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So, a returning player and I've been introduced to these figures and I love their look. And was wonder how feasible a vanguard force would be (The 1HQ and 3 fast attack detachment from the core rules).

Thinking a Jackel leader, 2 Atalan Jackals squads and a Ridgerunner.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738511.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738511.page GMT Genestealer Cults - Bikes, Quads and Jeeps cp to use the propper stratagems.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738513.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738513.page GMT Genestealer Cults - Bikes, Quads and Jeeps
I would echo the poster above, cp is pretty important so if you're talking viability you are really going to want a Battalion too.

Jackals are ok. There's two ways to run them really - cheap as possible as a fast screen/objective grabber/road block. Or with demo charges using strats to get the most of them - which is a high risk high reward strategy that wont always pay off.

Ridgerunners arent great to be honest.

Neither are powerhouse units, and I would be hesitant around basing a whole list around them outside of the most casual environments. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738547.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738547.page GMT Genestealer Cults - Bikes, Quads and Jeeps CA and a pretty awesome new stratagem that for 1CP grants the whole unit +1 to wound with their HMLs.

A single unit, big as you can make it, of Achilles Ridgerunners is excellent (and pairs well with the Jackal Alphus) and units of Jackals with shotguns+cult knives and quads with incinerators are solid little units.

I do think you want to go for a Battalion though. Our troop choices are so, so good.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738614.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738614.page GMT Genestealer Cults - Bikes, Quads and Jeeps GSC for a bit, but admittedly it has been a little while.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738805.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10738805.page GMT Genestealer Cults - Bikes, Quads and Jeeps
the_scotsman wrote:
I think Stux is a bit out of date. Ridgerunners got a huge price drop in the latest CA and a pretty awesome new stratagem that for 1CP grants the whole unit +1 to wound with their HMLs.

A single unit, big as you can make it, of Achilles Ridgerunners is excellent (and pairs well with the Jackal Alphus) and units of Jackals with shotguns+cult knives and quads with incinerators are solid little units.

I do think you want to go for a Battalion though. Our troop choices are so, so good.


That's the issue, not a huge fan of infantry. I like nonstandard lists. But if even causal play is gonna be a uphill struggle, I'm not gonna drop 100-200 quid on models if I'm going to be tabled all the time (way I stopped playing the first time, cause my store was overrun with Nid players using forge world stuff)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10743677.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10743677.page GMT Genestealer Cults - Bikes, Quads and Jeeps
Could even convert up a second Alphus from one of the bikers, as you'd then have two detachments.

If you're not a massive fan of the infantry, you get a lot of spare heads in the biker kits, so you'd probably be able to convert up some necromunda gangers if you wanted a different look for your neophytes.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10743824.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/786277/10743824.page GMT Re:Genestealer Cults - Bikes, Quads and Jeeps
For pure GSC I've been running battalions with a large Jackal/Wolfquad unit (Incinerators if Hivecult, Mining Lasers for Rusted Claw) and full Ridgerunner squadron included. Bikes are great for screening and dispatching screens effectively through leveraging their mobility and relative durability. Mine generally end up in the midfield early and I have them run interference for ambushers (soak overwatch, clear screens).

The biggest vulnerability for non-mechanized troop heavy builds is generally mobility and fragility. Jackals help with both, while Achilles provide some genuine backfield fire support that can cover both anti-horde/screens and anti-armor fairly well (and, if they run out of things to shoot they are fast enough to zip around to tie things up).
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