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This is a horrible list, made to lose friends, but I'm considering running it once just to show how broken the Imperial Agents codex is.
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Inquisitorial Representative Detachment

Xenos Inquisitor - Rad Grenades

3 acolytes - One Melta Gun

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24 of the above at 62 points comes in at a little under 1500

The strategy is simple, with the above detachment you get an additional warlord trait, so 24 warlord trait rolls.

I'm planning to roll on strategic which, on average, should give me 4 of each result.Which means my army should have the following:

move through cover (ruins), and stealth (ruins),
Night vision and night fighting first turn
12 units infiltrating
a +4 to seize the initiative
a - 4 to the enemy reserve rolls (which should but them at a 7, so no reserves arriving until turn 4)
12 pinning tests on the enemy at the start of the game

With a +4 to seize its almost a certainty that I'll get the first turn. With a large number of meltas infiltrating most of the enemy armour will be popped turn 1, enemy infantry will probably be pinned turn one preventing much of a response and with 24 targets to pick from I doubt they'll take out everything.

Turn 2-3 I take out the rest of the armour and charge the infantry with the xeno inquisitors, each unit with rad grenades that charges lowers the charged units toughness by 1 (even if multi charging), when a unit drops to toughness 0 it is removed from the game, no saves of any kind allowed. 4 inquisitors is all it will take to remove most units from the board. Might struggle with some of the toughness 8 monstrous creatures, but its doable.

I don't have the book on hand but I think the wording stipulates that only one inquisitor in an army can benefit from the extra warlord trait

Wulfthrad wrote:
I don't have the book on hand but I think the wording stipulates that only one inquisitor in an army can benefit from the extra warlord trait

I have the book in front of me, its not a unique detachment, you can take as many as you like, and the wording doesn't prevent you from gaining more than 1 additional warlord trait.

Bowie wrote:

Wulfthrad wrote:
I don't have the book on hand but I think the wording stipulates that only one inquisitor in an army can benefit from the extra warlord trait

I have the book in front of me, its not a unique detachment, you can take as many as you like, and the wording doesn't prevent you from gaining more than 1 additional warlord trait.

yeah you can certainly get as many warlord traits as you have detachments. Note that most tournaments limit detachments, usually to three.

Not all of the Strategic warlord traits "stack" but maybe some do? See the Chaos Demons Draft FAQ for a precedent:

For another example, if the models in the Infernal Tetrad have the Strategic Genius Warlord Trait, you would only add 1 to your roll to Seize the Initiative, not 4.

I'm quite certain that only your Primary Detachment gets a warlord trait. So you'd only have two rolls, not more than that.

 axisofentropy wrote:

Bowie wrote:

Wulfthrad wrote:
I don't have the book on hand but I think the wording stipulates that only one inquisitor in an army can benefit from the extra warlord trait

I have the book in front of me, its not a unique detachment, you can take as many as you like, and the wording doesn't prevent you from gaining more than 1 additional warlord trait.

yeah you can certainly get as many warlord traits as you have detachments. Note that most tournaments limit detachments, usually to three.

Not all of the Strategic warlord traits "stack" but maybe some do? See the Chaos Demons Draft FAQ for a precedent:

For another example, if the models in the Infernal Tetrad have the Strategic Genius Warlord Trait, you would only add 1 to your roll to Seize the Initiative, not 4.

Ah there we go, I thought there might be something buried in an FAQ somewhere that said it wasn't possible. The fact that its in a warzone fenrus FAQ is just crazy, no clarification anywhere else, nothing in the rule book FAQ.

Thanks for linking to the rules though, most appreciated.