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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/08/13/breaking-news-necromunda-returnsgw-homepage-post-1/



Necromunda Is Back!

It’s been more than a decade since we last visited the Underhive, but very soon you’ll be able to battle it out in the depths of Hive Primus.



If you’re new to the hobby, you may not be familiar with Necromunda – or perhaps you’ve only heard about it from the fond memories of other hobbyists. Necromunda dives into the underworld of the Imperium, allowing players to control their own Hive Gang – a pack of ruthless criminal killers augmented with black-market cybernetics, gene modifications and scavenged weaponry. Where Warhammer 40,000 puts you at the head of an army, in Necromunda, the scale is much smaller but the action is just as intense – every single Ganger counts.



Between intense skirmish battles, your gang will grow from a pack of battle-hungry Juves to a feared and respected syndicate of hardened veterans. To get there, however, you’ll have to battle against your fellow players, each with a gang of their own.

The Underhive is a big place, and the gangs that inhabit it are as diverse as the alien races that inhabit the 41st Millennium. We’re launching Necromunda with two classics.

Gangs from House Escher are fast, deadly, and cruel. While lightly armoured, these cunning warrior women hold their own in melee combat, while at range, they are notorious for their use of armour-melting plasma weaponry.





The gangers of House Goliath are a living testament to brawn over brains. Every member of House Goliath is a slab of vat-grown muscle, armed and armoured with repurposed industrial gear.





What makes these miniatures even better is that they’ll be available in multi-part, plastic kits – so easy to assemble, customise and paint into a gang of your own.

Keep your eyes on Warhammer Community for all the latest news and previews.

Aren't they gonna present a new game in the Nova Open event? In the 30 of August.
It could be Necromunda.

Oh ffs - my painting queue is already stacked.....

There's a part of me that thinks it would be amusing if next month it just says 'No'...



I'd be more excited about Necromunda coming back if the Shadow War terrain hadn't been so expensive.

New plastic gangers would certainly be nice, though.

What's happening with the Necromunda game Underhive Wars? Might just be to do with that

I can't wait to see what this will be!

 insaniak wrote:
There's a part of me that thinks it would be amusing if next month it just says 'No'...

That would be hillarous A shame that when you are a big multinational you can't troll your clients. Unless you are Wendy's Twitter account.

I'd expect disappointment- as someone else said, this is quite likely to be about the Necromunda : Underhive Wars video game.

Could easily just be a teaser announcement next month. Can't see them dropping a Necromunda reboot right after 8th edition, but I won't be upset if I'm wrong. Just going to be a lot of stuff to put out in a short time frame.

What is Necromunda exactly? A role playing game or just a skirmish game? Never played it but keep reading how a lot of people use to love playing it.

It's a skirmish game based on 2nd edition 40k rules, with a campaign system that allows your gang to accrue experience, skills and gear with each game you play.

 Galas wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
There's a part of me that thinks it would be amusing if next month it just says 'No'...

That would be hillarous A shame that when you are a big multinational you can't troll your clients. Unless you are Wendy's Twitter account.

Remember plastic Sisters and how Celestine and the twins were both plastic and plural, so GW was technically truthful?

Just saying.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/26/rumour-engine-july-26th-2017/



maybe this is necromunda related then ?

A las weapon doesn't seem to fit into/relate to any of the 40k codices we know are imminent.

They could easily do "Necromunda" as a SWA expansion at this point.

We'll see next month...

 reds8n wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/26/rumour-engine-july-26th-2017/



maybe this is necromunda related then ?

A las weapon doesn't seem to fit into/relate to any of the 40k codices we know are imminent.

You might have something there! That could be a weird laspistol. Makes more sense than most of the other ideas I've seen

Make sure you have high, unrealistic hopes.


So they can be crushed under the GW jackboot.

A year ago I would have said they were deliberately fething with the fans (actually.. you wouldn't have had any opportunity to ask that question, and certainly not got an answer! And the letter to the team would probably have been used as toilet paper in GW HQ)

But now having seen what looks like a total culture change in the company, them putting the 'Game' back into 'Games Workshop', and the likes of Blood Bowl coming back? Who knows, fingers crossed!

PS - A video game that accurately followed the rules of the tabletop game (like Space Hulk or Blood Bowl, NOT Mordheim) would be very nice also, thankyou!

Xmas in October!

That diagonally forward slanting ammo clip is suspiciously similar to the Escher las rifles, could well be a pistol version. Excitement builds!

It does look familiar






Have there been rumor engine pictures somehow fitting Arbites?

 reds8n wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/26/rumour-engine-july-26th-2017/



maybe this is necromunda related then ?

A las weapon doesn't seem to fit into/relate to any of the 40k codices we know are imminent.

Please be Kal Jericho's pistols!

I would love plastic necormunda gangs! Oh tje things I would do with an Arbites kit!!

insaniak wrote:It's a skirmish game based on 2nd edition 40k rules, with a campaign system that allows your gang to accrue experience, skills and gear with each game you play.

Thank you. Now I see why I never anything about it because it was in second edition, and I totally missed that edition. Nobody wanted to get into Rogue Trader so I quit it and didn't really get back into 4th edition.

I would be down for Shadow War: Necromunda.

Same basic rules, new box set that they appropriately plan for, and give everyone the excuse to go buy a bunch more stuff they don't need.

Hell, all you really need are just expanded tables to be included this time around compared to the first Shadow War game, we'd be good to go.

Have there been any further Shadow War rules since its initial release? Primaris kill teams perhaps?

If they release an Arbites kit.................

I suggested that pistol was Necromunda related and it was scoffed at.. Reds8n drops the same idea and suddenly it's plausible? gotta love the internet..

I suspect it'll be like Bloodbowl. A couple of gangs, a new box set with some terrain (hopefully new), and a few classic re-releases to supplement. That would be amazing if only to cool off some of the ebay Necromunda prices.. they've been kinda ridiculous lately.

I still think people are putting way too much into this....and are likely to be bitterly disappointed. So far, Specialist Games has managed to release Blood Bowl, but with a bunch of poor choices on composition and availability, and bungled the plans for Adeptus Titanicus so badly the game is still a ways out. So to think they're going to pull this completely out of their butt in a few months is pretty unrealistic. Expect video game news, and be stunned if it's anything else.

 totalfailure wrote:
I still think people are putting way too much into this....and are likely to be bitterly disappointed. So far, Specialist Games has managed to release Blood Bowl, but with a bunch of poor choices on composition and availability, and bungled the plans for Adeptus Titanicus so badly the game is still a ways out. So to think they're going to pull this completely out of their butt in a few months is pretty unrealistic. Expect video game news, and be stunned if it's anything else.

When has bungling anything ever stopped GW?

Seriously though.. come on.. Shadow War, Shade Spire, AOS Skirmish plus the success of all the video games based on specialist titles... ESPECIALLY Shadow War..
As to bungling Adeptus Titanicus.. I had heard from the start it was due out next year or later.. No idea where you're getting that it was messed up or whatever but the release schedule never had it slated for 2017..

Titanicus was supposed to be all but done. The rules are pretty much done...but they were convinced all resin models, hideously expensive, and available only from Forge World was going to be a success. If that was the product that was going to be released, it was doomed from day 1, like Aeronautica Imperialis....poor decision making...

Shadow War was nothing. Probably a couple weeks worth of writing to adapt the rules. The terrain was not designed for it; it was coming out anyway, with or without Armageddon. Old models included in game. The whole thing was basically a starter box for Mechanicus terrain. How much support has it gotten? If it were not for internet crying over the rulebook, it would have been dead and gone already. Oh wait, it is dead and gone already...zero support other than the separate rulebook.

If Necromunda ever gets re-released my pens might explode out of pure joy.

Do it GW. DO IT!!!