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As expected, this is the "your dude" gang that can include any kind of model, even one from the house.

Huh.

Enforcers anyone?

Or Pit Slaves. Yes, Pit slaves.

Well that's good timing... :-p A little extra excuse to buy the FW models I was looking for.

To be fair, we also play a lot of "This is Not a Test", and they all make awesome post-apocalyptic survivors. :-p

I really hope those Venator rules are super flexible. I want to convert all sorts of crazy models.

Um...am I reading that correctly, and they just retconned Redemptionists into gangs of bounty hunters?

Bob Lorgar wrote:
Um...am I reading that correctly, and they just retconned Redemptionists into gangs of bounty hunters?

No. They just took the Confrontation fluff of the Venators and wrote a gang list for all kinds of bounty hunters.

Good that you mention it, I totally forgot they were a thing. There is an extensive article on Leadplague about their original fluff

http://leadplague.blogspot.de/2014/02/building-venators-journey-from.html

Van Saar pre orders are now up on the NZ site,



Looks like there is a lasgun, and a las carbine and they both look a bit similar. And if you didn't like the tech ponytails looks like it'll be no problem leaving them off.

GW3 is also 90 pages, a step up from the 48 or so in GW2.

I love the modular weapon design. Really neat way to be able to fit different weapon load outs using one set of arms. Just unfortunate that there are no shotguns. I just feel that Necromunda should be based on shotguns with everything else effectively a special weapon

Two bounty hunters or a new gang, what to do with $60 CAD...

Gang... wait til you need enough to get free ship for FW.

The shield is not clear/frosted plastic it seems.

Just an optical illusion when put on a white background:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The shield is not clear/frosted plastic it seems.

I may be an idiot... but where is the shield on the sprue? The boss/shield center appears to be in the middle of the frame but I don't see the actual shield face. I may be interpreting what I perceive incorrectly but it looks like the shield is clear to me...

It's clear. You can see it on all the other shots, esp the ones on terrain. The shield shape is clearly not on the sprue, so guessing it is a seperate piece as one would expect.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The shield is not clear/frosted plastic it seems.

Just an optical illusion when put on a white background:

It is frosted. Andy Hoare talked about it on the recent live stream. He said there are two Shields on their own sprue in slightly coloured transparent plastic. Not sure why they are not shown on the website.

Well. So far the new Necromunda has been a complete hit. Unlike any other GW product, it looks like I'll be buying at least one of everything.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Gang... wait til you need enough to get free ship for FW.

If you order this weekend, free shipping is just 100£.

Ah well, fair enough. The sprue's not shown/mentioned, so I guessed it was a trick of painting.

I guess it would just be like if you got a plastic kit for an aircraft or something, the canopy bit and any other clear components would be on a separate sprue (as different material)

stormboy wrote:

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Gang... wait til you need enough to get free ship for FW.

If you order this weekend, free shipping is just 100£.

Well this post just cost me a little over £100!

Kinda disappointed there are no inferno pistol.

 Breotan wrote:
Well. So far the new Necromunda has been a complete hit. Unlike any other GW product, it looks like I'll be buying at least one of everything.

Heh. The models are superb and the basic game mechanics are solid. Pity that the rulebooks are again a horrid morass of typos and ambiguity with limited proof reading...

It's a shame that the Van Saar sprue doesn't include parts to make more than a single female, since the chest plates appear to be separate anyway.

 Flinty wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
Well. So far the new Necromunda has been a complete hit. Unlike any other GW product, it looks like I'll be buying at least one of everything.

Heh. The models are superb and the basic game mechanics are solid. Pity that the rulebooks are again a horrid morass of typos and ambiguity with limited proof reading...

Or that you need to buy 3+ supplements and the box set in order to get all of the rules.
The fact I can't buy the core rules separately is a rule deal breaker for me.
I don't want to pay 50 bucks for models I don't intend on using.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
It's a shame that the Van Saar sprue doesn't include parts to make more than a single female, since the chest plates appear to be separate anyway.

The torsos are a different size for the female and male models, looking at the sprue.

Next weekend, the Specialist Games team are at Warhammer World for a few hours meet and greet, chit-chat-chin-wag.

We need to send a Dakkanaut. Sadly, it can’t be me, as I’ll be pissed up in a field enjoying some latex weapon related violence.

Can anyone else go?

Heh. The models are superb and the basic game mechanics are solid. Pity that the rulebooks are again a horrid morass of typos and ambiguity with limited proof reading...

I would say almost certainly there has to be some kind of compilation at the end of the year - combining rules and providing FAQ for everything.
It doesn't help at the moment that the on-going FAQs seem to add more confusion, or situations where you have developers adding clarifications on FB, only to remove them later.

So I would say - faced with a shifting landscape, use the new rules as much as you can, anything campaign related or post-game (which I think is the most imbalanced and incomplete) use the classic edition. If you go on to the Yaktribe website they have something called 'NCE' (Necromunda classic edition) which is basically the original rulebook + community clarifications/FAQs which have been compiled over the past 20 years. It's very, very well balanced (as much as a game like Necromunda can be) and has so much cool stuff that currently doesn't have rules written for it yet in the new edition (I assume some bits will be in new Gang War books). There is a free download of the PDF document from the Yaktribe website.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Sadly, it can’t be me, as I’ll be pissed up in a field enjoying some latex weapon related violence.

I've been trying to think for a while what this could be, and the best guess I can make is Thundercats re-enactment society?

Well the Van Saar stuff is pretty remarkable in my opinion. Satrting Necromunda is still a little out of my price range, but the models are keeping me interested.

Do we have any clue what gang may be next?

 Strombones wrote:
Well the Van Saar stuff is pretty remarkable in my opinion. Satrting Necromunda is still a little out of my price range, but the models are keeping me interested.

Do we have any clue what gang may be next?

Cawdor will be next, followed by Delaque at the end of the year. I think those two will look the best for some reason.

 Strombones wrote:
Well the Van Saar stuff is pretty remarkable in my opinion. Satrting Necromunda is still a little out of my price range, but the models are keeping me interested.

I'm buying bounty hunters and will pick up some gangs as money permits for the RPG coming out in Q3. If they release a complete rules compendium I might pick it up...if Kill Team doesn't allow me to use all those pretties in its rules.