Additional Requisitioned Units for Imperial Agents?

[ThePenitentOne]

This is something that has come up in other threads, with the addition of Sanctifiers to the IA Dex and the reveals that a new Deathwatch Kill Team and a new unit of Celestian With Hunters are in the way... But I wanted to have the conversation her because I think we can go deeper. So what I've already mused about elsewhere is the question of whether or not the rumoured Grey Kinights KT will be the middle box in the season, and whether or not these three Chamber Militant units will be added to the IA dex in addition to their parent dex in the same way Sanctifiers were added to both books.

 

But in THIS forum, there are some additional questions that may be worth asking. In the IA dex, distinctions are made between Requisitioned units and Retinue units. All existing Chamber Militant units in the Dex are Requisitioned units, and if the new Kill Teams make it into the IA dex at all, I expect they will be classified as Requisitioned units as well. This addresses some of the balance issues between the Deathwatch and the Chambers of the other two Ordos: due to the planned elimination of the Deathwatch book, they received a disproportionate number of potential requisitioned units. Having a more elite sisters unit for the Hereticus and Power Armoured unit available to the Malleus would really add to those builds.

 

In fact, I'd suggest that if GW DOESN'T add them, it might not be a bad idea to just do it anyway. We'll have to wait and see if other adjustments are necessary to make these units fit into their relevant detachments, but it should be relatively simple either way. It still doesn't entirely solve the issue for me though, because the Ordos STILL need some additions to balance them out.

 

So, for example, the Ordo Xenos and the Ordo Hereticus both get transports- the Blackstar and the Immo, but the Ordo Malleus didn't get one- and sure, the excuse is that Terminators can teleport anyway... But if we add Kill Team Strike Squad in power armour (and again, we should), that rationale disappears. Sure, a Strike team COULD use the Rhino, but the issue is bigger than that: the Xenos, Hereticus and their Chambers get a vehicle transport that adds firepower, flavour and representation in addition to transport capacity. The simple solution is to make the Land Raider available as a transport to Requisitioned Grey Knights. I know that in the past, the Land Raider they got was a weird variant; I'm not asking for that, and to be honest, unless they release a plastic kit I think it would cause more problems than it would solve. The garden variety Land Raider will do.

 

And the last problem is the most controversial and squishy. The Ordo Xenos also got leader units for their Chamber, including a named. Now, again, there's context: those units were only included because of the planned demise of the Deathwatch book. But I feel like a generic HQ should be an option for all three Chambers.  And I know that there are people who will say "If you want that much Chamber, just play a Chamber army and attach the Inquisition components as Attached Agents" - and that IS a viable alternative.

 

But remember that what this would do is allow Chamber units access to a leader from inside their parent faction to be present when they are assigned as Requisitioned units. You could split a requisitioned Battle Sister unit into two dedicated Immolators put a Canoness in one and an Inquisitor in the other and add it to a Guard Army.  

 

So what do you think? How likely is it that these units will get two cards? Is it a good idea? Would you do it in friendly games even if GW drops the ball?