Anyway, the 4 Rubric Marines from yesterday have been painted!
I also painted the Kasrkins as you can see. They are basically an Inquisitorial Stormtrooper army!
Right now I have a single Vendetta gunship, 2 Tauroxes Prime and 25 Kaskins, who are basically seconded to an Ordo Maellus Inquisitor. They are accompanied by a single Primaris Psyker. The Primaris Psyker is supposed to be an Interrogator, so basically an Inquisitor-in-training. And they have their very own retinue of Inquisitorial stormtroopers! Yay!
So a normal squad of Kasrkins saddle up in this Taurox Prime here, armed with nothing but hellguns. Or hot-shot lasguns. Whatever. Eventually they will be reinforced into a full 10-men squad and I will procure them hot-shot lasguns, but for now they are just 5 guys with hellguns and their own Taurox Prime. Hopefully I can get 4 dudes armed with hot-shot volley guns and they will be dishing a lot of damage to horde armies or infantry. They are pretty much anti-infantry. The Taurox Prime itself is armed with twin Taurox gatling cannons, a storm bolter and a pair of hot-shot volley guns.
Inquisitor Tsuchimikado is of the Ordo Maellus, and he is clad in Terminator armor. He is also equipped with a psycannon and Nemesis Daemon hammer. He doesn't have any accompanying Grey Knights, but fortunately he has his own Inquisitorial stormtroopers. I use Kasrskin models, but they are all really Draconian Kamikaze Troopers. He is accompanied by Interrogator Ichijou, his apprentice. They usually ride in the Vendetta gunship with the Stormtroopers, but for some weird reason Inquisitors wearing Terminator armor are not allowed to ride in a Vendetta or Valkyrie. I wonder why.
The second Taurox Prime is filled with 2 squads. They are led by Lieutenant Kanda (or Chu-i Kanda), who is armed with a plasma pistol, and his command squad, all of whom are armed with hot-shot volley guns. They are escorted by a normal squad of Kasrkins/Kamikaze Troopers, whose Sergeant is armed with a plasma pistol, and comprise of 2 plasma gunners along with 2 hellgunners. So the 9 of them drive around in the second Taurox Prime, carrying heavy firepower. The second Taurox Prime is identical to the first, armed with twin Taurox gatling cannons, storm bolter and hot-shot volley guns. If necessary, I can swap the twin Taurox gatling cannons out for a Taurox battle cannon, especially if the enemy are packing more vehicles than infantry. If that's the case, the command squad can swap their hot-shot volley guns for meltaguns for more anti-tank firepower.
Behind Inquisitor Tsuchimikado is Colonel Toujou, who has a command rod to give 2 orders. He leads his own command squad, 4 Kamikaze Troopers - all of whom are equipped with plasma guns - and a squad of 5 Kamikaze Troopers, who again consist of a Sergeant with a plasma pistol, 2 plasma gunners and 2 hellgunners. That's 10 men in the Vendetta gunship. Usually Inquisitor Tsuchimikado rides in the gunship with them, but in the event the pilot refuses to let him onboard because of his Terminator armor, then Interrogator Ichijou will deputize for him. This drop force of plasma gunners pack heavy firepower, usually to deal with monsters, vehicles (if necessary), and other bigger targets.
The Vendetta gunship has 6 lascannnons, so that's a lot of anti-tank. Speaking of which, I tried to draw the Inquisitorial 'I' on the wings (and a bunch of other places), but I think I failed. Whoops. Hey, at least I tried. It's to sort of represent that this Vendetta gunship is permanently seconded to the Inquisition. The Kamikaze Troopers are famous for being recruited by Inquisitors for whatever missions they need, whether it's against Daemons, Heretics or Xenos. So I can swap out Inquisitor Tsuchimikado for an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor if I so desire. We'll see.
A bird's eye view of the Vendetta gunship. As you can see, I painted the vehicles to be of the same color scheme as my Kasrkins/Kamikaze Troopers. Green with red and white camouflage paint. I hope they look cooler now! I might consider repainting my Leman Russ tanks because I really like this color scheme. Anyway, we'll see.
I wonder how my Inquisitorial stormtrooper army will play out! I really want to test them out against Daemons, but...we'll never know. Depending on what happens in 9th edition, I might expand this army to include Grey Knights (I intend to start with a Crusade force, so yay) but if I can't get Tides because of Combat Doctrines requiring a mono-army, despite the new rules stating that you have to pay Command Points for allies and additional Detachments, then I might just forget it. We'll see, I guess!
For the Emperor!
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