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Is it worth it to take an Inquisitor with Retinue in a Sisters of Battle Army?

I took a DH Inquisitor with Mystics in a land raider in my Ardboys Armored Company list and its pretty good.

It offers a few advantages

1. Psychic Hood for defense against psychic powers like fortune, lash, warp blast and I hear the new space marine codex has some good powers.
2. Emperor's Tarot for a bonus to going first.
3. Mystics for anti deep strike. Although this is not as effective without Leman Russ Demolishers.
4. Access to Land Raider which is the toughest transport.

However it does take up quite alot of points that can buy a troop sisters squad in a rhino and more.

What do you think?

Sisters really don't need LR that much. It is a fun thing to do from time to time though. The shooty WH Inquisitor retinue is probably the way to go. For melee fun try the 3 mancatcher with 2 churgeons version. -3 attacks for one enemy vs your lord, and you negate the first unsaved wound on him. kinda funny when that model only gets 1 attack, and you pretty much auto ignore it. Then you get to attack with your 3 warriors, and a tooled up melee Inq, all with power weapons of some kind.

Well the Land Raiders were amazing in Ardboys. I ran two in my Ardboys list. Twin linked Las cannons are decent anti tank and AV14 sitting on your objective is good. The anti deepstrike was pretty nice in one game as well.

I understand Ardboys is a totally different then usual 1750 games but the usefulness of allying a Land Raider is the same. Just at 1750 the opportunity cost is much higher since it costs like 300+ points which is a troop sister squad and then some.

I gave the retinues 2 mystics for anti deepstrike and warrior flamers for killing troops since I was using Daemonhunter inquisitors.

yeah, i ran 2 land raiders and 3 exorcists. It was quite fun, I didn't get the matchups i needed (only 1 mechanized matchup!) , and my model count was too low to handle orks. One thing i was suprised about was how effective grey knight termies are with sisters at this point level. Min sized unit, sat on the back edge, and shot the heck out of transports and exposed units. The land raiders acted as book ends keeping my smaller army from being outflanked, and denied clean shots on my less sturdy 13/11/10 hulls. The retinues i took were just a inq with 3 warriors, one with all plasma, one with all melta. They really didnt do much except punish an opponent who let his mega nobs w/ Gaz get stuck out in the open after killing some knights and attempting to hurt a LR.