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Hi all,

Was thinking up a list I could start as my first project for eight edition, as most of my army is Inquisition themed I thought a GK and DW list would be fun to put together and play with, would also be a challenge for me in terms of painting as normally only paint my Inquisition Acolytes or Scions.

I already have the GK models minus the Storm Raven which I will be getting over the next month or so.

Battalion Detachment: 1999pts

HQ:

Grand Master: 193pts
- Hammer, Psycannon, Purge Soul, Hammerhand

Watch Captain: 106pts
- Combi-flamer, Relic Blade

Troops:

Terminator Squad(5): 261pts
- Falchions (Justicar), Hammer x1, Halberds, Psycannon

Terminator Squad(5): 261pts
- Falchions (Justicar), Hammer x1, Halberds, Psycannon

Kill Team(6): 174pts
- Frag Cannon x 2, Chainsword/ Boltgun x 4

Kill Team(6): 174pts
- Frag Cannon x 2, Chainsword/ Boltgun x 4

Kill Team(5): 223pts
- Power Sword x 2, Power Axe x 1, Thunder Hammer x 1, Power Fist x 1, Storm Shield x 5

Dedicated Transport:

Razorback: 100pts
- Twin Assault Cannon

Razorback: 100pts
- Twin Assault Cannon

Razorback: 100pts
- Twin Assault Cannon

Flyer:

Storm Raven: 307pts
- 2 x Hurricane Bolters, Twin Assault Cannon, Typhoon Missile Launcher, 2 x Storm Strike Missile Launchers



Tactic would be to leave a terminator squad in reserve, the other squad with the grand master starts in the storm raven flying up first turn and charging on turn two. Watch Captain jumps in the spare slot on the razorbacks which move around the field capturing objectives/ taking midfield with boltgun/ fragcannon squads, the squad with all storm shields moves up to support the master and his terminator squads.

I was contemplating removing a terminator squad and seeing if i could get a brother captain and some purifiers in the storm raven as 6" auto d6 mortal wound smite sounds fun. Let me know your thoughts! dont have any of the deathwatch stuff yet so open to changing it up!

Purifiers are not the optimal choice. Even with double their range, that's still only d6+1 mortals from the unit+BC. That's a lot of points for an ability that fails and/or can be denied.

Why no Voldus? His hammer is definitely better than the regular, and a single psycannon is pretty iffy. Against vehicles it only does 1.333 damage per phase with BS3+ (since the GM's moving.)
I'd much rather have Voldus.

You're also missing ranged anti-big, but you've got tonnes of anti-infantry. I'd rather have the melta on the Raven than the typhoon.

If I swapped the typoon for the Melta would I be able to upgrade to Voldus? Don't have my index to hand.

 SuperBerzerker12 wrote:
If I swapped the typoon for the Melta would I be able to upgrade to Voldus? Don't have my index to hand.

you would be 2000 exact. My suggestion would be to take a 10 man strike instead of the termies do you have the models? invuln saves are nice but there are many multiple damage weapons. may i ask why not the hammer on the justicar? and why halberd on three of the squad rather than falchions? extra attacks IMO is more important than str 5. halberds are better at wounding infantry but worse vs vehicles hammerhand.

I have the models to make a ten man strike squad, I'll carry on trying different combinations

If your not dead set on a battalion detachment then switching to Paladins is vastly superior to standard terminators.

Hammer on justicars hands down and falchions on the rest. Psilencers are also superior to psycannons in just about instance. Save the points and take them instead.