What's everyone's favorite cult?

[hivefleetkerrigan]

I know when the codex dropped there was a lot of debate over the best cult.
What's your favorite cult? Which one do you think is the best?

[kurtangle2]

Twisted Helix

[Hive Bahamut]

^ This one

4 arm 4 arm
Quad god
2x hugs for everyone
High five five

Working too hard being model citizens giving the normal humans flakk for their "needs"

(Actually post nerf 4arm is almost useless, Bladed Cog is my go to.)

[LordPathos]

Twisted Helix for games, Behemoid Undercult for lore. How can you not love a cult that believes that Hive Fleet Behemoth is a god and worship Old One Eye?

[Kyokii]

Rusted claw for me. That armor bump has come out in top a surprising number of times, and drive by demolitions is [fun]
I've blasted c'tan and daemon princes off the table with 2cp, 4 bikes, and a can-do attitude.

[cunningtyrant]

I love a couple of them, but my favourite one has to be Pauper Princes - their warlord trait and relic are just too good to ignore them. A Patriarch surrounded by a horde of cultists, saving him on a 2+ is awesome. The relic is going to Primus along with +3" bubble trait, making him incredibly good (9" fearless bubble, +1 to hit, re-rolling 1's to wound in cc, and striking back even after death on a 4+).

[kazetanade]

I'm favouring Bladed Cog for the guns right now, and Twisted Helix purely for the Abbys, but in general I think FAE is the best all-rounder. Trying to deal with things like interceptor fire, the negatives to charge everywhere, and the ability to get stuck in on multiple weak fronts at once is really good for general play.

Lore wise it's also a toss-up between Bladed Cog and Twisted Helix, but I think I still favour BC. I really like TH's icon though and would like to get dice made for them.

[turner430]

Bladed Cog all day. Rolling road block of neophytes with mining lasers a plenty. Get a Iconward for some FNP, Patriach for for fearless and the regen strat you have a fairly harf to shift core.
Plus their strat works amazingly well for Abbies vs Imperials. Especially with Picks.

[NidNoms]

Aug 17, 2019 14:51:17 GMT kurtangle2 said:

Twisted Helix

agreed, i mean just how they infect others is so unique and gives a Frankenstein vibe to it, and don't get me started on gameplay with them, 5 Abarents with picks and claws + Abominant + Biophagus in Twisted Helix are a nightmare for your enemies, first time i ran it they kill about 2 units of mechanicus and a Leman Russ and badly damaged a 2nd Russ, they good, i also like Bladed Cog for there Invul save for all your units and troops ignore heavy move rules.

[NidNoms]

Aug 17, 2019 15:32:47 GMT LordPathos said:

Twisted Helix for games, Behemoid Undercult for lore. How can you not love a cult that believes that Hive Fleet Behemoth is a god and worship Old One Eye?

damn straight

[zimko]

Competitively Twisted Helix is strong and fun.

But I think Bladed Cog deserves a special mention. 50 neophytes with 10 mining lasers and 10 webbers, a Patriarch with Bladed Cog trait and a Jackal Alphus and Kelermorph.... this all makes for a really strong and fun battalion that gives excellent board presence when they arrive. It's easy to slide that battalion in with any other cult (maybe 40 neophytes instead of 50 if you need points). And it costs NO command points to function. You can save your command points for other (please do not swear).

[kurtangle2]

Aug 18, 2019 17:52:31 GMT zimko said:

Competitively Twisted Helix is strong and fun.

But I think Bladed Cog deserves a special mention. 50 neophytes with 10 mining lasers and 10 webbers, a Patriarch with Bladed Cog trait and a Jackal Alphus and Kelermorph.... this all makes for a really strong and fun battalion that gives excellent board presence when they arrive. It's easy to slide that battalion in with any other cult (maybe 40 neophytes instead of 50 if you need points). And it costs NO command points to function. You can save your command points for other (please do not swear).

You can indeed go for both in a list and this what I did

[xsquidz]

Bladed cog is super powerful for the CC guys as well and is my go-to. 6++ is okay army wide but the strat for exploding 6's, 5's against imperium and 4's against ad mech is really good, makes units with less other buffs or less rock saws still able to solo knights (depends on lots of factors) but getting 1/3 more attacks with rock saws is nuts against them. Plus the unique warlord trait for them is re-roll to wound. Put that on a primus and you can re-roll wounds vs 1 target and re-roll 1's to wound vs a different target... that is how I routinely kill 2 knights in a turn with 2 rock saw units and lots of buffs/stratagems. Then I take a mixed detachment with some CO4AE guys like me nexos so I can vect and some rusted claw bikers because their strat is also amazing!

[1b2a]

Aug 17, 2019 20:04:50 GMT cunningtyrant said:

I love a couple of them, but my favourite one has to be Pauper Princes - their warlord trait and relic are just too good to ignore them. A Patriarch surrounded by a horde of cultists, saving him on a 2+ is awesome. The relic is going to Primus along with +3" bubble trait, making him incredibly good (9" fearless bubble, +1 to hit, re-rolling 1's to wound in cc, and striking back even after death on a 4+).

Does patriarch get unquestioning loyalty? He doesn't have it in his rules.

[No One]

Unquestioning is the rule that lets you die for a different Character: so patty (and also his familiar ) can't jump in front of anyone else, but everyone can take a bullet for him.