Greetings everyone.
I'm a long time 40K player who dabbled with the idea of playing Inquisitor when it first came out, but never actually got around to it. I have a copy of the rulebook, but nothing else.
I've recently had an idea to play Inquisitor, but using standard 40K models, rather than the large scale Inquisitor models. I've read about other 40K players doing this before, but I don't know how feasible an idea it really is, so I thought I'd ask the experts here for some advice and recommendations on this subject.
If this has been discussed before, by all means feel free to provide links :).
Edit: On a separate note, my e-mail filter was adamant that the registration e-mail was from a suspicious source when registering for an account here, even though it clearly was not, so administrators may wish to look into this in case it's putting off potential members.
WELCOME TO THE CONCLAVE
There we go, Iris, one big standard-issue yellow welcome for you. Now don't start reaching for the mod-buttons on instinct when things go off-topic or one-liners/doubles get posted, as all of that is normal around here :P
It's generally called Inq28 (because 40K is 28mm as opposed to 54mm). It used to be fairly frowned upon because people had a tendancy to just drop figures from their 40K army in, resulting in warbands made up of Space Marines or Orks, which isn't really conducive to a fun game of Inquisitor (sure, you CAN have the same thing in 54mm, but it takes a lot more effort)
The prevailing view these days appears to be that it's more about the player's attitude than the scale though - the type of person who wants to take a deathwatch killteam to curbstomp everyone is probably not suited to Inquisitor regardless of scale.
It's fairly popular, owing to the somewhat constrained nature of the Inquisitor range. I've played both, and tend to prefer 54mm.
Links:
http://inq28.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2068.0
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?342440-Ed-s-Inq-28-Plog
Quote from: Koval on August 05, 2012, 01:56:00 PM
WELCOME TO THE CONCLAVE
There we go, Iris, one big standard-issue yellow welcome for you. Now don't start reaching for the mod-buttons on instinct when things go off-topic or one-liners/doubles get posted, as all of that is normal around here :P
Thanks Koval, I thought that I might bump into a few people from other boards I frequent here :).
As for moderation, that's not my job here, so you're quite safe ;).
Quote from: Charax on August 05, 2012, 01:57:42 PM
It's generally called Inq28 (because 40K is 28mm as opposed to 54mm). It used to be fairly frowned upon because people had a tendancy to just drop figures from their 40K army in, resulting in warbands made up of Space Marines or Orks, which isn't really conducive to a fun game of Inquisitor (sure, you CAN have the same thing in 54mm, but it takes a lot more effort)
I'd hopefully be trying to build some kind of themed force which makes some sort of sense within the background for Inquisitor, rather than just dropping regular models into the game in that manner. It all depends what sort of narrative I can come up with which would be plausible.
I seem to recall that there are some options for using some Eldar in Inquisitor (I remember the gorgeous Ranger model that was produced for the range), so that might be a good starting point for me, given that Eldar is my main 40K army.
QuoteLinks:
http://inq28.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2068.0
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?342440-Ed-s-Inq-28-Plog
Thanks for these, I'll be taking a good look through them in due course.
As one of the most vocal Inq28 players around here it;s nice to see a new face. There's quite an active Inq28 community over at Ammobunker as well - http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/forum/3009916/
In terms of the Eldar the thing to think about is how they will fit into the battle for the Emperor's soul. Inquisitor has a very specific focus which can be modified with the use of Rogue Traders etc, but it is primarily set on Imperium worlds so any Eldar who are being involved would have to be constructed with that very much in mind.
Another thing I would advocate for Inq28 is take the time to convert and make unique models as that makes you think about your models and how they will translate into characters and onto the tabletop. It's not probably good enough to just go with a dire avenger for example. The Eldar models do work quite nicely for conversion, but take that time to think what they are there for.
I've had a look through a number of the links, and I've still got some reading to do, particularly on the more detailed background Aspects. From the reading that I have done though, I get the impression that the narrative is a bit too Imperium centric for me to do quite what I was thinking of doing, so I'll probably have to either re-conceptualise the project, or put it on the back burner for the time being.
It's great to know that there are so many resources available should I need them in the future.
While Inquisitor, as it stands, is very Imperium-centric, I think there's a lot of space for expansions and modifications to twist it to suit non-Imperial characters and campaigns, from minor Human kingdoms and federations of techno-barbarians, to something a bit Gorka-morka-ish, to a campaign set in wilderness space in the 40K equivalent of Mos Eisley, to a very chaos-influenced game of competing champions (like the Eye of Terror scenes in Inquisition War), and I know Alyster Wick is working on a "Null City" version, taking the game into Commeragh and the battles among low-level Eldar and various alien (and perhaps human too) mercenaries in Null City. So, if you and your group want to play the Battle for the Soul of the Craftworld, then do!
Thanks for the suggestions.
I don't have a group per se, it's more a case of my coming up with an idea for myself, and one opponent who much prefers the idea of playing with an Inquisitor style system of rules than anything 40K related (he really doesn't like the rules for 40K any more).
Perhaps a more straightforward idea might be to simply use the Inquisitor rules for a small skirmish using a few regular 40K models, say three or four per side? This may be easier in the short time at least.
If you look in the PDF archive that Marco maintains you'll see an article specifically on Eldar in Inquisitor which might be helpful.
Quote from: Keravin on August 17, 2012, 09:16:18 AM
If you look in the PDF archive that Marco maintains you'll see an article specifically on Eldar in Inquisitor which might be helpful.
Do you have a handy link to the thread or site which hosts that file?
Marco keeps it in his sig. Just look for any of his posts and you should find it there.
Insert convenient post from Marco here.
The "Inquisitor PDF"/"Skoll Archive" thread is always pinned at the top of the Inquisitor Rules Discussion section, but is also at this handy link here (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=34.0).
For the most part, I'd recommend navigating through the top levels via the forum thread, as I can organise the thread better I can sort things out on MediaFire.
I'm still not familiar with all the members here, otherwise I would have twigged to do a signature check ;).
Thanks for making life easier for me by posting here Marco. I now have more research to carry out.