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Now the six most prominent gangs are out. What's your favorite and why?

The new Van Saar models.are just so lovely

Goliath. Because I've had the most success with them. NOT because they are hulky and bulky, and half naked.

Venator at the moment due to the sheer amount of options available to them and conversion options.

I'm loving the new Delaque models. they look great and fit the original aesthetic. Cant wait to have them all painted & ready to go. Looking at the other gangs FW stuff I'm excited to see what they do for my assassins.

Already ordered Grendl and am considering some hired guns. Now I just have to finish building the rest of my gang.

Delaque has always been my gang. The new minis look nothing like 'em, but still, Delaque all the way.

Escher next.

1. Escher
2. Goliath

Imo the other gangs are nice to have but not essential for the setting. Why? Well, I grew up in the 80s and the bad guys/gals that were running around in post-apocalyptic settings like Mad Max, Fallout (e.g.: Raiders), Terminator (beginning of movie) or dystopian futures (Robocop III) had bright hair, tatoos, piercings and a bad attitude. Or In a nutshell: They were punks. Both House Escher & Goliath embody these traits and remind me of the good old 80s sci-fi. Nowadays the bad boys are gangsta-rappers who hold their guns at ludicrous angles while defending their turf. I still wait to this day when either House Escher or House Goliath will get access to the most awesome wargear manufactured in the Hive: The dreaded Ghetto-Blaster.

I put the Escher in the first place because I have a soft spot for amazons.

Van Saar. They were the gang I picked when I was a wee lad first time around as they had the cool shinies and looked like the Fremen from Dune. This time the updated look is giving me an Infinity vibe, which is a game I love the aesthetic of but really can't get along with the rules for so they were a no-brainer pick for me.

Escher

Style baby Style.

My least favourite are Goliath and Cawdor; I like them, but not as much as the other four.

Out of the other four, I play Escher, but that's because I played them the first time round. I'm finding it hard to choose otherwise.

Hard choice, im temped to say Cawdor since they look kind of blanchian. But the new Delaque give them a run for it. I really like all of the gangs this time around. Its been a real mission to even commit to one of them.

 Thargrim wrote:
Hard choice, im temped to say Cawdor since they look kind of blanchian. But the new Delaque give them a run for it. I really like all of the gangs this time around. Its been a real mission to even commit to one of them.

Several choices are possible.

Delaque and Van Saar both look so damn cool. May need to buy them.

Cawdor for me, I LOVE the new look. And the whole "build everything out of scrap" thing they have going on means they're probably the most ripe for conversions from the whole lot. I'm still in the midst of building/painting mine and having loads of fun raiding the bitz box.

Escher: I always like playing "glass cannon" factions in games, I like their mix of shooting and melee, amazingly versatile/convertible model kit, and they look great with a vibrant/individualist color scheme rather than uniform.

Genestealer cults, I get to use standard gsc models, acolyte models, orlock models, delaque models... lots of variation and while many of the gangs are pretty similar stat wise with a few small differences the gsc list really feels like something different, lacking juves and having access to abberents and pchykers. Wish we had access to an actual genestealer as a gang specific large beasty but Ill make due with ogryns and automatons.

Seems like a dead heat.
Thoughts?

Delaque have always been my fav, but when look at the new models gunna have to go Van Saar (I have every new box set). Delaque look so stagnant (I still have not made them, I am not looking forward to greenstuffing and posing them). However, my Van Saar soon as out of the box made all of them and they looked awesome, looked so good I ordered all the FW upgrades months later (and apart from the mix up on there is female arms and male arms) all looked good.

Van Saar by a big margin tbh.

Orlocks. But I plan to buy all gangs because all of them look damn cool.

Delaque.

They may have had the most noticeable overhaul in image, but those models just work for me.

Plus, sneaky sneaky dagger tag is usually fun!

I never played the game and I'll probably never will, but I voted for Escher, Delaque and Orlock

Their lore and visual style is most appealing to me, but if I had to choose one, It would be Delaque.

I love the play style of Goliath, but my favourite models are the Van Saar

I was a Goliath in Oldmunda but have transitioned to an Escher in the new game, so...

Escher, I guess.

Van Saar, followed closely by Delaque, followed closely by Cawdor.

Cawdor. Nothing embodies the ridiculously over the top gothic stylings of the 40k setting like they do. Crazy death cult (now with extra candles!) that makes their weapons out of garbage in the image of an angel of the emperor that one guy's cousin's uncle's best friend's daughter's boyfriend's meth dealer saw once in a picture that got flushed down from the upper hive? Sold.