Codex · Imperial Knights

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Reward: the felled titan's hull enters a recovery-track that takes a full campaign-cycle of Sacristan labour to walk again; the Household gains no cheap replacement, but the hull may be recovered a cycle faster by winning a Salvage the Fallen scenario, and each war-engine walked back to war grants the gang a permanent Reputation mark - the march remembered

The Long March of the Household — a Knight gang does not recruit between battles; it marches one war-engine at a time. The sub-plot triggers whenever a war-engine of your gang is taken Out of Action and lost or crippled in a campaign battle.

The felled titan's hull enters a recovery-track, and a full campaign-cycle of Sacristan labour must pass before it strides to war again — there is no cheap replacement to be bought. But the march remembers its own: you may recover the hull a cycle faster by winning a Salvage the Fallen scenario, and every war-engine walked back into the lance earns your gang a permanent Reputation mark. It is attrition you cannot afford and cannot out-run — and the honour of enduring it anyway.

Reward: the Household earns an oath-bond with that ally: a permanent Reputation mark and, once per campaign, the right to call the allied force to reinforce a Knights battle in return - the one debt the Imperium is allowed to owe a Household that owes no one

The Oathsworn Lance — the one debt the Imperium is permitted to owe a Household that owes no one. The sub-plot triggers when your Household lends a war-engine to an allied Imperium force through the requisition, and that force wins the battle it was lent for.

In answer, the Household earns an oath-bond with that ally: a permanent Reputation mark, and — once per campaign — the right to call that allied force to reinforce a Knights battle of your own. A Household seeks no patrons and hires no swords, but an oath honoured in another's war is an oath that may be called upon in return.