It’s an intriguing look at this unique and secret chapter and I know that the moment I finished the book I wanted to build a Grey Knights army. Instead, read The Emperor’s Gift by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (yes, I know we recommend him constantly, it’s because he rocks) which recounts the events of the First War of Armageddon largely from the perspective of the Grey Knights. A cursory search will reveal there is a trilogy of novels and you may become briefly excited but then you’ll see that it was written by Ben Counter and he sucks. Grey Knights are an interesting chapter but they aren’t heavily featured in Black Library fiction. These guys are psychic powerhouses – Credit: Pendulin The existence of the Grey Knights is a closely guarded secret and for many years it was not uncommon for any Imperial soldiers or civilians that witnessed them in action to be executed post-battle or for fellow Space Marines to be mind-wiped. Generally though, deployments of Grey Knights are small and highly secretive, consisting of precise Kill Teams sent to eradicate threats from the Warp.
A rare exception was the First War of Armageddon where a full brotherhood was deployed (and mostly died) to fight back the Daemon Primarch Angron. In battle, Grey Knights typically operate at the squad level in support of an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor and large scale deployments are rare. Aside from every battle brother being a psyker, their force organization is different and even their armaments are unique, with a mix of bolter weaponry and psychic-enhanced guns and melee weapons not to mention their distinctive Aegis Armour. Of all the non-codex chapters, Grey Knights are easily the most unique and divergent. Grey Knight Terminator in Battle Credit: Games Workshop Unlike every other chapter of Space Marines, its members are not descended from one of the twenty Primarchs but instead their geneseed is derived from the Emperor himself, which is often called The Emperor’s Gift. Grey Knight Credit: Games Workshopįounded near the end of the Horus Heresy (and interesting their founding brothers include a loyalist Thousand Son), the Grey Knights are a super-secret chapter of all psychic Space Marines that in many ways act as the militant arm of the Ordo Malleus and are dedicated to fighting the Daemons of the Warp. Oh, and now that I’ve told you about them, I have to kill you. Stick them on the Saturnian moon of Titan and charge them with a never-ending quest to fight Daemons. Now give them all psychic powers and mind-powered weapons.
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