Deadzone: Celebration Dwarfs

At Christmas I was able to gift Mr T some Forge Fathers for Deadzone, many of whom he's purchased 30 odd years ago.

Since that date we've played a fair bit of Deadzone and he has expressed an interest in expanding his choices. What better time to fulfil that wish than his 50 birthday. I've had most of these complete for a little while and now the big day has passed I can post up about them. This time all the models are the official Mantic games figures.

Mantic released a new sub-faction for the Forge Fathers earlier this year who sit alongside the melee fighting Brokkr engineers, these are the Artificer's. Again with an engineering slant these Dwarfs make use of more industrial equipment than the normal line troops. 

First out of the box is the Master Artificer, he originally came with some thin Dr Octopus legs which I quickly discarded as I couldn't get the multiple contact points to super-glue. Instead I went with paperclip wire and Vallejo putty to make the legs and arms. He buffs the Brokkr / Artificer shooting so take him along with lots of guns.

The other three models in the box are split between one Troop and two Specialist options. You don't get multiple weapons so you have to make one of each if you don't fancy kit-bashing something together. The little arms on their backpacks come separately and are a bit of a fiddle to stick on, but worth the effort. The Troop comes with a pistol and 1her hammer whilst the Specialist's come with a big hammer and a thermal rifle respectively. One thing to notice is the extra survivability that having armour 1 and a 4+ save brings, they are a little tougher than the standard Brokkr.

I also managed to get some Valkyr from someone on Facebook to add some speed into the options for Mr T. These are pretty basic kits so they go together very quickly, they also don't have masses of detail so paint up quickly as well. This was handy as they arrived only 6 days before the big day.

Speed 2-4 is lightening quick for a Dwarf but these chaps need to be careful to not zoom off on their own and get overwhelmed. Also having the Bike means they cannot climb up levels in buildings, an important consideration in Deadzone.

Lastly we have the Juggernaut, a repurposed mining and excavation walker. It comes in two variations in the rules and I went with the laser & hammer configuration as I think it looks cooler. 

Whilst it isn't as tough as an Iron Ancestor it is a good 10-15 points cheaper so having one of these instead would allow an extra foot Dwarf to be included. It's a good looking model and a decent bit of resin. As with the bikes I've added the 50 in celebration of Mr T's birthday.

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