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Hi I currently have 1000 points of Grey Knights, made up of the following:

- Level 3 Librarian (usually rolls on Divination to get Prescience, Telepathy to try and get Invisibility and then the last one will vary depending on the opponent).
- Three 5- man Terminator squads, each with a psycannon and hammer on the Justicar.
- A Dreadknight with sword, teleporter, heavy psycannon and heavy incinerator.
- An allied Inquisitor with Hellrifle and three servo skulls (he's purely there to provide the skulls, as typically I play as a Nemesis Strike Force and all three Terminator squads deepstrike).

I want to extend this to 1500 points, and have a couple of options. Would you be able to advise which is best?

Option 1
- Two 5-man Interceptor squads, each with an incinerator and hammer on the Justicar (these guys won't deep strike, and will hop around getting objectives and taking out lone units).
- Another Dreadknight exactly as before.

Option 2
- Two 5-man Interceptor squads, each with an incinerator and hammer on the Justicar just as above.
- A Grandmaster with hammer, and I'd roll on the Daemonology (sanctic) discipline, to get something tasty like Vortex of Doom.

What do you think? Having a second Dreadknight would put the fear in my opponents, but the Grandmaster could be vicious and would form a deathstar with my librarian and a terminator unit (and I'd use that new Grandmaster Voldus model who looks incredible).

Thanks for your help.

Both are good options.. the second dreadknight is definitely useful, are you set on getting interceptors? I've used them myself and they don't often do much for me..

If I had to choose an option I think I'd pick the first one

I'm not set on getting them, but I figured that as my army is full of expensive terminators it would help to have some more expendable units, and the mobility of interceptors could be useful.

If you were to fill out the additional 500 points with anything, what would you go for?

If you already have an Inquisitor, why don't you just take some henchmen or Acolytes if your intention is to just have units to play the mission/take objectives.

12 Acolytes with 1 storm shield and 12 bolters is only a measly 75 pts. If you gave them both dedicated Inq Chimeras that would be 250 and the transport would help ensure their mobility.

The Acolytes have a bunch of different load outs you can give them power armor or other things should you choose to.

Also, is there some particular reason you loadout all your justicars? If he dies you lose all of it, id prefer to split the gear over other units.

Then id also take the 2nd NDK loaded out as the previous, that's 220 points, leaving you 30 to play around with.

All good advice, thanks. I like to give the hammer to a justicar rather than a normal guy so that I can protect it with Look out Sir. Plus the models always look epic

I'm doing well with my army currently, with 6 wins, 2 draws and one loss. I'm looking to have bigger games now though.

Acolytes was an idea of mine, but what I like about interceptors is that with their Force weapons they're all AP3 in assault, so not only are they mobile I can cause some damage too.

Is the general consensus to go with a squad of some sort and then a dreadknight, rather than a grandmaster?

JamesWright83 wrote:
All good advice, thanks. I like to give the hammer to a justicar rather than a normal guy so that I can protect it with Look out Sir. Plus the models always look epic

I'm doing well with my army currently, with 6 wins, 2 draws and one loss. I'm looking to have bigger games now though.

Acolytes was an idea of mine, but what I like about interceptors is that with their Force weapons they're all AP3 in assault, so not only are they mobile I can cause some damage too.

Is the general consensus to go with a squad of some sort and then a dreadknight, rather than a grandmaster?

GK have a lot of high point value models, so playing more of them is sort of playing into your weakness to a certain degree. Esp if you can be tarpitted by useless units or they can just kill them with volume of fire. So people are suggesting the squads because you need to make sure you get more models on the board, which is one of the reasons that taking some cheap allies to be meatshields is a good idea. I would think that with 3 deep striking squads of terminators and 2 NDK you would be mobile enough in your deployment that the chances of requiring an interceptor to have to shunt 28" to the otherside of the boards are probably pretty slim as you also have nothing like static artillery or shooting units that would sit in the back so I can't really think of a scenario where they would even need too.

I was think about an allied Militarum Tempestus force, as with their deep striking ability they would fit in nicely with my GKs. For the same price as the 10 interceptors I could fit in a scion command Squad with 4 meltas (or similar) and two 5-man scion squads with one melta (or similar) each.

Reckon this could work? Them plus a second dreadknight would bring me to around 1500 points.

JamesWright83 wrote:
I was think about an allied Militarum Tempestus force, as with their deep striking ability they would fit in nicely with my GKs. For the same price as the 10 interceptors I could fit in a scion command Squad with 4 meltas (or similar) and two 5-man scion squads with one melta (or similar) each.

Reckon this could work? Them plus a second dreadknight would bring me to around 1500 points.

I think that would work out pretty well, might want to consider some flamers on one of those squads so you have the versatility when you deepstrike of being able to apply the given weapon to a given situation, as long as you still have servoskulls up then you can position them in the best place to do the most damage and as an allied attachment they would have Obsec.