Quote: (scarik @ 14 Jul. 2008, 17:00 )
Yeah, but those ships they have with them can carry aircraft of their own so whether you call it Imperial Navy or not, point is the Inquisition can have its airpower with them.
There's no reason to let them have dedicated fighters and bombers outside the 1/3 allowance except maybe, maybe. the Deathwatch but that begs the question of where did these Marines get these planes and how come the other chapters are too stupid to bring their own Initiative 1 air support?
Firstly, here's the Ordo Xenos ITF:
http://www.geocities.com/eoinwhelan/ I've actually got some fluff for the Deathshrieks in there, so you can judge for yourself. However, there is some (small and tangental) amount of background justification for this, in that the old Tyranid codex had a little story about an Inquisitor debriefing a Space Marine fighter pilot who had just completed an Exterminatus mission. He wasn't specified as Deathwatch, of course (the Deathwatch hadn't even been invented back then), but if the Inquisition has a standing force of Space Marine pilots that virus bomb Tyranids, the Deathwatch sure fit the bill.
Note that you can't have Deathshrieks AND Navy either, to prevent whole armies of fighters.
If even the Inquisition seems to be a Master of Air Insertion you should step back and go 'hmmm' since the Space Marines themselves are already filling that role.
I realize that 2 out of 3 Ordos have their own Marines, and its ok for them to come screaming out of the sky, but it should be either expensive or restricted for Stormtroopers to do so, and Sisters just don't Air Assault. They are as conventional as the Inquisition has, when the girls hit the ground they roll over you with fire and rhino very nicely.