Topic: how important are IG in a WH army?

[Mecha]

Ive been looking at the WH codex, and they have alot of IG in there. 

Do most WH lists include some amount of IG?

cause if they do, ive got this crazy idea, and a bit of fluff.


long story short: when a squat planet was overrun by one of the tyranid hive fleets (i emailed GW asking what happend to the squats, and they said that the squats were eaten by the tyranids), there was a small sisters monistary on the planet, they teamed up to defend, bla bla bla, they survived, escaped, and have been insepreable ever since.

basically, i want to switch out all IG modles for squat modles.

would that be worthwhile?  (i dont want to go to the trouble of getting squats on ly to find out that they arent very usefull in the list)

[Ixe]

Witch Hunters with IG are effective.  Taking inducted Guard is the only way to make a successful static Sisters army, since the Guard provide the ranged firepower you need to compensate for lack of mobility.

As for squats, I'm not really familiar with their fluff, whether the Inquisition considered it ok to mingle with them...  Your sisters might be branded heretics for fighting alongside aliens, but that's not such a bad thing since 60% of the armies out there are Imperial and it's always nice to have an excuse for another Imperial army to fight them.

[Mecha]

well, in the book, Draco, it talks about an inquisitor, whose team consists of an assasian, a pilot, and a squat.

so, i think they are ok by imperial standard, seeing as they are humans who settled on high gravity worlds

[Inquisitor Sethtus]

It would definately make for a unique army, both in physical and fluff form, which is always good. An Inquisitor could easily get away with befriending some squats I would imagine, but Sisters may think differently. They're of more the "purge the universe of the xenos and non-typical human" mentality, whereas an Inquisitor tends to view the world in shades of grey.

I don't think that's enough of a reason to not go with squats, though. If you're going to bring them out, it's a much smaller step to create a Sisters Order who would view them as friends.