Iconoclast Fiefdom: The 11th-Edition Chaos Knights Infantry Allowance Detachment

Two clauses, and the first is a genuine army construction rule printed in full in the pack.

You can include DAMNED units in your army, see Codex: Chaos Space Marines, and the combined points cost of such units cannot exceed 500 points.

Friendly DAMNED units can re-roll leadership rolls.

That 500 point allowance is one of only three army construction rules the Chaos Knights have, and the only one of the three that is first-party. It is not a Detachment Point rule and it does not change your DP budget; it is a points allowance that exists only while you are running this detachment.

The leadership re-roll is not filler. A failed Battle-shock test sets a unit's Objective Control to 0, and this is a TAKE AND HOLD detachment whose entire purpose is putting cheap bodies on objectives. Re-rolling leadership is the clause that keeps those bodies scoring.

Dark Sacrifice (1CP, your Command phase). Target one friendly DAMNED unit, excluding ACCURSED CULTISTS units, within 9 inches of a friendly CHAOS KNIGHTS model. Select one CHAOS KNIGHTS model within 9 inches of your unit and roll D3 plus 3: your DAMNED unit suffers that many mortal wounds, and that CHAOS KNIGHTS model heals that many wounds.

This is the detachment's centrepiece. Between 4 and 6 wounds move from a cheap unit to an expensive one every Command phase for one Command Point. On a faction whose models cost more than most armies' infantry sections, that is a very efficient exchange rate.

Note the exclusion. Accursed Cultists cannot be the donor. That is easy to miss when you are filling 500 points with the cheapest available bodies, and it is the single most common way to build this detachment wrong.

Avenge the Masters! (1CP, any phase, when a friendly CHAOS KNIGHTS unit is destroyed by an enemy unit). That enemy unit is marked until the end of the battle, and friendly DAMNED units' attacks against a marked unit have [LETHAL HITS]. A revenge stratagem that only pays out if you brought DAMNED units, which is the recurring theme here.

Coursing Thralls (1CP, start of your Shooting phase). Target one friendly DAMNED unit; select one visible enemy unit within 12 inches, and it is hunted, gaining +6 inches detection range. The same spotting currency Hunting Warpack trades in, bought with infantry instead of War Dogs.

Cruel Lashmaster (Aura) (25 points). CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. While a friendly DAMNED unit is within 6 inches of this model, when that unit is selected to make a normal, advance or fall-back move it has +2 inches Move until the end of the phase.

Iconoclast Idol (Aura) (20 points). CHAOS KNIGHTS model only. While a friendly DAMNED unit is within 6 inches of this model, when you target that unit with the Heroic Intervention stratagem, that use costs 1CP less.

Both go on the Knight and buff the infantry, on the same 6 inch bubble, so one correctly parked Knight can be running both auras over the same unit. The practical consequence is that this detachment wants your Knight walking with the screen rather than ahead of it, which is a different plan from most Chaos Knights detachments.

Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile and neither value carries a change marker in this pass.

The mirror records an official FAQ against this detachment: the Preserve the Idols stratagem's Target section changes 9 inches to 8 inches.

A one inch reduction on a stratagem's target range is the kind of change that decides whether a use is legal at the moment you want it. If you learned this detachment before that FAQ, relearn the number. The stratagem's full text is not printed in the Faction Pack, so read the current card in the Warhammer 40,000 app.

At 1 Detachment Point this is the most flexible detachment in the faction, and because it carries no Unique Tag every pairing below is unambiguously legal and none is touched by the unresolved WAR DOGS question.

Plus [Bastions of Tyranny](/40k/armies/chaos-knights/detachments/bastions-of-tyranny) (1 DP, total 2). Bodies and a heal battery in front of the biggest gun in the faction.

Plus [Hunting Warpack](/40k/armies/chaos-knights/detachments/hunting-warpack) (1 DP, total 2). Infantry hold the middle, War Dogs hunt the edges. Legal regardless of how the tag question resolves, because a WAR DOGS restriction cannot bite a detachment that is not a War Dogs detachment.

Plus [Lords of Dread](/40k/armies/chaos-knights/detachments/lords-of-dread) (2 DP, total 3). Two TAKE AND HOLD detachments that do not overlap: one makes your Knights better at holding, the other gives you enough bodies to hold more than one thing.

Plus [Houndpack Lance](/40k/armies/chaos-knights/detachments/houndpack-lance) (2 DP, total 3). Houndpack Lance forces three or more War Dog units into your list, which leaves very little standing still; this fills that gap.