Shadow War Armageddon- what Kill Team are you planning?

[Pictors Studio]

Genestealer Cults have always interested me since I first read about them in 2nd edition.  I have one of the old Patriarch's around here somewhere.

I was pretty interested in Overkill when it came out but it was one project, and then three projects, away from where I was, so I put off getting it.

Then SW:A came out and, much more so than Orks, they are the perfect xenos antagonist for a game like that.  So, much like you now, I had to have a box.  So I walked to the local game shop the week I got the SW:A boxed set and bought a box of hybrids.  Then when we played out campaign game at the store in Pittsburgh I bought the DW:OK game. 

I'm not hugely interested in them as a big army of any sort but they are a brilliant narrative army to play in all kinds of scenarios. 

I'm glad I was able to tempt you.  Enjoy. 

[sykoholic]

Being a fan of "Aliens", I've always liked Genestealers. I have a rather large collection of them, Hormagaunts and Rippers. The whole cult and hybrid thing however doesn't really appeal to me. I'll most likely kitbash the figs some to make them more human.

[Pictors Studio]

Someone posted some really cool pictures of them with different heads, they made great regular guard figures.

Here are some of the hybrids.







They can only be used as special operatives in SW:A but if I'm going to be running three GC kill teams at one time I'm going to need a few of them.  Especially if we do as planned and give each kill team a permanent special operative. 

[Stepman3]

Genestealer cult and IG Vostroyans...

[NTM]

This game has got me interested in something 40k for the first time in decades. Dusting off my Rogue Trooper era army, mercs etc to create a kill team.

[Pictors Studio]

It really birthed an interest in 40K for me too.  I was doing a lot of 30K but couldn't give a rats puckered arse for 40K, but now I'm getting drawn more and more back into the narrative.  The Genestealer cult figures and the new Primaris marines are pulling their weight in all of this too. 

I think I'll probably get a Primaris force to be the primary opponents for a Cult-themed campaign after our mini campaign using SW:A is over.

Here are the aberrants, which sadly aren't in SW:A, but we'll probably work them in.

http://imgur.com/a/ImwN5

[Sir_Theo]

Made a start on mine. Imperial Guard, gave me an excuse to finally.pick up some of the lovely Valhallans

[Pictors Studio]

Those look great and that is a cool colour scheme for Valhallans.  I was thinking of getting some guard now that Space Marines are the right size and am somewhat torn about which ones to get.  Your picture is pushing me towards Valhallans though. 

[Predatorpt]

Made a start on mine. Imperial Guard, gave me an excuse to finally.pick up some of the lovely Valhallans

Excellent painting on those! And the bases, are they the new Sector Mechanicus ones?

[The Voivod]

Nice, I have some Mordians lying around I was planning to eventually use to get into casting my own.

But SWA certainly is a nice excuse to paint up something different.....

Lovely colourscheme you have on them.

[Sir_Theo]

Excellent painting on those! And the bases, are they the new Sector Mechanicus ones?

Thank you!

They are. Very nice they are too and they seem pretty good value. What are GW playing at!?

[sykoholic]

30K/40K never interested me. I prefer skirmish level to large battles. I'm still waiting for my copy of the SW:A rulebook to get here. I've got "non-canon" "Imperial Guard" squads coming out my ears (many of them kit-bashed) and need to put them to some use. I typically don't give a fat, hairy, wet, rat's @$$ about what figures GW tries to dictate I use. I use whatever figures I damn well please. I just want to know the game's allowed unit composition.

[noigrim]

Guard, affix bayonets!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Alpha Legion sniper and support.

The Sniper (work in progress).


It is an enormous points sink, if I go all sneak Womble I think it is three figures.

[The Voivod]

Crap. that reminds me I have some Chaos marines from the space crusades box I wanted to paint as Alpha-legion.
I'll try and not give into the temptation to not let that grow into another kill-team.

Nice model, but I'm not convinced in the lascannon being to usefull. It wasn't in Necromunda.
Do you have any other reason to pick it over any other gun, apart from it looking bad-ass?