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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

Also this has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched! 10th Edition came out officially on the 1st of June 2023... it has been 408 days since then... so I would have been 42% done with the total already! So I have my work cut out for me!

Picking them randomly, let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Chaos Knights, Knight Abominant

10th Edition Index

The Knight Abominant is one of the big Chaos Knights, this one being the Psyker variant. I am not sure if it is more or less damaging than the others... but what I can say from reading this Datasheet is that it is dangerous.
This one is going to be aggressive. It is coming to your side of the board and it brings with it a warp storm that will hurt anything that is near it.

More than that, its guns are short-ranged for a Titanic Walker, so it will need to come in close. It also has a mass of close combat attacks so it is not afraid to get stuck in to the enemy.

385pts makes it expensive but what you get for it... I think its a fair price.

The box costs $194 to build the big Chaos Knights.

Let's see its stats!

Stats

Movement 10"
Toughness 12
Save 2+/5++*(armor/invul/Feel No Pain) * The 5++ Invul is only vs Shooting Attacks
Wounds 22
Ld 6+
OC 10

Weapons

Ranged:

Volkite combustor
30" Range, 9 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S12, Ap 0, 3 Damage each
Devastating Wounds
Plenty Shots, 30" is close range for a Knight. No AP but a Lascannon's strength... However, Devastating Wounds will cut right through Armour!

Diabolus heavy stubber
36" Range, 3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Rapid Fire 3 (Means 6 Shots at 18" Range)

Its little support gun.

Melee:

Electroscourge
9 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S10, Ap -2, 3 Damage each
Sustained Hits 1
This means that this knight would usually hit around 7-8 times with that strike...

These are Space Marine/Terminator killers. And can rip apart most medium tanks easily. It will struggle to wound tougher vehicles/monsters/knights.

Balemace
3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S8, Ap -1, 2 Damage each
Extra attacks - can hit with these attacks as well as Electrosurge

Also Space Marine killing strikes.

Abilities

Warp Storms

At the end of your movement phase roll a D6 for every enemy unit within 9" This means you can control where this ability takes place, since you move and then activate it!
On a roll of 3+, the unit takes D3 Mortal Wounds. 9" is fairly large if you go right around the base of this model!

Vortex Terrors

At the start of the Shooting Phase, select one enemy within 12" of this model to take a Battle-Shock test.

Thoughts

Right, quite a few combos here. This Knight moves, then does Warp Storm damage to units at the end of his movement phase. Then before he shoots, he selects one unit to try Battle Shock it.

Then it shoots and charges into combat.

Looks really devastating to me on paper. I would guess that this Knight will be deployed in the centre of the board or across from the rights quantity of enemy units.

It will come in close and serve as an amazing distraction against the enemy shooting attacks while other units in the Chaos Knights army takes advantage of that.

Something to look out for!

That makes 4 Chaos Knights Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 21.05% Completed! The total Completed on 9.68% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain	#61
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor	#70
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Maugan Ra	#87
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Aeldari	Prince Yriel	#92
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Astra Militarum	Tank Commander	#90
Astra Militarum	Wyvern	#81
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Black Templars	The Emperor's Champion	#63
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Guard	#93
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Knights	War Dog Huntsman	#77
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Dark Angels	Lazarus	#62
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Deathwatch	Corvus Blackstar	#72
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Deathwatch	Spectrus Kill Team	#73
Deathwatch	Veteran Bike Squad	#84
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Culexus Assassin	#69
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Canis Rex	#76
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Imperial Knights	Knight Castellan	#83
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Thunderkyn	#78
Leagues of Votann	Cthonian Beserks	#86
Leagues of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leagues of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Orks	Zodgrod Wortsnagga	#89
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Fenrisian Wolves	#91
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74
T'au Empire	Breacher Team	#88
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Pathfinder Team	#79
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85

Thank you for reading!

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