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Hi there, I'm relatively new to the game and want to play inquisition because of their fluff and estetics. So as someone who does want to play the Inquisition, do i wait for GW to release a codex for them or just get the index 2?

Bluestr wrote:
Hi there, I'm relatively new to the game and want to play inquisition because of their fluff and estetics. So as someone who does want to play the Inquisition, do i wait for GW to release a codex for them or just get the index 2?

I believe GW has said they don't plan to make a Codex: Inquisition becauae, aesthetically, they don't think a guy with a rapier and a pistol really has a place on a 40k battlefield. So I'd go ahead and grab Index 2.

Hopefully GW changes their mind or makes a mini-dex in a White Dwarf like they did with assassins.

Audustum wrote:

Bluestr wrote:
Hi there, I'm relatively new to the game and want to play inquisition because of their fluff and estetics. So as someone who does want to play the Inquisition, do i wait for GW to release a codex for them or just get the index 2?

I believe GW has said they don't plan to make a Codex: Inquisition becauae, aesthetically, they don't think a guy with a rapier and a pistol really has a place on a 40k battlefield. So I'd go ahead and grab Index 2.

Hopefully GW changes their mind or makes a mini-dex in a White Dwarf like they did with assassins.

That sounds like some very silly reasoning considering that most of the armies do have a "guy with a rapier and pistol" equivalent. Anyway thanks for the answer.

Bluestr wrote:
Hi there, I'm relatively new to the game and want to play inquisition because of their fluff and estetics. So as someone who does want to play the Inquisition, do i wait for GW to release a codex for them or just get the index 2?

I am sorry to tell you but the Inquisition is a pretty much dead army at this point. The Index exists solely for older players to have some use for their models.

They are a prime target for the white dwarf rules treatment, until that time they sent really a proper army I'm afraid.

If you'll be playing narrative games with your mates then they will still be perfectly usable and I'd say pick up a copy on Ebay. If you'll be trying anything even semi competitive I'd wait.

I say this as a long time inquisition player, they just don't function at the moment :(


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They are a prime target for the white dwarf rules treatment, until that time they sent really a proper army I'm afraid.

If you'll be playing narrative games with your mates then they will still be perfectly usable and I'd say pick up a copy on Ebay. If you'll be trying anything even semi competitive I'd wait.

I say this as a long time inquisition player, they just don't function at the moment :(

Bluestr wrote:

Audustum wrote:

Bluestr wrote:
Hi there, I'm relatively new to the game and want to play inquisition because of their fluff and estetics. So as someone who does want to play the Inquisition, do i wait for GW to release a codex for them or just get the index 2?

I believe GW has said they don't plan to make a Codex: Inquisition becauae, aesthetically, they don't think a guy with a rapier and a pistol really has a place on a 40k battlefield. So I'd go ahead and grab Index 2.

Hopefully GW changes their mind or makes a mini-dex in a White Dwarf like they did with assassins.

That sounds like some very silly reasoning considering that most of the armies do have a "guy with a rapier and pistol" equivalent. Anyway thanks for the answer.

You know, try looking at Fielding a Deathwatch/Sisters of Battle army. Won't be really competitive, but it'll give you aesthetics and fluff since they both serve the Inquisition. I'd say Grey Knights too but they're the weakest army out there right now.

As a fellow inquisition player I must say that the index is the only way to go. It has the added benefit of giving you the stats of many veichles you can use with the “authority of the inquisition” rule. One word of warning. I love the Inquisition as a concept, but they’re really not very strong on the battlefield.

Audustum wrote:
You know, try looking at Fielding a Deathwatch/Sisters of Battle army. Won't be really competitive, but it'll give you aesthetics and fluff since they both serve the Inquisition. I'd say Grey Knights too but they're the weakest army out there right now.

The deathwatch have some real teeth at 24" with the new bolter rules - nothing like a small, cheapish troops choice gunning down a daemonprince easily with small arms from behind a 3++ save.
Sisters have lost a step from the index but are a quality 'loyal 17' when it comes to generating command points and thwarting psychic powers, their deny isn't as strong as the Grey Knights but like the Black Templars they bring the valuable fixed 4+ deny stratagem. GK themselves seem mostly focussed around the GMDK and strikes, though the forgeworld dreadnought didn't look bad (edit - but appear to have missed all the points cuts) and for reasons not explained they get 200pts off the cost of the (still hugely expensive) thunderhawk gunship.

None of them have <ordo> tags though so adding an inquisitor is a detachment and either three HQs or an HQ and three acolytes - GK cannot benefit from the ordo malleus spy network rule and no-one gets to use the monkeys.
If you can convince your opponent to ok the narrative rules though Eisenhorn has some real punch.

Go ahead and get the index if you already have the models and are ready to play now. Otherwise, I’d start building and painting your models now and when you’re ready to play maybe they will have had a white dwarf index/codex put out.

Personally I think Greyfax with a couple acolytes as a meat shield isn’t too bad in a vanguard detachment, but as a whole they are barely are able to function with their current rules. Definitely not as a stand alone army anyway.

Honesty as much as I love them I don’t think they should even be a stand alone army. They just need some updated rules and point balancing so you can take a vanguard of inquisitor plus acolytes, or just be able to slot an inquisitor in any Imperium detachment as an HQ without breaking the battle forge status. As I said before you can take a Vanguard, but the acolytes themselves are just abysmal hot garbage by any standard.

It's a shame that after being in a decent spot on the table in 7th and being arguably the second or third most important faction in the greater IOM story line that GW has essentially tossed them into the trash both with rules and recent stories. The fact that GW has deliberately said not to expect any content any time soon is disappointing.

I'm in the same boat as the OP. I love the Inquisition fluff above all others (read Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies if you haven't)., but I'm faced with an unplayable army. My plan is to put together Battalions of Scions (Inquisitorial Stormtroopers) and counts-as Catachans (a motley crew of household retainers, commandeered PDF soldiers, and local militia), plus named HQs and Elites for flavor, with a small detachment of Inquisitors and a couple of Asassins. It won't be top-tier competitive, but should st least be fun and flavorful.

what the Inqusition NEEDS is an Inqusitor Kill team expansion ala rogue trader.

Bluestr wrote:
Hi there, I'm relatively new to the game and want to play inquisition because of their fluff and estetics. So as someone who does want to play the Inquisition, do i wait for GW to release a codex for them or just get the index 2?

I'd wait. Then again I've got a bias since I wanted to load up my Alcolytes in Land Speeder Storms and use a Repulsor as their main command tank but GW nixed both those options. Apparently Inquisitorial authority doesn't let you ride without a seatbelt.

I would play either Deathwatch or Guard and use your Inquisition models as a small allied detachment (treat them fluff wise as your command squad) and use the index for that.

As a standalone force inquisition are not that great. However if you choose to fill them with their respective chamber militants then they can be quite good. Guard and footslogging sisters benefit from the leadership bonus they get being near an inquisitor.
Hi to grab index to if I was you if nothing else that has the rules for fortifications in it.

I could very much see them being a Kill Team force.

This could logically lead to them being made available in other IMPERIUM forces as a single detachment, kind of like Assassins are now.

Or, perhaps, just as detachments to lead their respective support forces.

I'd suggest using the Militarum Tempestus rules with Inquisition models (Stormtroopers as Stormtroopers, Inquisitors as officers, henchmen as various specialists (psykers, etc.)...) for the time being, given that GW is unlikely to do anything nice for a faction with one plastic miniature.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
one plastic miniature.

I had to scratch my head for a moment there...then, oh yea..Greyfax.

I doubt it's worth waiting for an inquisition codex. Better off picking up Index: Imperium 2 and Codex Deathwatch to create an Ordo Xenos army. I've only heard good things about the Deathwatch. You could also try Grey Knights, but they seem to be bottom of the heap right now. Or you could wait till the end of the year and see how the new Sisters release looks.