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So I'm "finished" with my Grey Knights purchases and wanted to see where I should go from here. I've got about 1400 points of an army so far and I wanted some advice with whether I should invest in a Skitarii Maniple to reach that 2000 point cap, or keep going with GK. This is what I have so far!

Grey Knights

HQ

Librarian, Domina Liber Daemonica, Force Sword, Storm Bolter, ML 3 - 165 pts
(Using my old pewter Brother-Captain Stern model, debating whether to swap his metal sword for a plastic warding stave)


Elite

7 x Purifier Squad, 1 Sword (Justicar), 5 Halberds, 1 Incinerator - 230 pts
Dedicated Transport = Rhino, Storm bolter
(Using the old PAGK pewter models I bought when the Daemonhunters Codex was released as an elite Purifier squad seemed like a good idea)


Troops

5 x Terminator squad, 4 Halberds, 1 Hammer, 1 Heavy Psycannon - 203 pts

5 x Terminator squad, 4 Halberds, 1 Hammer, 1 Heavy Psycannon - 203 pts


Heavy Support

Nemesis Dreadknight, Heavy Incinerator, Heavy Psycannon, Hammer, Personal Teleporter - 220 pts

Nemesis Dreadknight, Heavy Incinerator, Heavy Psycannon, Hammer, Personal Teleporter - 220 pts


Officio Assassinorum


Elite

1 x Vindicare Assassin - 150pts


This comes out to 1391 points, the FLGS plays mostly from 1500-200 and I was thinking of Skitarii rangers to put more bodies on the table. Would a Skitarii Maniple synergize well with the Grey Knights? I like the symmetry of my army so far with the even number of NDKs and Terminators and really like the idea of having two full squads of Skitarii Rangers and adding 2 Onager Dunecrawlers somewhere down the line for AA/AV, but I'm open to suggestions! Thank you.

Edit: I'm also wondering if I should add another Librarian so that the two Librarians can join the 5 man terminator squads...not sure.

If you have the points, having a Librarian for each Terminator unit works pretty well.

I do have a question. Why Purifiers instead of Interceptors? They're the same models, but they can Deep Strike and Shunt to get into the battle. The difference would be sticking the 4 teleporter poles onto their backpacks to keep it WYSIWYG.

I don't have the Skitarii Codex, but I'd definitely make sure what you take has some good Skyfire, since you're not getting that with the Grey Knights.

Are you planning to field your Grey Knights as a CAD or NSF?

I don't have the teleporter poles on the old PAGK squad (bought them in blister packs way back in the day) and to be honest, I really don't like the Interceptor backpacks. Maybe there's a a good middle ground in there somewhere to keep it WYSIWYG ? Otherwise I thought Purifiers in a Rhino would be fast enough...but I have no idea what I'm doing.

And the plan was to run it as a NSF and deep strike the Terminators/Librarian turn 1 as well as shunting the Dreadknights so the tin can Rhino wasn't a big priority. The reason I wanted Skitarii rangers was to put some decent bodies on the table that are cheaper points-wise than SM. And not Imperial Guard because I'm personally not a fan of running them (too WWII for my sci-fi).

I toyed with the idea of adding an allied detachment of SM to my GK. With Fast Attack drop pods (they used to be just Dedicated Transports), you have the option of putting Purifiers almost *exactly* where you want that nasty 9" nova power to be.

They could also add some very useful Long Range support in a variety of forms. Definitely lots of good options to compliment the largely 24" GK army.

Red Scorpions would be the most fluffy choice for allies to GK, but I'm not a huge fan of their chapter tactics and people only really take them for Loth's choose-your-own-adventure psychic powers and 2++ for their Centstar.

DoW