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I have been planning on using a inquisitorial detachment, but as it is I will need a main detachment to be gamewise usable. To create this effect of "elite bodyguard" I am planning on using space marines. However I am quite bad in choosing which codex to use, so I am askign you for help. The codex I will be excluding from this list is the codex grey knights, as that would be too "already seen", and the idea of having grey knights escort a radical inquisitor does seem a bit silly for me. Otherwise I will also prefer fluff over competetinvenes, but the codex should also be somehow usable tournament wise.

Codex: Space Marines.

Black Templars? They're vehemently against psykers, so a strict, anti-psyker witch hunter would fit; they're always out and about on crusades, also sweet iconography and you get everything else in the SM codex (maybe no libbies I guess)

ImAGeek wrote:
Codex: Space Marines.

With the Red Hunters Chapter Tactics if you're trying to really nail the flavor.

@talljosh85 I wouldn't put Black Templars with Inquisition since the Inquisition has this nasty habit of going missing anytime they pry too deep into things like "how many members are in your Chapter?".

Edit: Sorry just read "red" as the name of the chapter, and thought after that it would be red scorpions.

PS Do red hunters also escort radical inquisitors, or are they only reserved for puritan inquisitors of ordo hereticus and malleus?

 Sienisoturi wrote:
Edit: Sorry just read "red" as the name of the chapter, and thought after that it would be red scorpions.

PS Do red hunters also escort radical inquisitors, or are they only reserved for puritan inquisitors of ordo hereticus and malleus?

Their fluff doesn't say as far as I know. So they could work with any Inquisitor I guess.

You can find their chapter tactics here: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/B/FWchaptertactics-v2.pdf


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Ignore "By This Seal" though, it's currently useless.

Could do Space Marine Sternguard Veterans as Deathwatch, Black Templars in general for a Hereticus Inquisitor or Exorcists for a Radical Malleus.if you want a Puritan Malleus go GK. Avoid DA and SW though, they tend not to get on with the Inquisition.

Just one idea that just came in to my mind would be to have in terms of fluff a radical inquisitor fighting alongside some renegade space marines. For this purpose the space wolves codex would be ideal to represent their non-codex doctrine and equipment. What do you think about it?

Well there is the Exorcists they are pretty much made in a radical type way, aspirants getting possessed by a daemon and then it being expelled so they cant get possessed again.

Relictors, if you're playing in the timeline before they were obliterated, would be a good match for a Radical inquisitor.

The other codex you could look at using, considering that all you want is 'elite bodyguards' rather than actual Marines, would be Codex: Adepta Sororitas. You would have to refluff them a bit and create your own order of human power-armour wearers, but in terms of tournament usability you can't overstate the sheer devastation of outflanking, ignores cover meltagun spam and the Avenger Strike Fighter.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Relictors, if you're playing in the timeline before they were obliterated, would be a good match for a Radical inquisitor.

The other codex you could look at using, considering that all you want is 'elite bodyguards' rather than actual Marines, would be Codex: Adepta Sororitas. You would have to refluff them a bit and create your own order of human power-armour wearers, but in terms of tournament usability you can't overstate the sheer devastation of outflanking, ignores cover meltagun spam and the Avenger Strike Fighter.

I also vote Relictors since it's a Radical Inquisitor that taught them to use the tools of Chaos to fight Chaos.

Furyou Miko wrote:Relictors, if you're playing in the timeline before they were obliterated, would be a good match for a Radical inquisitor.

The other codex you could look at using, considering that all you want is 'elite bodyguards' rather than actual Marines, would be Codex: Adepta Sororitas. You would have to refluff them a bit and create your own order of human power-armour wearers, but in terms of tournament usability you can't overstate the sheer devastation of outflanking, ignores cover meltagun spam and the Avenger Strike Fighter.

ClockworkZion wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Relictors, if you're playing in the timeline before they were obliterated, would be a good match for a Radical inquisitor.

The other codex you could look at using, considering that all you want is 'elite bodyguards' rather than actual Marines, would be Codex: Adepta Sororitas. You would have to refluff them a bit and create your own order of human power-armour wearers, but in terms of tournament usability you can't overstate the sheer devastation of outflanking, ignores cover meltagun spam and the Avenger Strike Fighter.

I also vote Relictors since it's a Radical Inquisitor that taught them to use the tools of Chaos to fight Chaos.

Thanks for your answers, however if I would be using the relictors, then which rules would go nicely with them?

Codex: Space Marines with... I'd actually probably say Ultramarine or Iron Hand chapter tactics. Ultramarine for Tiggie's Librarian +1 powers, representing dabbling in chaos magic, and the tactics themselves representing unleashing some secret artifact, or Iron Hands to represent the ways in which the Relictors have boosted their bodies and augmentations using Forbidden Lore.

Salamanders could arguably be a good choice (Master Crafting representing the Chaos equipment for example).

Heck you could even go with mixing it up from game to game depending on what you need the army to do.

My recommendation is to be creative and pick something you think fits your vision of your army and run like hell with it.

one thing worth noting BTW is that an inqusitor doesn't walk up and say "hi, I'm a radical" radicalism tends, generally, to be a slowly developing thing after all. so really any chapter works, especially one not apt to ask too many questions. I'd over all go with codex Marines and create your own chapter. it sounds like the most fun choice