1850 List
Crowe
Inquisitor Lord w/Psycher Level 1 (hammer hand), Rad Grenades, Plasma Siphon, Power Armor, 3 servo skulls
Techmarine w/Power Weapon, Servo Harness, Rad Grenades
3 Purification Squad 5 purifiers w/ 2 psycannons in a psyback(searchlight)
1 Purification Squad 8 purifiers w/ 2 psycannons, 5 NFH, Daemonhammer in a rhino(dozer blade, search light)
1 Purification Squad 8 purifiers w/ 2 incinerators, 5 NFH, Daemonhammer in a rhino(dozer blade, search light)
3 Psyfileman Dreads
The heart of the list is of course the 5 purification squads, I seem to differ in design, from the standard purifier list but the basic thought process is the same. These guys are awesome troops with excellent fire power, and good assault capabilities. Where we some to differ is that you made every squad an assault unit I concentrated my assault unit into 2 with independent characters to throw grenades they truly become a nasty hammer units that can easily take out a large portion of nasty units in the game right know.
The inquisitor’s unit runs with 2 incinerators, this is more of a play test than anything else but so far they have performed very well. Without even getting out of the rhino they’ve obliterated wych squads, done massive damage to troop units, but they do lack the ranged fire power that the psycannon can pack. Another reason I’m considering them is for what they can do against scarab swarms, each wound kills two scarab bases due to the swarm rule. The Inquisitor is also running with some unusual war gear (Plasma Siphon, & 3 servo skulls) mostly for play testing, what I’ve learned is that it’s all very situational the servo skulls shut down scout & infiltrate and the plasma siphon is fun as it shuts down plasma within 12 inches of the squad not to mention the fun things it does to Tau armies if I can get him in close. Basically all of this stuff is too take out IG, but since no one plays them in the area I haven’t really had a chance to see how they work.
The second assault unit has the tech-marine this squad has been a surprisingly good counter assault unit, and the tech-marine again and again proves his worth great abilities that I never that I would use but I find myself using them all the time. The ability to make a ruin 3+ cover is amazing when you can get your dreadnoughts into the ruin. The servo harness with the flamer & twin-linked plasma pistol is almost always forgotten and when he charges he gets 2 power attacks at I4 and then another 2 strength 8 attacks at the end of assault. Add on the ability to fix his ride and he’s almost better than the inquisitor.
The final 3 squads of purifiers are my back up squads; they ride around in razorbacks with heavy bolters and wait until the right moment to jump out and team up on anything that gets into range. While not great in combat they can do descent damage vs. non assault units and can take out scout squads that get to close without a problem. The key to these units is that they have to stay close to each other to provide support, on their own they die but as a group they are incredibly nasty.
On the great debate between razorback vs. rhino I run middle of the ground, I like the access points that the rhino gives me but the razorback works great with the ability to throw Str 6 shooting down field for light armor hunting and anti-infantry.
So far I’ve played the list only a few with great success, so far I’m 3 wins and no losses. I’ve played a newbie DE player which almost shouldn’t count as he was learning his army against in all likelihood the worst match up for him. Space wolves and a Grey Knights (Mack), in all 3 games the army seemed to outshoot them. And when I managed to get into assault the list performed exactly as I had hoped it would. The big thing that I’ve learned is that I have to keep my army together, so that I concentrate my fire power and destroy one or two units a turn. When I try to play the entire table that’s when I run into issues.
