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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 23, 2016 17:42:33 GMT -5
From BOLS (source of pics below):
Wow! First off, I LOVE the cover! It looks fantastic. Now lets break down these boxes a bit:
Acolyte Hybrids Box:
Well at least we now have those Tyranid Weapons confirmed and also the big “Buzz Saw” thing.
These are very clearly NOT the same models from the Deathwatch: Overkill game.
That one guy in the back has BUNDLES OF DYNAMITE!
Neophyte Hybrids Box:
These are the later Generation Cultists for sure.
Cool Icon/Standard Bearer.
The Mining Laser is back and appears to have a Bi-Pod to support it.
Lots of Shotguns and Autoguns, reminds me of Chaos Cultists. (Side note: OHHH we gotta have a Cultist throw down now!)
I see the Heavy Stubber for another heavy weapon option.
The “leader” model has a Mining Pick and a strange gun…hey, so does that other guy on the right side…
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 23, 2016 17:53:24 GMT -5
New Zealand pre=order is up!
"Limited to a mere 1,000 copies worldwide, this edition of Codex: Genestealer Cults comes in an attractive two-part slipcase, and includes:
- the full-colour 104-page Codex: Genestealer Cults; - the 32-page How To Paint Citadel Miniatures: Genestealer Cults; - 36 Tactical Objective cards; - 7 psychic powers cards - a double-sided poster featuring Genestealer Cults artwork - 6 Tactical Objective markers, in the shape of Genestealer Cult icons.
Vile chanting fills the air, marked by blood-chilling shrieks of alien beasts – the xenos creed shall rise! Thousands of cultist voices are raised in prayer to their Patriarch, a living god from beyond the stars. Shadows in the distance become a seething tide, a living wave of hybrid creatures that boils out from dank and slimy lairs. Vehicles modified with whatever weapons can be cobbled together careen around the horde’s flanks, delivering yet more terror. Sinister, charismatic leaders cast dominion over their enemies as well as their underlings. The Cult has long-prepared for this day of reckoning, and its swollen ranks will surely conquer the world.
This 104-page, full-colour Codex features a wealth of gaming content:
- comprehensive information on the Genestealer Cults, the gruesome and frankly unsettling story of their rise from a single organism to unstoppable, planet-devouring insurrection; - rules for Genestealer Cults miniatures, the scavenged weapons they use to slaughter their victims, and army-building lists allowing for Hybrid and Brood Brother cultists drawn from the Astra Militarum; - formations that make use of both the Genestealer Cults and Astra Militarum ranges, with notes on the wargear that Genestealer Cults scavenge and use for their own sinister ends; - 6 new Tactical Objectives and the complete Broodmind Discipline: new Psychic Powers used by Magi and Patriarchs; - the Cult Ambush rule: dependent on a dice roll, Genestealer Cults units can set up anywhere on the table, deploy and charge in the same turn, and burst from their hidden lairs to surprise and engulf the enemies of the Cult; - a showcase of beautifully-painted Citadel miniatures, presenting the colours and icons of the Cults that lurk below.
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 24, 2016 7:20:25 GMT -5
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 25, 2016 11:57:57 GMT -5
From BOLS:
codex table of contents, which shows all the units dataslate for the rockgrinder - course it doesn't tell us what the drill dozer blade does!
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Post by cmcd on Sept 25, 2016 15:05:35 GMT -5
I want those trucks for my Ork army I don't even have yet.
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 27, 2016 8:20:07 GMT -5
rules rules rules.... yay!
(love the ambush mechanic)
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 27, 2016 8:21:00 GMT -5
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 27, 2016 8:59:29 GMT -5
So the Magus and purestrains are complete improvements over the deathwatch rules (which are free pdf at GW here: www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Deathwatch/40k-rules-deathwatch-en.pdf )
The Magus gains for the same point cost: Admantium will in a 12" bubble, cult ambush, infiltrate, return to the shadows, unquestioning loyalty, and access to two more disciplines - biomancy/broodmind !!!!!
The purestrain genestealers gain - for the same point cost: a 5+ INVULNERABLE SAVE!!!!, 3 attacks base! Furious charge with a patriarch, return to the shadows and cult ambush. (and STEALTH - which regular genestealers do not have!)
So this goes without saying... ALL of my tyranid genestealers are being repurposed to purestrain genestealers. This gives me hope that the tyranid codex will wholesale replace genestealers with this version. Oh and in the detachment cuz the stealers have infiltrate they get stealth AND shrouded first turn!!!!! And when depleted can enter ongoing reserves and gain back D6 models!!!!
To say I'm excited about this is a huge understatement.... what else... I had something else to add....
.... oh right, fuck you bolters. I ain't afraid of you now!!!!!
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Post by voodoo on Sept 27, 2016 9:19:34 GMT -5
It’s about time they didn’t suck ass!
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Post by Khalai on Sept 27, 2016 9:32:03 GMT -5
Now these are the genestealers that I expected to see across the table all day every day.
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Post by danny1995 on Sept 27, 2016 9:54:54 GMT -5
If there's any way to get a re roll or dice manipulation on that ambush chart I could see it being a nasty thing to run into. I know it's only a 16% of getting to charge the turn you come in, theres a 66% of chance of you basically placing them almost wherever you want. And when we're talking about genestealers with Stealth that's basically saying that they will have a 3+ cover save.
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 27, 2016 10:06:28 GMT -5
doesn't appear to be anyway to manipulate it... warlord traits don't appear to allow it... maybe once we see the patriarch datasheet or maybe all the psychic powers there'll be something
but I'll even take a random chart over the steaming pile of crap genestealers currently are!
so yeah... 20 with a patriarch... coming to a table soon as I get some money scrounged up....
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Sept 27, 2016 17:04:39 GMT -5
more rules... I'm going to be so broke...
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Post by cmcd on Sept 27, 2016 22:44:52 GMT -5
Genestealers and guard .. really.
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Post by voodoo on Sept 28, 2016 5:52:29 GMT -5
Well, yeah! Who else do you think they infiltrate and get to have their crazy mutant babies?
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