STARTING AN IMPERIAL KNIGHTS ARMY IN 11TH EDITION: FIVE MODELS, ONE HOUSEHOLD
Imperial Knights are an army of five towering models and one noble household, each Knight a full painting project with heraldry and freehand. This page covers the Armiger box to start on, the Questoris kit, and Canis Rex or a Dominus.
Two Armigers first
Begin with an Armiger kit. The box builds Warglaives or Helverins, and a pair of these smaller Knights teaches everything the army requires: assembling large armour panels cleanly, painting plate and trim in sub-assemblies, and committing to household colours you carry across the whole force. Choose your heraldry now, before the big kits arrive. A bold two-colour scheme with metal framework is traditional, forgiving, and reads well at tabletop distance. If you love building and painting big kits more than batch-producing troops, and if naming each of your models appeals, this is your faction.
Recommended: Armiger Warglaive
The Questoris kit, a week per Knight
Your second purchase is the full-size Questoris Knight kit, which builds the classic profiles, a Knight Paladin or Knight Errant among them, and is one of the best plastic kits the hobby has ever produced. Take it slowly: paint the skeleton and interior first, keep the armour plates separate until the end, and give yourself a week per Knight rather than a weekend. Two Armigers and one Questoris already looks like an army on the table, which no other faction can say this early.
Canis Rex or a Dominus
Every household needs a champion. Canis Rex is the character option, a named Knight with a fantastic story, a pilot model, and enough gribbly detail to anchor the collection. Or go bigger with a Dominus-class kit and loom over the battlefield. Either way, this is the model that gets the extra evenings: full heraldry, battle honours, maybe your first freehand banner.
Small changes reshape a five-model list
Datasheets and points changed for 11th edition, and with so few models per army a small points change reshapes what fits in a list. Check the current values before you buy a fourth or fifth Knight. Starter-style boxes rotate as well; if a Knights-flavoured one is available when you start, it is usually the best money-to-plastic ratio going.
One household, one transfer sheet
- A second Dominus-class before your first Questoris is painted. One castle at a time.
- Transfer sheets for every knightly house. Pick one household and swear the oaths.
- Resin upgrade kits. The plastic is already spectacular.
- Another Armiger box "to round out the points" before checking what the points are.
Lineage records
Noble houses survive on lineage records, and a Knight army deserves the same ceremony. Mark each kit boxed, built or finished as it comes in, and enjoy the fact that your entire army list fits on one screen. Few factions let you reach one hundred percent painted; this one does, and the ledger proves it. The full catalogue of Knights and their histories is on the Imperial Knights faction page under Data.