With the new tyranid release, the pending blood angels release and all the associated new models I am seriously considering cracking open the old genestealer cult army I have and giving it a makeover along with picking up some plastic veteran pieces and some deathwatch items to add some tyranid hunting units to my force. Using the bell of lost souls genestealer cult homebrew rules could be good, but I am tempted to go down the tyranid codex path and build upon my cult invasion force idea. Well I have the patriarch and magus along with hybrids and a whole host of genestealers. I can find similar unit types in the codex, and for carnifex and other huge creatures I have been thinking about the inquisitor scale purestrain genestealer as a basis. It would certainly keep in the feel of a cult invasion force of genestealers!

So what to do for the marines I have? Well until proper deathwatch rules come out again I was going to include a unit of deathwatch and simply use the sternguard veteran rules for them as they seem to be the closest to the rules they used to use. The other thing would be to add some more artillery on the form of a whirlwind or two or perhaps even a vindicator. But for my army I think I would add in a librarian to give me some chance of stopping tyranid powers and having some of my own to enhance my troops with.
My force will need more transports to cope with the new speed of the game, so rhinos look like the best bet. But I am being tempted by a reserve force of a couple of squads in razorbacks supported by a predator.

It may be time to revisit my old marine models once I get a couple of the new blood angel sprues to update the jump packs of my assault troops. (old metal jump packs don’t make for stable miniatures!)

Anyone got any ideas?