I think if you are going to take an inquisitor you really need to make him long range and shooty, then just add the Raider, and start outside of it. Your Raider will have two lascannons to take out armor so I think you are better off taking 3 servitors, 2 sages, 3 alcolites (bolters and carpace armor), and a mysitc incase they deepstrike near you. This makes the unit more versitile as if your Raider gets blown up early you don't have a slow bunch of walking meltaguns, and you are driving fast to get near something that you could just shoot instead. that is just my two cents though; if you are trying to do it with a normal inquisitor just dump the alcolytes.
Close Range Firepower Inquisitor
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Okay.. without any of my rulebooks here, I'm going to assume you can't take multiple transport options for one unit, which rules out plan B.
Let me explain my problems here. You'll probably scratch your heads and think 'what the hell', but just bear in mind I already have a playable, competative army. This is just a fun thing.
I'm making up a list to represent a radical ordo xenos army (why? Because I like ordo xenos better than the others.) Since the book isn't out, I'm proxying rules using some of my favourite bits from the other inquisition codicies. My prime concern here is fluff, to be honest.. effectiveness is important to me, but secondary.
This means I can't do grey knights or SoB, for obvious reasons.. The bulk of my army is ISTs mounted in Chimeras. However, this leaves me with a chronic lack of something which can take down big vehicles.
This is why I thought of a land raider.. It's a nice fluffy tank, it gives me an opportunity to do some conversions involving tech priests leaning out of the hatch, and the red mechanicus colour scheme should stick out nicely.
Now, why I thought of the close range inquisitor.. I guess I just prefer the idea of an inquisitor getting in their and kicking arse. His psychic powers are short range, his leadership based special abilities depend on him being close to the rest of the troops. Also, for fluff reasons, I can't take a psycannon (yes, you're beginning to see how hamstringing this concept is, it'll probably get easier once alien hunters gets released, but for now I'm a little screwed.)
I could take the long range option, he'd be perfectly fluffy, and possibly quite effective. He just wouldn't feel as cool.. Then again, I might take an additional elite inquisitor as an IC for coolness factor.
I do have an SM commander box.. I bought it to make my deathwatch kill team, which may be included in very high points games.
Let me explain my problems here. You'll probably scratch your heads and think 'what the hell', but just bear in mind I already have a playable, competative army. This is just a fun thing.
I'm making up a list to represent a radical ordo xenos army (why? Because I like ordo xenos better than the others.) Since the book isn't out, I'm proxying rules using some of my favourite bits from the other inquisition codicies. My prime concern here is fluff, to be honest.. effectiveness is important to me, but secondary.
This means I can't do grey knights or SoB, for obvious reasons.. The bulk of my army is ISTs mounted in Chimeras. However, this leaves me with a chronic lack of something which can take down big vehicles.
This is why I thought of a land raider.. It's a nice fluffy tank, it gives me an opportunity to do some conversions involving tech priests leaning out of the hatch, and the red mechanicus colour scheme should stick out nicely.
Now, why I thought of the close range inquisitor.. I guess I just prefer the idea of an inquisitor getting in their and kicking arse. His psychic powers are short range, his leadership based special abilities depend on him being close to the rest of the troops. Also, for fluff reasons, I can't take a psycannon (yes, you're beginning to see how hamstringing this concept is, it'll probably get easier once alien hunters gets released, but for now I'm a little screwed.)
I could take the long range option, he'd be perfectly fluffy, and possibly quite effective. He just wouldn't feel as cool.. Then again, I might take an additional elite inquisitor as an IC for coolness factor.
I do have an SM commander box.. I bought it to make my deathwatch kill team, which may be included in very high points games.
Good opinions and awesome ideas all round.
They've been taken into consideration, and I'm revising my list as we speak.
They've been taken into consideration, and I'm revising my list as we speak.
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