Genestealer Cult what to run

[firemango]

Here's what I'm wondering about my gsc army

[bobthegenestealer]

At first I was going to live and die on just ranged, but if you set yourself up correctly, some melee mixed in really helps tip the balance, especially with some of the charge cheese.

I'm still predominantly ranged but I don't think I'll ever keep to just one or the other again.

[firemango]

Thanks what would you recommend for a mixed shooting build

[LordPathos]

I'm a sucker for the melee side with my only real ranged weapons from Neophytes on objectives.

Hybrids everywhere!

[firemango]

What would you recommend on acolyte champion because I run lash whip and bonesword

[puppylaser]

I like running a melee build, with shooting assistance from trucks and rockgrinders. The point of my shooting is to drop crossfire markers for the stratagems, if they kill something that's a bonus

[kazetanade]

GSC is either a combined arms army, or a shooty army with decent melee elements. Our main faction rules are completely supporting shooting only - its hard to miss.

Conversely, our melee is decent with very little supporting synergies. We don't have easy access to reroll all hits or wounds, we don't have access to ignore invulns, we don't have access to the type of melee that makes people fear you - its just good melee that tends to trade for its points, give or take. At most it's Impassioned Affinity or Twisted Helix that really takes melee to another level of -consistency-, not really output boosting.

Our main output boost is a spell that you can land on 1 unit a turn - this should give you an idea how GSC was meant to be played in the first place.

As to how to make a balanced list - around 2-4 melee units, then some shooting core of Neophytes, Bikes, and Ridgerunners, and enablers to finish up.

[firemango]

K thanks for all the good support I love how supportive this is since I'm a new player