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[Thanatos Russ]

What tsundere dice.

My present vote is to construct three squads of cultists armed with our Hive Rifles and send them expanding our resource gathering. I will combine this aspect with whatever vote is most popular, as 3 squads of our cheapest troop is easy to work into the plan and has no downsides.

[Talion]

6 Cultist Squads with Hive Rifles (30Man, 30CE, 30ME)
2 Goliath Heavy Trucks (120CE, 60ME)
Total: 30Man, 150CE, 90ME

With this production option, we dig into the reserves both to build up our ranged cultists and prepare transport for next turn. We combine that with moving out in force on foot this turn to take territory and hopefully open up land to grow more crops and scavenge for more raw materials. We are not currently manpower limited, so consider supporting the advance with some of our genestealers.

[Madman198237]

Alright, I've had this window sitting for hours and I've not actually, you know, done anything with it.

I would very much consider making fewer (i.e., one MAYBE) trucks, because we'll be dependent on Bestial infantry squads and they can't be efficiently moved with that thing.

[Talion]

6 Cultist Squads with Hive Rifles (30Man, 30CE, 30ME)
1 Goliath Heavy Truck (60CE, 30ME)
Total: 30Man, 90CE, 60ME

6 Cultist Squads: Temple->M1
10 Genestealer Squads: Recruitment

Is this an accurate representation of what you are asking for Madman?

[Madman198237]

Sounds about right. The idea is that we can have a truck providing combat support at the front (We need an actual weapon for that thing next turn), while the majority of our units just walk.

I suspect we're going to need armor-piercing rounds for our autoguns soon, not only are we facing Space Marines but we're also facing cultists who I, if I knew I was fighting bugs like this, would armor, just to make their default weapons (Not the Genestealers, the autoguns) useless or almost useless.

[Tack]

Unless more votes start flitting i’m going to run with this one

[Thanatos Russ]

Yeah we aren't super active, I think it's partially because there isn't much to say until we actually get into combat. It will heat up quickly and I still find it hilarious with our massive surge in manpower and the ordo xenos getting mad.

[Talion]

In the interest of increasing our options.

6 Cultist Squads, 5 Genestealer Squads: Temple->M1
5 Genestealer Squads: Recruitment

Cultist Advance (1): Talion
Cultist Walk

[Madman198237]

Cultist Advance: (1) Talion
Cultist Walk: (1) Madman

[Thanatos Russ]

Cultist Advance: (1) Talion
Cultist Walk: (1) Madman, Thanatos Russ

[Tack]

The first troops set out, with an armored escort supporting their walk. Chatting to relieve the anxiety they feel reverberating from their squadmates minds, they close upon their first objective.

The Mines - M1
The contingent entering the mines fan out with relative ease through the myriad of tunnels and caverns found here, not because of any gift of the scenery, but merely because many do their daily labor in places much like this.
Some old excavating equipment is soon discovered and the cultists set about revitalising the area.
M1 Encampent - 1/2

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Forces (click to show/hide)

M1
6 Squads Genestealer Cultists, Reliable

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Manpower: 860 (+430)(+100)
Heretic Plague Bonus: 50 (+50) (+310)
Total Manpower: 1,170
Civilian Equipment: 160/1000 (+100)
Military Equipment: 190/1000 (+50)

Spoiler: Alert (click to show/hide)

Ordo Xenos: 15/100 +8
Ordo Malleus: 2/100 +2
Ordo Hereticus: 2/100 +2

Technology

Spoiler: Units (click to show/hide)

Units:
Cultist squad (Troop): Manpower 5, Civilian Equipment 5.
The generic soldier, breeder and worker, ready to die for your cause.

Genestealer squad (Elite): Manpower 40, Civilian Equipment 35
These purestrain aliens are blisteringly quick, and can move freely through rough terrain.
They have no need (or thought) for weapons and equipment, preferring to shred armour with their razor-sharp talons.
However, they are little more than beasts, and can't be trusted to operate as master tacticians.

Ymgarlite squad (Elite): Manpower 40, Civilian Equipment 50
Spawned with minor shapeshifting ability, these genestealers are able to morph their four arms into various weapons to suit the enemy they are fighting. Whilst not as good as a specialist, they are able to overwhelm foes of varying types with relative ease.
Their mutative nature and haemovoric diet makes them cause greater alarm than standard Genestealers.

Patriarch (Ruler):
Try not to attack with this guy, because if he dies it will end the game.
In any battle he is in, however, he improves the stats of every genestealer near him.

Spoiler: Vehicles (click to show/hide)

Goliath Heavy Truck
Civilian Equipment: 40 Military Equipment: 20
The Goliath heavy truck is able to carry two squads of light infantry, or one squad of heavy or bestial infantry. It has a single mount for a heavy weapon.
It can move up to two hubs per turn when in the habs.

Spoiler: Gear (click to show/hide)

Hive Rifle: Military Equipment: 5 or Civilian Equipment 10
The basic weapon of the genestealers, able to be cobbled together from practically anything and slightly more reliable than a sharp stick.

Improvised Knife: Civilian Equipment 5
It's a sharp stick. Good for attacking people who do not have sharp sticks. Bad for anything else.

Autopistol Military Equipment: 5 or Civilian Equipment 5
Shorter range and a slower rate of fire than the Autogun, but otherwise the exact same, but in handheld form. Helpful if your other hand is being used for, say for carrying a sharp stick.

Spoiler: Tactics (click to show/hide)

Fire and Advance
The unit fires overwhelmingly in the direction of their enemy whilst slowly moving up the field towards them.

Spoiler: Tech (click to show/hide)

Patilineal infiltration units
This cult has a slower conversion rate, hurting their manpower, whilst their cultist varieties have a higher morale to compensate.
However, Purestrain Genestealers may be assigned to either battle or 'recruitment', allowing them to bolster their influx.

Civilian Jury-Rigging
This cult is proficient in refitting the tools of their trade and salvaging scrap and ganger gear.
Mining equipment, civilian weaponry and junkyard constructions can be designed.

Hybrid bioforms
The progression from "injected human" to "purestrain genestealer" requires multiple generations of bestial offspring, ranging from clawed and carapaced abominations, to "perfectly human" infiltrators with a captivating voice and hypnotic gaze.
This allows projects based on the Genestealer template and human-Genestealer hybrids.

Heretic Plague
A virus which attacks the mind, causing enthralment to the genestealer Broodmind as though they had been personally bitten by a purestrain genestealer. It still requires a genestealer's personal touch to finish the job, but the victim is driven to seek out this fate with a malevolently stubborn will.

Spoiler: Projects (click to show/hide)

Greater Plaguemind
Efficacy: 9/9
Bugs, 3/9
Completion: 3/12

It is now the Design phase. You have 5 dice remaining

[Talion]

Mining Laser
Used to breach tunnels during the mining process, this tool has been repurposed as a weapon. The mining laser serves as a heavy support weapon, able to destroy vehicles, buildings and other heavily armoured targets.

Seismic Cannon
The seismic cannon is a piece of demolition equipment usually used during construction of new buildings. A sonic weapon that sends out pulsed bow waves of force that can shake apart rockcrete and turn internal organs into mush. At longer ranges, rapid high frequency attacks are able to mow through multiple targets. At shorter ranges lower frequency base soundwaves can affect even well armoured targets.

[Madman198237]

Fleshrippers
A miniaturized Genestealer, without the ability to implant people. It retains the insane muscles and armor-rending claws of the original, but is only half the size of a man. It makes use of our earlier gene-work in truly omnivorous species. They are capable of devouring anything, indeed, the more metal they eat the more metallic their claws and bones become. Meat and clothes are just food, but metal is recycled into their bodies. However, we will feed them only our slaves to start with---they will cost little besides Manpower if at all possible.

---Smaller Purestrain Genestealers without the implanting ability (Easy to make), with a special metal-recycling ability. Eat everything, as per the bonus we received from our earlier revision (Reduces alarm generated through conflict). Cost nothing but Manpower.


By the way, the enemy has moved people up into the civilian areas, apparently.

[Thanatos Russ]

Ordo Xenos: 15/100 +8
Ordo Malleus: 2/100 +2
Ordo Hereticus: 2/100 +2

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think we should fucking stop that heretic plague or change it in some way. Soon the manpower gained will NOT outweigh the problems of exterminatus.

[Madman198237]

We can reach 100 before Exterminatus, Russ. We're not stopping the Plague, though improving it is a definite possibility. Basically, the risk of LOTS OF ALARM is outweighed by MORE MURDER MACHINES.

First, however, we need footsoldiers (The Fleshrippers).