In my case, I've been working on moving house with SWMBO, and that's taken up a great deal of time.
Games Workshop have today put up the new Dark Vengeance boxed set. It has a force of Dark Angels fighting against Chaos renegades of the Crimson Slaughter. Perhaps the most interesting thing for me is that the boxed set includes ten chaos militia - figures that up until now we've only been able to create from kitbashing the Imperial Guard or ordering from Forge World.
Obviously it appears that there are eight normal cultists, each of which are duplicated twice; a "heavy" figure, which comes with a flamer and a heavy stubber, and two "leader" figures. These are "snap-fit" models, which means that they likely come in one, two- or three pieces, and can be put together without glue. That raises some questions about the moulding; some of the Battle for Macragge and the Battle for Black Reach Space Marines had odd moulding. Still, I'm very excited for these figures, and I think there's a lot that can be done with them.
The figures have a lot of inspiration borrowed from Necromunda, and there's quite a few figures in there that could be used for gangers. But, more pertinently to this blog, I think that these figures have a lot of potential to be used for INQ28. Of course, without conversion they could be chaos cultists, Imperial guard, militiamen, sump gangers and the like. But with some reworking, I really think they could make excellent members of an Inquisitor's retinue.
I'll get back to you with some of my ideas.
- Mol.