The Underhive HOORAH!! Episode2 *6/2*

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**KingCracker**

*NOTICE*
This thread is going to be a progression of my personal Gang The Hive City Hoods. EVeryone involved will be learning the rules as we go, so please input is greatly appreciated. All Story updates will be put in the first post in spoiler tags as they are updated

OK So as mentioned, my 12 y/o nephew Jerrycan and my Son and I played our very first game of Necromunda. In short, it was a frigging blast. Im sure we got some rules wrong, and at first, trading confused us until it became completely obvious and so on. But a blast either way. I took pics along the way, but some were lost due to looking good on the little camera screen, and then turning out to be a fuzzy mess of WTF. SO some moments were lost to the warp, but thats OK it doesnt matter.

Episode1 (test)

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Episode2 "The start of it all...."

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**Zwan1One**

Haha! Brilliant fun! Favourite batrep I've read in a while!

P.S. Love your set up!

**KingCracker**

Well many thanks Zwan! And yea the setup turned out WAAAAY better then I expected it would. We just grabbed whatever we could find in the garage and a few toys and such and tossed it together. Infact, thats the reason the floor has so much...dirt? on it anyways. But yea, glad you liked it! I plan on take better pics and follow the goings on better next time so that as we progress in our games, the reps will be better to follow as well!

MAybe Ill even try my hand at some story driven reps like how Ailaros does his. But with a bit more humor in it, since to me, thats how these games should be played, with a bit of humor to go along with your teeth being knocked out

**notprop**

Nice report KC, this was a great read. BTW Giant Crane is GIANT!

This is what Necro was all about to me, throwing a few bits together, arsein' about and making stories out of the games. I'm sure a few of the gangers now have personal vendettas against other gangers and the whole thing takes off from there.

Your game seemed to have a pretty high body count for gangs with low numbers - were you using the bottling out rules (LD test at a 3rd down IIRC?).

Also you haven't completed the best bit of the after game phase - levelling up and new equipment. As soon as the young'uns see their juves becoming badass they'll get really addicted to the game (if not already!).

Either way I'm now expecting Ailaros like reports to keep me amused at work.

P.s. does this mean less orky more gang style from KC? Dare I say it; a new Avatar?

**KingCracker**

Yea we didnt take a single Ld test the whole game

So Im sure thats the reason why so many people were down, it was awesome though.

Also Ive got the itch to play again, so within the next few nights, Ill have another match with my son and we will see about getting that report set up

**Easy E**

Woot! I find Necro and GorkaMorka are great games to play with my kid. They are fast and relatively easy. A lot of the outcome is luck rather than skill.

**Scavtastic**

That's some really nice terrain, I like what you're doing with the empty aerosol cans. You need to get someone to play Scavvvies, they're the most fun of all (there's nothing quite like actually eating one of your rivals to get a really nice feud going). If you can get someone else in, Imperial Enforcers are also really choice and you can make them quite easily with various Imperial Guard models. If you want additional material for your games Yakromunda is really good, they've got free downloads of all of the chapter approved stuff that came out in 'Necromunda' and 'Gang War' magazines.

**KingCracker**

Thanks for the compliments. I'm sure we will get more people over time, I'm enjoying this game too much not to get others excited about it. Also I've been to yakromunda and have been flipping through that site for a few days now lol. Thanks for the heads up

**alabamaheretic**

that was great kc glad to see you and the boys had a good time. tough luck abotu losing a guy that is highly detrimental in the opening styages but again it isnt like he was some one important like your gang leader. taht would have been pits if you ask me...cant wait to see more...are you going to keep this thread up dated with pics of the gangs and thier high jinks int he underhive?

**Talizvar**

You my friend are hard core.
I think I should break out the lego.

Funny enough, the terrain you are using have "good bones" and I can see slight conversions can make it great.

Glad you can include your boys in this, mine are still pretty scary with crushing models so Goliath may be the right models to survive them.

**KingCracker**

First thanks for the compliments and replies, it helps with the motovation

And yes, I plan on continuing the updates in here so we can see how this evolves and so on. I also did a little work on the walk ways as well. I cut some details into them and added some mesh to make them look more industrial then they are currently.

Also, I'm showing my brother how to play possibly tomorrow, so I just might have a storied update to kick things off. And I've been painting my gang as well, and need to finish their skin tones and weapons and then some basingand they will be done, so I'll ad some updates there as well. So this weekend should prove to be a nice update, so stay tuned lads

**alabamaheretic**

sweet!

oh if you want super cheap grating get dry wall tape from wal mart (i think its liek 5 bucks a roll) find surface lay tape down and poof instant grated floors...i did that when i made a few pieces of scenary

cant wait for the next round of fighting with the gangs!

**H.B.M.C.**

Terrible "terrain". Minis that aren't even close to WYSIWYG and don't even look like proper Orlocks. Silly names.

I love it!

Everything about this BatRep should piss me off, but it doesn't. One question - how'd a Ganger get a Grenade Launcher?

**KingCracker**

Simple case of missing that they can't have one lol. I'll have to fix that in my roster. Maybe I'll drop the other heavy, because the grenade launcher seems to work decently for me.

Also we played another game today, so tomorrow I'll work on getting the game/ pics/ story together for everyone's enjoyment

**H.B.M.C.**

I'd suggest always having two heavies right from the start. Might as well get them levelling up early rather than later down the line. A special weapon on the second one (specifically GLs or Flamers) is a good choice. The 60" range on the GL is also pretty amazing.

**KingCracker**

I will certainly agree on the grenade launchers being awesome. They seem to ALWAYS be in range

in fact you'll see a pretty sweet GL moment in the next match

I'll work on that today, hopefully I will be able to post it later today or tomorrow.

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enjoy!

**Zwan1One**

Another great read! That grenade launcher shot was impressive!

The arbites are painted really nicely and the other gangs are really coming along.

Good looking board again.

**KingCracker**

Hey thanks again! That grenade launcher shot was impressive, though it only downed 1 Enforcer, and I was hoping for a little better outcome. Although having 3 of them pinned and 1 down was pretty awesome. The dice were only really with all of my us on hitting, wounding just wasn't happening, even for the bolt guns and the man stopper rounds in the shotguns my brother rolled a surprising amount of 1s and 2s.

**AegisGrimm**

Duh! I never really thought to use Scouts for Arbites! They look really cool, and I have a squad sitting right on my shelf waiting to be painted.

Congrats on having fun with Necromunda! That game and Gorkamorka give me such nostalgic memories......

You should check out Gorkamorka if you can get the rules somewhere. Everything in that game is 10% of Necromunda credits, so multiplying by 10 gives you a really good way to add Orks, and especially some vehicles, to your games.

Also, I highly recommend the indie game "In the Emperor's Name". Much more simplified rules than Necro (though they are fun in their own way), but they allow you to field warbands from every 40K race/faction, as well as civilian vehicles. (And plus, it's free to download).

**notprop**

Another good report KC. Great narrative, very funny.

The terrain is improving too (from a high standard already

), the long causeways are a great idea and will be copies soon.

That said I miss the Giant Crane!

**KingCracker**

Oh my son and I are planning a cool mission that involves the crane big time... as it functions.... I'll let that stew a bit

**Castiel**

Loving the reports, KC! Currently building a Cawdor gang for a campaign at my club, and this is really getting me excited for it!

**Talizvar**

KingCracker wrote:
Oh my son and I are planning a cool mission that involves the crane big time... as it functions.... I'll let that stew a bit

Anything like in the graphic novel "The Redeemer"? but you would need two cranes... like Thunderdome.
"If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count!".

**afterimagedan**

That battle report ruled. I got to the end of it and was like "oh... no... you better watch out Dan or you will start buying stuff soon....." You know that feeling?

**KingCracker**

Huh, that's how I started Orks

Also I seem to be doing that for Necromunda as well. I have a group of 5 or 6 40k grots that I'm thinking I should make a Nomads gang or something out of. Speaking of, anyone know a good gang that Grots would fit in as?????

If so please let me know, because I love grots, so I'll probably start soon

**Castiel**

Would they maybe work as Ratskins?

**KingCracker**

That's a possibility for sure I'll have to check out their build and see what's what. I'm some what limited to how the minis look, I mean I can change them a little but having no gs skills can be a hassle.

**Castiel**

Actually, just remembered that if you take the points values from Gorkamorka and multiply them by 10 then I believe that everything matches Necromunda, so that might be an easy way to add in some grots or orks.

**KingCracker**

Interesting idea, I may have to look into that, and I'll have the rules for Gorkamorka

**dementedwombat**

I have heard amazing things about Gorkamorka. Apparently every vehicle's transport capacity is "however minis you can pile on top of it" and if any of them fall off during play they count as taking damage.

Also apparently one guy's warboss somehow ended up with a turbo boosting jet engine implanted in his chest, so you had this horde of wagons with one suicidal ork just charging along next to them on foot.