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Sometimes they're late!

Look out for more Genestealer Cults previews coming soon.

If there are articles several days in a row, they usually say come back tomorrow :( :(

I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't today, but I'm used to articles dropping around 10am PST (The good ones anyway).

So who knows, give it a view minutes and maybe it'll ambush its way onto the site

 Red Corsair wrote:
I guess there is no preview today :/

Inb4 “GENEUARY IS THE NEW ORKTOBER”

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
Not sure if I like that GSC now have a guy that is doing gene experiments

Think it's a theme that might have been better left to dark Eldar

Also not sure I like that they can now contaminate without the purestrain genestealer. Make them look a bit less alien imo

The Biophagus merely helps the infection/indoctrination along, Purestrains are still needed for impregnation/assimilation. He’s like the Patriarch’s wingman.

And gene manipulation is pretty much a Genestealer’s “thing”. It’s how they reproduce after all.

Doesn't he specifically deal with only the Abberants (who are 'obviously', aberrations of the hybrid evolution), and therefore, doesn't really mess with the 'natural' progression of the other GSC? I feel like he's just there to make the mutants bigger and more dangerous, sort of like Clan Moulder in (the old) Warhammer Fantasy.

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
I guess there is no preview today :/

Inb4 “GENEUARY IS THE NEW ORKTOBER”

Look back, already been said.

As long as we get it.... Just give the Codex to us.... I'm dying here, with so little information with substance. The Biophagus does indicate that <Cult> will be the keyword, though I'm sure as a community we've already figured that would be the case.

 Carnikang wrote:


The Biophagus does indicate that <Cult> will be the keyword, though I'm sure as a community we've already figured that would be the case.

It would be interesting if chaos cultists & beastmen were able to get in on the <CULT> keyword as well. Would be very much like Rogue Trader days, when genestealer & Chaos Cults were all buddy/buddy.

Though, there's some imperial cults as well, like the Necromunda Redemptors. But I don't think they would mix as well.

The Biophagus looks like the dad from Invader Zim.

 Nurglitch wrote:
The Biophagus looks like the dad from Invader Zim.

How did I not see that before?

 streetsamurai wrote:
Not sure if I like that GSC now have a guy that is doing gene experiments

Think it's a theme that might have been better left to dark Eldar

Also not sure I like that they can now contaminate without the purestrain genestealer. Make them look a bit less alien imo

It makes sense that a cult would make the medical profession a priority for infiltration though. Aside from being able to help cover up the hybrid births, doctors have always held a position of trust and influence in human cultures. On top of that it really adds to the creepy/horrific theme of the cults that the local doc is in on the monster birthing conspiracy.

Another question is: Wouldn't doctors/nurses etc. be high on the cult's table of people to infect? I mean when the Cult's women bear offspring they need someone medically competent to help them during labour and giving birth. And if that someone is not in the Cult he will be horrified by the mutant alien baby, thus he would either have to be killed or indoctrinated.

or he could he captured by the hipnothic gaze, because somewere in the old codex its say the parents see there child as a normal one
and not as a monster

 Causalis wrote:
Another question is: Wouldn't doctors/nurses etc. be high on the cult's table of people to infect? I mean when the Cult's women bear offspring they need someone medically competent to help them during labour and giving birth. And if that someone is not in the Cult he will be horrified by the mutant alien baby, thus he would either have to be killed or indoctrinated.

Well, in the depths of hive and mining worlds where genestealer cults often end up, the availability of doctors at all is kind of an open question.
Death by star gods is actually a step up given living conditions on some imperial worlds.

Voss wrote:

 Causalis wrote:
Another question is: Wouldn't doctors/nurses etc. be high on the cult's table of people to infect? I mean when the Cult's women bear offspring they need someone medically competent to help them during labour and giving birth. And if that someone is not in the Cult he will be horrified by the mutant alien baby, thus he would either have to be killed or indoctrinated.

Well, in the depths of hive and mining worlds where genestealer cults often end up, the availability of doctors at all is kind of an open question.
Death by star gods is actually a step up given living conditions on some imperial worlds.

Eventually the cult wants to infiltrate positions of power so even though they may start in the underclass where births and deaths do not come to any medical attention, they will want to get agents and hybrids in the middle and upper classes and these would be more likely to have contact with medical staff. Therefore to keep from being discovered, infiltrating hospitals would be a priority.

I expect cultist doctors and nurses would have decent opportunities to infect their patients as well.

 EnTyme wrote:

 Nurglitch wrote:
The Biophagus looks like the dad from Invader Zim.

How did I not see that before?

I was thinking the professor from Animaniacs

oh lawd, that Biophagus made me think of fabius bile... file off the forehead and he's make a sweet assistant

now i'm thinking of a chaos fabius bile created culty mutated uprising using this codex... oh dear.

 Aesthete wrote:
I expect cultist doctors and nurses would have decent opportunities to infect their patients as well.

Yup and if they have access to generation 1 and 2 blood samples you are screwed. That is another vector of infection and indoctrination, some people think that they need a genestealer to infect you. They don't, which makes cults so dangerous especially if they start replacing your doctors and nurses.

The issue is I think GW really are underselling the xeno threat in general, when I started getting into GSC and read up on their lore they are worse than chaos cults in my mind. The BL book cult of the spiral dawn solidified it.

 shinros wrote:

 Aesthete wrote:
I expect cultist doctors and nurses would have decent opportunities to infect their patients as well.

Yup and if they have access to generation 1 and 2 blood samples you are screwed. That is another vector of infection and indoctrination, some people think that they need a genestealer to infect you. They don't, which makes cults so dangerous especially if they start replacing your doctors and nurses.

The issue is I think GW really are underselling the xeno threat in general, when I started getting into GSC and read up on their lore they are worse than chaos cults in my mind. The BL book cult of the spiral dawn solidified it.

I came into hospital with an ingrowing toenail, and left with something else entirely...

Also, I would have thought that antenatal care might be quite a big deal in the cult. Having a human baby is a tough enough ordeal, I bet an Acolyte or Purestrain stings a bit coming out. You need Mum and Dad ready to make more brood brothers in future. What we need is a GSC midwife model (shudder)...

Maybe Adam Poots can collaborate with GW to make a GSC wet nurse...

They are killing me with the slow pace of these previews. Now I’m not sure whether they are going up on preorder this weekend or not

Familiar words every time new codex is coming up

That Biophagus preview got lots of people hot and bothered .... This really does feel like some sort of fluffy torture.

I doubt it will be this weekend. As Saturday is tomorrow, maybe we will get an "Ambush"-style Pre-Order article for next week letting us know the Cult is Ascendent.

On another, personal note... I got my 28mm Handicap/One way signs in from my local hobby shop.... Time to customize those Hypermorphs.

 Asmodas wrote:
They are killing me with the slow pace of these previews. Now I’m not sure whether they are going up on preorder this weekend or not

Btw 100% sure not coming preorder this weekend. Preorders for this weekend were declared last sunday as always. What COULD happen is that on sunday they announce them as preorder for next week.

They don't do surprise preorder inserts. Preorders for this saturday were announced last sunday. Next week's preorder will be announced on sunday.

Yea Sunday will be next we hear anything most likely. If not then I have no idea when they are planning it. It will be here soon enough boys. Just use the time to get your current stash built and painted

I have a vague memory about them hinting that when GSC launches, it would come as a surprise.

From genestealer cult facebook:

In frontline gamlings latest podcast they said the dex will be in peoples hands right before the event (LVO). LVO is starting the 8th of february. 05:25 into the podcast they talk about it

He’s been talking about the GSC codex a lot lately. I noticed he said that it would be out before LVO as well. He keeps emphasizing how strong the codex is over and over and as play testers I presume they should know. I assume it will be open for preorder on the 26th.

So hopefully tomorrow they will announce it in warhammer community.

They might put the next wave of Kill Team in first, though that does have GSC stuff in, leading into the release the following two weeks.

Also think the five characters shown will be the GSC version of Gobbapalooza.

I’d imagine they won’t be in a bundle.

Goblins have always been a special case in that sense.
As they’re small, they have been bundled together in packs etc

We could see the codex (and accessories) released with the kill team boxes.

How much will the kill team boxes be? The same as the other smaller ones?