#delaque

Three Delaque gangers. Technically it's two delaques and a hive scum, but the hive scum is wearing the same kind of duster so I like to think he was a delaque at one point. Or maybe he still is and is in charge because hes the only one who can grow hair

Necromunda game, my Orlocks vs Delaques

I played the first game of the new Necromunda Ash Wastes campaign I'm running with my buddy. It's my Corpse Grinder Cults gang vs his Delaque. We started with a Wasteland Encounter mission, I got 4 guys to start with while Delaque only had 2. At the end of each round a random D3 reinforcements would appear on one of the board edges.

By round 3 both gangs had bottled because we had such a low starting count. Our vehicles appeared on the board and basically left the same turn without doing anything. One of the Delaque bikers with a web pistol deployed on the terrain walkways. He drove up to one of my champs and webbed him but failed to incapacitate him.

One of my Juve reinforcements deployed behind the Delaque on turn 4. He got shot off the platform and would limp on the floor for the rest of the battle, but it was enough of a distraction for my Champion to run up with dual cleavers and kill the Delaque biker.

By turn 5 my leader and the rest of my juves ran off the map. My Cutter continued to do work and killed one of the Delaque champions. Unfortunately I kept failing my cool checks and by round 6 or 7 all of my guys ran off the battlefield, making the Delaque the victors of the first battle.

Also, shout outs to my champion with flensing saw. He killed the Delaque Nacht Ghuul with shiver sword, then promptly ran into dangerous terrain and sank into the sand. We rolled very high on his injury table roll and he died outside the hospital that we could not afford.

This game was very fun, but brutal. I'm down one champion with 2 other juves in recovery, I had to sell my dead champion's gear to afford a dirtbike and respirator for the next game. Delaque are also in a not so great position. They lost a fighter in the hospital and had to pay for a bionic eye for a champion that took an eye injury. After buying a replacement fighter to field the web gun, they basically made no credits after winning the game.

The member of Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor Celiya Xanthic retinue known only as Mord, is an odd one out in the group. Silent for the most part, but whenever he speaks the voice is filtered and the low gothic halting. Some members swearing they've heard a chittering noise coming from him at times. Then there's also something about his movements, something unnatural. Like he's trying to hold himself back. Sometimes there's motions playing on the surface of his long coat that he wears at all times and never removes. Even then he's a highly disciplined killer, using a set of weapons firing razor sharp flechettes at high velocities.

The truth is that Mord, their real name hard to pronounce with a human mouth, is part of a arachnid xenos species from a distant sector. The species is far too small, and too remote, to garner much attention from the Imperium at large. How they managed to be in the employ of Inquisitor Xanthic is anyone's guess. Less said about what deals she might have struck with them for their employ. All that is known is that places the team visits, people tend to disappear. Sometimes bodies are found, usually a dried out husk lacking any organs...

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Turns out that Van Saar helmets on Delaque bodies work really well. A very quick and nice project, painted and based this one in a day.

The idea to paint the sides of the gasmask the helmet colour, making it look like extended mandibles, was a random idea that I felt worked out pretty well.

Sneaky Delaque being Sneaky