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It is a pretty baffling strategy for releasing these. I imagine the dramatis personae must sell well basically as collectables, because they notoriously aren't much use in the game? I'd definitely like to see them go through the noble/guild/criminal alliances properly, especially given how great the few we've had are. Also where is that damn servitor?

(As a nitpick, while I get that technically there isn't a model, it is made clear that psychoteric thralls are to be represented by ordinary models from the other gangs.)

Is Necromunda. Just because a model has a name, doesn’t mean we have to use it.

Across the various Hangers On and Special Characters, we’ve an ever widening variety of oddballs with which to populate our own little corner of the Underhive.

For instance? The Van Saar shown off last week? Could be used as that character. Or a mad scientist, or an Underhive DJ, a NPC villain and so on and so forth.

I think the main thing I find weird is that they haven't tackled some of the more interesting characters/groups.

I already mentioned the Araknotek, but we also haven't seen the Badzone 12 Abomination or Gorth Slitther yet, which people would love as Chaos Spawn proxies, or a new psyker in the form of the House Ty operatives. Or a Heretek; how would they look like in Necromunda? These releases to me (outside of new kill teams) are some of the more exciting aspects of the hobby for me.

Thanks for that! Yeah, these characters are great to use in scenarios where you need random hivers caught in the crossfire.

Definitely agree on wondering what happened to the servitor!

twoseventwo wrote:
It is a pretty baffling strategy for releasing these.

Bold of you to assume there is a top-down “strategy” involved here. Necromunda seems to be run on the old-school GW practice of sculptors making what they fancy at the time. Which is great for generating inspired sculpts but terrible for anything like a schedule.

Personally I think that someone in the Specialist Games department must have some leverage to get a figurative blank cheque from HQ each month.

"Listen here! I want 30 hours of sculptor time per month and a guarantee that whatever we come up with will go into production and that deal stays on the table until we have every single odd-ball character available on the store. And I don't care if we only ever sell a few dozen of some of these guys, you are going to let me put them ALL into production! Otherwise, everyone is going to find out about the bodies buried under the concrete floor of the new warehouse!"

Really, it's the only explanation I can come up with for Necormunda's bizarre policy of churning out gonzo model after model that hardly any of us will buy, even if we are really happy that they exist!

Probably a mix of both.

Anything plastic will be well planned, on account of higher setup costs.

These little oddballs? Still not cheap, but certainly cheaper, and so don’t need to shift as many units to pull their weight.

For all we know. The art and entries in the book start off inspired by some mad gribbly made in the studio, at least as a concept. And from there production is decided.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
For all we know. The art and entries in the book start off inspired by some mad gribbly made in the studio, at least as a concept. And from there production is decided.

Looks like to me all the art in the books is just tidied-up concept art, since its all either headshots or full-figures in stock poses. Every now and then one gets coloured in to be stuck on a cover.

Some of the hangers on would make for easy 2-3 packs

These are great models and I'd love to assemble/paint and game them. However, being resin and expensive I'll take a pass on them.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Some of the hangers on would make for easy 2-3 packs

I still believe that at some point, they are going to bundle most of the single miniatures into a better priced box of 3. Most House books had three special characters, and at most three gang-specific hangers on.

 modelhunter wrote:
These are great models and I'd love to assemble/paint and game them. However, being resin and expensive I'll take a pass on them.

The individual Hired Guns are roughly in line with plastic single characters. Most of the two-packs work out cheaper per model than plastics would. Some of the larger groups do end up being more expensive than a plastic box, though the detail is usually better.

Forge World models used to be priced like boutique resin kits, but now so are GW plastics - and not even the Delaque mind-weasels can make that make sense.

MajorWesJanson wrote:Some of the hangers on would make for easy 2-3 packs

I dunno. That's how you end up with the Rogue Doc (everybody wants) and Gang Lookout (nobody wants) pairing.

So, we're past the halfway point in the week - does Necromunda feel in focus to anyone?

 Dysartes wrote:
So, we're past the halfway point in the week - does Necromunda feel in focus to anyone?

Maybe the Ecstatic Epistle will be Thousand Sons on Necromunda.

 Dysartes wrote:
So, we're past the halfway point in the week - does Necromunda feel in focus to anyone?

The long Delaque lamprey is long.

Todays WarCom teaser:
”Next week we’ve got another Necromunda reveal coming in hot…”

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/eueoinsr/sunday-preview-chaos-comes-to-the-mortal-realms/

Play on words?
Something ”hot”, such as a Prophet of the Redemption?

Some sort of Redemptionist thing, yes.

Make the journey into the Underhells with the help of two veteran Abyssal Ferryman

Those are great!

Yup, very good looking models.

Love the big dude

I swear, the last couple of years of Necromunda releases have done so much to frame Hive City life in 40K...just great. Looking forward to more releases, but I would love to see a selection of more merchants and hawkers at their booths...

Granted, that would have little relevant gameplay value, but the imagery would be solid.

Very good models indeed

Very good models! I'd pay ten, or even twenty dollars for them!

That's a great ogryn and I'd love to use one for post apocalyptic setting games (whether miniatures or RPGs). It's definitely up in my top 5 Necromunda figs along with Ajex Gorgoth and the Arachni-rigs.

 Sacredroach wrote:
I swear, the last couple of years of Necromunda releases have done so much to frame Hive City life in 40K...just great. Looking forward to more releases, but I would love to see a selection of more merchants and hawkers at their booths...

Granted, that would have little relevant gameplay value, but the imagery would be solid.

With those amount of special models and terrain pieces they could make players and GMs of an official Necromunda RPG really happy (and really poor).

 Sacredroach wrote:
I swear, the last couple of years of Necromunda releases have done so much to frame Hive City life in 40K...just great. Looking forward to more releases, but I would love to see a selection of more merchants and hawkers at their booths...

Granted, that would have little relevant gameplay value, but the imagery would be solid.

It’s definitely a source of enrichment for The Imperium as a setting, and I’m loving it.

I can't help but think that if you're expecting to encounter genestealers, a gun might be more effective than a weird boathook, but whatever...

 Lord Damocles wrote:
I can't help but think that if you're expecting to encounter genestealers, a gun might be more effective than a weird boathook, but whatever...

Or... having a polearm to keep them at a distance is a very effective tactic.

Great looking minis, Necromunda is knocking it out the park.