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I have the Codex but a little confused as to how it works as a primary detachment. if I am only using Codex Inquisition am I still restricted to 3 henchmen warbands?

3 per Detachment yes.

But as will all other Detachments, you can have as many as you like. The Primary is simply whichever Detachment has your Warlord.

Yes, you can have 2 HQ and a maximum of three Elites.
If you want more than 3 Warbands you can just take a cheap Inquisitor and have an additional three.

So it is 3 warbands per HQ? so i can have an unlimited number of HQs if i can have as many detachments as I like?

champagne_socialist wrote:
So it is 3 warbands per HQ? so i can have an unlimited number of HQs if i can have as many detachments as I like?

3 Per Detachment.
You must take a minimum of 1 HQ with that Detachment.

champagne_socialist wrote:
So it is 3 warbands per HQ? so i can have an unlimited number of HQs if i can have as many detachments as I like?

3 Elites per detachment, not HQ because you can take 2 HQs with those 3 Elites. It's up to 2HQs and 3 Elites per detachments with no limit to the number of your detachments you can have beyond points and model availability.

Ok thanks for the replies, I am a new player to 40k so just getting my head around the rules.

i have a game on Wednesday and if I turn up with 8 Hqs and x amount of warbands that would be legal as it would count as 4 detachments which is totally fine on 40k?

champagne_socialist wrote:
Ok thanks for the replies, I am a new player to 40k so just getting my head around the rules.

i have a game on Wednesday and if I turn up with 8 Hqs and x amount of warbands that would be legal as it would count as 4 detachments which is totally fine on 40k?

With the Inquisition you don't need extra Warbands to run extra Inquisitors, the minimum detachment size for the Inquisition is a single Inquisitor.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

champagne_socialist wrote:
Ok thanks for the replies, I am a new player to 40k so just getting my head around the rules.

i have a game on Wednesday and if I turn up with 8 Hqs and x amount of warbands that would be legal as it would count as 4 detachments which is totally fine on 40k?

With the Inquisition you don't need extra Warbands to run extra Inquisitors, the minimum detachment size for the Inquisition is a single Inquisitor.

So it would be a perfectly legal army to have eg 15 Inquisitors and nothing else (8 primary detachments)?

champagne_socialist wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

champagne_socialist wrote:
Ok thanks for the replies, I am a new player to 40k so just getting my head around the rules.

i have a game on Wednesday and if I turn up with 8 Hqs and x amount of warbands that would be legal as it would count as 4 detachments which is totally fine on 40k?

With the Inquisition you don't need extra Warbands to run extra Inquisitors, the minimum detachment size for the Inquisition is a single Inquisitor.

So it would be a perfectly legal army to have eg 15 Inquisitors and nothing else (8 primary detachments)?

If it meets the points limit, yeah. You can also have a 1,500 point army of nothing by 10 Vindicare Assassins.

Neither are a good army in practice though.

Well, to clarify: for an Inquisitorial Primary Detachment must take 1 Inquisitor (as it is marked as required). You may take one additional Inquisitor in the same detachment, and up to 3 Elites, as they are all optional: You can legally take just one Inquisitor (and nothing else) as your Primary Inquisitorial detachment.

On the other hand, I seem to remember allied Inquisitorial detachments must follow the Force Organization Chart (or whatever that is -- Codex: Inquisition has no Troop choices, so it can't be the force organisation charts in the rulebook otherwise you won't be able to take anything other than 1-2 inquisitors per detachment and you won't even meet the troop number requirement).

Ofc you can always go unbound, but I think it's a very bad way for beginners to start the habit.

Yeah their force org chart just has 1 hq required. With you being able to buy another hq and up to 3 elites.

would an army of inquisitors work? they are relatively cheap and can be upgraded for different roles

 lcmiracle wrote:
Well, to clarify: for an Inquisitorial Primary Detachment must take 1 Inquisitor (as it is marked as required). You may take one additional Inquisitor in the same detachment, and up to 3 Elites, as they are all optional: You can legally take just one Inquisitor (and nothing else) as your Primary Inquisitorial detachment.

On the other hand, I seem to remember allied Inquisitorial detachments must follow the Force Organization Chart (or whatever that is -- Codex: Inquisition has no Troop choices, so it can't be the force organisation charts in the rulebook otherwise you won't be able to take anything other than 1-2 inquisitors per detachment and you won't even meet the troop number requirement).

Ofc you can always go unbound, but I think it's a very bad way for beginners to start the habit.

You can't ally Imperium to Imperium but instead must take full detachments which means the Inquisitors (as well as Knights, Legion of the Damned and Assassins) use their own FOC automatically instead when allied to other Imperium forces.

Additionally, I have yet to see a rule that says an allied faction must use the allied detachment.


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champagne_socialist wrote:
would an army of inquisitors work? they are relatively cheap and can be upgraded for different roles

They can't buy transports, and lack some of the weapon options that you can take otherwise. So I have to say "no".

Also the only one who can get an invul save is the Malleus Inquisitor wearing Terminator Armor so without ablative wounds (like Henchmen) they're VERY squishy.

 lcmiracle wrote:
On the other hand, I seem to remember allied Inquisitorial detachments must follow the Force Organization Chart (or whatever that is -- Codex: Inquisition has no Troop choices, so it can't be the force organisation charts in the rulebook otherwise you won't be able to take anything other than 1-2 inquisitors per detachment and you won't even meet the troop number requirement).

Ofc you can always go unbound, but I think it's a very bad way for beginners to start the habit.

I have to disagree with the last statement.
I think unbound is perfect for beginners, since it allows them to start the hobby with purely the models they managed to get and without worrying about Detachments and their rules.
Once their knowledge of the game and their collection grows they can start to apply Detachments which give them additional bonuses.

You are wrong on the other part.
You can ally in Inquisitorial Detachments with no issues.
But you cannot take an Allied Detachment with the Inquisition-codex since you lack Troops which are mandatory.

Remember: There is a difference between "bringing allies" and "bringing an Allied Detachment".
Ally is just an english word and you should look at a dictionary for its meaning.
Allied Detachment is a 40k-term and you need the BRB for its meaning.

You can also take an Inquisitorial Valkyrie Squad if you own IA2 (2nd Edition)

Remember back in the day when the game had an foc and wrapping your head around how to make a legal army didn't make you want to gouge your own eyes out? There should be some award for the unheard of achievement of reducing regulation with the end result of somehow making things MORe complicated.