I finally caved; let me know if you're looking for a game

[Jye Nicolson]

Necromunda was the one game I was going to resist, but nostalgia for Escher, the current dodgy release schedule for GW stuff in Japan and a desire to try 5 Parsecs From Home saw me take some stock off Ring Tail's hands.

I'm not intending to get deep into campaign play (unless Ash Wastes kicks off the game's popularity locally), but I'd be happy to play it at a post Omicron game day if anyone is so inclined!

[The Other Dave]

Hmm! This may push me towards getting and painting up some Van Saars, but I probably wouldn't ever get the rulebooks*. And I do have that full set of Necromunda '95 terrain burning a hole in my cupboard.

*Famous last words.

[Primarch]

Is the game actually playable with any one rulebook? I have 9 painted goliaths (and 10 more on the sprue).

[Jye Nicolson]

It's playable with the rulebook in the Hive War box, which is making its way through the post to me as we speak.

If you want all the good stuff for your gang you need their "House of" book but as I understand it there's enough in the core to run whatever's in the basic boxes for each of the six gangs.

[Primarch]

Everything I've heard about the game is that every book introduces new rules and rewrites some old ones. So you needed every book to be able to play. Mind you, I haven't paid it much attention recently, so if Hive War is up to date, I may be interested. I've been playing the PC game for a while and it isn't bad. (The AI is incredibly dumb though).

[jus]

I have necromunda in spades! I think I have every gang except redemptionists, but will probably get thme if this takes off. Yeah, I'll play.

[Balloonacorn]

Oh no! I want to play too. I have nothing but I can'rt resist the second best GW game ever made. I need to research gangs... what's available... there goes my budget..........


Enforcers or Van Saar or Delaque ....or... Ogryns!!!!!?

[Jye Nicolson]

Everything I've heard about the game is that every book introduces new rules and rewrites some old ones. So you needed every book to be able to play. Mind you, I haven't paid it much attention recently, so if Hive War is up to date, I may be interested. I've been playing the PC game for a while and it isn't bad. (The AI is incredibly dumb though).

Yeah, it's a mess.

Hive War is an up to date version of the rules that gives you a perfectly functioning skirmish game, and basically index versions of the six main gangs. It doesn't have campaign rules, and doesn't have the full skill tables (instead it just has a selection of skills for each gang). This should be fine for one off games but would essentially limit you to the contents of a standard gang box.

The House Of books appear to have almost everything you need for the gang in a self contained way (weapons, hirelings etc have full rules), but don't have the full skill tables either so using just these two things together would just mean you use your Hive War skills except when you can take a skill from your special gang list.

I'm not yet clear on how you get past that, but it's likely the internet could help; Goonhammer has a fanmade campaign system and I suspect there are others, the skill lists are probably around *somewhere*. The latter is probably the main thing - as usual I'd be happy to play in a campaign but it would have to compete with 40k, Malifaux, Kill Team etc etc etc so I'm just assuming some one off games for now.

[Konrad]

I gave Newcromunda (or the N17 edition I believe it has been referred to by grognards) a go when it first came out. And found it a big snarled up mess just like Jye said. Rushed editing. obviously little play-testing, and just too steep a learning curve for me to get back into it.
But, oh such lovely lovely models.
I've plugged them before and I'll plug them again, the Community Edition Necromunda Rules are a gem. It's the original rules, but edited, balanced and polished up after GW discontinued supporting the game. And are free. https://yaktribe.games/community/vault/ ... ulebook.1/

[Mattb]

I've actually always wanted to get into Necromunda since I was a little kid. My brother and I used to use my Guardsmen as stand in gangers since we could never get the actual models.

I'd be willing to try it. Hard to decide between Orlock or Delaque though.