Helhunt Lance: The 11th-Edition Chaos Knights Aura Sharing Detachment

If a Titanic Chaos Knights unit from your army has an Aura ability that affects friendly War Dog units, then while two or more friendly War Dog models are within range of that Aura, that Titanic Chaos Knights unit is affected by that Aura ability as well.

The pack prints its own worked example, which is worth quoting in structure because it removes most of the ambiguity: two friendly War Dog models within 9 inches of a Knight Desecrator when it is selected to shoot means the Desecrator's Taskmaster ability also affects itself, even though the Desecrator does not have the War Dog keyword, so its Hit rolls of 1 are re-rolled.

Three conditions, all of which have to be true.

You need a Titanic Chaos Knight that already has a War-Dog-facing Aura. The detachment does not create one. If your Knight has no Aura pointed at War Dogs, the rule never fires.

You need two War Dog MODELS in range, not two units. That is a cheaper requirement than it reads, and it is worth checking your list against rather than assuming.

The range is the Aura's own range, so whatever bubble the ability already has is the bubble you are working in.

This is the price of the largest effect in the faction: a detachment that turns a support Aura into a self-buff is strong, and it is strong only in a list that was built for it.

Flush the Quarry (1CP, Battle Tactic, start of your Movement phase). Target one Titanic Chaos Knights unit and up to three friendly War Dog units within 6 inches of it. Until the end of the phase, when those War Dogs make a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move they can move through models and terrain features, may move within but not end within Engagement Range, and automatically pass any Desperate Escape test. Three War Dog units moving through everything on the table for one Command Point is the largest single mobility effect in the faction.

Merciless Fusillade (1CP, Battle Tactic, start of your Shooting phase or start of the Fight phase). Target one Titanic Chaos Knights unit and up to two friendly War Dog units that have not shot or fought this phase. Select one enemy unit that is an eligible target for all of them. Until the end of the phase each of those units must select that enemy unit as the target for all of its attacks, and those attacks have [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. The lock-in is real. This is a focus-fire commitment, so spend it on something you intend to remove rather than as a general buff.

Feral Arrogance (1CP, Strategic Ploy, any phase, just after a mortal wound is allocated to a Chaos Knights unit). Until the end of the phase, models in that unit have Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds. Note the trigger fires after the first mortal wound lands, so it protects the rest of the sequence rather than all of it.

Beasthide Manifestation (1CP, Battle Tactic, your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets). Target one Chaos Knights unit that was selected. Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen that attack's Armour Penetration by 1.

Contemptuous Volleys (1CP, Strategic Ploy, your Movement phase, just after a Chaos Knights unit Falls Back). Until the end of the turn that unit is eligible to shoot and to declare a charge in a turn in which it Fell Back. Broader than the Bastions of Tyranny equivalent, which returns shooting only, and it applies to any Chaos Knights unit rather than to one datasheet.

Goaded Beast (1CP, Strategic Ploy, your opponent's Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot). Target one Chaos Knights unit that lost one or more wounds to those attacks; it can make a surge move of up to D6 inches. A free reposition paid for with damage you were taking anyway, and a way to close a charge distance during your opponent's turn.

Octagram of Conjuration (40 points). Knight Abominant model only. The bearer gains Octagram of Conjuration (Aura): while a friendly War Dog model is within 9 inches, after that War Dog model has shot you can select one enemy unit hit by those attacks, and it must take a Battle-shock test.

That is the single most expensive enhancement in either Knights faction, and it is locked to one datasheet. It is also, and this is the reason to take it, itself a War-Dog-facing Aura on a Titanic Knight, which is exactly the shape the detachment rule feeds on.

Aspect of the Beast (30 points). Chaos Knights model only. At the start of your Command phase, select one Dread ability to be active for the bearer until the start of your next Command phase, in addition to the Dread abilities active for your army. A private extra Dread ability, refreshed every turn.

Throne Tyrannicus (25 points). Titanic Chaos Knights model only. In your Command phase, select one other Chaos Knights Character model within 9 inches; if the bearer has one or more Aura abilities affecting friendly War Dog units, that ability extends to the selected model until the start of your next Command phase. A second copy of the detachment's central trick, handed to a different Knight.

Hunter's Helm (15 points). Chaos Knights model only. You can re-roll Advance and Charge rolls made for the bearer's unit. The cheapest and least conditional of the four, and the only one that does not require the rest of the list to be built around War Dogs.

Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile and none of the four carries a change marker in this pass.

At 2 Detachment Points this leaves exactly 1 DP at Strike Force, and it carries no Unique Tag, so both pairings below are unambiguously legal.

Plus [Hunting Warpack](/40k/armies/chaos-knights/detachments/hunting-warpack) (1 DP, total 3). Helhunt Lance needs War Dog models on the table; Hunting Warpack is the detachment that makes each of them better at hunting. Legal whichever way the Hunting Warpack tag question resolves, because Helhunt Lance carries no tag and a WAR DOGS restriction cannot bite a detachment that is not one.

Plus [Bastions of Tyranny](/40k/armies/chaos-knights/detachments/bastions-of-tyranny) (1 DP, total 3). The Knight Tyrant is a Titanic Chaos Knights model, so it sits inside Helhunt Lance's rule while Bastions of Tyranny sharpens it specifically.