The reason you don't charge into a knight



House Khymere were on a Dread campaign, launched recently from the Cicatrix Maledictum. When they made planet fall, they found not the Adeptus Mechanicus, but the Adeptus Custodes, guarding the planet. The battle commenced with both holy and chaotic vigor, Knight and Custode moving rapidly to engage in combat. A Knight Despoiler engaged in close combat and was promptly surrounded, before being charged by the powerful warriors. The combat commenced, but the knight was no match and was quickly felled. In their dying moment, they blew the demonic power core, and in a blinding flash, eradicated a host of men from the Dread host.



Not to be dettered by the loss of so many, the Custodes continued on. When they destroyed the second Despoiler, they had no idea that they would feel a second blast, for both Knights were ordered to take as many down as they could, for the skull throne required more skulls. Although victory was within the Custode's grasp, and one of the two deadly Ravagers was destroyed, and didn't blow up, the final Knight devastated the remaining few. Alas the world was lost, and what ever was being guarded, now resides within the grasp of chaos.



Many Custode were lost that day, just to an already dead opponent. The lesson that was to be learned was not "don't charge the massive robot", the lesson was "Bring a Chief Apothecary".