Necromunda; The Best Way To Get A Warhammer 40K Fix? Amazing Miniatures, Rules & More #OTTWeekender
December 2, 2022 by avernos
It's OTT Weekender time! We have a chat about Necromunda and how we reckon it's probably the best way to get your Warhammer 40K fix. Screw collecting armies and dive into the gang warfare of the underhive with the amazing Necromunda miniatures, rules and more.
Necromunda offers up a chance to play as the regular folks just trying to survive in the grimdark future of Warhammer 40,000 and both Games Workshop and Forge World have done an excellent job of building up the range of characters available for those playing the game.
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Indie Of The Week - The Assault Group
Gerry takes us through an incredibly impressive collection of Historical and Fantasy wargaming miniatures from the folks at The Assault Group.
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With loads and loads of miniatures to choose from, this could be an absolute treasure trove for those looking to build up a new collection for a variety of wargames.
Tabletop Gaming News
Here is some of the wargaming, tabletop and miniatures news this week that caught our eye and made us go "ooooh!"
- 3D Printable Darkstar Rift Starter Set For DeepWars - Have you considered DeepWars? Have a look at the great digital bundle from the folks at AntiMatter Games
- Napoleonic Spanish Guerrillas From Perry Miniatures - Pick up some amazing new Spanish miniatures for the Napoleonic period from Perry Miniatures
- Khurasan Miniatures' 15mm Afrika Korps Miniatures - Dive into a new range of 15mm miniatures from Khurasan for use during World War II wargames
- River Horse Games Announce Tales Of Primordia Family RPG - An amazingly fun-looking family roleplaying game coming to Kickstarter next year
- CMON's New Iron Maiden Eddie Miniatures Sets! - Pick up some Iron Maiden miniatures and use them for your CMON board games like Zombicide
- New Necromunda Pre-Orders From Games Workshop - Have Games Workshop nailed it with Necromunda? Check out some great new vehicles, miniatures and more
Let us know if something from this week made you "oooh!" and if we missed anything!
3D Printing Is The S**t! - SolGood Creations' Charity Fundraiser
Get your hands on a massive amount of 3D Printable miniatures from various creators and help out charity at the same time.
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Did you pledge for their first campaign? Will you be scooping up some favourites from this one?
Tabletop Gaming Kickstarters
Have a look at an epic Viking board game and also a celebration of some brilliant miniatures from a stunning creator.
- Runar by Ludus Magnus Studio - Dive into an awesome Viking warband featuring great miniatures and a fun campaign
- The Dark Ten by Westfalia Miniatures - See what you make of this epic collection of miniatures!
Are you going to be diving into this Viking board game or will you instead delve into that alternative set of adventurous halflings?
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I remember talking about old Necromunda with Dead Dave and it turned out I was talking about Confrontation. Brats they were great, much better than Spyrers. Would be all over Spyrers if Forge World oblige.
Still got a couple of the old Brats minis stashed away somewhere (not sure if I’ve got the old plastic Imperial Guard Arms and weapons that came with them however). Confrontation was great (although probably one of the few GW systems that didn’t use a bucket of D6s to resolve combat). I did remind me of a rather simplified version of “Laserburn” (published by Tabletop Games back in the 80s written by former GW alumni Bryan Ansell) which strangely had “Space Marines”, the “Imperium” and even “Red Redemptionists” in. I think the main thing I LOVED about those rules was the artwork. There were some pretty nice minis produced for the game (sadly these weren’t available for long as some after the first Necromunda game was released, and these minis disappeared (rather than being integrated into Necromunda). But there’s some pictures from Andy Chamber’s collection here https://johnwombat.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/the-overfiend-a-talk-with-andy-chambers-part-3/
Kid’s ha get the blood an gore flowing toughen them up people.
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Dunno who you’ve been talking to Brennon, but the Core rulebook and a gang “codex” isn’t going to get you near when it comes to the rules. Why to use the figures highlighted in this weekender you would also need…
The Aranthian Succession – Cinderak Burning £30
Necromunda: Book of the Outcast £30
House of Blades £30
Ash Wastes Rulebook (not available separately you would have to buy the Ash Wastes Box set (at £180) to access this)
You would be far better off (using hindsight) in using the minis (which ARE excellent) with either the Inq28 rules or the Fan Based Edition of the 1990s ruleset, as spending a couple of hundred quid to gain access to ANY game systems rules are just silly (never mind the spend on the minis themselves).
A friend of mine was looking into getting Necromunda and asked me what the minimum rule books would be needed. It’s quite a difficult one to answer as the rules (as a whole) are a mess, spread over mutiple books, the same rule reprinted and updated many times in each book. So I said just buy the minis you like and used the CE edition of Necromunda or Inq28 rulesets instead.
I sent him the list of rules that were published (so that he didn’t end up getting rulebooks/cards that were out of date via ebay) and shocked myself on how much I spent over the past 5 years buying just the rules for the game (even although I like many others didn’t get sucked into getting Ash Wastes amd the whole vehicular combat thing (which just doesn’t seem like Necromunda to me), as you can see below…..
(Outdated)
Necromunda: Underhive (2017)
Gang War
Gang War II
Gang War III
Gang War IV
Gangs of the Underhive
V1.0 Gang Cards (Rules not printed elsewhere)
Campaign Territory Cards (OOP)
Underdog Card Pack (OOP)
Intrigues & Rackets Card Pack (OOP)
Badzones Environments and Events Cards (OOP)
Goliath Gang Tactics Cards (OOP)
Orlock Gang Cards (OOP)
Van Saar Gang Cards (OOP)
Cawdor Gang Cards (OOP)
Delaque Gang Cards (OOP)
Zone Mortalis Hive Warzone (OOP)
Dramatis Personae
(Current)
Necromunda Rulebook (2018)
Dark Uprising Rulebook (2019) Campaign not listed elsewhere
The Book of Peril
The Book of Judgement
The Book of Ruin
House of Chains
House of Blades
House of Iron
House of Artifice
House of Faith
House of Shadow
Book of the Outcast
Cinderak Burning
V2.0 Gang Cards (Rules are printed in some of the books)
Goliath Gang Tactics Cards
Orlock Gang Cards
Van Saar Gang Cards
Cawdor Gang Cards
Delaque Gang Cards
Enforcer Tactics Card Pack
Corpse Grinder Cult Tactics Cards
Dramatis Personae 2.0
Campaign Territory Cards (Dark Rising from the box set, purchased separately of eBay)
(Not Purchased)
Ash Wastes Rulebook (2022)
Book of the Outlands
Cards
Goliath Vehicle Tactics Cards
Orlock Vehicle Cards
Ash Waste Nomads Tactics Cards
Ironhead Squad Prospector Tactics Cards
Necromunda Ash Wastes Vehicle Dice (Custom Faced Dice)
Cards and dice and rulebook spend over five years £640
To get up to date (buy rules etc on ebay) £110
Facing this kind of spend to get ALL the rules, as I said for your wallet (and sanity), just get the rules available from the web. Although the old CE version of Necromunda doesn’t have the alternate activation rules from the new set baked in, there’s a additional download where someone did all the hard work to get this mechanic usable in the 1990s version of the rules. As a note if you want to get into getting the tactics cards you’ve got to be careful as GW seems to have dropped the tactics from the V1.0 version of the cards (although they haven’t officially done so as it would have had a lot of players who bought the cards kicking off). Instead look for the artwork on the box front to try and differentiate between the two versions (a fair few players dumped their V1.0 cards on eBay) and obtain the later sets (although these rules on the V2.0 cards ARE printed in each of the Gang Codex books if you would rather save money and make your own 🙂 )
Sorry for the “wall of text” here, but when it comes to trying to explain the history of the Necromunda rules (post 2017), just like the source material it’s overly complicated and hard to follow 😀
@brennon The Three Kingdom period was at the end of the Han Dynasty 220 to 280 AD. The Jin Dynasty followed the three kingdom period
14th Century China was the start of the Ming Dynasty 1368 to 1644.
There is a Dynasty Warriors miniatures game in China. I have the Liu Bei figure on horseback.
So John doesn’t know about the Panzerbusche 38/39? For good reason. By mid/late war they were effectively useless against thicker armour; that model looks like it’s been adapted into a grenade launcher, which many were.
Been looking at Runar KS, and the other vibe I’ve picked up on is the artwork of Mihajlo Dimitrievski (The Mico) in Shem Phillips’ North Sea trilogy of games.
I thought the Russian Girls was the prize, lol
I’m looking forward to see how you guys take cute cartoon dinosaurs and make it 18 rated.
You had me at Mongol Camel Drummer. Have a great weekend folks!
Cao Cao and the Three Kingdoms (Dynasty Warriors) was, as previously mentioned, around 200-280 CE. End of the Han, Warlord era, after the Warring States. Ben’s 14 century comment might be down to when the “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” was written.
I like Khurasan, and the DAK might result in me actually starting to work on the long shelved “Gear Krieg: North Africa” project. I’ve not found the “right” infantry to present – but these may fit the bill
Wow i backed something before it showed up on a weekender.
Nothing to worry about me accidentally buying this week ?
Already want the Escher bikes
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Totally agree Necromunda is awesome and the best way to play 40k. The Spanish Guerrillas are crying out to be used in Silver Bayonet l!
great show!! happy weekender
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