Help Needed designing GSC List with Spearhead Leman Russes

[Aux]

Hello all,

Due to these odd times I've had a chance to work on some models of my own over the next few weeks. I have an unbuilt traitor guard army laying around I wanted to see if I can turn it into a Genestealer Cult List of around 2000 Points. What I own unbuilt right now:


3 Leman Russ Battle Tanks (no side guns yet)
1 Leman Russ Battle Tank/Vanquisher/tank ace (no side guns yet)
2 Leman Russ Demolishers (no side guns yet)
2 Goliath Rockgrinder
2 Achilles Ridgerunners
5 Atalan Jackals
70 Guardsmen Bodies
9 Heavy Weapon Teams
50 Genestealers (I dont actually need to run these but I have them painted already)

I can convert Aberrants up if desired. Allied Imperial Guard Spearhead Detachment? for the Tank Commander? I'd want to go for cheap units and spam to hit that 2k points mark.

Thank you for any help - I'm a noob when it comes to cults. I've mostly been getting stomped by Iron Hands for weeks with my bugs and wanted to come back with something new.

[kazetanade]

Unfortunately nothing in Guard Cult is capable of fighting back against the IH stomp - we get only a small segment of the good stuff from PA, so we don't have much to work with.

What remained good from Index still remains good now, meaning your best choices are:

1. Wyverns for Reroll to Hit Reroll to Wound anti infantry, or a Reroll Hit Basilisk

2. Leman Russes due to how cheap they are, as well as a new strategem for max shots vs Vehicles

3. A Super heavy Tank

4. Bullgryns with Astropaths making them big boys, assuming Astropaths don't get sniped out by the SM scout snipers or stalker bolt rifles with strategies to become snipers.

You could, COULD,pull something very amusing with Nids + Cult + IG, in the form of Exo/Male/Mala, Ridgerunners, Russ Tank Commanders, for a list that hardly spends cp but is pretty hard to kill. If you're not super high tier competitive and don't expect to get into melee scrums at all, this list will probably cause a lot of frustration to your opponent, without being too overwhelming.

It's not going to do well in a competitive setting as is though. You need to make a fair bit of changes to fix that.

[No One]

Unless things have changed with PA/CA (I don't think they have), tank commander's are the only russ worth taking. New basi/manticore strats are good and (esp the former) are decent, but I doubt they're good enough without tank aces to really impact IH.