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Hello folks,

Got a question for you - in the heat of battle, would it be unheard of for a Genestealer to "kiss" an opponent? I'm just returning to the hobby after twenty years (yikes!) and do not have a Tyranid Codex.

Thankee.

I think, once a battle is joined by the larger Tyranid swarm, that Genestealers going about starting genestealer cults would be unnecessary.

Yeah, I guess it depends on the battle.

If they're just genestealers from a space hulk or working for a cult they'd probably kiss their enemies if they have a good opportunity.

If they're part of a full swarm it probably wouldn't make any sense to try and kiss people, seeing as they're eating everything anyways. Then again, if there's no real drawback to kissing their enemy, they may do so on the off chance that the host survives.

I understand that they used to have an ability that allowed them to infect opposing models so that they had a random chance to explode into so many Genestealers during a battle. Neat, but definitely not part of canon anymore.

To "Kiss" an oponent, in terms of fluff, Genestelers hypnotise the potential host and then inpregnate them. The new host then wakes up some time later not remembering a thing. I've alwasy felt that I just wouldnt be practical in the heat of battle to getting up to hanky'panky.

They tend to try and seporate people from the group hypnotise them, inpregnate and then run off. That way the host has no way of noing and other are less suspicious.

I doubt they'd kiss them just to start a cult. But maybe they'd kiss them if they met that special someone....

Awwww. Reminds me of a comic i once read...

In one of the cain novels, several people (including Tau) are impregnated a short time after being cut off from the main group.

So it might be possible in a the midst of battle for the last few survivors of a squad to be "kissed", as you put it, by stealers, before they move on to take out another squad.

TheAlmightyPillock wrote:To "Kiss" an oponent, in terms of fluff, Genestelers hypnotise the potential host and then inpregnate them. The new host then wakes up some time later not remembering a thing. I've alwasy felt that I just wouldnt be practical in the heat of battle to getting up to hanky'panky.

They tend to try and seporate people from the group hypnotise them, inpregnate and then run off. That way the host has no way of noing and other are less suspicious.

So they knock you out and then they...

OH GOD! The horrible images!

To "kiss" means to infect with genetic material, turning the victim(s) into hybrid genstealers. Sometmes they'll just hypnotize people preferably people in an IG PDF so that they dont set up defenses and all the will being a psychic beacon to its hive fleet.