Robin paints Genestealer Cults

Today I had my second game with the Genestealer Cults this time vs. Shay’s Sisters of Battle.

I had made some preparations including flash cards with information about the Bladed Cog cult and stratagems that I wanted to use during the game / one’s that I thought would come in handy!

We had our objectives scattered on the board as my secondaries I chose Shadow operations, broodswarm and purge the enemy. Shay chose No mercy no respite, assassinate and then the ranks.

Underground; Saboteur, Neophytes, one Squad of Acolyte Hybrids, Sanctus and Jackals.

As a plan I wanted to focus taking out smaller units as I wanted to force Shay to make choices.

Turn 1

I pushed forward to the left with the Patriarch, purestrains, ridge runners and Acolyte Hybrids,  whilst the Nexos and Primus stayed back. The Jackal alphus and Kelermorph pushed to the right flank (and probably stupidly towards the rival army).
I was out of range to use my physic and the Nexos pinned his crossfire marker on a squad of sisters. The Kelermorph rose to the challenge and six shots landed on this squad. There were only two left.
The sisters survived and Acolytes were in trouble. The jackal alphus was quickly dispatched with multi melta and storm bolter. The Kelermorph survived an onslaught with 2 wounds left. The Immolator fired all it could including a hunter killer and the ridgerunners survived, the Acolytes mentioned previously were wiped by flamers from the Immolator, and a ridgerunner was destroyed by the Exorcist tank.

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Alittle boo-boo here with Physic not doing much, and not being able to take out this tank. I also placed the Jackal Alphus too close to the front line along with not realising that characters couldn’t sabotage (secondary objective).

Turn 2

Using the stratagem Hyper Metabolism I recovered the Kelermorph, the Immolator was exposed by the Nexos and after shooting only had five wounds left. The underground acolyte squad appeared near the satellite and with flamers was exposed by being sandwiched between different troops. The Neophytes were came up from underground and landed on the far right next to the secondary objective where the jackal alphus died. I spilt fire of the Neophytes to the exposed Immolator with the heavies, flamers in the Arco Flagellants and everything else into a Sisters of Battle Squad. The Sanctus shot and killed the last two Arco Flagellants who were crossfire. The Neophytes tried to mass firearm stratagem the sisters and put in a dent. The Acolytes near the Immolator tried to charge the Immolator and after four CP with various stratagems by Shay the five man squad went down! During Shay’s turn the Immolator shot into the purest rain genestealer squad, with one left, the Retributors dispatched more of the ridgerunners. A deep striped squad of Seraphims charged the last  Ridgerunner (retributors placed in Immolator) alongside an Inquisitor got ready to attack the Magus and Patriarch. The inquisitor summoned a demon host and locked the Patriarch in battle. The Kelermorph finally fell to multiple shots but with his heroic stratagem was able to put down the two man squad of sisters left. (My MVP). Celestine and her retinue spilt up with her sidemen putting down the Sanctus and Celestine along with Celestine Sacresants dispatching the neophytes. Ephrael Stern and Kyganil deepstriked behind the Nexos and dispatched him easily and proceeded to attack the Primus.

I learned more so not to leave characters by themselves and I need to use the Reductus Saboteur more effectively. My jackals also dropped like flies from the Excorcist- I need to get better at smash and grab.

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Turn 3

With almost everything dead on my side; I had the Saboteur, a ridgerunner, Magus, Primus, Patriarch and a pure strain left this turn was mostly for fun. In my command phase again used the Hyper Metabolism but this time with the Patriarch. He got perils of the warp with two sixes trying to attack the demon host. As little side notes the Saboteur punched and killed a Seraphim out of the air, finally the Immolator was dispatched and Shay made it explode, damaging all the troops around the skirmish. Damaging the final ridgerunner and I used a stratagem to rig the ridgerunner to blow. LOTS OF EXPLOSIONS. The demon host survived but everything else in the skirmish was pretty much dead. I called the game after Ephrael Stern and Kyganil killed the Primus and the Saboteur was the only unit left on my field.

I’ve learned loads from this game;

• make sure to understand secondaries fully not place characters
• jackals are for smash and grab
• learn how to use Reductus Sabtoeur
• try to look after characters
• Spend time on understanding physic

I’m really happy with my understanding of stratagems as opposed to last game and do think that my placement and use of crossfire was SO much more effective than my first game with the cults. Bring on the next!!!