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Hi All,

Quick question. I'm planning on building a Genestealer cult army pretty much entirely around models from the Deathwatch Overkill and a few pre-built models I've picked up on eBay. I was just wondering if the models in the box set were snapfit models (or else devoid of any customisable options)? It would be a shame if this were the case as it'd leave me with an entirely uncustomisable army, and so I'd probably look to pick up some extra bitz elsewhere.

Thanks!

They're single poses, but apparently pretty readily compatible with the bits from the multi-pose kits.

Hmm that's a shame... I'm not going to have any of the multi-pose kits, you see.

Sounds like it may be worth just picking up a box of Metamorhps/Acolytes just for some of the extra options. Apart from that, it's looking like I may have to get my green stuff ready... Any thoughts?

Thanks for the quick reply though, Nazrak!

They don't come with all the options, but if you have any guard kits lying around, the bits form them are fairly easy to add on.

To be honest, what they come with is already pretty great. You'll want lots of Neophtyes without upgrades, though getting some shotgun bits will give you some variety. The Seismic Cannon too is something you may want from the Neophyte box.

The Meta/Acolyte box has a lot of cool options, but usually only ever one of each (barring hand flamers, where there are enough for each one of the models.) option. If you have Tyranid bits, it's pretty easy to customize your Metamorphs/convert the Acolytes in Overkill to Metas.

I'm painting up half my DWOK hybrids as is, then I'm going to buy a box of 1st/2nd hybrids, giving me enough bits for 12 of those, with upgrades, and 5 metamorphs too. Should have mentioned before too, the DWOK box has two identical hybrid sprues, so you basically end up with two of every guy. The heads have pegs but you can clip them down to a regular ball fitting, so my plan is to mix the heads up on the second sprue guys for some variety.

Carnikang wrote:They don't come with all the options, but if you have any guard kits lying around, the bits form them are fairly easy to add on.

To be honest, what they come with is already pretty great. You'll want lots of Neophtyes without upgrades, though getting some shotgun bits will give you some variety. The Seismic Cannon too is something you may want from the Neophyte box.

The Meta/Acolyte box has a lot of cool options, but usually only ever one of each (barring hand flamers, where there are enough for each one of the models.) option. If you have Tyranid bits, it's pretty easy to customize your Metamorphs/convert the Acolytes in Overkill to Metas.

I've not any Guard kits, but I've got plenty of tyranid kits lying around, so I'm hoping I'll at least have the means to convert, even if it does mean I'll need loads of green stuff...

Yeah, Neophytes with no upgrades save for Seismic Cannons is something that'll be a regular feature in lists, so it's good to hear I have access to those at least. I'm also aware that the Meta/Acolyte box does skimp out on the options, and so I would have had to do some converting anyway... I'd actually planned to buy a box of Daemonettes to use the claws for the Metamorphs (I have a few other chaos models so the daemonettes themselves can be part of an AoS force), and I'm hoping to convert them from the Aberrants/Purestrains to make them look a bit different (aiming for very Metamorphed). That's a concern about the hand flamers though... I'd planned to use a lot of them, so I guess they could be something I may need to look to source from elsewhere?

Nazrak wrote:I'm painting up half my DWOK hybrids as is, then I'm going to buy a box of 1st/2nd hybrids, giving me enough bits for 12 of those, with upgrades, and 5 metamorphs too. Should have mentioned before too, the DWOK box has two identical hybrid sprues, so you basically end up with two of every guy. The heads have pegs but you can clip them down to a regular ball fitting, so my plan is to mix the heads up on the second sprue guys for some variety.

Yeah, I am considering just buying an extra box of Acolytes for the bits and for if I want to expand the army further with a CAD (I'll have two of all the characters, so it makes sense to). Thanks for the heads up (pun intended) about the identical sprues. I'll have two DWOK boxes so that makes for a lot of duplications - I'll get my clippers at the ready and make sure I vary the poses.

Speaking of pegs, are all the components joined by pegs? I.e. if I clipped the pegs off, would it be relatively easy to change the poses and convert them a bit?

Totally worth getting one of the multipart kits alongside your DWO set. The hybrid acolytes at least are incredibly compatible, all the heads are compatible, and arm swaps take just a little bit of clipping.

the_scotsman wrote:
Totally worth getting one of the multipart kits alongside your DWO set. The hybrid acolytes at least are incredibly compatible, all the heads are compatible, and arm swaps take just a little bit of clipping.

Ok, brilliant. Looks like that's what I'll be doing then