I am currently building my first Knight, not sure yet who it will be as I haven't built the weapons yet, but I will start on the arms this afternoon if everything works out as I have planned.
I have not found a name for my Knightly Household yet, but I have decided that they are sworn to Adeptus Terra, so they are Imperium and not Mechanicus. I have decided on what symbol I want them to carry on their front, and are working on a few spare plates from my Hellhounds to try and find the right color combination to use on the Knights. I am trying to see if Caliban Green and Death Guard Green will work well together, as I think green would be a good color to paint the knights.
I use Caliban Green for my Chaos Space Marines as well, but there will not be any confusion there. If so, then nobody could paint any color because red wold be Khorne, blue would be Ultramarines and so on. But I am doing one thing different and that is the trim. On my Chaos Space Marines they have silver trimmings, while my Knights will have Retributor Gold. Mainly because it is a basic color that covers well, and I like the result it gives.
When it comes to names, I have named all my Knights after the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
I have not given the different Knights their pilots yet, but I have the following Knights:
Lancelot (Knight Valiant)
Galahad (Knight Castellan)
Gawain (Knight Paladin)
Bedivere (Knight Errant)
Percival (Knight Crusader)
Lamorak (Knight Warden)
Geraint (Knight Warden)
Gaheris (not decided yet, but will be a Warden or Crusader)
Guinevere (not sure if it will be a Crusader or Warden)
Guinivere was the wife of King Arthur, and it is being piloted by the head of my household. Her name is Queen Brünnhilde. Brünnhilde has roots back in Scandinavian history to Snorre Sturlasson and his work Edda, but is probably more known today from Wagner. In Wagner operas Brünnhilde is a shield maiden and a Valkyrie (and in one of them she is the big lady that sings at the end of the Opera that has given us the saying "it's not over until the fat lady sings"). There has been a Queen in Austria I think that had this name, and in litterature he has been portrayed as an Icelandic Queen. So I think the name is suitably royal to fit my Queen.
I would love for Brünnhilde to have a special weapons setup on her knight to make her stand out from the others. I am nor sure if that is game legal though, so I will check with the Staff at Games Workshop what they believe before I built it.
My other Knights will have the standard setup for the kind of knight they are, but I will try to do some variations on the weapons where alternatives are possible. Usually there are more Paladins and Errants in an army, but I happen to have several of the new knights and they build Wardens or Cruaders.
I might make one of the Knights from the Renegade box in to a Knight Errant, and if so it will probably be Gaheris that is changed in to this.
My Knightly pilots have been given the titles of Baron, Lord or Lady as they should have a noble title to show they are of the noble birth needed to pilot such a "vehicle". The two leaders are given the title of Barons, while the rest are Lords or Ladies. Just because so many Knightly houses have a male overlord I decided that mine should have a female. Also I like the saying "it's not over until the fat lady sings" and in this case one might argue that a battle is not over until the Queen has stopped fighting.
Queen Brünnhilde: Described above
Baron Wilhelm Klink: Colonel Klink is the Camp Commandant in the comedy series Hogan's Heroes (from the late 60's and early 70's). He looks very much like an aristocrat especially when he wears his monocle to look closely at things or look intimidating so I just had to make him a Baron
Baron Kurt Von Strohm: von Strohm is the Colonel in the brilliant comedy series 'Allo 'Allo and the German commander of the area where the sitcom takes place. He is one of the main charachters in the series, and I think with a strong name like he has he deserves to be a Baron.
Lord Admiral Manfred von Schneider: Admiral von Schneider is a character in an old black and white comedy skit about an old woman that has a party for her birthday, but all the people she used to invite are probably dead of old age, so her Butler goes around the table and pretends to be them and toast her in their place. In Norway it is very popular and always shown on the evening before Christmas Eve). We do not know his first name, so I just added one that I found fitting. Admiral Von Schneider is portrayed as a very military man and always smack his heels together when toasting the birthday-girl. Since he is called Admiral in the skit, I made him a Lord Adminral.
Lord General Erich von Klinkerhoffen: He is the commanding officer of Colonel von Strohm in 'Allo 'Allo. von Strohm is in charge of a town, while von Klinkerhoffen has an entire area under his command. I had to take him as von Klinkerhoffen sound so commanding (especially when pronounced in a little over the top German accent) and every time I see the name I think of von Strohm's secretary shouting out his name as he enters the offices of the Colonel and seeing the Colonel and his adjudant desperately trying to hide what they are looking at as he enters (often a stolen French artifact that they want to sell after the war to secure their pension, but that the General want to find and send as a gift to Hitler).
Lady Helga Geerhart: Helga is the above mentioned secretary of Colonel Von Strohm in 'Allo 'Allo. She is quite a resourceful and strong female character in the series with a mind of her own. She is a corporal in the series, but shouts better than many drill sergeants in other movies. She also date the local head of the Gestapo to rat out his secrets to her boss, and is both pretty, smart, brave and tough all at the same time.
Lord Hubert Gruber: Gruber is a gay lieutenant in 'Allo 'Allo, and he is under von Strohms command. He has a very good eye to René the Tavern keeper who is the main person in the series. Gruber is perhaps my favorite character in the entire show, where he talks about driving in his little tank and tries hopelessly to win the heart of a man who is making out with his waitresses every chance he gets.
I knew I just had to use Lieutenant Gruber as a character somewhere in my 40K armies.
Lord Hans Geering: He is also a German officer from 'Allo 'Allo (a captain this time) and he is the adjutant of Colonel von Stohm. When playing a German officer you are sometimes needed to say "Heil Hitler" as this is the way German officers saluted each other during the war. The actor refused to say it, so Geering always says something like "Tlapp" and this adds a comic effect to the character.
Lord General Leopold von Flockenstuffen: This is yet another character from 'Allo 'Allo, although I do not remember his character. He appeared in 6 of the 85 episodes over the 9 seasons the show lasted. But the name alone earns him a place as one of my pilots.
My Armigers are piloted by sons of noblemen or noblemen that are of a little lower rank than my Ladies, Lords and Barons, I haven't given them any titles yet but instead just opted for calling them Sir.
Sir Otto Flick: Herr Flick is the local head of the Gestapo in 'Allo 'Allo, and he is said to be the Godson of the Leader of the Gestapo (Himmler, or Uncle Heinie as he says it) and he is a real comedic character in the show with all his cunning plans to expose the resistance and all the other stuff he deals with.
Sir Engelbert von Smallhousen: He is the assistant of Herr Flick. He too is very funny in the series, but he is not a part pf the show for as many episodes as Herr Flick. Von Smallhousen sounds rather royal, so I might have to demote Lord Gruber or Lord Geering and give him their place. I'll think about it...
Sir Schultz (no first name yet): Sergeant Schultz is the guard at the POW camp in Hogan's Heroes. He is a big but quite kind and a little slow in the head sometimes. He is really funny in the show and Schultz is so German that I had to have someone with that name piloting something.
Then I had ran out of proper sounding German names from comedy shows that I could think of, but I still have at least one Armiger knight to name. So I turned to more dramatic TV, and to a crime show that has been going for ages, called Derrick. I grew up watching this on Norwegian television on Friday nights (that was the night they showed crime when we only had one TV channel in Norway).
I am sure I will find more names from here if more Knights are added to my army. So I give you:
Sir Stephan Derrick: Derrick was the star of an old German TV crime that was recorded from 1974 and all through 1998. I was originally thinking of adding his assistant Harry Klein, but I din't find that German sounding enough. Derrick was a classy elderly gentleman using his mind more than fists or guns, and back when we only had one TV channel in Norway everybody watched this crime show on Friday nights.
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