Inquisitor Hexen has a raft of health issues. A bionic right arm, Crohn's disease and various cancers. All of which lead him to behave in a rash and some might say, unpredictable manner. He is a gamma level psyker, which sometimes helps, but equally, sometimes gets him into more bother. He has a long time pilot retainer, who is enhanced to help her piloting abilities and is supportive and insightful in his decision making process. The servo skull, somewhat narcissistically, is to record his deeds, not as reconnaissance device.
His quartet of Loups Garous are all top tier operatives personally selected by Hexen from grenadier, kasarkin and scion type units. Hexen uses his contacts to ensure that where ever possible, they enter a situation with tailored ammunition designed to take down their principal target.
They have names, but Inquisitor Hexen finds it amusing to refer to them as Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. No one knows why and the Loup Garous just accept it as an inquisitorial foible. Incidently his own right arm was the victim of a previous plasma pistol misfire. Obviously the inquisitor believes that the firepower is worth the risk.
Hexen was painted by PVP and the Loups Garous by Mr Lee.
Inquisitor Torrag of the Ordos Hereticus. A man of great faith, what we see here is his warband arrayed for an actual war. He's in Terminator armour.
And he's backed up by four crusaders and two 'moody hammers' who've grown themselves to Ogryn size.
These guys are heavily tattooed after the manner of their clan. Considering the amount of work they have had done, fibre bundle muscles, enhanced reflexes and so on it is certain that this includes a certain of amount of sub dermal armour as well as stim glands to enable them to shrug off damage.
All of these figures were painted by Jeff at PVP
The four crusaders are a homogenous bunch all from the same population, all armed with power weapons and storm shields. It has taken the Inquisitor a number of years to train and persuade these men from a relatively low tech warrior culture to exhibit some degree of prudence and tactical acumen. From the sixteen he started with, the four who are left are capable and careful, right up to the point the first blow is struck.
There is no wanting of zeal here. There is a lot of faith here. Four practised warriors with power weapons, carapace armour, storm shields and an inquisitorial mandate, backed up by the two moody hammers give their master a huge punch in toe to toe encounters.
This is Inquisitor Readsel, who along with his core team has already been detailed here. His paint was done by PVP https://piratevikingpainting.blogspot.com/2014/07/inquisitor-dredd.html Of all of the Inquisitors who serve the Conclave of Dinterra Minor, he is the one who will take the time to get the best use out of local resources.
These are the local Arbities, shields, shotguns and shock batons. And a poor sense of humour and a readiness to move to direct action sooner rather than later.
And they ride around in this. Because what sends a better message to the proletariat than their police having an actual tank called a "Repressor". But of course these things are valuable resource and not the usual sort of thing people see unless they are really unlucky. The paint here was by Golem.
And here are three Police Cruisers. These do protect and serve, but let's not forget that they protect and serve the Imperium of Man, not the people who live in it. Expecting trouble, when the call comes from the Inquisition, they fill the Cruisers with flatfoots. The paint on the police cars and policemen was by Golem.
Of course, people do try and run from the Inquisition. Whatever madness overtakes them, sometimes people just make bad decisions when they are under pressure. Regardless of the motivation of any runners, there is of course, a requirement for those people to be run to ground.
One of the tools reserved for this are a selection of various ground cars, small boats, skimmers (Landspeeders of all variants). All high performance models, modified and maintained by tech priests of the Omnissiah who serve, for however long, the Inquisition. They have brought two ground cars with them to Devos IV. There are probably Landspeeders still on the Corinthian Summer (still in orbit). These take longer to prepare for operations than simpler machines.
There are two Interrogators who are trained and skilled at driving these things in pursuit situations. Whilst they have a second 'jump' seat, these are not usually used; despite the second seat these are really solo machines.
Which is fine; a very modest group of Black Templars and a dreadnaught. Plus the obligatory rules and lore update, which, let's face it, isn't going to deviate too far from the existing.
Regular readers will know that Devos IV started in 5Ed and has been more or less played in 5Ed since then.
And now apparently my FW account has disappeared; I'm supposed to create a 'Warhammer!' account. A small thing, but I liked my FW account, I liked scrolling back through the orders and seeing the long term project take shape over the years. And be embarrassed by the amounts I've blown on the resin crack over the years.
I've tried to use the FW website over the last few days and I've not been able to navigate to any page other than the one I started on. Maybe the firefox ad-blocker, maybe it's just not working properly now unless you're signed into your new 'Warhammer!' account. It doesn't really matter, I'm not going to find a way around the problem because reasons. But things like the FW phone line, as used by all us FW customers for twenty years to get things sorted and place the occasional order during a lunchbreak has now just gone. poof. And no, live chat is no substitute, there is nothing in writing that can convey the sarcasm or vitriol in someone's voice.
And there's the takedown of the independent hobby animators youtube channels and their replacement with 'Warhammer Plus' which appears to be, and it's only my opinion, check it out for yourself, shite by comparison. 'Warhammer Plus' does appear to be nothing more than an advertising tool to which the customer has to pay a subscription.
And that takes me back to posts by the likes of Admiral Drax and others who, over the years, commented that they felt that WH40K wasn't for them any more. Well, I'm now at the point where I'm not just 'not the target audience' but that my hobby is just not being supported anymore.
This is fine, change is usual etc. But yes, it does hurt a bit when the message you're getting is despite the investment over decades, they're not even going to support my hobby in any form of legacy product(s). It must be like being WHFB player when they decided to just blow up the Old World and do away with all those decades of world building. Oh well.
Does this mean the end of Devos IV ? Nah. Like those still fielding Norse, Kislev and Nippon armies on the battlefields of the Old World, I'll keep going for the time being; back to the Inquisition next week.
"Oh Zzzzzz ! you sad old duffer, can you see no joy in the future ?" I hear you cry, from all over the globe. Well, there's 3D printing. It's going to be the future of the hobby and it turns out that Mr Lee will resin print little men (for those not in the know, plastic (FDM) printers are ok for vehicles and terrain, but actual little men need to be in resin). So it's fairly easy to see that other games systems will gradually erode GWs market share if they're not careful. And I don't think that taking over the world and/or chucking out cease and desist orders like confetti is any sort of long term strategy for success. It may take a couple more years, but we're already seeing the beginning of the new model for GW.
This is a form of love letter to Neverness. In a manly, wholesome, Chapter Approved sort of way. You may be aware that he has recently done a month of gently encouraging other bloggers to make and paint an inquisitor. There are some really good ones there.
What you can see here is 25% of the strength of the Inquisitorial strength of the Conclave of Dinterra Minor. As detailed elsewhere, the conclave voted to send a substantial delegation to Devos IV to oversee the conduct of the war.
As Inso used to say 'Click the Pic !'
Their agreed signifier here is black hat or hood. Their leader, in the way that leaders do, is currently deviating from this previously agreed protocol, but she would argue that is her prerogative...
There are twelve inquisitors there, with their collective entourages, most of which are entirely appropriate (in terms of the scale and scope of and inquisitorial entourage).
You can see the Inquisitor in the gold terminator armour who has positioned himself dead centre of the scene, albeit behind the Lady Inquistrix who is actually in charge. His name is Hallas Blingnor and as you can see, rather than a normal inquisitorial retinue, he has brought seventyish Black Templars instead. That's the type of guy he is.
Some of these minis have been seen before, some not so. I'll do a couple of posts with some of the more interesting characters in.
On the Brick of Scrutiny today is Zhufor the Impaler. Despite Khorne's avowed hatred of 'magic', he is The Gatekeeper, as you can tell by the company he keeps. Indeed, it is by this gate that he and his entourage, as well as the Emperor's Children, have travelled to Devos IV.
The entourage or posse or honour guard or body guard of Khornate Terminators is a formidable asset. Along with other Skulltakers (and Kharn the betrayer), they make Zhufor a major player in the siege of Xyphonica.
They're individually the pinnacle infantry on Devos IV. And after the Blood Pact land, the deference of the Blood Pact to Kharn and Zhufor as Khorne's chosen mean that Zhufor is able to take command of the whole renegade war effort.
Collectively, they represent a huge problem for any enemy.
And for those who end up face to face with them, they are terrifying.
