Games Workshop Necromunda: Palanite Subjugator Patrol

Easy to assemble fun to paint

I liked the variety of build options and the animals.

The Subjugator Patrol kit for Necromunda allows you to build six heavily armed and armored Enforcers with riot shields, grenade launchers, power mauls or pistols and includes two special weapons: a door-busting assault ram (with an under-barrel grenade launcher!) and a heavy concussion ram to knock down foes. It adds a lot of firepower to your Enforcers gang. And, once built, the models look suitably tough and hard.The problem is in those words - once built. As with many other Necromunda kits there are some bizarre decisions about how to make parts and lay out sprues. For example the heads are all in two parts, the helmet and the mask. This might have been interesting if there was a choice of masks, or if they had some unique shape requiring they be split in two but no. They are no more complex than any other helmet I've seen, but require clipping (and dropping), filing (and dropping) and gluing parts smaller than your fingernail. That sprue space could have gone to some more alternate heads or other options. The necks are also separate parts, frustrating people who want to swap heads, and do not give you any choice in how to pose the head.While there are some choices, there's not a great many. All the weapons are for the right hand so if you want a figure with a mace and pistol you will have to cut up and file and glue it yourself.I could go on but you get the idea. Like many recent GW kits choices were made to make the kit more complicated and less flexible than it had to be.

Super cool models, but they’re on the sprue in such a simplex way that the moser intricate models are a pain. Otherwise….all good.