Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Imperium

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This page is the collected tactics of all the tiny Imperial factions that are too small to warrant tactics pages of their own except the Sisters of Silence who were to the Custodes page.

Why play Imperium?

You're joking, right?

Many of the armies in the game have the IMPERIUM keyword. The units listed here fill Imperial "factions" which don't have full blown army lists of their own but offer relatively cheap ways to fill in some of the holes in your other lists while remaining Battle-Forged.

• Need some leadership boosts and a highly customizable force? Pick up an Inquisitor or two.
• Lacking psychic oomph? Take the Astra Telepathica, a Culexus or the Inquisition.
• Meta with a lot of character auras? A Vindicare is a solution.
• PS: The recent Beta Rule, Battle-Brothers, will force you to divide these factions into detachments centering around a keyword other than IMPERIUM keyword, but that shouldn't stop People, and has granted some units to not need an HQ tax. The problem with this though, is that it makes it much more difficult to bring in transports with Authority of the Inquisition. Have you, my friend, always been taking inquisitorial chimeras? Well now they must be taken in a guard detachment.
• Many of the units on this page are now of questionable usefulness if they can't use the keyword Imperium. Especially if detachment limits are used as they are at tournaments. If you want 3 silent sister squads you'd have to give up 1 out of 3 detachments and have no CP from it to get them making them virtually useless. If you wanted just 1 or 2 Assassins or sister squads too bad you have to use 3 and lose cp for it. Which kinda seems like GW punching themselves in the face as many of the models on here are comparatively expensive to buy or part of expensive sets like blackstone. Currently you can take an Imperial Guard detachment alongside Space Marines easier and with no negatives but get penalized for a single assassin. Changes to force org rules now mean Inquisitors actually get this the easiest, since they can be shifted in for free. Assassins get it the worst...with Sisters getting it pretty bad too.

Factions

Astra Cartographica

The Rogue Traders. Now usable in a supreme command detatchment (with access to the Elucidean Starstriders strategems)

• Elucia Vhane: see Elucidean Starstriders

• Janus Draik: Let's get this down before we start - this guy is a beast. He comes with four wounds, three attacks, and an S4 AP-2 D2 splinter pistol, plus a super special S6 AP-1 D1d3 grenade that he can only use once per battle. But that's not what makes him so good, no. Despite his measly S3 T3, he boasts a 4++ save, giving him all he needs to survive when combined with his four wounds, so you can charge him straight into CC. He has an S3 AP-4 sword, plus an ability that allows him to deal D3 mortal wounds to an enemy in the fight phase, making him an excellent choice to kill off your enemies' generic HQ's. And to top it all off, he has the Inquisitor ability to hijack any IMPERIUM vehicle, meaning you can stick him in any army you're already running and run him up to melee where he belongs.

• Neyam Shai Murad: Has warrant of trade like the other astra cartagraphica characters so she can go in any transport but lacks their invul saves and CC weapons. However Neyam makes up for it with 2 12" pistol 2 S4 Ap-2 d1 pistols that ignore cover. This means that she can shoot 4 times during your shooting phase, which is upped to 8 shots if she doesn't move.

Officio Assassinorum

These gimp suit wearing boy toys have massively improved going into 8th edition; each of them has dropped about half of their points while keeping all of their sick abilities and wargear! Universally, they all have the Independent Operative ability, which allows them a 9" deep strike, but they can never have a Warlord Trait, even if they're your Warlord. Also, they have the Lightning Reflexes rule, which is a 4++, because GW is bad at rules, resulting in them being very good at dodging a flamethrower, but completely unable to dodge, e.g., a Vindicare Exitus round. They also all have the CHARACTER keyword, which means they can't be shot at unless they are the closest model, making them better than they appear to be at winning a gun battle. Because they are all single-model units, 100% of the unit can throw a grenade when they want to, which is only really useful on the Culexus.

All of them are M7 WS2 BS2 S4 T4 Ld9 Sv6, not that you care about their armor save, or usually, their leadership.

• Callidus - W5, A5
• Culexus - W5, A4
• Eversor - W6, A6
• Vindicare - W5, A5

White Dwarf issue of March 2019 has provided us the Index Imperialis for these guys, which not only buff the Vindicare and Eversor, but provide some interesting Stratagems as well. This also made their power and points cost a universal 5 or 95 respectively.

Special Rules

• Assassinorum Execution Force: Assassins can be taken in any army with the Imperium keyword as a Vanguard detachment, even though they have no HQ units to fill the HQ slot. However, this detachment will not grant its customary +1CP as a Vanguard detachment normally would. Also, as of the Beta rules, this is the only way to take them other than as Auxiliary Support. So unless you want to sacrifice command points, you'll have to pay ~400 points for a full quartet, even if you only really want to wield one. As of their mini-index, bringing a Vanguard detachment of exactly 1 of each Assassin (Culexus, Vindicare, Eversor and Callidus) will provide you with the usual detachment bonus of +1CP. Fluffy, and admittedly more useful than the usual deal, but that's still running you 380pts in an Edition where Marines can pump out 100 shots with 222 points with Agressors.

Stratagems

• Operative Requisition Sanctioned (2/3CP): In a matched game, set aside 95 reinforcement points as of CA 2019 (the cost of an Assassin) to call in an Assassin. Sounds absolutely dumb at first, because it's more expensive than an auxiliary reserve detachment. However, you use this stratagem during deployment, meaning you can custom-tailor your list with the Assassin you need. Instead of bringing that Culexus to every battle as insurance against Psykers, you can instead use this stratagem. Facing Imperial Guard infantry? Bring a Vindicare to break their chain of command or an Eversor to RIP AND TEAR. Facing Thousand Sons or Eldar? Bring the Culexus you were going to anyway. Easy. The 3CP cost is for when you aren't playing matched play since there are no reinforcement points in other game types.
• Priority Threat Neutralised (1CP): If an enemy character is slain by one of your Assassins, spend 1CP to get 2CP - a net gain of +1CP. This increases to gaining 3CP (or +2 because of the Stratagem cost) if said character was your enemy's Warlord. Pretty handy, literally no reason not to use this unless you have 0CP anyway. Probably hilarious when used with something like Kurov's Aquila or the Ultramarine WL trait.

Callidus Stratagems

• Acrobatic (1CP): Used in the Movement phase, allows a Callidus to advance and charge, and enemies must subtract 1 from hit rolls against her until the start of the next battle round, which includes the Assassin player's current fight phase, and their opponent's entire turn IF the opponent is taking the second turn. Not bad, but your Callidus is most likely going for a turn 2 charge straight out of their Polymorphine deployment, meaning they cannot advance anyway, but -1 to hit is still neat.
• Supreme Deception (2CP): One use only, but during the start of any battle round after the first, one of your Callidus Assassins' Reign of Confusion ability functions again until the end of that battle round. See the Callidus Assassin entry for the usefulness of her ability, but 2CP to grant a 50% chance to cost the enemy extra CP is pretty steep: you'd have to expect the opponent to use 4 Stratagems that turn to mathematically break even.

Culexus Stratagems

• Pariah's Gaze (1CP): One Culexus Assassin's ranged weapons gains D3 damage for the duration of the Shooting phase, which makes the Animus Speculum absolutely terrifying against regular TEQs and Psyker characters of all kinds. The Stratagem also works on the Psyk-Out grenade, but it will still only do one mortal wound on the 6+ to hit against a daemon or psyker.
• Soul Horror (2CP): At the start of the Fight phase, choose a Culexus Assassin. Enemy units within 3" cannot be chosen to fight until all other units have already fought, even if they charged, and if a unit has an ability that always lets them fight first (looking at you Slaanesh), they fight normally this phase (i.e. alternating picks). Note that the Culexus doesn't have to be in close combat for this Stratagem to work, meaning merely being near another unit or after making a heroic intervention can be enough to potentially lessen the effects of an enemy charge.

Eversor Stratagems

• Hypermetabolism (1CP): At the start of any phase, give an Eversor a 4+++ FNP that for some reason doesn't work on mortal wounds for the rest of the phase. A tad bizarre that it doesn't work on mortal wounds unlike practically every other FNP equivalent in this edition of "no universal rules", but still incredibly handy. Supposedly, this is so you can't save against the mortal wound caused by the Stimm Overload stratagem.
• Stimm Overload (2CP): At the end of the Fight phase, choose an Eversor Assassin to fight again, but afterwards they suffer a mortal wound on a D6 roll of 1, 2, or 3. You know, just in case your bundle of fun and joy hadn't quite wiped that entire squad yet. Note that you can't consolidate 6" into another squad and trigger another fight, because you can only target the unit you charged on the turn you charged. Unless you had also declared a charge against that unit, of course, or were already in combat to begin with.

Vindicare Stratagems

• Double Kill (1CP): Allows a Vindicare to shoot again at a different target after they've already shot during the Shooting phase. Bonus points if you can imitate the Unreal Tournament announcer's voice. Needless to explain how strong this is.
• Turbo-Penetrator-Round (1CP): After you hit a vehicle or monster during the Shooting phase with a Vindicare's Exitus rifle or pistol, deal 1d3 mortal wounds instead of regular damage, but you cannot use the new Headshot ability that Vindicares have. While softening up a Tyranid Malanthrope sounds helpful, you'd be wounding on 4s with a regular Exitus rifle shot anyway, and then you get the chance for the d6 damage on a 6+ to wound, as well as the Headshot ability for mortal wounds anyway. Also, there should really be no reason for a Vindicare to be shooting vehicles unless you're a madman playing a pure Assassin army (21 assassins in an 1800 point army ftw!) or your opponent brought Bjorn, Ashmantle, or a Chaplain Dread. This is also useful if you want to finish off a critically damaged enemy unit and absolutely want the job done properly; 2+ to hit, bang garunteed at least 1 mortal wound. Go on, brain the pilot of that doom scythe you know you want to.

Unit Analysis

Elites

• Callidus Assassin: The Callidus continues to be the odd model of the assassins. She is less of a murder machine (though she is still damn good at it) and more of a tactical threat - if at least one is in your army, any CP your opponent spends on Stratagems (which is all of them) during the first round lets you roll a die; on a 4+, the Stratagem costs 1 more CP to use, and if your opponent can't or won't spend it, the Strat fizzles with the CP already spent lost. Polymorphine improves her Deep Strike so that instead of the standard >9" distance, she rolls 1d6+3" when she Deep Strikes to determine her distance. Worst case, this is of no benefit at all, but on average, it gets you about 2.5" closer; on anything but a 6, you'll show up close enough to shoot your Neural Shredder, and the net probability of pulling off a Deep Strike charge is 62.50%, which isn't bad, although it's not as good as the Eversor's 74.07%. Sadly, her shredder is garbage, and so is her melee; Usually she'd attack five times at S4 AP-3 D2 that ignores invulnerable saves, and an additional S4 AP-1 D1 attack that wounds non-vehicles on 3+ and vehicles on 6+. You can swap any number of the five attacks for any number of the poisoned attacks of course. She can also shoot and charge after Falling Back. Take one of her for her excellent CP fuckery, and use her to harass the enemy backline, not to actually assassinate anything.
  • Neural Shredder's profile: 9" Assault 1 SX APX DX: on a hit, instead of rolling to wound, roll 3d6 vs. target's Leadership; on a tie or better, it deals 1d3 mortal wounds.
    • The average of 3d6 is 10.5, which is a bit misleading, because you don't deal more mortal wounds for beating the target's leadership by more. On the other hand, mortal wounds spill over, so there's no need to use her for assassinating a single target - against single wound units, she'll simply murder 1d3 targets, and she's a lot better against low Ld targets. Expected mortal wounds, after accounting for her BS of 2+ (the lower number is for shooting when she drops, since you have a 5/6 chance of being in range to shoot):
      • 3: 1.66/1.38
      • 4: 1.64/1.36
      • 5: 1.59/1.32
      • 6: 1.51/1.26
      • 7: 1.40/1.16
      • 8: 1.23/1.03
      • 9: 1.04/0.87
      • 10: 0.83/0.69
    • The net result between her shredder and her melee is that if you want her assassination drop to be productive, it is absolutely critical you deep strike her close to the target, both so her shredder can contribute and, more importantly, so you have a realistic chance of making the charge. It is worth spending the CP to re-roll her distance, accordingly, if she has a promising target - for example, assuming she is close enough to shoot and then makes the charge, the net result of her shooting and melee on an Ld9 T4 2+/3++ target with enough wounds to absorb all of her output is 4.38 wounds, on average - and she'll do even better against lower leadership, toughness, and/or armor. She will straight up murder a company commander, for example - but only if she's close enough, and most of her output is from melee.
  • Also note that while the recent changes to arriving from reserves prevent you from making full use of Polymorphine on the first turn, her Reign of Confusion ability works just fine because the rules don't say the model has to be on the table for it to work.
  • She is most useful against Alpha Strike armies; the possible CP drain can prevent an Alpha Strike list from doing everything they would have wanted to do, either forcing them to wait a turn to attempt to mow your forces down, or if the army is small enough, prevent them from using any of their big stratagems at all.
  • Despite remaining the same in the White Dwarf codex as in the original index, she's now up from 85 (as of Chapter Approved 2019) to 95 points in order to bring her in line with the other Assassins. Her phase blade now has Damage 2 and she can fall back, shoot, AND charge in the same turn. All this combined allows her to threaten even the infamous Custard shield captain on Dawneagle jetbike (statistically if she shoots and melees the guy, ignoring the odds of making the charge, she'll deal 3.27 wounds a pop; even if he falls back and you have to charge him again, he can't make you need to roll more than a 6 to make the charge, so it makes no significant difference - on average you will need more than 2 turns but fewer than 3 to murder him).
• Culexus Assassin:. The anti-psyker assassin, now with a few more nasty tricks, and broadly speaking, the best and most useful Assassin. His Abomination rule makes him completely immune to being targeted or affected by psychic powers, friendly or enemy, but he subtracts 2 from only enemy (March index seems to be "fixing" this issue. From now on all psykers will be affected. ) psykers Psychic and Deny the Witch tests within 18". Furthermore, Etherium means any enemy model attacking him resolves at WS and BS6+ - not a penalty to hit, he just forces their characteristic to a specific value, making him far and away the hardest of the four assassins to kill, and very good at surviving just about anything that isn't piling on flamers until his invuln save gives out on him. He has an Animus Speculum, which is 18" Assault 1d3 S5 AP-4 D1, increasing to 1d6 if there are any enemy psykers within 18", meaning he's better off showing up near them and leaving them alive to buff him, and a Psyk-out Grenade, which is 6" Grenade 1d3 S2 AP0 D1, inflicting a mortal wound instead of 1 damage on each hit roll of 6+; he can fire both of them in the same Shooting phase (but not on Overwatch), provided he didn't Advance, and both of them can target psyker characters, even if they're not the closest. He only has a stock melee weapon, but it completely ignores all armour saves.
  • Not only can he pop up near enemy psykers to debuff them, he always pops up close enough to shoot his speculum, and he's just incredibly difficult to kill without specific tools - utterly immune to Psychic phase attacks, of course, and only auto-hit Shooting attacks can hit him reliably, none of which in the game ignore his invuln, and there aren't any auto-hit melee attacks, although there are ways to bypass his defences; for example, Kharn the Betrayer will ruing your day every time, the Imperial Guard stratagem Crush Them! will let a Baneblade hit him on 2+ in melee, since the strat ignores the vehicle's WS, and anything that deals mortal wounds without being psychic or dealing with accuracy will ruin his day eventually, like Nurgle's Gift from the Death Guard. Don't blindly trust him to survive everything - use him intelligently, and he'll make a stunningly effective tank for the rest of your army.
  • Remember, he won't shut down psychic buffs, just make them harder to cast in the first place, so a psyker-heavy enemy force will still usually have some tools to fight him, and Abomination's debuff won't stack with itself. To give you some perspective, Magnus fighting his "weight" in Culexi (about 4.88) of them, having brought Warptime, Weaver of Fates, and Prescience, even with the Culexi debuffing him and shutting down his Smite, will kill the Culexi faster than they can kill him, statistically. There are two reasons he wins: first, that the Culexus debuff doesn't stack with itself, and second, that they can't actually Deny the Witch, only debuff casting. They're great, but they won't win battles by themselves.
• Eversor Assassin: Smashing through walls and punching dudes like a boss. His stats give him the usual assassin line, but with six wounds and attacks apiece. His executioner pistol is 12" Pistol 4 S4 AP-1 D1 and re-rolls failed wounds against INFANTRY; he also has a melta bomb, which is 4" Grenade 1 S8 AP-4 D1d6 and re-rolls failed wounds against vehicles. As of White Dwarf, his new Sentinel Array ability allows him to make a shooting attack against each unit that Falls Back while within 1" of him as if it was the Shooting phase, which is pretty neat as it can allow you to force a unit to either fall back and be shot, or give up their own shooting unless they have the fly keyword, also allowing your Eversor a screen against other enemy shooting. What he's really good at is charging; he charges 3d6", not 2d6" (note, however, that he can still only declare a charge from 12" away; the extra dice is essentially insurance to help you to get into combat), and gains +2A on the charge (to a total of 8), giving him a 74% chance of pulling off a Deep Strike charge. Once he's in melee, he has a regular power sword, and a neuro-gauntlet, resolving at S5 AP-1, re-rolling all wounds, which is actually better against e.g. MEQs. When he dies, each enemy (how they turned off friendly fire on his bomb is a mystery; presumably friendlies know to stay away and the Eversor launches himself into his enemies before detonating) unit he's in melee with takes 1d3 mortal wounds on a 4+ on 1d6, i.e. on average 1 mortal wound. Since he can't Deep Strike melta bomb, and his pistol isn't remotely worth his points, he's actually best when you can buff his charge range even further; for example, Guilliman's aura raises his odds of a successful Deep Strike charge to 83.8%. As codices drop, keep an eye out for other sources of charge buffing for him. White Dwarf gave this guy a new absolutely devastating ability that allows him to make an additional attack for each model killed in melee, with these extra attacks unable to generate any further ones, and in addition can consolidate 6" instead of the usual 3". That's potentially 16 attacks, presuming you charged and kill your first 8 targets; against horde army units, this is very possible, and also damned awesome. On average against GEQ, your first set of attacks will cause approximately 5 unsaved wounds. These extra 5 attacks will then cause another 3 unsaved wounds, making 8 in total. That's an automatic Morale wipe on a 10 man Leadership 7 Infantry squad. In case you were fighting something with double the amount of models, use the Stimm Overload stratagem to repeat.
• Vindicare Assassin: Everyone's favourite sniper is back, and as punishing as he always is. His trademark Exitus rifle is a phenomenal 72" Heavy 1 S5 AP-3 D1d3 that ignores invuln saves and always wounds INFANTRY on a 2+, and increases to D1d6 on a 6+ to wound, while his pistol is 12" Pistol 1 S4, with the same rules, and his Blind grenade is 12" Grenade 1d6, but you don't roll anything past the rolls for volume and hitting - if at least one hit gets through, the hit unit subtracts 1 from all hit rolls until the end of the turn, making the grenade usually your best bet in Overwatch, especially given how far you can throw it. All three guns have the Sniper rule (able to hit CHARACTERs even when not closest) and ignore Cover bonuses to saves during the Shooting phase only, plus the Vindicare always hits on a 2+ if he remained stationary (but not in Overwatch). He inflicts a -1 to hit against anyone trying to hit him with ranged weapons, increasing to -2 while in cover. He competes with the Tau for having sniper rifles that don't deal mortal wounds, but his rifle actually does a better job than most sniper rifles of acting like a sniper rifle; while he's not competent enough to probably kill his target, dealing 1.6 wounds, on average, to a Sv4+/X++ INFANTRY character in cover, he still does more than he would with most other sniper rifles in the game. As of White Dwarf, he received his chance to deal mortal wounds through his Headshot ability: after dealing damage to a model with a ranged weapon, roll a D6; on a 3+ that's one mortal wound, and, if successful, you can roll again, dealing another mortal wound on a 4+ this time, and on another success again on a 5+ and on another success a 6+, assuming you haven't already killed the target. The net result is an additional 1.13 mortal wounds to the target (which can't spill over, since you only deal them if the target lives to suffer them). Note that you cannot use this with the Turbo-Penetrator-Rounds stratagem. You'll need to field him in incredible numbers to reliably bring a target down - 3 of them to delete an AM Company Commander, assuming he hasn't got an Ogryn Bodyguard, for example - so he's actually at his scariest when using his Blind Grenade on Deep Strike turn (he can throw it farther than his minimum Deep Strike distance), which has a roughly 96.67% chance of inflicting its debuff, prior to charging something else to wreck face in melee. Bringing 3 of them is advisable, especially if you don't want to use vital CPs to take 1.
  • He can, however, do wonders against 3 wound characters, likely killing any he wounds. His problem is, like many 1 shot weapons, every miss is felt.
  • Due to the new Headshot ability, two of them should now be sufficient to kill an AM Company Commander. However, most of his output still comes his non-mortal wounds, for which he is heavily reliant on an INFANTRY target. He's quite bad, for example, at murdering a Jackal Alphus off her bike.

Rogue Traders/Elucidian Starstriders

Found in the Rogue Trader Kill Team expansion, Elucidian Starstriders get 40k rules, introducing another long desired faction to the tabletop albeit in a very limited faction. While there is the opportunity for a great amount of narrative flavour in this group, it's unlikely to find much utility in competitive 40k owing to its small detachment size and GEQ-equivalent stats, but uses could be found as it is light on points and delivers more survivability than the average group of Guardsmen. The faction could also find a home in smaller games of 40k where the specialist nature of the troops could be more efficient with regards to their point costs.

Special Rules

• Warrant of Trade: All the Elucidian Starstriders come with this rule that allows them to embark onto any Imperium transport despite restrictions based on Faction keywords; thing is, no transport in the game clarifies whether keyword restrictions are Faction or not, so while this rule clearly does not ignore non-Keyword restrictions, expect skub when trying to determine other rules interactions (e.g. a Land Speeder Storm only allows Scout Infantry, which presumably is non-Faction, but this is not clarified anywhere). This will give the unit the extra survivability it desperately needs as a low model GEQ faction by allowing them to embark in almost any Transport from a Chimera to a Stormraven to a Coronus Grav-Carrier.
• Rogue Trader Retinue: Requires Elucia Vhane in the army (not detachment!) for this rule to do anything; if included, all models with this rule must be set up at the same time, either within 6" of Elucia Vhane, or on the same transport as her. If they cannot be set up, they count as destroyed, so if you were to come up with any other way to deploy them (such as holding them in reserve somehow), they would auto-destroy themselves.

Warlord Trait

If Elucia Vhane is your army's Warlord, you gain access to the Explorator Fleetmaster Warlord Trait.

• Explorator Fleetmaster: If your army is Battle-forged you receive an additional 3 Command Points that can only be spent on Elucidian Starstriders stratagems. Probably unlikely to happen given the prevalence of CP factory armies, but could be useful in smaller games where CP is at a premium.

Stratagems

• Combat Resuscitation (1CP): After the movement phase, you can attempt to make another heal with Sanistasia Minst on another or the same Elucidian Starstrider Infantry unit.
• Digital Laser Regalia (1CP): Used after resolving all close combat attacks with Elucia Vhane, make an extra close combat attack which if it hits, deals D3 Mortal Wounds.
• Executioner Shell (1CP): Used before Voidmaster Nitsch fires his Artificer Shotgun, makes a single hit roll with the weapon and adds 3 to-hit for the roll. (Voidmaster Nitsch has a BS 3+ so this is presumably to counter negative hit modifiers.) If you hit the target deal a Mortal Wound instead of normal damage.
• Killing Strikes (1CP): Used before Knosso Prond fights in the fight phase, the damage characteristic of her Power Blades is increased to D3 when targeting Infantry units.
• Logis-Interrogator Scanner (1CP): A waste of a Command Point that allows you to reveal markers if you're using Concealed Deployment or identify a Mysterious Objective anywhere on the battlefield, OR marginally more helpfully allows you to ignore penalties to Larsen Van Der Grauss's hit rolls this phase.
• One With The Electro-Motive Force (1CP): Before moving Larsen Van Der Grauss, you can deep strike him instead.
• Personal Teleportarium Chamber (1CP): During deployment you can choose to put your entire Elucidian Starstriders detachment into deep strike.
  • Remember, if you brought Elucia Vhane, using this will destroy your army - this technically has you set them up in a teleportarium chamber, which is not a transport, and while not on the table, nothing can be within 6" of anything else - Elucia can't even be within 6" of herself - so the entire unit will count as being destroyed.
• Recover Archeotech At Any Cost (1CP): Activated at the end of your turn, this stratagem gives Larsen Van Der Grauss some extra survivability on the enemy turn by giving him +1A and Sv until the start of your next turn while he's within 3" of an Objective.

Unit Analysis

All units below include the stipulation that 'Only one of this unit can be included in your army.' so unfortunately you cannot spam a dozen Knosso Pronds to run around the field causing havoc. All are armed with Concussion Grenades that are like Frag Grenades but are Grenade D3, and add 1 Damage if the target unit is within 1" off a terrain feature.

HQ

• Elucia Vhane: Stat-wise a Guard Character with a 4+/4++, 3 Attacks, 4 Wounds and 6" move. Re-rolls hits of 1 for Elucidian Starstriders within 6", and once per battle at the start of a Fight Phase can deal D3 Mortal Wounds on a 4+ to an enemy within 1". Her Heirloom Pistol is a fancy Bolt Pistol with AP -2 and 2 Damage, and her Monomolecular Cane-Rapier is an AP -4 Power Sword. Includes the Astra Cartographica keyword, which is kinda fun.

Troops

• Nitsch's Squad: GEQ but with MEQ Movement, BS and Ld. Nitsch himself gets an extra wound and attack, along with his fancy shotgun that does 2 damage. Squad is also accompanied by the bestest boy in the Galaxy, Aximillion who moves 8", gets two attacks and is destined to make people cry when he's inevitably killed, just not on the tabletop as the pupper's death is ignored for the purpose of morale. The squad gets +1 Ld as long as the unit is within 6" of Elucia Vhane.

Elites

• Larsen Van Der Grauss: Your main source of survivability with the Starstriders, Van Der Grauss's main takeaway is that he provides units what are WHOLLY within 6" a 5++ save. No melee weapon and a Voltaic Pistol that's S5 AP0 and 1D, but scores 3 hits instead of 1 on an unmodified 6 to hit, means you should keep him out of combat.
  • If and only if taken with an adeptus mechanicus detatchment he is a valid target for adeptus mechanicus and mars strategems such as dataspike to give some CC bite vs vehicles also (acquisition at any cost+recover archeotech at any cost) gives larson +2 to his saving throws and attacks if you have to hold that late game objective for a 2+3++ potentialy usefull given he can relocate.
• Sanistasia Minst: Your team's Apothecary, she does not take up a slot in any detachment that includes Elucia Vhane, restores wounds on a 4+ and can resurrect members of Nitsch's squad. Her Scalpel Claw is AP -1.
• Knosso Prond: The Death Cult Assassin, re-rolls failed hit rolls on the charge, Heroic Interventions or after being charged, her Uncanny Reflexes give her a 5++ so can be left out of Van Der Grauss's invul bubble. Her Deathmask is a Pistol 1 S1, AP-1, D1 that always wounds on a 2+ unless you're shooting at a Titanic or Vehicle. Her power blade is AP-2.

Tactics

Vhane and her retinue, when it comes down to it, amount to an extra sticky squad of Guardsmen. Excellent Leadership, a 5++ save, the ability to gain back wounds/Voidsmen and enough close range bite to ward off all but dedicated melee units means they'll be difficult to dislodge without dedicating notable amounts of fire power towards them. This, combined with the amount of attention new models generate, means they can serve as a decently cheap Distraction Carnifex, less then 150 points for the whole gang. One good way to go about this is take advantage of their ability to pick and choose the best of the Imperium's transports, (see the Inquisiton section for more on that) run them up the field and plop them down in cover, ideally on an objective. The Assassin doesn't benefit much from being with the others, so she can run off on her own to support one of your melee squads.

Navis Nobilite

• Espern Locarno: He's a Psyker with a 4++ save and has the ability to choose any target within 12" to hit with Smite, rather than the closest one. He's tankier than a Primaris Psyker despite having fewer wounds (thanks to a 4+ invuln), and thanks to how The Third Eye rule works, he can even target and drop Mortal Wounds onto character models, even if they're not the closest; given how important auras are in this edition, that's a pretty big deal. He's also only 2 points more than a Primaris Psyker, so if all you want is somebody to use Smite with, then go ahead and pick Locarno; if it goes off, at least it'll go off on who you want it to hit.

Robotica Imperialis

• UR-025: A Man of Iron. No seriously, it's a Man of Iron masquerading as an Imperial Robot designed to collect data for a Magos. Don't be crazy. He's clearly an Imperial Robot, he obviously got the Imperial Aquila right there on him. That being said he's much smaller than other robots like the Kataphron and his stats/gear reflect it so don't expect him to do their job. Comes armed with a Power Klaw Claw, and a Mk I(!) Assault Cannon... the dial-up internet version of Assault Cannons. If there was ever any proof the Imperium actually can make better weapons and that not everything was great in bygone days, this would be it, as it fires two less shots at one less strength. His problem is he kind of struggles at figuring out what he should do, he can shoot okay and he can fight non-character models okay (2 attacks on a powerfist that hits on 4's is kinda shit, even at S10) but he can certainly take a surprising amount of damage for his relatively cheap cost, (as he's still T5 and 4 wounds, with the ability to gain 1 wound every round). If you want to use him as a speed-bump against enemy close-combat units (or to move him around to gain close objectives since he's still a character and can be screened) then feel free, otherwise as soon as your opponent figures out he can't do much to hurt them they're just going to ignore him.

Inquisition

The Inquisition has a long history of being a low tier, unloved (by GW) army of Warhammer 40K. For nearly a decade, Inquisition players had to rely on outdated Witch/Daemonhunter Codices; then Grey Knights released, then many small codices published for Inquisitors, and GW began to separate them from Sisters of Battle and Grey Knights. Then, in the late 7th edition, Inquisitors got a fully playable army.

Now, 8th edition has happened. They moved many Inquisition related units to other Imperium factions. Ironically, some of these units are still in the "Inquisition" section on GW's official web store. Are Inquisition units weaker in 8th edition? Kinda Definitely. But as a "standalone" faction, the Inquisition has almost been removed from the game. - It's clear GW intend the inquisition as a soup faction in 8th, sustained only by the Index and now the November 2019 issue of White Dwarf.

The rule of 3 prevents you fielding a stand-alone Battle-Forged Inquisition army above a few hundred point's especially now that you're limited to 1 Inquisitor per detachment.

• Assuming a standard three detachment limit, it is possible to field, at absolute maximum, a total of 2,001 pts of just Inquisitorial units, and this means taking EVERYTHING and giving them the most expensive wargear possible. Increasing the number of detachments barely budges this number, as all you can bring after this point are more Inquisitors, who seldom cost more than 100 points each.

TL;DR is that while it is technically possible to build a dedicated Inquisition Army, unless you are playing a game with a very small points limit or just for fun, it's best to ally them with another Imperial faction if you want to get the most mileage out of your Inquisitors on the tabletop.

There are two sensible ways to run inquisition now:

• A solo NOFOS inquisitor in an imperium army (So actually playable awesome + fluffy one inquisitor in a requisitioned army) Also due to GW wording correctly for a change doesn't block SM doctrines, Admech canticles, or Adepta Sororitas Sacred Rites.
• A vanguard detachment - (Note: This will block SM doctrines so if you're souping with SM consider the NOFOS option). This option also means taking a lot of small characters so if your playing with kill points or kill more this is a weaker option but if your not this option got a lot more effective now all your models are likely characters.

As of the WD update, Supreme-Command detachments with 3 psykers are no longer legal due to the one inquisitor maximum per detachment clause.

Special Rules

• Authority of the Inquisition: Allows the unit to hijack an Imperium Transport, even if transports are usually faction-locked. Note that this won't let you shove terminator daemonhunters into rhinos.
• Quarry: The Ordos now have their specific keyword which determines their bonus against their favoured prey.
  • Ordo Malleus: Re-roll to hit and to wound rolls against models with the Chaos and/or Daemon keyword. "Daemon" also includes Avatars of Khaine and the Yncarne as well. If you want Terminator armour, you're stuck with this. Then your terminator winds up facing Tau. At that point just smile and breathe.
  • Ordo Hereticus: Re-roll to hit and to wound rolls against models with the Chaos and/or Psyker keyword. Ironically a good all-comers option, since plenty of non-chaos factions have psykers. (Also funnily enough since all greater daemons have Chaos and three of the four have Psyker as well, you can do the Ordo Malleus's job for them, minus Avatars and Khymerae.)
  • Ordo Xenos: Re-roll to hit and to wound rolls against units that do not have the Chaos, Imperium, and/or Unaligned keyword.
  • Ordo Minoris: A new keyword representing all the other minor Ordos. Re-roll to hit and to wound rolls against Characters.

Telesthesia Discipline

The Inquisition psychic discipline is Telethesia, a Greek word for remote sensing. An odd choice, to say the least, since none of the powers have anything to do with sensing.

1. Terrify: WC6. Target a single enemy unit within 18". The unit subtracts 1 from their leadership and cannot fire Overwatch.
   • Good for backing up melee-oriented squads, and since it targets the enemy, completely compatible with soup.
2. Mental Fortitude: W4. Targets a friendly Imperium unit within 12". The unit automatically passes morale tests.
   • With the way morale works in 8th, this may not help you very much. Useful, perhaps, on large conscripts blobs to avoid more casualties. One of the advantages of this power is the low WC value, making it incredibly likely to go off (an 11/12 chance!).
3. Dominate: WC6. Targets a non-vehicle enemy model within 12". You must then beat its leadership on 3d6 to immediately take control of it and can shoot one gun or make one melee attack with it as if it were your own and not a member of its old unit.
   • You could use this to make an enemy commissar BLAM one of his friendly guardsmen. Worth it for the lulz, but unless your target has a good gun, like a T'au commander, or seeing as the gaze of death has been relegated to a shooting attack, a C'Tan, don't bother, usually - it will only probably succeed (accounting for both the cast and the leadership test) against a target with Ld8 or less, you'll only get full output from a gun, not a melee weapon, and virtually nothing in the game with Ld that poor has a gun good enough to compete with Castigation, below, which also gets better with lower target Ld.
   • This power is pretty great if you can manage to cast it on a non-vehicle with a consumable gun who hasn't used it yet, like Anrakyr the Traveller, as you get the additional benefit of consuming the gun (or melee weapon, although one-use melee weapons are pretty rare outside of Elysian Drop Troops, and even there, most opponents won't spring for it). Or even better, get an enemy HQ to die from overcharging their plasma weapon while shooting at another HQ or Monster. The lulz are magnificent.
   • Not to mention, if your enemy wants to lessen the likelihood of their non-vehicles shooting each other, they'll need to spread them out, hopefully out of weapons range. Since most auras are about 6", you'll be forcing them to choose between the safety of their characters/units, or buffing their units.
   • An important distinction to make is now the wording specifically mentions a non-vehicle model, not a character specifically. So models with big guns (lascannon devastators/havocs come to mind) or melee weapons that could do some damage against their own squad are perfectly viable targets for this power, and oftentimes easier to get to work.
4. Mental Interrogation: WC6. A visible enemy character model 12" away gets -1 to hit until your next psychic phase, and if that's not good enough, roll 3d6 against that model's leadership to gain 1 CP (so target an Ld8 or less model to probably get a CP, after accounting for the odds of the power going off).
5. Psychic Pursuit: WC7. Allows one <Ordo> unit to snipe a character, provided that character has less than 10 wounds, is within 18" of and visible to the caster, and the psyker is within 6" of the ordo unit. While most Inquisitorial units lack the firepower to make real use of this, this turns your Inquisitorial Land Raider Prometheus into a nightmare for any army that relies on Characters to hold their battleline together.
6. Castigation: WC6. Pretty much a lesser smite - roll 3d6 against lowest LD in target visible enemy unit within 18" to deal d3 Mortals. The only direct damage psychic power, so may be viable if you have more than one power to cast, but if you only have 1 stick to smite and pick something else.

• Ordo Hereticus only - Ascertainment: WC6. One enemy unit within 12" suffers -1A (minimum 1)+ 2d6 vs LD for -1 to hit. A nice debuff option, but 2d6 vs LD will be inconsistent on a lot of units, and is -1A really enough to justify? Situational.
• Ordo Xenos only - Psychic Veil: WC5. Ordo Xenos units within 6" can only be attacked if they are the closest unit and can only be charged if the enemy is within 6. Potentially a good anti-sniper countermeasure in the SM meta, but to get real value should be on a vanguard inquisitor. Less good than it sounds now since nearly all Inquisition models are characters by default, but it will provide some protection to 6 man acolyte squads who don't have the character rule and are squishy.
  • Keep in mind that this applies to 'all' types of Ordo Xenos units as it doesn't specify that it only works on Infantry, which means that YES, YOU CAN TURN A LAND RAIDER PROMETHEUS INVISIBLE.
• Ordo Malleus only - Warding Incantation: WC6. Gives an Imperium infantry or biker unit within 12" 5++. Great to have a soup buff in a soup faction, but an inquisitor may struggle to keep pace with a bike or jump infantry unit, and what other single unit justifies the inquisitor's cost?
  • This stacks with the Guard's Psychic Barrier power, which means that you can give a Guard infantry unit 4++. Effectively halving the wounds that a Conscript tarpit takes isn't bad. Keep in mind your points aren't always going to be spent on killing power. It can be worth it to force your enemy to really dedicate firepower into a 80-120 pt unit to keep your 200 pt ones safe.

Warlord Traits

Warlord traits are not restricted to inquisitors but to Inquisition units so if you want to make your Jokaero your warlord you can.

3 warlord traits are open to anyone and 3 are ordo specific. While all the main HQs have fixed WTs, the 2 Forgeworld Inquisitors are not restricted. Also curiously, only one of them (Greyfax) takes their Ordo-specific WT.

1. Radical: once per battle round re-roll 1 hit roll, wound, damage, saving, psychic test or deny the witch for this warlord - Reroll's always come in handy makes for more reliable psykers. Eisenhorn and Draxus have this one.
2. Puritan: +1 invul capped at 3+. Extra defense is always nice but a T3 model is still squishy. Coteaz has this one.
3. Formidable Resolve: +1LD and increase unquestionable wisdom by 6". Ok if you are primarily using your inquisitor to buff LD. Karamazov has this one.

• Ordo Hereticus: No Escape: 6" heroic intervention and Enemy units within 1" can't fall back on a 4+. Could be useful but your inquisitor has to survive a round of combat first and most aren't that tanky. Greyfax has this one.
• Ordo Xenos: Esoteric Lore: When your opponent uses a stratagem gain a CP on a 5+. Extra CP is always nice.
• Ordo Malleus: Psychic Mastery: Know, cast and deny 1 extra psychic power. Who doesn't want to cast more?

Stratagems

• Alpha-Class Psyker (1CP): One unnamed Psyker Inquisitor knows one more power. They can also deny twice, which you might appreciate if you want a budget psyker HQ and don't want to take Eisenhorn and some daemonhosts.
• Arbiter of the Emperor's Will (1CP): Once per battle, before battle, give an inquisitor who is not your warlord a warlord trait, then give them a relic if they can take one and is not a vehicle (weird addition given the only vehicle inquisitor can't take a relic). Other weird wording is that while you can't give two inquisitors the same relic you can take the same warlord trait. 1CP for a relic and warlord trait is a bargain.
• Clandestine Operation 1 CP: Before the battle, you can set up your Inquisitor, a pack of acolytes, a daemonhost and a monkey anywhere more than 9" from the enemy deployment zone.
• Execution Bombardment (4CP): Select a point on the battlefield 2d6" radius each Non-Character unit on a 4+ and each character unit on a 5+ takes D3MW - Big boom! Note: it hits your units as well (Karamazov would be proud).
• Strategic Excruciation (1CP): When an enemy character is destroyed within 3" of an Inquisition unit, you gain D3 CP and the enemy's army gets -1LD for the rest of the game. One use per game (Hard to trigger but really strong).
• To the Exclusion of All Else... (1CP): Triggers when an Imperium infantry or Imperium biker fires overwatch shoots or fights within 6" of an inquisitor. For the phase, you can reroll to-hit results of 1 if the target matches a keyword for the Inquisitor's Quarry. Not terrible but given the volume of reroll 1's, it's not going to be used much.
  • You could reroll 1s on SoS Bolters with Greyfax for some psyker hunting if your meta is psyker heavy. Another good use is in Guard armies, where it frees you up to use different orders for buffs.
    • Useful as a last resort if your other HQ's have somehow bit it.

Wargear

Most Inquisitors (unless you're Esienhorn, who has his own FNP, and Karamazov, now with a 4++) from the November WD update come standard with a refractor field for that sweet 5++ now. Due to the FAQ, if you're an unnamed Inquisitor, you get a melee and a pistol or ranged weapon - no double pistols, double melee, double ranged, or pistol and ranged combinations, the last of which may be the strangest absence.

Pistols

• Bolt Pistol: Comes standard on Inquisitors, although for some reason Acolytes start with a laspistol and can (and should) swap this for free. Eh, it's free. Auto buys for Acolytes if you do not plan to buy another pistol; note that your Inquisitors should automatically swap this out for the free boltgun if you don't want to spend points on their gun.
• Inferno Pistol (Inquisitor Only): More of a melee weapon than a gun, with only 6" range, but feel free to blast that marine in the face with S 8 AP-4 D1d6, rolling two dice for damage within 3" and discarding the lowest. Really, blast that Space Marine in the face. Bonus points for killing his friends with Ork Snipers. Also looks really cool. The big downside is the shitty range; it's half the cost of a meltagun, sure, but you have to get incredibly close (to within grenade range, in fact).
  • If you do manage to get within range, this pistol will outperform any of the others against almost any target, even if you're willing to overcharge the Plasma Pistol, and it doesn't need to be within 3" for that to be true. Still, since you should always be Falling Back with your Inquisitor when able, you really shouldn't take this - assuming you can get your Ordo bonus, just about any of the non-Pistol guns will serve you better.
• Laspistol: Comes standard on Acolytes for no reason, and is a bolt pistol but worse, to see if you're paying attention. Just swap it out as soon as you see it.
• Needle Pistol: Wounds everything except vehicles on a 2+. No AP to speak of. Probably best to pass. Pretty cheap, though.
  • Note: with their cost and the wounding on a 2+ this might be the only (albeit niche) pistol pick for acolytes; Monsters have average saves. Still, it will struggle to outperform your other options, since it has the lowest possible rate of fire, AP, and damage.
• Plasma Pistol: Once again Quarry will let you re-roll those dangerous ones, so feel free to overcharge. Also good for close combat, like the inferno pistol. Have fun when you imagine jamming your pistol down a heretic's throat and letting it go. Less than half the cost of a plasma gun for half the shots at 12" and no shots at farther away than that, though, and like with the inferno gun, suffers from costing enough to make the bearer a poor tarpit.

Ranged

• Boltgun: Bog-standard gun. You won't ever take this except for the times that you can't afford anything better, because it's free, but less points efficient than a storm bolter. Potentially interesting for keeping an Inquisitor cheap, since they come with frag and krak grenades, which are also free and can be readily spammed since an Inquisitor is a 1-model unit. This weapon is why your Inquisitors have no excuse at all for carrying a bolt pistol.
  • Condemnor Boltgun (Inquisitor Only): A default bolter that does D1d3 if the target is a psyker, and can only be taken by Inquisitors, and costs a point. Hot garbage; the number of targets against which this will outperform a Storm Bolter are so few they can safely be ignored (psykers with 3 or more wounds only).
  • Storm Bolter: Strap two bolters together. Good for lots of weak shots, but then you could take a combiflamer for assault, or an incinerator. This thing's advantage over those is the range (and its ability to be taken by acolytes, for whom it's very compelling, given how cheap it is). A better option for Acolytes than anything else except for combiplasmas, depending on your target, assuming your Ordo bonus is up.
• Flamer: Default Assault D6 strength 4 gun, but badly overcosted compared to a combi-flamer, or, if you have your Ordo bonus up, a Storm Bolter. Just don't take this.
  • Combi-Flamer: This should be your go-to choice over a Flamer if you want to provide a unit of Acolytes with some charge resistance, or you want maximum anti-GEQ dakka and may not have your Ordo bonus available (the Storm Bolter will outperform it otherwise). It's a flamer with a bolter strapped to it for 2 additional points that fires the bolter shots too at a -1 penalty (so no loss of accuracy in Overwatch).
  • Incinerator (Inquisitor Only): 8" Assault 1d6 S6 AP-1, auto-hits. Can't be taken on acolytes. This seems tailor-made for annihilating GEQ, wounding T3 on 2+ and negating half their armor, but usually, only 3.5 of them will be hit. This gun is actually decently costed over a Heavy Flamer, because its +1S is paired with being able to shoot it after Advancing, and is worth considering for your Inquisitor, but its still-steep cost is absolutely worth noticing.
• Hot-shot Lasgun: Better AP but one less strength than the Bolter at 18" range. Absolute garbage given its point cost (4 points to the Bolter's 0, or the Storm Bolter's 2). If you want to field this weapon, just use actual stormtroopers, they have better rules and statlines.
• Meltagun: Short-ranged, but is an assault gun. Not worth its increased cost over a plasma gun.
  • Combi-Melta: Spend 1 additional point to add a bolter you can fire instead, or fire both profiles at a -1 penalty. Firing both is only better than the meltagun against very light targets, where you still won't output enough to kill very effectively for your cost; you already shouldn't be carrying a meltagun, but definitely don't carry this.
• Plasma Gun: This is a combi-plasma without the bolter for the same cost, so just don't take this.
  • Combi-Plasma: Since you can use your Ordo and Quarry rules to get re-rolls to hit, the risk of your Inquisition dudes burning their fingers is mitigated, so feel free to over-charge against your enemy if they match your Quarry target, but it's still quite dangerous on an Inquisitor, since it slays without wounding, so you can't make your Acolytes die for you. Lets you fire both the bolter and the plasma gun at -1 to hit, which is only useful against light targets (GEQ, for example), but generally speaking, there are no targets where you both want all 4 shots and overcharging would help, so mix and match between all 4 non-overcharged or just the 2 overcharged one.
• Psycannon (Terminator Inquisitor Only): Heavy 4 Str 7 Ap-1. Only usable by a termi-inquisitor, but not a bad gun for him. Hilariously similar to the Reaper Autocannon, proving that Inquisitors were sick heretics all along...

Melee

Melee weapons are more expensive compared to Imperial Guard variants, since you pay Space Marine prices (and currently, Index Space Marine prices at that), so beware! Best avoided on Acolytes, since they give up a gun to carry one, so primarily of interest on an Inquisitor.

• Nemesis Daemonhammer (Inquisitor Only): A thunder hammer with a different name but the same rules costing an extra 2 points (well, you pay for the brand/prestige to have that =][= on your hammer...I guess??); see below for the discussion of the thunder hammer. Note that Acolytes can take a Thunder Hammer, so the Inquisitor only restriction on this item is meaningless; the only reason to ever take this is on an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor in Terminator Armor, since they're banned from taking the Thunder Hammer instead.
• Null Rod (Inquisitor/Index Only): SU AP-2 D1, D1d3 against psykers, and the same cost as a Power Sword. Hard pass - reliably worse than a Power Sword, which you should also be avoiding. (Now legended)
• Force Axe, Sword, or Maul: Double the price of a Power Weapon to increase its damage to D1d3. You're paying twice as much for less than twice the performance (due to D1d3 being worse than D2 against W2 targets), so never take any of these under ordinary circumstances - the only reason to do so is when you're an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor in Terminator Armor, so it's one of these or the Daemonhammer, or when you have relic (in particular, the Bio-Corrosive Ordo Xenos Relic is best on a Force Sword). Otherwise, if you're willing to pay this much for D1d3, take a Power Fist.
• Power Maul: The best power weapon available to you, all told. S5 is a huge improvement over S3 against many targets, AP-1 is the most reliably useful AP value in a world with Storm Shields, and its cost, a mere 4 points, can't be beat - plus, no to-hit penalty. Just about the only option here compelling enough to replace the Inquisitor's stock Chainsword, and still not good enough to be worth taking on an Acolyte.
• Power Fist: Due to the costs of what can carry this, this is better than a Force Weapon but worse than a Thunder Hammer on anything that can carry this, and it's only worth the effort on an Inquisitor, really.
• Power Sword: Nope. No. Yes, it's AP-3, but you're only S3, and there are an awful lot of targets out there where you can't use nearly that much penetration. Take a Maul instead, if you're willing to drop points.
• Thunder Hammer Staggeringly expensive; an Acolyte with this should have taken a meltagun, instead, full stop, even before accounting for the better range on the meltagun. Because your Inquisitor is A4 and WS3+, if you have a way to get him into melee, this is normally the most points efficient melee weapon you have available, and in a vacuum, the most points efficient weapon he can carry (ignoring the difficulties involved in getting him where he's going). Since he's rocking an S6, you still shouldn't count on him to do any work with this unless he has his Ordo bonus on.

Relics

Unlike Warlord traits relics are restricted to Inquisitors

• Bio-Corrosive Poisons (Ordo Xenos Only): Bearer's melee attacks always wound non-VEHICLE, non-titanic units on 2+. Against the targets it works on, this will outperform a Thunder Hammer - take a Force Sword instead, and watch almost anything you're in melee with evaporate.
• Blade of the Ordo: Replaces a Power Sword, granting it D1d3 like a Force Sword, S+1 (so now it's a Force Axe with slightly better AP), and the D goes up to 3 flat against your Quarry target. While this is more points efficient than any Power or Force weapon you can take, it's still not usually better than a Thunder Hammer.
• Ignis Judicium (Ordo Hereticus Only): Replaces an Inferno Pistol with one that's range 12", so it's a meltagun for half the cost, and the melta rule goes off against chaos or psyker units even at max range. Provided you get the bonus, this is genuinely your best weapon against heavy targets, but it'll suffer against light ones. There are worse choices you can make, but think carefully before you stick with a normal gun and either a melee relic or a blackshroud.
• Digital Weapons: The bearer gains an additional attack that can only be made with this weapon, which deals a mortal wound when it hits. Because you can combine it with a Thunder Hammer, this makes it the best general-use melee relic you can take.
• Tainted Blade (Ordo Malleus Only): Replaces a Power Sword, and only works on a 2+ you roll the first time you choose the model to fight in the Fight phase; on a 1, the bearer suffers a mortal wound, and can't use this weapon that phase. Note that this means if you make an attack during any other phase, the roll doesn't happen and you swing normally. It has S+3, and the target's failed saves let you explode into attacks that can't explode (so you have to hit and wound and they have to fail the save in order for you to roll to hit again). Worse than the Blade of the Ordo against most targets, largely because it has a 1/6 chance of not only hurting you, but also forcing you to resort to your basic CC weapon.
  • Alternate take - If you want a 1w infantry killer its not terrible 2+ will go off most of the time and then your looking at 3+ 2+ vs guardsmen or 3+ 3+ then a 6+sv vs SM which will generate 2ish extra attacks on avg. With the added S this outperforms the Ordo blade by more than 50% its only once you get to multiwound models that the Ordo blade becomes better.

Non-Weapon Relics

• Blackshroud: -1 to wound the bearer, which is particularly good against sniper rifles, which usually deal their mortal wounds on a 6+ to wound, which isn't possible against this without a +1 or better to counter it.

Unit Analysis

HQ

• Inquisitor: Now their Ordo chamber is decided by their keyword, which you choose. No longer can you upgrade their armor, so you're stuck with carapace armor like a peasant. Still just a human stat-line, so don't expect amazing feats, but can be equipped with basically anything. Still has 5 wounds and four attacks, and with Quarry and 4 attacks he might prove a modest threat in a fight, but he's much better at letting nearby units use his excellent leadership of 9. You can make him a psyker for the discipline as well. But to be honest, he's mostly just a support HQ. Notably excellent anti-pysker since he has a pseudo-Deny that only protects him from psychic powers but functions an infinite number of times per turn. Now costs 55 points.
  • Making him a Psyker costs no points, but instead has him relinquish the Iron Will ability (aka pseudo Deny the Witch). Making him a Psyker allows him regular Deny the Witch, cast smite and one other psychic power from their Psychic Discipline, plus ability to have Force weapons. So make them Psykers unless you have any other quite specific tactic.
    • Making them a psyker makes them more vulnerable to certain anti-psyker units/options. It's a tactical choice and one that greatly depends on the opponent.
  • Having gained a 5++, some of their equipment options getting a pts reduction and now getting a relic and a warlord trait for a single CP these guys have gained a lot. If your going to tool them up your probably better with a named character but if you keep them cheap they are very cost-effective for what they do.
  • Ordo Malleus Inquisitor in Terminator Armor: One of the only ways to give the Inquisitor a 2+ save and deeptrike. Locked into Ordo Malleus, so hope you're fighting Chaos or Daemons or your Quarry rule is wasted. He can still teleport and can actually move 6" instead of 5"; so you can wobble faster than the SS/TH terminators you're requisitioning. He lost the extra attack from the Index, so he has just the standard A4 like non-TDA Inquisitors (...sigh). Comes stock with storm bolter and Daemon Hammer; the former you can swap for a combi-weapon or a psycannon, which is a double auto-cannon.
    • Sure, they can now take a relic and warlord trait, but at 1 point 'more than Coteaz and then having to pay for equipment on top, you're paying a lot for mobility.

Special Characters

• Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz: He's still been expecting you - his Spy Network rule allows one ORDO MALLEUS unit within 6" of him to fire Overwatch on units that are set up on the battlefield after the game begins (e.g. outflanking, deep striking). Additionally, once per battle when your opponents uses a stratagem you can make it costs an extra CP! While none of his guns hit harder than a basic bolter, his master-crafted Nemesis Daemonhammer doesn't come with the normal -1 to-hit penalty, and as a psyker he can manifest 2 powers and deny 1 each psychic phase. With his Warlord trait manifests 3 powers and denys 2 for the same points as a librarian with a power axe for 1CP (only cool abilities better armour and CC). He is quite cheap if you lack psykers in your army and if need be he can punch stuff. Could be competitive. Only problem is that, thanks to the nerfs of what Inquisitors get? There aren't a lot of units who can BENEFIT from that free shot...at most, you get six acolytes. Or, of course, himself.
• Inquisitor Katarinya Greyfax: Celestine's tsundere lover is still around. She comes with Power Armour, a master-crafted (-1 AP and auto-3 damage to Psykers) Condemnor Boltgun and a master-crafted Power Sword. She can target Psyker or Daemon CHARACTERs even if they are not in front of her, and can manifest one psychic power and deny 2 powers (with a +1 bonus to the latter) per psychic phase. Between the Ordo Hereticus rules and Quarry, and her anti-psyker rules, she's most effective when used to shut down enemy psykers. Given that Coteaz can manifest two extra powers and now has the same number of denys she is a tough sell but still has a niche due to being slightly better at denying. Her warlord trait of 6" heroic intervention and preventing enemies falling back could be useful in the right situation.
• Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov: Good old chap Krazypantsoff is still there. Sadly he lacks the dreadnought's tankiness, but he's got a 4++ save. All in all he is beefy and can roast Stuff. He comes with the Throne of Judgment (which got the stompy feet of Judgment) boosting him into a T5 8W model, and since he is a character you can not snipe him out of his acolytes. Oh Dear, if that's not sexy enough he got a 30" Assault 1 master-crafted multi-melta. Sadly he is slow (his bipedal wheelchair is only movement 5), which is sad, especially since he cannot be transported. He also lost his Orbital Strike, but to compensate he now forces enemy PSYKERs within 12" to subtract 1 from their psychic tests and imposes a penalty of -1 Ld to all enemy INFANTRY within that same radius. Additionally, he gets a quasi-Deny the Witch that only affects himself, like all non-Psyker Inquisitors not from Forge World. Interestingly his warlord trait makes him the only LD11 Inquisitor and with a 12" bubble he is now the best LD buffer in the imperium. Combined with the throne being stompier and cheaper he now becomes a situational choice. Extra credit if you use him with purge soul from the GK.
  • Note that while Karamazov has Authority of the Inquisition, he is still a VEHICLE, so he can't be transported. Give up, he can not go into that Stormraven, we are both sad.
• Inquisitor Eisenhorn: Eisenhorn is an 80 points (as of the November '19 WD update) Ordo Xenos Inquisitor with two psychic powers, a bolt pistol with -1 AP and +1 D, and the choice of a +3 strength Force Staff and a Force Sword that gives him +1 to hit. Generally, you're going to use the staff since the sword only really is better against low-toughness high armour units like Sisters of Battle. In addition, he has some grenades that gives him the ability to deal mortal wounds to vehicles, and has a 6+ Feel No Pain. But what really makes him special is the ability to sacrifice his leadership buff to summon a Daemonhost who isn't shit (representing Cherubael), with the CHARACTER keyword, +2 Strength, Toughness, Wounds and Attacks, and who gets +1 to hit, wound and invulnerable save rolls within six inches of Eisenhorn. This Daemonhost must be paid for in reinforcement points, however, and dies if Eisenhorn does.
  • He has gained the warlord trait of a reroll per battle round - not a bad bonus.
• Lord-Inquisitor Kyria Draxus: The new Ordo Xenos Inquisitor with the coming of Psychic Awakening: Pariah. Despite having a strong 2+ WS, she only has a Power Fist, so her fighting and shooting game are equivalent. And as of shooting, she has a Shuriken Catapult, S4 AP0 D2 (Though it ups to AP-3 if you roll a 6+ to wound). She also has paralysis grenades that force a single unit in melee range to go last (or just not automatically go first, thus scrubbing White Scars and Emperor's Children), which helps her fisting. The most peculiar weapon of all, however, is her pet familiar Shang, which lets her cast smite any enemy rather than just the closest. This makes her a good psy-sniper.
• Inquisitor-Lord Solomon Lok (Forge World): Inexplicably lacks Iron Will, but has a pretty sweet force sword that deals 2 damage rather than 1D3, an up-gunned bolt pistol at S5 D2, and Feel No Pain (6+). Is wearing Power Armour, which is a nerf from Artificer one in the past, and is in the Ordo Xenos. Still has Unquestionable Wisdom, thankfully, but despite his improved points efficiency over a stock Ordo Xenos Inquisitor, both offensively and defensively, still of dubious utility, both due to his static Ordo and his inability to provide Smite or psychic buffs.
  • Has a choice of warlord trait but is the weakest named inquisitor - take a basic inquisitor instead.
• Inquisitor-Lord Hector Rex (Forge World): If you face daemonic opponents (he's in the ordo malleus), then you take Hector. For starters, he's essentially a Terminator with a Storm Shield, since he has a 2+/3++ and the ability to teleport onto the battlefield, except he is not actually bulky and can fit in any transport he can commandeer; he's also still M6, but has only W5, one less than a terminator suit would grant. (Might be because he wears Artificer armour, which explains the 6" Move, the 2+ Sv and the fact that he doesn't have the TERMINATOR keyword. It does not, however, explain how the hell he can teleport strike, but well, most power armour Grey Knights can, so... the Warp did it?) The Storm Shield is significant because no other Inquisitors get access to that level of invulnerable save, meaning he is comparatively well protected. His suit also comes with a psychic hood, so he gets +1 to deny the witch within 12", which only Greyfax can compare to, though Hector can cast two and deny three powers per turn, which makes him hands down the best psychic inquisitor available. Now he can take a choice of warlord trait you can push this to cast 3 deny 4 justifying his expense. The reason you take him against daemonic opponents is the blessed sword Arias, which causes an automatic mortal wound on any DAEMON merely hit by the weapon, in addition to its other effects, and he has his Quarry rule to re-roll failed hits and wounds, so he has the unusual potential to cause up to twelve wounds on three attacks, or, when looked at another, more sensible way, when you consider that Mortal Wounds carry over, the potential to slay six models on three attacks. Against non-daemonic opponents, however, the sword is just a basic Force Sword with no particular benefits, other than that he himself has S4 for being such a big giant of a man; however, Hector has one less attack than usual for an Inquisitor (including Terminator Inquisitors as they no longer get 5 attacks - nerfed!), probably to counter the sheer amount of destruction he can level at daemons. You take him as a tank who is the best psychic and denier of all the inquisitors, fighting daemons is a happy bonus.
  • Note he can choose any warlord trait.

Elites

• Acolytes Guardsmen equivalents that can buy almost any weapon an Inquisitor can. They also can steal any ride they want and have the same Quarry rule. This is more useful for them because they only have BS/WS of 4+. The real reason you take them, however, is for their loyal servant rule. Anytime an Inquisitor takes a wound from an attack within 3" of this unit, roll a d6; on a 2+, the Acolytes lose a model instead. Note that this will never apply to psychic powers, including Perils. Comes stock at one dude, who will be a character, up to six (but 2 or more means the unit hasn't got the character keyword). They start with a laspistol and chainsword, the former of which you will upgrade to a bolt pistol or report to your commissar (because it is damn free to swap with bolt pistol...GW what was in your mind?...). The chainsword can be swapped for melee weapons or guns. But really, they're just there to be wound batteries for your inquisitor. Give them some combi-plasmas or stormbolters, stick 'em round your big I, and laugh as he never dies.
• Daemonhost S4/T4/W4 5++ with GEQ accuracy, like your Acolytes, the Unholy Gaze (12" Assault 1 S8 AP-1 D1, D3 on a roll of 6 to wound), and a power sword at A3. At the start of its movement phase, it gains a randomly chosen buff based on a d6; on a 1-2, its movement rises to 12" and it gains FLY until the start of your next turn, on a 3-4 it regains all lost wounds, and on a 5-6 all enemy units within 3" suffer d3 mortal wounds on a 2+. If you're really set on using a Daemonhost, use it with Eisenhorn's special rule to give it the boosts it needs.
  • This unit has many crippling problems; for starters, it's too slow, since it can't ride a transport outside of your dedicated Land Raider (and it can't even ride in that now because in addition to being the only Inquisition infantry unit to lack AotI, it also inexplicably lacks the Ordo keyword), and has only a 1/3 chance of going faster, giving you an average M of 8.
  • Following up, it's also less points efficient in melee - for 25 points, 3 Chainsword Acolytes could swing 9 S3 hits to the Daemonhost's 3 S4 AP-3 hits, with a point left over.
  • Its gun is not the absolute worst thing ever, but it's still competing with Acolytes - and due to its low AP and Damage, will undershoot its weight in Combi-Plasma Acolytes against just about anything. Jokaero will also outshoot it (although it will outfight Jokaero).
  • Its mortal wounds gun is terrible, because it fires at the start of your Movement - meaning it will only ever go off after it's been charged, and even then, its average output is 5/9 of a mortal wound per unit (and your opponent will probably not let you even threaten more than one unit with it).
  • And a further kick to the balls, it doesn't have a proper model anymore. Cue the tears.
• Jokaero: Quarry insurance. You use them to buff allies' weapons in the shooting phase, but the buff only lasts for that turn (though it does usually do something useful - since it upgrades you to either re-rolling all failed hits, all failed wounds, or both, they're only completely useless if you are up against a target you can get full Quarry against). When you're up against your Quarry, they can target themselves with their own ability, since they don't have Quarry, and while they won't be as good as Acolytes, they'll do a pretty good job, still. They are also the perfect escort for an Inquisitorial Land Raider.

Dedicated Transports

None, but you can use any Imperium transport, and some are better than others. Remember, the only restrictions you can ignore are Faction keywords; restrictions don't actually tell you which keywords are Faction and which are not, but it's possible to back-solve this by studying datasheets, so presumably you can't load up your Acolytes in e.g. a Land Speeder Storm, as scout is (we think) not a Faction keyword, there is a much less clear argument to be made around Primaris. You can take an up-gunned transport, of course, but you can't buff it like the models' home factions usually can in some fashion, so usually, even a normally deeply compelling option, such as a Twin Assault Cannon Razorback, becomes less than compelling under the Inquisition - the more you're interested in that sort of transport, the more you should be looking into a mixed army.

• Null-Maiden Rhino
  • This is the reason why you should never take a standard Space Marine Rhino - this is the same vehicle for 10 points less, except it can't take a second Storm Bolter, and you shouldn't be spending 12 points to strap a second Storm Bolter on.
  • Likewise, you shouldn't be taking a Sororitas Rhino over this - Shield of Faith is worth the 3 point charge over a Space Marine Rhino, but not the 13 points it would take you to upgrade from this one.
  • Most other Imperium transports cost more than this does, and none have the better capacity per point, but it will limit you to 10 models at once.
• Drop Pod
  • You can Deep Strike in one and show up immediately, but it's very expensive for what you get; if you want to Deep Strike in, you should consider an Elysian Valkyrie (a Flyer, not a Dedicated Transport) instead.
• Repressor
  • The heaviest option you can take in the Dedicated Transport slot. Functionally a tougher, shootier Rhino, it boasts +2 Wounds, +1 WS, a Heavy Flamer and the option to take a second, a nasty Dozer Blade and, most importantly, 6 Firing Ports. This last one combines very, very nicely with your Acolyte squads in the same way the Sisters use it for Dominions. Load up an Acolyte squad with Plasma, Melta, Storm Bolters, Combi-weapons, whatever your fancy is, and drive around shooting up your enemy's units while your dudes sit cozy and (relatively) safe.
• Taurox Prime
  • The Taurox's bigger, angrier brother. With good BS and an impressive selection of weaponry for its points, the Taurox Prime is the new king of metal boxes. It won't last long with T6 and 10W, but it'll make back its points in the meantime. Your two options for firepower are the twin Gatling gun and hot-shot volley guns or the twin autocannons and mini-battle cannon, which has been buffed in 8th. The Gatling array is better vs infantry, while the cannon array is better vs multi wound targets (while you can mix your firepower, it's not recommended that you do so - you want to be able to bring all your guns to bear at once, and completely destroying enemy units is more important than ever, since many armies have a medic equivalent that can resurrect fallen models). The Taurox Missile Launcher, firing 2d6 Frag or 2 Krak Missiles, is also viable, though it raises the cost significantly. Still, two Krak missiles and successful autocannons can take just about anything down. If an Inquisitor is looking for an effective fire support vehicle, the Taurox Prime may be the best all-around option.

Flyers

None, but like with Dedicated Transports, you need to be aware of your options for sweet rides.

• Elysian Valkyrie
  • This can Deep Strike in, while carrying you; you can't disembark on the same turn, but you can do so later, and right next to anything you like, without the standard 9" restrictions on a Deep Strike, thanks to the Valkyrie's best-in-the-game disembark special rule.

Heavy Support

• Inquisition Land Raider Prometheus (Forge World): Identical to its Space Marine counterpart, save for the Quarry rule (which is great, given how many shots it can put out, in conjunction with Power of the Machine Spirit and Battle Auspex), and the Ordo keyword, which its Transport rule is changed to restrict on, making this your only Transport capable of carrying a Daemonhost (except the Daemonhost lacks the Ordo keyword for Reasons so no dice there either). Use it in the same way as you would use it in a Space Marine army. The Command Relay is particularly helpful if you're fielding an Inquisitor HQ, as none of them are great at providing Command Points. Does not have Authority of the Inquisition, so can't be carried by a Thunderhawk transporter or a Rhino.
  • For comic value, cast Psychic Pursuit on your Land Raider to create the best sniper in the imperium. Combine with your monkey and this will allow you to delete multiple light Characters at the same time with disgusting efficiency.

Tactics

NOFOS There are a number of good options for a single Inquisitor. These can be added to detachments without penalty so are the best SM option, to make best use of them you must spend 1CP on the Inquisitorial Mandate stratagem.

• Top Tier
  • Basic Inquisitor - CP farming - Mental Interrogation psychic power, Esoteric Lore warlord trait and Seize For Interrogation stratagem; switch the bolt pistol for a Boltgun and take the Blackshroud Relic. For support swap Mental Interrogation for Terrify.
  • Coteaz - Points efficient all-rounder - at 3 casts and 2 denies (taking the warlord trait) with solid offense and defense and an interesting ability. What's not to love?
  • Rex - Deny the witch - With the right warlord trait he can potentially know 3, cast 3 and deny 4 (with +1 within 12"), he's a tank, and amazing against daemons. The best caster and denier, a solid option but almost twice the points of a basic inquisitor.
  • Karamazov - LD buff/ Hold the line - LD11 in a 12" bubble is going to make guardsmen hold their ground and makes a nice counter-charger. Your trade off is no psychic powers but some psychic defense.

• From middling to bad
  • Greyfax - Hector Rex is a better denier if you're prepared to pay a premium. While at 5 pts more Coteaz is better in almost every way except denial (The +1 to deny decreases the odds of a successful cast, relative to a normal deny, by ~10% for a WC 5 power, dropping to ~5% for WC 8 power). Still its a widely owned model so it will see play.
  • Eisenhorn - He's fun, the demonhost mechanic is cool and a great model but the other inquisitors synergise better. Notably, he can cast two Telethesia powers, rather just one and a smite.
  • Lok - a slightly better armor save for no psychic powers or relic? Not a good trade.
  • Terminator Ordo Malleus Inquisitor - Too pricey, by the time you deck it out it's competing with Karamazov and Rex, who both outclass it.

Inquisitorial detachments Having an inquisitorial detachments disrupts SM doctrines unlike the NOFOS however there are no negatives at present for combining with other factions such as Astra Militarum or Admech.

• The 3 monkeys: If you're imperium but not SM, a detachment of 3 jokaero sets you back an extra 66 points for 9W of characters with either 18 S4 AP1 shots or 3 S8 AP D3 shots - not game breaking, but decently flexible and a small premium for 1CP.
• The Von Braun experiments: While the relics are limited to Inquisitors the warlord traits can be given to Inquisitorial characters - who doesn't want an ordo malleus Psychic Monkey.

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