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Well, still on a quest to make my genestealer army more competetive, and with each iteration, I lose more and more genestealers :/ I wanna use them, and make them work, so here is the latest version... I have been having decent luck with scuttlers lately, but still losing a large portion of my games against any army that has even just a few AP4 weapons.

Last week I played against a space marine armored company with 3 predator destructors, a land raider, and two dreadnoughts, that just utterly destroyed me.. but that is kind of a given, and I was expecting to lose the battle but it made me realize just how important the gunfex is, and how nice it would have been to have acouple more.

HQ-
1x Broodlord (Sacs, IA, Carapace, Hooks) + 6x retinue (carapace) - 225

Troops-
6x Genestealers (Carapace, Scuttlers) - 138
6x Genestealers (Carapace, Scuttlers) - 138
6x Genestealers (Carapace, Scuttlers) - 138
6x Genestealers (Carapace, Scuttlers) - 138
6x Genestealers (Carapace, Scuttlers) - 138
6x Genestealers (Carapace, Scuttlers) - 138


Heavy Support-
1x Gunfex (Senses, VC/BS) - 148
1x Gunfex (Senses, VC/BS) - 148
1x Gunfex (Senses, VC/BS) - 148

Total: 1497

This list still has a focus on genestealers, which I like, and has much more shooting ability than my other lists, which only had 1 gunfex. Any thoughts? Could this list be competetive? One crazy thought was to drop scuttlers in favor of a elite-slot close combat carni, just for fun, and for theme, but figured scuttlers would be more worthwhile.. any thoughts? it seems like one of the few lists where a close combat carni could be viable, as the enemy simply has too many deadly targets and suffers from target overpowering (shoot the stealers knocking on the front door, or the gunfexes that are taking out my tanks, or the close combat carni lumbering up the flank?!), but I could just be crazy...

If I go this route, at 1850 I could add a flyrant, and/or more stealers, or some dakkafexes...

Thanks in advance

~Gabe

I'd root for barbed strangler/scything talons on the elites over pure combat. The extra range is nice for a dude who'll end up in reserve 1/3 of the time. If you cut the senses from the gunfexes, you can cram in one such fex and a very modest (toxins sacs, x2 scything talons) flyrant in the place of your Broodlord - just an idea, depending on how much you value a killy-ish Broodlord+retinue compared to another two TMCs.

wight_widow - No offense but WTF did I just read? Are you suggesting he stick his only heavy weapons on BS2 models?
All so he can get another horrible shot model?
You do know that naturally carnis hit 1/3 of the time right?