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Hello Fellow dakkanauts today I had brilliant and as far as I know original. An imperial guard regiment that has been infected by a virus that mutates them into half tyranid and half human hybrids. The virus is infact a mutation of a genetic weapon which was deployed when the reseach center where it was being developed was attacked by a tendral of a near by hive fleet. The cadian 124th regiment stationed at the center deployed the prototype weapon in the middle of a battle against the invading tryanids little knowing the lictors had corupted the mixture only hours before it was isued to the troopers. The weapon backfired and instead of targeting tyranid cells it lodged its self in non tyranid cells and mutated them into tyranid cells. Thus by this method the 124th were completley destroyed and mindless abominations were born in their place.

Ok fluff out of the way as you can probably guess i am going to build an army to represent the infected 124th cadian using the tyranid codex. Ok here are some of my ideas for infected substitutes for tyranid units:

gaunts-guardsmen
tervigon-chimera
canifex-leman russ
biovores-basalisk
hive guard-sentinal
gargoles-winged guardsmen
tyranid worrier-ogran

Please comment on fluff and post ideas for substitues!

and another thing THIS IS NOT A GENE STEALER CULT

Go onto lexicanum and look up genestealer cults. I think you'll be surprised.

Sorry to burst that bubble but your idea is as old as 2nd edition 40K. By all means give it a go and show us your work.

Ribon Fox wrote:Sorry to burst that bubble but your idea is as old as 2nd edition 40K. By all means give it a go and show us your work.

Older than that no?
Genestealers were one of the first things to be around...

purplefood wrote:

Ribon Fox wrote:Sorry to burst that bubble but your idea is as old as 2nd edition 40K. By all means give it a go and show us your work.

Older than that no?
Genestealers were one of the first things to be around...

Really? I thought nids showed up in 2nd ed.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Ribon Fox wrote:Sorry to burst that bubble but your idea is as old as 2nd edition 40K. By all means give it a go and show us your work.

Older than that no?
Genestealers were one of the first things to be around...

Really? I thought nids showed up in 2nd ed.

Nids maybe but Stealers were in the game that made 40k... Space Hulk!
Them and Deathwing IIRC...
Though i could be wrong and that could have been twisted up in my head...

Genestelers yes, they do harne back to the dark age of 40K but the cult is from 2nd 40K. And to illsrate my point some scaned in images from the Codex Army Lists




Back then you could get some monstrosly nasty armys.

guys its diffrent from a genestealer cult it mutates you it dosnt infect you and then turn your decendants into genestealers (by the way I was aware of genestealer cults before I posted this) and I looked it up nids are second edition!

The Deathless Host wrote:guys its diffrent from a genestealer cult it mutates you it dosnt infect you and then turn your decendants into genestealers (by the way I was aware of genestealer cults before I posted this) and I looked it up nids are second edition!

Yeah but it's pretty damn similar...
Maybe go for a different take on it...
Like that repair nano doohickeys on that creepy episode of Dr Who.
The Cadian whoevers find a xenos hospital station.
This station has a sentient virus which repairs dead organisms.
The Cadian troops are subsequently attacked by tyranid splinter fleet whatever and both take heavy losses.
The Virus patches both Nid and human back together using whatever it can find (Tank bits for carnifexs, gaunt bits for humans etc)
Eventually there is nothing but this Motley swarm of virus controlled beings.
The virus (superceeds the Hivbe mind somehow, maybe by destroying the psychic bits of the Tyrant's mind) then boards local Imperial craft, repairs some damaged Tyranids craft and then starts it's little crusade...

purplefood wrote:

The Deathless Host wrote:guys its diffrent from a genestealer cult it mutates you it dosnt infect you and then turn your decendants into genestealers (by the way I was aware of genestealer cults before I posted this) and I looked it up nids are second edition!

Yeah but it's pretty damn similar...
Maybe go for a different take on it...
Like that repair nano doohickeys on that creepy episode of Dr Who.
The Cadian whoevers find a xenos hospital station.
This station has a sentient virus which repairs dead organisms.
The Cadian troops are subsequently attacked by tyranid splinter fleet whatever and both take heavy losses.
The Virus patches both Nid and human back together using whatever it can find (Tank bits for carnifexs, gaunt bits for humans etc)
Eventually there is nothing but this Motley swarm of virus controlled beings.
The virus (superceeds the Hivbe mind somehow, maybe by destroying the psychic bits of the Tyrant's mind) then boards local Imperial craft, repairs some damaged Tyranids craft and then starts it's little crusade...

hummm perhaps that could work but no "xenos hospital station" mabye it could be a imperial biological wepon gone wrong?

The Deathless Host wrote:

purplefood wrote:

The Deathless Host wrote:guys its diffrent from a genestealer cult it mutates you it dosnt infect you and then turn your decendants into genestealers (by the way I was aware of genestealer cults before I posted this) and I looked it up nids are second edition!

Yeah but it's pretty damn similar...
Maybe go for a different take on it...
Like that repair nano doohickeys on that creepy episode of Dr Who.
The Cadian whoevers find a xenos hospital station.
This station has a sentient virus which repairs dead organisms.
The Cadian troops are subsequently attacked by tyranid splinter fleet whatever and both take heavy losses.
The Virus patches both Nid and human back together using whatever it can find (Tank bits for carnifexs, gaunt bits for humans etc)
Eventually there is nothing but this Motley swarm of virus controlled beings.
The virus (superceeds the Hivbe mind somehow, maybe by destroying the psychic bits of the Tyrant's mind) then boards local Imperial craft, repairs some damaged Tyranids craft and then starts it's little crusade...

hummm perhaps that could work but no "xenos hospital station" mabye it could be a imperial biological wepon gone wrong?

Yeah that sounds pretty good...

purplefood wrote:

The Deathless Host wrote:

purplefood wrote:

The Deathless Host wrote:guys its diffrent from a genestealer cult it mutates you it dosnt infect you and then turn your decendants into genestealers (by the way I was aware of genestealer cults before I posted this) and I looked it up nids are second edition!

Yeah but it's pretty damn similar...
Maybe go for a different take on it...
Like that repair nano doohickeys on that creepy episode of Dr Who.
The Cadian whoevers find a xenos hospital station.
This station has a sentient virus which repairs dead organisms.
The Cadian troops are subsequently attacked by tyranid splinter fleet whatever and both take heavy losses.
The Virus patches both Nid and human back together using whatever it can find (Tank bits for carnifexs, gaunt bits for humans etc)
Eventually there is nothing but this Motley swarm of virus controlled beings.
The virus (superceeds the Hivbe mind somehow, maybe by destroying the psychic bits of the Tyrant's mind) then boards local Imperial craft, repairs some damaged Tyranids craft and then starts it's little crusade...

hummm perhaps that could work but no "xenos hospital station" mabye it could be a imperial biological wepon gone wrong?

Yeah that sounds pretty good...

Good its decided il edit the fluff

Very good. Like the new fluff much more

That sounds pretty cool.