Thoughts on buying cult

[hiveminded55]

Would you say 90$ is worth it?

[Moontyranid]

The moddels are cool and the formation isnt bad

[saibrock]

How "worth it" are 40k models in general to you? I know someone who wouldn't bat an eye at spending $100 on a model just so he can use a piece for a different model. It's all about perspective.

It's a good addition to a tyranid force, if you're looking to expand your collection and you already have enough flyrants.

[gigasnail]

the models are really nice.

how useful are they? jury is still out, but there have been some successes.

[bolk]

The models are sweet. I'm buying the set as soon as I have money for it, though having a buddy that wants the Deathwatch models so we can split on it helps a lot.

[pedro009]

Saibrock summed it up...what counts as worth it to you.

But for 90 you're getting

- quite alot of models, which are
- v nice and
- quite useful interms of gameplay
- and are vastly different from most nid armies

Also...the actual game us quite tense...much better then the betrayal at calth game.

I would recommend it

[mattblowers]

What I have found most useful is taking 3x units of princelings. 90 points for 3 infiltrating scoring units? Sweet. If only they were troops I'd run 12 units in 2 CADs. They are really good in units of 2. Either force your opponent to waste shots and/or lose objectives or get assaulted. The cheap cultists are something we haven't seen and are useful. They hybrids are quite good and can really hold their own. Telepathy hasn't done anything game changing for me as of yet, and the abhorents are aweful. I don't ever play them unless I'm going to run the full formation. They don't do anything our army doesn't already do better and they have a major fault, they have no way of getting there (sound familiar?).

[No One]

What I have found most useful is taking 3x units of princelings. 90 points for 3 infiltrating scoring units? Sweet.

Yeah, that's something that's crossed my mind on more than one occasion - should be a pretty decent reason to actually run my stealers (of which I have too many compared to actually decent stuff ). Of course, I'd still have to get models for the acolytes, which is money I'm not spending on more useful things, like thinking of picking up a crone. Though...might see if I can get some cheap IG 2nd hand and mangle them with some stealer bits...hmm, will test first.

Either force your opponent to waste shots and/or lose objectives or get assaulted.

How are they going actually assaulting things? I'd have thought they'd die to overwatch/the enemy hitting them first due to no grenades - with only 2 models, they're more than a touch fragile. There's expendable, and then there's giving your opponent basically a 'free' shot to kill them.

[hiveminded]

The princelings are not great at assaulting by themselves. They just don't have enough wounds to survive anything. When assaulting with another unit or joined by the Patriarch, they can be effective. I mostly use them for sitting on objectives.

[Deleted]

I played an 11k a few weeks ago. Cult was invaluable. Managed to roll the 1/9 game dreaded double invisibility.

Was playing against orks+daemons+daemonkin. Princelings killed those ork grav artillery turn 1. Was a huge moment.

Don't expect that to happen regularly though. They do die easily. They're for picking off weak support targets against armies that don't have absurd support overwatch.

[mattblowers]

May 3, 2016 0:13:47 GMT hiveminded said:

The princelings are not great at assaulting by themselves. They just don't have enough wounds to survive anything. When assaulting with another unit or joined by the Patriarch, they can be effective. I mostly use them for sitting on objectives.

They are a 30 point threat. How much do you want them to do by themselves? They cost the same as two plasma gun upgrades in a Marine squad. Speed bumps that can score and are quite nasty in CC. What's not to love? Last game one unit slowed a 350 point unit for 1 turn and allowed me to get the match up I wanted.

[No One]

mattblowers said:

They are a 30 point threat. How much do you want them to do by themselves? They cost the same as two plasma gun upgrades in a Marine squad. Speed bumps that can score and are quite nasty in CC. What's not to love? Last game one unit slowed a 350 point unit for 1 turn and allowed me to get the match up I wanted.

I was more asking about you assaulting - they don't really seem to be a threat that has to be dealt with, since they're potentially going to die in your assault phase, not even tying the squad up. Against assault armies, or if they're sitting on an objective for maelstrom, I can really see how they'd be a 30 pts nuisance. But any experience/thoughts on stuff like gunline armies? (Especially in something like Eternal War, which is what I've mostly been playing - partly just because I don't have the cards though...)

[purestrain]

May 3, 2016 11:59:22 GMT No One said:

mattblowers said:

They are a 30 point threat. How much do you want them to do by themselves? They cost the same as two plasma gun upgrades in a Marine squad. Speed bumps that can score and are quite nasty in CC. What's not to love? Last game one unit slowed a 350 point unit for 1 turn and allowed me to get the match up I wanted.

I was more asking about you assaulting - they don't really seem to be a threat that has to be dealt with, since they're potentially going to die in your assault phase, not even tying the squad up. Against assault armies, or if they're sitting on an objective for maelstrom, I can really see how they'd be a 30 pts nuisance. But any experience/thoughts on stuff like gunline armies? (Especially in something like Eternal War, which is what I've mostly been playing - partly just because I don't have the cards though...)

You can d66 the cards from the book, just saying

[No One]

I know, but it's just a hassle then. Especially when all the games I've been playing recently have 'defaulted' to eternal war (it's a casual league - we can do whatever we want if both of us agree on it, but 1k single CAD eternal war is the default) and the tournaments I was planning on going to were eternal war variants as well. Should probably try it out more (especially when the local GW's holding maelstrom tournaments every month, with "in store cash" for prizes.)

[gigasnail]

At 30 points, who cares if they die? Unless charging tau or ravenwing or huge blob squads, they'll live through overwatch.