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In the wargear entry for terminator armor it only says that termies cannot embark in rhinos and razorbacks. The rhinos and razorback entry says they cannot transport terminators. The inquisitorial chimera just says "has a transport capacity of 12 models."

Does this mean that Grey Knight terminators can hitch a ride in an Inquisitorial chimera?

Yes,taking up two spaces.

Yep.

Can't start DEPLOYED in it, but they can GTA a henchman's ride.

...Does that mean 5 paladins can fire their psycannons at full capacity while the chimera movies?

Jaon wrote:...Does that mean 5 paladins can fire their psycannons at full capacity while the chimera movies?

It does indeed.

It is something that carried over from the Daemonhunter book, of that you can be assured. Interesting that they didn't catch that when they were writing the new book, although it does require a henchman warband to use, and that will also require to you take up an HQ slot to get it... so you will sacrifice something to get 8 S7 rending shots from your termies out of that chimera, but to see your opponents face when it happens. Nice.

Glee, mainly. Shaking / stunning a chimera is very easy, and if you do that then they have to disembark to fire.

I think they can fire just fine, since they are separate from the chimera. They just dont get to move.

Shaking prevents passengers from firing.

Glee, mainly. Shaking / stunning a chimera is very easy, and if you do that then they have to disembark to fire.

Fortitude is a great thing. Shaking / stunning the Chimera may be very easy, but it would be even easier to pass a psychic test and ignore these. I was thinking it would be great to field one ten man Paladin squad, put in 4 psycannons, combat squad them and then put all the psycannons into the Chimera. The other half could be a close combat Paladin squad. A lot of points, but 16 psycannon shots on the move would be epic. It could have a place in one of my 2000 point lists.

The only problem is you have to burn an HQ slot and whatever points it costs you for an inquisitor + henchman squad to get the Chimeria. At first I was thinking a 55pt transport for terminators, sweet. But the practicalities of doing seem to make it nowhere near as attractive as it first seems.

So if you wanted to take an Inquisitor with warband that didn't want to ride in a chimera anyway (something involving DCA in a Stormraven maybe?) then it seems pretty cool to get the chimera for GK to cruise in. Otherwise it seems a little meh.

Word! wrote:

Glee, mainly. Shaking / stunning a chimera is very easy, and if you do that then they have to disembark to fire.

Fortitude is a great thing. Shaking / stunning the Chimera may be very easy, but it would be even easier to pass a psychic test and ignore these. I was thinking it would be great to field one ten man Paladin squad, put in 4 psycannons, combat squad them and then put all the psycannons into the Chimera. The other half could be a close combat Paladin squad. A lot of points, but 16 psycannon shots on the move would be epic. It could have a place in one of my 2000 point lists.

Too bad chimeras don't have fortitude ><

Those are all very good points, especially the one about Chimeras not having fortitude.

kmdl1066 wrote:The only problem is you have to burn an HQ slot and whatever points it costs you for an inquisitor + henchman squad to get the Chimeria. At first I was thinking a 55pt transport for terminators, sweet. But the practicalities of doing seem to make it nowhere near as attractive as it first seems.

So if you wanted to take an Inquisitor with warband that didn't want to ride in a chimera anyway (something involving DCA in a Stormraven maybe?) then it seems pretty cool to get the chimera for GK to cruise in. Otherwise it seems a little meh.

HQ slots are highly contested, but I have to really disagree that henchmen on foot are a liability.

If Cortez is involved the henchmen are troops. Cheap bolter henchmen don't need a ride, they can hide in cover and attempt to claim an objective. It's like having guardsmen with bolters for the price of guardsmen. They are also very durable for their point cost when hiding in cover, and a GK army will usually have plenty of good cover locations that are not being used.

Coteaz as leader does allow you some leeway.

Another is taking two Malleus Inquisitors, giving them terminator armour and psycannons, taking two 3 man acolyte squads with Chimeras, sticking two 5 man paladin squads in them along with the Inquisitors, and having 12 psycannon shots from each Chimera.

If you really want to Grand Theft 40k it, just have the Paladins shoot the acolytes before boosting their ride.