Gangs Of Commorragh Battle It Out With New Games Workshop Boxed Game
January 11, 2017 by brennon
Continuing their theme of creating smaller boxed game experiences the Warhammer Community website this week showed off what's coming as part of Gangs Of Commorragh!
The focus of this box from Games Workshop is to put you in charge of gangs from the Dark Eldar homeworld. You will be battling it out as Hellions and Reavers as you fight for supremacy. As they mention in their piece on the game it would be a good way to kick off a Dark Eldar force too if you were so inclined!
The game will be one of their self-contained experiences where everything you need to play is included in the box. What got us excited was the thought of working through the campaign play they have planned. It sounds like a neat idea to upgrade your gangs and have them become more ruthless!
This should certainly open up the creativeness in people as they start to design interesting and individual looking gangs.
What do you think of the idea?
"You will be battling it out as Hellions and Reavers as you fight for supremacy..."
To those who know these things better than I, are these recycled old minis, new minis, or a mix?
They’re the current DE Hellions and Reaver Jetbikes, about two boxed sets worth each, along with the minigame rules, card terrain and tokens. No models exclusive to the box, but it’ll likely be priced at a discount if you were going to buy them separately.
Seems interesting to DE players.
Look old – but with a new paint-scheme (?)
Like Lost Patrol
No idea. They look alright in any case. The cardboard stuff tho does not.
Yellow is an unfortunate colour for anything ‘Dark’ Eldar as well if you ask me. The hole thing looks a bit rushed. What’s wrong with simply selling a model bundle alone?? Does it always have to be an all inclusive game?
I’m not privy to their decision making, but my guess is that a Dark Eldar bundle will only sell to people who want Dark Eldar, but a game with Dark Eldar will sell to people who don’t particularly want Dark Eldar, as the game gives them something to do with the minis.
Their idea is a very sound one- a self contained box caters to boardgamers/ people who don’t want the whole 100+ models, two demi-titans and a baneblade per side thing 40k devolved to, and it’s still a good bundle for any DE players who do play 40k.
I kind of wonder if these ‘mini games’ are experiments for new versions of the 40k rules.
They could be failed experments that were saved from the garbage bin.
But then the scope of GoC and Lost Patrol is different. Lost Patrol is a remake anyway.
I love this box!
Sooo, its flying Necromunda… Niice!
Pretty much. When I interviewed Andy Chambers last year this was one of the other themed gang war games which they had as a concept. Obviously that was kept on ice until now.
Really they should put out a new Gorkamorka box with the newer minis.
I would buy Gorkamorka in a heart beat.
I think the card spires would have looked better with a game mat-poster. With that and a ruler or two,assuming they are needed, it would be more of a complete game.
The rulebook looks very thin so its unlikely to have the complexity or depth of Necromunda but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun.
Still, I am very much intrigued and hopeful that this will be a fun game with a campaign system thats draws me in. I may well be disappointed but we will have to wait and see.
You don’t need that many rules if the focus is on a single aspect of conflict …
X-wing doesn’t have many rules, but it still is quite complex once multiple ships are involved.
may be a good way to pass a game day.
If this is around the same price as Gorechosen it will be a good valued box game.
I wasn’t too sold on this game when I heard about it but with now I’ve seen more details I might pick this up. The cardboard towers/spires are a bit odd but it won’t be to hard to model some nice ones up just out of foam.
Plus theres no reason why they can’t be battling it out on another world whizzing through rocks or ruins…
That’s my thinking too. Nothing says these guys can’t go for a skirmish around a raided Imperial City. I wonder how well the rules scale up to larger boards.
You can almost rearrange the name into Gorkamorka 😛
I so want this to be Necromunda. But it isn’t. I’ll probably wait for the reviews, in particular the campaign part. The lore says all captured races can be forced to battle it out in the arenas, so in principle this could turn into a 40K Dark Eldar “Spartacus” type of gang game. And the arena could be a bigger, multi level arena. … I’m just designing a Dark Eldar setting for Necromunda, am I not? Sigh.
i’m with drbonejangles… could be a really neat “necromunda for Dark Eldar”…. but that rule book does look tiny and those paper-spires are really a disappointment… I agree that a very cool “game mat” that gave you the illusion of being high above the city would be a nice addition (cough, 3rd party gaming mat, cough) …. It also looks like too little terrain to be “self contained”… if you have a bunch of reavers and hellions I would imagine you’d need more than 6 40mm terrain pieces to fill out a 2×2 or 3×3 or 4×4 table… I totally… Read more »
It may well be a small board but with a ‘rolling road’ in which case you’d have to keep recycling the spires so it might not be too bad. They also said that you have more than enough minis to start your gangs, so initially you might have maybe half that number of minis.
A good thing about this would be that it could be relatively easy to come up with rules for other races. Some Eldar and Harlequin jetbikes, Tau Piranha. Could possibly make room for jump infantry, turn it into something of an aerial skirmish.
But if you were going on the premise of imprisoned participants, wouldn’t they just fly out of the stadium and escape? 🙂
I imagine they’d get shot down as soon as they cleared the spires, though those who have given up hope may well try that. Besides I’d have thought the entrances to Commorragh are well guarded so they are unlikely to get very far.
Was intrigued by this but now I can see the set it’s very meh. I’ll just carry on with the interminable wait for necromunda.
Well the towers were definately oversold. Could be interesting. Currently trying to find the stats on the pullout for the old wd arena of blood game to revisit with new minis may tie in with this. May seek a demo.
As a concept it sounds very interesting (eldar biker Gangs? Yes please)
As a box game it looks a little underwhelming (wtf are those card towers?)
As a bundle it looks very good value
I have no particular issue with GW releasing miniatures bundles under the auspices of boxed games and this case I don’t collect Dark Eldar so it’s possibly not much use. But I wonder is it worth getting and playing with my own scenery? Imagine this game in a canyon run like Star Wars Pod Racers.
Definitely has a X-Wing feel to it judging by those counters and what looks like a movement dial (bottom pic)
Could be a fire arc template like in 2nd ed 40k.
Trying to be cautious in my optimism…but it just grabs my imagination too much. Nothing has seemed so thematic and attractive to me since Necromunda as a child. I’m not even too into DE with the whole slaves and torture thing, but the aerial gangs seems to tie all the fluff together in my mind and I get it now.
GoC seems to have more potential than the other small games. You could be fighting for loot, head hunting, ambushing and lots more. I think that potential combined with the gang setting is what gets me most intrigued.
Please can we just have Necromunda soon???
Flash Gordon bikers only elves vs. Green Goblins only elves.
Here ya go 😀
http://shop.hydraminiatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=2_49&products_id=158
Wow, I totally thought this would be a great idea for a game when I read the DE background!
Looks interesting. I don’t want another GW game but many people will probably jump on this.
hey guys! Some people talking about Necromunda in a DE setting. I have in my possession a file of Raiders in the Dark City, which is a Necromunda version (fully developed) for Dark Eldar gangs. it was developed by Nick Davis, a guy that used to work in White Dwarf / GW. The version i have is from 2004 and it was very rare to find even then. I remember posting this info as well in the Specialist games forum and sending this file to a lot of players. if you would like to try this game (rulebook with 93… Read more »