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After having studied the new rulebook in detail, I must say it is great and messy at the same time. There are minor tweaks here and there, almost impossible to notice. At the same time, there's countless sloppy mistakes and copy-paste errors (for example forgetting to remove references to retracted Turf War campaign elements). The book also includes some great fixes (probably already mentioned here or otherwise).

Were the Bad Zone tile rules left out of the new books? And has Turf War been removed as a campaign option? It's just the dominion campaign now? I wish I had grabbed those territory cards when they came out....really bummed they didnt keep those in print.

Also, dice. Themed dice are a nice novelty, but I actually prefer the high contrast of the black and yellow dice that came with the main starter. I almost want to grab another box just to get another set.

The Bad Zone rules are not in the new books no. Rumours say they will be available as a free pdf in the future. Turf War campaign is gone. Only Dominion campaign in the current rules.

If you have trouble getting the cards, you could probably make them yourself.

I want more of the black and yellow dice too!

GW confirmed that they'd be up on the Bad Zone store page. They'll be adding a 'download' bits.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
GW confirmed that they'd be up on the Bad Zone store page. They'll be adding a 'download' bits.

I mean, that's great they will be putting the PDF up for free, but leaving them out of the book was a bad move...our one-stop solution just turned into 'I need the books and a printed PDF (or tablet/phone, or Gang War 2) to have all of the rules'...

I'd bet 10 bucks it's just a page count thing. Put in the badzone stuff, book has to be 16 pages or whatever longer and cost that much more. I've heard similar things before. Look at General's Handbook for AoS, they even used the inside back cover for rules just to avoid upping the page count.

Even a single page adds up in printing costs when you're making a gajillion copies.

Yeah but you can't just add a page or 2. As was said, you have to add them in batches (multiples of 8, because publishing!).

That said, this would be a problem if those rules took up 9 pages, or 20 pages, or something like that. I'm sure they could have found a way.

If they wanted, they could fit everything (and that's 100% everything) into a single book. There's always a lot of empty space and filler text. Scenarios for example, almost always on 2 pages instead of 1.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/12/31/31st-dec-coming-soon-new-necromunda-upgradesfw-homepage-post-2/


Alternative heads!!

What a surprise!

oh...well...they're a bit nice...

These are cool!

Nice! Pleasant surprise.

The Van Saar and Orlock ones are so so, the Escher ones are nice, and I really like the Goliath and Cawdor ones.

Wise move GW. They look great overall.

Goliath look best, Van Saar lack female heads ( or at least more feminine one).And Escher lack heads with mask.

Oh those heads will be SUPER useful for all sorts of stuff...

Really liking those heads! They'll be great at giving even more diversity and they've got some neat personality to the choices of design!

Look forward to getting a set and putting them into use!

Shame we've not seen the revised design on the Escher beasty, though the heads will be a good stand in whilst waiting.

The hooded heads lend Cawdor more towards redemptionists. Are there any rumours as to whether they’ll get a release?

Glad they fixed the one female Van Saar head with these resin ones...

The Goliath heads in particular look ace, as do the Escher heads with the goggles, but alas, for me this is all about a year too late.

 Chairman Aeon wrote:
Glad they fixed the one female Van Saar head with these resin ones...

There are at least two in the resin pack that could be female.

If the Van Saar are struggling with radiation poisoning from their STC it could well be that fertility issues mean they really can't spare their females to run around being gang members unless they're certain they're sterile

hence the have female gangers but not too many of them

These are nice and all, but i am curious where the upper hive bounter hunter and the mechanical ambull are considering they're pictures of them in the new rule and gangs books.

These are all great but they need to get cracking on the brutes and unique gang specific stuff like the spyker, stig shambler, etc.

There are three female heads in the Van Saar collection. Pay attention.

This a great idea by GW/FW; in a game where you want to develop individual characters over the course of a campaign, you really don't want to have any duplicates.

Also, a return to their roots for FW; i.e. using low volume resin production to produce cool, characterful, upgrades for the plastic kits. Stuff that you don't need, but makes your collection just that bit special. Fingers crossed this is a sign of things to come.

These heads are great... however I'm not sure if releasing these sorts of bits as long after the kits will drive sales of those kits as I'm sure they hope they will. I think these will end up getting more use to do conversions for IG and the like, more than for their immediate intended purpose.

The bottom left Cawdor head looks like he's trying to look like Doomguy (upper right)

These heads are great... however I'm not sure if releasing these sorts of bits as long after the kits will drive sales of those kits as I'm sure they hope they will. I think these will end up getting more use to do conversions for IG and the like, more than for their immediate intended purpose.

For GW as long as your buying them they'll be happy with it.

 aka_mythos wrote:
These heads are great... however I'm not sure if releasing these sorts of bits as long after the kits will drive sales of those kits as I'm sure they hope they will. I think these will end up getting more use to do conversions for IG and the like, more than for their immediate intended purpose.

Yeah, I'd love to have used these, but I already have 20+ Van Saar/Goliath/Orlocks and 10 Cawdor/Delaque built (with my own converted heads on many models.

I would have definitely picked up the FW heads if they'd been revealed prior to me building all that. As it stands, I can't really use these unless I expand some gangs (which I might!). My Escher aren't built yet, so I could use them there, too.