Warhammer 40K's Greatest Forgotten Game - INQUISITOR 

I love the video. Your warband looks amazing and that’s an awesome table. Thanks for keeping Inquisitor alive!

Eric, please never stop making videos like this.

There’s a line a GW store employee told me about Inquisitor has stuck with me since I was a kid. “Do you know how strong a space marine is? If he throws a hand grenade it deals more damage if it hits a guy than if it explodes on them.”

For the record, the Inq28 (Inquisitor 28mm) community is absolutely thriving.

Inq28 was born, is still alive and well, and is now the underground success that GW wanted from Inquisitor, never acknowledged.

Damien 1427's trigger word is "Purgatus" 🙂

I loved the battle reports about this game in White Dwarf way back in the day.

I miss playing Inquisitor so much. I loved the story/narrative style of it . Did so many conversions and still have a few to this day. lots of good memories, especially of friends who are no longer with us.

That was an unexpectedly epic ending 😂

I am absolutely amazed by the amount of content you put out into a single video, most people would release a video for every warband they bought each week, but you went ahead and gave a great story and review, showed off new miniatures, delivered some painting footage for sooo many miniatures, BUILT TERRAIN and produced an amazing reveal of everything combined. Thanks for your attention to detail and the overall great level of production in this channel ! I look forward to your next video !

I´ve never painted a model, neither do i own any type of miniatures. However, 40K is such a (grim and dark) joy to delve upon and content like this just makes the journey even better.

Those 3D printed mini's look amazing, I feel like your painting has also improved a lot.

A game whose official GW forum, and its successor the Conclave, became roleplaying hubs I haunted for years. Fantastic, grimdark times.

Love how many minis and how much terrain you built just for this new game

Really wish Inquisitor had stuck around. It was the first sci-fi game by GW that I got into way back in the day (originally was just into Fantasy) and the miniatures blew my mind. Gav Thorpe quickly became someone I looked up to as a kid and for some time I had wished to find someone that wanted to play Inquisitor, but as a kid from a smaller town it was hard enough to even find anyone that knew about miniature games. Wish I still had my Inquisitor minis, they are so nostalgic for me.

Video in general was fantastic. But the cameo at the end made me spit my beer out with an unexpected belly laugh. Looking forward to more in this (hopefully) series!

Man... through the whole video I kept thinking "oh yah, goodbertown has painted some inquisitor models" so that ending was really perfect :P

i literally just went on a frenzy this past weekend buying all the old figures i could. such a cool game from GW that i really hope they bring back. the 54mm models are so cool. i have a few of the brother artemis models. ill send you a message about one. happy to send you one.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! I used to be a regular with the inquisitor community, I've got over a dozen of the minis and a tub of 54mm bits. These days I mainly work on inq28 models now as I don't have to sculpt so much due to the lack of availability of 54mm bits. More please!

Loved all the terrain together at the end! And the hold on increasingly uncomfortable smiles with Goobertown at the end was hilarious. Can't wait to the "Continued!"

My aunt has several painted inquisitor minis and some still in original packaging in her garage along with the titans these minis captured my mind and i loved them so much.

I wish the Inquisition had a more fleshed-out presence in 40k other than some minis here and there, it'd be cool to run a full warband of atypical models and units!

Man, I had no idea they made this game, let alone that gorgeous Eisenhorn mini. That trilogy got me into 40k.

Holy hell i remember just how amazing the models looked like. Another phenomenal video Eric!

3d printing has been an absolute revolution for Inqusitior. When I started playing, if you wanted custom models you were either learning to sculpt clay, or kitbashing metals. Now though, you can have basically anything you can imagine and it's a single contiguous piece.

Damn you really outdid yourself on Eisenhorn’s face! Great work

my sister had the Sevora and Sevorina models and i had Delphan Gruss, they were all such cool models

I still have a box of my inquisitor minis stowed away. The minis i have completed are Cherubael converted into an upright position and reaching forward, Quovandius with a lower jaw added, shotgun switched to a shoota/autogun and the gimp leg replaced with a crude bionic and the metal WHFB giant converted into an Ogryn with an axe and a wrist mounted autocannon. Love those minis! Converted but not painted i have Brother Joseph wield a stub pistol and chain axe and Devotee Malicant given a flamer. Unbuild ive got Inquisitor Covenant, most of Eisenhorn and some random parts for other other inquisitor models i was give when a friend of mine got rid of all his mini stuff. I used to have Brother Artemis converted into a Blood Angel but i gave him away to a friend of mine as he wanted to repaint him as a Blood Raven and put him on a shelf, better life for Artemis than sitting in a box over here. Back in the day there were three in my friend group that put together a couple INQ minis and we played a few stilted games, none of us had any DND, Dungeon Master led or D100 games experience so our interest tapered off as the game was hard to get into for us. Love to see where you take this, i really like the minis and terrain you got together.

Loved the old Inquisitor models, but Eric vs Brent playing a game - Hell yeah.

Great video with lots of insights. And the end is absolutely hilarious! "I'll play with you!" :D I always asked myself: Why not playing inquisitor with the normal 28 mm scale minis?

My favorite thing from the game was the introduction of the Istavaanian Philosophy...in a universe with near constant Ork Waaagghh!!s, rebellions, Tau incursions, Chaos invasions, prehistoric Robo-skeletons waking up, extra-galactic locust swarms, and arguments over whether it's fair to split a bill three ways when one person only ate soup turning into armed conflicts that devastate whole sub-sectors; Istavaanian Inquisitors look around and declare that Humanity isn't fighting enough wars! It's actually helped solidify an idea I had way back at the start of my time in 40k of making my Imperial Guard/Astra Militarum army just really hate Space Marines, slap in a Perpetual Istavaanian who's running a sector-wide experiment with tampering with the local flavor of the Imperial Cult.

Such a fun video! It is great to see you explore such an iconic game and showcase it to newer players. I think Inquisitor was possibly 40k's most important games since it fleshed out so much lore and made the setting so much more believable. Excited to see what comes next!

Awesome, thanks for the great video! I just had to laugh at the end, somehow I thought about him during the video, especially as you kind of played with the tech priest going back and forth at the computer machines. I'm very looking forward to the next video. Great child flashbacks about INQUISITOR, read a lot in the white dwarfs then, but it just was no option for me back then. Greetings from Germany!

That face looks insane. John Blanche should be proud.

OMGGGG INCREDIBLE. WHAT A PERFECT AND JOYOUS JUMPSCARE AT THE END

I still have the rule book and expansion books along with a dozen miniatures in one of my many cases. Excellent video Eric as always.

I only really played Inquisitor once but had great fun. It was a pity I never got around to play it more. The guy that ran the game did it slightly differently, though, more rpg-inspired. He ran it as a game master and each of us players had one model each. Considering the detailed system that worked out great!

I remember a terrific Arbites model with a cyber mastiff. I always wanted to play... Also, I love me some Goobertown.

The part at the end where Brent pops up is just classic. His facial expression makes the perfect outro for the video. Awesome.

Man I remember being a young lad with no cash going to my local library to borrow white dwarf magazines. Inquisitor has been ingrained in my mind ever since

Top tip: the old Cities of Death range were designed to be compatible with both 40K and Inquisitor, so if you can grab any kits off ebay they will work without any adjustments. I was always curious about Inquisitor but never got the chance. I must pick up the books when I can though, all that tasty lore to vore omnomnomnom yum.

Still keep my copy of the rulebook at hand when brainstorming. Because of how hard/expensive it was to buy the old miniatures we used to play wit regular 40K miniatures and changed all the measurements in the rulebook from inches to centimetres.

I remember playing the game in my local store. They had some decently sized terrain for use to create some fun narratives. One time we were playing around some kind of fuel depot with a huge fuel tank in the middle. Never shot at it with my inquisitor, the other player asked why, then I told him it would've blown up everyone, including my team. It was an inquisitor, not a maniac!

I didn’t play warhammer 40k at this time but the aesthetics of Inquisitor really get me into the lore ! Very grimdark !

As an old man, I find 54mm minis rather appealing; though kitbashing Inq28 is so much fun. I love the Inquisitor rule book ("Everything you know is a lie" really sums up my vision of 40k), though I preferred the simpler rules found in the free fan rules, "In The Emperor's Name. I feel that Brent missed a trick by not saying, "I'll be your huckleberry."

OMG I'm so hyped for the next part! Inquisitor is my fav game I never got the chance to get into during its peak. Loved the Brent reveal, that sneaky git sure knows how to nail his stealth checks ;)

Ha! Awesome! Goobertown Hobbies is the man for jumping in on Inquisitor with you. I remember when this game came out, thinking the models were awesome and that I'd never build the terrain I'd need to play.

Looks amazing , miss the old Inquisitor campaigns at my local GW.

This was so cool. It's always fascinating to learn about old wargaming. Especially when you get to see awesome kit bashing and terrain building. Thanks again Eric, you're awesome :D

Can't wait for the INQ follow-up vid, this was rad!

This is a true tour de force in hobby video making Eric!

I played a couple of games of Inquisitor as a teenager. We didn't have any of the full size minis, so we used standard 28mm models and terrain (mostly from the Necromunda range) and where the rules were written in inches, we used centimeters. It worked pretty well.

Oh man, I am loving the use of 3D printing to make the 54mm scale conversions. LOOOVE IT.

This was so cool! Inquisitors are cool because of how they can be kitbashed in so many ways I used Gloria Van Denst from AoS to make my own Inquisitor who carries a Plasma crossbow. Also seeing Brent in this video makes the hype for that video even more exciting Love your videos Eric

I swear, you’re the king of GW nostalgia. You literally make me feel like I’m 15 again reading the inquisitor book. Thanks be to you ya bloody legend!

Finally someone is talking about this lost pearl in the gw game system universe. The rules are a bit challenging(but free to download)but it is even playable with standard w40k models. Nice work!

I should dig up my inquisitor models. I had converted Eisenhorn into my custom Inquisitor and discovered that some of the old Epic 40k titan weapons are close to the proper scale. I put the Warlord powerfist onto my Inquisitor as a bionic arm with a built in powerfist. The conversion possibilities of Inquisitor was amazing. Though our group did ban the Space Marines to keep our games a bit more balanced. LOL. I've always thought it converting the rules to use 32mm miniatures and a more robust campaign system like Necromunda would be fun.

First, thank you for making my favorite video of yours ever. :) I used to have this book and I'm trying to get it back. I had always wanted to convert it to 28mm, so I'm super stoked to see this already exists and I'll be joining that community soon. Also, it was really cool to see Brent's smiling face at the end of the video. Great job, Eric, looking forward to part two. :)

This is the kind of hobby freedom 12 year old me dreamed of staring at inquisitor minis in white dwarf all those years ago - 3d printing is a stroke of genius! Fantastic work as ever man :)

Great video. This game completely passed me by - thanks for drawing my attention to it. I was into Rogue Trader, the original Space Hulk and Space Marine (Epic 40k) as a kid in the 80s/early 90s. But by about 92 had "grown out of the hobby", more focussed on sports. After uni, at work, I'd occasionally pore through the early GW website in the late 90s, but then only really got back into things with my son c. 2016. Also great to see Goobertown making an appearance! Look forward to seeing how this progresses!

when i was younger and first getting into 40k i always saw the Inquisitor models in my local hobby shop and wanted them but my dad reminded me that there not the right size for traditional 40k so i'd have no use for them outside that game, makes me really wish i had gotten some cause i'd love a big fancy model to just sit nicely on my shelf

Brent can be terrifying when you're not expecting him.

When I was a kid, we used to just play in centimetres instead of inches and just use regular 40k models. It worked well and saved our meagre pocketmoney!

Wow, incredible effort on this video Eric. As others have said, the sheer amount of content packed into this single video is mind blowing! I love that you decided to cover Inquisitor, it truly is a forgotten gem. I still have very fond memories of it, because I kept re-reading a battle report in a White Dwarf magazine from 2001. It's this gritty, grimdark depiction of 40k that made me fall in love with the hobby. Unfortunately, I never got to play a game of Inquisitor, but I'll happily watch you instead 😁 Great work, thanks for the awesome video Eric.

Fantastic video. I look forward to the next one. Please keep doing stuff that excites you, it’s always fun to watch

Goober jumpscare, just in time for Halloween.

Man, I never ever wanted to mess with another scale of miniatures until now. Awesome video.

I thank you for not allowing one of my favorite games to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Some of the best figures GW has produced. Inquisitor is a great game.

I honestly thought I'd dreamt this game up till a few years ago when it started getting a YT resurgence lol. I used to read the crap out of the book in the school library as a teen, I never owned a copy myself but I was in there reading it most days, unfortunately I didn't know anyone to play with nor could I afford the models on top of the few meagre marines I'd accumulated at the time 😅 I might have to get a copy of the book and do some minis (maxis?) 😂

I had so many of these models, we would buy other models just to customize our Inquisitor models. It was a good blend of DnD and Warhammer, we ended up playing Inquisitor more than 40k back in the early 2000s, great game and great time. I can't believe it was abandoned and lost to time. Playing Rogue Trader really reminded me of Inquisitor, so many things from that game are actually really well explained in Inquisitor, I remember making a sniper with a Eldar Ranger rifle, there were really no rules in this game and let the Dogmatic/Heretical system show very well.

I recently listens to the Eisenhorn audio books myself, and it's so strange to but Toby Longworth IS Gregor Eisenhorn for me. Despite all the various characters he has been through the audio books, he so perfectly read Eisenhorn as a character.

This has been such a pleasure to watch as I reminisce about how fool INQ was to me as a young teenager. I love Warhammer when it's themes are taken more seriously and love that you're supporting this artistic line of narrative enquiry. Those 3d models look amazing.

I still have a Space marine, several cadians and the kroot Mercenary from Inquisitor.

2:25 wow the art on the right looks like the module behind a space marines head, just implanted under the skin…..i like how grimdark that is.

You did a great job on this, regardless. That induction of the 3D printer stuff would have been quite a pull, had GW embraced the future. We could have even seen a resurgence of the game, and the expansions that we were promised but never got. With the way the miniature creep continues, you'll soon be using this scale figure with regular games of 40k.

Goobs is popping up everwhere lately, he's like Agent Smith!

What a wonderful surprise at the end 😊

Your two-part series on Full Tilt was my one of my favorite videos of yours. I can safely add this one to that list. These retrospectives are super fun to watch!

I been waiting my whole life for a video about Inquisitor it has been hard has heck to find info about it! thank you!!

Marines do, in fact, feel like the absolute monstrosities they're supposed to in Inquisitor. Makes a single chaos marine leading a cultist cell an amazing baddy as they players find they can't do much of anything. Great way to drive a narrative or force a retreat from a situation players might otherwise power through (when they're not supposed to 😆)

I love that your channel displays your hobby experience, you always show us what’s currently on your desk and I appreciate that :)

My guy this is amazing. Keep up the crazy good work - you are absolutely killing it

Always a most excellent time when you invite someone awesome like Brent from Goobertown Hobbies!!! Cant wait to see a battle rep from you two!!

Eric, love your content as always. I know it's a ton of work putting videos together and it's easy to get burnt out. Just wanted to let you know your work is appreciated and I'm excited to see what else you have in store.

great video, one of my favourite games, i was lucky enough to be GW store manager when this came out. one of my staff created the inside of a space station as a gaming table. we had it in the shop for games. we all had our warbands. i created a few squat members for mine.( i was known as Squat while working for GW) still have them and loads of other figures. Original and converted including a few marines.

Absolutely brilliant vid, levelling up much?! Really enjoy the scale, especially being able to add the details in painting accentuating the character. The terrain setup was phenomenal at that scale too! I have too many projects on the go but the depth of play and character creation really intrigues. Good stuff, looking forward to the battle report (?)

That was so much fun to watch! I really appreciate you sharing the whole process from start to finish and showcasing the entire finished project. And the guest appearence at the end was a great surprise! Subbed! :)

It's truly inspiring what you do in this awesome hobby. I had been hesitant for years to start my own journey into the hobby realm. Thanks to your amazing videos I took the plunge and couldn't be happier! I've been making my own terrain and painting my own army for Warhammer 40k and I'm just truly enjoying it every step of the way! Also can't wait to see a game of inquisition with you, and was that Brent from goobertown hobbies!?

I loved Inquisitor, I loved that you could create your own characters, I made my own from different inquisitor parts and had a lot of fun with it, one of my favourites was playing as an Imperial Guardsman sniper, great fun and I was really sad when it disappeared

Inquisitor was my favorite back in the day. It's so obscure now, it's just criminal.

This is a game that just can't be forgotten, and hasn't been. I played 20yrs ago at 54mm and pulled out the books for setting up RP for my 40k loving son. I love Inquisitor as a game framework, the work they put into setting the scene and fleshing out the dark underside of the imperium is perfect to use alongside the Eisenhorn books My son loves RPing his inquisitor character, he's 14 so the game I run doesn't fully embody the worst of the inquisition and the world, it's medium dark with obvious white hats, a lot of grey hats and clear black hat enemies including his nemesis, rather than opposing and enemy white hats, grey hats, black hats, betrayers, defilers, soiled doves and erupting demons. To a 14yr old it's madly dark compared to tabletop 40k, and that's good enough for me. Between Eisenhorn, Inquisitor and my outside literary influences (ripe for shameless plot and character theft) we do great in both RP and skirmish, but I'd really feel the lack of Inquisitor the most. BTW we play in 28/32mm, scale conversion is no issue at all

Always make my day to see a new video from you!

Epic, man. Your videos are some of the best presentations.

Still play this. Best game they made.

As someone running an Imperium Maledictum campaign today, I draw a direct thread to when I first picked up Inquisitor when it released. Despite having played 40k for decades, Inquisitor was, tonally, the Imperium I always knew.

Excellent video for a great topic! Inquisitior is such a great game universe. Still have the book but for the reasons you mentioned we never really played it in 54mm. Inquisitior in 28mm is a thing though. But I love the scale of it all when you put it together! Your terrain and the miniatures are great. You can get so much personality into a 54mm sculpt. If your can spare the time, please get some paint on that vehicle. It could be such a center piece on the table with some propper care.

Awesome video and great to see Inquisitor getting some love. I only ever managed to get a few minis for it but maybe I'll dig them out again in the future and make a board.

Brent showing up at the end was like the after credit scene in a superhero movie

That ending was awesome!!! I ADORED the idea of Inquisitor but at the time it was never played much in my area and people just bought the minis to paint. Stores were reluctant to invest in the multiple tables needed to fully support the game except in the largest metro areas. I had thought about playing it by downsizing the minis to 40k scale when I first got my 3D printer. After slicing a nu-scale version of a RT Era (when I started, before you were born ) Chaos War Hound for less than $12 USD I realized I can do both. Snag a file and double dip, it's cheap and at worse you will have a fun time customizing and painting.

Used to really enjoy playing this game years ago. We never got the larger scaled figures but had a total blast.