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anyone had success with plonking down 60+ Genestealers and running across the table madly? giving them skuttlers so half start 6" closer the other half outflank,

almost nothing but stealers?

I do realise its a very one dimentional army and will get dull after a while, I'm just wondering if it can work

sorry if this should have been in army lists

Hey I've never used the army (max 20 genstealers) but I faced one of 6 warriors (leaping,scything) and genestealers to fill up to 1500. Its an impressive sight to behold but now 5th editions here you'll have serious trouble versus anything with an armour value or quantity of fire. Its doable but only with a broodlord and lictor for light armour.

A friend of mine plays a brood lord/genestealer list, that had 3 melee fex in it. It seems to be a very solid list.

With the changes to rending stealer shock armies arent the beasts they once were. You can still do it but you will have trouble with armour and pure horde armies. I think there are much better options for nids in 5th.

Any sort of mech will run you over. Stealers can peel units out of rhinos, but then they die to the shooting.

It'll work against a couple lists until people realize what you're playing, then it'll stop working.

I've found Genestealers to work best as shock troops, namely outflanking or moving behind cover to hit vulnerable units. I've never done a pure Stealer army, but

I've have them fill up a significant percentage of my points in a few large game, and that worked quite effectively (I used 40 Genestealers in 4 units of 10).
The enemy had to deal with a large conventional swarm of Gaunts followed by larger creatures (Hive Tyrant, Carnifex, Zoanthrope) coming straight at them, while occasionally 10 or 20 Genestealers would arrive from one of the sides, fleet over and destroy a heavy weapon squad.