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Im thinking about starting (another ) faction and GSC are high on my watch list.
Currently can pull together
2 x Patriarchs
60 Stealers
Magus
5 neophytes
1 leman russ
1 converted truck thingy
and can ally in a fairly significant portion of pure Nids and AM on top of that.

However Im looking for advice on starter sets, good boxs to get going etc. The current Xmas starter sets look juicy enough and grabbing two would give:
2 more patriarchs, magi, primes etc
2 trucks
and about 50 basic infantry type dudes

The army would be for fun and I'd have no problem proxying a neophyte as a hybrid or whatever else. I also have a large Nid bits box that I can kitbash extra claws or talons or whatnot.
Any recommendations to get up and running?

Secondly my reading of the GSC tactics thread and codex is that GSC rely heavily on swamping the opponent with mostly hth dudes. Their shooting especially long range in a pure GSC build seems very poor.
Also read that the CA table can either be really lethal, very meh (forcing one into a cat n mouse game) or darn bad. Is that true mostly?
Any ideas around decent GSC builds and what to look out for etc?

thanks!

You can ally Astra Militarum with gsc and that fils In you long range shooting. Honestly those two together are a good complement to each other

I agree, use AM to hold the table, use GSC to ambush and you'll have a decent chance. If you want Nids, look at Kronos to hold the table, and fry Psychers.