Genestealer cult due by May + another release later in 2016
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Post by xtztxtxz on Feb 6, 2016 0:50:43 GMT
Sad Panda has made a couple of posts on Dakka: Hmmmm... Deathwatch miniatures in the boxed game are all mono-pose characters (think Space Hulk, except with normal bases). Sternguard rumors are nonsense. One is possibly the first dedicated Blood Ravens mini by GW (feel free to correct me there. My GW-history-fu is weak)? Lots of cultists, a few pure genestealers, another new broodlord. Multi-part kits later this year. For those of you unaware, Sad Panda is one of the very few people to have a 100% perfect record for rumours posted on Dakka. He's called nearly all releases from the last year well in advance, including AoS, Space Wolves, Tau, and Horus Heresy. So, who's excited?
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Post by gigasnail on Feb 6, 2016 1:23:28 GMT
For the models? Yeah, cool man. New shinies.
For the supplement itself? Hahahhahaha, no, not really. They will really have to pull something special off to make it not be hot garbage. Here's to hoping though.
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Post by Carnikang on Feb 6, 2016 3:20:18 GMT
Optimism. I saw the Sadpanda post on Dakka when I was at work. Actually really excited.
Perhaps they will be able to take allies and say "Yeah, they're part of the Cult." Hello Riptides.
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Post by Hive Tyrant Qiln on Feb 6, 2016 5:14:06 GMT
I'm pretty sure Tau can't be corrupted, the selective breeding would cause the genestealers to die out.
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Post by yoritomo on Feb 6, 2016 6:49:25 GMT
We were supposed to get stealer cults in what, June of last year?
You'll excuse me if I don't hold my breath on this one.
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Post by doomreaper9 on Feb 6, 2016 6:54:11 GMT
I'm pretty sure Tau can't be corrupted, the selective breeding would cause the genestealers to die out. I thought genestealer cults were where they would infect a portion of the population. It's not where it's corruption like a chaos cult. So it could happen to tau and eldar being infected.
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Post by glitchrr36 on Feb 6, 2016 7:01:12 GMT
I'm pretty sure Tau can't be corrupted, the selective breeding would cause the genestealers to die out. I thought genestealer cults were where they would infect a portion of the population. It's not where it's corruption like a chaos cult. So it could happen to tau and eldar being infected. Tau have such an insanely regulated society where they have more or less replaced the urge to breed with "here is your room, your partner is there, be quick, and be out of here in thirty minutes." Partners, location, Etc. for tau reproduction are all dictated by the state. So genestealer cults don't spread fast if at all because they probably notice it in screening, then just prevent the individual from reproducing.
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Post by Carnikang on Feb 6, 2016 7:02:27 GMT
I'm pretty sure Tau can't be corrupted, the selective breeding would cause the genestealers to die out. Happens to Orks, Humans, Tau, and just about every races barring Eldar. Mostly because they're psychically sensitive and can tell when the infected has been.... implanted. Otherwise the host appears perfectly normal and thinks they escaped the Genestealer somehow.
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Post by doomreaper9 on Feb 6, 2016 7:20:59 GMT
The tyranid race is so adaptive that's it's very hard to tell if any race has been infected. The mars biologist are still amazed at what the tyranid race is capable of and some of their research they find that they are still dumb founded by it. Anytime when a cult is discovered most space marine chapters and the inquisition opt for total destruction of the city/ hive or if tyranid's influence is too strong they will call in an exterminatus.
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Post by doomreaper9 on Feb 6, 2016 7:27:14 GMT
There is only two races that can't be infected by a genestealer cult. Necrons and demons.
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Post by robotoctopus on Feb 6, 2016 7:37:06 GMT
Not quite the gargantuan MC I was hoping for. Oh well.
Not sure what Cults will bring to the nids, what kind of stuff can we expect? Access to rulebook psychic tables? Vehicles? Any nifty tricks or traits that they used to have that could come back?
Im quite new to 40k so dont know much about them game wise.
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Post by Hive Tyrant Qiln on Feb 6, 2016 7:47:55 GMT
Never said they can't be infected, I said it wouldn't work. 2 different things.
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Post by angelwing on Feb 6, 2016 9:25:49 GMT
Nice to hear, but as usual I'll believe it when I see it. I can happily wait until May. I mean, whats another few months on top of the last 20 years we've been waiting for new cult models?
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Post by doomreaper9 on Feb 6, 2016 10:08:06 GMT
When a genestealer infestation first begans. There are three types of Tyranids that invade the enemy planet. The brood lord, pure breed genestealers, and the one I don't remember it's name but acts as a conductor to the hive fleet the brood is from. Now at this point in time the pure breed stealers are infecting lowest class of the population (outcast, mutated beings, etc). While this is going on the brood lord is setting up shop underground with the other bug. Afterwards once they have a base of operations and a few infected, they let them reproduce. During at this time the brood lord and pure breed genestealers become dormant and stay to the shadows while protecting the other bug that's communicating with the hive fleet. After the hybrids have lets say two or three generations of that race, it becomes impossible to tell if they were infected even by being scanned or look at by the medical personnel. However the brood lord doesn't send them in and keeps them reproducing. In some cases the genestealer brood would wait decades before they started sending any of their hybrids to infiltrate the population as a whole. Generations apon generations of learning how the enemy acts, eats, sleeps, and goes poop, down to the smallest detail. This is how they do it. Eventually their hybrids become upperclass, elite class and elected officials that have control of the military. At this point the bug that's communicating with the hive fleet is working triple time now, telling the hive queen her planet is ready for harvesting. Eventually the hive fleet arrives and all hell breaks loose cause the commanders which are hybrids are either killing others elite personnel, starting a civil war, or causing communications between the defense of the planet.
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Post by yoritomo on Feb 6, 2016 10:38:27 GMT
Wow, that's seven shades of wrong.
I wish I wasn't a work so I could correct that wall of text.
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