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hey guys. so i've never been into the gaming side of GW, but my local store may be hosting some of these skirmish type games over the summer, and being as a lot of the models i make are this sort of style anyway, i figured i may give it a go if i have some free time.

my problem is i have no idea about any of the rules. ive had a search online and found rule sets that i can read through, but if anyone could give me an idea of how to structure a warband (how many models/types etc) it would be much appreciated. i like the idea of having a group of characters that i can develop stories for.

i'm thinking a chaos warband, led by a night lord in power armour, and a group of ragtag heretics.. maybe a psyker.

if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

The awesome and tricky thing with Inquisitormunda is that it is very free and open and is honestly more about building weird creative minuatures and telling cool stories on the battlefield, rather than competitive gaming. So talk to the people at the gamestore to hear about what scale they are planning, then build a nicely themed group.

And head on over to yaktribe.org that's the best community for Inquisitormunda and there are some rules there.

Also, here is an inspirational facebookgroup https://www.facebook.com/groups/994131333972258/

Oh, and remember to make a P&M blog about your chaos warband :-)

i will be making a blog. kitbashing and converting is my favourite bit anyway. ive been having a read and the general gist is that PA SM characters arent particularly welcomed onto most inq28 tables due to them being far too nails. maybe i'll go for a heretical inquisitor instead. its a shame because i love nightlords, and i liked the idea of zso sahaal from the book 'lord of the night' stalking around a hive planet.

Maybe you can just agree with the other players that you tone down the stats of the Nightlord? Because it sure sounds like a very good concept.

Please leave a link to your blog in this thread as you get started on it. I'm really curious to see it in action.

Well, it depends on whether you're talking Inquisimunda (which is essentially Necromunda with expanded gang and equipment lists) or INQ28 (Inquisitor played with 28mm models and halved distances).

In Inquisimunda, how you structure a warband is basically defined by the new gang lists.
For INQ28, there aren't any fixed guidelines, as it depends on what the GM and your group agree, but many groups will allow a warband to be as large and varied as you like, but you would then select only some of the characters for each game (often 3 or 4, depending on how powerful each character is and how the GM wants the game to play).

Generally, no, power armoured characters and Space Marines (or both!) aren't hugely welcomed onto Inquisitor tables. It's not necessarily about them being too powerful (although they certainly are pretty powerful), but more because they tend to limit what happens in the game. Space Marines are shock assault troopers. They don't take part in investigations (even with reduced stats!) - it would be a huge waste of their martial skill to have them doing bookkeeping.

For this reason, it's usually easier for the GM if Space Marines are restricted, allowed to be brought in just for those brutal assaults where the Inquisitor (or a Chaos Magus) has a good reason for needing/requesting the help of the Astartes... and even then, they tend to need the odds stacked against them quite a bit.

(If you are going to use a Space Marines though, I strongly recommend the alternative rules in Dark Magenta issue 2, because they don't break the game mechanics in the way the rules in the original book do).

Also, I recommend checking out the Ammobunker forum.