Necromunda - ALL IN!

In the category of "Other Things Distracting Me From Completing Thirty Wyches By Next Saturday"...



I've been thinking about picking up the new Necromunda since it came out a year and a half ago.  I think I figured, at the time, "Nah... I've got Shadow War: Armageddon..." and it was only available in the box with the two gangs... I thought of getting it (and two more gangs) at Xmas for the whole family to play (though they didn't even have all the gangs out at that time)... but I'd just bought a skipload of Tallarn and wanted to focus on 40K... I thought maybe I'd wait until they collected them into separate books... and then there was Kill Team...

Then they finally collected the rules into hardcover books and I got all excited about it again, but I was busy with Kill Team and getting fired up about Wrath & Glory... And then I started buying up old metal Necromunda figures FOR Wrath & Glory... And then someone on the local 40K forum said "Hey! Is anyone playing Necromuda locally? Is anyone interested?" and a whole bunch of dudes were like "I'M IN!"

I went in to my FLGS (Dragon's Den Games) that weekend - which happened to be International Tabletop Day - and they had a storewide 20% off sale going on - and was prepared to just BUY IT ALL!!! But it was all gone - all those guys had come in and bought up all the rulebooks and most of the other stuff!

Well, I figured they'd restock it soon enough and in a couple weeks it would be Free RPG Day and they usually have a bit of a sale for that too!

So I went in yesterday - and they're restocked the Necromunda - but Free RPG Day was cancelled!?

(Well, at least in Saskatoon... short version of long story: They'd ordered boxes of the stuff like they usually do, but then their distributor didn't send any - apparently their shipment showed up "damaged". They guys at the Den phoned around to all their other distributors and no one else had any.... It was like Xmas being cancelled. My kids had been really looking forward to it - Finnegan for the Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure and Keira for the Dungeons and Doggies and the Kids on Bikes adventures... and they didn't even have a sale going on....).

(Al, blessed soul that he is, gave me a bit of a deal on these anyway... FLGS-FTW!)

So I've been trying to avoid reading these all weekend and failing miserably. It looks so good! The campaign system looks VERY promising. I'm super pumped to get a campaign going! As there is no ToonCon this fall, I'd been toying with the idea of running a miniature gaming weekend in the fall - probably Kill Team. but now I'm thinking it will probably be Necromunda!

I have a Delaque gang ready to go - whenever those other guys get their gangs painted - and enough Cawdor figures for a pretty sizeable gang when I get to painting those. I also have the beginnings of Esher, Orlock, and VanSaar gangs... and I just spent a LOT of money ordering more on eBay this past weekend... It's too bad they don't have rules for Redemptionists and Ratskins and Karloth Valois and his undead horde. But, if I'm running a campaign as an Arbitrator (like the GM for the campaign) there's no reason I couldn't come up with my own damned rules/stats for them and run some arbitrated-narrative-adventures-scenarios! Oh yeah, this is going to be good!

I'm already planning some new terrain tiles, too - along the lines of the Cavern Tiles I made a year or so ago. In fact, I'll be making them fully integratabtle with the Cavern Tiles - so I can use the cavern tiles as collapsed parts of the deep Underhive - or even deep, dark, dangerous parts of the Sump - below the very foundations of the Hive - where no one with any sense dares to go!


Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Drukhari Wyches...

No, really...

I'm just about done the first batch, and after tomorrow's portfolio review with the homeschoolification coordinator, I have very little to do for the rest of the week and will hide in the basement and get the rest FINISHED!!!

(After that, though... expect some Underhive Gangs!!)

Dwarven Torchbearers and Necromunda Ratskins

A couple odd and sundry items coming off the workbench today...



First a couple of torchbearers from Lead Adventure Miniatures. these guys have actually been sitting on my desk, finished, for a couple weeks now... and it looks like one got dinged in the process and chipped the paint on his torch! Bother!



They're fun little minis. I'm not ENTIRELY sure how they got back on my workbench, when it was cleared of all fantasy projects some time ago... I think around the time John dropped off some figures he wanted me to paint for him for Frostgrave I was doing some organizing and putting away of things and happened to look in one of the Dwarf drawers and noted how very, very close these two were to being finished, and I plucked them out and put them on the workbench to finish off. I might have had some daft notion of painting up a handful more to use as a Dwarf war band for Frostgrave... but then quickly discarded that notion, as I have far too many other things I'd rather be painting and I have no shortage of ready-to-go Frostgrave warbands, should I, at any point in the near future, feel the desire to play... probably use these guys as rogues or thugs.



Next, some more old school, metal Necromunda figures. These guys are Ratskins. Denizens of the deep, deep underhive that live as almost primitive tribes and subsist on hunting giant, mutant rats.

I decided to go with very pale skins - figuring if they'd lived in the deep dark underhive for generations and generations without ever seeing natural light they might have mutated/evolved so... like albino alligators living in big city sewers.



My friend Paul was getting rid of these and I gladly took them off his hands. I'm getting to have a signifiant collection of these old necromunda figures. They are a lot of fun. Great sculpts, lots of character - and perfect for gangs of ruffians player characters in Wrath & Glory might run into in the Hives of the Grim, Dark Future. I have a few more of these - a dozen or so, in total - plus Some Cawdor gangers (some done, and a few more on the way), the Redemptionists (a few of which I've recently completed, and some more on the workbench), and a few random others... I wouldn't might tracking down a few more Escher gangers.


Coming Soon to Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog:

More painting... first I'll have the rest of the Red Redemptionists. After that...? Probably Eldar... and then MORE Eldar... and then, STILL more Eldar... and then some rats...

I registered for the Battleforce Recon Tournament last night and, as I've mentioned in a few posts, I've been thinking about working towards finishing up some non-imperial forces. I have piles and piles of old Eldar and Harlequin figures I've been accumulating for some time, but never gotten around to painting. The Battleforce Recon tournament is a "fun" tournament and has some considerable restrictions on the forces that can be used; 1000 points (a relatively small force), one detachment only (no spearhead or supreme command detachments - and I think there were a couple others not allowed), no miniatures with more than 10 wounds and no units that are more than 11 Power Level (or maybe it was; you are allowed ONE unit that is more than 11 power level...?), no more than three of any one unit type - other than Troops, and No more than 60 models of the Troops type!

Originally I thought I might try to field the Harlequins - as I already have a few painted - and hoped maybe painting the two additional troupes (13 figures) I have could get me close to 1000 points, but it only totalled up to just over 800...

So, I have plotted out a force I might try that requires that I paint 32 Eldar figures (and two Wraith Lords) in the next five weeks... which, I could probably pull off... and it would really jumpstart my force of Eldar! Adding a detachment of Harlequins to them, I'd be able to field 1800 points/90 Power Level of stuff!! Over half way to an Aeldari force for next year's Apocalypse event!

After that I'm going to try an knock off a bunch of the stuff that John's brought me over the last month or so...