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Where is that rumour from? I heard it about Genestealer cult, but never heard it about chaos before.

Maybe we'll see a return/remake of all WD gangs in some future Outlanders book?

*le sigh*

Got my two #2 Escher packs. Broken needle rifle in one, broken needle pistol in the other.

... I just buil my needle rifle with the nozzle from the combibolter and a scope on a lasgun. Looks basically identical...

 Tyr13 wrote:
... I just buil my needle rifle with the nozzle from the combibolter and a scope on a lasgun. Looks basically identical...

Me too. I also replaced the magazine/battery with a ‘tank’ made from a krak grenade but yeah, lasguns and needle rifles have a lot in common.

... chaos cult gangs rules are coming it seems :

Translation:

battle report forgebane

new rules: Chaos cult gangs

a new threat coming from the deeps of the realms

battlefields: sceneries in the Death realm

Middle Earth: campaign of the last alliance

Warhammer underworlds en matched games (organised games, litteraly, so I guess it is matched game)

Van Saar hopefully in May.


And Slaanesh Cultist OP

I don't understand: +2 if the ritual is being made by the demagogue but you can't pick him in the deck ?

 godardc wrote:
I don't understand: +2 if the ritual is being made by the demagogue but you can't pick him in the deck ?

I believe you can choose it to be him, but if you don’t he can’t be picked at random.

Its +2 if hes spending the post battle action to perform the ritual I believe.

A French guy having the Whte Dwarf wrote that cultists have access to heavy flamer, shotgun, autogun, autopistol, machine gun, "griffe écorcheuse" (scratching claw / flayer claw ? one of the DV champion has it), clubs/ mauls / bludgeon, scourge, sword, flak armor, respirator, photoglasses, frag and krak grenades.

Ruse / trickery and knowledge for the witch and ruse / trickery and ferocity for all the others

In game, a cultist may turn into a chaos spawn (didn't say how) and in skirmishs you can buy up to 2 for 130 each.

Sorry for the names of the weapons and skills, sometimes they dontt match in English and French, and my Necromunda rulesbook is in French too, I don't know how they are labelled in English.

I always thought it was a flamer, not a heavy flamer. The weapon doesn't look very "heavy".

The "machine gun" you're reffering to is the heavy stubber. No doubt those rules are based on what the models have. Too bad the Chaos cultists characters (shotgun/heavy stubber/flamer/axe) aren't available any more. Guess it will good times for people selling at ebay again (Same with Aberrants one month ago). GW missing out on money?

The rules look fun, but there's of course a few bloopers in there:

-Forgot to add price for Chaos Spawn outside Skirmish games.
-Forgot to mention that Lead Ritual is a post-battle action (it is only indirectly described as such).
-Heavy Flamer now is Unwieldy?
-Maul 5 times more expensive?

More Chaos Rumors on Yaktribe.

https://yaktribe.games/community/threads/chaos-cultists-gang-in-wd-april.7034/

decker_cky wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Maybe they feel that the game is balanced with the gangs largely armed with the weapons as they are, and providing a bunch of the 'missing' weapons would lead to power gaming?

If there's a powergaming concern regarding Lasguns/pistols and autogun/pistols, then failing to allow you to start with them has zero impact. You just take unequipped gangers game 1, then buy the common equipment from the trading post. All you have to do is throw an unequiped juve in the line of fire, then bottle after a single casualty.

Indeed. You should be able to arm your gangers with any common trading post items from get go, as you can have them after the first game anyway. It is just awkward to have unarmed and probably not WYSIWYG confoming gangers for one game.

And given the expanded Escher armoury, with others sure to follow along with their weapon packs, we can safely conclude the whole wargear thing is a case of drip-feeding us content and a bit of "no model, no rules" thrown in for good measure, rather than any balance concern, which is always a laughable theory when GW is involved, anwyay.

I glue my models so if a fighter is armed with a lasgun by the (false) Emperor I'm gonna buy it!

Is it an Ambull in a metal suit? Is it a bionically enhanced creature? Or it is some insane tinkerer’s attempt to create an entirely artificial analogue for the creature? It’s going to be a while before we get the chance to find out for sure, but we had to share this fantastic concept art with you. The Ambot will be among the many delights in store in Gang War III. We don’t know about you, but we really don’t like the idea of turning a corner and facing one of these things…

Just realized that Ambull is a pun (amble).

Somehow in 20+ years never noticed.

I hope if that's the heavy mining 'bot-thing they mentioned it's a specific "hero" version of it that's been customised by its owning gang/character, because TBH I don't see the Imperium - even the evidently quite lax and distant Imperium of Necromunda - being cool-beans with robots designed to look like filthy xenos.

Well they posted that on 02/04, so it's not an April Fool's... I think.

 Yodhrin wrote:
I hope if that's the heavy mining 'bot-thing they mentioned it's a specific "hero" version of it that's been customised by its owning gang/character, because TBH I don't see the Imperium - even the evidently quite lax and distant Imperium of Necromunda - being cool-beans with robots designed to look like filthy xenos.

Looks like a standard Imperial design (the legs, torso and arms all use the same design traits you can find in Knights or AdMech walkers) that was retroactively modified to look like an ambull.

And this beautiful big boy will be in GW 3 !
Complete new here https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/04/02/forge-world-preview-beast-meets-bot-in-the-underhive/

What Gang symbol is painted on it?

 Nicorex wrote:
What Gang symbol is painted on it?

Escher.

The Escher eye and daggers.

I rather like that,

Reckon I’d prefer an honest to goodness Ambull, but still liking the robo approach.

 Yodhrin wrote:
I hope if that's the heavy mining 'bot-thing they mentioned it's a specific "hero" version of it that's been customised by its owning gang/character, because TBH I don't see the Imperium - even the evidently quite lax and distant Imperium of Necromunda - being cool-beans with robots designed to look like filthy xenos.

The Imperium's beef with Xenos is towards sentient, civilization-building Xenos, not animals.

Look like a copycat of the 30k mechanicum robot.

Could see this evolving into underhive robot combat, ala 'rock 'em sock 'em robots... Just need a few ABC Warriors thrown into the mix...