Knight Lancer

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Knight Lancer

Knight Lancers are a type of specialized Cerastus Patttern Knight walker of the Imperium.

Overview

One of the more uncommon but highly valued Knights fielded by Knight Houses, the Knight Lancer is a first-strike weapon, attuned to rapid assault tactics and lethal flanking maneuvers. It is renowned for its speed and power, as well as for the temperamental and restive nature of its machine-spirit. Knight Lancers are well-equipped for close combat, possessing both a Cerastus Shock Lance and a Ion Gauntlet Shield.^[1]

Because of this reputation, the most impetuous and glory-hungry of the Knight households are driven to bond with these war machines, their own souls a match for the fury caged within their war engines.^[1]

Xanite Knight Lancer

The Xanite Knight Lancer is an experimental Chaos pattern of the Knight Lancer. It was designed to maximize the sensory data given to the Xanite's pilot and to have the suit move at blistering speeds. To achieve this, the Xanite's back is built out with several fuel tanks and thrusters, which allow it to launch forward at incredible velocities. However most of the suit's armor has been removed, along with its Ion Gauntlet Shield-arm. To compensate for this, the Xanite's top half is equipped with an Adeptus Titanicus shield generator. These design choices give it an overall lop-sided carcass-like appearance and the Xanite is also considered to look sinister and unnatural. The suit's blank face plate adds to this, as it has been painted an expressionless gloss black.^[7]

Notable Knight Lancers

• Apsinthos — House Vyronii.^[3]
• Oath Keeper — Piloted by Gill de Lacy of House Hawkshroud.^[2]
• Pilgrim of Dread — House Orhlacc^[4]
• Spear of Light — Piloted by Balianis of House Griffith.^[2]
• Vindex Magnar — House Makabius.^[3]
• Charivari — Xanite Knight Lancer, piloted by Zol Kothos Delta-9 of the United Zol-Kothine Clone Baronies^[7]

Images

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  Knight Lancer

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  Cerastus Knight Lancer

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  Knight Lancer for the Horus Heresy^[6]

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  Epic Knight Lancer^[5]

Sources

• 1: The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination, pg. 231
• 2: Warhammer: Visions 19 — In the Spotlight ^{Warhammer: Visions}
• 3: The Horus Heresy Book Four - Conquest, pg. 112
• 4: Adeptus Titanicus: Shadow and Iron, pg. 51
• 5: White Dwarf 126 (UK), pg. 31
• 6: Warhammer Community: The Plastic Cerastus Knight Lancer Enters the Age of Darkness (posted 30/4/2023) (last accessed 30/4/2023)
• 7: White Dwarf 523, pg. 25 - Galactic War Hosts: Knights

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