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[The Rogue Trader] - Cheap Knights

With the high price of the Grey Knight Strike Squad box I wanted to see if I could stretch the value a little bit.  I'd made a basic strike squad, Justicar with Daemon Hammer, Grey Knight with psycannon, three Grey Knights with Force Swords.  This left me with a good range of option pieces, part of why the set is so expensive.  So I gave some thought to what I'd need to make a second squad out of this set.  A couple of eBay purchases later I was on my way.

[The Rogue Trader] Grey Knight Models - First Impressions

I'd preordered a dreadknight and a strike squad from the FLGS.  A good thing as they had already sold out.  I'd preordered the dreadknight because I really liked the model.  I'm glad that was my justification as they don't seem to be making it into too many army lists.  The strike squad I'd ordered as they form the basis of so many GK units and I wanted to see what the kit was like.

I assembled the strike squad first, and in a pretty basic configuration.  Psycannon as they seem the must have of the GK units, a daemon hammer for the justicar and left the rest as basic sword and stormbolter marines.  Definitely some good stuff in this box.  Loads of extras, enough that I'm going to try and put together an interceptor squad out of the left over bits and a regular SM combat squad.  There are still two swords (although one is missing arms - they also go to the daemon hammer) as well as 3 halberds, 3 pairs of falchions, an incinerator, psycannon, psilencer and assorted other bits.  That's a whole lot of left over plastic after I have a squad assembled and somewhat justifies the cost.  I say somewhat as yes you can argue you get a lot of plastic, but by boxing everything in to one kit they are charging you for a lot of bits you'll be unlikely to use.  I'd rather see the combat/tactical/assault/devastator/sternguard/vanguard box options the regular marines get. I'm guessing my opinion is different from the GW accountants though who are no doubt happy to be making us buy a larger % of unneeded plastic in one box.  And yeah I'll buy more once taxes come in.  I’ll also post about how successful my cheapknights interceptor squad is.