Forge World has shown off four new Hired Guns that you can hire for your gangs in Necromunda by Games Workshop. We'll start off where everything should begin, and that's with a Space Dwarf...I mean, Squat. Welcome, Grendl Grendlsen.

"Despite the dire circumstances of his coming to Hive Primus, Grendl Grendlsen quickly established a new life, finding gainful employment as a bodyguard to various underhive figures. At length, he earned the right to practice as a sanctioned Bounty Hunter, and now serves any master who will pay his fee.

Grendl is famed for protecting his charges from their rivals and subsequently claiming the bounty on the would-be assassins’ heads, and so far there has been no shortage of foolhardy rivals eager to test his skills, and his infamous hammer."

Who wouldn't want this fellow added to their collection? It's neat to see that Forge World and Games Workshop are prepared to look back at the fringes of the lore in Warhammer 40,000 and bring back some fan favourites.

We also have this fellow, Eyros Slagmyst.

"Eyros was once an underhive dome-rigger from Cogtown, one of the sweating, emaciated souls responsible for repairing the rusting pipe networks that fed the dismal settlement. Deep down in the sump wells, close to hive bottom, he found and donned a strange archaeo-rig which, though it gave him strength and life, it also gave him a burning thirst.

As it turned out, while water can be found in many things, few things in Necromunda have quite as much as humans. Eyros leaves only dust and scrap in his wake, searching endlessly for fresh victims from which to strip every morsel of fluid. These days it is hard to tell how much of Eyros is left under the archaeo-cybernetics, and no telling what Eyros will become once the archaeotech is done with him."

This chap has a decidedly more deadly and mysterious look to him. I love the idea that he has augmented himself beyond the realms of humanity and therefore has a much colder and calculating take on how to deal with his foes.

We then move onto Belladonna.

"As the ancient saying goes ‘don’t mess with a woman wronged’, and Belladonna has been oh so wronged! The noble bounty huntress is one of the seven daughters of Orlena Escher – matriarch of the Seven Spire Killer Cult – and once one of the most feared assassins in the Palatine Custer.

She stalks the underhive as a Bounty Hunter for hire, seeking her husband’s killers and the identity of the mysterious faction that sundered the alliance of Escher and Ran Lo before the ink was even dry on the marriage contract."

Here we have an update on an old-school model for the Necromunda range. Once again, it's awesome seeing the designs they've gone for here and I love the amount of cybernetics she's embraced in the pursuit of being a deadly killer. She also has killer hair...always a bonus.

Last but not least we have Slate Merdena & Macula who we saw earlier this week.

"The Sump Dogs are one of the hardest gangs to ever ride the ash roads of the Spider Points, and their success can be attributed to one man: Slate Merdena. Slate controls a dozen Hive Primus Ash Gates in the name of House Orlock, and has earned a reputation for being nigh unkillable – having survived bullets to the chest, blades between the shoulders and even being thrown under the wheels of his own rig.

Often the mere sight of Slate and his faithful Cyber Mastiff Macula, are enough to send enemies running, lest the end their days as a mile-marker on the Spider Points, like so many before them."

When you're stalking the Underhive you probably do want a deadly pooch by your side to watch your back when it comes to the attacks of Mutants and more. A great set once again building on the narrative of Necromunda.

While these models are Hired Guns, there's no reason you can't use them as characters and leaders within your own gangs.

Which of the four do you like best?