Happy Halflings & Necromunda Heroes Arrive This Weekend
May 20, 2019 by brennon
Games Workshop and Forge World have been working away on some awesome goodies for those enjoying their Specialist Games. The first release for this weekend is a new Halfling team for Blood Bowl.
The team is exceptionally characterful and offers up a nice look back at the Old World and its weird awesomeness. Every single one of the players here is very well detailed and absolutely full of character.
As a team which is usually getting beaten up, it's nice to see that replicated across the collection too. There are plenty of bruises and scrapes across this hungry team. Also, I still love the Halfling who has trained his pet squirrel to help him in his endeavours.
As well as the team a whole bunch of accessories and such will also be available to complete the look.
Treemen & Tasty Treats
As well as the team itself it looks like we're going to be getting some Made To Order goodies too. The first of these previewed is the old Blood Bowl Treeman.
It might not be as dynamic as the new one but it certainly provides you with a frightening prospect as the opposition. Whilst, of course, this Treeman has been designed for use in Blood Bowl I think that it would also work nicely away from the Fantasy Football pitch as well.
If you're looking to fling hotpots at your enemies there's also this awesome kit too.
This used to be the mainstay of an Empire army, well...if you included some Halflings anyway. You could have this added into the mix, flinging all sorts of weird stuff at the enemy as the Empire soldiers do the proper work.
Jerico & Scabbs
As well as these new additions and forgotten projects for Blood Bowl and the Old World we also see the release of Kal Jerico & Scabbs this weekend.
This pair were the stars of a range of books and plenty of comic books too. Both of them are looking awesome and I have no doubt that they are going to be going on all sorts of adventures throughout the Underhive across many tabletops.
Whilst we've been seeing some questionable painting across some of the Forge World releases (still better than mine though!) I think that the work on Kal Jerico, Scabbs and the Halfling Team has been top notch.
I would really like to see a set of scenarios developed specifically for this pair. I'd love the idea of leaving the gang wars behind and having these two delving into all sorts of adventures together for a solo-player and/or cooperative experience.
Maybe this is something that the Inq28 community could work on?
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Those Halflings Blood Bowl players need some hair on their feet. Other than that, I do love them. Will need to find a decent treeman though to make up the team. Also will be buying myself a Hot Pot. Pretty sure I sold mine years ago (if I didn’t I’ll have two!)
Ooh Jericho an Scabbs are back.
The Halflings would be great for converting a Halfling Mordheim warband. 😉
I rather like that Halfling team. Sure it wouldn’t be my choice for BB team but still. Kal and Scabbs look really good and it’s nice to see those Made To Order models for Halfling team.
The new Halflings are a must have I think. Those Food balls are amazing.
Want Kal and Scabbs.
My unfinished Halfling team is so dusty it’d eligible as a Spring Cleaning project, if a late one. Would a new set of tubby shortarses fare any better with my glacial painting progress? I doubt it. Love the hot dog icon, love the entire team though.
And I’m just a little disturbed how many of those hobbits look like Pete down my local. It’s uncanny.
This may be the nittiest of nitpicks, but I thought wood was a super exotic commodity in Necromunda, given the barren world is completely devoid of any non-fungoid flora. Why then would someone as poor as Scabbs have a weapon with wooden components? Escpecially given the weapons otherwise rackety and plain appearance.
It’s not wood. It’s a thick and fibrous mushroom stalk material that grows in the sump. It stinks and it rots relatively quickly so only the poor or desperate use it.
Wow! It looks like time has passed for both of them while they were waiting for the re-release of the game.