Thinking of starting puritan Grey Knights

[Pabst]

I've got a friend who's looking to sell some of his grey knights for $100 (10 grey knights, 5 termies, 1 land raider, 2 rhino's and an inquisitor w/retinue (i dont plan on using him if i do it tho)


think this is a good deal for a start and what should I add to start a pure gery knight force? Im thinking more grey knights and 3 dreadnoughts and more termies??

Also how are Purgation squads?? I'm not seeing much value in them

Thanks for the advice!!!

[r4wr89]

first off...it's an awesome deal! haha. that's probably 300$ worth of stuff right there that is for sale for a third of that price! anyways..i think the first thing you'd want to do is get another troops choice, or decide upon splitting the GK troops into 2 squads of 5, and set up an HQ. i think the only way you can really decide if you like the army is by trying it, so could you borrow the models for a game or two? hmm...i'm not sure what else i can add [if i have added anything at all!]

hm. i don't remember what purgation squads are either, sorry. :|hope that helped, at least a little..haha. now that i think about it, i didn't really say anything helpful XD
oh well :|
-ant

[MSguardsmen]

well thats roughly around 200 dollars worth not 300 as i have bought a 300 dollar grey knight force for christmas.

mostly i would say use the grey knights as the fast attacks so that they truely can shine. and never use purgatation squads. your paying way too much for something that is only a little better than a heavy bolter

may i suggest using 3 squads of grey knights as fast attacks and enough squads of storm troopers to full fill any anti infantry fire support. also 2 dreads

ill continue later

[Pabst]

I would use the mounted stormies but for more of a challenge I'm going for pure GK. I'm looking at a 1,500pt list thats got like 3 dreads w/twin linked las cannons and maybe a missile launcher? then like 3 squads of GK to scurry around and lay down a bunch of fire power.

As for Termies for my Grandmaster (or brother captin) do I need to take any? and if so what size squad would you recomend? what should they have and should they deep strike or foot slog it?

Thanks for all the help!

[MSguardsmen]

oh god not a pure gk force. ive tried this and let me tell you your playing with half the marbles. your using the rook, the king, the queen and the rest of the back row with out any pawns.

please do yourself a favor and get some storm troopers. if your playing a pure gk you will always be outnumbered by at least 2:1. look at my gk army. i though yeah this is gonna kick some uber butt but i got my head handed to me on a silver platter. the one great thing i can say about them is they are indeed cool models and that they are great in h2h however when trotting along the battlefield they die as easily as space marines.

[Pabst]

hahaha thats why I wanna! My primary army was IG where I out number my enemies and life is cheap! So this is a nice change of pace as far as gaming style goes. I got to use them for the first time today (750) v necrons and I got down to need to kill one more model before they phased out. But a dastardly Necron lord killed my all alone Justicar But the important part was I had alot of fun playing them and it was a close and intense game. I'll post a list (850) for you all to critique on here in a couple days too!

[r4wr89]

well if you're having fun, i say, go for it! haha. Msguardsman's warning is definitely justified though, pure GK is arguably one of the hardest armies to play [right around DE!] but honestly, if you like it and enjoy being outnumbered/facing the challenge, great! :] 40k is a game, after all :] sounds like you did pretty well with them too!

[masterofweirdness]

Well honestly, I know that your going to be using pure GK, but I don't see the point of it. In fact, I'd say a radical inquistor is easier to use than pure GK (just from options and all that, NOT from playing them).

Someday I'll get a squad of GK and add put them in a 1850 army, but until then I can only speculate.

Anyways... post that list up.

Oh, and because of the High model count I would HIGHLY recommend getting at least 2 squads of stormtroopers... that way all your GKs can Deepstrike, which is what they are meant to do.