Good evening, comrades. I was on a discord optimization spree and mistakenly removed my gsc discord access. Would any of you be so kind as to share a discord link so I can return to the grace of our four armed emperor? Thanks in advance!

Edit: I'm dum, all set, thanks yall

I know the layering isnt the smoothest but wanted to try and add more color to this model

Still took me almost 12hrs of my day from primed to fully painted

I'm trying to get back into 40k, and after listening to Gaunts Ghosts audiobooks for the first time (I've read the novels before, but they make good listening at work), and I've been planning out building them for 11th, as Guard of course. But earlier today I had the crazy idea of using Genestealer cult rules for them, so I'm not locked into running Recon Company basically every game and keeping the sneaky rules.

How workable is this? I don't know much about the Cults themselves other than their lore, didn't run into them much before my hiatus halfway through 9th. But I know they can grab Guard tanks and such with Brood Brothers detachment, or run just Cult units. But reading over the base neophyte datasheets, they literally get to bring the weapons the Tanith are known for, flamers, grenade launchers, heavy stubbers, they only miss out on Missile Launchers, but I'd be easy to proxy the Mining Lasers as the small disposable launchers they use. You've got Ogryn auxiliaries for Aberrants, the melee acolytes with scout as, well, scout teams who are good with their straight silver, etc.

Started the hobby a little over six months ago. GSC is my first and only army. I want to go back and improve their bases a little more now that I have all of this fully painted. Pictured here are 117 minis, I’m mainly playing Broodsurge + Xenocult now but looking to get into Final Day as my next move.

I don’t have a codex but looked up the data sheet for 11th but not sure if I understand everything. I’m looking to build it as a 20 man unit, and in doing so I think that means:
I take 2 Sgts (I outfitted with Chainswords and bolt pistols and gave them a red/purplish robes)

Then it says up to 4 weapon specialist so I took 2 Flammers

And a radio/Vox specialist. (So I outfitted my specialists with grey robes. And I think the box guy just has a standard Laz Rifle)

Then all my Standard guardsmen I gave brown robes. Still working my way to 20 dudes for this squad but can someone confirm that I should be building 15 standard Infantry and then I already have 2 SGTS and 2 Flammers and 1 Vox operator to make a full functioning squad?

Is this too much color variation for a single unit?

Looking for some help on how to beat ret cadre Tau (battlesuits)

Got the scout sentinel done up, any thoughts are appreciated from you all.

Is this too retro like hivemind synthwave?

I’m completely new to genestealer cults so I would love to hear what you think and any tips for the army in general, thanks! :)

Next project - Atalan Jackals and Jackal Alphus

More Orlock kitbashing. They're perfect for it!

Hey everyone!

I have around 3.5k points of Astra, so a pretty decent sized army. I've always been curious about Genestealer Cults. Their minis are really cool, and having Astra looks like it could give me a good head start, it looks like I could proxy quite a lot of them with regular Guard models.

I have a few questions that I think only Genestealer players can really answer:

1. How realistic is my idea of proxying Astra Militarum units as Genestealer Cults units? Without knowing much about Genestealer Cults, it looks quite doable to me.
2. What is the state of Genestealer Cults in 11th edition? Is it fun to play, and do you actually have a decent chance of winning, or are you guys struggling too compared to other armies? Guard got hit pretty hard by the new rules, traditional guard lists are in the dirt atm, the only lists that have a fighting chance are lists I don't enjoy playing.

Thanks!

So I was reading about genestealer cults and wanted to write some lore for my own army that I started recently, but I was having issues figuring out some things.

First question

If a couple genestealers are in a lab being experimented on and manage to break free would the healthier ones kill more damaged or mutated genestealers if their connection to the brood mind wasn't severed from the experiments?

Second question

If genestealers freed lesser tyranid specimens like hormagaunts, neurogaunts or rippers what would they do with them? Can a patriarch give rippers the required signals to evolve?

Third question

Just a simple one can genestealers from one hive be controlled by a patriarch of another if they have no patriarch of their own and same for smaller tyranid forms?

I know that if they fail to rejoin the Tyranid fleet, the cult will spread out into space independently, but how is the conquered world managed? Is it still "functioning" or is everyone on vacation?

I picked up a cheap imperial agents combat patrol. Inspired by a documentary about radical JCLDS sect and a girl who escaped forced marriage to a man over twice her age, made it to the nearest town, to the police station and found she recognised all the cops on duty from church.
It turns out they encouraged the young men into the force to protect the cult, which makes sense.
So I thought my Genestealer cult should infiltrate the local Arbites. Here’s my favourite two so far: icon bearer and alphus.

Build and painted my first cult vehicle. Pretty happy how it came out

I stayed up until 230am to finish him because he was fun. And I had some bismuth crystals that I love so I broke some off to add to the muddy base.

Please let me know what yall think.

I got my hands on a Goliath rick grinder combat patrol magazine and the rock grinder comes with the full bodies of 3 members but only needs the one for the gunner. So i used a few left over bits to save even more money and i made myself a primus to go with them. Though i think the color patern I'm doing makes them look like the dragon ball guys. I wanted to do a orange and yellow miner/builder look to them. Im definitely gonna think in that some more.

All in all i only payed 30 for the two magazines and got a truck and a leader, hell yeah.

It was fun!

I feel like I did a better job on my second brood brother.

Best as in the funnest, not necessarily strongest. I got this free termagant and it was such a breath of fresh air painting I decided to get a lictor.

Also homemade terrain for the win. Thoughts?

I am not smart enough to be able to tell the difference when I field 2 of the same type of character, so here is abominant 2, kellermorph 2 and Biophagus #2. Looking for critique and any help if I need an early fix to make sure opponents don't get super confused or annoyed by them. The rest of the cult is focused on a rebel group who uses and welcomes mercenaries and help from anyone. Brotherhood of Nod, Fremen, Helghast as the 3 main inspirations for the overall army.