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Souleater wrote: I know this isn’t the first set to give Brood Brothers mutations or forehead ridges, but I still don’t like the look on them. BB were meant to be regular humans under the sway of the coven.
I agree. When I played my 5th-7th ed Genestealer Cult (standard Guard rules), the bulk of my troops were brood brothers and the only "mutation" were their white staring eyes (a nod to how hypnotized characters look in anime/manga). I saved my hybrids for officers and elites.
This was my company command:
Spoiler:
When GSC got a genuine codex and new models for the first time in decades, I removed my hybrids to a dedicated detachment and created a new company command for my Brood Brothers:
Awesome army! I once started a GSC army that was going to use Nid rules (cultists as guants and so on) never got far.
Heads could have face masks, miners goggles as we see already.
Heads would be human (they aren’t hybrids) but could be shaven to show kinship with the ‘blessed’. A pre-battle mark of devotion could be cuts made across the forehead to echo the forehead ridges.
Mainly, I want to be able to swap out Imperial symbols here and there, or add them to vehicles, etc.
Lord Damocles wrote: 'Lets just shoot our giant tractor beams at this space hulk we haven't bothered to investigate. We're not idiots.'
I could see some greedy and overconfident leaders doing that. It's even possible that they had plans for keeping any occupants under control, though those plans would have involved the hulk staying intact instead of breaking into numerous pieces that landed all over the planet.
Disappointed in the Cults upgrade sprue. Would have liked to have seen more Cult related trinkets and icon type things. Basically just heads and the killteam arms.
Dawnbringer wrote: Disappointed in the Cults upgrade sprue. Would have liked to have seen more Cult related trinkets and icon type things. Basically just heads and the killteam arms.
I mean, what were you expecting? It's an upgrade frame based Kill Team.
I'm disappointed they couldn't be bothered to produce a transfer sheet and instead just hucked in the Cadian one.
Someone said the box is decent conversion fodder for Hive Secundus, and I can kinda see that, but outside that it's the most forgettable KT box in a long time.
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Even the terrain is a bit skippable. It's nice medium Los blocker, but otherwise we have crates, we have plasma generators, and this is a bit of both that doesn't make a ton of sense. Why would you want to go inside a plasma reactor with a big hatch? And why not invest a bit more and make it the size and compatible of munitorum containers? Then it could go on a ridgehauler as well. It's fine, but could fit into something like Infinity just fine.
MajorWesJanson wrote: Even the terrain is a bit skippable. It's nice medium Los blocker, but otherwise we have crates, we have plasma generators, and this is a bit of both that doesn't make a ton of sense. Why would you want to go inside a plasma reactor with a big hatch? And why not invest a bit more and make it the size and compatible of munitorum containers? Then it could go on a ridgehauler as well. It's fine, but could fit into something like Infinity just fine.
Agreed.
As it is, those two bits of terrain just make me think of 40k Portaloos.
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Primary use case is Necromunda, where a terrain collection literally cannot have enough medium-small scatter terrain. Bonus points for coming in a pair, which is great for setting up little sectional vignettes on a board.
The pieces are stolidly generic, useful for multiple games and scales. They have none of the screamingly loud, smutty design you see on something like the Haemotrope Reactor.
Some of the complaints above verge on goofy. The doors lead to a cramped maintenance crawlspace, big deal. And it's insane to wish these were stackable with the munitorum containers. Why would you ever want to stack a piece of terrain that gives "transient, temporary, ad hoc" with another piece that gives "permanent, planned, immovable"?
Primary use case is Necromunda, where a terrain collection literally cannot have enough medium-small scatter terrain. Bonus points for coming in a pair, which is great for setting up little sectional vignettes on a board.
The pieces are stolidly generic, useful for multiple games and scales. They have none of the screamingly loud, smutty design you see on something like the Haemotrope Reactor.
Some of the complaints above verge on goofy. The doors lead to a cramped maintenance crawlspace, big deal. And it's insane to wish these were stackable with the munitorum containers. Why would you ever want to stack a piece of terrain that gives "transient, temporary, ad hoc" with another piece that gives "permanent, planned, immovable"?
Well, seeing as I'm the biggest commenter re. compatibility with the munitorum containers...
They look like they are intended to be portable generators, like the 40k equivalent of a portable diesel generator (except plasma, because 40k), rather than fixed infrastructure like the haemotrope reactors and thermic plasma regulators. So it is reasonable to wonder if a portable device fits in standard Imperial cargo haulers that are compatible with the containers and promethium tanks. I could see these being transported on the back of a cargo-8 ridgehauler... if they fit.
As for dimensions, they look taller but shorter than the containers.
ChargerIIC wrote: If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is.
I guess I don't see what advantage stacking would give anyone that stacking two munitorum containers doesn't. Other than the inherent satisfaction of playing adult lego with modular parts of a collection.
Altruizine wrote: I guess I don't see what advantage stacking would give anyone that stacking two munitorum containers doesn't. Other than the inherent satisfaction of playing adult lego with modular parts of a collection.
I like the idea partly from a lore perspective- STC equipment designed to the same standards- and partly from a modelling perspective where it would be cool to have a full Cargo-8 with 1 plasma cube, 1 promethium tanks, and a couple of containers as part of a convoy. That tells a nice narrative of a logistics unit moving to set up a forward depot.
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ChargerIIC wrote: If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is.
Got the reactor blocks from ebay, skipping the rest as planned. Kind of looking forward to KT24 to be honest, Bheta-Decima season has been a big miss for me
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Dawnbringer wrote: Disappointed in the Cults upgrade sprue. Would have liked to have seen more Cult related trinkets and icon type things. Basically just heads and the killteam arms.
I mean, what were you expecting? It's an upgrade frame based Kill Team.
The old brood brothers upgrade sprue which was smaller had pouches and daggers that were gsc themed, as well as a couple bits to put on chimeras etc.
Dawnbringer wrote: Disappointed in the Cults upgrade sprue. Would have liked to have seen more Cult related trinkets and icon type things. Basically just heads and the killteam arms.
I mean, what were you expecting? It's an upgrade frame based Kill Team.
The old brood brothers upgrade sprue which was smaller had pouches and daggers that were gsc themed, as well as a couple bits to put on chimeras etc.
You mean the Genestealer Cult Upgrade Sprue/Hybrid Upgrade Pack? I mention that name to make it clear: it's there for you to add Hybrid characteristics and Genestealer Cult iconography to Guard models. Also worth mentioning that the old frame is seemingly still available, albeit out of stock right now.
With any luck, this upgrade frame coming with the Brood Brothers means there's a dedicated unit in the GSC book, since it's giving some potential unit upgrades in addition to the iconography that can be added to other stuff.
I like the idea partly from a lore perspective- STC equipment designed to the same standards- and partly from a modelling perspective where it would be cool to have a full Cargo-8 with 1 plasma cube, 1 promethium tanks, and a couple of containers as part of a convoy. That tells a nice narrative of a logistics unit moving to set up a forward depot.
The lore is that these are relics, shipped out from Forge Worlds to power Mechanicus infrastructure.
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Altruizine wrote: The pieces are stolidly generic, useful for multiple games and scales. They have none of the screamingly loud, smutty design you see on something like the Haemotrope Reactor.
*looks at the Haemotrope Reactor that's awaiting more paint*
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Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
