Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Chaos Knights (section)

====Pacts====
Choose any 1, or roll twice, with duplicates having no effect.  This means even when you roll, 1/6 of the time you won't get a second Pact, so you should always choose.  Most of the time, your best options are Knower of Profane Secrets, which amounts to gaining a CP in exchange for your Damnations, and Galvanized Hull, which makes you somewhat harder to kill.

#'''Path to Glory'''- Re-roll hits (yes, all of them!) against {{W40Kkeyword|Character}} or {{W40Kkeyword|Titanic}} targets.
#*Useful when it comes up, but remember, you usually can't shoot characters, and very few targets will ever be Titanic.
#*Pretty dang crazy on a Knight Tyrant armed with a volcano lance and plasma decimator. The lance will have re-roll everything against Titanic at that point and remember, it has 3D3 Damage... See that Baneblade? Now you don't.
#'''Thunderous Charge'''- After this unit finishes a charge move, roll 1d6 for each enemy unit within 1". On a 4+, the enemy unit takes 1d3 mortal wounds.
#'''Daemonic Vigor'''- roll 1d6 when this pact is chosen. On 1-3, add +2 to the unit's move. On 4-5, improve the Dreadblade's WS by 1. On a 6, improve its BS by 1.
#*Even when you choose this Pact instead of rolling for it, you then have to roll for its effect, making it practically one of the worst ones, because you can't plan for what it will do.  Plus, when rolling for pacts, rolling this one twice still does nothing, even if it would result in 2 distinct effects.
#*It's an edge case, but this isn't such a bad idea on a Despoiler armed with a chainsword, gauntlet and a stormspear rocket or ironstorm missile pod. More movement just means earlier charges, WS1+ makes the gauntlet a no-brainer when faced with heavy tanks and BS2+ rockets aren't half bad either.
#'''Knower of Profane Secrets'''- +1 leadership; at the start of the first battle round, gain 1 command point if any models with this Pact are on the battlefield. One of the best options, both for the additional CP and the leadership bonus, which makes Damnations less likely to kick in.
#*Because the CP gain does not stack, using this Pact on multiple Dreadblades is a bit wasteful - without the CP, all you're practically doing is giving your model a Damnation and then making it less likely.
#*Damnations go off 15/36 (5/12, slightly less than half) of the time for Ld8 (War Dogs), 10/36 (5/18, slightly less than one third) for Ld9 (War Dogs with this Pact, all other Knights base), and 6/36 (1/6) of the time for Ld10 (non-War Dogs with this Pact).  Plan accordingly.
#'''Galvanized Hull'''- Attacks that target this Knight which would normally be AP-1 are downgraded to AP0.
#*Your only way to “improve” your armour save in the codex, but only against AP-1.  Still, one of the better Pacts.
#'''Arch-fiend'''- The Dreadblade can perform heroic interventions when an enemy is within 6" and can move 6" when doing so.
#*Combine with the Infernal Quest Warlord Trait to make a great objective camping Despoiler. You now have Objective Secured and count as 10 models for it and if anyone comes within 6" you get to jump into combat with them. Due to your base size, you can also stand on the objective in such a way that it's impossible to contest it without being in Heroic Intervention range.