Coherency rules and Blast hurt big Acolyte units a lot.Brittle units will struggle to stay on mid-board objectives to max primary points.Partially as a consequence, one of the few factions that will regularly have fewer CP than before.List building is a nightmare – much harder to bring in all the cults you want, and a struggle to fit HQs needed.Harder for opponents to fully zone out space without exposing characters to being shot.Acolytes, Ridgerunners and many characters stay competitively priced.Small melee missiles are excellent at denying your opponent primary points.Smaller board gives your opponent less space to hide.The game being one turn shorter reduces the time the enemy has to recover from an early lead, which GSC certainly used to be able to build.Cult Ambush’s ability to be reactive in deployment is exceptionally good in the missions, allowing GSC to adapt to going first or second on the fly.Overwatch becoming a stratagem makes small melee units much more usable and threatening.With that in mind, we’ll start with a quick summary of positive and negative changes (including to points) before looking at high level consequences from these. Overview Credit: Robert “TheChirurgeon” JonesĪs alluded to above, 9th’s core rules and mission design probably have more structural impacts on Genestealer Cults than almost any other faction. In today’s faction focus, we’ll look at how you can best adapt your own personal purple revolution to changing times. They do, also, still have a truly dizzying array of options available to them. Point changes were pretty rough for the army, but a few of their key units got off relatively lightly, giving a foundation to build on.
The Genestealer Cults codex was basically distilled uncut competitive 8th edition, and a lot of the core changes to the game and missions in 9th impact on how it plays – and not always negatively. That is, ultimately, true but just like any faction once you start to dig into it there’s a bit more nuance to it, and not everything is pure doom and gloom. Today, The Genestealer Understander has logged on, and Wings is once again being forced at clawpoint to write about his “favourite” faction.Īs you might have gotten hints of if you’ve checks notes read other articles I’ve written or paid attention to our social media feed, you might have a vague impression that Genestealer Cults (GSC) are having a bit of a rough time of the 9th changes. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild, the Faction FAQs released and the first details of the Grand Tournament Mission Pack shown on stream, now’s a good time to start taking a look at what’s changed for all of our favourite armies.
9th edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000.
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