Xeno drones question from Khurasan

[Khurasan Miniatures]

The new "Swatters!" rules by Ganesha, dealing with xenomorph combat, cover the Khurasan 15mm space demon range almost completely, but add a troop type I don't have in my range -- yet!  They are called drones and are basically small swarm bugs, not individually a threat but capable of distracting the marines when they should be firing at the deadly space demons bounding up towards them.

Any ideas on range-appropriate drone appearance?  I have some ideas but thought I'd put it before the group to get feedback.

[Daeothar]

Something like Necron Scarabs? With a penchant for hugging people in the face perhaps?

[mindfad]

make them 28mm! 

[consectari]

What about a swarm of these?

[Vermis]

I'd say a cross between Daeothar's latter and Consectari's ideas. Unless you'd prefer it to be one or the other. In which case I'd go with Daeothar's suggestion.

[cheetor]

When I was playtesting Swatters in 28mm earlier this year I used my facehuggers and chestbursters as Swarms and cheap toy maggots and ants as Drones.  Swarms are scarier than Drones so it seemed appropriate, plus I didnt have appropriate painted swarm models to hand.

The drones are individually rubbish.  They definitely have uses and are used as sentry types in some of the scenarios so its a good idea to have a few, but even in a large group they dont feel as scary as a large group of face huggers should.  Which is why I used facehuggers as swarms, which are a bit more dangerous, rather than speed bumps, if you know what I mean.

So I reckon that the drones should be the equivalent of bug civilians, not really designed for aggression.  Probably not as dangerous as a pack of face-huggers.

A crappy phone photo to illustrate the route that I took for drones:



It will be interesting to see what you Khurasan guys come up with

[YPU]

Assuming you want to make a model to fit the rules rather then the other way round. (Fun to see this process in action) I would say that Cheetor's post is imperative here.

Considering the way the game describes them (alien version of civilians, only mindless) I would say they a slug or leech like appearance could work. In my opinion they should probably look plump, they are as non-com as the bugs get and thus should look like "big juicy targets" Plump and soft. a bug you can actually stomp on without your leg getting chewed of for once. 

[Khurasan Miniatures]

Thanks Cheetor.