As someone who played all of last season playing grey knights i am genuinely looking forward to seeing what I can pick up from the series to help my game
Great video! I'm still learning GKs. I like hearing multiple players' perspectives. One very important thing to add for why Draigo is an auto-include (IMO) is that he gives his entire unit 4+ FNP, which counters mortal wounds, which is the best way to take out terminators. The +3 to charge from deep strike is great, but not the reason to pick him and they're more tanky even if you fail a 6" charge.
Thank god! Just got into Warhammer. Grey Knights were my pick for what I wanted to play first and hopefully competitively soon! But man, what a LOAD of information! Awesome video!
i just got into the hobby a few months ago thanks (but no thanks haha) to a friend. Grey knights immediately caught my eye and i'm just getting ready to play my first 1000 pint incursion with a friend. Really enjoying your videos, very helpful and insightful to someone who is new.
Recently went 2-1 in my first RTT playing with grey knights, smashed nids in my last game, some lucky rolling and bad rolling on my opponents part meant I wiped out just over a third of his army in the first turn, he conceded on turn 3, looking forward to this series so I can pick up some good tips on how to play grey knights better :)
Might sound like a dumb question.. Especially since we all know that Games under 2k arent the most balanced. BUT my friends and I like to often only play around 750-1500k points under the week and especially like to start out new armies smaller. Any tips? List ideas? Things too look out for at those lower brackets? As we are rather expensive points wise. Like when would you play a Dreadknight? when would 2 be too much for such low points? What to buy at best to start like this :)
That’s a really interesting question! I’m not too hot in the missions etc for those points, but the basic lower point fundamentals (to my understanding) is that your opponent has fewer tools to deal with things, which is why traditionally skews and hard to kill elites do well. In terms of what to start with, you can’t look past the combat patrol. Buy 3 of those and you’ve just got everything you need realistically barring violent skews. One gives you a well rounded starter force of around 700 points. In terms of what’s good… as mentioned earlier, I’d say skew. At 750 points you could do the combat patrol, minus 5 terms and plus 1 dk, and that’s probably okay? At 1.5k I’d defo be getting a 10 man term or paladin brick in. Make sure you have a minimum of 3 units too I think!
@@6PlusPlusGaming Got it! :D Already basically a great answer for what I was looking for! Any tips about what chars you´d add for someone starting out? 3CP are amazing unit wise but it would leave me with 3 Librarians and no other charakter. Soo which one would you consider like the "must have" chars for new guys?
Okay so it does depend on your meta in theory. A general breakdown would be: Librarians: Good for giving fnp to terms in the mirror match and Thousand Sons match up. If you ran 3, that mortal wound output would be very nasty. However, every time you use one there is a 1 in 18 chance they just blow themselves up. Quite expensive now for what they do, I suspect their power is magnified in smaller games. Draigo: Most people swear by him. You will fail his charge regularly. Very killy character. People will tell you he is essential, he absolutely isn’t, but he does open up options. Again, serious beat stick. Grandmaster: His important thing is ignore modifiers. Playing into lots of mod heavy armies? He is your guy. You aren’t? Hmmm. Bro Captain: Very tasty with something like 10 paladins. Gives them sustained on their psycannons and in combat, and rerolls his own wounds. I really like him but again, only with paladins and you would choose GM depending on opponents. When buying, you can basically use them all interchangeably cos all the models are much of a muchness. I’ve used librarians as brother captains/ GMs, I’ve used random paladins as librarians… don’t worry about that too much :)
What’s the time stamp? Just so I can clarify what I meant, or whether I misspoke haha. GMDK rerolls are once a battle round, as the app says :) The grandmaster reduce a Strat by 1 cp is once a battle
Hey new player here, I’ve played 2 1k pts world eaters and 1 1k pts Custodies, do you have any unit recommendations or list recommendations for 1k grey knights?
Hey! Welcome to grey knights :) I think it depends what you’re looking to get out of it. 1k is more about skew to be ultra competitive, so is that the direction you want? Or is it just easing in? A combat patrol box is around 700 points, so two of those will give you a nice start point to try some different combos :) you can’t go wrong with Dreadknights, terminators, strikes, paladins or interceptors :)
As someone who played all of last season playing grey knights i am genuinely looking forward to seeing what I can pick up from the series to help my game
Awesome ☺️
Great video! I'm still learning GKs. I like hearing multiple players' perspectives.
One very important thing to add for why Draigo is an auto-include (IMO) is that he gives his entire unit 4+ FNP, which counters mortal wounds, which is the best way to take out terminators. The +3 to charge from deep strike is great, but not the reason to pick him and they're more tanky even if you fail a 6" charge.
Thank god! Just got into Warhammer. Grey Knights were my pick for what I wanted to play first and hopefully competitively soon! But man, what a LOAD of information! Awesome video!
Haha welcome to the wonderful world of warhammer! Great choice for a first army! Glad you enjoyed the video ☺️
@@6PlusPlusGaming Is there a grey knight playlist?
@ There’s a Playlist called I am the Hammer with all the videos I’ve done over the last 7 months :)
i just got into the hobby a few months ago thanks (but no thanks haha) to a friend. Grey knights immediately caught my eye and i'm just getting ready to play my first 1000 pint incursion with a friend. Really enjoying your videos, very helpful and insightful to someone who is new.
That’s awesome! Great first army choice, and welcome to the wonderful world of Warhammer :)
@@6PlusPlusGaming thanks looking forward to the challenge of a high skill ceiling army. i'll be following for tips and strats going forward.
Thank you very much for the information. Break down was very well done and enjoyed the video.
Thanks a lot! Glad it was helpful ☺️
Subscribed! 😊
Recently went 2-1 in my first RTT playing with grey knights, smashed nids in my last game, some lucky rolling and bad rolling on my opponents part meant I wiped out just over a third of his army in the first turn, he conceded on turn 3, looking forward to this series so I can pick up some good tips on how to play grey knights better :)
That’s awesome, great job! Definitely a faction that you really see the progress with the more you use them and learn about them :)
Might sound like a dumb question.. Especially since we all know that Games under 2k arent the most balanced. BUT my friends and I like to often only play around 750-1500k points under the week and especially like to start out new armies smaller.
Any tips? List ideas? Things too look out for at those lower brackets? As we are rather expensive points wise. Like when would you play a Dreadknight? when would 2 be too much for such low points?
What to buy at best to start like this :)
That’s a really interesting question! I’m not too hot in the missions etc for those points, but the basic lower point fundamentals (to my understanding) is that your opponent has fewer tools to deal with things, which is why traditionally skews and hard to kill elites do well.
In terms of what to start with, you can’t look past the combat patrol. Buy 3 of those and you’ve just got everything you need realistically barring violent skews. One gives you a well rounded starter force of around 700 points.
In terms of what’s good… as mentioned earlier, I’d say skew. At 750 points you could do the combat patrol, minus 5 terms and plus 1 dk, and that’s probably okay? At 1.5k I’d defo be getting a 10 man term or paladin brick in. Make sure you have a minimum of 3 units too I think!
@@6PlusPlusGaming Got it! :D Already basically a great answer for what I was looking for!
Any tips about what chars you´d add for someone starting out? 3CP are amazing unit wise but it would leave me with 3 Librarians and no other charakter. Soo which one would you consider like the "must have" chars for new guys?
Okay so it does depend on your meta in theory. A general breakdown would be:
Librarians: Good for giving fnp to terms in the mirror match and Thousand Sons match up. If you ran 3, that mortal wound output would be very nasty. However, every time you use one there is a 1 in 18 chance they just blow themselves up. Quite expensive now for what they do, I suspect their power is magnified in smaller games.
Draigo: Most people swear by him. You will fail his charge regularly. Very killy character. People will tell you he is essential, he absolutely isn’t, but he does open up options. Again, serious beat stick.
Grandmaster: His important thing is ignore modifiers. Playing into lots of mod heavy armies? He is your guy. You aren’t? Hmmm.
Bro Captain: Very tasty with something like 10 paladins. Gives them sustained on their psycannons and in combat, and rerolls his own wounds. I really like him but again, only with paladins and you would choose GM depending on opponents.
When buying, you can basically use them all interchangeably cos all the models are much of a muchness. I’ve used librarians as brother captains/ GMs, I’ve used random paladins as librarians… don’t worry about that too much :)
GMDK you mentioned once per battle, app says once per battle round?
What’s the time stamp? Just so I can clarify what I meant, or whether I misspoke haha.
GMDK rerolls are once a battle round, as the app says :)
The grandmaster reduce a Strat by 1 cp is once a battle
Hey new player here, I’ve played 2 1k pts world eaters and 1 1k pts Custodies, do you have any unit recommendations or list recommendations for 1k grey knights?
Hey! Welcome to grey knights :)
I think it depends what you’re looking to get out of it. 1k is more about skew to be ultra competitive, so is that the direction you want? Or is it just easing in?
A combat patrol box is around 700 points, so two of those will give you a nice start point to try some different combos :) you can’t go wrong with Dreadknights, terminators, strikes, paladins or interceptors :)
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