House Vornherr - House Strength: Upon taking its place alongside the crusading hosts of the 12th Expeditionary Fleet, House Vornherr was allotted a nominal house grade classification of Primus Belicosa, a rating that recognised the very high number of Knight armours the house was able to field.While the majority of the house took its place in the Great Crusade, the preparatory stages of integration into the Imperium of Man progressed on its homeworld, leading to its eventual recognition as an autonomous domain in line with many other planets classified as Knight Worlds.Part of that process was a thorough survey of the world's military potential, as well as its ability to produce new Knight armours, and it was during this stage that the Imperium's assayer-adepts discovered something of the wars fought across the Luhnborg System during the Age of Strife, and that the reason for Vornherr's numerical superiority was its defeat of the six other houses.Further investigations into the matter yielded very little, for the masters of House Vornherr would not allow the assayers to make a full account of their arsenals. All that could be estimated was that the five hundred or so Knight armours fighting with the 12th Expeditionary Fleet represented the upper level of the house's available Scions, but many more armours were stasis-sealed within the house's inner armoury vaults.Only as the bloodline issued heirs entitled to don these armours, and then trained them in the arts of war, would these reserves be drawn upon. This fact made it entirely unnecessary for the masters of House Vornherr to enter into compact with any of the many Mechanicum Forge Worlds whose envoys sought access to their vaults, and while it was never determined how many Knight armours lay within those hallowed chambers, it must have been a large quantity indeed for the house to feel secure in rebuffing the Mechanicum's advances.It was only in the field of conveyance across the stars from one war zone to the next that Vornherr was deficient. In practice this mattered little, for the vast armada of voidships of all imaginable type that was the 12th Expeditionary Fleet was well able to accommodate their Knight armours, and after standard years of service, many of these vessels were permanently assigned to the service of House Vornherr.In composition, the house was able to commit a wide range of Knight armour types to the field of battle and displayed a singular organisation in this regard. Unlike many other Knight houses, the Vornherr deployed their Knights into broadly homogenous wings.The largest number were the Knights of the Line, generally equipped with Questoris class armours, predominantly Knight Errant and Knight Paladin types. Other Knights were fielded as a vanguard phalanx, invariably equipped with Cerastus Knight-Lancer and similar types of armours.The duke himself favoured an ancient suit of Cerastus Knight-Acheron type armour called Surcease of Sorrow and he was ever attended on the field by a veteran Life Guard formation equipped with Cerastus Knight-Castigator suits.On the eve of the Calth Conjunction, as House Vornherr mustered for review by its Grand Master Duke Bhaevenwulf, it was numbered at almost six hundred Knight armours and thus rated as the largest Knight house known to be operating along the entire Eastern Fringe. Less than a solar day later, the Word Bearers would erase that honour, along with the entire southern island city chain where they were mustered.Before that event, the Mechanicum had maked Vornherr as a Primaris-grade household; afterwards it was reclassified as Mors Obselarus.