Come see all the rules and teasers for the Genestealer Cults that the Games Workshop developers teased in their showcase video teaser!
You read it here first! Here’s some of the new rules teasers that Phil and Simon revealed in their Developer showcase below that we have compiled for you:
- Hybrid Acolytes have rending claws
- Can be backed up by Leman Russ Battletanks and climb out of Chimeras to assault their foe!
- “Cult Ambush” Special Order (similar to Guard orders?) Let’s units dissapear and re-appear from the shadows.
- Formations each represent a different aspect of the cult
- Cult Insurrection Detachment confers infiltrate to the units within it which works with the Cult Ambush rule above that lets units with infiltrate withdraw to the shadows and then re-appear based on a table roll with determines where they re-appear anywhere on the battlefield.
- First Curse Formation is the Purestrain Genestealers with their patriarch that can “plow though a Space Marine squad without breaking a sweat”
- Astar Militarum troopers, sentinels and even Leman Russ battle tanks can be part of this army
- Goliath Trucks are really hard to immobilize in game, with some sort of mechanic that let’s them ram though units and vehicles.
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The Story Thus Far:
Looks like GW actively wants us to kit bash these guys with Guard!
Source B&C
The Weapons of the Cults
Source: Kliener Garygoyle
Der Symbiontenkult bedient sich der Feuerkraft der Imperialen Armee. Gliedert das Astra Militarum in euren Kult ein!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
The Symbiontenkult uses the firepower of the Imperial Guard. Divided the Astra Militarum in your cult a!
Best regards
(Translated)
Behold the Goliath from Dakka
Checkout the rest of the images that are flying around Facebook today:
UPDATE: These pictures look to be from a preview of the Codex Genestealer Enhanced Edition (which currently is time locked to North America)
Here’s the larger cropped images that are going around Facebook:
Looks like there are several versions of the the vehicle that everyone has dubbed “the limo”. One seems to have drilling augurs on the front dozer. One seems to be an open topped transport, and one has an armored top with some sort of heavy weapon.
More as we know it folks, this kit is quickly turning into a fan favorite and we don’t even know it’s name yet.
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Previous Teasers:
These are spinning around the web already this morning. Checkout wave 1 of the new Genestealer Cult:
Source: Tyranids (Facebook Group)
So it appears that the Acolytes box contains both generation 1 and 2 Genestealers, while the Neophyte box contains generation 3, and 4 genus’ respectively.
The new weapons look fresh for sure, and I am wondering if the Acolyte with the bonesword and lashwhip is a sergeant type model or a new model type altogether?
Checkout the complete Genestealer Cult Wave one release list below!
Complete Wave One Release List in USD:
- Codex: Genestealer Cult –$50
- Datacards: Genestealer Cult – $13.5
- Dice: Genestealer Cult $20
- How To Paint: Genestealer Cult $10
- Genestealer Cult Acolyte Hybrids $40
- Genestealer Cult Neophyte Hybrids $40
- Legends Genestealer Cults (Novel) $24
- Genestealer Cults Limited Edition $195
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