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nice reports, hope you reach the tops spot soon.

I was just wondering what you guys thought i should put the red-dot sight on.

Should i put it on a lasgun or a shotgun (w/ manstopper)??

@ Scrazza: I'll try, the dice may have something to say about it though!!

on the shotgun, imo

Lasgun if the manstopper still has S4 and -1 to hit at long range. Hitting = chance to wound + pinning chance, so it's better to hit well with one then hit mediocrely with two guns.

I tried it out tonight in 2 games w/ the shotgun. In one game it downed a ganger, in the other it took the leader out of action! Manstoppers have no negative modifiers at long range so i think its the best choice. got a ton of new stuff for my gang. I'll try and post some batreps and my roster tomorrow.


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Heres the roster, figured it was easier to scan it than write it all out. Hope you can read it properly!

BTW, MS stands for Manstopper rounds. Definitely click to see the image (which is zoomable) in the Dakka gallery, then you might be able to read it!!

Gang is looking good! Armourer, rapiud fire, a BS5 leader... Nice skills!

manstopper is good, but i'm more of a solid and scatter shel dude. in the begining of the campaign almost nobody wears armor so.... Can't wait to read the batreps. + your gang looks good so far.

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what he said. Gang's at the beginning never wear armour that manstopper would really be effective against. Unless ofc your oponents running an arbite list.
(f*cking arbites.)

Yeha when you are fighting arbites ( or enforcers) you better come with manstoppers. Enforcers are in for great pain when you come with manstoper shells

Thanks guys!

Ok, got 2 exams coming up (one on Tuesday, one on Thursday) so this’ll be the last reply until Friday probably.

I might be top-dog now, however, I don’t know the rating of my main contender’s gang so maybe not!

@ Khaine: Yes it’s certainly a good set of skills! Some of them could’ve been better, but that’s the way the dice roll! The best for me are Armourer, Inventor (just ‘cos it’s fun!) and 1 Ganger with Marksman, Rapid Fire and Red-dot sight (he’s only BS 2 as he used to be a Juve though, so that sucks!). Also got a few loons, 1 ganger w/ T4 and 3 attacks! And another w/ I4, 2A and Leap. So should be fun really!

@ Ghosty + Scrazza: I like Manstoppers more for the fact that they have no negative modifiers at long range, so you can get some good hits with them!


Ok, we played 2 games on Friday. It was only me and Darren so we’ve now got a healthy lead over everyone else (Al scrapped his gang and started again as he lost his priest and the other 4 players haven’t had a campaign game yet! )

First game, I rolled a 2 to choose scenario, meaning any heavy weapons or grenades used could cause the roof to collapse. Darren chose to play Shoot-out. However, we modified it so all of our gang played instead of a randomly determined amount. This was probably a mistake in hindsight as it meant some serious hurt for whole gangs!

Shoot-out

We moved towards each other, rolling dice each turn as per the rules. I think it was turn 5 when Darren lost his nerve, my total by then was 14, he ended up with 19 giving all of my guys +5 experience! A few of my guys got shots off, with my leader smoking his leader and another of his gangers going OoA (Out of Action). Then Darren brought his flamers out. The net result was me bottling without even having a proper turn (voluntarily I might add)! Luckily I was on fire with low-rolling today, meaning out of 11 (my whole gang!) down only 1 ganger and 2 juves had to roll for injuries! Darren’s leader got a head-wound, Plasma pistol to the face tends to hurt , and my ganger Vespasian got an Old Battle Wound. I would dearly have liked to use my grenades in this scenario but didn’t want to end the game prematurely, in hindsight I should’ve anyway!

Scavenger

Next game I rolled a 7, and chose Scavenger. We put 3 Loot counters on the top floor of a building in the middle.

First few turns were spent manoeuvring, with me inserting (! ) a cc ganger and a juve via tunnels right under the counters.

The next few turns saw 3 of my Juves get downed, one of my Shotgun Gangers put his leader OoA (again!) and one of Darren’s gangers downed. I passed my Bottle Test. My cc ganger had been slowly making his way to the Loot, before getting charged by a 2 chain-wielding loon. Like a pro he dispatched him swiftly! He then went on to put a flamer heavy (who had a Loot counter) OoA causing Darren to Bottle and managing to get 2 Loot Counters! Definitely Man/Machine of the Match!

After doing all the post-match stuff my gang became what you can see in the roster above, and Darren’s advanced fairly well too. We are now pretty much even!

That’s all for now!

Cheers,

Vitruvian



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Figured you'd like to see the gang as it is atm:



Also, here's the new additions, from Micor Arts Studio. They're nice sculpts of pretty good quality. Can certainly reccomend the stuff i bought from them. (also got 3 more of the lasgun guys):



Wish me luck in the exams!!

Yey! I found this blog again. I love necromunda battle reports because of all the crazy stuff that happens. Also that the minis got such character and you can follow on how they develope, would like to see more reports in the future.
I must also say that your gang is looking great!

nice reports You clearly have a lot of work to do painting all those unpainted models like you did before. Best of luck.
P.S. how long do you spend on those miniatures at average ?

@ Rose_Mountainz: 'munda definitely offers a lot more creative opportunities than most games. Thanks for the compliments!

@ Scrazza: Why thankyou! Yes they take a fair bit of time, i think about 4-5 hours on average, usually paint 1 over a week or something. But its worth putting a good paintjob in as its only a small model quota so you may as well go detailed

Great work on here Vitruvian, I really like how everything looks painted up. I have to say that you have just single handedly ruined any chance I have of making my deadline on my tyranid army solely due to the fact that you have inspired me to start my own munda gang! Seeing everything here and seeing how excited you are about it makes me want to drop everything and go make a gang!

Why thankyou tony-nids. I'm sorry for distracting you Modelling ADD is in all of us though, so if it wasn't me someone else would have!

Make sure you put some pics up once you start, i'd like to see them!

I will Vitruvian XVII once I actually get something done HAHA!

I will Vitruvian XVII once I actually get something done HAHA!

Heh, i know the feeling mate!

This is a great idea. I really like the mini's. Cannot wait to see some painted up!

Nice work.

Really cool, looking forward to seeing some more painted minis keep up the good work

Thanks guys, i'll try and paint another one soon, i promise!

My last exam is on the 25th of June so look for lots of updates after that, will also start work on my elysians and empire and raven guard. Should be a good summer

Ok, after reading through most of your stuff, I am getting really interested in Necromunda. Where would I be able to get my hands on rulebooks etc.? I really like your conversions How many people/players do you need for a good campaign? Can't wait to see more. Good luck with the exams.

Stretch wrote:Ok, after reading through most of your stuff, I am getting really interested in Necromunda. Where would I be able to get my hands on rulebooks etc.? I really like your conversions How many people/players do you need for a good campaign? Can't wait to see more. Good luck with the exams.

That's the beauty Stretch, they're free!! Goto the GW site and everything you need to play is available for download, just like Mordheim. I think I'm going to put out a Van Saar gang for fun. I mean they're basically Dune guys in the 40k universe ^_^

Vitruvian XVII, your terrain is amazing. I really like how you've put it all together... Great stuff!

Thankyou very much vent, still on a painting go-slow with them but hey, whatcha gonna' do!

@ Stretch: Thankyou! Always glad to inspire! As vent has already said, rules are free from GW. As to the number of people, 'munda works with anything from 2+ players, though if you can get 3 or 4 that'll make it more interesting!

(I hope the exams go well, thankyou!)

Lovely stuff. Was thinking of starting a 'munda gang in the future... did you do anything with the dkok wounded guy in the end?

^Regnak please check the date of the last post before yours.

Haha! I really need to change my sig i think. As it happens i've still got it. PM me if you're interested or something.

I havent done any work on these guys because of fantasy 8th, but i may soon be starting a full MECHANICUS ARMY!!!
If i do i'll post a link here.

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