Modify & Improve The Genestealer Cults; New Miniatures Soon!
February 4, 2019 by brennon
The Genestealer Cult is growing in power this coming weekend with more pre-orders for Warhammer 40,000 from Games Workshop. We start off with the chemical enhancements worthy of world-class athletes with the new Biophagus who looks very happy with his latest concoction.
This fellow slips into the Elite slot when you're building an army, offering up chemical enhancements for your Cultists as they charge forth across the tabletop. I love the style behind the Genestealer Cult, really offering up something new and different from the grime, dirt and the rank and file you normally see.
As well as these chemical tinkering characters we also have this monstrous Abominant who will be stepping into the breach and smashing apart pretty much any armoured foe. I reckon this fellow could even put a big hole in a vehicle too.
As well as this monstrous fellow also have the Aberrant which give you a big hulking central core to your force. Imagine these charging forward, hammers at the ready, capable of smashing through some tough opposition and maybe even holding down an objective or two.
Again, I really like the inventiveness with the new Genestealer Cult miniatures. We're used to the Tyranids being presented as quick and agile but with very little brute force apart from the Carnifex for example. Well, this now adds this in amongst the rank and file.
These models were previously available as part of one of Games Workshop's Battle Boxes so some folks have been enjoying these for a while!
Last but not least we also have the Achilles Ridgerunner which we got a peek at last week.
This again offers up another look at some of the Imperial technology available to folks and I'm sure it could be converted to serve an Imperial Guard force very easily. It's neat to see that they've included a female crewman as well within this set, adding in a bit more diversity. Hopefully, this kind of approach flows into the regular Imperial Guard too.
What do you think of the new offerings for the Cult this weekend?
"I reckon this fellow could even put a big hole in a vehicle too..."
As I’ve said before, that first one would be s great Rogue Doc for a Delaque gang in Necromunda. And speaking of Necromunda, leave the crew out and the Ridgerunner would be great as a terrain piece as a civilian car.
Those are really nice.
These are so cool. Some day…
soon … all will fall to the gweat cowwuptow *ahem* great corruptor.
That is ze power of ze kult.
The GSC vehicles are making me want to build a civilian resistance force
These new genestealer cult models look amazing. If I ever start 40k again I’d definitely be going down that route.
all these new GSC kits that I just want to mod into Imperial servants and “counts as” for Astra Militarum…..
These models are absolutely superb
I’m loving the new Genestealer Cults. Other than the character aberrant, whose face + paint job are utterly unappealing in that close-up shot, they are all very characterful and unique.
My biggest complaint, honestly, is the pricing structure. The Gobbapalooza for Age of Sigmar was $60 for 5 heroes. That same set of heroes for GSC is $150. For little T3 5+ save heroes, the sticker shock had me a bit apprehensive.
You expect tiny gitz to be as expensive as big chunks of plastic ?
I’m assuming these are insane Australian prices ?
’cause over here it’s about 40 Euro for Gobbapalooza set.
All of the Characters are $40 Aud each which translates to about 22 GBP compared to the regular price of 15 GBP.
That being said this is defiantly the army that will be getting me back into 40K, I’ll just have to build and buy it nice and slowly.
I see that Aussie prices for these are as insane as ever.
I feel pretty confident at this point that GW’s pricing scheme has ultimately very little to do with the actual size of a sculpt, or number of sprues, etc. They are priced according to their rarity in an army, value on the table, and a host of other things. I would be fine with the gitz costing a little less, but considering that both the Gobbapalooza and these new releases are single-model support HQs, so fulfill the same relative roles in the army, I’m a little shocked that the GSC are 250% more expensive. I mean, for an extra 50%… Read more »
Tabletop Minions had a video about that *eh* 3years ago :
https://youtu.be/ivgmMFA3UP8
These names are getting dafter by the month. Biophagus (bio-eater?), Abominant? Good grief.
The buggy’s cool though.
Well naming they products hasn’t been GW’s strong point for some time now. I doubt anyone can claim with straight face that those names aren’t silly and childish.
Yeah perhaps unfair to single these out.
Names in 40k have always been a bit *eh* suspect.
Some factions do suffer more than others …
I’m not totally sure that they’re worse than they were in the past. I started playing the Space Crusade Renegade Campaign (White Dwarf from the early 1990s). The introduction had a string of 40k’s quasi-latin science babble that made everyone in the room burst out laughing. In it, your marines are hunting down some kind of BioMechaniWhatTheEfficus. I’m not totally sure whether the names have gotten much worse, or if I’m just used to the old stupid names that I’ve seen since I was ten. I mean, when I really think about it, Ultramarines and Space Wolves are very silly… Read more »
I’d like to see GW do more with their Rainbow Warriors IP ?
Seriously- why no Rainbow Warriors Codex?
Some chapters get all the love…
It should have taken precedence before the Sisters of Battle
For me, the names are just part of the fun. They put a smile on my face.
The new stealers forces that’s coming out look brilliant a could be great for making a harkonnen army for an arrakis table
These look awesome they’re going to be the thing that gets me back into 40K.
Now I just need to decide on what type of Cult I want to do. Does anyone know of any cool conversions/inspirational fluff out there for the Cult?
I think that’s pretty much Hermiatus, the Renegade from the old White Dwarf Space Crusade campaign.
He’s a renegade biologist who was studying Genestealer infection on Necromunda. He got infected, and things went bad from there.
I think he turned to the Chaos gods to slow down the infection (although in Space Crusade, all non-humans work together) and started doing experiments on genestealer hybrids and chaos androids.