Hot on the heels of the House of Blades book and the Death-maidens and Wyld Runners kit are some new Escher Champions models and a weapons upgrade kit. Today, we’re taking a look at these releases from Forge World.
An Escher Matriarch is gang enforcer, underhive assassin, and debutant of death all rolled into one. Should the Gang Queen fall, it’s one of the Matriarchs who will inevitably take her place as mistress of the gang.
To represent these awesome gang Champions, Forge World have released three models to add extra variety to your Escher clan. The first is armed with a shotgun and a servo-claw, meaning that she’s just as deadly closing in as when she gets into combat.
The next has a combi-pistol and a shock whip, the latter of which is ideal for giving those lesser clans an unexpected jolt.
Finally, there’s a Champion armed with a power hammer and combi-pistol. When you have a hammer in the underhive, all of your problems (and opposing gang members) start to look like nails.
All three of these Matriarchs make excellent additions to your Escher gang, giving you more options to carve out part of the underhive in the name of the House of Blades.
Also available today is an upgrade kit of weapons featuring a two-handed power sword, a pair of bolters, a combi-needler, a combi weapon with optional flamer, plasma, and melta attachments, a grenade launcher, and a power axe. For those who need maximum devastation, there’s also a plasma cannon.* The kit includes a hand holding a grenade, a bionic arm, and an alternate head too, meaning that you can really kit out your Champions and make them look unique.
These upgrades are fully compatible with the plastic Escher gang kit and allow you to create your very own Matriarchs, armed as you see fit.**
All of these sets are available to pre-order from the Forge World webstore. Grab them now and get ready to prove that old underhive adage, “Mess with the Blades, get the pointy end”.
* Older Escher gangers may recognise this as a nod back to a model from the first edition of Necromunda, back in the 1990s.
** Or indeed any member of your gang that you want to spruce up.