Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I was looking through a few threads and then the GW website and realised (It took a while i know) that there is basically nothing for Ordo Xenos just Ordo Hereticus and Ordo Malleus. Personally i think the Ordo Xenos is the best Ordo and i would start an Orod Xenos army in a flash. But with 2 inq. books already out (one of them being renewed soon) and so many SM codecii would GW have enough time to create an Ordo Xenos book and maintain it, admittedly if they folded a few of the SM codecii into each other and the Inq. cedecii into 1 big one they could do it. Lets say they did do it (after renewing the old codecii), these are my initial thoughts on what it may look like unit choice wise

HQ-
Inquisitor(Can take retinue)
Inquisitor Lord(Can take retinue)

Elites-
Deathwatch(Similar to Wolf Guard in wargear choice but with more options e.g. heavy weapons)
Assassins (All of the current ones, maybe a new one?)

Troops-
Inducted guard.
Stormtroopers.

Fast attack-
Valkyries (no vendettas)

Heavy support
Guard heavy weapon teams (can be taken in units of 9?)
Orbital strikes?
Deathwatch Dreadnought?

Do you think GW should do it? If you did what would you like to see? What would you want them to avoid?

There is an Ordo Xeno Inquisitor in the Forge World Range if I'm correct. There was also a Ordo Xeno army list before, where you could upgrade any marine in your army with Sternguard-like equipment for 5 points a piece, as well as a command squad with their own Psyker and captain.

Personally though, Ordo Xeno should have taken over the Sternguard position and the Legion of the Damned position in the marine dex. It would have made much more sense imo. The other option would be to make a special character in the vanilla marine dex that made sternguard troops and took away Tactical Squads entirely (so a bit more different from Kantor), possibly a OX Captain, and granted Infiltrate to the units as opposed to Combat Tactics. Another option could be the merging of all the Inquisitorial forces into one codex, however we know how that aint happening with the new GK codex coming out.