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Anyone seen anymore pics of the Tyranid / Cult rules?

Also anyone know the pts cost of the Patriarch?

Shingen wrote:
Anyone seen anymore pics of the Tyranid / Cult rules?

Also anyone know the pts cost of the Patriarch?

Please have a look into the new WD which is going to be released tomorrow.
You will find the profiles of the Deathwatch members including one formation.
There are pics of the Genestealer cult but no profiles yet.

Shingen wrote:
Anyone seen anymore pics of the Tyranid / Cult rules?

Also anyone know the pts cost of the Patriarch?

They'll be in the March 5th issue of WD, we should start seeing leaks early next week.

 aracersss wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
And yet one of them is on a bike and two have jump packs.

I am talking about their rules for 40k.

can't you wait for their proper release to pop up first to actually know for sure?

What proper release?

 xttz wrote:

Shingen wrote:
Anyone seen anymore pics of the Tyranid / Cult rules?

Also anyone know the pts cost of the Patriarch?

They'll be in the March 5th issue of WD, we should start seeing leaks early next week.

Is this already confirmed?

Yes the deathwatch get a pull out supplement in the first WD, and the cult get one the week after with rules for using them in 40K

(whether we'll see leaks, probably)

 wuestenfux wrote:

 xttz wrote:

Shingen wrote:
Anyone seen anymore pics of the Tyranid / Cult rules?

Also anyone know the pts cost of the Patriarch?

They'll be in the March 5th issue of WD, we should start seeing leaks early next week.

Is this already confirmed?

It's confirmed and we have already seen a teaser pic of the patriarch rules (no points cost tho) and a cultist unit.

Yes, and it is also confirmed they are Armies of the Imperium.

http://forum.spikeybits.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6250&stc=1

Read this one for the GC rules (there are hires pics in that thread to be able to read them better)

http://forum.spikeybits.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6232&stc=1

http://forum.spikeybits.com/showthread.php?21941-Genestealer-Cult-vs-Deathwatch-Roundup&p=237934&viewfull=1#post237934


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Edit: Also it could be these are not the regular Genestealer Cult rules. E.g. A strictly 12 models Hybrid unit, named Patriarch, etc.

What we know by looking at the sheets these (and most likely all) Genestaler Cult units are not from the Tyranid faction but have their own (shown by the symbol on top of the sheets).

The GW advertisment email sent to shops said you will be able to ally them with Tyranids.

All 40k rules for DW: O models will be available for free on the GW website as well.

The GS Patriarch only having BS 0 has got to be a mistake, right? I am hoping it is just a bad image and it is actually BS6. Perhaps his familiars change that. He also has a profile for something on the right side of the page, so who knows.

It would be slightly weird GS Cult allying with Tyranids on the battlefield. As by the time the Nids get there the Cult will be seen as just more biomass.

 dan2026 wrote:
It would be slightly weird GS Cult allying with Tyranids on the battlefield. As by the time the Nids get there the Cult will be seen as just more biomass.

Yes, i am hoping they are not linked, I would not hold my breath though.

 dan2026 wrote:
It would be slightly weird GS Cult allying with Tyranids on the battlefield. As by the time the Nids get there the Cult will be seen as just more biomass.

True but they'd be willing to sacrifice themselves for biomass conversion. That's kind of the point- if a Tyranid hive fleet has to expend less effort to take the planet, then that'll give them resources to spare for the next planet.

 dan2026 wrote:
It would be slightly weird GS Cult allying with Tyranids on the battlefield. As by the time the Nids get there the Cult will be seen as just more biomass.

The Cult fights with them until the planet is conquored, then ALL biomass (including Tyranid forces) is consumed and absorbed by the Hive Fleet.

But then who consumes the consumers?

 Nostromodamus wrote:
The Cult fights with them until the planet is conquored, then ALL biomass (including Tyranid forces) is consumed and absorbed by the Hive Fleet.

Yeah I just don't see it. I can't imagine Mr. Carnifex turning a corner and seeing a gaggle of Brood Brothers armed with conventional weapons and going "Carnifex friend! Carnifex just want to hug! Carnifex take friends and find food!".

 Mymearan wrote:
But then who consumes the consumers?

The Hive Ships.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
The Cult fights with them until the planet is conquored, then ALL biomass (including Tyranid forces) is consumed and absorbed by the Hive Fleet.

Yeah I just don't see it. I can't imagine Mr. Carnifex turning a corner and seeing a gaggle of Brood Brothers armed with conventional weapons and going "Carnifex friend! Carnifex just want to hug! Carnifex take friends and find food!".

It's cute, I would like that



no i'm not a genestealer cult-mother ...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
The Cult fights with them until the planet is conquored, then ALL biomass (including Tyranid forces) is consumed and absorbed by the Hive Fleet.

Yeah I just don't see it. I can't imagine Mr. Carnifex turning a corner and seeing a gaggle of Brood Brothers armed with conventional weapons and going "Carnifex friend! Carnifex just want to hug! Carnifex take friends and find food!".

At that point the Hive Fleet/Mind has assumed control over Cult forces.

I'm sure GW would change or invent fluff to suit profit requirements :p

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
The Cult fights with them until the planet is conquored, then ALL biomass (including Tyranid forces) is consumed and absorbed by the Hive Fleet.

Yeah I just don't see it. I can't imagine Mr. Carnifex turning a corner and seeing a gaggle of Brood Brothers armed with conventional weapons and going "Carnifex friend! Carnifex just want to hug! Carnifex take friends and find food!".

Considering the current codex has Carnifexes eat other Carnifexes when out of synapse control, I'm not sure you're making a good point.

I assume they give off the same psychic IFF code as the rest of the nids. So to the hive mind they “smell” just the same as a termagaunt or some other little gribby guy.

At least that’s what I’m going with. Vague fluff excuse that gives the ‘nids an ally and a little love. Bugs need it.

I can't find the post that has the White Dwarf number for DW rules and the White Dwarf number for the Cultist rules.

 kronk wrote:
I can't find the post that has the White Dwarf number for DW rules and the White Dwarf number for the Cultist rules.

DW rules are WDW 109 and GSC is WDW 110

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Yeah I just don't see it. I can't imagine Mr. Carnifex turning a corner and seeing a gaggle of Brood Brothers armed with conventional weapons and going "Carnifex friend! Carnifex just want to hug! Carnifex take friends and find food!".

At that point the Hive Fleet/Mind has assumed control over Cult forces.

Aye, that. Why do you think a carnifex would treat termagants and rippers, etc. any different?

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I can't find the post that has the White Dwarf number for DW rules and the White Dwarf number for the Cultist rules.

DW rules are WDW 109 and GSC is WDW 110

Thank you!

Just pre-ordered my box from my FLGS. Can't wait to use some of this stuff for kit bashing and building Kill Team!

What happens in a month when the WD rules aren't available any more? Make up rules?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
The Cult fights with them until the planet is conquored, then ALL biomass (including Tyranid forces) is consumed and absorbed by the Hive Fleet.

Yeah I just don't see it. I can't imagine Mr. Carnifex turning a corner and seeing a gaggle of Brood Brothers armed with conventional weapons and going "Carnifex friend! Carnifex just want to hug! Carnifex take friends and find food!".

The Carnifex isn't really thinking anything unless it's gone full-on Instinctive, in which case it would eat the Brood Brothers, the Tyranids that came along with it to the party, and probably chew on a few lampposts for good measure. If the Hive Mind takes control over the Brood, then anything else under the dominion of the Hive Mind would "see" them no differently than they "see" other 'nid organisms.

They're not "allies" in the sense of Guard and Inquisitors, or even Marines brofisting Necrons, they're just another disposable asset for the Hive Mind to use and consume as it sees fit, the fact a few of them tote autoguns rather than fleshborers or spinefists is irrelevant.

EDIT: Oh aye, what time(GMT) are we expecting the good pics to show up on the NZ GW page?

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
What happens in a month when the WD rules aren't available any more? Make up rules?

They're gonna be on the website.

The white dwarf rules will be available for a long time. They released the white dwarf app in which you can buy any issue released since the apps creation. Then you can still read it or print it from there.