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In the witch hunters codex (3rd edition I think) there was a picture of Inquisitor Coteaz, GK and SOB fighting Blood Angels. One question: Why?!

Blood Angels Are very close watched BA the Inquisition cuz of their red Thirst, drinking blood as ritual and Many Other things.they also do only listen to Inquisitors when they want to...
Grey Knights Are the inquisitions puppies... Joking.. But its e Same wit grey Knights fighting Space wolves...

Pretty sure Coteaz got in trouble for pushing too many marine chapters into death charges into the warp. Maybe he was corrupted or something.

Need to check the fluf but the chaos codex mentions him as a cause of the renegade chaos factions

Because there is only war....

Blood Angels are just one of many Space Marines chapters the Inquisition keeps there eyes on *Cough* Dark Angels *Cough*
There is three things to keep in mind;
1: Space Marines are very independent from the rest of the Imperial hierarchy, and the Inquisition isn't very fond of anything that they can't directly control (and especially something that would question them, like more radical space marine chapters)
2: Inquisitors suspect EVERYONE of heresy, and they tend to overreact sometimes
3: The Imperium is a very backwards place, with such vast amounts of space there is a lot of contradicting rules in place. All these contradictions are thanks to the good ole' Administratum, which if you are unaware of their level of competence, imagine a child trying to run the stock market with nothing except note paper while locked in a dark closet. These contradictions can create a lot of conflict, for example;

Rule A of pamphlet A tells Inquisitor Bob to blow up planet C
Rule A of pamphlet B tells Blood Angel Ricky to protect planet C

I hope this cleared things up a bit

And you really can't think of the different chapters as one thing, or even think they get along. They don't. They would rarely fight beside one another, and the GK would be willing to wipe out any heresy found in the ranks of the IOM.

 Flame-Rage wrote:
Blood Angels are just one of many Space Marines chapters the Inquisition keeps there eyes on *Cough* Dark Angels *Cough*
There is three things to keep in mind;
1: Space Marines are very independent from the rest of the Imperial hierarchy, and the Inquisition isn't very fond of anything that they can't directly control (and especially something that would question them, like more radical space marine chapters)
2: Inquisitors suspect EVERYONE of heresy, and they tend to overreact sometimes
3: The Imperium is a very backwards place, with such vast amounts of space there is a lot of contradicting rules in place. All these contradictions are thanks to the good ole' Administratum, which if you are unaware of their level of competence, imagine a child trying to run the stock market with nothing except note paper while locked in a dark closet. These contradictions can create a lot of conflict, for example;

Rule A of pamphlet A tells Inquisitor Bob to blow up planet C
Rule A of pamphlet B tells Blood Angel Ricky to protect planet C

I hope this cleared things up a bit

Fantastic example lol

 Hawkeye888 wrote:
And you really can't think of the different chapters as one thing, or even think they get along. They don't. They would rarely fight beside one another, and the GK would be willing to wipe out any heresy found in the ranks of the IOM.

And this is why the IoM battle brother shenanigans makes no sense.

The Inquisition has declared Mephiston a Daemon... I mean come one... especially Mephiston in that 5th Ed Codex...

Cause they are vampires in space, and vampire hunting goes well with the Inquisition.

Because we hates them.

SGTPozy wrote:

 Hawkeye888 wrote:
And you really can't think of the different chapters as one thing, or even think they get along. They don't. They would rarely fight beside one another, and the GK would be willing to wipe out any heresy found in the ranks of the IOM.

And this is why the IoM battle brother shenanigans makes no sense.

I completely agree here. I think the allies matrix is just effed up.

The allies matrix is a way to get players to spend more $$. And I would sooner send my BA to a land fill than ally with GK. Feth those guys.

Given the reasons the Space Wolves fought the Grey Knights that one time, the reason is probably that the Grey Knights were doing something unreasonably reprehensible even by Imperium standards. Again.

Humans need very little reason to start wars. It could be an Inquisitor has found evidence of heresy or he just hates the color red.

 Crimson Devil wrote:
Humans need very little reason to start wars. It could be an Inquisitor has found evidence of heresy or he just hates the color red.

Damn the Blood angels and their nice red armor. It should be gold! We will make them change it...

Because Blood Angels are Khorne Berserkers in every way except for the fact that they claim they aren't...

changemod wrote:
Given the reasons the Space Wolves fought the Grey Knights that one time, the reason is probably that the Grey Knights were doing something unreasonably reprehensible even by Imperium standards. Again.

Or maybe those abhuman monsters pretending to be the Emperor's sons finally slipped up and let the Inquisition pin something on them to deliver the holy cleansing they deserve.

Sparring practice? As others have said, the Space Wolves fought the Grey Knights and Inquisition to protect innocent lives from the Lord's of Terra's uncompromising blinkered view of things. The GK's are just their lapdogs to do their bidding.

Clearly they have no gratitude for the sons of Sanguinius for all their primarch did for the imperium of man during the Heresy. Oh well, the Lion will wake up soon and rule the imperium ;-)

 Slaphead wrote:
Sparring practice? As others have said, the Space Wolves fought the Grey Knights and Inquisition to protect innocent lives from the Lord's of Terra's uncompromising blinkered view of things. The GK's are just their lapdogs to do their bidding.

Clearly they have no gratitude for the sons of Sanguinius for all their primarch did for the imperium of man during the Heresy. Oh well, the Lion will wake up soon and rule the imperium ;-)

No, he won't because his codex sucks.

The Sanguinor is apparently a Deamon. If BA were seen to fight alongside the Sanguinor after his sudden appearance (summoning), then they would be seen as covorting with Deamons.

Well my lists don't ever have to worry about that.

Haha yeh - when was the last time you saw the Sanguinor on the table? Mine has a snapped wing and sword. Has for over a year now. Even now that he is 200pts I still have never found the need to fix him!

Because the Blood Angels are an interesting but flawed chapter while the Grey Knights are the ultimate Mary Sue Boy Scouts and they don't belong in 40k.

Because the Knights of Blood are already a "renegade" chapter descended from the Blood Angels. The Flesh Tearers have an unsavoury reputation to the point that few will look for aid from them. The Angels Vermillion refuse to take off their helms in the presence of others, a clear allusion to some mutation.
The Black Rage and Red Thirst can be easily corrupted by Khorne (Death Company becoming Beserkers!) and therefore the Grey Knights may be called upon to fight Blood Angels.

Martel732 wrote:

 Slaphead wrote:
Sparring practice? As others have said, the Space Wolves fought the Grey Knights and Inquisition to protect innocent lives from the Lord's of Terra's uncompromising blinkered view of things. The GK's are just their lapdogs to do their bidding.

Clearly they have no gratitude for the sons of Sanguinius for all their primarch did for the imperium of man during the Heresy. Oh well, the Lion will wake up soon and rule the imperium ;-)

No, he won't because his codex sucks.

Yes he is too ashamed to wake up!

Because the players want?

Or, well, sparring practice...

Because the majority of players are space marine players of one sort or another, so if they couldn't fight each other it'd be harder to get games...

Because all of the books that the grey knights use as a symbol are actually the twilight saga
And the blood angels take offense of these heritical scriptures and attempt to purge every single copy
THATS WHY GK AND BA WERE FIGHTING

 Corennus wrote:
The Black Rage and Red Thirst can be easily corrupted by Khorne (Death Company becoming Beserkers!)

But they'd effectively become weaker. ;-)

Still, there's always some reason to fight. The Blood Angels could be berserking and someone has to stop them. Or maybe the GK are looking a bit too closely into the instances where BA have run into daemons and someone has to stop them...