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 Arch-Fiend wrote:
Good, now the background is at least clear. Is that a helmet he's wearing? I do not recognize it. But I'm seeing more than two arms and a mining harness like from Overkill.

No, that's his bulbous genestealer-esque head.

 Arch-Fiend wrote:
Good, now the background is at least clear. Is that a helmet he's wearing? I do not recognize it. But I'm seeing more than two arms and a mining harness like from Overkill.

It looks like the visor goggles from the mining laser hybrids (presumably something akin to a welding mask to protect the eyes).




The industrial saw looks promising. If it ends up a special weapon option for Acolytes and the codex includes a multiple ways to get the Brood-kin bonuses I could see them being a successful Ork boy equivalent.

 Strat_N8 wrote:

 Arch-Fiend wrote:
Good, now the background is at least clear. Is that a helmet he's wearing? I do not recognize it. But I'm seeing more than two arms and a mining harness like from Overkill.

It looks like the visor goggles from the mining laser hybrids (presumably something akin to a welding mask to protect the eyes).

Spoiler:

The industrial saw looks promising. If it ends up a special weapon option for Acolytes and the codex includes a multiple ways to get the Brood-kin bonuses I could see them being a successful Ork boy equivalent.

Yep, looks a lot like Geordi La Forge to me.
Actually, now that I think about it, this army is also lead by a bald guy with a bulbous head…
I'm predicting the flyer to look like the enterprise!

When I saw the pic I thought of something like this.



At least I thought the saw was more a drill at first glance.

So this new contrast guy in the background looks like a new guy also? Can't find that pose in any of the existing nid mans. Flyer seems like something they wouldn't have access to. Perhaps a shuttle but it would be bulk landers not really game scale. As soon as a whiff of xenos taint is detected I think protocols would be IoM navy blockade and any surface to space travel be cut off. And if keeping the mining theme can anyone give me an example of any form of flyers? Admech has no flyers so its not unprecedented to have a flyer free army. Perhaps instead they will get a AA platform. Could see a converted rivet gun filling the sky with hypervelocity shot. Or mining charge flak launcher. Anyone else have ideas on mining equipment they might scavenge?

 ThirstySpaceMan wrote:
So this new contrast guy in the background looks like a new guy also? Can't find that pose in any of the existing nid mans. Flyer seems like something they wouldn't have access to. Perhaps a shuttle but it would be bulk landers not really game scale. As soon as a whiff of xenos taint is detected I think protocols would be IoM navy blockade and any surface to space travel be cut off. And if keeping the mining theme can anyone give me an example of any form of flyers? Admech has no flyers so its not unprecedented to have a flyer free army. Perhaps instead they will get a AA platform. Could see a converted rivet gun filling the sky with hypervelocity shot. Or mining charge flak launcher. Anyone else have ideas on mining equipment they might scavenge?

The guy in the background looks like an acolyte to me. We know that acolytes/neophytes will have new kits, so new poses are to be expected. I see two right arm (the top one with a melee weapon, the bottom one with rending claws), and a single left arm. If that arm holds a pistol, it will be very similar to the current acolytes.

As for the flyer, the only rumor I saw mentioning it was mentioning a single new infantry box. We know there are at least two (but maybe the person thought these two were repacks, or at least not "new").
Harlequins don't have any flyers either (and no AA), and are also a rather new codex. However, both Admech and Harlequins could ally flyers easily (and Harlequins can even have them look a lot like the rest of their army), whereas GSC shouldn't be BB with anyone.
GSC has a greater need to be self-sufficient, and are not meant as an ally codex. But depending on what they can loot from IG, they might no need a flyer of their own.

What are the chances of a "Start Collecting" box for GSC a few months down the line?

It's possible? I mean, Christmas time is usually when you might see something like a new batch of Start Collecting sets.

 Souleater wrote:
What are the chances of a "Start Collecting" box for GSC a few months down the line?

Probably reasonably good. I imagine a SC Deathwatch box would come first though.

fresus wrote:

 ThirstySpaceMan wrote:
So this new contrast guy in the background looks like a new guy also? Can't find that pose in any of the existing nid mans. Flyer seems like something they wouldn't have access to. Perhaps a shuttle but it would be bulk landers not really game scale. As soon as a whiff of xenos taint is detected I think protocols would be IoM navy blockade and any surface to space travel be cut off. And if keeping the mining theme can anyone give me an example of any form of flyers? Admech has no flyers so its not unprecedented to have a flyer free army. Perhaps instead they will get a AA platform. Could see a converted rivet gun filling the sky with hypervelocity shot. Or mining charge flak launcher. Anyone else have ideas on mining equipment they might scavenge?

The guy in the background looks like an acolyte to me. We know that acolytes/neophytes will have new kits, so new poses are to be expected. I see two right arm (the top one with a melee weapon, the bottom one with rending claws), and a single left arm. If that arm holds a pistol, it will be very similar to the current acolytes.

As for the flyer, the only rumor I saw mentioning it was mentioning a single new infantry box. We know there are at least two (but maybe the person thought these two were repacks, or at least not "new").
Harlequins don't have any flyers either (and no AA), and are also a rather new codex. However, both Admech and Harlequins could ally flyers easily (and Harlequins can even have them look a lot like the rest of their army), whereas GSC shouldn't be BB with anyone.
GSC has a greater need to be self-sufficient, and are not meant as an ally codex. But depending on what they can loot from IG, they might no need a flyer of their own.

Surely they should be BB's with nids? Hell as soon as the hivemind gets close enough they become directly under their control!

 Baldeagle91 wrote:

fresus wrote:

 ThirstySpaceMan wrote:
So this new contrast guy in the background looks like a new guy also? Can't find that pose in any of the existing nid mans. Flyer seems like something they wouldn't have access to. Perhaps a shuttle but it would be bulk landers not really game scale. As soon as a whiff of xenos taint is detected I think protocols would be IoM navy blockade and any surface to space travel be cut off. And if keeping the mining theme can anyone give me an example of any form of flyers? Admech has no flyers so its not unprecedented to have a flyer free army. Perhaps instead they will get a AA platform. Could see a converted rivet gun filling the sky with hypervelocity shot. Or mining charge flak launcher. Anyone else have ideas on mining equipment they might scavenge?

The guy in the background looks like an acolyte to me. We know that acolytes/neophytes will have new kits, so new poses are to be expected. I see two right arm (the top one with a melee weapon, the bottom one with rending claws), and a single left arm. If that arm holds a pistol, it will be very similar to the current acolytes.

As for the flyer, the only rumor I saw mentioning it was mentioning a single new infantry box. We know there are at least two (but maybe the person thought these two were repacks, or at least not "new").
Harlequins don't have any flyers either (and no AA), and are also a rather new codex. However, both Admech and Harlequins could ally flyers easily (and Harlequins can even have them look a lot like the rest of their army), whereas GSC shouldn't be BB with anyone.
GSC has a greater need to be self-sufficient, and are not meant as an ally codex. But depending on what they can loot from IG, they might no need a flyer of their own.

Surely they should be BB's with nids? Hell as soon as the hivemind gets close enough they become directly under their control!

When Deathwatch overkill was first released, GW published rules for the model so they could be used in normal 40K. GSC was BB with nids (not everyone agreed on the interpretation of their ally matrix, but that's how I read it). But GW clarified that they are not BB with tyranids.
We'll see what the codex says, but GW's mind seems pretty set.

You folks think at some point in the future, now that we got Genestealers, that we might have a glimmer of hope for a traitor guard codex?

Forge World already has that covered pretty well, IMO.

FW has been moving away from the renegades as of late, they may come out with a new line for the horus heresy but IDK if the main GW folks will take that over for their version of 30k.

What Imperial Armor are Chaos Renegades in ?

13. With all the other Chaos goodness.

Yeah, I was actually working on a "gifts of the hive mind" rule set when the current genestealer cults came on the scene.

Dropped it due to official support, but would have traded chaos for Tyranids and made the army feel like the final assault by a cult that had taken over the P.D.F.

 unmercifulconker wrote:

 prowla wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Mining themed guys for a renegade mining themed force?

How about GSC with allied Mechanicum force for converting mining walkers.. ?

Mechanicum mining walkers you say?.......

You know, Onager is already 90% there..



(Not mine.)

So its going to be an ork killsaw, thats cheaper in points and probably with an additional special rule, and available in units on non characters.

Orks already were doing to minning / demolostion stuff with drills, saws and blow torches.

But gene cult will probably just have better rules =(

Just a heads up as I have a good friend who is a dealer. Not much info has been let out of the bag but the contents of the codex will indeed have rules for Astra militarum units available to the cults! As well as eight formations and stolen war gear. Makes me wonder what vehicles may be available!

Cheers!

Land Raiders.

I'm hoping for Land Raiders.

They could get 'em in 2nd Ed, and filling a Land Raider with Purestrain Genestealers is just terrifying!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Land Raiders.

I'm hoping for Land Raiders.

They could get 'em in 2nd Ed, and filling a Land Raider with Purestrain Genestealers is just terrifying!

TIL that Land Raiders are an Astra Militarum unit.

Don't care. I want Land Raiders back.

Nah, all of their transports are going to be not assault vehicles, because who needs assault vehicles in a close combat army?

Snark aside, the glimpsed armored car looked open topped to me.

The description he received gave no specifics just Astra militarum units usable by the cults but I will be estatic if that includes a leman Russ! More likely a chimera

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Don't care. I want Land Raiders back.

You have Limos. If anyone needs Land Raider access, it's Harlequins.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
You have Limos. If anyone needs Land Raider access, it's Harlequins.

I'm an equal Land Raider opportunity kind of Commissar. Everyone can have them! Even the Ta... ok no, not the Tau. I'm not that crazy.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
You have Limos. If anyone needs Land Raider access, it's Harlequins.

I'm an equal Land Raider opportunity kind of Commissar. Everyone can have them! Even the Ta... ok no, not the Tau. I'm not that crazy.

The Tau would just use them to drive away from the enemy, anyway. Everyone knows the proper use of a Land Raider is to rock right up the enemy and slowly file out into their gunfire before your survivors charge them in glorious melee.

 Robin5t wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
You have Limos. If anyone needs Land Raider access, it's Harlequins.

I'm an equal Land Raider opportunity kind of Commissar. Everyone can have them! Even the Ta... ok no, not the Tau. I'm not that crazy.

The Tau would just use them to drive away from the enemy, anyway. Everyone knows the proper use of a Land Raider is to rock right up the enemy and slowly file out into their gunfire before your survivors charge them in glorious melee.

No, that's the Gorkanaught.