Other GSC races

[drdotts]

Looking to run a 3rd Magus in my current list but I don't have another magus model, so I was thinking it would be fun to make my own. I read somewhere that orks had been infected by the cult before and was wondering what other races could've been infected as well?
Main goal is to make a GSC magus out of another race/faction's model. Ork magus, eldar magus, Tau magus etc..

Need ideas and suggestions!

[almostmercury]

Interesting. My understanding is that genestealers are the result of human DNA. Biovores were orks.

But whatever. Sounds fun. Pick a strong psychic race and go to town.

[killercroc]

The issue with this are that other races don't accept mutants as much as humans do, it specifically mentions in the fluff that they tried infecting orks but the other orks would kill them because they looked too different. I'd imagine the same goes for Eldar and Dark Eldar as well, the only other race I've seen get infected by genestealers were Tau in the Ciaphas Cain novels. So I think your best bet might to be making a Tau or Kroot cult infected, or get something from fantasy and using that as the model because there are certain fantasy races like Skaven and Lizardmen in the 40k universe (though they go by different names)

[almostmercury]

I don’t think a Tau Magus makes any sense though.

[babyripper]

I’m hooked on the idea of Kharadron Overlords (age of sigmar steampunk dwarves with airships) as GSC - just because I can’t think of another way to incorporate those beautiful buggers into any of my armies!)
Check them out - they are awesome.

BabyRipper

[localcultist]

Dec 2, 2017 18:23:48 GMT almostmercury said:

I don’t think a Tau Magus makes any sense though.

On the other hand regular "human" Magi cast spells from Broodmind discipline, much of which are probably more related to Tyranids (like Broodlord Paroxysm and such). So I would assume those powers come from Genestealers and not host itself.

I'm curious if Genestealers could somehow get "involved" with Necrons. Yes, they're undead space robots, but something like that happened to Xenomorphs and results were... interesting (not to mention actual synthetic Aliens). Even regular xenomorphs are biomechanical (due to Giger "industrial" designs).

Other than that, Hrud (in olden days Space Skaven, now Slime People) would make perfect sneaky Genestealers. Take Hrud's vision-distorting powers and Genestealers abilities to infiltrate (maybe add chameleonic skin) and they can give Deathleaper run for it's money.

[dan3dim]

Some Cthulhu miniature might work.

www.waylandgames.co.uk/achtung-cthulhu/21114-cultists-of-the-old-gods?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsM7xyrG62AIVqbztCh1tTgJWEAQYAiABEgKtO_D_BwE

Not suit me but with anyone might like it.

[babyripper]

Jan 2, 2018 23:04:51 GMT dan3dim said:

Some Cthulhu miniature might work.

www.waylandgames.co.uk/achtung-cthulhu/21114-cultists-of-the-old-gods?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsM7xyrG62AIVqbztCh1tTgJWEAQYAiABEgKtO_D_BwE

Not suit me but with anyone might like it.

Wow! They definitely have the right vibe to them, they look awesome!
Swap out the kraken staff for a Tyranid symbol and they’re perfect.

BabyRipper

[dan3dim]

Jan 2, 2018 23:48:50 GMT babyripper said:

Jan 2, 2018 23:04:51 GMT dan3dim said:

Some Cthulhu miniature might work.

www.waylandgames.co.uk/achtung-cthulhu/21114-cultists-of-the-old-gods?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsM7xyrG62AIVqbztCh1tTgJWEAQYAiABEgKtO_D_BwE

Not suit me but with anyone might like it.

Wow! They definitely have the right vibe to them, they look awesome!
Swap out the kraken staff for a Tyranid symbol and they’re perfect.

BabyRipper

Here you go. glad to help.
I am fan of Cthulhu.

[warhammer39999]

Iliad games made a series called “chaosmorphes” that work great for ork cult models.

www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&ei=R-5aWuLGKI-6jwPHvpegCw&q=ilyad+games+chaosmorphes&oq=ilyad+games+chaosmorphes&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.3...2846.2846.0.3454.2.1.0.1.1.0.220.220.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.mobile-gws-img..0.0.0.0...0.HwLfVZ0q7m8 HwLfVZ0q7m8

I’m pretty sure I have some of these laying around if you can’t find them elsewhere.

[dan3dim]

Thank for that gant launcher!

www.coolminiornot.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12607&stc=1&d=1333884994

Haha

[Threeshades]

Dec 2, 2017 12:02:52 GMT drdotts said:

Looking to run a 3rd Magus in my current list but I don't have another magus model, so I was thinking it would be fun to make my own. I read somewhere that orks had been infected by the cult before and was wondering what other races could've been infected as well?
Main goal is to make a GSC magus out of another race/faction's model. Ork magus, eldar magus, Tau magus etc..

Need ideas and suggestions!

Not sure if eldar are susceptible to genestealer infiltration, but orks definitely have precedent and tau, being young and naive, certainly fit the bill. However tau are psychically mute and a tau magus wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.

[babyripper]

Jan 15, 2018 3:07:24 GMT Threeshades said:

Dec 2, 2017 12:02:52 GMT drdotts said:

Looking to run a 3rd Magus in my current list but I don't have another magus model, so I was thinking it would be fun to make my own. I read somewhere that orks had been infected by the cult before and was wondering what other races could've been infected as well?
Main goal is to make a GSC magus out of another race/faction's model. Ork magus, eldar magus, Tau magus etc..

Need ideas and suggestions!

Not sure if eldar are susceptible to genestealer infiltration, but orks definitely have precedent and tau, being young and naive, certainly fit the bill. However tau are psychically mute and a tau magus wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.

You could bypass that quite easily. It’s almost canon that the ethereals control the entire tau population with pheromones and hormones etc, just say that the genestealer part of him unlocked the pheromone so that he can use it for other purposes, similar to (but not the same fluffwise as) psychic abilities.

BabyRipper