Cerastus Knight-Acheron

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron of House Vyronii in battle during the Horus Heresy

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron is an Imperial Knight pattern that is utilised exclusively for terror and shock assaults.

The devastation wrought by Knights-Acheron is terrifying to behold. Armed with a fearsome Reaper Chainfist, twin-linked Heavy Bolters and an Acheron Pattern Flame Cannon, they are employed as weapons of extermination and to inspire fear in their foes.

Nothing will sway their attack until the enemy is utterly crushed, never to rise again from the flame-scoured ruins of their strongholds.

History

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron of House Hermetika

The Cerastus Knight-Acheron is a fearsome sight on the battlefield, a reaper of lives carefully designed not only to destroy, but also to inspire terror both in appearance and the manner in which it undertakes its grim task.

The presence of an Acheron pattern Knight armour in the battlelines of a household warns the foe to expect no mercy, for such weapons are only deployed for missions of extermination, to topple the works of the enemy and scour clean his lands with flame.

Scions rarely choose to ride into battle in Acheron armour voluntarily, accepting the task instead as an arduous duty to be undertaken for the good of their house, for the anima of these armours are often awash in the inherited memories of massacres and slaughters uncounted.

Those few scions who prefer such grim mounts are either warriors of iron will, capable of suppressing the sinister whispers of the armour's Machine Spirits (artificial intelligence), or tortured souls who relish the armour's malicious impulses and the carnage it wreaks on the field of battle.

Unit Composition

• 1 Cerastus Knight-Acheron

Wargear

• Acheron-Pattern Flame Cannon
• Reaper Chainfist with in-built twin-linked Heavy Bolters
• Ion Shield
• Blessed Autocimulacra
• Throne Mechanicum
• Titanic Feet - The weight of the Knight alone is enough for to crush enemy units beneath its behemoth tread.

Optional Wargear

• Occular Augmetics - An upgrade to the Knight's Occular sensors enabling a far greater degree of visual input during low-light conditions, such as night fighting.

Sources

• The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest, by Alan Bligh, pp. 104, 125, 173, 296, 307
• The Horus Heresy - Book Five: Tempest by Alan Bligh, pp. 128-129
• Forge World - Cerastus Knight-Acheron

Gallery

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron, Crucible of Enlightenment, of House Hermetika

Heraldry of the Cerastus Knight-Acheron, Crucible of Enlightenment (top view)

House Vornherr Cerastus Knight-Acheron, Surcease of Sorrow, of Duke Sorvak Bhaevenwulf

House Vornherr Cerastus Knight-Acheron, Survease of Sorrow (top view)

House Caesarean Cerastus Knight-Acheron, Reborn

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron of House Vyronii

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron (side view)

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron (rear view)

Close-up of a Cerastus Knight-Acheron (front view)

A Cerastus Knight-Acheron's Reaper Chainfist (close up)

An Acheron pattern Flame Cannon (close up)