I had a thought then found it was illegal and now I'm sad.
I was gonna tax in Lord Cooper and put him in the Calypso, that would solve his movement problems and let me play with Runaways. Alas no... Belly of the Machine upgrade is Restricted (Living).
Nekima... her only Henchman is boxed with the Black Blood Shaman.
Viktoria... has Vanessa instead.
Yan Lo... only brings The Armor with him.
There's a precedent.
Nexus, 5 Minions, & 2 Totems is already 8 models at 31 stones.... would they bother putting the Archivist in the core box for that 9th model or would he be separate?
Is it me or has nobody mentioned Relenting to attacks from tokened Friendly Cadmus models? The defending model is the one who chooses to relent, so I'm not seeing an issue.
Try this on for size:
Nexus, 2 Nests, Archivist, and 3 Spelleaters.
That leaves Meredith, Husks, & Eyes and Ears as the secondary starter box like Hamelin, then Nightsilk as a solo box.
All of Cadmus is just 3 big boxes!
I don't know the name of the character, but there's guy in the anime One Piece who fights with swords in each hand and one in his mouth.... so that, but a T-Rex, and lightsabers.