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Hi all, ive recently stumbled upon adeptus arbites and they seem PRETTY cool!

so ive looked into a list using the witch hunter book, using storm troopers, inquisitors and rhinos to create a military police theme!

dark blue overalls with white armour

just wondering what model range do you think would go best in this design?

the GW cadians, with Rhinos?
(perhaps model some plasticard riot shields to explain the extra armour?)

or the pig iron Heavy infantry
http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=25

with the below tanks as "rhinos"

http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=41

look forward to your help

For game-play i would use-Veterans with shotguns and carapace armour mounted in surpressors. (Chimeras but use the rhino chassis)

Not sure on the models though...
Pig Iron are a good bet i suppose...

The Pig Iron stuff is certainly my preferrance. It just looks more police forcey than generic Cadian stuff.

This looks good, I will follow any P&M blogg related to this with great intrest. Do keep us informed

Reading the Arbites novel now. They seem to prefer the Rhino as a mode of transport, and their carapace armour is generally black or dark blue.

ok guys cool, so the pig irons it is... and for the actual list i was using storm troopers the IG just dont seem to do it for me, not sure what it is about them, should i use the tank on Pig iron too?

Storm Troopers can't take shotguns though AFAIK.
Arbites use shotguns.

Pig Iron?

it says in the designer note at the bottom, "storm trooper squads may be used to represent squads of the adeptus arbites by replacing each troopers hellgun and targeter with a shotgun at no extra cost." and the stat line of troopers is better than gaurd.


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IG veterans are the same stat line except LD 7 not 8 and SV+5 not 4, i can give them SV= 4 for 30 points which levels them out too 100 the same for troopers, but troops LD is still higher.


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KamikazeCanuck wrote:Pig Iron?

its a modeling company, like citadel

Lordjig6 wrote:it says in the designer note at the bottom, "storm trooper squads may be used to represent squads of the adeptus arbites by replacing each troopers hellgun and targeter with a shotgun at no extra cost." and the stat line of troopers is better than gaurd.


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IG veterans are the same stat line except LD 7 not 8 and SV+5 not 4, i can give them SV= 4 for 30 points which levels them out too 100 the same for troopers, but troops LD is still higher.


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KamikazeCanuck wrote:Pig Iron?

its a modeling company, like citadel

Fair enough.
Are you using the WH codex then?

yea i was going to use the WH book

Fair enough, not particularly familiar with it...
But, the IG codex suits them better IMO.

You're aware there are actual Adeptus Arbites models, yeah?

The Necromunda models are pretty nifty, but are they pricey?

$40 (US) for a patrol of six, with a robot dog if I recall. So yeah, pretty expensive. I've been reading all the Necromunda stuff I can find lately, and looked at the model range; I intend to just scratch build some (figures that would work in Necromunda, possibly arbites) with wire and green stuff, after I get around to finishing the Lady Malys sculpt I started, to practice sculpting and all.

Technically they're not Arbites, though. They're local enforcers. Still kitted out like Arbites, though.

They're Arbites Enforcers.

They've got the winged skull of the Adeptus Arbites, rather than the standard iconography you'd see of local Enforcers.

@Sir P: $40 for 6 and a wee doggy (which I think would make a great arco-flaggellant squad) isn't too bad. About as expensive as the Kasrkin models, especially once you factor in any special weapons.

Emperors Faithful wrote:@Sir P: $40 for 6 and a wee doggy (which I think would make a great arco-flaggellant squad) isn't too bad. About as expensive as the Kasrkin models, especially once you factor in any special weapons.

Well, some good news then, it's 7 Arbites plus the Cyber-Mastiff. Even more reason to get two sets.

Apparently this is the only Judge they sell now.

Kanluwen wrote:They're Arbites Enforcers.
They've got the winged skull of the Adeptus Arbites, rather than the standard iconography you'd see of local Enforcers.

The Necromunda rules do say that they are local Enforcers, who just happen to have equipment very similar to the Arbites.
Traditonally the Arbites have a winged fist.

Kanluwen wrote:Apparently this is the only Judge they sell now.

Indeed. Two of the sergeants and one of the heavy stubber models are not available anymore.

There was only one heavy stubber model as far as I know.

Which is fine, because it's fething awesome.

I would strongly urge against building anything using the Witchhunter list right now, as rumors have it they will be getting an overhaul in White Dwarf relatively soon.

Perhaps you can do what you intend with the GK book, using Corteaz and henchmen?

Kanluwen wrote:There was only one heavy stubber model as far as I know.

There is another one, looking forward with visor down. Here's a compilation of the miniatures:
http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Necromunda_1999_onwards_-_Collectors_Guide#Enforcers

Omegus wrote:Perhaps you can do what you intend with the GK book, using Corteaz and henchmen?

There's the possibility that the Inquisitorial portions of the GK book will be copied in the Sororitas codex. Either way it'd indeed be wise to wait till then (or only buy/build units you can use with for example the IG codex), since the Inq. units the current WH codex has will certainly be gone in that form, namely the Stormtroopers.

Bell of lost souls made a very good codex for the Arbites, very professional and I quite like it
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54299280/Adeptus-Arbites-v1
Take a look at it

thanks, guys, yes i am going to wait for them to do something towards the inquisition and that Scribed input is actually quite tasty, thanks, thankyou all.