I have been waiting for someone to start a thread about Genestealer Cults and I figured it's been so long I might as well start it myself. No doubt you are probably up to your eyeballs in cultists and have not had a chance to play a game yet, let alone chat about it, but hey I need a paint break so here we go!
I already had Deathwatch Overkill (what a great value this set is, I doubt we will get a Start Collecting set for the cult while Overkill is still around) so on Drop day I picked up 2 boxes of each the Acolytes and Neophytes and the Codex. A quick glance through and I settled on building the Acolyte Hybrids first (minimum 5 man squad and 2 of those can take special weapons?!figured they will be the trickiest of the two to get the hang of..), in fact I even doubled back and got 2 more boxes of them, ready to crank out a mighty 30 Acolyte Hybrids, that was my goal for the month!!
Well I almost have 14 done,lol. These guys are a lot more work to paint than my Tyranids are!
I was going to build the Acolytes based in squads of 10 but there are just to many weapon choices to drool over (drooling uncontrollably happens to be a sign of xenos infection) so I settled on something different.
Out of the 30 Acolytes:
2 are Squad Leaders, one armed with the Lashwhip and Bonesword, the other just a Bonesword
2 have Cult Icons, thinking of swapping one with the Neophytes icon, just to change things up
4 have Demolition Charges, I really like the look of these! I hope they are worth the points for the one use...
2 have each of the Rock Saws, Drills, and Cutter, haven't wrapped my head around them yet.
4 swapped the pistols for Handflamers, hope they help with Overwatch
14 are the regular, run of the mill autopistol and rending claw guys.
I left the heads and arms off for ease of painting, so I started with the Autopistolers from the Deathwatch box as they were all fixed models and like I said I am almost done 14 of them. Pictures as soon as I get them done!
Thats me, how are the rest of your cults fairing?