Hey White Dwarf, if you’re going to keep making new rules for us, why not fix perhaps the coolest Imperial sub-faction in the game: The Inquisition?
Wanna start taking some really cool characters in your Imperial Armies again? Yeah us too!
The Inquisition had a handful of key units that were seeing play before the Last Years FAQs messed with the battle-forged rules. Once the FAQ dropped, lists were changed completely and the Inquisition was left in the dust. Let’s take a closer look at what’s going on.
Battle-Forged Dilemma
Remember at the beginning of 8th edition when we saw Imperial soup lists left and right? That’s when an army was considered to be battle forged with just the <Imperium> keyword. Likewise with <Chaos>. Games Workshop stepped in and came out with an FAQ basically negating those keywords. Armies had to pick at least one other keyword besides those two. For example, <Adeptus Astartes> and <heretic Astartes>.
When that happened, the Inquisition got stripped from any lists except for the armies running 100% Inquisition. The sucky thing is that the army hasn’t seen any new units for a while (other than HQs) so they aren’t exactly the most competitive. They lack a serious troop choice selection so Battalions are out of the picture.
Why haven’t they fixed it?
Considering the Inquisition can literally do whatever it wants and everyone else has to be okay with it, you’d think Games Workshop would give them a rule saying that the Battle-forged FAQ doesn’t apply to them.
However, no rule came out and people thought Games Workshop just forgot about the Inquisition and put the entire army in “stasis mode” just like the Sisters of Battle. But was this intentional?
Remember back in the good ol’ days when there was a book that had Inquisition, Sisters of Battle, Grey Knights etc. all rolled into one? Could we be seeing something like that when Sisters of Battle get released next year? If they did that, it would bring Inquisition and Grey Knights back on the competitive scene. They’d have a lot more options, cheaper troops, and stratagems for themselves. They need all three of those things.
Keep in mind: There hasn’t been any word on Sisters of Battle joining forces with the Inquisition in their codex. This is all just wishful thinking.
Elucia’s Starstriders Gave False Hopes
Kill Team: Rogue Trader came out and GW pulled the same move for the Starstriders. Elucidian Starstriders is the Rogue Trader faction but still have the Imperium keyword. You know how many units there are with the <Elucidian Startsriders> keyword? Not too many. If people want to play her or her posse, they’ll have to cough up a detachment slot for a patrol. If they just want Elucia (because she’s really not bad for the points), they’ll have to spend 1CP and a detachment slot to just take her as an auxiliary HQ.
It would be nice to see more units from the Inquisition on the tabletop without players having to bend over backward to put them there. What do you think of the Inquisition in 8th edition? Have you tried the Rogue Traders in 40k? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group.
About the Author: Wesley Floyd
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About Wesley Floyd: Wes has been in the Warhammer hobby since 2015 and joined the Spikey Bits writing team in 2018. He is known for his satirist takes on trending topics and imaginative yet amazingly affordable hobby solutions to painting Warhammer miniatures.
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