"Hobby List of the Week": Psyker Bomb Grey Knights

Games Workshop Coteaz

Today's hobby list of the week will expand on the idea I posted about last week of running an all inquisitor army with henchmen.  Each of the units rely heavily on the psykers in the unit to throw out a large blast template of Str 10 AP 1.  The list below is what I quickly came up with incorporating this idea and other firepower.  The Henchmen loadouts can all be changed to suit you taste and orientation toward some CC ability and/or more shooting.  The psykers only take up one fire point of the five offered by a Chimera so you can have 4 more guns shooting from hatch.  However, some of these could be wasted if you use the template to shoot at a large tank and have the chimera full of heavy bolter servitors.  

Psyker Bomb - 2,000 pts

Coteaz plus retinue of henchmen

  7 Psykers

  3 Plasma Cannon Servitors

  1 Acolyte - Plasmagun/Power Armor

Chimera Transport

Ordo Malleus Inquisitor plus retinue of Henchmen

  Hell Rifle

  Power Armor

  3 Servo Skulls
  Daemon Blade
7 Psykers
3 Hvy Bolter Servitors
1 Crusader
Chimera Transport

Henchmen #1
7 Psykers
3 Multi-melta Servitors
2 Arco-Flagellants
Chimera Transport

Henchmen #2
7 Psykers
3 Hvy Bolter Servitors
2 Daemonhosts
Chimera Transport

Henchmen #3
7 Psykers
3 Acolytes with Meltaguns
2 DC Assassins
Chimera Transport

Henchmen #4
7 Psykers
2 Crusaders
3 Daemonhosts
Chimera Transport

Henchmen #5
7 Psykers
3 Arco Flagellants
2 DC Assassins
Chimera Transport

Henchmen #6
7 Psykers
2 Acolytes with Plasmaguns
1 Acolytes with Plasmagun/Power Armor
1 Jokaero
1 Banisher
Chimera Transport

Culexus Assassin

Vindicare Assassin

2,000 pts
18 Killpoints
6 Scoring Units
98 models
8 Chimeras

The last article goes over most of the tactics and how Coteaz plays a huge role in the alpha strike capabilities of this army, allowing re-rolls for Seize and forcing re-rolls for opponent if they happen to seize.  This is huge.  If this army goes first it can throw down 8 large blast templates of Str 10 AP 1, 24 multilaser shots and 24 heavy bolter shots from Chimeras, plus shots from other guys inside Chimeras.  Downside is all the templates are after leadership  tests.

With the psyker blasts being Assault weapons you can roll on in Dawn of War and still fire to full effect.  The Vindicare Assassin is a major nuisance in this list and hopefully will make an important kill early game to frustrate opponent into firing at him instead of the real army.  The Culexus Assassin is in the list to come in from reserve after opponent closes and shoot them in the face with Animus Speculum.  With so many Psykers on the board it should be easy to get 20 or even 30 shots from this at Str 5 AP 1.

On the modelling side this is a great army.  There are so many conversion opportunities for the henchmen and the loadouts can change easily as the pt values for most are the same.  I used a lot of different henchmen instead of spamming the same ones over and over as I feel the effectiveness is not much different.  Also, would get boring building this many dudes if all were same.  Of course, the list would probably be better if you just filled out Chimeras with 4pt Acolytes after the seven Psykers and used the points to get a Dreadknight or some Grey Knights of some flavor, but for now I like the smattering of henchmen in this Radical Inquisition force.

I have a tendency to roll low dice all the time, so this list would be beneficial to someone like me.  The lower you roll on the leadership test, the more templates you fire each turn.  Also, the lower you roll on scatter rolls, the better your game will be.  So, in a game where everyone wants to roll sixes, you can play this army and hope for lots of twos.  Will definitely be a different feel at the table when you're always yelling, "Come on twos" the whole game.  And the more twos you roll, the more games you will win.  If like me you suck with dice, this could be your army.