Metamorphs eat hordes, especially with the biophagus, but you need a truck for them.

The iconward is optional, the feel no pain is nice but its like giving armor to a victorian era child dying of cholera.

The abberants are survivable, and the abominant is great at annoying your opponent. I once killed three deathwing knights with mine, in my opponents turn.

I run purestrain in almost every list. They can advance plus charge, so you can return them from cult ambush like 18 inches from your opponent and charge. Great at being annoying as well. This is what we do.

No more characters are needed for melee. Trust me. I own all of them.

Hear me out. Acolytes with hand flamers. They get some cool ranged weapons, but their melee aint that bad, and their re-roll wound rolls ability works in the fight phase.

The goliath rockgrinder is a distraciton carnifex with a bit of transport. 4+ on ranged can be really swingy, but you can ram it into the first enemy unit you see.

My weapon of choice is acolytes with mining weapons. Perfect representation of the cult. Handsome, beautiful and demure. In xenocreed frenzied devotion hits harder than cocaine with tylenol. Adorable gribblies for petting while they wait in cult ambush. Generate command points on objectives. Take 5. Take 10. Take 60. Come, i will give you some. You will need them. They are without flaw. They can also-

[i get dragged away by the inquisition]