Metamorphs Are Awesome Actually: Codex Genestealer Cults Unit Deep Dive

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1. Why is he calling the abominant a girl?

2. That change on the Icon is awful. At the end of the movement phase allowed us to shrug off part of the risk of overwatch.

3. I appreciate your level-headed approach to all these changes. I'm new to the army and extremely far from competitive. Kitchen table games with friends are the absolute extent of my 40k skill, but I've always liked trying to understand fun strategies or solid combinations. Seeing all the doom and gloom on the codex changes is hard as a new GSC player because part of me feels like I just wasted money, but discussions like this remind me that we just need to try new things in the meantime.

4. Man, I was going to run my Goliaths as Aberrants. Guess I'll have to model them for Metamorphs instead 🙁

5. Those chubby hammer wielding freaks smashed up my land raider last game…..not cool man.
   P.S. I was fighting the new detachment that gets the bonus to charge range.

6. i got 10 acolytes with hand flamers, 3 heavy mining weapons and 1 demo charge. Because I was strapped for resources to fully equip them, what with most of them coming from the deathwatch box (the weapons came from one acolyte box that i assembled as metamorphs). Now that squad is illegal. All because of the lack of a points system. So either i get chopping to turn this into one playable squad or two playable small squads (although i dont have the parts for a leader left because i converted the excess models into characters). Or I get another 5 or 10 acolytes and make this two squads with all the needed parts…
   Or i don't touch anything and wait for 11th edition to invalidate whatever everyone is doing with their armies now.

7. Excellent video as always. Btw, you're on the most recent Poorhammer episode !

8. (having a bunch of kairic acolyte bodies knocking around) I really appreciate how the writers have given some value to all of the arm pieces on the Acolyte Hybrids sprue!

9. Whats role do aberrants fill now? It seems like they're straight up worse than metamorphs.

10. Honestly I expect the "all auto pistol" condition to get faqed to "if this unit has no hand flamers" which was clearly the intention

11. "we was happy" no u. But you dont rly get the hobby lol

12. When taking Hazzardous tests you can also pull out of engagement range. Thus limiting melee reprisal.

13. Honestly, I'm happy with the way the Metamorphs have been improved. I also really like that the Broodsurge ability really makes you think about what weapons you're going to take, and feels like a better way of balancing weapon options compared to what they did with the Acolytes. If weapons and wargear remain free, then having useful unit abilities get better if you don't max out those weapon and wargear options feels like the way to go.

14. What makes you think the Abominant is female?

15. Autopilots or not autopilots and a banner but no surge? No needless complicationhere then?

16. If you attach a character to your metamorphs without the scout ability, start them in a truck like we used to in 9th ed. They won't get the massive leap ahead from 9th but 3" more is not bad especially when the fellas are so fast (in xenocreed especially). Then embark your brain boy & neophytes before moving the truck up.
    Metamorphs with an iconward can scout the truck now (still not the rockgrinder unless that changes) so that seems great, but if you want them with biophagus or nexos hop out the truck

17. 12:14 "assuming you're not wiped out in one go" applies to the pistol squad as well, 6" broodsurge won't help if you're dead. At least with the flamers and icon you can get the models back that triggered the broodsurge so they can actually fight. Always put the banner in the very front and you won't lose movement by removing casualties then you can add 1" to your movement when you resurrect a model.
    In xenocreed detachment they can also take incendiary inspiration on their iconward or biophagus friend to advance & charge with rerolls on both which is extra movement not reliant on your opponent's decisions

18. The metamorph datasheet seems really well designed now (maybe the cult icon is not intendedb though?), I hope they continue to balance wargear options by spliting profiles and adding wargear abilities.

19. I was bummed with the codex. I knew we were getting a nerf as pretty much every army with a cod3x takes a win rate hit when it comes out, but why the trucks?? But now I'm sold on the metamorph hype. Love a scott mechanized type list and it feels very viable with metamorphs now.

20. It's fun to see how the Metamorph meta morphs.

21. The Cult Icon in the Metamorphs not having an autopistol and thusly not allowing the 6" move seems like such an outrageously clever bit of game design that I can only assume it wasn't their intention, and we get a FAQ clarifying that characters + icon holder don't count against the 6" move.

22. Really appreciated this video. A bright spot of hope and what sounds like a fun direction that I can start building my Acolyte boxes into now.

23. I like Metamorphs, pretty excited for how fun they seem!

24. LMAO I made that same friendship ended meme on a GSC facebook page. Great minds think alike.

25. Knew it

26. Primus and the boys about to partake in some tomfoolery

27. Which do you think is better for a Broodsurge metamorphs lead by a Biophagus or acolytes lead by a Biophagus?

28. I shelved GSC this edition because they started out good and popular, but now that they are not, I'm seeing all these gsc videos, and I have so many builds for them I want to do, I think I am ready to bring them back. I can't wait to use my super cool abbera-… Ok I guess these Votann hybrids are going to be metamorphs now.

29. I think that “every model in the unit” rule needs an faq to not include characters attached to the unit. Personally I don’t like them not being able to do all autopistols and have a flag. I like flags. They’re pretty.

30. Are you telling me the morphs are meta?

31. This writer team should be fired

32. just starting Sisters of battle army i need your deep dive in them….. their datasheets how to play etc

33. #wewillrise

34. I appreciate not immediately screaming doom and gloom whenever a nerf drops. Balance is a very fluid thing in 40k, especially 10th.

35. Interesting perspective.

    Mr. Tabletop Impulse sent me.

36. First comment, HUZZAH!

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