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Hello I'm at a place with my Imperial Guard that I feel comfortable just adding the occasional unit to and committing to a second army with the Guard.

Admech and Genestealer both have fantastic ranges and great bits to kitbash into my guardsmen as well! I like the character models for both ranges as well and the fluff.

Admech

Pros:
Great metallics
Unique looking and powerful vehicles to have fun modelling and painting
Repair spam.
Cawl
Excuse to eventually get a knight
Bits for weapons not found in guard boxes
Great looking new flyer
Could make cool kitbashed Mechanicus trained veteran squads

Cons:
One strong tone across all robes
Lots of spindly bits to snap off
Might be too similar to IG gunline?
Silly looking new transport model

Genestealer Cults

Pros:
Another horde army
Lots of kitbash and weapon swap opportunities can finally create penal guard conscripts or vets with shotguns
More opportunity to use models I already own
Fun new psychic powers
Motorcycles and demo charges
Different types of xenos, clothes etc.. variety of painting

Cons:
Another horde army
Lots of new rules
Current imperial guard army might not aesthetically fit with xenos
Smaller vehicles

Make a list of "Models you like" (not rules, not lore, just the kits) for each force.

The one with more entries? Start that one.

ccs wrote:
Make a list of "Models you like" (not rules, not lore, just the kits) for each force.

The one with more entries? Start that one.

For real! Any army I build has to be aesthetically pleasing to me first. I don’t care if the rules for that army are broken as hell, if the models are garbage I’m not playing them. Hence why I wouldn’t go with gsc. I’m not a fan of the models.

ccs wrote:
Make a list of "Models you like" (not rules, not lore, just the kits) for each force.

The one with more entries? Start that one.

This man speaks wisdom

Personally, I wouldn't go with GSC unless you plan to omit brood brothers.

Just another flavour of IG.

If you are willing to invest in another army then get one which plays completely differently to the one you have.

Thanks for the responses guys. I think I'm leaning into admech although I do like GSC range quite a lot. Just need a better transport solution as my Guardsmen generally have a pretty crude transport and it's easy to pack up leman russes and chimeras. I think eventually building up towards a knight would be cool and like the idea of some mechanicus/guard crossover with bits and bobs.

My guard scheme is white and royal blue with gold aquillas on snow bases. So I think the admech would look great blended in as a grey-blue force with brass and silver metallics maybe purple or bright green eye sockets. Could look like they are part of the same expedition force but still seperate entities.


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There was my one off tech priest for my IG army but I don't think I'd want to do an entire army in this scheme.

 Neotericity wrote:
Thanks for the responses guys. I think I'm leaning into admech although I do like GSC range quite a lot. Just need a better transport solution as my Guardsmen generally have a pretty crude transport and it's easy to pack up leman russes and chimeras. I think eventually building up towards a knight would be cool and like the idea of some mechanicus/guard crossover with bits and bobs.

I think that's a good call, as having the Imperium keyword for both your armies will allow you to mix and match them easily.

My guard scheme is white and royal blue with gold aquillas on snow bases. So I think the admech would look great blended in as a grey-blue force with brass and silver metallics maybe purple or bright green eye sockets. Could look like they are part of the same expedition force but still seperate entities.

I wouldn't feel obliged to unify them this way (unless you want to of course!) as that's not how it works in the lore. Imperial expeditions are often comprised of completely disparate forces with no unifying themes (aside from loyalty to the Emperor of course!).

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There was my one off tech priest for my IG army but I don't think I'd want to do an entire army in this scheme.

I actually think that's a great scheme that presents a nice foil to your current guard scheme.

i voted for the inquisition, simpl because there is no Chaotic option.


GSC, don't just need to be GSC, GSC can literally represent a slew of other forces and factions of insurgents and pirates, (altough ever since GW shafted my R&H i am biased because i eventually switched to gsc rules use, that said, you can customize awfully lot of things and that makes it atleast for me interesting.)

Admech is going to play exactly identically to guard. Play GSC, build in to something different.

Without reading the rest of the post, I voted GSC, but it sounds like you want Admech more, so go for it!

I agree with Yarium, it really seems you like admech more. I like the admech line better visually but rules wise they are both pretty good, now that admech have a transport option and at some point a flyer I think they are I a better place.

It really depends on your play style and coming from your AsM background - the obvious choice is AdM:
AdM: most likely gunline play style.
GSC: most likely DS/assault play style.

I have both armies + a small IG detachment and I can say that the GSC + IG obviously have much more synergy. Though from a fluff standpoint, IG can be played with either (a forgeworld's personal Tech Guard perhaps).

IMO it's not worth starting an army that's too similar to your main army in playstyle. So GSC would be out for me. Not to mention IG is already GSC with (much) better models.

At least with AdMech you get a Sentinel-ish unit that isn't crap.

GSC...
Inquisition...

Inquisition lets you collect anything imperial.
Can fit in to your existing collection and provide options until fully collected.

truthfully of the two choices presented I'd argue neither are gonna be massivly differant, I'd try something fairly differant, an elite army (this both ensures differance and ensures your secondary army doesn't take up a whole ton of space) maybe try custodes, space marines or even Imperial Knights?