Raise the Banners High (Shadow Operations): You have a lot of small INFANTRY squads, and your opponent often won’t be able to safely push onto objectives you’ve flagged till you’ve squeezed a decent few points out of them. Its also at least worth thinking about Repair Teleport Homer in this category against an opponent with low ground coverage – If they’ve sent their forces to engage elsewhere, you can drop a unit in their deployment zone and start scoring this (you can begin it straight out of deep strike) while protecting the unit with Lurk.

In the right hands, Genestealer Cults are probably one of the best armies in the game right now. Already being able to hang with the best in Nephilim and seeing almost only positive changes means that everything that was working before ports over to the brave new meta with little fanfare or surprise. Some of the other improved factions will definitely provide challenges, which prevents me from outright calling them the best faction going, but do not be surprised if you see the Cults putting up numbers. The Positive This list, which Dustin took to 3rd place at the Barrie Bash ( 40kstats) goes hard on the options that recent changes have opened up. That’s all OK but not exactly lighting the world up, so why is this guy everywhere? The secret is that the things that make him good aren’t on the datasheet. Oppressors Bane: Upgrades one Kelemorph gun (or an autopistol, but you’re taking it on a Kelermorph) to be 3 shots, AP-2 and re-roll wounds against CHARACTERS. A hefty buff, and even better than it used to be thanks to getting the Keler over the line of being a real threat to most Marine characters. B+ Promoted to getting an actual entry! These, and their best gun (the heavy mining laser) got a big point cut in CA, which along with gaining access to Raking Fire and Overcharged Weaponry in TGG has finally made my long-held dreams of a Hivecult list that goes in on these a reality, with Art of War’s Alex Macdougall popularising their use in lists. There’s basically only one setup for these – full units of three with heavy mining lasers and flare launchers.

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There are two key components here – the max number of Ridgerunners, and the absolute horde of Rusted Claw bikers. When you select a PSYKER unit to manifest psychic powers, you select one psychic power that unit knows and attempt to manifest it. With the exception of Smite, you cannot attempt to manifest the same psychic power more than once in the same battle round, even with different PSYKER units. The same PSYKER unit cannot attempt to manifest Smite more than once during the same battle round. Each time you fail a saving throw for a GSC CHARACTER or they suffer a mortal wound, while they are within 3″ of a unit with this ability that is either from the same or BROOD BROTHERS, you can roll a d6. On a 4+, a model from the unit is slain instead.

Set up one model from that unit within 1" of the centre of that ambush marker, wholly within your deployment zone and more than 9" away from any enemy models. Then remove that ambush marker. Alien Majesty is a big winner of the “generic” ones, with Biomorph Adaptation also being a good choice. Beyond that, you’re generally better looking at the cult-specific ones, especially Bladed Cog, Twisted Helix and 4AE. Relics Like a lot of factions GSC gained the option of taking custom creeds in their PA book. You might think this could potentially be interesting, given that lists already tend to be mixed cult. Any unit can choose to deploy in Ambush. Rather than deploying a unit on the board, you instead place an ambush marker down in your deployment zone. This doesn’t count as deploying in tactical reserves, so any number of your units can do so (and generally, all of them should).I’ve always liked the Rusted Claw and I’m glad to see them succeeding again, and if you’ve always dreamt of an alien biker gang, give them a try. The Twisted Helix