What Death Fields really needs is a Scavenger set. Somthing that leans heavily on the gasmask, cloaks, and robes vibe (and can take on Frostgrave's Cultist box). Skirmish gamers have no issues getting their hands on autoguns and lasguns. What is needed is a scavengers set that dives hard into muskets, crossbows, blunderbuss, and jezzails. The kind of primitive weaponry that Mad Max should have devolved into but somehow abandoned the hard realism of 80's Road Warrior. Give me weaponry (and scrap armor, please make it scrap bits you can attach, not full torsos and legs) that could be manufactured by outlaws, outlanders, and ashwaste nomads from Necromunda.
If you give us cloaked and hooded scavengers, you give us nomads, cultists, sand folk, outlaws, refugees, space pirates, fremen, scavvies, skaven, chapter serfs, rebels, and so much more. If you keep the weaponry primitive, scrap manufactured, survivialist; folks will buy the kit just to arm any wastlander crew starting at the bottom. And if the weapons are basic enough they can be used interchangably in fantasy and sci-fi games. All I'm saying is don't empasize the AK-47s, we all have enough of those in our bit box.
Give me bits to attach to a Space Orc Spawning, where an orc emerges from filth and a goblin hands him a sack of javelins made from scrap and a cracked blunderbuss. Those jezzails from the lizard man box are great, but only so many scavvies can have reptile claws...
A good scavengers set doesn't just let me make one crew, it helps me build several. And its worth buying again. I'm already on my second box each of Frostgrave cultists and wizards... and I dont even play Frostgrave.
When is somone going to make a whole sprew of molotov cocktails by the way? You think the poor man's grenade would get more play in skirmish gaming...
