• This model can ignore any or all modifiers to its Advance rolls and charge rolls.
• Each time this model makes a consolidation move, it can move an extra 3".

Gloryseeker

To prove its worth to the Chaos Gods, this Knight always seeks out the most dangerous of foes against which to test its mettle.

• Each time this model makes an attack against a MONSTER or VEHLCLE unit, you can re-roll the hit roll.
• Each time this model destroys an enemy TITANIC unit, If this model is DAMNED, it gains 1 Damnation point.

Fallen Noble

Gain one Battle Scar from the Fallen Noble table.

Chaos Knight Suit

Gain one Battle Scar from the Chaos Knights Suit table.

Treacherous

Personal loss and harm have fostered a self-serving streak in this Fallen Noble, which in turn has soured into treachery at their comrades’ expense.

At the start of each of your Command phases, roll one D6 for each model on the battlefield that has this Battle Scar. If any of those rolls are a 5+, you do not receive a Battle-forged CP bonus this phase.

Torture Throne

As punishment for their failings, searing pain lances through this pilot's skull whenever their Knight's battle lust peaks.

Each time this model makes a melee attack, if it made a charge move during this turn, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.

Symbiotic Sight

This Fallen Noble was blinded in battle and can now ‘see’ only through inload feeds from their Knight’s sensoria.

Each time this model makes a ranged attack, if the target of that attack is more than 12" away, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.

Single-minded Hatred

When this pilot sights a foe, their desire to see that enemy dead is all-consuming, regardless of the wider tactical situation.

Each time this model declares a charge, you must select the closest eligible enemy unit as one of the targets of that charge.

Despised

Such is the magnitude of this pilot’s failure that they have become a pariah in their own dread household, one disappointment away from being executed or exiled.

• This model cannot gain more than 2 experience points at the end of a battle for any reason (any additional experience points are lost).
• This model cannot be Marked for Greatness.

Eternal Rivalry

This Fallen Noble’s jealousy and scorn have consumed them, so that now they care only about furthering their own agendas, over those of their dread household.

• This model can never have the Objective Secured ability.
• This model counts as 3 fewer models when determining control of an objective marker.

Defiant Machine Spirit

Emboldened by the touch of Chaos, this Knight suit’s machine spirit resists the commands of its pilot.

• This model can never perform an action or a psychic action.
• This model can never perform a Heroic Intervention.
• The range of this model’s aura abilities is reduced by 3".

Volatile Reactor

So corrupted is this Knight’s plasma core, it strains to contain its own anarchic energies.

At the start of each Morale phase, roll one D6: on a 1:

• If this model is a WAR DOG-CLASS model, it suffers 1 mortal wound.
• If this model is TITANIC, it suffers D3 mortal wounds.

Damaged Auto-loader

This Knight’s weapon loaders suffered critical damage beyond the skills of the Idolators to repair, hampering its ability to hunt at range.

• The range characteristic of all of this model’s ranged weapons are reduced by 4".
• If this model is equipped with any weapons with an ability that lets it fire at targets that are not visible to the firer, it cannot use that ability.

Possessed Reactor

This Knight’s plasma core has become possessed by a parasitic warp entity that siphons off motive force to feed its incorporeal spirit.

This model is considered to have 4 less wounds remaining for the purposes of determining what its characteristics are. If this model has any rule that would let it double the number of wounds it has remaining for the purposes of determining what characteristics on its profile to use (e.g. the Blasphemous Engine Relic), after you have doubled those remaining number of wounds, you then subtract 4, and then determine which characteristics to use.

Festering Servos

This Knight’s servos scream with pain each time they move, dripping noxious fluids as if they have suffered some gangrenous wound that will not heal.

This model’s Attacks characteristic is reduced by 1.

Corrupted Ion Generator

This Knight’s ion generator has become corrupt with living scrapcode, causing its shields to flicker and fail without warning.

This model’s invulnerable saving throws are reduced by 1.

Damned Crucible

A pilot who is in possession of the Damned Crucible has only obtained it by forging dark pacts with no less than four Greater Daemons, exchanging power for ever increasing peril.

DAMNED model only.

• Generate one additional Lesser Pact for this model.
• Roll one D6 at the end of the battle if this model gains one or more Damnation points. On a 4+, this model gains one additional Damnation point.

Craahdekh’s Throne of Sacrifice

This thrice-cursed Throne Mechanicum feeds off the blood and soul of the bearer as a perpetual offering to the Dark Gods, in return for a mote of their favour.

DAMNED model with a Favour of the Dark Gods only. The Favoured ability of the bearers Favour of the Dark Gods does not require a worthy offering to be accepted - do not keep an Offering tally for this model; it can use its Favoured ability from the start of the battle.

The Harbinger’s Chains

Said to have been forged from the despoiled ramparts of the Keep Inviolate, these warp-soaked chains radiate a malice that can make even the stoutest heart falter.

The bearer has the following ability: ‘Harbinger’s Chains (Dreaded): While an enemy unit is within Dread range of this model, each time that unit has to take a Dread test, any roll that includes a double will automatically fail, regardless of the result.’

Shades of Ruin

Those who assail this Knight are beset by a squall of shadowy wings, flashing beaks and gouging talons. It is a determined foe indeed who can forge a path through these shades of ruin.

PTERRORSHADES model only.

• If this model is selected as a target of a charge, until the end of the phase, subtract 2 from charge rolls made for any unit that declares a charge against this model.
• The bearer has the following ability: ‘Shades of Ruin (Dreaded): While an enemy unit is within Dread range of this model, if that unit declares a charge but its charge fails, it suffers 1 mortal wound.’

Icon of Damnation

This eight-pointed emblem is bestowed by dark artificers in return for a bounty of stolen technology. Striking it causes it to shatter, the fragments running like quicksilver to patch rent armour and mend broken power lines.

Once per battle, at the start of either player’s Command phase, the bearer can regain D6 lost wounds.

Helm of the Dread Knight

Rumoured to be the faceplate of the first Knight sworn to the service of Chaos, this mask infuses a war engine with dread power and malign forces of the warp, rendering its every shot and blow anathema to life.

Each time the bearer is selected to shoot or fight, select one of the ranged or melee weapons it is equipped with. Until the end of the phase, each time the bearer makes an attack using that weapon, on an unmodified wound roll of 6, that attack inflicts a number of mortal wounds equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack and the attack sequence ends.