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Waiting for Irma to finish up her deal? What better way to pass the time than a brand new Glacial Geek Battle Report? https://youtu.be/QJuocCW8VZw This time my Genestealer Cult take on the Word Bearers! The planet was theirs, or so they thought. After a long campaign against the Imperial forces on the planet, the Word Bearers Legion stood victorious, bringing another planet under the sway of the Ruinous Powers. But soon things went wrong. They found their vehicles sabotaged. Explosions ripped through their checkpoints. Before long hordes of mutated cultists rose up from the under hives. The Word Bearers found themselves on the receiving end of a Genestealer Cult uprising. Will the Chaos Space Marines hold the line against the xenos cultists, or will the followers of the Four-Armed Emperor drag this planet down in preparation for their gods to arrive? Watch and find out!

I'm looking forward to watching this one.

Awesome game, and it really got ugly for your opponent when you made all those charges from Cult Ambush. Your shooting dice were goofy, but you really made up for it with all those melee attacks. Having faced Genestealer Cults a few times in this edition, I can definitely attest that they are really nasty with that Ambush rule, plus their psychic powers are good.

Both armies were really cool looking as well, and I really liked your opponent's Word Bearers dice. Looking forward to seeing even more cool stuff from your new FLGS now that you've moved.

Just watch out for exploding vehicles, though. They seem to be your bane lately...

Gosh that game was just brutal... WB never knew what hit them!

Awesome bat rep thanks for posting it!

Thank you :-D ... This was a fun game to play! I really like my GSC because they can really tear things up ... But they can also fall to pieces when the dice don't cooperate so it feels pretty balanced ;-)

I usually skip video reports, but that was very well done! Beautiful armies, good narration, and a most entertaining game. Also nice to see pure Genestealer Cult in action with a text-book alpha strike and a good mix of units beyond just Purestrains and the Patriarch (especially happy to see Aberrants).

If I may make one minor nitpick relating to the match itself, I think you forgot about the 6+ from Rugged Construction on your Goliath Rockgrinder. Had it saved a couple of those wounds it would have hit much harder once it made it to combat.

You showed that sometimes big units are the way to go. Your big Genestealer unit with the Patriarch took a licking but kept on ticking long past when an MSU would have folded like a cheap suit.

@Strat_N8 Thank You! :-D ... Yeah I did forget that rule ... I keep forgetting that rule, Venerable saves on Ven Dreads, and the Warlord Trait that ignores wounds ... It's as though when I see those armor saves fail I just move on ;-)

@TangoTwoBravo - Yeah I really like larger units for assault ... It allows them to take a few shots getting into combat and then allows them to clean up once in there ... MSU is good for objective hopping and board control, but I like larger units for getting stuck in :-D

Are you in Georgia now Phil?