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Has anyone considered mixing cult and tempestus together? Essentially dropping down your plasma and hot shots to shoot things up at full strength and then charge what's left with a handful of cult infantry. Given that half your force needs to be on the ground, a valk/vendetta full of guys ready to jump out with a commander and 8 melta guns would do the trick. Or long range support with some T Primes? The list doesn't even need to be complex. A patriarch, a primus with 2 units of 20 genestealers all cult ambushing. You get one reroll with the primus, and a command point reroll with the patriarch so you're far more likely to get rolls of 5 and 6.

What are your thoughts?

Plus I think it's more fun than just special weapon spam tempestus
   
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Brainy Biophagus Brewing Potent Chemicals






Minor nitpick, but technically it would be Genestealer Cults with Tempestus allies based on the way Brood Brothers works.

Regardless, I have some Scions sitting around from a scrapped Adepticon list from last year and have considered running the two together. My first thought was to include them into my normal semi-mechanized list and have the Scions drop in alongside Neophyte squads while the vehicles move up to deliver assault squads. The Taurox Prime has a very similar defensive profile to Goliath Trucks which helps with threat overload and they provide a dedicated anti-infantry/hoard platform role that neither Goliath really covers entirely.

I like your idea too of having them start aboard a Valkyrie and drop them in alongside ambushers. Might be a good way to enable a 7th edition-style ambush list since they can be up with the rest of the army turn 1.

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Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut




I think it's honestly, and this is saying something, the most powerful army in the game. The high CC chances of your GC mean your tempestus are likely to stay alive multiple turns. With orders on the the plasma, melta and hot shots making them twice as good you'll decimate any army you come across. Hope some people run it so we can see how it goes
   
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I was theorycrafting a list but the problem i am facing is the number of units that start on the table and the limited points slots.

I was planning to deepstrike 3x temperstor + tempestus squad + tempestus command squad from guard detachment and primus patriarch and 2x20 genestealers from cult detachment.

Those are 14 "deepstrikers" in deployment and by matched play rules i need another 14 units on the table.

This is harder than it seems considering usefull units options are limited. A platoon commander, commissar and some guardsmen with 3x mortar teams are a solid start for the AM detachment, then some cult troops to fill out a battallion but points start to be scarce.

I could embark some Tempestus in Tauroxes or Valkiryes as suggested but that would compromise the alpha (or beta) strike option for this list.

I will be happy to read your thoughts!
   
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It might be better to drop the Patriarch down to a second Primus if points are tight, as both offer the +1 to hit aura for Genestealers but the Primus is almost half the cost. You can also reduce the number of reserves by at least 1 by merging two of the regular Scion squads together as one squad of 10 rather than two squads of 5. Looses out on the Tempestor's Plasma pistol, but it drops the number of reserves down to 12.

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