Frustration with knights in heresy

Very much a vent post but I’m very frustrated with knights in heresy currently.

They are significantly better than they were in second edition but they still frustrate me. Sure the armiger tax is gone but now you need to actively take a worse knight to take armigers meaning one of your knights MUST be an aspirant which just sucks. And in third edition being an aspirant doesn’t even give you a points discount like it did in second.

The addition of yeomanry and automata(which previously were traitor only and with less options) is nice but castellax being mauler only sucks combined with 0 cortex controllers in the army making automata even worse.

And don’t get me started on melee. Weapons like the thunder fist gauntlet are just a straight up downgrade. The chain sword is better in almost every way. Being WS4 and I4 means we are the same as a basic marine. The removal of stomps just makes it even worse. All of this is without mentioning RA11 which means a krak grenade can damage a knight. This means basic marine squads can kill a knight in melee. Literally all knights even the acastus ones which have actual rear armor on the models have RA11.

Being vehicles means big knights can’t hold objectives making armigers(which involve downgrading a knight) or yeomanry necessary. And with only 2 line units in the army with both being line 1 and limited slots means you’re screwed when facing marines.

Being vehicles means you can’t even return fire with the big guns on your knights. Some knights can’t even return fire at all depending on the loadout. Can’t even split fire without suffering from snapshots. Speaking of reactions armigers can’t even use the knights specific reactions. Sure you get another reaction point for being knights but what the hell will you use it on?

And let’s not forget that allies are not allowed for knights meaning we can’t even take marine support to fill in the gaps. As of writing this there are no traitor or loyalist specific options either making the army somewhat bland but it took a while for them to be added In second edition.

Third edition may have brought a lot of cool stuff to the table for the faction but I’m still greatly frustrated by the faction.

I apologize for the poor formatting and hope yall have a better time playing knights than I do both in 30k and 40k