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So today, A friend who has gotten out of Warhammer 40k came to me asking if I wanted to trade one of my magic the gathering cards for his Grey Knights and thus I ended up trading a Magic the Gathering card worth arround 46 USD, For a Grey Knight army worth 232 USD. (Also got the codex but I dident count it cus while we know it is in the gaming club we couldent find it..) But yeah.. I now own a Grey Knight army, It is Draigo, And Coteaz, 10 Terminators, And 10 normal Grey Knights. Now I have to figure out what to do with this army and how to expand it.. XD Still, I am happy. Not only was it a good trade, But I love the Grey Knight models. I was originally planning to start them when the current codex came out, But I dident as I heard they where oh so over powerd. (But I hear they arent so bad now.)

That is a good start to an army. depending on what point levels you would want to play at, a dreadknight or more normal Power armor grey knights would work perfectly

Oh yeah, He also have a Vindicare Assassin for me once he manages to find the model. And I want to be able to run 2000 points, And have some options in what I bring.

Nice. Vindy is always fun. Are you trying to go full tilt competitive or just for fun?

Definitely get a few more PAGK and a rhino/razorback or two. If you are patient/skilled enough to magnetize the backpacks on all of your (new) PAGK you can field them as Interceptors as well without spending any more money.

As for right now, your lack of transports makes it a bit difficult to work your way across the board safely. You could run Draigo with around 5 Paladins, and then have a few Solodins or groups of 2 deep strike. Meanwhile, maybe put Coteaz in a group of 10 purifiers with 4 psycannons and combat squad them so that all of the cannons are in one 5 man squad. You can give Coteaz the prescience psychic power and have some good mid range fire support.

Good luck!

I do have a Space Wolf army with 3 Rhinos, a Land Raider and 2 Rifleman Dreadnoughts my Grey Knights can borrow. I want to make it mostly for fun, I want to be able to win ocasionaly, But I dont want to go hard core win at all costs style. More of a fun varied army.

Oh yeah, I was thinking a full Purifier squad with 4 Incinerators might be fun, To deal with hordes (Flamers for the flame people!)

Oh nice, you're good to go then. Maybe just a few more PAGK and you're all set. If you're just playing casually you can probably use Draigo as whatever HQ you want, I'm not the biggest fan of him tbh.

Mordrak deep striking with Ghost Knights is entertaining, and despite Crowe not being the greatest thing ever I love purifiers as troops - if you play against a horde army the lawls are plentiful. Like everyone has said, the Vindicare is also awesome.

The dreadnoughts are boring as sin (nonetheless effective), if you're looking to have a fun varied list you should ignore those.

As a side note, unless your meta is pretty flyer heavy I'm not the biggest fan of a stormraven in a GK list - it's too many points for an army that already struggles to bring enough models and unless you run someone with the psychic communion power it doesn't always come in when you want it to. I do play at 1500 though.

You need 2 Stormravens, and at least 2 DreadKnights. With what you currently have, adding D-Knights and Ravens will give you a nice competitive edge. GK Stormravens are the best of the best, with Psybolts, Hurricane Bolters, and Mindstrike Missiles. DKs are just awesome with Teleporter, Great Sword, and Heavy Incinerator.

The reason for 2 each is survivability: one is a target, two are a tactic.

SJ

Well, My friend that I play against the most plays Eldar and Space Marines. He uses 2 flyers for Eldar and 1 for Space Marines (But is planning to get a second one on his space marines) So there are some flyers (I normaly ignore them though. Or, On my necrons, Shoot them down with my new Doomscythe that I'v used in two or three matches)

 jeffersonian000 wrote:
You need 2 Stormravens, and at least 2 DreadKnights. With what you currently have, adding D-Knights and Ravens will give you a nice competitive edge. GK Stormravens are the best of the best, with Psybolts, Hurricane Bolters, and Mindstrike Missiles. DKs are just awesome with Teleporter, Great Sword, and Heavy Incinerator.

The reason for 2 each is survivability: one is a target, two are a tactic.

SJ

You're at about 1,030 points for 4 models there... Seems spot on for Grey Knights hahaha

 rabidguineapig wrote:

 jeffersonian000 wrote:
You need 2 Stormravens, and at least 2 DreadKnights. With what you currently have, adding D-Knights and Ravens will give you a nice competitive edge. GK Stormravens are the best of the best, with Psybolts, Hurricane Bolters, and Mindstrike Missiles. DKs are just awesome with Teleporter, Great Sword, and Heavy Incinerator.

The reason for 2 each is survivability: one is a target, two are a tactic.

SJ

You're at about 1,030 points for 4 models there... Seems spot on for Grey Knights hahaha

He said wanted to play a 2000pt GK list based on the units he already has.

SJ

 jeffersonian000 wrote:

 rabidguineapig wrote:

 jeffersonian000 wrote:
You need 2 Stormravens, and at least 2 DreadKnights. With what you currently have, adding D-Knights and Ravens will give you a nice competitive edge. GK Stormravens are the best of the best, with Psybolts, Hurricane Bolters, and Mindstrike Missiles. DKs are just awesome with Teleporter, Great Sword, and Heavy Incinerator.

The reason for 2 each is survivability: one is a target, two are a tactic.

SJ

You're at about 1,030 points for 4 models there... Seems spot on for Grey Knights hahaha

He said wanted to play a 2000pt GK list based on the units he already has.

SJ

It was a joke about low model count, I wasn't trying to be a donkey cave.

I say get a Raven it is a good way to get Paladins to a fight.

I just picked up 4 gk termies with a apoc the other day. Just curious what are the normal marines used for with them? Are they the primary troop based psycannon platform? Or can the terminators do that equally as well?

So, What HQ would be best for a varied for fun Grey Knight army list? A named character? Or a generaric Brother-Captain or mayhaps a Inquisitor? If Inquisitor, What equipment, And are there any good models for it?

Merellin wrote:
So, What HQ would be best for a varied for fun Grey Knight army list? A named character? Or a generaric Brother-Captain or mayhaps a Inquisitor? If Inquisitor, What equipment, And are there any good models for it?

A brother captain, while a tiny bit cheaper, is not even close to as good as a Grand Master just because you get Grand Strategy. I tend to leave mine at psyker mastery 1, and if I plan on getting them in assault I'll tack on a warding stave so there's less chance he gets instant deathed by a fist, and maybe some rad or psychotroke grenades (hilarious upgrade btw) with some left over points. A regular Paladin with all the bells and whistles and maybe a helmetless head makes for a good Grand Master.

If you want to go for an inquisitor, there aren't the greatest models unless you make something yourself, especially if you want him wearing power armor. As far as equipment goes at least make him a psyker so he can use either hammerhand or prescience, it's a nice cheap HQ that can buff a squad very well.