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With the appearance of the board game ''[[Space Hulk (Game)|Space Hulk]]'' and extensive articles in [[White Dwarf]] issues [[WD114|114]], [[WD115|115]] and [[WD116|116]], the Genestealers and their offspring were newly conceived as cult-like communities of Genestealers, hybrids and fully human Brood Brothers, with a strict hierarchy, and a complicated and unique generation cycle. They represented a terribly insidious threat to the Imperium, infecting it from within and spreading like a virus. These Genestealer Clans could also become "Genestealer Cults" by worshipping [[Chaos]]. Such Chaos cults included [[Beastmen]], [[mutant]]s and [[daemon]]s in the army.
With the board game ''[[Advanced Space Crusade (Board Game)|Advanced Space Crusade]]'', the Genestealers were associated with the [[Tyranid]]s and now their infiltration served as a preparation for the invasion by a [[Hive Fleet]]. This version has remained the same to this day and led to a certain decrease of the importance of Genestealer cult armies in Warhammer 40,000. While in the [[Second Edition]] they were still a separate army, and an additional force list in [[Codex: Tyranids (2nd Edition)]], in the [[Third Edition]] the Genestealer cult army appeared only as a semi-official [[Chapter Approved]] army list in the [[Citadel Journal]] ([[The Citadel Journal 40 |40]] and [[The Citadel Journal 41|41]]), written by [[Tim Huckelbery]].
In February 2016, Games Workshop re-released Genestealer Cults in the board game [[Deathwatch: Overkill]]. They were introduced into Warhammer 40,000 proper with the release of [[Codex: Genestealer Cults]].
==Sources==
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40.000 Compilation]], {{Cite ThisCME}}*{{Endn|2}}: [[Freebooterz: Space Ork Army List]], {{Cite ThisCME}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Space Hulk (Game)]] (first edition)
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (2nd Edition)]], {{Cite ThisCME}}
*{{Endn|5}}: [[The Alien Beast Within (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]], pg. 211
*{{Endn|7}}: [[White Dwarf 124]], {{Cite This}}
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Freebooterz: Space Ork Army Lists]], {{Cite ThisCME}}
*{{Endn|9}}: [[White Dwarf 109]] — ''The Ghosar Quintus Broodkin''
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Deathwatch: Overkill]]
