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**Overread**

Actually a lot of the Necromunda regions have rainfall. It's just not from clouds but from the system run-off or an old habitat eco system that broke years back; or waste liquids from industry high up in the factory levels that had spilt and trickled down through the gaps.

Chances are you'd want your own roof over your head least you wake up bathing in acid rainfall or worse.

**lord_blackfang**

The boiling floods are the worst

**Kid_Kyoto**

For what it's worth I was able to order 2 boxes of Outcast Gangs from GW US so they are still in stock.

Can't find them anywhere else though.

I guess FOMO got me too...

**lord_blackfang**

Apparently ZM tiles are in stock at GW US today, grab em while you can.

**Kanluwen**

Ash Wastes Roadmap article

And then there are the gangs. The Ash Wastes are full of interesting (and murderous) denizens, only some of whom will be familiar to longtime inhabitants of the underhive. That means new factions to play.

Key to the setting is the terrain – games take place not in the twisted, cramped environs we’re used to, but in the vast openness of Necromunda’s irradiated surface, making them a unique new challenge. As such, you can expect new terrain and new vehicles, including the ones hinted at in the reveal trailer. Gangs aren’t just scuffling in the Ash Wastes for no reason – they’re protecting (or attacking) valuable convoys as they roll across the dunes. Rest assured, you’ll be able to represent these situations faithfully in your games…

In the run-up to the release of Necromunda: Ash Wastes, we thought we’d show off some of the myriad locations in this incredible setting. Below is a small portion of the vast map we put together while we developed the setting. We’ll zoom in and describe some of these places in the future, but for now, here’s a look at the Palatine Cluster – the centre of which is, of course, Hive Primus.

**Jadenim**

Holy crap, that is an atmospheric piece of artwork!

Also, is that some kind of knarloc-esque beast of burden?

I’m getting really hyped for these releases. Time to start working on my desert terrain that I have long delayed…

**Graphite**

Some very interesting art in this update. From the size of it, The Crucible (House Orlock's seat of power) is big - the icon is as big as some of the minor hives in the cluster.

There seem to be a fair few airports, too - which would make sense as Primus is the only spaceport on planet. I wonder if they double as satellite spaceports since they're in the Paletine cluster? I would assume so, since landing the shear number of grain barges a day Necromunda will need on Hive Primus itself would be an air traffic control nightmare. Orbital defence battery is a nice touch.

Oh yes. Let's hit the road.

**H.B.M.C.**

Hmm... new terrain.

I must see this.

Dread Master wrote:
Intriguing, and simultaneously irritating.

And just as equally unsurprising.

**Dread Master**

So, according to our very detailed roadmap, we can expect box, book, book, book, box, box, box. Intriguing, and simultaneously irritating.

**lord_blackfang**

So what they're saying is we have a several month break and then there's a whole new splatbook treadmill.

Since books tend to be tied to sprues on a literally 1 for 1 basis, perhaps

Book of Truck

Book of Buggy

Book of Bike

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Eh, wish they’d shown this off at the reveal, or not bothered with the reveal and just done the article. A minor whimbrle sure, but not an entirely unjustified whimbrle.

Seems this is a full new setting, so if you want to stick to the Underhive, you can. I’m up for that, as they should play really quite differently.

Hopefully we’ll get chunkier info and eyes on Precious Things before long.

I for one am already pondering rules for ambushing Ambots. A remote trigger thing with them bursting out of ash dunes.

**lord_blackfang**

Dread Master wrote:
So, according to our very detailed roadmap, we can expect box, book, book, book, box, box, box. Intriguing, and simultaneously irritating.

Box of all the things.

6 months of books to cover everything in the box, while all things are paywalled in the giant box.

6 months of releasing bits from the box seperately.

A full year of Ash Wastes!

**Dread Master**

lord_blackfang wrote:
Dread Master wrote:
So, according to our very detailed roadmap, we can expect box, book, book, book, box, box, box. Intriguing, and simultaneously irritating.

Box of all the things.

6 months of books to cover everything in the box, while all things are paywalled in the giant box.

6 months of releasing bits from the box seperately.

A full year of Ash Wastes!

I hate it, but you might have it right

**Jadenim**

lord_blackfang wrote:
Dread Master wrote:
So, according to our very detailed roadmap, we can expect box, book, book, book, box, box, box. Intriguing, and simultaneously irritating.

Box of all the things.

6 months of books to cover everything in the box, while all things are paywalled in the giant box.

6 months of releasing bits from the box seperately.

A full year of Ash Wastes!

Sadly, I think there’s an element of truth in this, but I don’t think it will be quite that bad. Specialist games have a habit of throwing out random extra stuff on a regular basis, particularly for Necromunda. In fact the Necromunda team feels much more like FW of old; a bunch of lore-soaked nerds who come up with cool ideas and just make models of them.

**RedRowan**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Hopefully we’ll get chunkier info and eyes on Precious Things before long.

From the article it sounds like we will start getting more information over the next few weeks, hopefully including some of the new models.

Steve

**Kid_Kyoto**

As a person who values my privacy I demand the map be reposted here lest GW tag me with tracking cookies and pigeonhole me as a fan of some sort!

Ooo, pretty.

I like tomb and Hoth style laser cannon in the lower left.

And giant sand spiders confirmed! With points on them!

**Geifer**

After that wonderfully informative roadmap I now know exactly what to look forward to. Thanks, GW!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Geifer wrote:
After that wonderfully informative roadmap I now know exactly what to look forward to. Thanks, GW!

Could be caution being shown due to ongoing unpredictability in supply.

Or they’re just playing Tight Mouth Larry.

**JWBS**

The Ash Wastes are full of interesting (and murderous) denizens, only some of whom will be familiar to longtime inhabitants of the underhive. That means new factions to play.

Okay guys, you can moan about the mystery books whilst I look forward to the brand new factions that haven't been seen before even by veterans of the original incarnations of the game.

**Albertorius**

Well, there were ash waste nomads back in the day...

**JWBS**

Scavs, spyrers, rats, nomads are all that's left from the original factions, from what I can remember. Maybe fully realised guilders will be the new thing, or slavers, or some sort of droid contingent.

**ImAGeek**

I am starting to get excited for this now.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Which isn’t what the quote says. Some are new.

And I for one am excite.

Might we see a return of Mutie Raiders? That could be cool.

**JWBS**

Escaped prisoners, organised bounty hunters, brats (though these were present in Confrontation). Army deserters perhaps?

**lord_blackfang**

Oh one more cynical prediction before I head out: ib4 rando gang scrap vehicles are obviously superior to imperial war machines.

**Guardling**

lord_blackfang wrote:

...while all things are paywalled in the giant box...

Sigh... so much for finally getting a mortgage...

**JWBS**

Maybe (gasp) Xenos incursions.

**RedRowan**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Might we see a return of Mutie Raiders? That could be cool.

Definitely something I want to see.

Steve

**Geifer**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Geifer wrote:
After that wonderfully informative roadmap I now know exactly what to look forward to. Thanks, GW!

Could be caution being shown due to ongoing unpredictability in supply.

Or they’re just playing Tight Mouth Larry.

Likely the former, which is why I'd prefer that they show a model instead. No matter how understandable GW's reluctance is to put dates on the roadmap, without them it has precious little use. "We're going to release stuff". Yeah. Who knew? At least a picture of a model is something you can enjoy regardless of any potential delays its release might suffer.

**Dread Master**

RedRowan wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Might we see a return of Mutie Raiders? That could be cool.

Definitely something I want to see.

Steve

I think that might be hinted at with the beast in the foreground of today’s illustration on WHC.