What do Imperial agents need to become a better army?

[Ulfast]

So, Imperial agents has soon been out for over a year and we have in all this time been struggling. We are dead last in tournament (even if one really good player actually won an event earlier this year, congratulation!), very few people play or collect this army and so far very little support from GW (we got a grotmas detachment but most people agree it´s one of the worse). so lot of gloom here.

 

But instead of giving up, can we as a community help GW to make this a proper army that both old and new players want to play and collect? Because we can all agree that some of our units and models are pretty cool! But what do we need? Lets start:

 

1. Lets go over the diffrent detachment. Some of them need an upgrade as they lack (specially our "Deathwatch detachment").

 

2. We need a better army rule. I like the rule of switching assassins and I hope we keep that one. But we do need something more, like orbital bombardment (first round, every enemy unit take a 1d3 mortal wounds on a 5+) or something. To only switch assassins is just to weak for an actually armyrule.

 

3. Anti-tank. We need some kind of anti-tank. The best would of course be a unique anti-tank just for us and a new model. But if that is at the moment to far off, please then give us some Leman Russes, Excorsistes or Castigators. Easy fix that need very little from GW.

 

4. Looking out for some units changes. Like right now, most people use Subductors, but what about exaction squads and vigilant squads? They could get a boost and be more intersting to chose then only subductors. 

 

5. More support on the warhammer community site. If GW would show our army more often, more people would be more intersted in geting this army. I know some of there heavy metal team could do wonderful painting with our army and models. 

 

6. A actually promise from GW that in next edition, this will be a supported army that will not go away. I know some people that don´t want to start this army as they think it will disappear in next edition. Please tell us it will not happend and more people would invest in this army. 

 

What do you other guys/girls think about this and do you have any more suggestions and ideas?

  

[Lord_Ikka]

One of the main problems for me is that unless you are running DW or GK units, your basic squads are only slightly better than an average IG squad. BS 4, WS 4, Sv 4+, with your main ranged weapon either being 18" (Vigilant/Exaction squads) or 12" (Subductors/Breachers) shotguns, and you have little AP to help push through damage unless you spend a CP for a strat. So most mortal units have basically just shorter-ranged bolters, with 2 special weapons. Without something similar to IG orders boosting them, Vigilators/Exactors/Breachers/Voidsmen just can't put out enough damage to reliably take down something like an Intercessor squad that costs similar points. The lack of anti-tank just compounds the Agents' lack of firepower.

[Ulfast]

You are right. Our basic troops could use some extra love. Specially, like -1AP or something. That would be nice.