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Did you read my Inquisition list 'Evil and Chaos?' I tried to reduce the number of Inquisition forces avialable while still leaving them a balenced army. And limited the number of avilable allies.
*sighs* I don't know what to do about the assassins, I really don't... My reason for having them as a stand was I assumed in Epic scale an Inquisitor would have access to more than one. Just as in 40k apocalypse there is an assassin formation of around 5 assassins. (Sort of a stands worth really.) Which works fine in prinicpal, but people seem to dislike the idea of it functioning as a unit by itself. And it seems wrong to have it attached to another formation, given how there supposed to work alone... Perhaps there's an alternate soultion to random blast markers, or a stand we're missing somewhere?
Renforced armour represents Not only the lord in artificer armour, but his successors in such armour, the medic, and the dispencible minions he uses as a shield. I was quite careful to difference it from terminator armour, - note it doesn't have -thick rear- but still makes the stand as a whole a lot better to surivive the first volly of fire. (In game terms it looks pretty cool when the Inquisitors formation gets shot at a lot, and the front 5 or so stands of stormies die but the Inquisitor remains.) A basic 4+ just isn't that survivable. Unless you have the last man standing rule, but then he becomes a little silly in really large formations... *ponders* Perhaps a 3+ save as a middle ground?
The break my spirit goal condition was just a thought, if you don't think it'll work, I'm not sure I have more to say really.
As for staff, I think your confusing -employees- and or -minons- with -personal staff- An Inquisitors still a human. He can only deal with so many people as his direct retinue. Sure he has thousands of people working for him across the galaxy. But the chances of any serious number of those being in a given area at any one time is unlikely in the extreme. (Have you read the series of dark Hersey roleplaying books? There isn't a much better source of concentrated Inquisitoral fluff)
The only people he's allways going to have with him are those he constantly travels with, and I find it hard to picture that being a group of thousands for the obvious logicistal problems it would cause. The Inquisitoral army represents a standed Inquisitor uncovering something, and summoning help from where-ever he can. His ordos, or local forces, or his own private troops from the nearest Inquisitorial fortress. In addition the agents the Inquisitor does have at his disposal are unlikely to be able to form a combat ready fromation with unit coherency support and tatics equilivent to a well organised guard company. They are unlikely to have ever met before, or even been involved in large scale battle. They'll be used to operating in small groups or alone. I just don't see them suddenly becoming a huge battlefield formation of up to 40+ people.
The Valkyrie thing just seemed silly to me. But I will happily ceed the fact it isn't particularly game breaking. (Unless you shield the valkyries with rhinos which seems really odd.) Nor can I see it being used much.
I'm not sure I agree over the Grey Knights being able to commendeer stormtroopers. I wouldn't even be sure If they knew where they where, or if they could quickly gain access to them on short notice such as widespread demonic invastion.
However on consultation of my deamonhunters codex, you apprently don't need an Inquisitor to field Inquisitoral stormtroops, so it's reasonable propostion to allow the same extentsion in epic. In conculsion, it's nothing something I would ever do, but I don't think it's that broken from a game playing perspective and it seems to be ok fluff wise.
I've covered assassins.
But as a last point I would like to voice my agreement on not having required allies. For all the reasons mentioned, I stand by the fact an Inquisitoral force would have occasions where it just wouldn't be able to use local forces. I don't think it would happen often, and there would be drawbacks. (Lack of AA anyone?) but I think it's a real possibility, and as such, should not be excluded from the armylist.
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