Ivan Clearwater
Can any of the DH players give any tips to an inexperienced DH player?
neutral Well personally I like Grey Knights a lot. I do have a shooty Inquisitor but I don't use him a whole lot. Personally I find the points better spent on more Grey Knights. Usually for 1,000 point games I have 2 10 man squads of Grey Knights, a brother-captain with a 5 man retinue, and a dreadnought with a plasma cannon. Now, no that doesn't work against everything and there are a few points left open for equipment changes but that's mostly the skeleton of my army. I've been experimenting with Inquisitorial Stormtroopers also to free up more points. That and they're one of the few anti-tank stuff you got. Basically I go with my original list and tweak it against the opponent I'm fighting. When my opponent starts taking more tanks I switch one of the Grey Knight squads for a stormtrooper squad and give them plasma guns and melta weapons. Also I start giving my Justicars melta bombs just to mess with my opponent. Not only that but all Grey Knights are pretty good against low armored tanks (hooray for str. 6!). I haven't worked with Land Raiders a lot since I don't have mine completed (only just recently picked one up) and they're pretty expensive in an already expensive point army.
Also psycannons are your friend.
Basically here's what I'd reccomend as a list for purchasing and playing as you grow your army. I'd grab them in this order.
-2 boxes of Grey Knights (also start picking up random blister packs of Grey Knights every now and then since you won't be needing a lot of Justicars and incinerators that come in those box sets)
-1 box of Grey Knight terminators (once again, random blisters every now and then of these guys is useful)
-Psycannon Grey Knights, power armor and terminator (might just want to grab one term. psycannon for the time being since there can only be one per squad)
-Dreadnought
-Inquisitorial Stormtroopers
-Inquisitor with retinue (like I said, don't use them much but depending on what opponents you play regularly they can be useful, your choice if you want it to be close combat or shooty)
Personally I find that a good starting set. From there I'd say it'd all depend on your taste of how you want to play the army. After this you can grab more Grey Knights, a Land Raider, Chimera possibly for your Inq. Stormtroopers, another dreadnought and so on. Assasins I don't use much either but once again all depending on your style of play and your regular opponents they can be useful.
Oh, if you want a model for a psycannon Inquisitor, I just modded a Grey Knight with a psycannon a bit and painted him differently. Makes a pretty good stand in.