Fair enough. I guess my head cannon stayed with the Arbites as being Judge Dredd and the enforcers being the next rung down, followed by ad hoc local forces.
I'd agree with @Troubled Child tbh; Arbites are Arbites, funded by the planetary governor, enforcers are enforcers, funded by local guilders. While they'd have likely access to the same sort of equipment generally, I'd say enforcers wouldn't necessarily be kitted out like 2000AD judges *all* the time; especially the dog handler, who I keep thinking would be relatively lightly armoured when dealing with the cyber mastiff (don't ask me why, just more head canon than anything).
Not really next rung down... more the difference between local armed response police and UN Peacekeepers. Not really directly accountable but kinda... a bit..
tbh they actually look really good. I'd not seen those before. The latest set of rules I could find had the pics of the white armoured enforcers in it which I didnt like (the rules, the models were lovely)
Close but Arbites are Imperial and funded by Terra, Enforcers are funded by the Planetary Governor and in the case of Necromunda modelled on the Arbites, Watchmen are then funded by the guilds generally to keep an eye on locations important to trade. Enforcers did effectively just replace Arbites for all intents and purposes (probably an IP/copyright decision) in the official setting, I assume because the Arbites are all busy investigating the serious breaches of Imperial Law (psykers, genetic engineering, functioning STCs, etc, etc) that seem pretty out in the open in Hive City these days.
You could also link the size of the garrison to upgrades to the Precinct House, you need to build the kennels to have dog handlers for example or a weapons locker can store enough equipment for x dudes. Gives the player the option to customise as well because you could give them starting credits to 'build' the starting precinct out of.
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I thought of it more in terms of the Yank/German strata of local, state, federal. I have to admit I never bought the 2003 book or followed the LRB as this was the dark times known only as my early 20's but I did check out the current rules as a comparison to the original WD/BitU Arbite rules. Keeping to the current rules and how to improve them I'd say there are two main problems, the first is that they are clunky. The whole having to alternate patrols thing seems like a good way of countering their advantageous starting loud out on paper, but it effectively halves your xp gain which leads to problem two, namely that they get worse as the campaign goes on. While they can be expected to pick up fewer injuries due to their armour and the free recruits maintain the numbers it's hard to imagine them keeping up with other gangs in the long run if a campaign lasts, say 6 months. I'd compare it to the power progression of fighters and wizards in D&D/Pathfinder, fighters are more powerful to begin with but get left in the dust once the wizard takes off.Not really next rung down... more the difference between local armed response police and UN Peacekeepers. Not really directly accountable but kinda... a bit..
I don't really want to make the Enforcers all that different to their prior LRB iteration; Heavily armoured, badass mo-fos styled after Judges (albeit with a more modernised aesthetic). Partly through wanting to stick to the established fluff and partly because I'm a lazy git and don't want the extra work of coming up with something vastly different. I'm ok with some guys getting mesh armour instead of carapace though, if that makes them more playable.
Don't forget, this is an NCE update for the existing Enforcer rules to make them a little more playable for a general campaign, as opposed to a newly written faction. I'd like to keep them as close to the original as possible while making them more playable.
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) and I'm curious whether there'll be any new versions? The first post in the thread said the aim is to update once a year and the second post had ideas for changes & improvements to the NCE rules that don't seem to have been implemented yet, but from what I've found when trying to sift through the thread (from a page or so before the topic seemed to shift from Pit Slaves to Enforcers), I haven't been able to find out whether the project is on a hiatus or the like, or if I'm just, like I mentioned earlier, missing something 
Alright, thanks for the info. No stress on my part, so take all the time you need and don't overwork yourself; you've already done a great job with the current iteration imo
