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Vyroni Knight-Acheron battle

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron of House Vyronii in battle during the Horus Heresy

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron is an Imperial Knight pattern that is utilised exclusively for terror and shock assaults.

The devastation wrought by Knights-Acheron is terrifying to behold. Armed with a fearsome Reaper Chainfist, twin-linked Heavy Bolters and an Acheron Pattern Flame Cannon, they are employed as weapons of extermination and to inspire fear in their foes.

Nothing will sway their attack until the enemy is utterly crushed, never to rise again from the flame-scoured ruins of their strongholds.

History[]

Cerastus Knight-Acheron Crucible of Enlightenment

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron of House Hermetika

The Cerastus Knight-Acheron is a fearsome sight on the battlefield, a reaper of lives carefully designed not only to destroy, but also to inspire terror both in appearance and the manner in which it undertakes its grim task.

The presence of an Acheron pattern Knight armour in the battlelines of a household warns the foe to expect no mercy, for such weapons are only deployed for missions of extermination, to topple the works of the enemy and scour clean his lands with flame.

Scions rarely choose to ride into battle in Acheron armour voluntarily, accepting the task instead as an arduous duty to be undertaken for the good of their house, for the anima of these armours are often awash in the inherited memories of massacres and slaughters uncounted.

Those few scions who prefer such grim mounts are either warriors of iron will, capable of suppressing the sinister whispers of the armour's Machine Spirits (artificial intelligence), or tortured souls who relish the armour's malicious impulses and the carnage it wreaks on the field of battle.

Unit Composition[]

  • 1 Cerastus Knight-Acheron

Wargear[]

Optional Wargear[]

  • Occular Augmetics - An upgrade to the Knight's Occular sensors enabling a far greater degree of visual input during low-light conditions, such as night fighting.

Sources[]

  • The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest, by Alan Bligh, pp. 104, 125, 173, 296, 307
  • The Horus Heresy - Book Five: Tempest by Alan Bligh, pp. 128-129
  • Forge World - Cerastus Knight-Acheron

Gallery[]

Imperial Knight Forces
Armiger Pattern Knights Armiger WarglaiveArmiger HelverinKnight Moirax
Questoris Pattern Knights Knight PaladinKnight ErrantKnight CrusaderKnight GallantKnight WardenKnight PreceptorKnight MagaeraKnight Styrix
Dominus Pattern Knights Knight CastellanKnight Valiant
Cerastus Pattern Knights Cerastus Knight-LancerCerastus Knight-CastigatorCerastus Knight-AcheronCerastus Knight-Atrapos
Acastus Pattern Knights Acastus Knight PorphyrionAcastus Knight Asterius
Chaos Knight Forces
Armiger Pattern Knights (War Dog-class) War Dog (War Dog ExecutionerWar Dog StalkerWar Dog KarnivoreWar Dog BrigandWar Dog Huntsman)
Slaaneshi Daemon Knights Hell-StriderHell-ScourgeHell-Knight
Cerastus Pattern Knights Cerastus Knight-AcheronCerastus Knight-CastigatorCerastus Knight-Lancer
Questoris Pattern Knights (Abhorrent-class) Knight DespoilerKnight DesecratorKnight RampagerKnight Abominant
Acastus Pattern Knights Acastus Knight Porphyrion
Dominus Pattern Knights (Tyrant-class) Knight Tyrant
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