(Video) By Blade and Bolter Pt. 3 - KoS: Organization, Domains and Recruitment
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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*Ad Free Version available on Lorehammer Patreon, link below.*Here we examine the structure of the Knights of Slaughter, from their rigid hierarchy of ranks to the hidden fractures beneath it. We explore how they govern their fleets and domains, how authority is maintained through strength and ritual, and how new warriors are brought into their ranks. From proven aspirants to broken remnants reforged through war, recruitment is as much a trial of will as it is of flesh. This episode reveals how the warband sustains itself across millennia—through control, selection, and the constant testing of those who would call themselves Knights.Lorehammer Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/c/lorehammer/membershipOne Time Donationshttps://paypal.me/lorehammerpodcastLink to all Linkshttps://linktr.ee/Lorehammer40kPatterns
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome back to Lorhammer. I'm your host, Mark, for these special, very personal episodes, it from me, but you guys can listen. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm consolidating all of the nights of |
| 0:39.0 | slaughter information. There's been 88 pages that has been written about these guys that I compiled |
| 0:44.5 | and now I'm sharing with you. We're on part three and we're going to be learning about their |
| 0:47.5 | organization, dominions, and recruitment. But go join the Patreon right now while you're listening you can just pick out your phone |
| 0:55.7 | there's links in the description below you just click them and then your Patreon member and then |
| 0:59.7 | you keep getting whatever I feel like giving you sometimes it's primarks nowadays you know if you |
| 1:05.9 | would have asked me back in the day if I would ever do Primarks I would have spat in your face but |
| 1:10.3 | now we're going through them as well but spat in your face but now we're going |
| 1:10.8 | through them as well but you know every now and again we're going to talk about something like |
| 1:13.8 | which is definitely these guys right now the knights of slaughter so let's just kind of dive into |
| 1:19.1 | where we left off um we left off with uh their combat doctrine we learned that they like land |
| 1:26.7 | raiders oh i did make an official |
| 1:28.7 | amendment under the mechanized assault part. I did add a subcategory of rapid armored insertation. |
| 1:37.1 | Maybe I'll read it before I read what we do today. It's just a short little paragraph about |
| 1:41.4 | how they drop land raiders. You know, I kind of mentioned it multiple times in this document, but I never like formalized |
| 1:47.0 | it. |
| 1:48.0 | But the more I talked about on that episode, I'm like, no, no, no. |
| 1:50.0 | That has to be like their standard approach. |
| 1:52.0 | Like they're dropping tanks on you. |
| 1:54.0 | And then if you survive that, a bunch of knights are running out, challenging you. |
| 1:57.0 | And if you survive that, then they're going to gun you down. Good times. It's so |
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