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So, none of my armies play terribly 'ard at 2500, so I'm looking at borrowing some tanks, mishmoshing my chaos and guard, and putting together a sort of radical inquisitor outfit.

It would look something like this: (IG with allied inquisition)

Iron Hand Strakken + flamer squad with a Chimera
Fighting inquisitor lord + Mystics + hood + combat retinue in a landraider

Elite Inquisitor + Mystics with Landraider (Ride probably Jacked by Strakken)
Should this be a fighting unit or just the minimum to get the mystics and landraider?

Basic Infantry Platoon - for objectives, bubble wrapping, secondary assault, riding in landraiders in really critical situations.
PCS in chimera, (Melta squad?)
5 Infantry squads with PW and a few commisars

Vet squad with Melta in chimera

6 Leman Russes of various makes and models.

Its got AV 14 all around, 2 decent assault units (3 if you count the blob), 6 pie plates, mobility, ability to engage 7 armored targets a turn with lascannons and ordinance. Haven't gotten down to working out exact points(not knowing what the tank's I'd be borrowing are armed with), but strakken may have to go.

Down side - I've never played anything remotely like it, and lance armies will obviously be tough going, although the Chimeras can screen the more valuable tanks a little. Another option would be to replace Strakken with a grey knights squad, it being scoring. I'm also not sure about the synergy - not that many guys to give orders to, or to benefit from strakken's furious charge. Should I ditch all close combat capability and just play the shooting game? Mainly, I'm just interested in exploring the "6 leman russ, 2 landraider" concept. There is some interesting synergy between a psycher battle squad and some inquisitional powers (like word of the emperor) that might be worth while too.

If you are using Straken then I suggest that his squad have melta guns as he can be anti tank himself with the plasma pistol and special rules. I would keep your fire base of the 6 Leman Russes but put two infantry squads in each Chimera, to grap any objectives, then have even more of a fire base with the rest of the infantry squads having heavy weapons. Finally I would have the Inquisitors and any Command Squads to charge forwards into cc using Chimeras.

OK, so I hashed it out - strakken and one landraider got the boot. Looks like this:

The Iron Fist of Lady Ghenval

(Imperial Guard with allied Daemonhunters)

Ghenval

Inquisitor Lord, Psychic Hood, Meltabombs,

3 Mystics, 3 Acolytes (melta bombs) 3 warriors (flamers)

Landraider, smoke, search light, Extra armor

Company Command Squad, Officer of the Fleet, Krak,
4 sniper Rifles

Chimera w/ Pintel Stubber

Inquisitor, Psycannon
2 Mystics

Platoon Command Squad, 4 Meltaguns

Chimera (Pintel stubber)

5 x Infantry Squads, each with Power Wpn, Melta Gun
1 w/ Commissar w/ Power Wpn

Autocannon Team x 2

Veteran Squad, 3 meltaguns, Powerfist

Chimera (HK msl, Pintel stubber, Hv flamer)

2 Leman Russ Demolisher, HB sponsons, Lascannons

1 Leman Russ Executioner, Plasma Sponsons, Lascannon

2 Leman Russ Battle Tank, Lascannons

Its got 9 scoring units, 6 AV 14, A whole lot of pie (mostly AP 2), 12 Meltaguns (uhg - time to get converting!), psychic and deepstrike defense, 4 transports. I think its the best I can put together with what I've got access to... ...but I'd be glad to hear suggestions. And I wouldn't have to use any chaos models, so the Emprah would be with me, right?