EVERY SINGLE Imperial Knight Weapon Explained! | Warhammer 40K

EVERY SINGLE Imperial Knight Weapon Explained! | Warhammer 40K One, Thermal Cannon. The Thermal Cannon is a short-ranged thermal weapon of immense destructive power, mounted primarily on the Knight Errant, designed to liquefy enemy vehicles and fortifications by superheating matter beyond any structural tolerance. The weapon operates on the same melta principle found in handheld infantry tools, but scaled to the mass and power reserves of a Knight chassis — which means the thermal pulse it releases is not a beam so much as a contained sun pressed against a target's hull. At close range, the Thermal Cannon's destructive output increases sharply, because the superheated core of the discharge has not yet dispersed across distance, and that rule defines the Knight Errant's entire battlefield role: it advances rather than lingers, closes rather than supports, and accepts incoming fire during the approach because what it does upon arrival justifies the damage absorbed on the way.