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Davor wrote:
How is Limo's going to go with a mining theme if the rumours are true? I don't know, Limos seem goofy right now. I guess for the time, it was cool but now, I couldn't take a Limo serious in todays environment.

Unless done properly, I can't see a Limo being cool. All we will get is lousy rules, and then people complaining the rules suck and then others will chime in and say "what do you expect? It's a Limo, not a tank, of course it will be shot up in one hit."

Or others will say "it's a freaking Limo, how is it a tank, this is not right".

So unless it can be done properly, I think they should not be adding a Limo to GSC.

so it'd be AV 10 all round, like a trukk...works well enough for orks...

Bulletproof limo belonging to a high ranking offical or crime lord.

 ZoBo wrote:


so it'd be AV 10 all round, like a trukk...works well enough for orks...

From the posts and threads I read, it doesn't work for a lot of Ork players.

Davor wrote:

 ZoBo wrote:


so it'd be AV 10 all round, like a trukk...works well enough for orks...

From the posts and threads I read, it doesn't work for a lot of Ork players.

...yeah, ok, fair enough

like boyz though, just throw several of them into the enemy and hope a couple or so make it

I'd guess, that nostalgia is a major factor, when it comes to anticipating GCs limos.

I wouldn't be pleased, if limo is the vehicle we get. It would work in a necromunda enviroment, but on the 40k table it will look silly next to almost all other tech. Like toys from different manufacturers on the same shelf of Toys R Us.

An armoured staff-track like the ones shown in the Gaunt's Ghosts' series would work. 4 wheels and a set of tracks, armoured, with a transport capacity of 6, AV 11/10/10, fast. Give it a heavy stubber and you have a poor man's Rhino. Of a sort.

Personally I hope the GSC get something like a Taurus Venator, but with the option to remove the big gun for transport capacity.

Davor wrote:
How is Limo's going to go with a mining theme if the rumours are true? I don't know, Limos seem goofy right now. I guess for the time, it was cool but now, I couldn't take a Limo serious in todays environment.

Unless done properly, I can't see a Limo being cool. All we will get is lousy rules, and then people complaining the rules suck and then others will chime in and say "what do you expect? It's a Limo, not a tank, of course it will be shot up in one hit."

Or others will say "it's a freaking Limo, how is it a tank, this is not right".

So unless it can be done properly, I think they should not be adding a Limo to GSC.

The limo seems goofy until your think about how the GS cult operates. They like to move up the social scale! When vice chancellor fancy pants finally comes out of his GS closet his resources can easily include tools from his everyday life, an armored limo, and ground troops that have been breeding in a secluded area, mining hab. It is the disconnect between the two that makes it kind of spooky from a story perspective. Although I will not be disappointed by a nice ore hauler or container hauler I can stick one of the new containers on.
I must admit I never envisioned having a 40k gut truck but I see a mobile noodle stand in my GS future.

Yes! More Tyranids, more NomNomNoms!!!

You know what I'd like?
If the cult codex release kits didn't have anything to do with the Ghosar Quintus storyline.
As in, the GQ unit types are all in there and you can use the rules to make the GQ kits into legal units, but the models with the codex are not in mining gear and are instead regular citizens of a typical Civilised World.

 Insurgency Walker wrote:

Davor wrote:
How is Limo's going to go with a mining theme if the rumours are true? I don't know, Limos seem goofy right now. I guess for the time, it was cool but now, I couldn't take a Limo serious in todays environment.

Unless done properly, I can't see a Limo being cool. All we will get is lousy rules, and then people complaining the rules suck and then others will chime in and say "what do you expect? It's a Limo, not a tank, of course it will be shot up in one hit."

Or others will say "it's a freaking Limo, how is it a tank, this is not right".

So unless it can be done properly, I think they should not be adding a Limo to GSC.

The limo seems goofy until your think about how the GS cult operates. They like to move up the social scale! When vice chancellor fancy pants finally comes out of his GS closet his resources can easily include tools from his everyday life, an armored limo, and ground troops that have been breeding in a secluded area, mining hab. It is the disconnect between the two that makes it kind of spooky from a story perspective. Although I will not be disappointed by a nice ore hauler or container hauler I can stick one of the new containers on.
I must admit I never envisioned having a 40k gut truck but I see a mobile noodle stand in my GS future.

Thank you for the explanation. Greatly appreciated. Thing is, 40K now is not really a skirmish game anymore so unless you are role playing or having scenarios when has anyone fought Mr Fancy Pants come into play?

Another thing I guess what bugs me is, I really want Genestealers that are not just form humans. Where are the Orkstealers? Where are the Edlarstealers, or Taustealers. I am sure a Limo wouldn't not be in the setting for Mr Fancy pants in those edition. Oh wait, an Ork Limo. Now that would be awesome.

Davor wrote:
How is Limo's going to go with a mining theme if the rumours are true? I don't know, Limos seem goofy right now. I guess for the time, it was cool but now, I couldn't take a Limo serious in todays environment.

Unless done properly, I can't see a Limo being cool. All we will get is lousy rules, and then people complaining the rules suck and then others will chime in and say "what do you expect? It's a Limo, not a tank, of course it will be shot up in one hit."

Or others will say "it's a freaking Limo, how is it a tank, this is not right".

So unless it can be done properly, I think they should not be adding a Limo to GSC.

Like I said, it's a mining limo.

Everyone knows that the limousine is the epitome of practical mining vehicles. That long, unevenly weighted compartment in the middle is perfect for carrying ore, while the low ground clearance ensures that devastating underground drafts don't tip it over.

Davor wrote:

 Insurgency Walker wrote:

Davor wrote:
How is Limo's going to go with a mining theme if the rumours are true? I don't know, Limos seem goofy right now. I guess for the time, it was cool but now, I couldn't take a Limo serious in todays environment.

Unless done properly, I can't see a Limo being cool. All we will get is lousy rules, and then people complaining the rules suck and then others will chime in and say "what do you expect? It's a Limo, not a tank, of course it will be shot up in one hit."

Or others will say "it's a freaking Limo, how is it a tank, this is not right".

So unless it can be done properly, I think they should not be adding a Limo to GSC.

The limo seems goofy until your think about how the GS cult operates. They like to move up the social scale! When vice chancellor fancy pants finally comes out of his GS closet his resources can easily include tools from his everyday life, an armored limo, and ground troops that have been breeding in a secluded area, mining hab. It is the disconnect between the two that makes it kind of spooky from a story perspective. Although I will not be disappointed by a nice ore hauler or container hauler I can stick one of the new containers on.
I must admit I never envisioned having a 40k gut truck but I see a mobile noodle stand in my GS future.

Thank you for the explanation. Greatly appreciated. Thing is, 40K now is not really a skirmish game anymore so unless you are role playing or having scenarios when has anyone fought Mr Fancy Pants come into play?

Another thing I guess what bugs me is, I really want Genestealers that are not just form humans. Where are the Orkstealers? Where are the Edlarstealers, or Taustealers. I am sure a Limo wouldn't not be in the setting for Mr Fancy pants in those edition. Oh wait, an Ork Limo. Now that would be awesome.

Ork's actually prove to be horrible hosts due to their special biology and fighting social structure, they tend to be a more stopgap measure for genestealers to move elsewhere. Tau would however work I believe, unsure of Eldar.

The Cults represented in most of the fluff are hidden in human settlements. Hard enough hiding a Hybrid, let's alone an Ork or Tau hybrid! That's why you won't see models.

If it's a limo I have a feeling they have made a terrible mistake and will release a goofy model that doesn't fit the existing range. I'll wait until I see it before giving my final judgement though.

Summon the mighty Sad Panda, or Lady Atia!

I'd like to see a MULE based off the Dunecrawler.

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:
Tau would however work I believe, unsure of Eldar.

I vaguely recall something about elder hybrids being a rare thing due to the slow reproduction rate and close social community within elder culture. It would take too long for the multiple generations to finally spawn a purestrain that the cult would be found before it could spread far enough to be a threat. Orcs used to have hybrid models, but that was back when gs cults could also worship chaos... So before the change to Orc physiology.

hoping they fixed the issue with the lack of continuity in the miner suits neck hole opening..

 endtransmission wrote:

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:
Tau would however work I believe, unsure of Eldar.

I vaguely recall something about elder hybrids being a rare thing due to the slow reproduction rate and close social community within elder culture. It would take too long for the multiple generations to finally spawn a purestrain that the cult would be found before it could spread far enough to be a threat. Orcs used to have hybrid models, but that was back when gs cults could also worship chaos... So before the change to Orc physiology.

What the hundreds or thousand years it takes Nids to travel and they don't have time?

I believe there is a Commissar Cain novel that involves a tau genestealer cult.

no. IIRC, there is also a tau cult on the planet, but the GCultist are humans

There is also a short story that involves him discovering a Genestealer Cult over at a brothel.

 BrookM wrote:
There is also a short story that involves him discovering a Genestealer Cult over at a brothel.

No, that's a Slaaneshi cult, and he sorts it out by calling in an artillery strike on it because the Madam is a daemonhost.

The daemon later re-appears in another story and remembers him, and his unorthodox method of daemon-dismissal.

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
There is also a short story that involves him discovering a Genestealer Cult over at a brothel.

No, that's a Slaaneshi cult, and he sorts it out by calling in an artillery strike on it because the Madam is a daemonhost.

The daemon later re-appears in another story and remembers him, and his unorthodox method of daemon-dismissal.

There is also that story, but this one involved a Genestealer Cult in a brothel, as the top girl he was talking to knew his name, despite only mentioning it to the person downstairs, thus concluding a hive mind is involved. She also had extra limbs IIRC.

 BrookM wrote:

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
There is also a short story that involves him discovering a Genestealer Cult over at a brothel.

No, that's a Slaaneshi cult, and he sorts it out by calling in an artillery strike on it because the Madam is a daemonhost.

The daemon later re-appears in another story and remembers him, and his unorthodox method of daemon-dismissal.

There is also that story, but this one involved a Genestealer Cult in a brothel, as the top girl he was talking to knew his name, despite only mentioning it to the person downstairs, thus concluding a hive mind is involved. She also had extra limbs IIRC.

Ooh, OK, I might not have read that one. My apologies!

Sector 13 is the name of the story I am referring to.

Fluffwise they could make this range more classy because the OK cult is set in the "past", and supposedly represent one of the first encounters of a GSC, i I remember corectly.
So the new range could represent how the cults have developed a more effective way to infiltrate high society instead of miner serf communities.
IMO that is the only way to make the limo plausible, but it would also be a poor choise if they alienate the nice OK cult from this new range.

Personally I can imagine them getting a Taurox with an extra uniqe sprue including some alien weaponary, an alien com-relay a plow, and some defaced imperial symbols.

But the cults don't use Tyranid weaponry - apart from, you know, Genestealers - because they don't have access to it. They use autoguns, and stubbers, and las weapons, and suborned PDF and Arbites and Enforcers and so on.

 Gen.Steiner wrote:
But the cults don't use Tyranid weaponry - apart from, you know, Genestealers - because they don't have access to it. They use autoguns, and stubbers, and las weapons, and suborned PDF and Arbites and Enforcers and so on.

Essentially, they use anything they can get their grubby mitts on depending where they are in society and what they can safely sneak away, if they can somehow manage to stealSentinals and Leman Russ you can tell they'd do it.