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Well if you had three arms, wouldn't you?

The Aberrant kit looks nice.

 Albertorius wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Three autopistols is super fun but terribly weak!

It would be fun if it’s a whole gunslinger unit, but I suspect a character.

Autopistols are more like smgs (hence the autofire), though, while those look like revolvers, so...

Previous precedent is that revolvers and semi-automatic pistols are stub guns (see the old Necromunda miniatures, where various calibres of revolver and M1911-style guns represented stub guns. Various autopistols looked like Uzis and Mac-10s

Looking closer, however, the two pistols that model has drawn both have the style of muzzle that's been characteristic of autopistols and autoguns for years, so ...

 ImAGeek wrote:
The original Kill Team video was GSC vs AdMech, so maybe it's from that, and there'll be like a Skitarii Alpha character or something too.

No. They already had other teasers for Genestealer Cult on Warhammer Community and the Codex is also set to drop soon.

Everything points to Genestealer Cult being the next sizable 40K release after, likely, mostly miniature-less (bar an Upgrade sprue or so) Space Wolves/Orks mixed into the coming weeks of Age of Sigmar stuff.

Sunny Side Up wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
The original Kill Team video was GSC vs AdMech, so maybe it's from that, and there'll be like a Skitarii Alpha character or something too.

No. They already had other teasers for Genestealer Cult on Warhammer Community and the Codex is also set to drop soon.

Everything points to Genestealer Cult being the next sizable 40K release after, likely, mostly miniature-less (bar an Upgrade sprue or so) Space Wolves/Orks mixed into the coming weeks of Age of Sigmar stuff.

Yeah, but some new stuff could be introduced in the Kill Team starter (Kill Team is, afaik, due first, and it's not like they've never done that kind of thing before).

Sunny Side Up wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
The original Kill Team video was GSC vs AdMech, so maybe it's from that, and there'll be like a Skitarii Alpha character or something too.

No. They already had other teasers for Genestealer Cult on Warhammer Community and the Codex is also set to drop soon.

Everything points to Genestealer Cult being the next sizable 40K release after, likely, mostly miniature-less (bar an Upgrade sprue or so) Space Wolves/Orks mixed into the coming weeks of Age of Sigmar stuff.

Not so much "everything points to" as outright stated at UKGE where GW confirmed that there will be GSC models coming pretty soon (hence the teasers for Aberant on Warhammer Community), well before the new codex, which will be the next codex after SW/Orks. Most likely early next year I think he said

 endtransmission wrote:
Not so much "everything points to" as outright stated at UKGE where GW confirmed that there will be GSC models coming pretty soon (hence the teasers for Aberant on Warhammer Community), well before the new codex, which will be the next codex after SW/Orks. Most likely early next year I think he said

I don't think it was ever stated that Genestealer Cults would be getting models before their codex is released. I think it's far more likely for models to be released alongside their codex.

 CaptainBetts wrote:

 endtransmission wrote:


Not so much "everything points to" as outright stated at UKGE where GW confirmed that there will be GSC models coming pretty soon (hence the teasers for Aberant on Warhammer Community), well before the new codex, which will be the next codex after SW/Orks. Most likely early next year I think he said

I don't think it was ever stated that Genestealer Cults would be getting models before their codex is released. I think it's far more likely for models to be released alongside their codex.

Outright stated? No. Heavily implied? Yes. When we saw the Aberrant, a comment was made during their Facebook stuff that day about GSC being a fairly large release and that "some stuff might be coming before the book".

And realistically, it actually makes a bit of sense. They probably don't want to keep Deathwatch: Overkill around forever.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 CaptainBetts wrote:

 endtransmission wrote:


Not so much "everything points to" as outright stated at UKGE where GW confirmed that there will be GSC models coming pretty soon (hence the teasers for Aberant on Warhammer Community), well before the new codex, which will be the next codex after SW/Orks. Most likely early next year I think he said

I don't think it was ever stated that Genestealer Cults would be getting models before their codex is released. I think it's far more likely for models to be released alongside their codex.

Outright stated? No. Heavily implied? Yes. When we saw the Aberrant, a comment was made during their Facebook stuff that day about GSC being a fairly large release and that "some stuff might be coming before the book".

And realistically, it actually makes a bit of sense. They probably don't want to keep Deathwatch: Overkill around forever.

So that to me suggests that there will be some stuff with the Kill Team release. Which would explain why these models were out at Warhammer World, if Kill Team is due soon.

Maybe there's a few western themed ones, I like the classic bundle of dynamite being clutched by the figure off shot to the left.

 inflatablefriend wrote:
Maybe there's a few western themed ones, I like the classic bundle of dynamite being clutched by the figure off shot to the left.

That's already in the kit

 Kanluwen wrote:
They probably don't want to keep Deathwatch: Overkill around forever.

Why would they need to keep it around forever?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
They probably don't want to keep Deathwatch: Overkill around forever.

Why would they need to keep it around forever?

Suspect he is referring to the fact that the Overkill box is the only way to currently get Aberrant models which feature heavily in a lot of lists. Pushing out the new Aberrant box before the codex means they can retire the Overkill box earlier without complaints.

Part of me thinks that if that really mattered to them the Aberrant kit would'a been out a long time ago.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 inflatablefriend wrote:
Maybe there's a few western themed ones, I like the classic bundle of dynamite being clutched by the figure off shot to the left.

That's already in the kit

Whoops!

*Shuffles off screen awkwardly*

Still, new GSC stuff looks great, if I had any spare budget I might be tempted to start a force. Maybe with Killteam I'll have an excuse!

GW was caught off-guard with the popularity of the GSC in Overkill. I feel like that first codex release was missing a lot of things they would have liked to have made for the army, including a full abberant kit and other ways to get the HQs.

New Shadows of Brimstone character confirmed once my gunslinger's got an extra hand and one too many rolls on the mutation chart!

I'm certainly down with a weird west inspired cult.

Excellent. The cult must grow.

 EnTyme wrote:
GW was caught off-guard with the popularity of the GSC in Overkill. I feel like that first codex release was missing a lot of things they would have liked to have made for the army, including a full abberant kit and other ways to get the HQs.

Honestly, it wasn't a huge issue getting the HQs. You buy a box, you get all 3 of them plus the minions right off the bat. Most people that I saw running them fielded the triple formation anyways.

Well, Hermiatus turned into a Genestealer hybrid on Necromunda. Looks like it happened to Kal Jerico too.

That gunslinger guy, what a fricking bad-ass, might pick him up just for conversions.

Its hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh noon.

That Genestealer may be the best Xenos miniature (In my opinion) alongside O'shaserra. So simple, and at the same time, so cool.

It is not really that original but... in the warhammer 40k context it is. Or maybe is that as a spaniard I just like ponchos.

Sunny Side Up wrote:Gotta start playing the Westworld theme now, when you deploy the Cult

Or some Ennio Morricone! Drills and cowboys- this is truly my faction. Double barrel shotguns, dynamite sticks, and gunslingers... so many ideas...

Better pics from gratkul (warhammer french forum)

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Part of me thinks that if that really mattered to them the Aberrant kit would'a been out a long time ago.

Doubtful. Deathwatch Overkill was released March 2016. Half a year of sales after that to look at and figure out there is more demand than expected. Decision to do more Genestealer Cult based on those sales + the give or take 2 year turn around time of GW doing kits from concept to store shelf alongside their other stuff would lead to a release roughly October 2018, give or take.

Sunny Side Up wrote:

Doubtful. Deathwatch overkill was released March 2016. Half a year of sales after that to look at and figure out there is more demand than necessary. Decision to do more Genestealer Cult based on those sales + the give or take 2 year turn around time of GW doing kits from concept to store shelf would lead to a release roughly Oktober 2018, give or take.

Other bit to factor in is that they're purportedly still hitting production bottlenecks at times. There were issues with the rather small line that GSC got at their actual launch, one or two extra kits could have messed it up further.

Yeah, i don't know if these are for Deathwatch. They go alongside the codex to well... it's funny... we were all waiting the Orks to show off year of the Xenos but it's very likely it's going to be the GSC. If it's a good enough uodate to the range I might invest in them.

 lolman1c wrote:
Yeah, i don't know if these are for Deathwatch. They go alongside the codex to well... it's funny... we were all waiting the Orks to show off year of the Xenos but it's very likely it's going to be the GSC. If it's a good enough uodate to the range I might invest in them.

Nobody is saying these are for Deathwatch...?

Only reason I mentioned it is that Deathwatch: Overkill has been on sale for way longer than many of their boardgames have. I implied that it's because it is currently the only way to get Aberrants.

Now, there's speculation currently that this stuff is also going to be released as a tie-in with Kill Team. We've been told that the rules for everything in Kill Team will be in the book for it.

it is strange that GW has not showed well the miniatures after the filtration

We'll probably see them later today, but they're likely gearing up for the 24hr livestream for the AOS2.0 launch