Rouge Trader Exploritor Warband

Cap'm Awesome · May 14, 2015

This is the first squad that I have painted up for my Imperial Guard company led by an inquisitor. I have another squad I'm currently working on, and my leadership is painted (Command Squad, Inquisitor, and two Primaris Psykers), but I need my girlfriend to take pictures of them. This squad armed with plasma guns. There will be a clone squad, one with a heavy flamer, and the one I'm working on has the double melta and heavy flamer plus demolitions build. I really want to add a henchmen squad as well, but that is down the road. I, also, have about twenty Sister models I can add. I have a lot of vehicles painted up, but they need to be touched up to bring them in line with the rest of my new Guard paint scheme. There is a definite theme to the paint scheme.

I want as much advice as possible for both the list building and painting. I will be fielding something like the following in my warband:

1x Command Squad:

Astropath

Officer of the Fleet

Vox Caster (All Vox Casters are a maybe, but painted)

Regimental Standard

2x Grenade Launchers

(Painted)

2x Primaris Psykers

Mastery level two

(Painted)

Chimera Dedicated Transport:

2x Heavy Bolters

(Painted)

1x Inquisitor:

Psyker

Psyocculum

3x Servo Skulls

(Painted)

2x Leman Russ Exterminators (conversion):

Hull mounted Heavy Bolter

Heavy Bolter Sponsons

Heavy Stubber

(Painted)

1x Vendetta

(Built)

Veterans:

Vox Caster

3x Plasma Guns

(Painted)

Veterans:

Vox Caster

3x Plasma Guns

(Built)

Veterans:

Vox Caster

2x Plasma Guns

Heavy Flamer

(Almost Built)

Chimera Dedicated Trasnport:

2x Heavy Bolters

(Painted)

Veterans:

Vox Caster

2x Melta Guns

Heavy Flamer

(Still Painting)

Chimera Dedicated Transport:

Multi-laser Heavy Flamer

(Painted)

Scion Squad (converted)

Vox Caster

Plasma Pistol (maybe)

2x Melta Gun

(Built)

Scion Squad (converted)

Vox Caster

Plasma Pistol (maybe)

2x Melta Gun

(Built)

2x Basilisk (could be 3x)

Heavy Bolter

(Painted)

3x Armored Sentinels

Auto-cannons

(Painted)

Hellhound (maybe)

Heavy Flamer

(Painted)

I want to get another Chimera for my Veterans, but there will always be some marching their way to victory. The Inquisitor will be with one of these squads, and one might be a Henchmen squad instead of Veterans later. They would have a Mystic, Psyker, and 2x Jokaero weaponsmiths. The only issue is that they cant benefit from the Command Squad, so I need advise on the issue before I commit to getting/converting Jokaero. I want to abuse orders and the Psychic phase (or have enough warpcharge points for some kind of defense). I, also, might add Missile Launchers (and only that) to the ground pounders; I like the aesthetic. This will be a Veteran army, not a blob army, so I'm leaning towards Grenadiers Doctrine. At some point I kind of want some Bullgryns too.

As a rules question, could I use the Psyocculum to shoot down FMCs or transports with psykers embarked at BS:10? If so, I would need less AA than normal. If not, I may want to add some AA and take out the Psyocculum. What other wargear would be good for the Inquisitor?