Radical Inquisitors and the Officio Assassinorum

[Kaled100]

Hey Kaled - how are things, the Conclave still a haven of heresy and misanthropy? :)

I'm good thanks. The 'Clave has been through some changes, most notably after the webhost was hacked and the whole thing destroyed and rebuilt, but it's still the place to go if you want to play Inquisitor - and these days it's just about the only forum that has an active Inquisitor community so is home to novice and veteran alike rather than just the misanthropic veterans who used to populate the place! On the subject of Inquisitor, if anyone fancies a game I'm running a one-day campaign at Warhammer World in April...

 

But back on topic;

 

Because the real thing that defines Inquisitors (whether splitting them by "puritan/radical" or by factions) is political/philosophical, the difference between Inquisitors when we're looking at them on the scale of a battlefield is minimal.

Exactly - the codex has to be simplified to give an obvious split in army selection - i.e. radicals get daemonhosts and puritans get Grey Knights. There's be no point in having a puritan/radical split in the codex if the only difference, for example, was the Inquisitor's view on whether the Imperium should be reformed/rebuilt or kept in it's current form.

 

A "radical" could potentially even fight alongside Grey Knights

Yep - an openly Xanthite daemonsword wielding Inquisitor accompanied by daemonhosts probably couldn't, but I can't imagine the Grey Knights caring much if an Inquisitor is a Recongregator or Istvaanian (depending of course on the extremes he takes those views to).

 

In terms of the codex - 'radical' should be read as 'openly extreme Xanthite'.

 

I wouldn't expect (or necessarily want) more different puritan/radical goodies when/if a new Inquisition codex materialises.

I don't think so either - such things are best left to games like Inquisitor & Dark Heresy.