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How do!

From the latest edition of WD, #468. Honest to goodness Orkstealer Hybrids!

Not exactly official, but it tickled my nostalgia nerves quite pleasantly.

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Leicester, UK

Sweet. As far as I know they only ever made one model, so if you wanted a squad you had to convert, even back then.

I would love to see more races or new aliens get the hybrid treatment in the new GSC codex.

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Wadder ya mean, ‘only one’?
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Very nice, Moriarty. Loving your work.

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Before people ask…this is a digital kit bash, not a preview of official models to come

Still a welcome blast from the past.

   
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Nuremberg

If Orkstealers were properly separated from the other orks so they didn't get killed for not being properly orky, they'd be a terrible treat given the rapid reproductive cycle and the way genestealer mutation makes you actually want to care for your offspring.

   
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Wouldn't it be nice to see xenostealer hybrids as GSC "Chapter Tactics".

Cult army Infused with Ork or Tau DNA which would give them bonuses relative to the chosen hybrid

For example: Human GSC would be the standard
Orkoid GSC could have Tougher Hybrids at a cost of LD
Eldar GSC could have +1" Move

And then they could pull an Astra Militarum and "Ally" in certain specific units. Shoota/Slugga Boyz, Guardians or Fire Warriors depending on their DNA.

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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
How do!

From the latest edition of WD, #468. Honest to goodness Orkstealer Hybrids!

Not exactly official, but it tickled my nostalgia nerves quite pleasantly.



"And to make this kind of kitbash more difficult, for your convenience we have replaced the standard flat shoulder joins with squared-off pokeoked recess cuts!

Because we, Games Workshop, Care About Creativity!!!!!!!!"

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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Cool! I always loved those Ork stealer hybrids.
   
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Is anyone else left a bit disappointed that, in a miniatures magazine, for a miniatures game, they couldn't even be bothered to actually make the minis?

Old white dwarves never had this sort of cop-out, everything they featured was actually built!

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Yeah, something did stand out to me about the digital kitbashes. That's what it was, I'd have expected actual kitbashes, painted by someone working at the studio.

   
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 Da Boss wrote:
Yeah, something did stand out to me about the digital kitbashes. That's what it was, I'd have expected actual kitbashes, painted by someone working at the studio.
Then they'd have had to show someone struggling to glue the joins together after GW purposefully altered the kommando shoulder/arm joins to purposefully make this kind of kitbash more difficult.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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 the_scotsman wrote:
 Da Boss wrote:
Yeah, something did stand out to me about the digital kitbashes. That's what it was, I'd have expected actual kitbashes, painted by someone working at the studio.
Then they'd have had to show someone struggling to glue the joins together after GW purposefully altered the kommando shoulder/arm joins to purposefully make this kind of kitbash more difficult.


Reading might help. This is part of the hobby for the guy who creates assembly instructions at GW, so showing this off is a bonus thing. It's similar to how lots of avid converters and designers draw their intended miniatures first, the lad making this just happens to be familiar with their software instead. The pictures also show clearly where you're supposed to cut the bits, as well as commenting in the text that you might have to cut and file most of the joints.

Just saying, I'm all for creative conversions (plenty of which are shown in every White Dwarf, this being no exception with nice Nurgle cultists, Tyranid monsters and more) and bashing GW marketing when they get lazy. This was not the case here.

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Gathering the Informations.

To be fair, we're not getting this until the end of October in the US...it's going to be hard to read it outside of scans or potato camera pics.

I want my AdMech Kill Team rules dangit!
   
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So here’s a kit bash, where are the rules? I thought no model no rules just logically mean if there’s a model then there’s rules
   
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 the_scotsman wrote:


"And to make this kind of kitbash more difficult, for your convenience we have replaced the standard flat shoulder joins with squared-off pokeoked recess cuts!

Because we, Games Workshop, Care About Creativity!!!!!!!!"


Especially weird since the Krieg models did have conversion friendly flat shoulder joints. I converted a couple Orks, but it was a pain in the ass to be sure.


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
How do!

From the latest edition of WD, #468. Honest to goodness Orkstealer Hybrids!

Not exactly official, but it tickled my nostalgia nerves quite pleasantly.



Super cool. I would love to see Genestealer/Tau hybrids. We know it's at least been tried from the book For The Emperor, though we never find out if it was successful or not.

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