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Originally Posted by Vishnoff  See I was thinking of doing the Witch hunters as the parent list, and use inducted marines as allies. You could use storm troopers as a strike team to back up the marines, etc.
Granted the Death Watch have no major support vehicles, but is to stop me from fielding the exorcist tank as a death watch only vehicle. I was thinking of a tank with a turret cannon, something like an ion cannon, or rail cannon (convert the Tau bits to fit). I remember seeing an adeptus Machanicus army in a white dwarf a while back that had cool converted tanks that counted as leman russ battle tanks. It would work fluff wise, since there is not much forbidden fluff for the death watch and again it would awesome to convert (Hey Hairy-wink, wink, nudge, nudge). |
i suggest the daemonhunters simply for the psycannon which the witch hunters don't have access to... the deathwatch & ordo xeno inquisitors especially do use the psy technology almost as much as their daemonhunting counter-parts!
also, while their gear may more ex*****ve, the daemonhunter armoury at least lets you give your inquisitors a shot at holding out in an assault for a turn or two... witch hunter inquisitors simply get their faces beaten in as at best they have a power toy or eviscerator. (thunder hammers on the other hand are worth their weight in gold as they at least bring stuff down to I1 also.)
a 'counts as' russ or exorcist would make a sweet basis though like you said for a mechanicus explorator support vehicle!
or you could just go all-in and make it an apocalypse army;
- the deathwatch & inquisitional units
- doctrined guard to represent the skittari legions & funky support vehicles of an explorator fleet.
cheers!