The Barrow Legion Cavalry & Chariots

Black Knights

In the times before the Empire, there were few domesticated horses, and horsemen were exceedingly rare. In most tribes, a steed was a symbol of wealth and status. So it was often that only a Chieftain and his closest warriors would ride mounted into battle, the wealthiest of their number clad in crude iron plate and carrying stout shields. When these early Knights died, their horses were ritually killed and buried in the barrows alongside their masters, to carry them in the afterlife. Many centuries later, the Vampire Counts are known to summon forth the gruesome remains of those ancient Knights in order to bolster the masses of lesser Undead minions under their control. As a Vampire stalks through barrows and mausoleums, Dark Magic swirls invisibly around him like a cloak, probing and penetrating the cracked and overgrown porticos of each resting place and saturating the bones of the armoured corpses within. A thousand years of dust shifts and dissipates as the parchment-dry cadavers twitch and sit upright. In a morbid mockery of their old lives, these Black Knights stir into motion, tearing themselves free of thorny creepers and thick cobwebs, cold fingers clamping around the hilts of age-blackened blades. Alongside them, the skeletal remains of their steeds jerk to Unlife, twisted by magic into hellish mockeries of the noble beasts they once were.

Unit Name Black Knights

Main Unit Key wh_main_vmp_cav_black_knights_0

Land Unit Key wh_main_vmp_cav_black_knights_0

Land Unit Group Parents Cavalry & Chariots

Land Unit Group Cavalry

Caste Melee Cavalry

Category Cavalry

Class Melee Cavalry

Custom Battle Cost 1000

Recruitment Cost 750

Upkeep Cost 188

Number of Units 60

Hit Points 6600

├ Mount 60

├ Mount Entity

├ Mount Hit Points

├ Num Mounts hu1_black_knights_hr1_skeletal_steed_sword_and_shield

├ Man Entity wh_main_cavalry_rider_standard

├ Man Hit Points 8

├ Num Men 60

└ Bonus Hit Points 102

Mass 100

└ Man Mass 100.0000

Armour 80

├ Armour wh2_main_plate_80

├ Shield wh_missile_block_30_wood

└ Missile Block Chance 30

Leadership 50

Speed 33

└ Man Speed 33

Melee Attack 30

Melee Defence 36

Weapon Strength 42

├ Melee Weapon wh_main_vmp_wightblade_black_knight

├ Base Weapon Damage 30

├ Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage 12

├ Bonus vs. Large 0

└ Bonus vs. Infantry 8

Charge Bonus 31

Abilities

• Crumbling
  The dead do not rest easily in the Old World. Those summoned by Vampires and Necromancers no longer have mortal concerns - they serve only their master's will.
• Disintegrating
  The Dark Magic binding has failed. Both flesh and necromantic energy slough off the subjects, leaving naught but dust.

Attributes

• Causes Fear
  This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack.
• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
• Undead
  This unit is Undead (does not rout, immune to terror, becomes unstable when {{tr:morale}} is low).

Strengths & Weaknesses

• Armoured & Shielded
  Armoured units can block damage from any source apart from Armour-Piercing damage. Shields have a chance of blocking arrows, bolts, rifle shots and similar small arms fire - but only in a forward facing arc.
• Anti-Infantry
  Anti-infantry units have an advantage against targets that are smaller than a horse. This advantage can be a damage bonus against small targets, superior weight used to smash through lighter enemies, or an explosive attack from range that effects a large area.

Faction Availability
Immortal Empires	The Barrow Legion Lahmian Sisterhood The Wandering Dead Necrarch Brotherhood Strygos Empire The Silver Host Mousillon Templehof Von Carstein Sylvania Vampire Counts Vampire Counts Vampire Counts Vampire Counts Rebels Waldenhof
The Realm of Chaos	Jiangshi Rebels Sires of Mourkain Caravan of Blue Roses Lahmian Sisterhood Nagashizzar