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Shas'La Gaunt reporting for duty!

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youtube.com/watch?v=s8klnCoAEi0

Official announcement, lads.

Here's Kill Team, just in case anybody wants it.

Fuck, you got my hopes up for a second that it might be Necromunda.

I played against a Ork KT the other day that consisted of Kommandos. It was fun to go against with my Genestealers but I completely ruined him.

My Broodlord cast The Horror on one of his burna armed kommandos all game till he broke and ran away, and my various stealers kept getting into CQC with him and just ruining him. I felt bad, especially because I've done multiple Ork armies over the years and have absolutely no intention of starting one with the current codex.

Ork resurgence when?

Surprisingly little compression. Good work, user

Nice

Are those hover wheels?

Would it reroll dangerous terrain?

Not my cup of tea but thats one more subfaction out of the way before a main army codex is finally coming.

Also nice to see what presumably would be something very different. Even Deathwatch shared a lot of SM stuff.

Freebooterz subfaction when?

Thanks a bunch user!

Formation: 9 flash gitz squads
Restrictions: all units must be max
Benefits: warlord trait reroll and rage

Be careful what you ask for. You might still get shit.

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Nice. Hopefully less of a shoddy shitshow than the Deathwatch codex.

This doesn't really say "Limousine" to me.

Announcement has inspired me to make a themed list of genestealer cults when it comes out. What tyranid MCs are worth checking out to drop upon the enemies whilst the cults prepare the land for their ascension?

Imperial guard regiments subfactions when?

Doesn't look retarded enough.

A Lictor formation would be most in keeping.

Vanguards gotta stick together, right?

delete this

That was fast.

Cult limousine wasn't the only vehicle cultists could get. Though fat chance of them getting Russes or Predators this time. I bet they'll just be like Scions with 2-3 infantry units and a transport, mainly for allying with other groups.

>inb4 they can't ally with tyranids

the music and the dialogue in that trailer is actually pretty cool, I really like the art style too, lets hope we get a similar style for the book itself.

also the neo-taurox looks a hell of a lot better than the original, IG players be jelly

The fact that it's a non-retarded looking combat truck is good enough for me; I had no expectations of GSC ever getting any vehicles at all, so this is already amazing.
Hopefully it's open-topped, because a assault transport for hybrids would be amazing.

Depends on what you want them to do really. I wouldn't think the cults would be around long enough to fight alongside MCs, but who cares really.

Flyrants are basically a given since they're so good. Shitting devourers all over the place while forcing anything nit AA to snap shoot and also being a psyker is pretty good. As long as there's no AA.

Tervigons are good too for shitting termigaunts everywhere.

waht is this i dont even

im wrecking local ork kill teams with my dark eldar
that's how you know there needs to be a new fucking codex

>looks actually pretty good
>autocannon + heavy stubber
>maybe Open-topped, probably Fast
Interesting.

they should have the 1st and 2nd gen mutants for choppy, the 3rd and 4th gen mutants for shooty, the abberations for smashy, the purebreed genestealers as elite troops and a (hopefully) assault transport to tie it all together

they may get another vehicle too, the rumours said a flyer of some kind but I'm not sure if thats very likely, still if they do get assault transports then the purestrain genestealers might actually be good now

I'm betting there'll be a standard limo conversion of it within a week.

Possibly two kits to extend it? Fancify it a little and you have an armoured limo for planetary nobles and whatnot.

Wonder how it'll affect the sales of Tauroxes.

never.

But don't feel too bad, this is GW's way of doing things; each new codex is better, so you keep buying new stuff.

Would anyone even notice if a Haemonculus became a Genestealer cultist?

Haemoncumagus: Hey kids, three arms and facial ridges are the latest hip trend!

If they made a dual kit, gen 4 and 3 can be put to the same box with different arms and heads to make shooty and choppy units. Gen 3 would be a more special unit with choppy in mind. Gen 4, as far as I remember, should be just genestealers.

So 2 new boxes (Gen 3-4, and gen 2), old genestealer box, truck and 2 character blisters?

they're supposed to be getting a flyer of some sorts. I'd rather have a limo, but hey.

The limo could be the flyer. Dukes of hazard style

That's an old conversion

Shoot the synapse Etherials first!

You know an adaptation the hive mind should make?

Small synapse creatures.

Everyone always shoots the big ones first, after all.

I can't fit 12 Hybrids in that!
Please be open-topped or assault

afraid you're remembering wrong m8

1st and second gen are horrifically mutated half human half tyranid, 3rd gen are at least humanoid and 4th gen are almost indistinguishable from humans on the outside, the 4th gen is also where the primus and magus appear, then their offspring, the 5th generation are pure genestealer, there are also aberration births which are 1st or 2nd gen hybrids who came out 8~9 foot tall, covered in chitin and dumb as a sack of bricks, and the patriarch which is the oldest tyranid of that cult and super well hard, so 3 boxes minimum, (1st and second, 3rd and 4th, and aberrations) the genestealer box, a truck and 3 character blisters, big release

forgot my picture

>new sub faction that isn't SoB
>no grognards complaining that it isn't a SoB release

is it finally over? are they gone forever?

I wonder if they will still be come the apocalypse with nids

Sisters relaunch when

here's another picture showing the difference between the 4 generations, personally I don't think they'd be able to make the later and earlier generations compatible because of the extreme difference in appearance between a 1st gen and a 4th gen

Your pic is horrible. But your explanation is sound and correct.

See that's where it's kinda illogical?

Starting out on the subtle end makes more sense, with them furiously inbreeding more and more alien hybrids until they start pooping out more Purestrains.

Also the canon structure means the Magus is one of the youngest hybrids, rather than one of the elders of the cult.

This new stuff or a White Dwarf from '03?

>3rd gen are at least humanoid and 4th gen are almost indistinguishable from humans on the outside

Which corresponds to the two types of cultists you got in the Overkill box, one being almost pure human with a big of a ridge on the nose/forehead, and the other having genestealer style heads and bony claws for arms.

yes, but that's how it works.
The infected human parents are really protective of their offspring despite physically being little monsters.

Then the lil monsters infect other humans, and you get more humanoid monsters, who in turn infect other humans

Finally when the hybrids can pass among normies, that's when the cult reaches it's peak power and starts climbing political ladders and overthrowing local governments.

>1st or 2nd gen hybrids who came out 8~9 foot tall, covered in chitin and dumb as a sack of bricks

These don't look that massive.

here's me thinking that the October WD was going to be all about burning of prospero.
Oh wait that's november.

Then december do we get the bloodbowls?

He's talking about the Aberrations.

hue

Don't like the visibly inhuman heads in that kit for 4th gen, given that they're meant to be the generation usually able to pass through security checkpoints unless they're strip searched or scanned on a genetic level.

Compare to say, a novel where a planetary governor was a fourth gen hybrid and nobody noticed until he pulled a pistol with a third arm he'd been pretending was a pot belly.

>and aberrations

Or they'll just do Chaos Cultist thing and let people use the Overkill ones without an official release for now, if ever.

The "Big dumb fucks" are those in the right bottom corner.

Ork, eldar and tau hybrids when?

st or 2nd gen hybrids who came out 8~9 foot tall, covered in chitin and dumb as a sack of bricks
Where do you get that from?
In the original fluff, those things in the pictures are 1st/2nd gen hybrids. They're close to being stealers, so pretty animalistic.
Not big/dumb though.

Those are the aberrants, but I'm not sure where they fit into the fluff, because they didn't exist before.

No the initial is half breed and as time goes on the generations become less pure genestealer
Then the 4th gen has some weird shit that makes it pure again - though with some human aspect I'm sure

Can I expect to get a new Astra militarum codex or supplement in the near future? As much as I like the Cadian supplement, it's very expensive point and moneywise.

its actually surprisingly common for minor mutations to be present on fringe outlying worlds of the imperium, usually brought about by exposure to a hostile atmosphere or hazardous chemicals so someone with a slight ridge or weird skull formation may get a free pass as "human enough" on most worlds

Humans are varied - a certain level of difference is acceptable eg void clans

Well yes, becoming less Genestealer by generation would make sense without the 5th gen Purestrains thing.

But with it, it makes more sense for inbreeding to force less and less human hybrids.

And again, the Magus being one of the youngest cultists doesn't sit all that well with me.

>Can I expect to get a new Astra militarum codex or supplement in the near future
No idea. No rumours pointing that way whatsoever.

BUT. They are releasing 13th Black Crusade stuff. And Cadian Regiments were in pretty damn big role in that conflict. So there might as well come book involving Cadians.

1st and 2nd are horrible mutants (), 3rd and 4th are semi to mostly human () Magus and other high ranking members of the cult are 4th. 5th gen is purestrain genestealers.

I'm guessing the logic is that it takes a few generations for the cultists genetics to work itself out and produce infiltration units to infect more generations. By the time the cult has grown several generations, it's ready to start producing actual shock troops in the form of purestrains and take over the place in anticipation of the hive fleet arriving.

> Hive mind synapse web of millions of bacterial spores
> Even the air is anti-psyker

>there are also aberration births which are 1st or 2nd gen hybrids who came out 8~9 foot tall, covered in chitin and dumb as a sack of bricks

he's talking about aberrations

>"Fuck Eldar" said the hivemind

>Eldar breathe in anti-Psyker and die
>Even the Eldar in void sealed suits suffer massive leadership penalties and feel constantly queasy, suffering -1 to WS and BS
>Nids become a hard counter to scatterspam

ork hybrids existed long ago.

It was basically unlucky stealers that ended up infecting orks because it was the only vaguely sentient thing around.

Similar kind of set up though, and ork stealer cults do okay for themselves because hybrids are good fighters.

I kinda hope they do dig that idea up again.
Fucking hell, they would have been great in gorkamorka; much better than fucking digganobs.

Jeenlootaz.

But the purestrain is vital as it can infect tons more by ovipositor and serve as muscle plus it will be needed afterwards to spread off world
It may also be more efficient in harvesting useful genetics

its part of the tyranid infiltration strategy, usually only one or two genestealers manage to sneak onto a world and if they bred increasingly high numbers of acolyte hybrids then the sudden appearence of large quantities of horrifying mutants could draw the attention of higher authorities like the inquisition, therefore its better for genestealer genetics to be pseudo recessive so the bulk of the genestealer cult appear atleast partially human and can interact with other humans and so the real gribbly purestrain genestealers only start to appear when the cult has grown to sufficient size and political power to be able to hide them

Cadians already got their supplement in Mont'ka.

Get some psychological counselling

there has never been eldar stealer hybrids. It obviously wouldn't work.

I wouldn't mind expanding on tau stealer cults because that could be cool (melee oriented tau) But mostly because I would be able to shit all over Tau which I can't fucking stand. The little blue bastards with all those fucking guns and missiles.

Ork Genestealers don't work. Orks don't fuck.

Of course they're useful, but by what the fuck mechanic does someone 93.75% human birth a Purestrain?

Your point was? Black Legion already got their supplement. And then they got more in Traitor's Hate.

wait, that makes no sense, nevermind its just geedubs operating on rule of cool again

i want to do alpha legion just because of that model.
>now stahp with the dank memes.

check your history bro. Ork stealer hybrids are a thing.
I expect that the spores are infected and grow into hybrids rather than be born hybrids.

Infect their DNA, infect their spores.

Start sporing out an entire ecosystem of Genestealer hybrids. Genegrots. Genesquigs. Gargantuan Squigenegoths.

the reason the eldar can't get hybrids is because the eldar genome was constructed by the old ones to be almost impervious to mutation with a built in failsafe to ensure that any mutations that did manifest would render the eldar fetus completely useless

>mechanics
>40k
The whole tyranids biomass thing doesn't make sense, they regularly change the fluff in tau and tyranid travel methods due to infighting about wether everything is the warp and also whether the big 4 are all there is to the warp
Stop being so autistic

they just do. that's how it goes mane.
It's all crazy biology science mumbo jumbo.
or it might be a fictional universe, y'know. Take your pick.