Warhammer Community Rumor Engine Thread - page 135 latest hint

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**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

had anybody spotted the june 2017

spooky ghost helmet on the bottom left

**aracersss**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
had anybody spotted the june 2017

Spoiler:

spooky ghost helmet on the bottom left

Spoiler:

**aracersss**

Verviedi wrote:

Spoiler:

... there is this one too

**bubber**

Latest teaser:

Got to be a Slanneshi squig!

**terry**

slaanesh eldar/aelfs ? or mabey new ynnaeri models

**Overread**

Those shapes look like eyes - I'm very very down for slannesh elves with eyes on their swords

**terry**

the shapes feel more like gem stones

**Alexonian**

looks very much like the primus bonesword

**zamerion**

Very cult genestealer with a little more style

**EnTyme**

Definitely reminds me of the GSC weapons, but it could easily be Slaanesh as well.

**Galas**

Yeah, I think its a genestealer cult blade.

**KurtAngle2**

GSC Bonesword, sorry lads but it's not Slaanesh

**JohnnyHell**

I’d imagine they’ll be cooking up some named/new characters and new units. GSC was a hit release, so they have an opportunity to sell those people more than just a book and some Aberrants.

**dan2026**

I could see a Slannesh character using an ornate blade like that.

**aracersss**

... starting to think the rose will be on her

Edit: the rose isn't likely from banshees, unless there is more of them later

**Kanluwen**

JohnnyHell wrote:
I’d imagine they’ll be cooking up some named/new characters and new units. GSC was a hit release, so they have an opportunity to sell those people more than just a book and some Aberrants.

They specifically said that there's more to come for GSC than just the Aberrants, so I would be surprised if they didn't get some named characters at least.

**Mr_Rose**

Not sure named characters should be a thing for genecults. They don’t even have the power of the Hive Mind to store backups of themselves in, so any named characters would have to be limited to one world.
Certainly they could have more characters (a ‘junior’ form of Magus for example), for cults that manage to get two complete Cycles in before emerging, or some more upgunned civilian vehicles, or even further specialisations of Acolytes (wings anyone?) but a named dude would be kinda odd. Unless it was some kind of super-Patriarch that gets recycled like the Swarmlord because he’s just that good?

**EnTyme**

Yeah. Any named character in a Genestealer Cult would be doomed to death immediately at the hands of the very gods he worships. I don't see the point. I could definitely get behind some new generic HQ choices for them, though.

**JohnnyHell**

Mr_Rose wrote:
Not sure named characters should be a thing for genecults. They don’t even have the power of the Hive Mind to store backups of themselves in, so any named characters would have to be limited to one world.
Certainly they could have more characters (a ‘junior’ form of Magus for example), for cults that manage to get two complete Cycles in before emerging, or some more upgunned civilian vehicles, or even further specialisations of Acolytes (wings anyone?) but a named dude would be kinda odd. Unless it was some kind of super-Patriarch that gets recycled like the Swarmlord because he’s just that good?

We've already had named characters of sorts in the DW:OK box's original tide-you-over White Dwarf rules.

**aracersss**

you know it's remotely possible named characters avoid what happens to their respective cults?

**Mr_Rose**

You could always use Meh'lindi’s excuse that she snuck aboard a transportafter her home cult was exposed and destroyed, or something like it? Seems a bit lame though.

**Kanluwen**

Mr_Rose wrote:
You could always use Meh'lindi’s excuse that she snuck aboard a transportafter her home cult was exposed and destroyed, or something like it? Seems a bit lame though.

Isn't there something in the fluff about Vanguard organisms(Lictors, Genestealers) having a biological imperative to flee the coming of a Hive Fleet specifically to avoid being biomassed?

Could be that the Genestealer Primus(which has a similar sword to what we're seeing here) has a similar dealie going on. It could also just be that it's a part from the Aberrant boxed set.

**Haighus**

Also the Hive fleets refuse to absorb the Ymgarl genestealers, supposedly due to extreme genetic instability. Presumably the Ymgarl produce cults like other genestealers, so maybe we could get a named Ymgarl GSC character?

**Irbis**

Actually this looks unlike Primus sword but more ornate version of this guy:

So, yeah, GSC, but I'd bet on some melee elites, not named character...

**Strat_N8**

Another possibility, the 7th edition GSC codex mentioned in passing that the cult's Boneswords (and presumably "Bonedaggers" seen on some Acolytes) are grown and harvested from the Patriarch's Throne. Given that the last two releases have had a fortification of some sort it could be that GSC will be getting the throne in some form as well.

**ZoBo**

cool as that could be...unless it's somehow mobile?...I can't see it happening...because wouldn't the patriarch's throne be deep in the heart of the cult's lair? - not particularly likely that said lair is gonna be in the middle of a battlefield...

...'course, I admittedly know very little about GSC really, so I could be way off with any/all of that...

**gnome_idea_what**

A fortification is at odds with the mobile, infiltrating close-ranged playstyle that GSC have been designed with. I’m not saying that it isn’t happening, I’m just saying that it would be fairly irregular without more support for a static play style (support as in “this unit is supposed to be good at shooting things as a gunline,” not “this unit is mathematically viable at shooting things in a gunline”)

**Perfect Organism**

They could always have the throne mounted on a vehicle.

**ZoBo**

I would probably buy a "GSC-Karamazov" model

**Voss**

Perfect Organism wrote:
They could always have the throne mounted on a vehicle.

Give the Patriarch a Pope-Mobile, you mean?

Hmm. I assume a photoshop of that already exists.