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Imperial Knights Codex Review - Warhammer 40k
I am beyond excited! Murphy, here, back with another codex review for Warhammer 40k. This time we will look at the brand new, Codex: Imperial Knights! We've had the Imperial Knights models for a week now (I'm still building mine!), and we've had teases of the Imperial Knight rules in the White Dwarf magazine, but now we have the official Imperial Knight codex! If you haven't read my earlier Imperial Knight articles, you can click on them below:
In this article, I will look at the quality and contents of the new codex, some of the artwork and background information, and of course, the rules on how to play and field the Imperial Knights! Please note, that all photography included in this article are for the purposes of review only!
I will be covering the history of the Imperial Knights and the contents of this codex first. If you want to skip directly to The Rules then click the link right here:
Are you ready? Then allons-y!
Imperial Knights Codex
The physical product is beautiful book. It is hardbound book with a glossy cover and embossed lettering. The cover artwork is striking and on par with the other 6th edition codexes. The book is 64 pages long and, at a $41 price tag, it is a steep price. However, let's be honest, most of you will not be paying full retail for the book. Regardless of the price, the quality is top notch.
I read through the book, cover to cover, last night and several times I said out loud, "Oh, wow!". I'm a nerd like that, and I was struck my the artwork, the scenic photography, and the additional color plates inside. Examples are to the right.
I will be honest: this codex is very "rules light"; as everything is condensed down to maybe five pages at the end. However, this codex has a lot of background, pictures, and color artwork. The Imperial Knights are being listed as a new faction, so it makes sense that so much would be devoted to telling their story.
In fact, page six is completely dedicated to a fictional narrative that is often found in a tiny sidebar in other codexes. It follows a Noble, Brom of House Griffith, as he connects to his Throne Mechanicum and the machine-spirit of his Knight. The story describes Brom's descent through his house's bastion where he completes the merger with his knight and the three pieces (noble, throne, and knight) merge into one being and stride forwards to war. I really liked this piece, as it gave the Imperial Knight some character beyond giant stompy robots! I also got a "Pacific Rim" vibe from it, while being a unique narrative with its own details.
Imperial Knights Background
Pages seven through forty-one are dedicated completely to the background of the Imperial Knights, the story of several of the knightly houses, and the timeline of important events. I will run through that story very fast, just to give readers an idea of what and who these mechanical monstrosities are.
Imperial Knights Founding
Imperial Knights are not part of the Imperium; they are allies to it. The knights are all hosted on a Knight World, which are some of the earliest interstellar settlements of Mankind. Founded during the ancient Age of Technology, vast colony ships were sent on decades-long missions to settle new worlds. These were one-way trips and the vast ships were converted to terrestrial bases and were supported by giant mechanical walkers that served two purposes: to help collect resources and aid in construction, and to also protect the colonists from hostile natives.
These early knight pilots served such a pivotal role in the success of the colonies that the pilots emerged as leaders. They were called Nobles and they formed themselves into houses, bound by duty and honor to protect the colonists that they now saw as their subjects. Little did these nobles realize that a subtle form of mental influence was being asserted on them. The tech-priests of Mars, creators of the knights and the throne mechanicum, inserted mind conditioning into the bonding process that enhanced their own aggressive natures, but also committed them to protection and duty.
Thus, despite almost complete isolation from each other, the Knight Worlds evolved along similar lines into feudal systems bound by traditions that would later seem remarkably similar.
Imperial Knights Current Timeline
When the Emperor of Mankind swept across the galaxy in the Great Crusade, the Knight Worlds were rediscovered. Interestingly, though, they were not brought into the fold of the Imperium. The Adeptus-Mechanicus won the right to deal with these worlds, and being a pseudo-independent organization itself, the Mechanicum decided to work out a partnership with the knights rather than absorb them.
The Mechanicum set up forge worlds near the newly discovered knight worlds and the two factions began to support each other. The Mechanicum supports the knights by training their citizenry and supplying technical knowledge and labor, while the knights support the Mechanicum by supplying raw resources from their planet along with Knight warriors to fight alongside the Titan Legions.
For whatever reason, some of the knight worlds have parted ways with the Mechanicum and have instead aligned themselves directly with the Imperium. Now bound by new oaths, these knightly houses support the armies of the Imperial Guard and the Adeptus Astartes with their adamantium-armored machines.
Chaos Knights / Daemon Knights
There is a sidebar in the book that deals with the Horus Heresy. See the photo to the right. I loved this section because a lot of Chaos players are dying to use the new knight models in their chaos armies.
Unfortunately, this cannot be done directly right now. I will explain the allied chart later, but I will safely say that the Imperial Knights cannot directly ally with Chaos of any kind. This sidebar explains why.
During the Horus Heresy, a knightly house DID fall to chaos: House Devine. Perverted by Slaanesh, House Devine turned against their titan legion allies, just as Horus' forces assaulted the front line. The betrayal was a great loss for the Imperium and House Devine continued to prowl the galaxy in the name of chaos. House Devine were not the only knight traitors, however.
So why can't the Imperial Knights ally with Chaos now?
First, it explains that there ARE chaos knights, called Daemon Knights. These are the souls of the original traitor knights that are long-since dead, now corrupted and merged completely with their machines. Being that these Daemon Knights are 10,000 years old, they are a rare sight.
Also, due to the mental conditioning that is part of becoming a Noble pilot, and the conservatism of the knightly houses, Imperial Knights are highly resistant to the corrupting influence of Chaos. It isn't impossible, but the codex states that "Daemon Knights are therefore an extremely rare sight on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium."
There's the fluff, but what about the rules. There are no rules to play Daemon Knights or ally knights with Chaos. However, this is an important side-bar. The authors specifically put it in here two do three things:
- Acknowledge the history of chaos corrupting knightly houses.
- Explain with story why Imperial Knights are NOT allies to Chaos now.
- Leave open the door for an ADDITIONAL codex and range of truly chaos knights.
If you think about it, a 10,000 year old Daemon Knight is going to look very different than the current Imperial Knight models. Look at the new Helbrute that just came out. It is filled with baroque filigree, daemonic flesh, mutations, horns, and tentacles. Can you imagine how awesome this kit would look? Also, how different would the rules be? This sidebar specifically explains that Daemon Knights are daemons... so they would likely have all that goes with it: daemonic invulnerable saves and special rules for dedications to specific Chaos Gods. Perhaps they will have additional special rules to represent their crazed and blood thirsty nature.
My point, chaos players will be better served with a set of specific rules and amazing models of their own.
Will this ever happen??? That's the question. However, as hot as these Imperial Knights have been, and seeing that they left the door open with this sidebar, I don't see GW passing up this opportunity. Whether through GW or Forge World, it believe it WILL happen.
So what to do now. If you want to include Imperial Knights and Chaos in the same army, then you can do this.
- Field Imperial Guard as your Primary Detachment (take the bare minimum).
- Ally with Chaos Space Marines or Chaos Daemons as your Allied Detachment.
- Take an Imperial Knight detachment of between 1-3 Knights.
Yes, Knights are fielded as a Detachment and do not take up the Allies slot!
Alright, let's get to the Imperial Knights rules below!
Imperial Knight Amazon
Give Your Imperial Knight Ratings!
Imperial Knight Rules
Beyond the history of the Imperial Knights, the new codex also has 17 pages of photography. These are battle scenes set up with other 40k models (so you can see the scale of these knights!) and the traditional 'Eavy Metal photos of different paint schemes and positions.
Beyond this, we get to the rules for using and fielding Imperial Knights. I have several more photos and a detailed analysis of these knights rules, but I don't have room on this page to cover it all. Click right below for PART TWO of my Imperial Knight Codex Review and will get straight to the rules!
Thank you for reading. Please leave a rating to the right or leave a comment below. If you are bored of Imperial Knights (really?) then be sure to check out one of my other 40k articles listed below the comments. Otherwise, I'll see you in part two. Just click above to get right to the meat!
there is a sideway about your reasoning in the last part ... when targetting ally matrix ... and in this rare situations ... of 3 detachments ... even if a single one (this case knights) are allied or in the same army with another one that has both one that allies you normally and another one(chaos - apoc) ... the equation is broken and hence knights couldn't ally with that IG since he allied with chaos ... is tricky and makes a whole debate about this discussion but ... more likely ... it will not be possible since at least 2 detachments in one army have apoc treatment (no ally allowed) ...


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Our Top 10 Best Films from TIFF 2017
How is TIFF already over? It feels like just yesterday that I was getting back from the 2016 edition, and lo and behold, another year has passed! As always, TIFF did not disappoint, with tons of great titles popping through. Any Oscar front-runners? I�d say yes, absolutely, with CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (previously reviewed at Sundance), THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (winner of the People�s Choice Award) and several others rocketing to the top of the list, while the reception to dual Matt Damon entries, SUBURBICON and DOWNSIZING seem to suggest this won�t be his year. Check out my top ten list � and for my all my reviews and interviews, click the link below!
10. Roman J. Israel Esq.Dan Gilroy's ROMAN J. ISRAEL ESQ., got beaten up a bit by critics, with them seemingly most upset that it's not another NIGHTCRAWLER. Clearly, Gilroy was looking to do something a little warmer, but not saccharine, and he gives Denzel Washington the rare part that utterly allows him to disappear into a role to the point that he's unrecognizable, not only physically but also in that his persona is so suppressed. Colin Farrell also contributes nice work as a big-shot attorney who, despite the professional cost, finds himself empathizing with Israel.
9. Death of StalinFurthering his career-long theory that politicians of all stripes are no more than thuggish frat-boys, "Veep's" Armando Iannucci turns his gaze back to post WW2-Russia, where Khrushchev, and the rest of Stalin's "posse" argue over who gets to replace the tyrant. The fact that Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Jason Isaacs, and Simon Russell Beale play them in F-bomb riddled, hilarious performances make this a history lesson (and a surprisingly accurate one) unlike any other.
8. HostilesTo get an idea of how much the film landscape has changed, think of HOSTILES. The day a $40 million western starring Christian Bale and directed by the A-list Scott Cooper (BLACK MASS) not only has to be made independently, but then struggles to find distribution proves there's something rotten going on. Too bad, as Cooper's film is an intelligent, entertaining, new-wave western with one of Bale's best-ever performances.
7. The Killing of a Sacred DeerI was a pretty big fan of Yorgos Lanthimos's THE LOBSTER, but his pseudo-horror follow-up is really something. Featuring outstanding work from Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, and DUNKIRK's Barry Keoghan, I'd wager it's a more successful, entertaining biblical allegory than another TIFF pick (which I liked), MOTHER! Hopefully the art-house audience that turned out for THE LOBSTER will do the same here.
6. Molly's GameAaron Sorkin's directorial debut might not have quite set the fest on fire like some had hoped, but it was still a damn solid fact-based look into the world of high-stakes Hollywood poker, and much more. Jessica Chastain has one of her best roles as Molly Bloom, whose addiction to the big-money of the games starts a downward spiral that she's ultimately too conscientious to avoid.
5. The Disaster ArtistJames Franco's Tommy Wiseau bio, THE DISASTER ARTIST, chronicling the making of THE ROOM is better than anyone could have ever expected. Heck, I knew it would be funny. With Franco and his brother Dave starring, along with a who's who of comic talent, how could it not be? What's odd is how touching it all is, with Franco clearly having great empathy for Wiseau's dreams of artistic triumph.
4. Brawl in Cell Clock 99S. Craig Zahler's BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 is a pulp masterpiece. Grotesquely violent, Vince Vaughn's forever reinvented himself as an action hero, playing a con forced into infiltrating a brutal prison run by none other than Don Johnson. God, I loved this one - and it hits VOD in just a few weeks!
3. I, TonyaCraig Gillespie's I, TONYA was the big TIFF sleeper. Margot Robbie stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, and don't be surprised if you walk out of this one with newfound sympathy for a woman many view as a punchline - something this argues she's definitely not. It's funny, but also moving - and maybe the most perfectly cast film of the year- with Robbie and Allison Janney now big time Oscar front-runners as long as Neon gets this out before the end of the year.
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriMartin McDonagh's THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI was the surprise winner of the TIFF People's Choice Awards, and it's not hard to see why. A deeply touching, but also confrontational and blackly comic tale, this lives up to the promise McDonagh showed in IN BRUGES, and then some. France McDormand seems a lock for an Oscar now in her best role since FARGO, and while they're at it, Sam Rockwell definitely deserves some love.
1. The Shape of Water
Everyone expected Guillermo Del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER to be pretty damn good, but I don't think anyone was thinking it would rank as quite possibly the best thing he's ever done - no mean feat considering his filmography. A whimsical, but also sexually frank and violent fantasy for adults, I guarantee you, nothing you see this year will be anything like THE SHAPE OF WATER. Every frame has Del Toro's distinct signature - the mark of a truly great director.


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On Jan 24th 1910, in a traveling gypsy camp in Belgium, Django Reinhardt was born. His father was an itinerent musician, and the wee Django accompanied him on trips throughout France, Italy and North Africa.
By the age of 12, he was a "professional" Parisian musician, who'd made the banjo/guitar his instruments of choice. Playing dancehalls by night, he'd made his first recordings under the moniker Jiango Reinhardt by the time he was in his late teens.
In 1928, at the age of 18, a fire destroyed the caravan he shared with his wife, badly burning his right hand, and severely limiting use of his left hand. During recuperation, he revised his technique and to the surprise of many, continued his career using only two fingers. After hearing sides of not new U.S jazz from contemporaries like Louis Armstrong's Hot Six, and players like Joe Venuti, and guitarist Eddie Lang, he was invigorated to join them in playing "Hot Jazz". His friend, Emile Savitry, who reportedly first introduced Django to jazz said that when Reinhardt heard the uniquely beautiful recordings of these influential artists,
"he took his head in his hands and began to sob."
In 1934 he and his fellow guitarist brother Joeseph had a gig at the tony Parisain nightspot Le Hot Club, and formed the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Also in the group was violinist Stephane Grappelli joining Louis Vola on bass and Roger Chaput also on guitar.
Django Reinhardt Et Le Quinttte Du Hot Club De France - How High The Moon
Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France - Sweet Sue
Django Reinhardt Et Le Quinttte Du Hot Club De France - Limehouse Blues
The group were revolutionary in their approach, with a lead guitar backed by two rhythm guitars with Grappeli's violin and the guitars augmenting for the missing percussion parts. Their 78s swept the European continent, and the band began expanding their fan base to include fellow visiting jazz musicians like as Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and Louis Armstrong who all jammed with the group.
Django Reinhardt ( w/ Coleman Hawkins) - What A Difference a Day Makes (1935)
The Hot Club were part of Paris famed nightlife, particularly in the quarter Saint-Germain. Reinhardt, once he became less hungry & better known, began displaying his eccentricities, such as occasionally skipping gig, or refusing to carry his own instrument.
As WWII began breaking out the group was on tour in the U.K, where the jewish Grappelli stayed and Django decided to return to France. The group continued with clarinetist Hubert Rostaing replacing the violin of Grappelli and toured as far from the Germans as they could. Even though thousands of his beleaguered gypsy people perished under Nazi rule, Django was rumored to be protected by a sympathetic Luftwaffe official Oberlieutenant Dietrich Schultz-Kohn aka Doktor Jazz, who appreciated the gypsy's remarkable talents.
Reinhardt wiled away the war and earned a living, despite Jazz being officially banned in Vichy France under Hitler's despotic rule. Reinhardt was a gambler, drinker, pool player, and ladies man and soon had hooked up with a second wife whom he had a child named Babik in 1944.
After the war, Grappelli and Reinhardt continued their collaboration, culminating in a tour organized by Duke Ellington that ended with a 1946 performance at NYC's Carnegie Hall with Ellington's orchestra.
Despite being feted by critics, the music business itself was not kind to Django, and he grew impatient with the hustles & structures. At one point he was given an endorsement for Selmer guitars, but was forced to play electric which annoyed his old fans. Some say if Django had stayed in the US and learned to speak Anglais his life would have been far different. Yet, he was a gypsy and not prone to taking advice, following orders or schedules.
He stayed stateside for awhile, toured with Ellington a bit, but by 1948 returned to France. He immersed himself back into Gypsy culture, more or less fed up with the record industry's royalty games & lack of financial rewards thrown his way.
His last great recording was released under the title Djangology, featuring Reinhardt back on his acoustic Selmer-Maccaferri guitar. Joining him was Grappelli and the recording was true to his classic form.
After moving to a small riverside town outside of Paris, he died suddenly on the 16th May 1953 when Reinhardt suffered a massive brain hemmoredge and was pronounced dead.
For many years now, the town he lived in Samois du Seine has played tribute to this Romany hero each year with a music festival in his honor, and his music has brought joy to many millions over the years.
His legacy continues to be recalled for new generations in movies, including recent soundtrack uses in films like Chocolat, Sweet and Lowdown, The Aviator, The Matrix Revolutions, The Pallbearer, The Sopranos, and Gataca to name but a few.
Here is a brief and rare clip of Reinhardt playing from a French film from 1951, with some additional downloadable mp3 tracks below...
Django Reinhardt - Claire De Lune
Django Reinhardt - Three Little Words
Django Reinhardt - C Jam Blues


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Regine and Ogie tied the knot last December 22 last year and the latest news is ... she is expecting! Yup, she is now five weeks pregnant. I am happy for her, especially that she married late and in her early 40's she is still able to bear a child. Good for her!
I am sure once she delivers it will be the talk of tinseltown, they have to go and scout for the the best backwoods cigars price to pass out in the hospital during the great day.
Regine has begged off from her regular shows to give her complete rest and to keep her pregnancy safe. I am praying that she goes the whole nine months as smooth sailing as she can. I am sure their future bundle of joy will be loved by all!
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Hi Kelvin, I was able to reproduce the exception and will try to provide a patch or workaround. In the meantime you could create a JIRA [1] ticket for this issue. What version of JDBC driver are you using? Is it possible that you give it a try with the most recent one if it is not? Greetings, Milosz [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA > Hi, > > When I try to insert a XML object into a XMLType column in Oracle with > more than 4000 characters, I get the following exception. > ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column > > Is there anyway we can work around that? My mapping works fine when > the XML can be serialized with less than 4000 characters. > > I am using OpenJpa 1.2.2 and Oracle 10g with Spring + OpenJpaVendorAdapter. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Kelvin
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