Grey Knights Battle-Brother

A Grey Knights Battle-Brother represents the most common specialty held by the Space Marine warriors within the ranks of the Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter. Comparable to a Tactical Marines of other Codex-compliant Chapters, Grey Knights Battle-Brothers are equipped and trained to fulfill the widest range of battlefield roles for an Astartes. Armed with the iconic wrist-mounted Storm Bolter, these Battle-Brothers provide the bulk of a Grey Knights force's firepower, which they are able to lay down in a devastating fusillade even as they advance implacably towards their objective. Most Battle-Brothers are veteran warriors well versed in the many disciplines of war. In their eternal struggle against the Daemons of Chaos, there are very few enemies that holds any fear for a Grey Knights Battle-Brother that they have not encountered and defeated, and no battlefield holds any terror for them.

Role
Grey Knights Battle-Brothers are fearsome warriors trained for a single deadly purpose: the eradication of daemons and other Warp-spawn. Unlike Acolytes, a Grey Knight has been completely removed from normal life and his past has been washed away by years of conditioning and genetic enhancement. A Grey Knight exists to vanquish his foes and only ever leaves the towering walls of the Chapter’s Fortress-Monastery on Titan to answer the call to arms. Of course, Grey Knights Battle-Brothers are more than mere killing machines; they are also cunning and intelligent, schooled in millennia of lore and secrets about their foes and able to carefully consider threats and act with meticulous planning. All of these traits make them a favoured tool of the Ordo Malleus and the warriors of choice when it comes to combating the greatest and most fearsome threats the Warp has to offer.

On Titan, unlike on other Chapter Planets, there is no initial training as a Scout. There is only an unyielding and brutal regime whose success at turning raw recruits into the finest warriors in the galaxy has been honed over the course of centuries. Only a fraction of the youths who enter the Fortress-Monastery as Neophytes survive the gruelling trials set before them. Those who finally emerge do so armoured with a superhuman physique, unyielding will, razor-sharp battle skills and an all-encompassing knowledge of daemonic lore and psychic sorcery. In short, from the moment a Grey Knight Initiate's training is complete, he is to be counted amongst the mightiest of Space Marines - and his abilities will only improve once he is tested in battle. Only here, on Titan, can recruits be trained so completely - and so fast - but only here is it so necessary.

The life of a Grey Knight is one of sacrifice and duty as he faces the worst horrors of the Warp and sends them screaming back to their foul masters. He will never know peace or respite and he will never know mercy from his enemies, not that a Grey Knight would ever hope for such things. For a Grey Knight, his life only has meaning while in service to the God-Emperor and his deeds only carry weight when undertaken in His name. Should he live long enough, however, and survive the countless trials and struggles against his daemonic foes, he can hope to rise up within the Chapter and take on another mantle, such as that of a Paladin or a Purifier, and be counted as an elite warrior among the Emperor’s elite.

Wargear

 * Artificer Aegis Power Armour
 * Aegis Terminator Armour
 * Wrist-mounted Storm Bolter
 * Nemesis Force Weapon
 * Frag Grenades & Krak Grenades
 * Psyk-Out Grenades
 * Liber Daemonica - The Liber Daemonica is an enduring symbol of the Grey Knight's devotion to his mission, and contains the cardinal tenets of lore culled from the dark knowledge caged within the Sanctum Sanctorum 's walls. Every Grey Knight carries a copy of the Liber Daemonica in a ceramite case on his breastplate. These gnarled tomes contain the Chapter's rites of battle and detail the traditional duties of every Grey Knights' rank. The books themselves are also potent talismans in their own right, with pages illuminated in silver and bound to a spine carved from the thigh bone of a martyred saint.

Psychic Powers

 * Hammerhand - Focusing the raging power of their minds, Grey Knights can augment their already prodigious might. Even unarmed, such a warrior can crush flesh and bone in close combat -- given blade or hammer there is little limit to what they can slay.

Notable Grey Knights Battle-Brothers

 * Battle-Brother Dvorn - A member of Justicar Alaric's squad during the Hunt for Ghargatuloth, Dvorn is firmly wedded to his Nemesis Force Hammer, an unusual weapon choice for a Grey Knight but perfectly suited to his aggressive personality. He has survived three major encounters with the Forces of Chaos and after the Massacre of Sarthis Majoris, Dvorn was granted his own suit of Tactical Dreadnought Armour and a place amongst Brother-Captain Arvann Stern's retinue of Terminators.