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drbored wrote:
Ugh, this release is just looking cooler and cooler, but I need to save my money for sisters of battle and chaos...

Don't worry about it. One won't be till the end of the year and the other probably won't happen.

There’s some very cool stuff coming for gsc, the question I why they can’t make the guard stuff as cool.

Guard can't have all the fun.

On a more related note, I really am wondering how much all this new stuff is going to cost.

I'd guess same price for the dune racer as the Ork bugggies

Guard don’t get super cool tricked out buggies and rally cars because if it’s an Astra Militarum item it needs to be something cheap and rugged and easy to operate that they can crank out ten million of and run off any fuel source. These are jury-rigged upgunned civilian vehicles designed for hit and run insurgent skirmishes, not war machines. And if by some chance some guard Commander was impressed enough to try and requisition a variant of this for military use, he’d wait fifty years for the Adeptus Mechanicus to judge it not heretical and approve it for sanctioned production.

Voss wrote:

drbored wrote:
Ugh, this release is just looking cooler and cooler, but I need to save my money for sisters of battle and chaos...

Don't worry about it. One won't be till the end of the year and the other probably won't happen.

I have a feeling the eventual Sisters prices will make a lot of people wish they had started saving up sooner...

 privateer4hire wrote:
Guard can't have all the fun.

On a more related note, I really am wondering how much all this new stuff is going to cost.

I'm not too worried myself since my Genestealer army is a byproduct of buying two-faction sets for the other army and getting a Genestealer army on the side, and the only thing I'd want in the army without reservation is the female Magos, but I think as others have said we are looking at a faction with lots of low point models and modern GW prices really aren't friendly on that kind of army. Plenty of people complained about Acolytes in boxes of five with the original release. I don't see a light vehicle, bikes and a host of characters that may end up in individual blisters improving the situation for Genestealer Cult armies.

I would have said maybe a Start Collecting could alleviate some of that, but since those are going up in price as well...

Love it.

Looks fast and rugged.

I am just loving the option for an all vehicle based GSC army. Ridgerunners, Goliaths, bikes, buggies, Leman Russ's and Chimeras, no idea of its effectiveness but it should look cool. Just makes me sad that I have already sold a hefty chunk of GSC I had painted up:

 fasterthanlight wrote:

 privateer4hire wrote:


I'm very obivoulsy not a modeling or painting genius but I think my home-made gunslinger will work just fine for our area games.

Awesome!! Great work.

Looks great.


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 Fifty wrote:


Biophagus Preview...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/01/16/16th-jan-genestealer-cults-preview-the-biophagusgw-homepage-post-1/

Very nice model. He will surely come with a 25 Euro price tag which means I won´t buy him.

it seems that french wargame studio has said that there are no more news for the cult :(

Rules preview for the kelermorph. Looks really interesting!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/01/25/25th-jan-warhammer-40000-new-charactersgw-homepage-post-1/

I calculated that he does 4.58 damage on average on a Space Marine Captain. That will pretty often just straight kill one, directly after you cult ambush next to him.

Mellon wrote:
Rules preview for the kelermorph. Looks really interesting!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/01/25/25th-jan-warhammer-40000-new-charactersgw-homepage-post-1/

Ooooooooh yeaaaaaaah, he's an Elite slot? He's looking awesome. That +3 to CA is neat.

I have to give Creds where creds are due.... Absolutely everything on this list and everything I have seen is amazing. I have never seen a situation where the whole army is aces and eights, and had never any issue to Pee and Moan about.

I have no complaints, no issues with the sculpts, and no reason not to throw a thousand bucks as these and thank GW for the pleasure.

I can also honestly see an addendum for IG, and Inquisition as to getting some buggy and bike action in the future.

Congratulations GW, and to you Cult runners for an excellent add on to the game.

Considering how far the game has come so fast, I have to commend GW on the great work.... NOW IF THEY WILL ONLY CUT THE GW CRAP PRICES!!!!!!!!

Looks like we will still be making cult ambush rolls, although it’s an open question whether the table will be the same. I wonder if the kellermorph’s ability to add 3 to ambush rolls will apply to infantry units that ambush with him? In that case, you have a 50% chance of getting that vaunted 6. But, for all we know, you might need to get a 7 to receive that result in the new codex, and there are multiple ways to boost your roll. Hmmm...

Rules look solid. Just need to see a points value now.

The Ridgerunner is suspiciously lacking in GSC symbols- aside from the paintjob and crew, nothing about them suggests GSC specifically. No moulded icons anywhere in the so far released images.

Seems almost intended for conversions

SOMETHING has to make up for tje sin that is the taurox...

 Haighus wrote:
The Ridgerunner is suspiciously lacking in GSC symbols- aside from the paintjob and crew, nothing about them suggests GSC specifically. No moulded icons anywhere in the so far released images.

Seems almost intended for conversions

The Goliath doesn't have any hard icons either, even in the same picture for the preview article.

Haighus wrote:The Ridgerunner is suspiciously lacking in GSC symbols- aside from the paintjob and crew, nothing about them suggests GSC specifically. No moulded icons anywhere in the so far released images.

Seems almost intended for conversions

Not sure why this is so surprising/exciting...the Goliath is the same way.

Asmodas wrote:Looks like we will still be making cult ambush rolls, although it’s an open question whether the table will be the same. I wonder if the kellermorph’s ability to add 3 to ambush rolls will apply to infantry units that ambush with him?

It says that it is for this model. So I highly doubt it.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Haighus wrote:The Ridgerunner is suspiciously lacking in GSC symbols- aside from the paintjob and crew, nothing about them suggests GSC specifically. No moulded icons anywhere in the so far released images.

Seems almost intended for conversions

Not sure why this is so surprising/exciting...the Goliath is the same way.

Tbf, I find the Goliath pretty exciting too It just makes a nice change from some of the very hard-to-convert models GW has been releasing over the same period. Most notably the plastic character clampacks, but even the Neophytes are quite annoying to convert with "ideal poses" for each set of part.

It makes it easy for GW to release rules for those vehicles in, say, Necromunda with a conversion kit. I sure wouldn't complain about that!

 privateer4hire wrote:
Guard can't have all the fun.

On a more related note, I really am wondering how much all this new stuff is going to cost.

Christ have you seen the guard plastic infantry lately lol. Severely lacking in the looks department. Still gsc may be a new force for me .

Man that dude will do some scary things to his target. He's no slouch in combat either, he still has 4 attacks, 3 plus 1 for the knife and if your unlucky enough to start the turn in combat with him he could shoot you up to 12 times point blank before swinging


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Now I am curious what the guy with a knife and scopes for eyes can do. He has some pretty big shoes to fill if he wants to keep up with this guy.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Asmodas wrote:Looks like we will still be making cult ambush rolls, although it’s an open question whether the table will be the same. I wonder if the kellermorph’s ability to add 3 to ambush rolls will apply to infantry units that ambush with him?

It says that it is for this model. So I highly doubt it.

Depending on how the new Ambush rule is worded, it may matter. As of right now, you roll for the character after you've nominated if they have an accompanying unit.

Then that roll is applied to both units. And they must arrive within 6" of one another.

Does his +3 mean that the whole roll is changed, or does it mean the natural roll affects the other unit, despite using the modified roll for the character?

Great rules on the kelermorph, great for charavter sniping or even killing a horde of guardsmen. So his rule gives him +3 to cult ambush, I wonder how that'll correspond to the blip system rumors?

It may indicate the "blip" system may not be as real as we had been led to believe.

Or maybe we roll on a table to see where we deploy the blips?

Either way, this will keep me going until sunday

Hopefully we get another preview tomorrow.

I was always a bit skeptical of the whole blip idea. It's a strange mechanic to use with an army that has 200+ models and probably 20 drops with all these characters. That's an insane amount of book keeping.

I would actually be relieved if the blip idea is bunk.

 Red Corsair wrote:
I was always a bit skeptical of the whole blip idea. It's a strange mechanic to use with an army that has 200+ models and probably 20 drops with all these characters. That's an insane amount of book keeping.

I would actually be relieved if the blip idea is bunk.

It's making me wonder if the blips are a secondary aspect of Cult Ambush--you have to deploy the 'blips' to effectively mark where you want the ambush to happen from, the rolls on the Cult Ambush table affect how successful it is.

Also possible that only certain units are deployed as blips.

i love this dude. Funnily though, until the codex he can’t really cult ambush. His +3 to the CA roll is mandatory and the table doesn’t make allowances for values higher than 6

I mean he can't be used at all until the codex because he doesn't have point values.