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It has been a little while since I made a new Dreaded Chessmen piece, but now that I got so spare time and newer ideas I decided to make the next member in the Digital Dreadnought army; the Dread-Knight.
The Dread-Knights are considered to be the "muscle" of the Dreaded Chessmen, as they tend to fight at close range opposed from a distance thanks to their lance weapon.
Design wise for the Dread-Knights I made their appearence horse like, since the actual Knights in chess have horse heads.
As first, I was going to make them like centaurs with a horse's lower half and a man's upper half.
However I tried that in a previous attempt and it didn't turn out as well as I expected.
So I took the "easier route" and just made the Dread-Knights into robotic anthro horses.
As for why they look like unicorns, it was only because I like the way an "actual" unicorn's tail look, that and I could weaponize it into a whip.
Probably one of the more complex Dreaded Chessmen pieces.

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Dread-Knights are to be considered the main ideal version of "the muscle" within the Dreaded Chessmen of the Digital Dreadnought's army.
These equine shaped bastards are most difficult to fight against with conventional means.
Like what was stated earlier the Dread-Knight's are the muscle, and it shows quite clearly with what they are capable of.
One Dread-Knight has the strength of 20 Dread-Pawns, which allows them to lift objects several thousands of pound over their heads and launch them at their foes with the greatest of ease.
However, unlike the Dread-Pawns the Dread-Knights are mainly focus on close quarters combat preferring to use their large and deadly Lancer weapon to secure their opponents.
Now we said the Dread-Knights are focused on CQC, however their Lancer has a secondary option that also extends to the rest of their bodies.
The Dread-Knight's plated armor is broken up into segments that are connected by extremely flexible fibers the can stretch and bend in anyway.
This in a sense extends their fighting range by a large margin as their Lancers become rocket propelled hook shots, dragging their foes to themself, or dragging themself to their foes.
Also, they can jump thanks to the stretchy materials in their legs, that allows them to jump miles into the air and performs devastating dive bombs into larger groups of soldiers.
Know despite the Dread-Knights surprising range , stretchy limbs, and rather effective weapon, there is a fault in the Dread-Knights as a whole.
...The Dread-Knights are very arrogant and cocky...
Yes, the Dread-Knights apparently think that they are unstoppable god sent warriors that can single handedly change the tide of a battle.
This causes issues with the other Dreaded Chessmen.
As they tend to bully and push the Dread-Pawns around, constantly disobey the orders of the Dread-Bishops, messing with the Dread-Rooks' less than stellar A.I., and even challenges the Dread-Queen and Dread-King to battle.
This doesn't end well for the Dread-Knights as they usually end up getting killed by their teammates of of anger of frustration.
They also seem to have an uhh... how do I put this... a "ghetto" attitude I think?
Either way this attitude of "I don't give a fuck" is enough to have a small group of Dread-Knights just going off on their own doing whatever, usually fighting each other and getting killed, Dreaded Chessmen who can't stand them anymore, or the wandering Peacekeeper soldiers.
As for disposing of the Dread-Knights there is one very unconventional way to harm them.
One way is to anger them for the Dread-Knights get mad at almost anything; doing this is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS but seeing how the Dread-Knights don't think, they'll usually do something stupid that'll end up with them dead.
If the Dread-Knights launch their Lancers and get the tip stuck in the ground; if one takes a sharp blade and cuts the material that connects their armor, the Dread-Knights can no longer control where they are going and will crash into the ground with violent force.
The force of the crash is more then enough to break of the stronger blue armor the Dread-Knights wear, then their armor is no stronger than a standard Dread-Pawn's armor.
Or if you are lucky, they'll just die from the crash's force.
Long ranged combat is also another go way to deal with the Dread-Knights, but the rounds need to be powerful anti-tank rounds to even pierce the armor; aiming of the white weaker armor works also.
Or if you are feeling ballsy,take a large blunt weapon and smash the Dread-Knights' armor, but that's not recommended...
Either way the Dread-Knight's can easily be despatched if you are smart about angering them and using their own power against them.
...They end up getting killed more often then the Dread-Pawns do, and that's just sad...
Perhaps if they were will to listen to orders more often they live longer.

End of audio log.

Description
It has been a little while since I made a new Dreaded Chessmen piece, but now that I got so spare time and newer ideas I decided to make the next member in the Digital Dreadnought army; the Dread-Knight.
The Dread-Knights are considered to be the "muscle" of the Dreaded Chessmen, as they tend to fight at close range opposed from a distance thanks to their lance weapon.
Design wise for the Dread-Knights I made their appearence horse like, since the actual Knights in chess have horse heads.
As first, I was going to make them like centaurs with a horse's lower half and a man's upper half.
However I tried that in a previous attempt and it didn't turn out as well as I expected.
So I took the "easier route" and just made the Dread-Knights into robotic anthro horses.
As for why they look like unicorns, it was only because I like the way an "actual" unicorn's tail look, that and I could weaponize it into a whip.
Probably one of the more complex Dreaded Chessmen pieces.

Previous Unit picture:

Peacekeeper archive launched:

Gathering infomation; Digital Dreadnought on Dread-Knights loading...

Enemy file audio log #303:
Dread-Knights are to be considered the main ideal version of "the muscle" within the Dreaded Chessmen of the Digital Dreadnought's army.
These equine shaped bastards are most difficult to fight against with conventional means.
Like what was stated earlier the Dread-Knight's are the muscle, and it shows quite clearly with what they are capable of.
One Dread-Knight has the strength of 20 Dread-Pawns, which allows them to lift objects several thousands of pound over their heads and launch them at their foes with the greatest of ease.
However, unlike the Dread-Pawns the Dread-Knights are mainly focus on close quarters combat preferring to use their large and deadly Lancer weapon to secure their opponents.
Now we said the Dread-Knights are focused on CQC, however their Lancer has a secondary option that also extends to the rest of their bodies.
The Dread-Knight's plated armor is broken up into segments that are connected by extremely flexible fibers the can stretch and bend in anyway.
This in a sense extends their fighting range by a large margin as their Lancers become rocket propelled hook shots, dragging their foes to themself, or dragging themself to their foes.
Also, they can jump thanks to the stretchy materials in their legs, that allows them to jump miles into the air and performs devastating dive bombs into larger groups of soldiers.
Know despite the Dread-Knights surprising range , stretchy limbs, and rather effective weapon, there is a fault in the Dread-Knights as a whole.
...The Dread-Knights are very arrogant and cocky...
Yes, the Dread-Knights apparently think that they are unstoppable god sent warriors that can single handedly change the tide of a battle.
This causes issues with the other Dreaded Chessmen.
As they tend to bully and push the Dread-Pawns around, constantly disobey the orders of the Dread-Bishops, messing with the Dread-Rooks' less than stellar A.I., and even challenges the Dread-Queen and Dread-King to battle.
This doesn't end well for the Dread-Knights as they usually end up getting killed by their teammates of of anger of frustration.
They also seem to have an uhh... how do I put this... a "ghetto" attitude I think?
Either way this attitude of "I don't give a fuck" is enough to have a small group of Dread-Knights just going off on their own doing whatever, usually fighting each other and getting killed, Dreaded Chessmen who can't stand them anymore, or the wandering Peacekeeper soldiers.
As for disposing of the Dread-Knights there is one very unconventional way to harm them.
One way is to anger them for the Dread-Knights get mad at almost anything; doing this is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS but seeing how the Dread-Knights don't think, they'll usually do something stupid that'll end up with them dead.
If the Dread-Knights launch their Lancers and get the tip stuck in the ground; if one takes a sharp blade and cuts the material that connects their armor, the Dread-Knights can no longer control where they are going and will crash into the ground with violent force.
The force of the crash is more then enough to break of the stronger blue armor the Dread-Knights wear, then their armor is no stronger than a standard Dread-Pawn's armor.
Or if you are lucky, they'll just die from the crash's force.
Long ranged combat is also another go way to deal with the Dread-Knights, but the rounds need to be powerful anti-tank rounds to even pierce the armor; aiming of the white weaker armor works also.
Or if you are feeling ballsy,take a large blunt weapon and smash the Dread-Knights' armor, but that's not recommended...
Either way the Dread-Knight's can easily be despatched if you are smart about angering them and using their own power against them.
...They end up getting killed more often then the Dread-Pawns do, and that's just sad...
Perhaps if they were will to listen to orders more often they live longer.

End of audio log.