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If there's one thing Necromunda is great for it's telling story's about crazy characters. I've seen some mad stuff going down in the underhive and some unforgettable characters have gone down in gaming history as true legends in our own personal Necromunda hall of fame.

I once ran a big campaign where my brother had a Cawdor gang called The Most Wanted all named after famous killers and slasher movie bad guys. He had this Juve called Leatherface who's first serious injury roll was a multiple injuries result getting Horrible Scars, a head wound which caused Frenzy and a Blind in One Eye which to a guy with BS 2 reducing it to 1... well

SO every time this kid gets anywhere near an enemy his frenzy kicks in (he's a Juve so forget about trying to pass that Ld test) and he charges into combat but of course his horrible scars cause fear so his opponents kept breaking and running away leaving him with a failed charge and usually out in the open. But oddly enough he eventually became a legend, graduating to GANGER and gaining some nasty ferocity and combat skills along the way. Anyone he caught got badly mauled but I think in the end he charged a meat shield Juve who, very sensibly broke and ran and then he got Flamed to death by a nearby heavy.

But yeah, what a character! This is the kind of thing you just don't get in larger games.

It's been a while since I played, so I don't have any epic biographies of my heroes and villains. I do, however have some shorter tales, which pass the time with a bottle of second-best and a rat roasted over a campfire.

There was the infamous "Captain Shotgun", an Orlock ganger who took a lasbolt to the head. He was never quite the same after that; Half the time he was a frothing lunatic, who could take out half an opposing gang by himself, beating them down with the butt of his gun. The other times, he'd just stand there, trying to work out which way round the shells went into the weapon. He never did actually shoot that shotgun after his injury, but if anyone tried to take it away from him, his eyes went all funny; no-one ever tried twice.

Then there was the battle I witnessed between Orlock and Escher gangs, fighting over a newly-revealed dome. Well, a pair of Juves, one from each side, ended up face to face. Sure, they claimed afterwards that they were trying to kill each other, but they were there for a good long while, and that didn't look like no fightin'. Last I heard they'd headed downhive together...

Or the Escher Juve who took out a genestealer in hand-to-claw combat. It was her first battle. "take this revolver, here's a handful of bullets. Make sure no-one gets round behind big Jenny while she's busy with that stubber, and if you do a good job, we'll see about something better. It'll make a woman of ya". Well, all was going well, apart from the odd stray shell casing from Jenny's stubber hitting her in the side of the head, until this monstrous purple ... thing leapt out of a pipe and ran at her. Luckily for her, it tripped over a broken cable run and slid to a stop at the Juve's feet. The only round she fired in that battle went right between its eyes. Now she's got her own gang, and the most impressive necklace I've ever seen.

Had an ash wastes ganger who was hit with a flamer, survived, but ran off a 4 story building in response. Triggered a heavy (bolter? stubber?) overwatch, ended up half-blinded, gimpy, and with something like 3 mental disorders, but somehow survived the campaign.

He got a special commemorative paint job/new set of gear for that one.

Lucky Bob - my opponents Orlock Juve - only has a stub gun and knife and yet is still responsible for the deaths of more of my gang members than the rest of his gang combined.

The most frustrating part is I have only ever been able to blind him in one eye.