Interesting list, though the thought occurs to me that Escher and Goliath are the box set gangs so almost everyone has a set! It wouldn’t surprise me that you’d see more using the models they have ready access to. Especially as the quality is so high and buying separate is exactly the same sprue!
I am surprised about the Cults though as for a while, at least going on a fair few anecdotes, it seemed like they were some of the most common to find as players co-opted existing models.
I guess as we’re in a post gang release time now we’ll see an overall different pattern of popularity. Cawdor mini design seemed divisive for a bit so that could explain why they’re so low.
Anyway, this is just your group, would be interesting to see what others have!
Limiting players choices as to what gang they can bring could very well be unpopular. Unless of course they had several gangs they could choose from.
In that case I’d ask politely that the players with just one gang get to use that and the others if possible would be nice enough to choose another.
If it totallly can’t work then you’d have to use the arbitrator to come up with some reason why 8 Goliath gangs are fighting each other! Pretty sure a narrative would be easy to form there.
