Genestealer Cult as stand-alone models

[N.I.B.]

Is there any indication of that happening? Any similar precedence? When could we expect it?

[bolk]

Haven`t seen anything about it. Then again, I`m not scouting for rumours as much lately.

[N.I.B.]

I just spoke with a TO, he would be ok with GC as a CAD and not just a formation. So now I just have to wait for the units to be sold separately.

[swarm492]

I haven't heard anything, with that being said, thanks to unbound armies you can pretty much build a full cult army for fun. I'm in the process of doing that, thanks to ebay I have about 100 infantry minis from the deathwatch box sets and I will hunt for some I.G tanks to support them.

[bolk]

Apr 26, 2016 14:36:43 GMT N.I.B. said:

I just spoke with a TO, he would be ok with GC as a CAD and not just a formation. So now I just have to wait for the units to be sold separately.

Why wouldn`t it be ok with GC as a CAD? You have HQs, Troops and Elites.

[mattblowers]

Apr 26, 2016 14:42:30 GMT bolk said:

Apr 26, 2016 14:36:43 GMT N.I.B. said:

I just spoke with a TO, he would be ok with GC as a CAD and not just a formation. So now I just have to wait for the units to be sold separately.

Why wouldn`t it be ok with GC as a CAD? You have HQs, Troops and Elites.

I've had an easier go lately with is after the hive pointed out to me that any CAD only needs 1 HQ and 2 troops of the same faction (or no faction), so there really isn't any reason to not take them. I just need more troops. Right now I'm playtesting each CAD with 3 princeling squads. 30 point objective grabbing units are just too good to be true. Anyway that I can get genestelaer models on the board for cheap is OK for me. And with stealth and hit and run these things actually live pretty well and can "slingshot" out of combat to grab late game objectives.

[bolk]

Apr 26, 2016 15:04:09 GMT mattblowers said:

Apr 26, 2016 14:42:30 GMT bolk said:

Why wouldn`t it be ok with GC as a CAD? You have HQs, Troops and Elites.

I've had an easier go lately with is after the hive pointed out to me that any CAD only needs 1 HQ and 2 troops of the same faction (or no faction), so there really isn't any reason to not take them. I just need more troops. Right now I'm playtesting each CAD with 3 princeling squads. 30 point objective grabbing units are just too good to be true. Anyway that I can get genestelaer models on the board for cheap is OK for me. And with stealth and hit and run these things actually live pretty well and can "slingshot" out of combat to grab late game objectives.

Sounds cool, can`t wait to actually buy some of the models. Been lots of bills lately :S
On the topic of Genestealer and Stealth, I was really surprised to see how well Genestealers fared when I tested out the Phodian Annihilation Swarm formation, where the Genestealer brood with the Broodlord gets Shrouded in addition to Stealth because they already have Stealth. Genestealers with a 4+ cover in the open sure helps them get there. I was fighting BA and the one flamer that got to fire on them whiffed on the dice though.

[LordPathos]

All I want is the Patriarch and a squad of Favored for an allied detachment or 2 a full CAD for Obsec.

[purestrain]

Apr 26, 2016 16:37:42 GMT LordPathos said:

All I want is the Patriarch and a squad of Favored for an allied detachment or 2 a full CAD for Obsec.

Patriarch and favored in one ally cad.
Magus and other disciples (can't remember name lol) in another with a hfd of three Flyrant and ds rippers. I'd bring a pack of zoanthrope and a venomthrope.
12 warp charges a turn and decently killy.

[gigasnail]

the BA captain from exterminatus is in a single clampack now. so are the assassins from execution force, and the chaplain from that silly command pack w/ razorback (well, the chaplain is in with 3 characters, not alone). the DV cultists first had a 5 (or was it 10?) pack, now they have a box with the full 20, plus the really nice aspiring champion model that came out right after, for just slightly more than the AC sells for retail on its own.

tl;dr: yeah, sure. just don't expect it quickly. ebay would be the way to go.

[LordPathos]

We could bring the GSC as an actual allied detachment right, because they aren't the same faction?

[gigasnail]

correct. you may or may not want to; probably wanting to spam acolytes along with the BL and possibly a magus or primus, so a CAD might be better, depending on what you're trying to do.

[N.I.B.]

gigasnail, what was the delay on the BA captain from Exterminatus, approximately?

[gigasnail]

eh, what, 8 months? a year? hard to keep track, but it was a while.

[slithernaut]

Deathstorm was released right after Shield of Baal Leviathan and right before Blood Angels 6e, yeah? December/christmas me thinks 2014